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Adrian Atkins
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Mercury Increases Guidance on Favourable Hydro Conditions; FVE Unchanged at NZD 3.60

Weather conditions over the third quarter have continued to benefit narrow-moat Mercury. Higher-than-average rainfall caused management to lift guidance for fiscal 2018 hydroelectricity generation volumes by 150 GWh to 4,700 GWh, and in turn increase EBITDA guidance by 2% to NZD 540 million. While we have slightly increased our near-term forecasts, the earnings uptick is not material to our unchanged fair value estimate of NZD 3.60 (AUD 3.35), and at current prices, shares in Mercury remain fair...
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Mercury NZ Ltd.

Mercury NZ is engaged in the investment, development and producing of electricity from renewable and other energy sources, selling of energy and energy related services and products to retail and wholesale customers. As of June 30 2013, Co. had 388,000 electric customers.

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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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Adrian Atkins

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