Summary

● The company has solid fundamentals for a short-term investment strategy.


Strengths

● 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.

● Upward revisions of sales forecast reflect a renewed optimism among the analysts covering the stock.

● Over the last twelve months, the sales forecast has been frequently revised upwards.

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

● The stock is in a well-established, long-term rising trend above the technical support level at 79.91 EUR


Weaknesses

● Stock prices approach a strong long-term resistance in weekly data at EUR 100.34.

● One of the major weak points of the company is its financial situation.

● With a 2017 P/E ratio at 27.4 times the estimated earnings, the company operates at rather significant levels of earnings multiples.