Ratings Appen Limited

Equities

APX

AU000000APX3

Delayed Australian S.E. Other stock markets 11:58:35 2024-07-09 pm EDT			5-day change	1st Jan Change
0.455 ^AUD	0.00%		-3.19%	-27.78%

May. 24	Transcript : Appen Limited - Shareholder/Analyst Call
Mar. 18	Appen Limited(ASX:APX) dropped from S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Index	CI

Summary

Overall, the company has poor fundamentals for a medium to long-term investment strategy.
The company presents an interesting fundamental situation from a short-term investment perspective.

Strengths

The stock, which is currently worth 2024 to 0.23 times its sales, is clearly overvalued in comparison with peers.
The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been strongly revised upwards over the last four months.

Weaknesses

As estimated by analysts, this group is among those businesses with the lowest growth prospects.
As a percentage of sales and without taking into account depreciation and amortization, the company has relatively low margins.
The company has insufficient levels of profitability.
The company appears highly valued given the size of its balance sheet.
For the last twelve months, sales expectations have been significantly downgraded, which means that less important sales volumes are expected for the current fiscal year over the previous period.
For the last 12 months, analysts have been regularly downgrading their EPS expectations. Analysts predict worse results for the company against their predictions a year ago.
Most analysts agree on a negative opinion with regard to the stock. Indeed, the average consensus issues recommendations to underperform or sell.
Prospects from analysts covering the stock are not consistent. Such dispersed sales estimates confirm the poor visibility into the group's activity.
The group usually releases earnings worse than estimated.

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Sector: IT Services & Consulting

	1st Jan change	Capi.	ESG Refinitiv
APPEN LIMITED	-27.78%	69.18M	B-
ACCENTURE PLC	-15.06%	188B	A-
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LTD.	+4.62%	173B	B+
IBM	+7.91%	163B	B-
AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING, INC.	+0.75%	95.54B	A-
CROWDSTRIKE HOLDINGS, INC.	+51.14%	95.08B	C-
RELX PLC	+15.59%	85.84B	A-
INFOSYS LIMITED	+7.31%	82.44B	A
HCL TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED	+3.60%	49.75B	A-
SNOWFLAKE INC.	-30.92%	47.4B	C

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