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The key read-through is that the business is proving structurally less cyclic than the market still prices it. If Europe remains soft but margins stay near peak levels, the equity is no longer trading on a simple regional recovery story; it is increasingly a cash-compounding franchise with LATAM acting as the marginal growth engine. That usually compresses the multiple gap versus high-quality software/consumer compounders, especially when the balance sheet removes refinancing risk and makes downside less path-dependent on capital markets.

The second-order implication is competitive, not just financial. Strong free cash flow gives management optionality to keep investing through a weak European tape while smaller peers likely have to slow product rollouts or discount more aggressively, which can widen share gaps in the next 2-4 quarters. If LATAM is still in a high-growth phase, the broader market may be underestimating how much mix shift can offset mature-region stagnation; the more important signal is not the Europe decline itself, but whether incremental margin holds as expansion capital gets redeployed.

The main contrarian risk is that the market may be too anchored to the current margin profile. A 65%+ EBITDA margin is hard to sustain if competition intensifies in emerging markets or if new regulation/taxation hits the highest-return jurisdictions; either would show up with a lag over several quarters, not weeks. On the other hand, if consensus is extrapolating Europe weakness into a multi-year deterioration, that looks overstated: the business has enough financial flexibility to absorb a prolonged regional trough without forcing a reset in valuation or strategy.

For timing, this is a better buy-the-dip name on any Europe-driven pullback than a chase after a straight-up move. The clearest catalyst set is a sequence of quarterly prints showing LATAM growth continuing above 20% while margin stays in the low-mid 60s; that combination would likely force multiple expansion over the next 6-12 months. The main thing to watch is whether FCF gets redeployed into M&A or aggressive expansion, because that could either create upside optionality or introduce execution risk if discipline slips.