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Denise Molina
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Impressive 2Q for Assa Abloy, but Market Is Wise to Outperformance; Shares Fully Valued

Wide-moat Assa Abloy's shares are up 40% year to date, so despite another impressive quarter with solid organic growth (up 3%) and EBIT margin expansion (20 basis points), we think the market has more than priced in the company's standout performance. Our 2019 and 2020 forecasts remain just above the consensus mean, and we intend to maintain our SEK 181 fair value estimate.
Performance in the second quarter was led by the company's highest-margin segments, Americas and global technologies. Amer...
Underlying
ASSA ABLOY AB Class B

ASSA ABLOY provides a range of door opening solutions. Co. is organized into five divisions. Europe, Middle East and Africa division, Americas (North and South America) division and Asia Pacific (Asia, Australia and New Zealand) division manufacture and sell mechanical and electromechanical locks, security doors and hardware in their respective geographical markets. Global Technologies division operates worldwide in the product areas of access control systems, secure card issuance, identification technology and hotel locks. Entrance Systems division is a global supplier of entrance automation products and service.

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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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Denise Molina

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