Fountain (Belgium) Buy Hold or Sell Recommendation

FOU Stock  EUR 1.37  0.13  10.48%   
Assuming the 90 days trading horizon and your above-average risk tolerance, our recommendation regarding Fountain is 'Strong Sell'. Macroaxis provides Fountain buy-hold-or-sell recommendation only in the context of selected investment horizon and investor attitude towards risk assumed by holding Fountain positions. The advice algorithm takes into account all of Fountain's available fundamental, technical, and predictive indicators you will find on this site. Key drivers impacting Fountain's buy or sell advice are summarized below:
Real Value
1.16
Hype Value
1.37
Market Value
1.37
Naive Value
1.42
A buy or sell recommendation provided by Macroaxis is an automated directive regarding whether to purchase or sell Fountain given historical horizon and risk tolerance towards Fountain. When Macroaxis issues a 'buy' or 'sell' recommendation for Fountain, the advice is generated through an automated system that utilizes algorithms and statistical models.
  
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In addition, we conduct extensive research on individual companies such as Fountain and provide practical buy, sell, or hold advice based on investors' investing horizon and their risk tolerance towards Fountain. Also, note that the market value of any company could be tightly coupled with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in board of governors.

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Time Horizon

Risk Tolerance

Execute Advice
Sell FountainBuy Fountain
Strong Sell

Market Performance

OKDetails

Volatility

DangerousDetails

Hype Condition

StaleDetails

Current Valuation

OvervaluedDetails

Odds Of Distress

Below AverageDetails

Economic Sensitivity

Hyperactively responds to market trendsDetails

Analyst Consensus

Not AvailableDetails

Reporting Quality (M-Score)

InapplicableDetails
For the selected time horizon Fountain has a Mean Deviation of 1.61, Semi Deviation of 1.76, Standard Deviation of 2.95, Variance of 8.68, Downside Variance of 30.95 and Semi Variance of 3.09
We provide trade advice to complement the prevailing expert consensus on Fountain. Our dynamic recommendation engine uses a multidimensional algorithm to analyze the company's potential to grow using all technical and fundamental data available at the time. To make sure Fountain is not overpriced, please confirm all Fountain fundamentals, including its price to book, revenue, ebitda, as well as the relationship between the price to sales and gross profit .

Fountain Trading Alerts and Improvement Suggestions

Fountain may become a speculative penny stock
Fountain had very high historical volatility over the last 90 days
Fountain has high financial leverage indicating that it may have difficulties to generate enough cash to satisfy its financial obligations
The company has accumulated 2.16 M in total debt with debt to equity ratio (D/E) of 261.2, indicating the company may have difficulties to generate enough cash to satisfy its financial obligations. Fountain has a current ratio of 0.77, indicating that it has a negative working capital and may not be able to pay financial obligations in time and when they become due. Debt can assist Fountain until it has trouble settling it off, either with new capital or with free cash flow. So, Fountain's shareholders could walk away with nothing if the company can't fulfill its legal obligations to repay debt. However, a more frequent occurrence is when companies like Fountain sell additional shares at bargain prices, diluting existing shareholders. Debt, in this case, can be an excellent and much better tool for Fountain to invest in growth at high rates of return. When we think about Fountain's use of debt, we should always consider it together with cash and equity.
The entity reported the revenue of 20.44 M. Net Loss for the year was (1.85 M) with profit before overhead, payroll, taxes, and interest of 13.92 M.
Fountain has accumulated about 815 K in cash with (50 K) of positive cash flow from operations. This results in cash-per-share (CPS) ratio of 0.2.
Roughly 33.0% of Fountain shares are held by company insiders

Fountain Returns Distribution Density

The distribution of Fountain's historical returns is an attempt to chart the uncertainty of Fountain's future price movements. The chart of the probability distribution of Fountain daily returns describes the distribution of returns around its average expected value. We use Fountain price's Value At Risk and its Upside Potential as a relative measure of the distribution. The graph of the distribution of Fountain returns is essential to provide solid investment advice for Fountain.
Mean Return
0.35
Value At Risk
-4.62
Potential Upside
6.61
Standard Deviation
2.95
   Return Density   
       Distribution  
Investment risk management requires an estimate of the probability of extreme price changes. Therefore, the correct representation of the distribution of Fountain historical returns presented in an easy-to-digest graphical form helps investors and money managers understand the risk-reward trade-off of different investement strategies.

