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Ali Mogharabi
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Snap Beats Expectations with Solid ARPU Growth; Maintaining $14 FVE; Shares Fairly Valued

Snap reported second-quarter 2018 results above our expectations and consensus as the firm is more effectively monetizing its users, albeit with continuing difficulties in growing daily average users. While there are some indications of higher user interaction and engagement, similar to Twitter, Snap's lackluster user growth is indicative of the firm's network effects moat source deficiency and supports our no-moat rating of the company. Management's third-quarter revenue and adjusted EBITDA gui...
Underlying
Snap Inc. Class A

Snap is a camera company. The company's primary product, Snapchat, is a camera application that helps people to communicate visually through short videos and images called Snaps. The company's products are: Camera, which includes tools for people to personalize their Snaps; Chat, which includes interacting with friends on Snapchat; Discover, which includes providing Stories and Shows from publishers, creators, and the community; Snap Map, which shows a live map of the user's location; Memories, which enables users to save the Snaps they create in a personal collection called Memories; and Spectacles, which includes creating Memories by using Spectacles, which are the company's sunglasses that make Snaps.

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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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Ali Mogharabi

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