Stock price when the opinion was issued
One of the largest European industrial stocks. This hasn’t done much for several years. Revenue has been kind of flat at about €75 billion for several years. Earnings have kind of bounced around between €5 and €6 for several years. Similar to General Electric (GE-N), an exercise in portfolio pruning and management. Valuation is not bad at about 16.5X PE with a nice dividend at about 3.5%, but can’t see how it could outperform the market.
Reasonable valuation with a good dividend yield. Acquisition a few months ago was not well timed, but it is a rock solid business. He would like to own it at the right price. They are a well run business with a great position in a number of their businesses.