ARCELORMITTAL ● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.
● In a short-term perspective, the company has interesting fundamentals.
Strengths
● The company shows low valuation levels, with an enterprise value at 0.61 times its sales.
● Its low valuation, with P/E ratio at 8.3 and 9.76 for the ongoing fiscal year and 2018 respectively, makes the stock pretty attractive with regard to earnings multiples.
● Upward revisions of sales forecast reflect a renewed optimism among the analysts covering the stock.
● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.
● For the past twelve months, EPS forecast has been revised upwards.
● For the past year, analysts covering the stock have been revising their EPS expectations upwards in a significant manner.
● Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
Weaknesses
● The stock is close to a major daily resistance at EUR 25.82, which should be gotten rid of so as to gain new appreciation potential.
● With relatively low growth outlooks, the group is not among those with the highest revenue growth potential.
● 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 group usually releases earnings worse than estimated.
● The company is not the most generous with respect to shareholders' compensation.
