Summary

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

● In a short-term perspective, the company has interesting fundamentals.


Strengths

● The stock, which is currently worth 2020 to 0.83 times its sales, is clearly overvalued in comparison with peers.

● Sales forecast by analysts have been recently revised upwards.

● For several months, analysts have been revising their EPS estimates roughly upwards.

● The stock is in a well-established, long-term rising trend above the technical support level at 36.41 EUR


Weaknesses

● Stock prices approach a strong long-term resistance in weekly data at EUR 63.34.

● The stock is close to a major daily resistance at EUR 64.84, which should be gotten rid of so as to gain new appreciation potential.

● Low profitability weakens the company.

● The group shows a rather high level of debt in proportion to its EBITDA.

● 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 company is not the most generous with respect to shareholders' compensation.

● 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.