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Erin Lash
EUR 101.80 For Business Accounts Only

Activist Investor Peltz's P&G Stake Fails to Sway Our Take on Its Prospects; Shares Fairly Valued

Activist investor Nelson Peltz is reported to have amassed a stake of more than $3 billion in Procter & Gamble (which equates to around 1% of shares outstanding). We don’t intend to alter our $92 fair value estimate (which calls for operating margins to expand more than 300 basis points to nearly 25% by 2026 and for 4% annual sales growth in the longer term) based on this news. Shares are trading higher on the announcement of Peltz’s stake, and appear fairly valued, but if the firm struggles...
Underlying
Procter & Gamble Company

Procter & Gamble provides consumer packaged goods. The company's products are sold primarily through mass merchandisers, e-commerce, grocery stores, membership club stores, drug stores, department stores, distributors, wholesalers, baby stores, beauty stores, other stores and pharmacies. The company has five reportable segments: Beauty, which includes hair care, and skin and personal care products; Grooming, which includes shave care products; Health Care, which includes oral care and personal health care products; Fabric and Home Care, which includes fabric care and home care products; and Baby, Feminine and Family Care, which includes baby care, feminine care and family care products.

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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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Erin Lash

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