British Sky Broadcasting BSYBY , known as BSkyB, reported solid fiscal third-quarter results. Revenue increased 7.8% year over year, bringing the nine-month result up 6%, spot on with our full-year projection. We are maintaining our fair value estimate and moat rating. The firm’s growth is being driven primarily by subscriber additions, particularly in its communication…
Capgemini CAP reported first-quarter results that were largely in line with our expectations, and we are maintaining our EUR 39 fair value estimate and narrow moat rating for the company. Capgemini’s first-quarter revenue fell 1.7% to EUR 2.5 billion as the company’s cyclical businesses reported weak numbers amid sluggish economic conditions in Europe. The company’s…
Sanofi SNY reported first-quarter results that fell short of both our and consensus expectations, but we don’t expect any significant changes to our fair value estimate for the company. Further, Sanofi’s wide moat divisions of diabetes, vaccines, consumer, and rare disease drugs posted solid gains, reaffirming our overall wide moat rating for the firm. Within…
Vallourec maintained its guidance for 2013, even after a meaningful margin increase in the first quarter. The company generally reports lower profitability in the first quarter, with meaningful improvement in the second and third quarters. But with a 15.7% EBITDA margin to start the year, the company could be tracking well ahead of our fullyear…
Spain’s Banco Popular earned EUR 104 million in the first quarter, up 4% from the year-ago quarter (and compared with a loss of EUR 2.5 billion in the trailing quarter on heavy loss provisioning). Net interest income fell 14.5% compared with the year-ago quarter as Popular, like many banks, saw continued low rates squeeze margins….
Danske Bank DANSKE reported net profit of DKK 1.5 billion for first quarter 2013 (DKK 1.5 per share), higher than year ago profit of DKK 783 million (DKK 0.8 per share). Return on equity for first quarter 2013 equaled 4.3% compared with 2.5% a year ago. With much lower impairment charges in its non-core Ireland…
