Growth rating is based on the evolution of the turnover of the company between the last year and the three coming years according to consensus estimates
Earnings Growth
EBITDA / Sales
Profitability
Profitability rating is based on net margin of the company for the current year and the next one according to consensus estimates
Finances
Finances rating is based on the evolution of the net debt of the company (debt or cash) and its Ebitda, compared to its revenue
Valuation
P/E ratio
Price Earnings Ratio rating compared the company’s current share price to its per-share earnings for the current fiscal year and the next one
EV / Sales
Valuation rating is based on the ratio between enterprise value and its turnover for the current fiscal year and the next one
Price to Book
Price to Free Cash Flow
Yield
"Yield" rating is based on the dividend relative to its share price
Momentum
Turnover review 12m
Revenue revisions (one year) rating is based on the evolution of revenue revisions of the company for the current fiscal year and the next one
Turnover review 4m
Revenue revisions (four months) rating is based on the evolution of revenue revisions of the company for the current fiscal year and the next one
Turnover review 7 days
Earnings revision 12m
EPS revisions (one year) rating is based on the evolution of EPS (earnings per share) revisions of the company for the current fiscal year and the next one
Earnings revision 4m
EPS revisions (four months) rating is based on the evolution of EPS (earnings per share) revisions of the company for the current fiscal year and the next one
Consensus
Analyst Opinion
Consensus rating is based on analyst recommendations
Potential Price Target
Potential rating is based on the average target price fixed by the consensus from Thomson Reuters
Price target revision 4m
Revision of opinion 4m
Revision of opinion 12m
Business Predictability
Analyst Coverage
Divergence of Estimates
Business Predictability rating is based on the dispersion of analysts' estimates on the evolution of the company business in the coming years (range estimates)
Divergence of analysts' opinions
Divergence of Target Price
Earnings quality
Earnings quality rating is based on quality of past earnings released by the company compared to analysts' estimates
Environment
Emissions
The emission reduction score measures a company’s commitment and effectiveness towards reducing environmental emissions in its production and operational processes.
Innovation
The innovation score reflects a company’s capacity to reduce the environmental costs and burdens for its customers, thereby creating new market opportunities through new environmental technologies and processes, or eco-designed products.
Use of resources
The resource use score reflects a company’s performance and capacity to reduce the use of materials, energy or water, and to find more eco-efficient solutions by improving supply chain management.
Social
Social commitment
The community score measures the company’s commitment to being a good citizen, protecting public health and respecting business ethics.
Human Rights
The human rights score measures a company’s effectiveness in terms of respecting fundamental human rights conventions.
Product liability
The product responsibility score reflects a company’s capacity to produce quality goods and services, integrating the customer’s health and safety, integrity and data privacy.
Human Resources
The workforce score measures a company’s effectiveness in terms of providing job satisfaction, a healthy and safe workplace, maintaining diversity and equal opportunities and development opportunities for its workforce.
Governance
CSR Strategy
The CSR strategy score reflects a company’s practices to communicate that it integrates economic (financial), social and environmental dimensions into its day-to-day decision-making processes.
Management
The management score measures a company’s commitment and effectiveness towards following best practice corporate governance principles.
Shareholders
The shareholders score measures a company’s effectiveness towards equal treatment of shareholders and the use of anti-takeover devices.
Controversy
Controversies
The ESG controversies score is calculated based on 23 ESG controversy topics. During the year, if a scandal occurs, the company involved is penalized and this affects their overall ESGC score and grading. The impact of the event may still be seen in the following year if there are new developments related to the negative event. For example, lawsuits, ongoing legislation disputes or fines. All new media materials are captured as the controversy progresses. The controversies score also addresses the market cap bias from which large cap companies suffer, as they attract more media attention than smaller cap companies.
Technical analysis
Short Term Timing
Short Term Timing rating is defined according to the positioning of the last closed trading price, within the area between the short term support and resistance on the basis of technical analysis in daily data
Middle Term Timing
Mid-Term Timing rating is defined according to the positioning of the last closed trading price, within the area between the mid-term support and resistance on the basis of technical analysis in daily data
Long Term Timing
Long Term Timing rating is defined according to the positioning of the last closed trading price, within the area between the long term support and resistance on the basis of technical analysis in daily data
RSI
RSI rating is based on the ranking of the security in the panel studied according to the mathematical indicator RSI 14 period
Bollinger Spread
Bollinger Bands rating is based on the ranking of the security in the panel studied according to the spread of the Bollinger bands
Unusual Volumes
Abnormal Volumes rating is based on the ranking of the security in the panel studied according to volume of the last session compared to an average session
Summary
The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility.
According to Refinitiv, the company's ESG score for its industry is good.
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Strengths
The company's EBITDA/Sales ratio is relatively high and results in high margins before depreciation, amortization and taxes.
The group's activity appears highly profitable thanks to its outperforming net margins.
Thanks to a sound financial situation, the firm has significant leeway for investment.
Over the last twelve months, the sales forecast has been frequently revised upwards.
For the past year, analysts covering the stock have been revising their EPS expectations upwards in a significant manner.
Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been strongly revised upwards over the last four months.
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.
Historically, the company has been releasing figures that are above expectations.
Weaknesses
With an expected P/E ratio at 36.69 and 33.06 respectively for both the current and next fiscal years, the company operates with high earnings multiples.
The company's "enterprise value to sales" ratio is among the highest in the world.
The company appears highly valued given the size of its balance sheet.
The valuation of the company is particularly high given the cash flows generated by its activity.
The company is not the most generous with respect to shareholders' compensation.
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