Fountain Greeks

Most traded equities are subject to two types of risk - systematic (i.e., market) and unsystematic (i.e., nonmarket or company-specific) risk. Unsystematic risk is the risk that events specific to Fountain or Commercial Services & Supplies sector will adversely affect the stock's price. This type of risk can be diversified away by owning several different stocks in different industries whose stock prices have shown a small correlation to each other. On the other hand, systematic risk is the risk that Fountain's price will be affected by overall stock market movements and cannot be diversified away. So, no matter how many positions you have, you cannot eliminate market risk. However, you can measure a Fountain stock's historical response to market movements and buy it if you are comfortable with its volatility direction. Beta and standard deviation are two commonly used measures to help you make the right decision.
α
Alpha over NYSE Composite
0.08
β
Beta against NYSE Composite2.04
σ
Overall volatility
3.01
Ir
Information ratio 0.07

Fountain Volatility Alert

Fountain shows above-average downside volatility for the selected time horizon. Understanding different market volatility trends often help investors to time the market. Properly using volatility indicators enable traders to measure Fountain's stock risk against market volatility during both bullish and bearish trends. The higher level of volatility that comes with bear markets can directly impact Fountain's stock price while adding stress to investors as they watch their shares' value plummet. This usually forces investors to rebalance their portfolios by buying different financial instruments as prices fall.

Fountain Fundamentals Vs Peers

Comparing Fountain's fundamentals to the average values of its peers is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It helps to analyze Fountain's direct or indirect competition across all of the common fundamentals between Fountain and the related equities. This way, we can detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics as Fountain or determine the stocks which would be an excellent addition to an existing portfolio. Peer analysis of Fountain's fundamental indicators could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Fountain by comparing valuation metrics with those of similar companies.
    
 Better Than Average     
    
 Worse Than Average Compare Fountain to competition
FundamentalsFountainPeer Average
Return On Equity-1.83-0.31
Return On Asset-0.055-0.14
Profit Margin(0.09) %(1.27) %
Operating Margin(0.07) %(5.51) %
Current Valuation14.21 M16.62 B
Shares Outstanding5.98 M571.82 M
Shares Owned By Insiders33.20 %10.09 %
Shares Owned By Institutions30.10 %39.21 %
Price To Earning4.23 X28.72 X
Price To Book123.40 X9.51 X
Price To Sales0.37 X11.42 X
Revenue20.44 M9.43 B
Gross Profit13.92 M27.38 B
EBITDA194 K3.9 B
Net Income(1.85 M)570.98 M
Cash And Equivalents815 K2.7 B
Cash Per Share0.20 X5.01 X
Total Debt2.16 M5.32 B
Debt To Equity261.20 %48.70 %
Current Ratio0.79 X2.16 X
Book Value Per Share0.02 X1.93 K
Cash Flow From Operations(50 K)971.22 M
Earnings Per Share(0.37) X3.12 X
Number Of Employees16218.84 K
Beta-0.21-0.15
Market Capitalization6.46 M19.03 B
Total Asset15.56 M29.47 B
Working Capital(4 M)1.48 B
Current Asset7 M9.34 B
Current Liabilities11 M7.9 B
Z Score2.28.72
Net Asset15.56 M

Fountain Market Momentum

Traders often use several daily momentume indicators to supplement a more traditional technical analysis when analyzing securities such as Fountain . With many different options, investors must choose the best indicators for them and familiarize themselves with how they work. We suggest combining traditional momentum indicators with more near-term forms of technical analysis such as Accumulation Distribution or Daily Balance Of Power. With their quantitative nature, daily value technical indicators can also be incorporated into your automated trading systems.

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Please note, there is a significant difference between Fountain's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Fountain is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Fountain's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.