Ratings Lotte Chemical Corporation

Equities

A011170

KR7011170008

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114,200 KRW +2.79% Intraday chart for Lotte Chemical Corporation +6.83% -25.46%

Summary

  • Overall, the company has poor fundamentals for a medium to long-term investment strategy.
  • From a short-term investment perspective, the company presents a deteriorated fundamental situation
  • The company has a good ESG score relative to its sector, according to Refinitiv.

Strengths

  • The company is one of the most undervalued, with an "enterprise value to sales" ratio at 230.58 for the 2024 fiscal year.
  • The company's share price in relation to its net book value makes it look relatively cheap.
  • Analysts have consistently raised their revenue expectations for the company, which provides good prospects for the current and next years in terms of revenue growth.
  • Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
  • The difference between current prices and the average target price is rather important and implies a significant appreciation potential for the stock.
  • The opinion of analysts covering the stock has improved over the past four months.

Weaknesses

  • 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 group shows a rather high level of debt in proportion to its EBITDA.
  • 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.
  • For the last twelve months, the analysts covering the company have given a bearish overview of EPS estimates, resulting in frequent downward revisions.
  • The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been significantly revised downwards over the last four months.
  • Sales estimates for the next fiscal years vary from one analyst to another. This clearly highlights a lack of visibility into the company's future activity.
  • 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.
  • The group usually releases earnings worse than estimated.

Ratings chart - Surperformance

Chart ESG Refinitiv

Sector: Commodity Chemicals

1st Jan change Capi. Investor Rating ESG Refinitiv
-25.46% 3.54B
B+
+1.55% 39.16B
B-
-24.95% 20.7B
B-
-20.96% 12.32B
B-
-9.19% 9.86B
A-
-17.82% 9.26B
B+
+27.16% 8.42B
C+
+5.27% 6.56B
C+
-30.92% 5.24B
C
+13.98% 2.73B
B+
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Financials

Sales growth
Earnings Growth
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EBITDA / Sales
Profitability
Finances

Valuation

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EV / Sales
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Price to Free Cash Flow
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Yield

Momentum

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1 year EPS revision
4 months EPS revision

Consensus

Analyst Opinion
Potential Price Target
4m Target Price Revision
4m Revision of opinion
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Business Predictability

Analyst Coverage
Divergence of Estimates
Divergence of analysts' opinions
Divergence of Target Price
Earnings quality

Environment

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Innovation
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Human Rights
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Governance

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Technical analysis

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