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Chokwai Lee, CFA
EUR 101.80 For Business Accounts Only

Daikin’s First Nine-Month Fiscal 2018 Results Aided By Tax Benefit; Shares Remain Overvalued

No-moat Daikin’s cumulative nine-month fiscal 2018 (ending March 2018) net profit of JPY 153.9 billion was up 22.8% year over year, beating our expectation mainly due to a refund on tax expense following the reduction of the U.S. corporate tax. We raise our fair value estimate to JPY 9,300 from JPY 9,000 after lowering our long-term corporate tax rate assumption to 28% from 30%. Despite the higher fair value estimate, we believe Daikin remains overvalued at the current stock price, as we expect ...
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