Cash Flow Neutral Disposal for Narrow-Moat Pearson; Moderate Upside to Our GBX 740 FVE
Narrow-moat Pearson announced today that it will be selling close to half of its stake in book publisher Penguin-Random House, or PRH, to German media company Bertelsmann for just over $1 billion. This transaction is broadly cash flow neutral for us, and as such, we do not expect to make any material changes to our forecasts, nor to our GBX 740 fair value estimate for the stock.Although the timing of this transaction may have caught some investors off-guard, the reduction in the stake was well ...
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