February 2012 Monthly Q&A 8K
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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FORM 8-K
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CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): February 3, 2012
MORNINGSTAR, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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Illinois (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) | 000-51280 (Commission File Number) | 36-3297908 (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
| 22 West Washington Street Chicago, Illinois (Address of principal executive offices) |
60602 (Zip Code) |
| (312) 696-6000 (Registrant's telephone number, including area code) | |
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(Former name or former address, if changed since last report) __________________________________ | |
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
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Item 7.01. Regulation FD Disclosure.
The following information is included in this Current Report on Form 8-K as a result of Morningstar, Inc.'s policy regarding public disclosure of corporate information. Answers to additional inquiries, if any, that comply with this policy are scheduled to become available on March 2, 2012.
Caution Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
This current report on Form 8-K contains forward-looking statements as that term is used in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on our current expectations about future events or future financial performance. Forward-looking statements by their nature address matters that are, to different degrees, uncertain, and often contain words such as “may,” “could,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,” “seek,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “predict,” “potential,” or “continue.” These statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause the events we discuss not to occur or to differ significantly from what we expect. For us, these risks and uncertainties include, among others,
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• | general industry conditions and competition, including ongoing economic weakness and uncertainty; |
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• | the effect of market volatility on revenue from asset-based fees; |
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• | damage to our reputation resulting from claims made about possible conflicts of interest; |
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• | liability for any losses that result from an actual or claimed breach of our fiduciary duties; |
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• | the increasing concentration of data and development work carried out at our offshore facilities in China and India; |
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• | failure to differentiate our products and continuously create innovative, proprietary research tools; |
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• | failure to successfully integrate acquisitions; |
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• | challenges faced by our non-U.S. operations; and |
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• | a prolonged outage of our database and network facilities. |
A more complete description of these risks and uncertainties can be found in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010. If any of these risks and uncertainties materialize, our actual future results may vary significantly from what we expect. We do not undertake to update our forward-looking statements as a result of new information or future events.
Investor Questions and Answers: February 2012
We plan to make written responses available addressing investor questions about our business on the first Friday of every month. The following answers respond to selected questions received through February 2, 2012. We intend to answer as many questions as time allows, although we will not answer product support questions through this channel. We may wait to respond to a given question until the following month if we need more time to research the answer.
If you would like to submit a question, please send an e-mail to investors@morningstar.com, contact us via fax at 312-696-6009, or write to us at the following address:
Morningstar, Inc.
Investor Relations
22 W. Washington
Chicago, IL 60602
Employee Base
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1. | You disclosed in the last annual filing of 'Morningstar Inc.' the number of total employees working for the firm. For portfolio analysis, would you be so kind to respond to this email providing the total number of employees working at the firm's headquarter location? |
As of September 30, 2011, we had approximately 3,395 employees; about 1,430 were based in our Chicago headquarters.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
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Date: February 3, 2012 | By: | | /s/ Richard E. Robbins |
| | Richard E. Robbins |
| | General Counsel and Corporate Secretary |
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