The timing appears opportune to go long in shares of ENCE Energía y Celulosa, S.A. as we anticipate another pick-up in the underlying trend.
Summary
● In view of fundamental criteria, the company is among low performers as far as mid or long-term investment strategy is concerned.
Strengths
● Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
● Within the weekly time frame the stock shows a bullish technical configuration above the support level at 2.85 EUR
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.
● The company has insufficient levels of profitability.
● 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.
● For the last four months, the sales outlook for the coming years has been revised downwards. No recovery of the group's activities is yet foreseen.
● 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 12 months, analysts have been regularly downgrading their EPS expectations. Analysts predict worse results for the company against their predictions a year ago.
Ence Energia y Celulosa SA, formerly Grupo Empresarial ENCE SA, is a Spain-based company engaged in the operation of pulp mills. The Company' activities are divided into two business units: Pulp and Energy. The Pulp business unit is subdivided into three segments: Pulp, manufacturing pulp and pulp derivatives, such as lignin and biomass, as well as co-generating energy; Forest Management, providing forest crops and wood raw materials, and Forest Services & Other, including residual business activities, as well as forest support services. The Energy business unit focuses on generating energy using forestry and agricultural biomass, as well as, thermos and solar electric energy generation. The Company operates pulp mills and power generation plants in Spain.
ENCE ENERGÍA Y CELULOSA, S.A. 
