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Ali Mogharabi
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We believe slowing user growth is likely to limit Twitter's competitive advantages.

Narrow-moat Twitter reported disappointing fourth-quarter 2016 results, with total revenue and operating income below our expectations. While the firm’s growing user engagement is reaffirming part of our thesis, lower-than-expected user growth and delay in more effective monetization of the users are concerning. Management did not provide full-year 2017 revenue guidance, but the first-quarter adjusted EBITDA guidance and implied revenue range were well below our forecast. Although we have lowere...
Underlying
Twitter Inc.

Twitter provides products and services for people, organizations, advertisers, developers and platform and data partners. The company's product, Twitter, is a global platform for public self-expression and conversation in real time. The company's mobile application, Periscope, lets anyone broadcast and watch video live with others. The company's products and services for advertisers include Promoted Products such as Promoted Tweets, Promoted Accounts, and Promoted Trends. The company's products for developers and data partners provide tools and public application programming interfaces to build applications and other products that utilize Twitter data and syndicate and distribute Twitter content across their properties.

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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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