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Barbara Noverini
EUR 101.80 For Business Accounts Only

Underlying Business Shows Strength in Covanta’s 2Q Despite Ongoing Impact From Fairfax Fire

We’re maintaining our $18 per share fair value estimate for no-moat Covanta after second-quarter earnings. Revenue increased 1.4% year over year to $424 million, even as the Fairfax facility remains inoperative because of a significant fire earlier this year. A 3.3% increase in average revenue per ton, aided by 10% year-over-year growth in higher-priced profiled waste, helped offset the shortfall from downtime at Fairfax. In addition, Covanta’s small, but expanding, environmental solutions segme...
Underlying
Covanta Holding Corporation

Covanta Holding is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in the businesses of waste and energy services. The company provides waste and energy solutions through a variety of service offerings, including its main business of owning and operating infrastructure for the conversion of waste to energy (known as energy-from-waste or EfW). EfW facilities produce energy through the combustion of non-hazardous municipal solid waste (MSW) in power plants. Most of the company's facilities are mass-burn facilities, which combust the MSW on an as-received basis without any pre-processing such as shredding, sorting or sizing.

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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Barbara Noverini

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