Report
Mathew Hodge

The balance sheet is repaired and BlueScope is stabilised, but significant optimism is priced in.

We raise our fair value estimate for no-moat BlueScope Steel by 17% to AUD 7.70 per share, from AUD 6.60 previously. Approximately 60% of the uplift reflects the benefit of likely U.S. steel tariffs on the company’s North Star steel mill. The remainder is due to the stronger near-term outlook for profitability and a slower forecast decline in group EBIT margins from an expected peak of 10.3% in fiscal 2017 to our midcycle forecast of 5.7% by fiscal 2022. Global steel prices and margins are benef...
Underlying
Bluescope Steel Limited

BlueScope is a manufacturing technology company. Co.'s segments are Australian Steel Products, which produces coated and painted flat steel products for building and construction customers and commodity flat steel products; New Zealand & Pacific Steel, which consists of New Zealand Steel, Pacific Steel, New Zealand Minerals, and BlueScope Pacific Islands areas; BlueScope Buildings, which servicing the low-rise non-residential construction; Building Products ASEAN, North America and India, which producing metal coated and painted steel building products; and Hot Rolled Products North America, which includes a single site electric arc furnace producer of hot rolled coil in Ohio, the U.S.

Provider
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.

Analysts
Mathew Hodge

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