Renta 4 | Iberdrola, via its US subsidiary Avangrid, has requested a one month suspension on the project Park City Wind in Martha’s Vineyard. This is due to the impact on the viability of the park of the global energy crisis, the hikes in interest rates and the increase in raw materials’ costs, according to the press. The project was assigned in 2015, with a planned investment of 3.5 billion…
On Net Fibra, the subsidiary created in Chile by Telefónica and US fund KKR on the basis of the network built by Telefónica’s subsidiary, has acquired a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network from Entel, Telefónica’s main rival in Chile, for some EUR 365 million, according to Expansión newspaper. The transaction, which is pending approval by competition authorities, is an important reinforcement for On Net Fibra’s business in Chile. The network sold by…
Morgan Stanley | We are revising upwards our EPS estimates for Bankinter by between 4-6% after the good results (Q3) released on Thursday. This translates into a rise in our Target Price to 7,70 euros/share. + NII rose 16% QoQ, beating consensus estimates by 9%. +Now we expect the NII to grow 15% in 2022 and 25% in 2023 (13% above consenus). +Our new TP implies an upside of 24% from…
Link Securities | Siemens Gamesa has signed two agreements with Hai Long Offshore Wind Project to supply wind turbines for three offshore wind projects in Taiwan, totalling 1.044 MW. This is the manufacturer’s biggest contract for this technology in the country, according to Europa Press. The agreements are specifically for the Hai Long 2A (300 MW), Hai Long 2B (232 MW) and Hai Long 3 (512 MW) projects and will use…
Link Securities |Yesterday in Congress, Aena chairman Maurici Lucena talked about the company’s budget. He flagged that Aena expects to generate several hundred million euros in profits which “will benefit all Spaniards”, due to the State’s 5% stake in the group, according to Expansión today. Lucena appeared in Congress to explain Aena’s budgets for 2023, although he did not provide any more details. That said, in the budget for 2022 Aena…
Renta 4 | Grifols would be facing a class action on the part of 54.000 donors in the state of Illinois, in the United States. The plaintiffs are arguing that Grifols has not complied with the state’s Biometric Privacy Law, since they have demanded that donors provide their fingerprints, not destroy this information and exceed the specific objective for which it was registered. According to the plaintiffs this violated their…
Pedro Sánchez, Emmanuel Macron and António Costa (who, for Portugal, has also been part of the dialogue) have decided to discard the gas pipeline that had been proposed through the Pyrenees, the MidCat. They have agreed that a new project, BarMar, will replace it. This is an underwater gas (or hydro-product) pipeline that will link Barcelona and Marseille via the Mediterranean Sea bed. This solution, however, has its cost: the…
Fernando González Urbaneja | Brexit was about regaining control; that was the decisive message that led disoriented citizens to vote in favour of leaving the European Union. Six years later, what they have achieved, rather than regaining control, is to achieve “decontrol”. Three prime ministers in the course of 2022 is an unimaginable outcome for those who have studied and praised British democracy as an exemplary model based on good…
Bankinter | According to the Russian media, Inditex will transfer its assets there to partners in a “friendly” country in Soutb East Asia or the Persian Gulf. The solution would include Massimo Dutti, Oysho and Zara Home leaving the Russian market completely. Meanwhile other brands, particularly Zara, would operate under other names and with new collections from spring of 2023. It could take six months to a year to finalise…
Spain is amongst the countries with the least competitive tax system in the OECD. This is according to the new edition of the tax competitiveness ranking prepared by the Tax Foundation, in which Spain appears in 34th place out of a total of 38. This position, which represents a loss of two places compared to the 2021 edition and eight compared to 2020, leaves Spain ahead of only Ireland, Portugal,…