Ahold Delhaize (AD.AS)
Consumer · Euronext · Europe
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Ahold Delhaize trades at €35.92, close to the €33.89 our discounted cash flow model puts on the business. On this measure the market and the model broadly agree, so the interesting question is which of them is wrong.
Our moat model scores it 36 out of 100, which is little in the way of a moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 14.3 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
About Ahold Delhaize
Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize N.V. operates retail food stores and e-commerce in the Netherlands, the United States, and internationally. The company's stores offer produce, dairy, meat, deli, bakery, seafood, and frozen products; grocery, beer, and wine; floral, pet food, health and beauty care, kitchen and cookware, gardening tools, general merchandise articles, electronics, newspapers and magazines, and tobacco; gasoline; and pharmacy products. It operates its supermarkets, convenience stores, and online stores under the Albert, Albert Heijin, Alfa Beta Vassilopoulos, bol, Delhaize, ENA, Food Lion, Gall & Gall, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford, Maxi, Mega Image, Stop & Shop, Profi, and Super Indo brands. The company was formerly known as Koninklijke Ahold N.V. and changed its name to Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize N.V. in July 2016. The company was founded in 1867 and is headquartered in Zaandam, the Netherlands.
AD.AS passes 4 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Common questions
Is Ahold Delhaize (AD.AS) undervalued?
Against our discounted cash flow estimate of €33.89, AD.AS at €35.92 is 6% above fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation, and most of a DCF's output sits in a terminal value nobody can forecast.
What is AD.AS's P/E ratio?
AD.AS trades at 14.3 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
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