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Michael Hodel
EUR 147.86 For Business Accounts Only

Windstream Posts Soft Customer Metrics but Solid Margin Performance; Shares Fairly Valued

Windstream’s effort to improve profitability in the weaker portions of its business delivered solid results during the second quarter, with the enterprise business showing particularly impressive margin progress. The more critical traditional consumer and business services segments continue to struggle against the same challenges in the fight for market share versus the cable companies. We don’t plan to change our fair value estimate or moat rating, leaving the stock fairly valued in our view. 
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Windstream Holdings

Windstream Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of network communications and technology solutions for consumers, businesses, enterprise organizations and wholesale customers. The company provides data, cloud solutions, unified communications and managed services to small business and enterprise clients. The company also provides services, including broadband, security solutions, voice and digital television to consumers. The company supplies core transport solutions on a local and long-haul fiber network spanning approximately 147,000 miles.

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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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Michael Hodel

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