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ALHG.PA PAR

Louis Hachette Group S.A.
1W: -4.5% 1M: -5.1% 3M: -5.1% YTD: -2.3% 1Y: +3.0%
€1.69 ($1.91)
+0.00 (+0.18%)
 
Weekly Expected Move ±2.4%
€2 €2 €2 €2 €2
PAR · Industrials · Specialty Business Services · Tech Score Sell · Power 36 · €1.7B mcap · 598M float · 0.176% daily turnover

Financial Rating

Composite financial health rating (A+ to F) based on discounted cash flow valuation, return on equity, return on assets, debt-to-equity leverage, and relative P/E and P/B multiples.

C+
Oct 02, 2026
DCF
1
ROE
2
ROA
4
D/E
1
P/E
1
P/B
4
The Financial Rating evaluates six fundamental factors — discounted cash flow (DCF) valuation, return on equity (ROE), return on assets (ROA), debt-to-equity leverage (D/E), and relative price-to-earnings (P/E) and price-to-book (P/B) multiples — each scored 1–5. ALHG.PA receives an overall rating of C+. Strongest factors: ROA (4/5), P/B (4/5). Areas of concern: DCF (1/5), ROE (2/5), D/E (1/5), P/E (1/5).
Rating Change History
DateFromTo
2026-10-01 C C+
2026-09-30 C+ C
2026-09-04 C C+
2026-08-18 C+ C
2026-08-14 C C+
2026-07-06 C+ C
2026-07-02 C C+
2026-07-01 C+ C
2026-06-01 D+ C+
2026-04-07 None ADDED

InsiderStreet Scorecard

Proprietary multi-factor scorecard rating companies across seven fundamental dimensions — profitability, balance sheet strength, earnings quality, growth, value, momentum, and safety — each scored 0–100.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 31 Grade D
Profitability
2
Balance Sheet
19
Earnings Quality
66
Growth
—
Value
53
Momentum
—
Safety
15
Cash Flow
59
The InsiderStreet Scorecard rates companies across eight dimensions: Profitability (margins, ROA, ROE), Balance Sheet (leverage, liquidity, coverage), Earnings Quality (accruals, cash conversion), Growth (revenue and earnings trajectory), Value (P/E, P/B, earnings yield, Graham criteria), Momentum (revenue and earnings acceleration), Safety (Altman Z-Score risk adjustment), and Cash Flow (operating cash flow quality, FCF conversion, cash coverage). The overall score blends 35% quality, 35% value, and 30% momentum, with a penalty for distress-zone Altman scores. ALHG.PA scores highest in Earnings Quality (66/100) and lowest in Profitability (2/100). A grade of D flags significant fundamental concerns across multiple dimensions.

Risk & Quality Signals

Academic financial models used by institutional investors to assess bankruptcy risk, earnings manipulation, financial strength, and credit quality.

Altman Z-Score
0.88
Distress Zone
Piotroski F-Score
4/9
✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗
Beneish M-Score
—
—
Ohlson O-Score
-6.72
Bankruptcy prob: 0.1%
Low Risk
Credit Rating
B
Score: 25.5/100
Earnings Quality
75/100
OCF/NI: 425.79x
Accruals: -12.2%
The Altman Z-Score (1968) combines five ratios — working capital, retained earnings, EBIT, market value of equity, and sales, all relative to total assets or liabilities — into a single bankruptcy predictor. ALHG.PA scores 0.88, placing it in the Distress Zone (safe > 2.99, distress < 1.81). Historically, companies in this range face elevated bankruptcy risk. The Piotroski F-Score (2000) is a 9-point binary checklist — four profitability tests (positive ROA, positive cash flow, improving ROA, cash flow exceeding net income), three leverage tests (declining debt ratio, improving current ratio, no share dilution), and two efficiency tests (improving gross margin, improving asset turnover). Each pass scores 1 point. ALHG.PA scores 4/9, indicating moderate financial health — some areas of strength offset by weaknesses in others. The Ohlson O-Score (1980) is a 9-variable logistic regression that estimates bankruptcy probability using firm size, leverage, working capital, current ratio, profitability (ROA), cash flow coverage, negative equity flag, consecutive losses flag, and earnings trajectory. The raw score is converted to a probability via logistic transformation. ALHG.PA's implied 0.1% bankruptcy probability is well within safe territory. Our Credit Rating model scores companies on five weighted components — solvency (30%), earning power (25%), leverage (20%), liquidity (15%), and cash flow quality (10%) — then blends the absolute score with sector and industry peer rankings. For companies with large buyback programs, equity is adjusted by adding back cumulative 5-year repurchases (capped at 80% of FCF generated) to avoid penalizing shareholder-friendly capital allocation. ALHG.PA receives an estimated rating of B (score: 25.5/100). The Earnings Quality score measures how well reported earnings are backed by real cash. It evaluates the operating cash flow to net income ratio (OCF/NI ≥ 1.0 means every dollar of earnings is cash-backed) and the accruals ratio (the gap between earnings and cash flow relative to assets — lower is better). ALHG.PA's score of 75/100 is high — cash flows strongly support reported earnings.

