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Grant Slade, CFA
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Value Creation Under Sims’ Scrap Metals Strategy Questionable; Reiterate FVE on Analyst Transfer

No-moat-rated Sims’ recently revised strategy includes some promising elements. However, we question whether its scrap metals strategy, which will see North American ferrous volumes increase by 40% and non-ferrous volumes double over the coming six years, can deliver value for shareholders. But with much of the new strategy guiding long-term direction, our earnings estimates are unchanged. Therefore, we retain our fair value estimate of AUD 10.10 per share and our no-moat and high uncertainty ra...
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Sims Ltd.

Sims Metal Management buys, processes and sells ferrous and non-ferrous recycled metals and provides environmentally responsible solutions for the disposal of post-consumer electronic products, including information technology assets recycled for commercial customers. Co.'s product groups are: ferrous secondary recycling, which collects, processes and trades iron and steel secondary raw material; non-ferrous secondary recycling, which collects, processes and trades other metal alloys and residues; recycling solutions, which disposes post-consumer electronic products; and secondary processing and other services, which focuses on melting, refining and ingoting of certain non-ferrous metals.

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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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Grant Slade, CFA

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