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Seth Goldstein, CFA
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FMC Announces Increased Earnings Guidance; Raising Our FVE to $77

On March 29, FMC announced increased earnings guidance for 2018. Although the company did not provide details, management expects FMC to exceed the high end of its prior guidance range of $5.20 to $5.60 per share. We're slightly raising our fair value estimate to $77 per share from $75 due to an increased near-term earnings outlook and the time value of money. Our narrow moat rating is unchanged.
We now expect greater profits in the agricultural solutions segment due to lower costs as FMC integr...
Underlying
FMC Corporation

FMC is an agricultural sciences company. The company provides solutions to growers around the world with a product portfolio fueled by a discovery and development pipeline in crop protection, plant health, and personnel pest and turf management. This combination of technologies includes insect control products based on Rynaxypyr? and Cyazypyr? active ingredients; Authority?, Boral?, Centium?, Command? and Gamit? branded herbicides; Talstar? and Hero? insecticides; and flutriafol-based fungicides. The company's products are used in agriculture to improve crop yield and quality by controlling a range of insects, weeds and disease, as well as in non-agricultural markets for pest control.

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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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Seth Goldstein, CFA

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