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

● Its core activity has a significant growth potential and sales are expected to surge, according to Thomson Reuters' forecast. Indeed, those may increase by 45% by 2019.

● The company returns high margins, thereby supporting business profitability.

● Thanks to a sound financial situation, the firm has significant leeway for investment.

● 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.

● Growth remains a strong point in this company. In their sales forecast, analysts sound optimistic with regard to sales prospects.

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

● Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.


Weaknesses

● Stock prices approach a strong long-term resistance in weekly data at GBp 1703.

● The stock is close to a major daily resistance at GBp 1600, 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.