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    • We continue to favor leverage in the form of pension obligations. All else equal, we’d prefer to see plans that are well funded in order to avoid risk of those plans siphoning future cash flows that could otherwise accrue to the benefit of shareholders. Since October 2016 however, we have viewed pension deficits as a positive from a…
    • Pension deficits skew valuation slightly. As shown in Figure 6, the inclusion of updated pension deficits in our calculation of enterprise value (EV) would increase the average ratio of EV to our 2018 EBITDA estimate by 0.3x to 10.4x from 10.1x. For two of our more under-funded companies in our coverage…
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