The company presents an interesting fundamental situation from a short-term investment perspective.
Strengths
With a P/E ratio at 10.73 for the current year and 8.65 for next year, earnings multiples are highly attractive compared with competitors.
The company has attractive valuation levels with a low EV/sales ratio compared with its peers.
The company is one of the best yield companies with high dividend expectations.
There is high visibility into the group's activities for the coming years. Outlooks on future revenues from analysts covering the equity remain similar. Such hardly dispersed estimates support highly predictable sales for the current and upcoming fiscal years.
Weaknesses
As estimated by analysts, this group is among those businesses with the lowest growth prospects.
The company's profitability before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization characterizes fragile margins.
The company sustains low margins.
The company is in debt and has limited leeway for investment
For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.
For the past year, analysts have significantly revised downwards their profit estimates.
For the last four months, EPS estimates made by Standard & Poor's analysts have been revised downwards.
The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been significantly revised downwards over the last four months.