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Analyst
Harris Fein
Period: Reporting periods mapped to calendar 2024 Q4 – 2026 Q2 (7 quarters; questions recorded in 4).
- Questions
- 6on tracked calls
- Challenge rate
- 0%none of 6 questionsLimited sample
- Companies
- 3questioned at least once
- Reporting periods
- 4with questions
These figures cover the whole profile: every tracked question, all reporting periods.
How to read these numbers
Challenge rate is the share of questions that pushed back, pressed for specifics or questioned management’s assumptions. It describes how questions were asked on the calls tracked here; it does not measure whether any view turned out to be right.
Rounding. Rates are rounded to whole percentages, so a small share can show as 0% even when some questions were challenging. The count beside each rate is exact; “none of N questions” means no question was challenging.
No questions recorded. “—” means there is nothing to calculate: no questions were recorded for that period on the calls tracked here. It does not mean there was no activity.
Fewer than 3 questions. A company-level rate is withheld when fewer than 3 questions were recorded for that company; the questions are still counted everywhere else.
Small samples. Profiles with fewer than 10 questions are marked Limited sample.
Reporting periods. Questions are grouped by the calendar quarter each company’s fiscal reporting period maps to, not by the date of the call. Periods without a calendar mapping are listed separately under their fiscal label.
Questions asked
Grouped by company, most questions first. Open a company to read its questions, newest reporting period first.
Showing 6 of 6 questions from 3 companies
IFFInternational Flavors & Fragrances3 questions · 3 reporting periods · 0 of 3 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q1
On the Taste margins, they came in a fair bit better than we were expecting on, say, not a huge amount of organic growth. So can we just zoom in on what's happening there?
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DeVeau attributed Taste margin to three factors: good volume growth and leverage, favorable net price-to-input cost, and disciplined productivity. Cautioned 18% CCN EBITDA growth is unusually high and will normalize due to timing of inventory absorption.
Calendar 2025 Q3
there's been some solid year-on-year margin comps in Food Ingredients. Just wondering if you could maybe talk about the line of sight to bridge that margin to the mid-teens next year
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DeVeau traced Food Ingredients margin from 9% to 12% to ~14% adjusted for portfolio, with clear line of sight to 15%. Growth return plus ongoing plant and raw material optimization are the levers. Erik added TAURA fruit inclusions capacity expansion as example of investing in high-margin growth areas.
Calendar 2024 Q4
what does that price discovery mean to you in terms of maybe whether you could prune a little bit more from your portfolio
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Erik acknowledged potential further food ingredients pruning and described bolt-on strategy focused on HNB technologies and taste geographic footprint, with emphasis on returns.
ALBAlbemarle Corporation2 questions · 1 reporting period · 0 of 2 challenging
Calendar 2025 Q3
Just curious to hear what the latest you're hearing is
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Masters emphasized the need for multiple tools, tax incentives, trade policy, direct investment, public-private partnerships, noting no single solution will suffice.
How much of that was just you being opportunistic on spot sales because of price volatility?
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Masters acknowledged the inventory drawdown provided extra growth this year that won't repeat in 2026, but noted the underlying market demand remains strong.
DDDuPont1 question · 1 reporting period · 0 of 1 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
can you just give us an update on the M&A pipeline? It seems like you have capacity for both buybacks and midsize M&A.
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Koch cited >$1B M&A capacity plus a $250M buyback, targeting mid-teens gross valuations in CDMO/packaging.
Challenge rate by company
Every company this analyst questioned, most questions first. A company-level rate is shown from 3 questions; below that it is withheld.
| Company | Questions | Challenge rate |
|---|---|---|
| IFF International Flavors & Fragrances | 3 | 0%none of 3 questions |
| ALB Albemarle Corporation | 2 | —Rate withheld: fewer than 3 questions |
| DD DuPont | 1 | —Rate withheld: fewer than 3 questions |
Activity by reporting period
Questions recorded for each calendar quarter that companies’ reporting periods map to (not the call date), with the challenge rate for that period. Periods inside the range with no questions are shown as “No questions recorded”.
| Calendar period | Questions | Challenge rate | Companies |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Q4 | 1 | 0%none of 1 question | 1 |
| 2025 Q1 | No questions recorded | — | — |
| 2025 Q2 | No questions recorded | — | — |
| 2025 Q3 | 3 | 0%none of 3 questions | 2 |
| 2025 Q4 | No questions recorded | — | — |
| 2026 Q1 | 1 | 0%none of 1 question | 1 |
| 2026 Q2 | 1 | 0%none of 1 question | 1 |
- 2024 Q41 question · challenge rate 0% (none of 1 question) · 1 company
- 2025 Q1No questions recorded
- 2025 Q2No questions recorded
- 2025 Q33 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 3 questions) · 2 companies
- 2025 Q4No questions recorded
- 2026 Q11 question · challenge rate 0% (none of 1 question) · 1 company
- 2026 Q21 question · challenge rate 0% (none of 1 question) · 1 company
Topics
Topics tagged on this analyst’s questions.
- M&A3
- Capital Allocation2
- Margin2
- Pricing1
- Regulation Policy1
- Capex Investment1
- Demand1
- Inventory1