The underlying tendency is to the upside for shares in Raymond James Financial, Inc. and the timing is opportune to get back into the stock. A comeback of the upward dynamic can be anticipated.
Strengths
● The company returns high margins, thereby supporting business profitability.
● Thanks to a sound financial situation, the firm has significant leeway for investment.
● Given the positive cash flows generated by its business, the company's valuation level is an asset.
● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.
● Upward revisions of sales forecast reflect a renewed optimism among the analysts covering the stock.
● For the last twelve months, analysts have been gradually revising upwards their EPS forecast for the upcoming fiscal year.
● For the past twelve months, EPS forecast has been revised upwards.
● Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
● The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been strongly revised upwards over the last four months.
● Consensus analysts have strongly revised their opinion of the company over the past 12 months.
● 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.
● The group usually releases upbeat results with huge surprise rates.
Weaknesses
● The company is not the most generous with respect to shareholders' compensation.
● The price targets of various analysts who make up the consensus differ significantly. This reflects different assessments and/or a difficulty in valuing the company.
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Raymond James Financial, Inc. specializes in financial services. Revenues (including intragroup) by activity break down as follows:
- investment services (76.9%): securities brokerage, stock exchange intermediation, intervention on equity, interest rate and foreign exchange markets, derivatives, trading services, etc. for private and institutional clients;
- retail banking and merchant banking (15.7%);
- asset management (6.9%): USD 196.4 billion in assets under management at the end of September 2023;
- other (0.5%).
Revenues are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (91.3%), Canada (4.9%) and Europe (3.8%).