Veolia (VIE.PA)
Utilities · Euronext · Europe
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Veolia trades at €37.22, which is 61% above the €14.51 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 25 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 21.3 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 Veolia
Veolia Environnement SA designs and provides water, waste, and energy management solutions. It operates through France and Hazardous Waste Europe; Europe; Americas, Asia Pacific, Africa Middle-East; Water Technologies; and Other segments. The company is involved in resource management; production, treatment, distribution, and delivery of drinking and industrial process water; customer relationship management; collection, treatment, and recycling of wastewater; provision of organic matter, salts, metals, complex molecules, and energy; design and construction of water treatment and network infrastructure; and sale of water treatment equipment, technologies, and facilities. It also provides waste collection, product and waste material recovery, and waste-to-energy processing, including sale of recycled products; material recovery of organic waste; dismantling and remediation; hazardous waste processing and treatment; urban cleaning; and industrial maintenance and cleaning services. In addition, the company engages in the operation and maintenance of heating and cooling networks; optimization of industrial utilities, such as steam generation, cooling, electricity, and compressed air; installation and maintenance of production equipment; development of energy services to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions of buildings; integrated services for building management; production of electricity from renewable and alternative energy sources, including geothermy, biomass, co-generation, and wastewater plants, etc.; and provision of Hubgrade, a management platform for building and infrastructure energy efficiency monitoring, as well as thermal and multi-technical services. It serves industrial and service sector companies, public authorities, and individuals. The company was formerly known as Vivendi Environnement and changed its name to Veolia Environnement SA in January 2003. Veolia Environnement SA was founded in 1853 and is headquartered in Aubervilliers, France.
VIE.PA passes 2 of our 30 screens today
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Common questions
Is Veolia (VIE.PA) undervalued?
Against our discounted cash flow estimate of €14.51, VIE.PA at €37.22 is 61% 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 VIE.PA's P/E ratio?
VIE.PA trades at 21.3 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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