Summary

● In view of fundamental criteria, the company is among low performers as far as mid or long-term investment strategy is concerned.


Strengths

● Considering the small differences between the analysts' various estimates, the group's business visibility is good.

● Its low valuation, with P/E ratio at 9.15 and 8.83 for the ongoing fiscal year and 2017 respectively, makes the stock pretty attractive with regard to earnings multiples.

● The company is one of the best yield companies with high dividend expectations.

● Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.

● The average target price set by analysts covering the stock is above current prices and offers a tremendous appreciation potential.


Weaknesses

● Technically, the stock approaches a strong medium-term resistance at EUR 136.25.

● With relatively low growth outlooks, the group is not among those with the highest revenue growth potential.

● Financial statements have repeatedly disappointed market stakeholders. Most often, they were below expectations.

● The company's sales previsions for the coming years have been revised downwards, which foreshadows another slowdown in business.

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

● Below the resistance at 141.9 EUR, the stock shows a negative configuration when looking looking at the weekly chart.