Alphavalue | BBVA (Buy, Target Price 6,24 euros +) plans to hire 400 people in Spain this year with a technological profile. The Spanish bank revealed it foresees the incorporation of 2,000 employees into its workforce with this kind of profile in 2022. As analysts at Link explain: “As the group announced yesterday, almost 1,000 engineers have joined BBVA in H1 2022, a figure which the bank expects to double…
Spanish property firm Colonial has 2.557 billion euros in liquidity, which can be earmarked for acquisitions amongst other things, according to the daily Cinco Dias, citing the company’s recent H1 accounts presentation. Colonial has 467 million euros in cash and 2.090 billion in credit lines which have not yet been used, Cinco Dias said. The newspaper flagged that the Ibex 35-listed Socimi’s management has been saying since last year that…
Renta 4 | 1. Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister, prince Salmán bin Abdulaziz, has hinted that Saudi could cut its oil production. This decision has been based on the extreme volatility and the lack of liquidity of oil futures which are leading to a decorrelation in the price with the fundamentals of supply and demand. For that reason, OPEC+ could see itself obliged to reduce output. 2. Saudi Arabia is the…
Alphavalue | Iberdrola (Reduce, TP €11,5 ++) : Iberdrola’s share price rose 0.37% yesterday, despite the criticisms received in France after the Spanish utility decided to terminate power contracts with thousands of its customers there. It cited high energy costs. Let’s not forget that Iberdrola has lodged a complaint against France with the European Commission, regarding supposed state aid to EDF (reduce, TP 11,8 ++) for over 5 billion euros….
Morgan Stanley | Enagás’ recent Capital Markets Day (CMD) was a disappointment for investors. A poor growth outlook, limited capital comitment which demonstrates this, and a lack of protection against inflation in Spanish regulated assets. Despite its recent poor performance and the temptation to get rid of the shorts, I still believe that Enagas is an appropriate relative UW in the sector.
Intermoney | The Spanish infrastructure firm has won a contract to extend a motorway in the US. According to the daily Cinco Dias, Ferrovial (Hold, TP 24€), via its US subsidiary Webber, has been awarded the contract to extend a 13km stretch of the I-95 motorway, on its way through North Carolina (US). The contract is involves an investment of 283 million euros. This stretch of will have eight lanes,…
Intermoney |In line with information provided by Aena to the Stock Market Regulator (CNMV), and picked up by various media outlets, the airports operator (Hold, TP 140 euros/share) has won an auction to manage 11 airports in Brazil. The duration of the contract is 30 years and the value is 780 million euros, which includes both the price of the concession itself and an obligatory payment to the regulator. The…
Renta 4 | . Repsol and Australian oil and gas company Santos will invest 2.555 billion euros in the Pikka project in North Slope Alaska. This field is biggest discovery of oil in the US in thirty years. The Spanish firm’s board has given the green light to the investment, which could increase to 2.952 billion with additional developments on the project. Repsol will have 49% and Santos 51% of Pikka. Each…
The Spanish telecos operator is progressing with its strategy of divestments in Latin America, with its Peruvian network currently in focus. According to today’s Expansion, citing market sources, Telefónica is on track to sell a majority stake in PangeaCo to US risk capital firm KKR. No financial details of the operation were provided. PangeaCo is the company which manages Telefónica’s fibre optic business in Peru. In the opinion of Bankinter:…
Morgan Stanley | Overview of Q2: 80% of the banks have exceeded in terms of PBT, clocking up the 6th consecutive quarter with a positive surprise. And the main driver of the outperformance in revenues has been the NII, whose strength has arrived ahead of schedule (growing 11%/5% YoY/QoQ). The NII should remain strong in 2023, as we are factoring in a further 50bp rise in interest rates, and with…