Report
Philip Gorham, CFA, FRM
EUR 100.00 For Business Accounts Only

PMI leads the way in heated tobacco, but new entrants are looming large.

Philip Morris International missed our adjusted earnings estimate by a small amount, but volumes were better than our forecasts and management guided above our estimates for 2018. We will make minor adjustments to our near-term forecasts as a result but are unlikely to materially alter our $98 fair value estimate beyond the impact of the time value of money until we have greater visibility into the economics of the heated tobacco business. We are reiterating our wide moat rating. PMI’s brand equ...
Underlying
Philip Morris International Inc.

Philip Morris International is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a tobacco company engaged in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes, smoke-free products and associated electronic devices and accessories, and other nicotine-containing products in markets outside the United States. The company's portfolio comprises international and local brands including Marlboro, which is complemented in the premium-price category by Parliament. The company's other international cigarette brands are Bond Street, Chesterfield, L&M, Lark and Philip Morris. The company also owns various local cigarette brands, such as Dji Sam Soe, Sampoerna A and Sampoerna U in Indonesia, and Fortune and Jackpot in the Philippines.

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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Philip Gorham, CFA, FRM

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