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Michael Waterhouse
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PerkinElmer Announces Plans to Acquire Germany-based Euroimmun; Shares Still Look Overvalued

No-moat PerkinElmer has announced plans to acquire Germany-based Euroimmun to gain increased exposure to the diagnostics business, but we expect the firm will remain overvalued after we incorporate the acquisition into our valuation model. Further, we don’t expect any changes to Perkin’s moat rating based on the acquisition. We view this growth acquisition as notable progress toward the company's plan for boosting its diagnostics business, which tends to realize stronger margin performance. The ...
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PerkinElmer Inc.

PerkinElmer is a provider of products, services and solutions for the diagnostics, life sciences and applied markets. The company operates in the following segments: Discovery and Analytical Solutions and Diagnostics. The company's Discovery and Analytical Solutions segment serves the life sciences and applied markets. The life sciences market consists of the life sciences research market and laboratory services market whereas the applied markets consist of environmental, food and industrial markets. In its Diagnostics segments, the company provides instruments, reagents, assay platforms, and software to hospitals, medical labs, clinicians, and medical research personnel to help improve the health of families.

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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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Michael Waterhouse

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