Ratings Southern Province Cement Company

Equities

3050

SA0007879501

End-of-day quote Saudi Arabian S.E. Other stock markets 06:00:00 2024-05-05 pm EDT			5-day change	1st Jan Change
39.75 ^SAR	+0.13%		+0.63%	-6.58%

Mar. 24	Southern Province Cement Company Reports Earnings Results for the Full Year Ended December 31, 2023	CI
Mar. 17	Southern Province Cement Logs Lower FY23 Profit, Revenue	MT

Summary

Overall, the company has poor fundamentals for a medium to long-term investment strategy.
From a short-term investment perspective, the company presents a deteriorated fundamental configuration.
The company has a poor ESG score according to Refinitiv, which ranks companies by sector.

Strengths

Before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, the company's margins are particularly high.
Margins returned by the company are among the highest on the stock exchange list. Its core activity clears big profits.
Thanks to a sound financial situation, the firm has significant leeway for investment.
Consensus analysts have strongly revised their opinion of the company over the past 12 months.

Weaknesses

As estimated by analysts, this group is among those businesses with the lowest growth prospects.
The company's currently anticipated earnings per share (EPS) growth for the next few years is a notable weakness.
With a 2024 P/E ratio at 26.41 times the estimated earnings, the company operates at rather significant levels of earnings multiples.
The company's "enterprise value to sales" ratio is among the highest in the world.
The company is highly valued given the cash flows generated by its activity.
For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.
The sales outlook for the group was lowered in the last twelve months. This change in forecast points out a decline in activity as well as pessimistic analyses of the company.
For the past year, analysts have significantly revised downwards their profit estimates.
For the last four months, earnings estimated by analysts have been revised downwards with respect to the next two years.
Most analysts recommend that the stock should be sold or reduced.
Over the past four months, analysts' average price target has been revised downwards significantly.
The overall consensus opinion of analysts has deteriorated sharply over the past four months.
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's earnings releases usually do not meet expectations.

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Sector: Construction Materials

	1st Jan change	Capi.	ESG Refinitiv
SOUTHERN PROVINCE CEMENT COMPANY	-6.58%	1.48B	D-
HOLCIM LTD	+19.36%	49.14B	B
ANHUI CONCH CEMENT COMPANY LIMITED	+3.66%	15.93B	B+
JAMES HARDIE INDUSTRIES PLC	-0.94%	15.66B	D+
SHREE CEMENT LIMITED	-11.37%	11.04B	B+
EAGLE MATERIALS INC.	+31.48%	9.19B	D
DANGOTE CEMENT PLC	+105.28%	7.97B	-
TIANSHAN MATERIAL CO., LTD.	-3.89%	7.72B	C+
TAIWAN CEMENT CORP.	-5.31%	7.69B	B+
BUZZI S.P.A.	+26.07%	6.97B	B-

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