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Allen Cheng
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Hengan’s New Amoeba Strategy Leads to a Solid Operating Profit in 1H; Our HKD 56 FVE Remains Intact

No-moat Hengan’s decent first-half 2017 operating profit was better than our expectation. Although the firm’s revenue was slightly short of our forecast, the operating profit came in with a strong 13.7% year-on-year increase, driven by product mix upgrades and implementation of the small sales team strategy, Amoeba model, which was completed in April. As Hengan’s Amoeba business strategy began to make a positive impact, the firm’s operating margin during the period increased 3.3 percentage point...
Underlying
Hengan International Group Co. Ltd.

Hengan International Group Co. is an investment holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged in the manufacturing, distribution and sale of personal hygiene products including sanitary napkins products, disposable diapers products and tissue papers products and food and snack products in the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong and certain overseas markets.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Allen Cheng

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