The fact that share price is returning to the lower bounds of the trading range offers a good timing to enter into new long positions in CIE Automotive.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.
Strengths
● The share is getting closer to its long-term support in weekly data, at EUR 20.12, which offers good timing for buyers.
● Growth progress expectations are rather promising. Indeed, sales are expected to rise sharply in the coming years.
● The equity is one of the most attractive in the market with regard to earnings multiple-based valuation.
● Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.
● For the last twelve months, analysts have been gradually revising upwards their EPS forecast for the upcoming fiscal year.
● Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
● The average target price set by analysts covering the stock is above current prices and offers a tremendous appreciation potential.
Weaknesses
● The company is in debt and has limited leeway for investment
● The company's earnings releases usually do not meet expectations.
● 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.
CIE Automotive SA is a Spain-based company engaged, through its subsidiaries, in the production of biofuels, as well as in the supply of components and subassemblies for the automotive industry. The Company is also involved in the Information Technology (IT) sector, with the provision of technological solutions for the healthcare, education, sustainability, transport and communications sectors. The Company is a parent of Grupo CIE Automotive, a group which comprises a number of controlled entities with operations established in Spain, Portugal, France, Lithuania, Morocco, Czech Republic, Romania, Brazil, Argentina, China, Russia, Guatemala and Mexico, among others. The Company has such subsidiaries as Global Dominion Access SA, CIE Inversiones e Inmuebles Sociedad Limitada and CIE Berriz Sociedad Limitada, among others. In February 2014, the Company acquired a 50% stake in RS Automotive NV owned by VEP Fund I Holding Cooperatief WA.
CIE AUTOMOTIVE, S.A. 