Valuation

Key valuation multiples comparing the stock's market price to its earnings, revenue, book value, and cash flows. Lower multiples may indicate relative undervaluation versus peers.

P/E
94.64x
PEG
-1.35x
P/S
0.14x
P/B
0.78x
P/FCF
1.47x
P/OCF
1.17x
EV/EBITDA
6.59x
EV/Revenue
0.67x
EV/EBIT
21.17x
EV/FCF
5.34x
Earnings Yield
0.20%
FCF Yield
68.04%
Shareholder Yield
5.16%
Graham Number
$0.41
Equity-based multiples (P/E, P/B, P/FCF) compare the stock price to per-share fundamentals and are affected by capital structure. Enterprise value multiples (EV/EBITDA, EV/Revenue, EV/FCF) strip out debt and cash, making them more useful for cross-company comparisons regardless of how companies are financed. The Graham Number — √(22.5 × EPS × Book Value) — is Benjamin Graham's formula for the maximum price a defensive investor should pay. At 94.6x earnings, ALHG.PA is priced for high growth expectations. Graham's intrinsic value formula yields $0.41 per share, 308% below the current price.

DuPont Decomposition (5-Factor)

The 5-factor DuPont framework breaks Return on Equity into its component drivers — tax efficiency, interest burden, operating profitability, asset utilization, and financial leverage — to reveal what truly drives shareholder returns.

Tax Burden
0.025
NI / EBT
×
Interest Burden
0.475
EBT / EBIT
×
EBIT Margin
0.032
EBIT / Rev
×
Asset Turnover
0.770
Rev / Assets
×
Equity Multiplier
5.675
Assets / Equity
=
ROE
0.2%
The 5-factor DuPont identity decomposes ROE as: Tax Burden × Interest Burden × EBIT Margin × Asset Turnover × Equity Multiplier = ROE. This reveals whether returns are driven by operating performance, financial leverage, or tax efficiency — three very different sources of profitability. ALHG.PA's ROE of 0.2% is driven by financial leverage (equity multiplier: 5.68x). Note: high leverage means ROE is amplified by debt rather than operational performance. A tax burden ratio of 0.02 suggests the company retains less than 60% of pre-tax earnings after taxes.

Graham-Dodd Adjusted Valuation

Our adaptation of Graham's growth formula (Fair P/E = 8.5 + 2g) from The Intelligent Investor. The classic version relies on analyst growth projections, which can be unreliable. This adjusted model substitutes the company's realized 3-year EPS CAGR — a backward-looking, verifiable measure of actual earnings power — grounding the valuation in demonstrated performance rather than forecasts.

Two adjustments we make, and why. Growth is capped at 15%. Graham defined g as expected growth over the next seven to ten years, not last year's rate. Across US companies since 1994 the median realized 7-year EPS growth is 5–8% regardless of how fast a company grew beforehand, and of 4,457 company-quarters that grew faster than 200%, none sustained it. Uncapped, the formula assigned fair multiples in the hundreds to companies that had never held that rate — and scored worse than simply reading the P/E. Capped, it carries real information. The verdict has three states, not two. Tested over 377,249 stock-months, this ratio only separates outcomes at its extremes: below 0.25 beat the universe by 1.3 points a year, above 3.0 lagged by 2.7, and everything in between sat inside a one-point band. Rather than call two-thirds of the market "undervalued" on a threshold of 1.0, we say Neutral where the model cannot tell — which is most of the time.

Adj. Growth Rate
0.00%
Fair P/E
8.50x
Intrinsic Value
$0.03
Price/Value
58.41x
Margin of Safety
-5741.29%
Premium
5741.29%
Assessment
Overvalued
Graham's classic formula uses analyst-projected growth to estimate a fair P/E (8.5 + 2g). Our adjusted version replaces that projection with ALHG.PA's realized 0.0% 3-year EPS CAGR, capped at 15% — demonstrated performance rather than forecasts, held to a rate companies have historically sustained. ALHG.PA trades at a 5741% premium to its adjusted intrinsic value of $0.03, suggesting the market is pricing in future growth beyond what historical earnings support. The adjusted fair P/E of 8.5x compares to the current market P/E of 94.6x.

