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Jeffrey Vonk
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We Lower Babcock’s FVE as U.K. Ministry of Defence Cuts Back on Submarine Programme Costs

We are decreasing our fair value estimate for narrow-moat Babcock to GBX 870 from GBX 960 per share for the London-listed shares, mainly to adjust for lower-than-expected infrastructure spend by the U.K.’s Ministry of Defence, affecting 2018 and 2019 revenue for the firm’s largest divisions, marine and land, which combined generate close to 80% of group revenue. Contrary to management expectations, we do not believe that U.K. defence cuts on submarine expenditures (close to GBP 100 million, repr...
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Babcock International Group PLC

Babcock International Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. operates in four sectors: Marine, which provides an array of marine and naval engineering services; Land, which provides fleet management and training for customer-owned defense, emergency services, global airport and commercial vehicle fleets, as well as engineering services and technical training for customers worldwide; Aviation, which delivers an array of engineering services to defense and civil customers; and Cavendish Nuclear, which delivers nuclear engineering on nuclear decommissioning programs and projects across the U.K., as well as nuclear engineering services in training and operation support.

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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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Jeffrey Vonk

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