ACA Stock Analysis: Credit Agricole | PA
Banks - Regional | PA, France | Market Cap: 61.118m EUR | 12M Return: 27.8% | FR0000045072 | Charts, Fundamentals & Technical Analysis
Avg Turnover: 79.8M
EPS Trend: 61.7%
Qual. Beats: 0
Rev. Trend: 86.7%
Qual. Beats: 1
Warnings
No concerns identified
Tailwinds
Seasonality 11.6 years of data
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Crédit Agricole S.A. is a France-based universal bank that operates across retail and corporate banking, insurance, and investment banking, serving clients in Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. The company is organized into five segments: Asset Gathering, Large Customers, Specialized Financial Services, French Retail Banking – LCL, and International Retail Banking, and is listed on Euronext Paris under the ticker ACA with a large-cap market capitalization in the regional banks sub-industry.
Its product range spans life and non-life insurance, asset management, wealth management, payments, online banking, factoring, leasing, and energy and territorial financing, alongside capital markets, structured finance, trade finance, and securities services such as custody, fund administration, and clearing. The company also runs a property services and development arm under the Square Habitat brand and is active in low-carbon electricity production. Customers include individual banking clients, SMEs, corporates, farmers, local authorities, institutional investors, insurers, and brokers.
Founded in 1894 and headquartered in Montrouge, Crédit Agricole S.A. sits within the broader Crédit Agricole group, which follows the two-tier French cooperative banking model in which regional mutualist banks (Caisses Régionales) hold the listed entity through the holding company SAS Rue La Boetie. The group is one of the largest banking groups in France and Europe by balance sheet, with the LCL network serving as its domestic retail banking subsidiary alongside international retail operations in Italy and other markets.
- ECB rate cuts compress French retail net interest margins
- Insurance and asset gathering fees grow on Amundi market performance
- Capital return accelerates via buybacks as CET1 ratio exceeds targets
| Net Income: 10.1b TTM > 0 and > 6% of Revenue |
| FCF/TA: 0.01 > 0.02 and ΔFCF/TA 1.98 > 1.0 |
| NWC/Revenue: -33.34% < 20% (prev -4.64%; Δ -28.70% < -1%) |
| CFO/TA 0.01 > 3% & CFO 19.0b > Net Income 10.1b |
| Net Debt (536b) to EBITDA (16.2b): 32.98 < 3 |
| Current Ratio: 0.70 > 1.5 & < 3 |
| Outstanding Shares: last quarter (3.02b) vs 12m ago -0.01% < -2% |
| Gross Margin: 78.21% > 18% (prev 56.33%; Δ 21.89% > 0.5%) |
| Asset Turnover: 8.07% > 50% (prev 5.02%; Δ 3.05% > 0%) |
| Interest Coverage Ratio: 0.39 > 6 (EBIT TTM 15.5b / Interest Expense TTM 39.8b) |
| A: -0.03 (Total Current Assets 150b - Total Current Liabilities 215b) / Total Assets 2462b |
| B: 0.00 (Retained Earnings 3.73b / Total Assets 2462b) |
| C: 0.01 (EBIT TTM 15.5b / Avg Total Assets 2388b) |
| D: 0.03 (Book Value of Equity 70.2b / Total Liabilities 2383b) |
| Altman-Z'' = -0.09 = B |
As of August 18, 2026, the stock is trading at EUR 20.07 with a total of 2,931,409 shares traded. Over the past week, the price has changed by +0.70%, over one month by +12.85%, over three months by +27.55% and over the past year by +27.81%.
Current recommended Stop Loss: 19.60 (which is 2.3% or 1.5 ATR below the current price).
Credit Agricole has no consensus analysts rating.
P/E Trailing = 10.0
P/E Forward = 8.6655
P/S = 2.3485
P/B = 0.771
P/EG = 4.0562
Revenue TTM = 193b EUR
EBIT TTM = 15.5b EUR
EBITDA TTM = 16.2b EUR
Long Term Debt = 170b EUR (from longTermDebt, last fiscal year)
Short Term Debt = 215b EUR (from shortTermDebt, last quarter)
Debt = 686b EUR (from shortLongTermDebtTotal, last quarter)
Net Debt = 536b EUR (calculated: Debt 686b - CCE 150b)
Enterprise Value = 597b EUR (61.1b + Debt 686b - CCE 150b)
Interest Coverage Ratio = 0.39 (Ebit TTM 15.5b / Interest Expense TTM 39.8b)
EV/FCF = 33.35x (Enterprise Value 597b / FCF TTM 17.9b)
FCF Yield = 3.00% (FCF TTM 17.9b / Enterprise Value 597b)
FCF Margin = 9.29% (FCF TTM 17.9b / Revenue TTM 193b)
Net Margin = 5.24% (Net Income TTM 10.1b / Revenue TTM 193b)
Gross Margin = 78.21% ((Revenue TTM 193b - Cost of Revenue TTM 42.0b) / Revenue TTM)
Gross Margin QoQ = 63.46% (prev none%)
Tobins Q-Ratio = 0.24 (Enterprise Value 597b / Total Assets 2462b)
Interest Expense / Debt = 5.81% (Interest Expense 39.8b / Debt 686b)
Taxrate = 30.35% (1.66b / 5.48b)
NOPAT = 10.8b (EBIT 15.5b * (1 - 30.35%))
Current Ratio = 0.70 (Total Current Assets 150b / Total Current Liabilities 215b)
Debt / Equity = 9.77 (Debt 686b / totalStockholderEquity, last quarter 70.2b)
Debt / EBITDA = 32.98 (Net Debt 536b / EBITDA 16.2b)
Debt / FCF = 29.93 (Net Debt 536b / FCF TTM 17.9b)
Total Stockholder Equity = 74.1b (last 4 quarters mean from totalStockholderEquity)
RoA = 0.42% (Net Income 10.1b / Total Assets 2462b)
RoE = 13.63% (Net Income TTM 10.1b / Total Stockholder Equity 74.1b)
RoCE = 6.34% (EBIT 15.5b / Capital Employed (Equity 74.1b + L.T.Debt 170b))
RoIC = 0.44% (NOPAT 10.8b / Invested Capital 2453b)
WACC = 4.28% (E(61.1b)/V(747b) * Re(6.96%) + D(686b)/V(747b) * Rd(5.81%) * (1-Tc(0.30)))
Discount Rate = 6.96% (= CAPM, Blume Beta Adj.)
Shares (quarterly) Correlation: 49.50 | Cagr: 0.10%
[DCF] Terminal Value 75.44% ; FCFF base≈17.9b ; Y1≈18.0b ; Y5≈19.0b
[DCF] Fair Price = N/A (negative equity: EV 296b - Net Debt 536b = -240b; debt exceeds intrinsic value)
EPS Correlation: 61.69 | EPS CAGR: 6.94% | SUE: -0.19 | # QB: 0
Revenue Correlation: 86.70 | Revenue CAGR: 76.76% | SUE: 1.30 | # QB: 1
EPS current Quarter (2026-09-30): EPS=0.55 | Chg30d=-2.24% | Revisions=+17% | Analysts=5
EPS current Year (2026-12-31): EPS=2.29 | Chg30d=+2.56% | Revisions=+42% | GrowthEPS=+4.8% | GrowthRev=+1.4%
EPS next Year (2027-12-31): EPS=2.48 | Chg30d=+1.57% | Revisions=+31% | GrowthEPS=+8.2% | GrowthRev=+3.6%
[Analyst] Revisions Ratio: +40% (up=16, down=6)