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Erin Lash
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Clorox Bolsters Its Base of Health and Wellness Fare With Nutranext Deal; Shares Fairly Valued

After alluding to a more favorable acquisition landscape last month, Clorox announced a tie-up with Nutranext, a leading domestic dietary supplement brand, for $700 million or about 3.5 times trailing sales. The deal by itself is not material enough to drive a change to our valuation, at just a low-single-digit percentage of total sales, but is strategic by extending its health and wellness mix and building on its tie-up with Renew Life in May 2016.
We had anticipated that Clorox would look to a...
Underlying
Clorox Company

Clorox is a manufacturer and marketer of consumer products. The company sells its products through mass retailers, grocery outlets, warehouse clubs, dollar stores, home hardware centers, drug, pet and military stores, third-party and owned e-commerce channels, and distributors. The company has four reportable segments: Cleaning, which consists of laundry, home care and other products; Household, which consists of charcoal, bags, wraps and containers, cat litter, and digestive health products; Lifestyle, which consists of food products, water-filtration systems and filters, natural personal care products, and dietary supplements; and International, which consists of products sold outside the United States.

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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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Erin Lash

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