Report
Alex Morozov
EUR 101.80 For Business Accounts Only

We're concerned with recent trends of wholesalers expanding own retail channels.

William Demant finished 2016 on a strong note, with results slightly ahead of our estimates. We're planning to raise our fair value estimate modestly once we roll our model and account for better-than-expected performance and the time value of money. With the stock appreciating over the past six months, we consider it to be fairly valued. Our narrow moat rating is intact.
Aside from the weakness in the U.S. retail channel, the company's hearing instruments business delivered a strong second half...
Underlying
Demant A/S

William Demant Holding is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co develops, manufactures and sells products and equipment designed to aid the hearing and communication of individuals. Co. focuses on four areas: Hearing Devices, Diagnostic Instruments, Hearing Implants and Personal Communication. Co.'s hearing devices include Oticon, Bernafon, Sonic, Phonic Ear, and FrontRow. Co.'s Hearing implant consist of Oticon Medical. Co.'s diagnostic instruments include Maico, Interacoustics, Amplivox, Grason-Stadler, MedRx, and Micromedical. Co.'s personal communication consists of Sennheiser Communications.

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.

Analysts
Alex Morozov

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