Ratings LS Corp.

Equities

A006260

KR7006260004

End-of-day quote Korea S.E. Other stock markets 06:00:00 2024-05-07 pm EDT			5-day change	1st Jan Change
144,500 ^KRW	+0.56%		+4.63%	+55.04%

Mar. 26	LS Group Scraps RSU Plan, Returns to Bonuses After Employee Dissatisfaction	MT
Mar. 20	LS Corp. Reports Earnings Results for the Full Year Ended December 31, 2023	CI

Summary

The company presents an interesting fundamental situation from a short-term investment perspective.

Strengths

The company's attractive earnings multiples are brought to light by a P/E ratio at 11.33 for the current year.
The company shows low valuation levels, with an enterprise value at 157.75 times its sales.
The company appears to be poorly valued given its net asset value.
The company has a low valuation given the cash flows generated by its activity.
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.
Over the past twelve months, analysts' opinions have been strongly revised upwards.
Historically, the company has been releasing figures that are above expectations.

Weaknesses

The potential for earnings per share (EPS) growth in the coming years appears limited according to current analyst estimates.
The company's profitability before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization characterizes fragile margins.
The company has insufficient levels of profitability.
The company is not the most generous with respect to shareholders' compensation.
For the last four months, the sales outlook for the coming years has been revised downwards. No recovery of the group's activities is yet foreseen.
For the last 12 months, analysts have been regularly downgrading their EPS expectations. Analysts predict worse results for the company against their predictions a year ago.

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Sector: Electrical Components & Equipment

	1st Jan change	Capi.	Investor Rating	ESG Refinitiv
LS CORP.	+55.04%	2.91B		C+
PRYSMIAN S.P.A.	+28.35%	15.54B		B+
NEXANS	+31.36%	4.89B		B+
WALSIN LIHWA CORPORATION	-5.69%	4.55B	-	B
ENCORE WIRE CORPORATION	+31.56%	4.44B		B-
NINGBO ORIENT WIRES & CABLES CO.,LTD.	+6.43%	4.28B		D
KEI INDUSTRIES LIMITED	+16.06%	4.14B		D
RIYADH CABLES GROUP COMPANY	+4.43%	3.9B		-
R R KABEL LIMITED	+5.08%	2.17B	-	-
TAIHAN CABLE & SOLUTION CO., LTD.	+39.48%	1.96B	-	-

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