Shares in SEB S.A. show a positive technical chart pattern over the medium term. The timing to jump back on the rising trend seems good.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility.
● The company presents an interesting fundamental situation from a short-term investment perspective.
● The company has a good ESG score relative to its sector, according to Refinitiv.
Strengths
● With regards to fundamentals, the enterprise value to sales ratio is at 0.97 for the current period. Therefore, the company is undervalued.
● Given the positive cash flows generated by its business, the company's valuation level is an asset.
● 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.
● Over the past four months, analysts' average price target has been revised upwards significantly.
● Over the past twelve months, analysts' opinions have been strongly revised upwards.
● 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 divergence of price targets given by the various analysts who make up the consensus is relatively low, suggesting a consensus method of evaluating the company and its prospects.
Weaknesses
● With relatively low growth outlooks, the group is not among those with the highest revenue growth potential.
● The overall consensus opinion of analysts has deteriorated sharply over the past four months.
The world leader in Small Household Equipment, SEB S.A. relies on 35 flagship brands (Tefal, Seb, Rowenta, Moulinex, Krups, Lagostina, All-Clad, WMF, Emsa, Supor, etc.) and a broad product portfolio:
- cookware: frying pans, saucepans, pressure cookers, utensils, etc.;
- small culinary appliances: items for electric cooking (deep fryers, rice cookers, pressure cookers, etc.), beverage preparation (coffee makers, kettles, etc.) or food preparation (blenders, food processors, etc.);
- small non-culinary household appliances: linen care equipment (irons, steam generators, steamers, steamers, etc.), vacuum cleaners, fans, and personal care equipment (hairdressing and depilation appliances, etc.).
At the end of 2023, the group operated 41 manufacturing sites worldwide.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Western Europe (34.1%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (15.2%), China (27.9%), Asia (7%), North America (10.9%) and South America (4.9%).
SEB S.A. 
