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    Air Products and Chemicals: Eyes on International Assets to be Divested

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    • APD attended Vertical Research Partners’ 2017 Basic Materials Conference. We hosted a fireside chat with CFO Scott Crocco and VP of Investor Relations Simon Moore on 14 June. Topic number one for APD shares remains deployment of excess capital accumulated following the separation of Versum (VSM) and divestiture of PMD to Evonik (net debt was $551mn or 0.2x EBITDA as of 31 March). One message: be patient. We view this approach as entirely reasonable and believe that most investors will as well for two reasons: (1) trust in CEO Seifi Ghasemi as a skilled steward of capital; and (2) public market multiples are high and private market multiples are at record highs, so what’s the rush? Of course, it helps to have a catalyst in the form of a motivated seller. Air Products signaled interest in assets that are likely to be divested for anti-trust reasons as peers Praxair and Linde combine via a merger of equals (click here). With regard to the US market, we believe regulators would permit neither Air Products, nor Air Liquide to acquire assets to be cast off. However, we do expect Air Products to pursue assets that may become available in other markets, such as Germany, Brazil, Scandinavia, India and Canada. Hypothetically, if APD were to acquire assets that generated $250-350mn of EBITDA in the aggregate, that could result in EPS accretion of $0.26-0.37 or +4-6% and pro forma balance sheet leverage of 1.0-1.6x EBITDA as outlined in Table 1.

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