Summary

● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.

● The company has poor fundamentals for a short-term investment strategy.


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 36% by 2022.

● Thanks to a sound financial situation, the firm has significant leeway for investment.

● The group usually releases upbeat results with huge surprise rates.

● Analysts have a positive opinion on this stock. Average consensus recommends overweighting or purchasing the stock.

● The difference between current prices and the average target price is rather important and implies a significant appreciation potential for the stock.


Weaknesses

● Stock prices approach a strong long-term resistance in weekly data at CAD 7.84.

● The stock is currently in contact with a medium-term resistance that must be gotten rid of so as to resume the upward trend.

● 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 sales outlook for the group was lowered in the last twelve months. This change in forecast points out a decline in activity as well as pessimistic analyses of the company.

● For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.

● For the last four months, earnings estimated by analysts have been revised downwards with respect to the next two years.

● 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.