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Jaime Katz
EUR 101.80 For Business Accounts Only

Sales Growth Tough to Capture at Kingfisher, but the Cost-Cutting Opportunity Remains Interesting

Narrow-moat Kingfisher’s second-quarter sales update revealed continuing weakness throughout most of its businesses, leaving the company with negative 1.3% sales growth on a constant currency basis for the first half of its 2018 fiscal year. However, favorable currency movements resulted in 4.5% top-line growth, pacing ahead of our roughly 3% forecast. While we await the company's more detailed earnings release next month, we don’t expect to significantly adjust our long-term outlook, which incl...
Underlying
Kingfisher Plc

Kingfisher supplies home improvement products and services through a network of retail stores and other channels, located mainly in the U.K. and continental Europe. As of Jan 31 2017, Co. had nearly 1,200 stores in 10 countries across Europe.

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.

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Jaime Katz

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