Report
Chris Kallos, CFA
EUR 101.80 For Business Accounts Only

Primary Narrows Guidance in Line with Expectations and Flags Write Down of Medical Centre Assets

We maintain our AUD 4.00 per share fair value estimate for no-moat Primary Health Care after management guided to a fiscal 2017 underlying NPAT of about AUD 92 million, which is at the lower end of its previous guidance range but in line with our forecasts. Primary also expects to book a noncash impairment charge of about AUD 575 million relating mostly to Medical Centres goodwill and underperforming sites. This compares with interim goodwill of about AUD 850 million for the division. As such, w...
Underlying
Healius

Primary Health Care is a medical center operator engaged in providing diagnostic imaging services and pathology services. Co. operates three principal operating segments: Medical Centres, which provides a range of services and facilities to general practitioners, specialists and other health care providers; Pathology, which provides pathology services; and Imaging, which provides imaging and scanning services from stand-alone imaging sites and from within the consolidated entity's medical centres.

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.

Analysts
Chris Kallos, CFA

Other Reports on these Companies
Other Reports from Morningstar

ResearchPool Subscriptions

Get the most out of your insights

Get in touch