Ratings Astral Foods Limited

Equities

ARL

ZAE000029757

End-of-day quote Johannesburg S.E. Other stock markets 06:00:00 2024-04-25 pm EDT			5-day change	1st Jan Change
140.6 ^ZAR	+2.25%		-0.74%	-4.06%

Mar. 07	An unknown buyer acquired a 9.77% stake in Quantum Foods Holdings Ltd from Astral Foods Limited.	CI
Feb. 01	Astral Foods Limited Appoints Jai Ferreira as Director	CI

Summary

The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility.
Overall, and from a short-term perspective, the company presents an interesting fundamental situation.

Strengths

Its low valuation, with P/E ratio at 7.03 and 5.62 for the ongoing fiscal year and 2025 respectively, makes the stock pretty attractive with regard to earnings multiples.
The company shows low valuation levels, with an enterprise value at 0.28 times its sales.
The company appears to be poorly valued given its net asset value.
Given the positive cash flows generated by its business, the company's valuation level is an asset.
For the past twelve months, EPS forecast has been revised upwards.
The group usually releases upbeat results with huge surprise rates.

Weaknesses

With relatively low growth outlooks, the group is not among those with the highest revenue growth potential.
The company's profitability before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization characterizes fragile margins.
For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.
Most analysts recommend that the stock should be sold or reduced.
Over the past twelve months, analysts' consensus has been significantly revised downwards.

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Sector: Food Processing

	1st Jan change	Capi.	ESG Refinitiv
ASTRAL FOODS LIMITED	-4.06%	287M	C+
TYSON FOODS, INC.	+12.80%	21.61B	C-
HORMEL FOODS CORPORATION	+10.00%	19.34B	A-
HENAN SHUANGHUI INVESTMENT & DEVELOPMENT CO.,LTD.	+1.09%	12.91B	B-
WH GROUP LIMITED	+15.67%	10.53B	B-
JBS S.A.	-8.03%	9.91B	C
PILGRIM'S PRIDE CORPORATION	+29.28%	8.47B	C
BRF S.A.	+26.36%	5.71B	A-
LDC	+6.43%	2.79B	-
MAPLE LEAF FOODS INC.	-3.76%	2.18B	B

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