Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles, S.A.

BATS-CHIXE:CAFE Stock Report

Market Cap: €1.1b

Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles Valuation

Is CAFE undervalued compared to its fair value, analyst forecasts and its price relative to the market?

Valuation Score

4/6

Valuation Score 4/6

  • Below Fair Value

  • Significantly Below Fair Value

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Peers

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Industry

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Fair Ratio

  • Analyst Forecast

Share Price vs Fair Value

What is the Fair Price of CAFE when looking at its future cash flows? For this estimate we use a Discounted Cash Flow model.

Below Fair Value: CAFE (€33.43) is trading below our estimate of fair value (€41.01)

Significantly Below Fair Value: CAFE is trading below fair value, but not by a significant amount.


Key Valuation Metric

Which metric is best to use when looking at relative valuation for CAFE?

Key metric: As CAFE is profitable we use its Price-To-Earnings Ratio for relative valuation analysis.

The above table shows the Price to Earnings ratio for CAFE. This is calculated by dividing CAFE's market cap by their current earnings.
What is CAFE's PE Ratio?
PE Ratio11.3x
Earnings€97.16m
Market Cap€1.09b

Price to Earnings Ratio vs Peers

How does CAFE's PE Ratio compare to its peers?

The above table shows the PE ratio for CAFE vs its peers. Here we also display the market cap and forecasted growth for additional consideration.
CompanyForward PEEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
Peer Average11.6x
SOM Somero Enterprises
7.8xn/aUK£147.2m
BOY Bodycote
17.8x20.2%UK£1.1b
MGAM Morgan Advanced Materials
10.6x11.3%UK£735.5m
VSVS Vesuvius
10.2x11.9%UK£1.1b
CAFE Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles
11.3x18.8%€1.1b

Price-To-Earnings vs Peers: CAFE is good value based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (11.3x) compared to the peer average (11.8x).


Price to Earnings Ratio vs Industry

How does CAFE's PE Ratio compare vs other companies in the European Machinery Industry?

2 CompaniesPrice / EarningsEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
No. of Companies28PE01020304050+
2 CompaniesEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
No more companies

Price-To-Earnings vs Industry: CAFE is good value based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (11.3x) compared to the European Machinery industry average (17.5x).


Price to Earnings Ratio vs Fair Ratio

What is CAFE's PE Ratio compared to its Fair PE Ratio? This is the expected PE Ratio taking into account the company's forecast earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors.

CAFE PE Ratio vs Fair Ratio.
Fair Ratio
Current PE Ratio11.3x
Fair PE Ration/a

Price-To-Earnings vs Fair Ratio: Insufficient data to calculate CAFE's Price-To-Earnings Fair Ratio for valuation analysis.


Analyst Price Targets

What is the analyst 12-month forecast and do we have any statistical confidence in the consensus price target?

The above table shows the analyst CAFE forecast and predictions for the stock price in 12 month’s time.
DateShare PriceAverage 1Y Price TargetDispersionHighLow1Y Actual priceAnalysts
Currentn/a
€45.95
0%
12.3%€53.50€34.00n/a10
Nov ’25n/a
€46.02
0%
11.2%€54.80€38.00n/a10
Oct ’25n/a
€45.71
0%
10.2%€53.50€38.00n/a10
Sep ’25n/a
€45.71
0%
10.2%€53.50€38.00n/a10
Aug ’25n/a
€45.71
0%
10.2%€53.50€38.00n/a10
Jul ’25n/a
€44.91
0%
11.5%€53.50€36.00n/a10
Jun ’25n/a
€44.05
0%
9.7%€51.70€36.00n/a10
May ’25n/a
€44.03
0%
9.0%€51.70€36.00n/a10
Apr ’25n/a
€43.63
0%
9.9%€51.70€36.00n/a10
Mar ’25n/a
€43.63
0%
9.9%€51.70€36.00n/a10
Feb ’25n/a
€43.02
0%
10.7%€51.70€34.00n/a10
Jan ’25n/a
€42.70
0%
11.8%€52.70€34.00n/a10
Dec ’24n/a
€42.17
0%
13.3%€51.70€34.00n/a10
Nov ’24n/a
€41.15
0%
12.0%€50.50€34.00n/a9
Oct ’24n/a
€40.89
0%
11.8%€50.50€34.00n/a9
Sep ’24n/a
€40.67
0%
12.8%€50.50€32.00n/a9
Aug ’24€30.80
€40.33
+31.0%
12.9%€50.50€32.00n/a9
Jul ’24n/a
€39.33
0%
15.1%€50.50€32.00n/a9
Jun ’24€30.35
€38.76
+27.7%
14.4%€50.50€32.00n/a9
May ’24n/a
€38.84
0%
13.9%€50.50€33.00n/a9
Apr ’24n/a
€38.16
0%
15.4%€50.50€30.00n/a9
Mar ’24€28.85
€38.16
+32.3%
15.4%€50.50€30.00n/a9
Feb ’24€29.60
€37.99
+28.4%
17.3%€51.00€27.40n/a9
Jan ’24n/a
€37.71
0%
17.7%€51.00€27.40n/a9
Dec ’23€28.35
€38.96
+37.4%
18.9%€51.00€27.40n/a10
Nov ’23€25.30
€39.83
+57.4%
17.3%€51.00€27.40n/a10

Analyst Forecast: Target price is more than 20% higher than the current share price and analysts are within a statistically confident range of agreement.


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