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Adam Kindreich, CFA
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Primark's growth is diluted by the presence of volatile, slower-growth, lower-margin businesses.

Associated British Foods, a branded food, ingredients, and clothing retail conglomerate, reported encouraging first-half results for the 24 weeks to end February. Excluding currencies, revenue rose 2% and adjusted operating profit increased 5%, implying margin progression. We are making only modest changes to our model (a less negative currency impact is expected in the second half) and maintaining our GBX 2,230 fair value estimate and no-moat rating with negative moat trend.
Margins were up ac...
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Associated British Foods plc

Associated British Foods is an international food, ingredients and retail group. Co. operates in five segments: Grocery, which manufactures grocery products, including hot beverages, sugar and sweeteners, vegetable oils, bread and baked goods, cereals, ethnic foods, and meat products; Sugar, which grows and processes sugar beet and sugar cane for sale to industrial users; Agriculture, which manufactures animal feeds and provides other products and services for the agriculture sector; Ingredients, which manufactures bakers' yeast, bakery ingredients, enzymes, lipids, yeast extracts and cereal specialities; and Retail, which buys and merchandises value clothing and accessories.

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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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Adam Kindreich, CFA

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