EssilorLuxottica (EL.PA)
Healthcare · Euronext · Europe
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
EssilorLuxottica trades at €169.50, which is 50% above the €83.96 our discounted cash flow model puts on the business. On that measure it screens as expensive, which is not the same as saying it will fall.
Our moat model scores it 63 out of 100, which is a moat, but not a deep one. 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 34.3 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 EssilorLuxottica
EssilorLuxottica Société anonyme designs, manufactures, and distributes ophthalmic lenses, frames, sunglasses, and instruments and equipment in North America, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific. It offers lens, eyewear, contact lenses, reading glasses under Essilor, Varilux, Crizal, Eyezen, Stellest, Xperio, Transitions, Ray-Ban, Oakley, Barberini, KODAK Lens, Nikon, Shamir Optical, eyexpert, iWear, Humanware, Optifog, Persol, Oliver Peoples, Vogue Eyewear, Arnette, Alain Mikli, Costa, Bliz, Native Eyewear and Bolon, and Foster Grant brands. The company also provides vision assessment, eye pathology diagnosis and treatment, finishing equipment, fitting parameter measurement, small tools, and consumables. In addition, it offers SPECTRALIS, a multimodal imaging platform for diagnosis and treatment; RetinAI; Espansione Group; Cellview Imaging; ANTERION, a multidisciplinary all-in-one anterior segment imaging solution for measurements; apparel, footwear and accessories; and high-tech equipment for optical surfacing, polishing, measuring, coating, and finishing, as well as consumables, tools, and services under the Satisloh brand. Further, the company designs, develops, markets, and maintains diagnostics, refraction, lens edging and mounting instruments for opticians and prescription laboratories, and measurement; and optometry instruments for eyecare professionals, schools, occupational medicine centers, military, and other institutions. It sells its products to independent opticians, distributors, third-party e-commerce platforms, and large retail chains in the eyecare and eyewear industry; and consumers through the network of brick and mortar retail networks and its online channels. The company was formerly known as Essilor International Société Anonyme and changed its name to EssilorLuxottica Société anonyme in October 2018. EssilorLuxottica Société anonyme was founded in 1849 and is headquartered in Paris, France.
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Common questions
Is EssilorLuxottica (EL.PA) undervalued?
Against our discounted cash flow estimate of €83.96, EL.PA at €169.50 is 50% 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 EL.PA's P/E ratio?
EL.PA trades at 34.3 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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