The share price of Veolia Environnement is touching a resistance on the weekly chart at around 19.09 EUR. After the price rise that was seen over the past weeks, the stock's upside potential now appears limited while there is some risque that a correction may occur.
Summary
● The company has solid fundamentals for a short-term investment strategy.
Strengths
● As regards fundamentals, the enterprise value to sales ratio is at 0.78 for the current period. Therefore, the company is undervalued.
● The company is one of the best yield companies with high dividend expectations.
● Analysts have a positive opinion on this stock. Average consensus recommends overweighting or purchasing the stock.
Weaknesses
● The share is close to its long-term resistance in weekly data. Therefore, the potential should be limited. However, a further bullish movement when crossing this resistance will be a positive signal.
● According to forecast, a sluggish sales growth is expected for the next fiscal years.
● The group shows a rather high level of debt in proportion to its EBITDA.
● Below the resistance at 19.09 EUR, the stock shows a negative configuration when looking looking at the weekly chart.
Veolia Environnement is the world leader in environmental management services. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- water-related services (40.6%; No. 1 worldwide): water resources management, drinking water distribution and delivery, wastewater collection, treatment and recovery, engineering, design, construction of water treatment facilities and customer relationship management, etc.;
- waste management services (32.4%; no. 1 worldwide): collection, treatment and recycling of liquid, solid, non-hazardous and hazardous waste, waste treatment and recovery through composting, energy recovery from waste, etc. Veolia Environnement also provides urban waste management services (maintenance and cleaning of public spaces, provision of mechanized street cleaning and façade treatment services), maintenance of industrial sites, and dismantling of industrial facilities and equipment at the end of their useful life;
- energy services (27%; No. 1 in Europe): delegated management of urban heating and air conditioning networks, management of thermal and multi-technique services (operation of heating systems, facility design, construction, and maintenance, etc.) and industrial services (industrial process analysis, production equipment operation, service, and maintenance), general management of buildings and public lighting.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: France (21.5%), Europe (41.9%), North America (7.4%), Asia (5.6%), Africa and the Middle East (4.9%), Pacific (4.3%), Latin America (4%) and other (10.4%).
VEOLIA ENVIRONNEMENT 
