Lam Research Corporation's shares display attractive technical aspects to anticipate a comeback of the underlying trend.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.
● In a short-term perspective, the company has interesting fundamentals.
Strengths
● Its core activity has a significant growth potential and sales are expected to surge, according to Standard & Poor's' forecast. Indeed, those may increase by 51% by 2023.
● The group's activity appears highly profitable thanks to its outperforming net margins.
● Thanks to a sound financial situation, the firm has significant leeway for investment.
● Historically, the company has been releasing figures that are above expectations.
● Over the last 4 months, analysts have significantly revised upwards the company's estimated sales.
● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.
● For the last few months, EPS revisions have remained quite promising. Analysts now anticipate higher profitability levels than before.
● For the last twelve months, analysts have been gradually revising upwards their EPS forecast for the upcoming fiscal year.
● Analysts have a positive opinion on this stock. Average consensus recommends overweighting or purchasing the stock.
● The stock is in a well-established, long-term rising trend above the technical support level at 328.71 USD
Weaknesses
● Stock prices approach a strong long-term resistance in weekly data at USD 563.85.
● The company's enterprise value to sales, at 5.53 times its current sales, is high.
● The company is not the most generous with respect to shareholders' compensation.
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Lam Research Corporation specializes in the design, production, and marketing of equipment for the manufacturing of integrated circuits intended for the semiconductor industry.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (9.5%), China (25.6%), Korea (20.4%), Taiwan (20%), Japan (10.1%), Asia (7.8%) and Europe (6.6%).