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Brian Han

Vocusing on the Balance Sheet

We are disappointed narrow-moat Vocus failed to sell their New Zealand business at an acceptable price. We had anticipated sale proceeds would go a long way to alleviating the company's balance sheet pressure and act as a catalyst for rerating the stock. The company’s net debt leverage ratio was close to the brink of its covenants and if the company is unable to successfully refinance its debt, an equity raising could be on the cards. Despite the risk of an equity raise overhanging the share pri...
Underlying
Vocus Group Limited

Vocus Group is a telecommunications provider, providing telecommunications and other services to customers across Australia and New Zealand.

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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Brian Han

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