SADIF Analytics Assigns Positive Long-Term Outlook Rating to Deutsche Telekom
Released on: October 30, 2008, 9:27 am
Press Release Author: SADIF-Investment Analytics SA
Industry: Financial
Press Release Summary: SADIF-Investment Analytics SA has applied its StockMarks(tm) stock-rating system to Deutsche Telekom and produced a research report, rating the company's attractiveness to long-term investors.
Press Release Body: Mira, Portugal - October 30, 2008 - SADIF Investment Analytics SA, today announced the release of a new equity research report covering Deutsche Telekom (DTE). The report utilizes SADIF's powerful StockMarks(tm) stock rating system and is required reading for any current or potential Deutsche Telekom investor.
Report Summary: German-based Deutsche Telekom is Europe's largest telecommunications company. On October 10th the company confirmed its earlier 2008 profit forecast of EUR 19.3B. CEO Rene Obermann also stated that Deutsche Telekom is "solidly financed". Investors took these statements with a grain of salt, hammering the shares down thirteen percent on the day of the announcement. Since then however, the stock has rebounded thirty percent. Promising wireless results from US telecommunications company Verizon on October 28th may signal that fears over Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile operations in the US are overblown, but fear over the company's European operations remain. Deutsche Telekom was also recently involved in a data theft scandal which has left the company's name tarnished in its German home market. The company has already suffered a three percent decline in revenues during the first half of the year. Furthermore, during the second quarter of 2008 Deutsche Telekom's second largest European customer base, the UK, saw zero growth over the same period a year earlier and was down almost two percent from the first quarter of 2008. Although this was offset by growth in other European countries, the rapid deterioration of economic conditions throughout the continent during the third quarter has aroused fears that the company may miss targets when it reports on November 6th. Given the investor skittishness surrounding Deutsche Telekom recently, we should look to the company's long-term fundamentals to aide us in making an investment decision. We can assess the company through the use of the StockMarks framework. Deutsche Telekom currently has an overall long-term investment-attractiveness rating (Total StockMark or SMT) of 65, placing above the German market average.
The complete report breaks down the Total StockMark into its three components - Business, Management and Price, performing a thorough analysis of Deutsche Telekom for long-term investors.
A summary of the StockMarks(tm) ratings for Deutsche Telekom is available here: http://sadifanalytics.com/stockmarks/company.php?ticker=DTE&cod_country=39
The report has been distributed to Reuters, and forwarded to Yahoo Finance and FT.com. It is available under 'Analyst Reports' from these websites or directly from SADIF-Investment Analytics SA at http://sadifanalytics.com/stockmarks/article/hist_article.php?cod_country=39
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