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Seth Goldstein
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Ingredion Poised to Increase Profits as Specialty Products Growth Will Drive Margin Expansion

Ingredion reported second-quarter results with few surprises, as operating income fell 8% year on year to $193 million due to weakness in the North America segment, which generates around 60% of sales. The company had announced high-level earnings in mid-July and pointed to North America as the reason for the profit decline. With no changes to our long-term outlook and effectively no adjustments to our 2018 forecast, we maintain our $131 fair value estimate.
We view Ingredion as undervalued, as ...
Underlying
Ingredion Incorporated

Ingredion provides ingredients solutions. The company turns corn, tapioca, potatoes, grains, fruits, and vegetables into ingredients and biomaterials for the food, beverage, brewing and other industries. The company's product lines include starches and sweeteners, animal feed products and edible corn oil. The company's starch-based products include both food-grade and industrial starches, and biomaterials. The company's sweetener products include glucose syrups, maltose syrups, fructose corn syrup, caramel color, dextrose, polyols, maltodextrins, and glucose and syrup solids. The company's products are derived from the processing of corn and other starch-based materials, such as tapioca, potato, and rice.

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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

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