Summary

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


Strengths

● Margins returned by the company are among the highest on the stock exchange list. Its core activity clears big profits.

● There is high visibility into the group's activities for the coming years. Outlooks on future revenues from analysts covering the equity remain similar. Such hardly dispersed estimates support highly predictable sales for the current and upcoming fiscal years.

● Within the weekly time frame the stock shows a bullish technical configuration above the support level at 78.78 CHF


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.

● Technically, the stock approaches a strong medium-term resistance at CHF 85.4.

● According to forecast, a sluggish sales growth is expected for the next fiscal years.

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

● The company's enterprise value to sales, at 3.08 times its current sales, is high.

● With a 2018 P/E ratio at 22.6 times the estimated earnings, the company operates at rather significant levels of earnings multiples.