Brandes Investment Trust Comments on Emerson Electric

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Jan 06, 2016

Emerson Electric (NYSE:EMR) is another high-quality company with a strong competitive position, conservative balance sheet and attractive long-term returns on capital. Similar to Schneider’s case, over the last few years, the market has become concerned about Emerson’s exposure to emerging markets. Investors also seem worried about the cyclicality of its process automation business, particularly its high exposure to the oil & gas end market.

Despite the negative sentiment, we believe Emerson is well positioned to continue generating value in each of its business segments, which have attractive long-term growth prospects based on our analysis. While concerns surrounding Emerson’s oil & gas exposure and the cyclicality of the process automation business are warranted, we feel that its shares are overly discounted at the company’s current valuation.

From the Brandes Global Equity Fund letter for the year ended Sept. 30, 2015.