Summary

● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.

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


Strengths

● The group's high margin levels account for strong 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.

● The company has attractive valuation levels with a low EV/sales ratio compared with its peers.

● Its low valuation, with P/E ratio at 11.48 and 11.07 for the ongoing fiscal year and 2018 respectively, makes the stock pretty attractive with regard to earnings multiples.

● 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 have a positive opinion on this stock. Average consensus recommends overweighting or purchasing the stock.

● The tendency within the weekly time frame is positive above the technical support level at 30.49 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 stock is close to a major daily resistance at EUR 39.39, which should be gotten rid of so as to gain new appreciation potential.

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