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Andrew Lane
EUR 101.80 For Business Accounts Only

We've Upgraded IFF to Wide-Moat but Softened Our Long-Term Profit Outlook; FVE Lowered to $134

Having reassessed our long-term outlook for International Flavors & Fragrances, we've raised the company's moat rating to wide but lowered our fair value estimate to $134 per share.
We now contend that the firm is deserving of a wide-moat rating. This is consistent with peers Givaudan and Symrise, to which we also ascribe wide economic moats. Together, along with privately owned Firmenich, these Big Four flavor and fragrance companies command roughly 70% of the $20 billion industry. We've al...
Underlying
International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.

International Flavors & Fragrances is a creator and manufacturer of taste, scent and complementary adjacent products, including cosmetic active and natural health ingredients. The company's operating segments are Taste and Scent. The Taste segment develops a range of different flavors and taste offerings for its customers, most of which are tailor-made. The company's Taste business is comprised of various portfolios across flavor compounds, savory solutions, inclusions and nutrition and specialty ingredients. The Scent segment creates fragrance compounds and fragrance ingredients for the household and personal care products. The company also produces cosmetic active and functional ingredients for use in cosmetics.

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.

Analysts
Andrew Lane

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