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Companies, Ibex, Spanish economy 22nd September 2022

Electricity companies ask for extraordinary tax on profits, not revenues

Banc Sabadell | The Royal Decree on energy has been approved and the electricity companies are still asking that in Spain profits are taxed and not revenues. Yesterday the Cabinet approved the Decree which includes: Cut in VAT on gas from 21% to 5% up to December (which could be extended until 2023). Application of the “Iberian exception” to co-generation plants (600 installations) Service mechanism for rapid demand response, allowing industries…

Iberdrola

Companies, European economy, Ibex 22nd September 2022

Iberdrola, Acciona Energía, amongst favourites to play European energies theme

Morgan Stanley | Despite Gazprom cutting the gas supply via Nord Stream 1, Martijn Rats (our Commodities strategist) believes that rationing will not be necessary this winter. However he warns that Europe could enter winter 2022-24 with inventory levels which are too low. In response to this, the European Union has suggested introducing different measures: Limit the price of electricity for the “fixed cost” energy generators, 2. Limit the price…

ACS

Companies, Ibex, Relevant News Item 21st September 2022

ACS reaches agreement with Texas Transport Department to renovate a bridge for an investment of €1B

Intermoney | ACS (ACS) (Buy, Target Price 40 euros/share) would have reached an agreement with the Texas Transport Department (TxDOT) related to the contract to renovate a bridge in Corpus Christi, according to the daily Cinco Dias. The investment required is 1 billion euros. The initial contract had been signed in 2015, but since then various problems with the design have appeared which have delayed the work being carried out. Faced with…

Telefónica

Companies, Ibex, Spanish economy 20th September 2022

Telefónica seeks reduced price for Oi’s assets auctioned in Brazil

Renta 4 | Telefónica Brasil (Telefónica (TEF) 74,2%) finalised the acquisition of Oi’s assets which corresponded to the Spanish firm for a total of 1.063 billion euros. Telefónica Brasil paid some 966 million euros on the closing date of the transaction in April 2022. The payment of the remaining 10% is subject to specific price adjustments and potential indemnisation obligations. Separately, Telefónica Brasil took on a commitment to make an extra payment of…

aenasede

Companies, Ibex, Relevant News Item 19th September 2022

Deloitte calculates Aena’s 2020/2021 revenue deficit at €2.482 B

Banc Sabadell | Aena (AENA) is continuing to struggle to reopen the compensation analysis for Covid-19, which the Civil Aviation and the Government have both denied. Now, according to the daily Cinco Dias, Aena will have asked Deloitte to prepare a report. In this, the latter estimates the revenue deficit during 2020, as a result of Covid-19, at 1.394 billion euros ( vs 1.364 billion published by the CNMC) and during…

Enagas

Ibex, Spanish economy 2nd September 2022

Enagas puts a capex figure of €370 mn on MidCat (7.7% of estimate up to 2030)

Sabadell | ENAGAS Sell (T.P. 20,13 €/share) On Thursday, after the meeting between Spanish Prime Minister P. Sánchez and German Chancellor O. Scholz, where they defended the need to increase interconnections in Europe, the French Economy and Finance Minister, B. Le Maire replied that he will take a look at the MidCat project. Up to now, France had opposed MidCat, alleging it would be a project which would take too…

ACS

Companies, Ibex, Spanish economy 1st September 2022

ACS takes control of Houston highway for €900 mn

Link Securities | Iridium, a concessions subsidiary of ACS, via its US arm ACS Infrastructure Development, Inc., has reached an agreement to buy 44.5% of US firm Blueridge Transportation Group (BTG). The latter is the concessionary company for a 17 km segment of the SH-288 highway in Houston, Texas, which includes on the central reservation two toll lanes in each direction. After this acquisition, ACS’ stake in the BTG will…

ACS

Companies, Ibex, Spanish economy 31st August 2022

ACS signs two new contracts worth €800 mn in the US; already obtains over half its revenues there

Intermoney | According to today’s Expansion, ACS (Buy, T.P. 40 euros/share) is beefing up its works portfolio in the US, after signing two new contracts in California with a budget of 800 million euros. Through Flatiron, one of its main subsidiaries in the US along with Turner and Dragados, the Spanish firm has teamed up with local group Myers & Sons to reformulate the current motorway Interestatal 105 (I-105) in…