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Neil Macker
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CBS Reports Weak 4Q; All Access Subscriber Growth Continues to Impress

CBS ended 2019 with a weak fourth quarter, missing consensus revenue and EBITDA expectations. While the miss was disappointing, we were impressed by the firm’s direct-to-consumer efforts as All Access and Showtime Now have garnered over 8 million subscribers. As a result, management has updated its 2022 target to 25 million combined subscribers, a substantial increase from the previous goal of 16 million. To reach this target, CBS is significantly expanding its slate of original content for both...
Underlying
ViacomCBS Inc. Class B

CBS is a mass media company, which operates the following segments: Entertainment, which is consists of the CBS Television Network, CBS Television Studios, CBS Global Distribution Group, Network 10, CBS Interactive, CBS Sports Network, and CBS Films as well as the company's digital streaming services CBS All Access and CBSN; Cable Networks, which consists of Showtime Networks and its digital subscription streaming offering, and Smithsonian Networks; Publishing, which consists of Simon & Schuster's consumer book publishing business with imprints such as Simon & Schuster, Pocket Books, Scribner and Atria Books; and Local Media, which consists of CBS Television Stations and CBS Local Digital Media.

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.

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Neil Macker

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