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Engcon's recent performance highlights both challenges and strengths. The company's net profit margin fell to 9.9% from 18% last year, while earnings growth plummeted by 60.6%, contrasting sharply with the Machinery industry’s modest increase of 0.9%. Despite this, Engcon has high-quality earnings and a satisfactory net debt to equity ratio of 8.5%. Additionally, EBIT covers interest payments comfortably at a multiple of 20.4x, indicating robust financial health despite lower sales and income in recent quarters.

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• Examine engcon's past performance report to understand how it has performed in the past.

Hoist Finance

Simply Wall St Value Rating: ★★★★☆☆

Overview: Hoist Finance AB (publ) is a credit market company that focuses on loan acquisition and management operations across Europe, with a market cap of SEK7.69 billion.

Operations: Hoist Finance generates revenue primarily from its secured and unsecured loan segments, with SEK2.86 billion from unsecured loans and SEK821 million from secured loans. Group items contribute an additional SEK255 million to the total revenue.

Hoist Finance has shown impressive growth, with earnings surging by 210.8% over the past year, outpacing the Consumer Finance industry’s -2.1%. The company’s net debt to equity ratio stands at 96.8%, which is considered high but has improved from 136.1% five years ago. Additionally, Hoist repurchased shares worth SEK 100 million in recent months and reported a net income of SEK 548 million for the first half of 2024, up from SEK 254 million last year.

• Unlock comprehensive insights into our analysis of Hoist Finance stock in this health report.

• Explore historical data to track Hoist Finance's performance over time in our Past section.

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This article by Simply Wall St is general in nature. We provide commentary based on historical data and analyst forecasts only using an unbiased methodology and our articles are not intended to be financial advice. It does not constitute a recommendation to buy or sell any stock, and does not take account of your objectives, or your financial situation. We aim to bring you long-term focused analysis driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis may not factor in the latest price-sensitive company announcements or qualitative material. Simply Wall St has no position in any stocks mentioned.

Companies discussed in this article include OM:CLAS B OM:ENGCON B and OM:HOFI.

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