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Andrew Lange
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Sage's First-Half 2018 Underperformance Surprises; Revises Full-Year Growth; Shares Fairly Valued

Sage surprised the market with a brief trading update which warned of underperformance for the first half of fiscal 2018. Notably, for full-year fiscal 2018, Sage revised its organic revenue growth rate expectation to approximately 7% from 8%. The soured outlook was blamed on a decline in recurring revenue growth and contract license slippage in the enterprise segment. While we think the license slippage is short term in nature due to timing issues, we are more concerned about the decline in rec...
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Sage Group plc

Sage Group is a technology provider that assists to manage businesses of all sizes. Co. provides a suite of cloud business management solutions and services including accounting, financials, enterprise management, people, payroll, payments and banking, as well as marketplace apps that can be provisioned to match the exact needs of any business. Co. has three reportable segments in which it operates, being Northern Europe (the U.K. and Ireland), Central and Southern Europe (Germany, Switzerland, Poland, France and Portugal) and NorthAmerica (the U.S., Canada and North America Intacct).

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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Andrew Lange

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