Profitability Trends

Historical profitability ratios tracking how efficiently the company converts revenue into returns for shareholders over time.

Leverage & Solvency Trends

Debt and liquidity metrics showing the company's financial leverage and ability to meet short-term and long-term obligations.

Efficiency & Working Capital Trends

Operating efficiency metrics measuring how quickly the company converts inventory to sales, collects receivables, and manages its cash conversion cycle.

Growth Trends (YoY %)

Year-over-year growth rates for key financial metrics, showing the trajectory of revenue, earnings, and cash flow generation.

Earnings Stability

R-squared of linear regression measuring how predictably revenue, earnings, and margins follow a trend over the trailing 5 years. 1.0 = perfectly predictable; lower values indicate erratic or cyclical behavior.

Monte Carlo Price Simulation

Geometric Brownian Motion with 1,000 antithetic paths over 1 year, seeded from 431 days of historical volatility. Percentile bands show the range of statistically plausible outcomes — this is a statistical model, not a forecast.

Current Price
$1.69
Median 1Y
$1.83
5th Pctile
$1.14
95th Pctile
$2.95
Ann. Volatility
29.6%
25th–75th percentile 5th–95th percentile Median path Historical
All Ratios & Metrics

Complete fundamental data with up to 20 periods of history, sparkline trends, and current values across 13 categories and 130+ financial metrics.

