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Andrew Lange
EUR 101.80 For Business Accounts Only

BMC Considering CA Buyout; Obvious Complementary Crossover; Maintaining FVE of $33

Privately held BMC is said to be considering the acquisition of CA. According to inside sources, the companies have approached banks in order to finance the deal. However, with talks said to be in an early stage and with the deal anything but guaranteed, we reaffirm our fair value estimate of $33 while maintaining our bull-case fair value estimate of $43. With shares up about 14% on the acquisition news, we view CA’s shares as modestly overvalued on a stand-alone basis, but we again have not pla...
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CA Inc.

CA is a provider of software solutions enabling customers to plan, develop, automate, manage and secure applications across mobile, cloud, distributed and mainframe platforms. The company has three operating segments: Enterprise Solutions, which includes products that are designed for mobile, cloud, and distributed computing environments and run on industry standard servers; Mainframe Solutions, which includes solutions for the IBM z Systems

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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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Andrew Lange

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