The Market Consensus synthesizes estimates of key valuation parameters. These estimates reflect the most probable expectations contained in stock prices.

Associés en Finance processes and checks data using proprietary computer software.

Associés en Finance has selected the main parameters with the most influence on stock prices:

- Earnings per share and their short and medium-term growth rates

- Dividends

- Cash flows

- Revisions of future earnings, dividends, and cash flows

- The risk of each stock

- PE, yield, PBR, PCF

- Free float

The consensus provides:

- A comprehensive synthesis of information: Continually updated, reliable information needed for accurate analysis of current performance and future trends.

- A contribution to quantitative techniques in portfolio management: Earnings surprise models, earnings revisions models, multi-factor models.

- A tool for research analysis: Comparison of in-house estimates to consensus, peer analysis, performance monitoring.