John Feffer via Fair Observer | With wannabe monarchs like Donald Trump that show far less deference to democracy than the current occupants of Buckingham Palace and Kyoto’s Chrysanthemum Throne, who needs actual kings and queens?
Renta 4 | The results have exceeded forecasts for income (+1% vs R4e and consensus) and have missed those of the consensus for EBITDA excluding the impact of IFRS 16 (+414 M€) and extraordinary payments (+120 M€ vs +100M€ foreseen) by -3%, while remaining slightly above ours (+0.5%).
Morgan Stanley | One of the main calls of our retail analyst Geoff Ruddell (and outside the consensus) is to short Inditex. There is no doubt that Inditex is a high quality and well-managed business with an impressive track record. However, this is all already in the price and with stores in countries which represent 95% of global GDP, it has already reached its maturity point and its capacity for…
Bankinter | Amadeus´Q119 results have slightly exceded market expectations, with slight gains in market share in Distribution thanks to the evolution of Soluciones Tecnológicas.
J.L.M. Campuzano (AEB) | The total assets of the Spanish financial system amounted to 4.7 trillion euros at the end of 2017, almost four times GDP. In 2012 it exceeded 5.2 trillion euros.
Santander Corporate & Investment | We have revised our valuation and forecasts for Acciona (ANA) (Underweight, TP 96.00)
Renta 4 | Ferrovial (FER) remained in the red at the close of the first quarter. According to the company it registered losses of 98 M€ on making provisions of 345 M€ for the delays which have accumulated in the construction of two motorways in the US.
Sabadell | Neinor 8 April´s profit warning was undoubtedly a bucket of cold water, not just because it was unexpected (the consensus expected a lowering of targets), but also because of the scale of the cut (-50% of the Ebitda accumulated in 2019 and 2020). In this note we downgrade our objective price 13% to 13.86 euros/share because of the delay in the delivery plan and because of more conservative profitability hypotheses in the long term. Despite the cut in our O.P. we continue to see value in the share and maintain or recommendation of BUY.
Link Securities | Ence (ENC) presented its first quarter results (Q12019). The firm achieved business of 195.6 M€ in Q12019, which is in line with the previous year (-0.3%), principally sustained by the increase of income from energy (+17.7%), which compensated the fall in income from cellulose (-4.0%).
Weak demand remains the key to the lack of inflationary pressures in the Eurozone.