Profitability
Metric Trend Q4'25 Q1'26 Q2'26 Current
ROE 0.7% 0.5% 0.2% 0.16%
ROA 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.03%
ROIC 4.4% 6.9% 6.4% 6.42%
ROCE 2.2% 2.8% 3.6% 3.62%
Gross Margin 63.4% 63.9% 3.5% 3.48%
Operating Margin 16.8% 14.4% 1.5% 1.52%
Net Margin 0.6% -0.2% -0.2% -0.18%
EBITDA Margin 10.6% 6.3% 11.9% 11.90%
FCF Margin 27.4% 18.1% 12.6% 12.55%
OCF Margin 32.8% 22.2% 15.8% 15.82%
ROIC Economic snapshot only 6.19%
Cash ROA snapshot only 12.19%
Cash ROIC snapshot only 22.14%
CROIC snapshot only 17.57%
NOPAT Margin snapshot only 4.59%
Pretax Margin snapshot only 1.50%
R&D / Revenue snapshot only 0.00%
SGA / Revenue snapshot only 24.84%
SBC / Revenue snapshot only 0.00%
Valuation
Metric Trend Q4'25 Q1'26 Q2'26 Current
P/E Ratio 99.83 134.58 496.51 94.637
P/S Ratio 0.60 0.32 0.18 0.140
P/B Ratio 0.70 0.72 0.81 0.781
P/FCF 2.20 1.75 1.47 1.470
P/OCF 1.83 1.43 1.17 1.166
EV/EBITDA 22.16 14.56 6.59 6.587
EV/Revenue 2.35 1.25 0.67 0.671
EV/EBIT 33.36 26.47 21.17 21.166
EV/FCF 8.58 6.87 5.34 5.341
Earnings Yield 1.0% 0.7% 0.2% 0.20%
FCF Yield 45.5% 57.0% 68.0% 68.04%
EV/OCF snapshot only 4.238
EV/Gross Profit snapshot only 1.940
Acquirers Multiple snapshot only 7.595
Shareholder Yield snapshot only 5.16%
Graham Number snapshot only $0.41
Leverage & Solvency
Metric Trend Q4'25 Q1'26 Q2'26 Current
Current Ratio 0.79 0.78 0.78 0.779
Quick Ratio 0.59 0.55 0.55 0.552
Debt/Equity 2.33 2.30 2.33 2.326
Net Debt/Equity 2.04 2.10 2.13 2.125
Debt/Assets 0.41 0.41 0.41 0.410
Debt/EBITDA 18.80 11.88 5.23 5.226
Net Debt/EBITDA 16.48 10.84 4.77 4.774
Interest Coverage — — 2.50 2.504
Equity Multiplier 5.66 5.68 5.68 5.675
Cash Ratio snapshot only 0.108
Debt Service Coverage snapshot only 8.046
Cash to Debt snapshot only 0.086
FCF to Debt snapshot only 0.236
Defensive Interval snapshot only 201.3 days
Efficiency & Turnover
Metric Trend Q4'25 Q1'26 Q2'26 Current
Asset Turnover 0.21 0.40 0.77 0.770
Inventory Turnover 1.15 1.96 6.81 6.815
Receivables Turnover 2.57 5.38 10.42 10.416
Payables Turnover 0.53 1.28 4.48 4.475
DSO 142 68 35 35.0 days
DIO 319 187 54 53.6 days
DPO 693 284 82 81.6 days
Cash Conversion Cycle -232 -30 7 7.0 days
Fixed Asset Turnover snapshot only 2.509
Operating Cycle snapshot only 88.6 days
Cash Velocity snapshot only 21.771
Capital Intensity snapshot only 1.298
Growth Quality
Metric Trend Q4'25 Q1'26 Q2'26 Current
Revenue Stability — — — —
Earnings Stability — — — —
Margin Stability — — — —
Rev. Growth Consistency 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.000
Earn. Growth Consistency 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.000
FCF Positive Streak 0 0 0 0
Earnings Persistence — — — —
Earnings Smoothness — — — —
ROE Trend — — — —
Gross Margin Trend — — — —
FCF Margin Trend — — — —
Sustainable Growth Rate 0.7% -0.8% -4.0% -3.95%
Internal Growth Rate 0.1% — — —
Cash Flow Quality
Metric Trend Q4'25 Q1'26 Q2'26 Current
OCF/Net Income 54.52 93.80 425.79 425.790
FCF/OCF 0.83 0.82 0.79 0.793
FCF/Net Income snapshot only 337.825
OCF/EBITDA snapshot only 1.554
CapEx/Revenue 5.5% 4.0% 3.3% 3.27%
CapEx/Depreciation snapshot only 0.466
Accruals Ratio -0.07 -0.09 -0.12 -0.122
Sloan Accruals snapshot only -0.081
Cash Flow Adequacy snapshot only 3.759
Earnings Quality Score snapshot only 0.750
Dividends & Buybacks
Metric Trend Q4'25 Q1'26 Q2'26 Current
Dividend Yield 0.0% 1.9% 5.1% 3.54%
Dividend/Share $0.00 $0.03 $0.09 $0.06
Payout Ratio 0.0% 2.6% 25.3% 25.32%
FCF Payout Ratio 0.0% 3.3% 7.5% 7.50%
Total Payout Ratio 6.5% 2.7% 25.6% 25.61%
Div. Increase Streak — 0 0 0
Chowder Number — — — —
Buyback Yield 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.06%
Net Buyback Yield -0.4% -0.4% -2.7% -2.71%
Total Shareholder Return -0.4% 1.5% 2.4% 2.39%
DuPont Factors
Metric Trend Q4'25 Q1'26 Q2'26 Current
Tax Burden (NI/EBT) 0.21 0.12 0.02 0.025
Interest Burden (EBT/EBIT) 0.40 0.42 0.47 0.475
EBIT Margin 0.07 0.05 0.03 0.032
Asset Turnover 0.21 0.40 0.77 0.770
Equity Multiplier 5.66 5.68 5.68 5.675
Per Share
Metric Trend Q4'25 Q1'26 Q2'26 Current
EPS (Diluted TTM) $0.02 $0.01 $0.00 $0.00
Book Value/Share $2.22 $2.17 $2.17 $2.79
Tangible Book/Share $-2.63 $-2.61 $-2.61 $-2.61
Revenue/Share $2.60 $4.90 $9.48 $12.08
FCF/Share $0.71 $0.89 $1.19 $1.56
OCF/Share $0.85 $1.09 $1.50 $1.95
Cash/Share $0.64 $0.44 $0.44 $0.44
EBITDA/Share $0.27 $0.42 $0.97 $0.97
Debt/Share $5.17 $4.99 $5.05 $5.05
Net Debt/Share $4.53 $4.55 $4.61 $4.61
Academic Models
Metric Trend Q4'25 Q1'26 Q2'26 Current
Altman Z-Score — — — 0.878
Altman Z-Prime snapshot only -0.108
Piotroski F-Score 4 4 4 4
Beneish M-Score — — — —
Ohlson O-Score snapshot only -6.717
Net-Net WC snapshot only $-6.40
EVA snapshot only $-240899681.82
Credit
Metric Trend Q4'25 Q1'26 Q2'26 Current
Credit Rating snapshot only B
Credit Score 34.01 33.93 25.49 25.489
Credit Grade snapshot only 15
Implied Spread (bps) snapshot only 750.000
Industry Credit Rank snapshot only 12
Sector Credit Rank snapshot only 13

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