Autodesk, Inc. shares are locked into a trading range. This phase will eventually have to end with a return of a clear trend.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility.
● The company has a good ESG score relative to its sector, according to MSCI.
Strengths
● Before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, the company's margins are particularly high.
● The company returns high margins, thereby supporting business profitability.
● Thanks to a sound financial situation, the firm has significant leeway for investment.
● Analysts have consistently raised their revenue expectations for the company, which provides good prospects for the current and next years in terms of revenue growth.
● Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
● Over the past four months, analysts' average price target has been revised upwards significantly.
● The opinion of analysts covering the stock has improved over the past four months.
● Consensus analysts have strongly revised their opinion of the company over the past 12 months.
● Considering the small differences between the analysts' various estimates, the group's business visibility is good.
● Historically, the company has been releasing figures that are above expectations.
Weaknesses
● With an expected P/E ratio at 62.35 and 45.1 respectively for both the current and next fiscal years, the company operates with high earnings multiples.
● The company's "enterprise value to sales" ratio is among the highest in the world.
● In relation to the value of its tangible assets, the company's valuation appears relatively high.
● The company is highly valued given the cash flows generated by its activity.
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Autodesk, Inc. is one of the world's leading producers of digital design and layout software for PC and the Internet. Net sales break down by family of products and services primarily as follows:
- design software programmes (92.9%): construction and civil engineering software (51.5% of net sales; software for modeling architectural plans, optimizing cartographic data, compiling digital drawings, topographic reliefs, etc.), platform technologies (27.6%; for automating design, management and sharing of documents, etc.), 2D and 3D mechanical design software (20.9%). Moreover, the group offers consulting, assistance, and training services;
- visualization and animation software programmes (5.2%): primarily intended for the media sector;
- other (1.9%).
Net sales break down by activity into subscription sales (93.2%), maintenance services (0.7%) and other (6.1%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (36.3%), Americas (8%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (37.6%) and Asia/Pacific (18.1%).
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