Alphavalue/DIVACONS | The Cantabrian bank has reduced its stake in Quasar, the real estate company it shares with Blackstone, to 3%. The transaction included compensation for losses and a capital increase that was subscribed solely by the US fund. Banco Santander: Reduce, Target Price €7.11/share.
Link Securities | Mapfre RE, the reinsurance unit of Mapfre (MAP), has acquired an office building in Madrid, an investment aimed at diversifying the company’s portfolio with other alternative assets, according to the newspaper Expansión. The nine-storey building is located at María de Molina, 54, in the Salamanca district, a few metres from Príncipe de Vergara, with direct connections to both the A-2 motorway and Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport. It…
Renta 4 | Revenues grew in line with estimates, up 1.1% (6% pro forma) thanks to pro forma organic growth of 4% in points of presence (the remainder coming from placements and BTS, lifting pro forma tower business revenues by 5.2%), with a margin rising slightly thanks to the management of operating expenses and rents, allowing pro forma organic growth in EBITDA after rents of 8.1%, improving our outlook due…
Alphavalue/DIVACONS | The supermarket chain reported its H1 2025 figures on Thursday, closing up 0.53%. Net sales of €2.857 billion (up 5% year-on-year); EBITDA of €133 million (up 4% year-on-year). Profit of €37.8 million compared to losses of €94 million in the same period last year. Martin Tolcachir, a director at Dia, stated that the 2025-2029 Strategic Plan is ‘progressing as planned’. The director explained that during 1H25, the business…
Link Securities | BBVA (BBVA) has opened the door to withdrawing its hostile takeover bid for Banco Sabadell (SAB) following the extraordinary shareholders’ meetings to be held by the Catalan bank on 6 August to approve the sale of TSB to Santander (SAN) and the subsequent distribution of an extraordinary dividend of €2.5 billion, according to the newspaper Expnasión. ‘There are no guarantees,’ said BBVA CEO Onur Genç in response…
Alphavalue/DIVACONS | The Spanish utility is exiting the Mexican market to finance its €55 billion investment plan through 2031, with a strategic focus on regulated network businesses in the United States and the United Kingdom. On Thursday after the close of trading, the group reached an agreement with Cox ABG for the sale of its 2.6 GW generation and supply portfolio in Mexico for $4.2 billion. The divestment of most…
Intermoney | The hotel chain has once again posted very solid results, more or less in line with our estimates at the high end, but slightly better in terms of margins and at the low end. All the markets in which it operates continue to show great strength, with the exception of Cuba and Germany, with a 6% increase in RevPar for the quarter (4.7% from price and 1.3% from…
Link Securities | The company announced to the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) that it has strengthened its presence in Asia with the award of a new high-tech project for one of the world’s top 20 Tier 1 suppliers, the relocation of its headquarters to the Suzhou Industrial Park and the expansion of its operations centre in China. Both milestones, which form part of the activity of its Intelligent Robots…
Intermoney | The company (Hold, PO €43) published its H1 2025 results yesterday after the close of trading on Wall Street and will hold a conference call today at 3pm. The main figures from the results, together with our forecasts, are shown in the table below. Overall, EBITDA rose 9% to €655 million in 1H25, compared to Intermoney’s 17% estimate, confirming margin improvements in construction, although EBITDA was affected by…
Intermoney | The company (Hold, PO £24) announced its H1 2025 results this morning and will hold a conference call at 1 p.m. The figures for the first half, together with our estimates, are shown in the table below. Based on traffic levels in Spain in the first half, which grew by 4.5%, Aena generated EBITDA of €1.692 billion (up 9%) in June, slightly below the Intermoney estimate (€1.707 billion)….