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Ali Mogharabi
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IAC Posts Strong Fourth Quarter on the Back of Its Narrow-Moat Businesses; Raising FVE to $79

No-moat IAC/InterActiveCorp reported fourth-quarter results with revenue in line with our estimate and earnings easily exceeding our expectations. Strong revenue growth and margin expansion in the firm’s two narrow-moat businesses, Match Group and HomeAdvisor, along with higher margin improvement than expected in the applications segment, more than offset the revenue decline and operating losses in no-moat publishing and video segments. Growth in Match Group’s paid member count, or PMC, and Home...
Underlying
IAC/InterActiveCorp.

IAC/InterActiveCorp is a media and Internet company. The company has majority ownership of both Match Group, Inc. (Match Group or MTCH), which includes Tinder, Match, PlentyOfFish and OkCupid, and ANGI Homeservices Inc. (ANGI Homeservices or ANGI), which includes HomeAdvisor, Angie's List and Handy, and also operates Vimeo, Dotdash and The Daily Beast, among many other online businesses. The company's operating segments are MTCH, ANGI, Vimeo, Dotdash and Applications, which are also reportable segments, and within its Emerging & Other reportable segment, Ask Media Group, BlueCrew, The Daily Beast, College Humor Media and IAC Films.

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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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Ali Mogharabi

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