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Zain Akbari, CFA
EUR 101.80 For Business Accounts Only

Pilgrim’s Pride Posts Soft Fourth-Quarter Results, but Long-term Outlook Intact; Shares Cheap

We anticipate trimming our $28.50 per share valuation for no-moat Pilgrim’s Pride by around 5% after it posted fourth-quarter results that trailed our targets. In 2016, the firm saw $7.93 billion in sales and an 11.3% adjusted EBITDA margin, lagging our $8.02 billion and 11.7% expectations, respectively. Poultry deflation, spurred by normalizing beef prices, weighed on performance. However, we still believe consumers’ growing preference for chicken will endure after short-term price headwinds ab...
Underlying
Pilgrim's Pride Corporation

Pilgrims Pride is primarily engaged in the production, processing, marketing and distribution of fresh, frozen chicken products to retailers, distributors and foodservice operators. The company's primary product types are fresh chicken products, prepared chicken products and export chicken products. The company's fresh chicken products consist of refrigerated (nonfrozen) whole or cut-up chicken, either pre-marinated or non-marinated and prepackaged case-ready chicken. The company's case-ready chicken includes various combinations of freshly refrigerated, whole chickens and chicken parts in trays, bags or other consumer packs labeled and priced ready for the retail grocer's fresh meat counter.

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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Zain Akbari, CFA

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