BBVA has reached a stake of 85.97% in its Turkish subsidiary Garanti after the closing of the takeover bid it had launched for the 50.15% of the capital it did not control. The bank, headed by Carlos Torres Vila as chairman, has paid 22,758 million Turkish liras (around 1.410 billion euros at the exchange rate) for the 36.12% it has acquired after the transaction. The payment was made from its…
Norbolsa | The process for the sale of Deutsche Telekom (DT)’s towers was updated ahead of the possibility that Vantage Towers and AMT are excluded before they lodge their bids. The reason behand the recent news has to do with the significant regulatory challenges which both companies would have to face consolidating the towers in the German market. DT owns approximately 50% of the total of towers in Germany, while…
Fernando González Urbaneja | The Bank of Spain’s Annual Report, usually issued in May/June, is the canonical report for economic experts, the one used as a reference for all those who want to have an informed opinion. This does not mean that it is infallible, but it does mean that it is reliable and trustworthy. Some of the all-knowledgeable people who take up space on television this morning said that…
Public indebtedness continues to break records. In March, debt registered a new all-time high of over 1.45 trillion euros after increasing by 12.381 billion euros compared to February, according to the statistical advance published yesterday by the Bank of Spain. It is true that the debt-to-GDP ratio stood at 117.7%, far from the 125% it exceeded in March last year. However, that was exclusively due to the economic rebound, which…
ACS, along with felllow Spanish construction company Navantia, will bid for one of the biggest orders from the Australian Armed Forces, namely the programme for embarcations of amphibious landing Land 8710 Phase 1. The amount of the contract could total 533 million euros and would extend until 2032. ACS will be represented by its affiliate UGL, Cimic’s industrial engineering division. For its part, Navantia has been present in the Australian…
Fernando González Urbaneja | It’s coming up to a year since gas became more expensive on the international markets, which in Spain led to an unbridled rise in the price of electricity for a large number of families and companies. A price hike that had a spectacular and artificial impact on the CPI, with second-round effects on all consumer prices and on the direct costs of production processes. At the…
Intermoney | Acciona (Buy, TP €210) has won various contracts to remodel the airport in Palma de Mallorca, for a total value of 220 million euros. The main one (for 200 million euros) will entail carrying out improvements in the parking platforms for planes for module A and in the extension of the terminal. The execution time is 39 months. The other contract involves the extension of module D. The…
Renta 4 | April traffic data for Spanish airports has been published. Although traffic levels are still below pre-pandemic levels, they are improving again significantly with respect to previous months, partly benefitting from the Easter holidays. The number of passengers reached 20,4 million in April, slightly higher than our forecasts and just 12% below 2019 levels. The number of domestic passengers registered was 5.7% below 2019, while the number of…
Bankinter | Telefónica (TEF)’s first quarter 2022 results beat forecasts and the group has maintained its guidelines for the year. In organic terms, revenues (+3.2%) and OIBDA (+2.1%) continue to show positive growth for the fourth consecutive quarter. Spain remains the market with the most competitive pressure, leading to a drop in OIBDA. However this is offset by greater strength in the rest of the group’s key markets. The OIBDA…
The AIREF (Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility) warns that the Government’s forecasts are unrealistic and the 2022-2025 Stability Programme “should be more explicit”. During the organisation’s press conference, attended by its president Cristina Herrero and those in charge of budgetary and economic analysis, they warned that the Plan sent to the European Commission on 29 April has “serious shortcomings”. The reason is that despite the fundamental role that the Government…