The good performance of the stock market in the final stretch of 2023 has fuelled hopes of a recovery in IPOs in 2024, with eight Spanish companies awaiting the evolution of the markets to decide whether to place part of their capital with investors and stock market funds. A long list of Spanish companies are hoping to clear the hurdles to make their IPOs in the coming months: Puig, Hotelbeds,…
Link Securities| ACS (ACS) has formally started the sale process of its services subsidiary Clece. The banks that the group has hired to lead the divestment, Bank of America (BofA) and Société Générale, distributed the sale booklet (infomemo) among potential buyers last week, according to market sources and as reported by the digital newspaper elEconomista.es. Among the recipients are both funds and industrial groups specialising in service activities. The transaction…
Link Securities| Moody’s affirmed Enel’s long-term credit rating at “Baa1”, while maintaining Enel’s short-term rating at “P-2”. The rating agency said the rating confirmation mainly reflects Enel’s prospects of restoring its financial profile to a level in line with the current “Baa1” rating. The rating continues to reflect the Enel group’s large scale and geographic diversification, as well as the group’s business model, which will continue to be predominantly driven…
Morgan Stanley| Inditex (ITX) reported very solid Q3 results with a slight beat in EBIT driven by a strong performance in gross margins, which rose 150bps year-on-year and beat consensus estimates by 70bps. Moreover, all this has led the company to raise margin guidance for FY23. On the other hand, sales came in line with consensus, with +12% cc growth, and current trading activity (1 November to 11 December) points…
Renta 4| Solaria (SLR), through a CNMV (National Securities Market Commission) filing, has announced the acquisition of 500MW of photovoltaic modules at a price of €0.09.3 per watt from a Tier 1 manufacturer, which represents a 62% decrease compared to last year’s prices. Assessment: Positive. After 2 years of inflation, the main materials that make up the photovoltaic parks have resumed the downward trend in costs. The price paid by…
Alphavalue / Divacons| Spanish banks had the worst capital ratio in Europe in the annual transparency exercise conducted by the European Banking Authority (EBA) for the second time in a row, behind even their Greek peers. Specifically, the ten Spanish banks that took part in this EBA exercise recorded a CET fully-loaded capital ratio of 12.64% in 2Q23, the cut-off date for this year. This figure increased by +34 basis…
The Consumer Price Index fell by 0.3% in November, according to the National Statistics Institute (INE), reaching a year-on-year rate of 3.2%. Core inflation also fell in November, reaching 4.5%, its lowest level since April 2022. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) fell by three tenths in November, reducing its year-on-year rate to 3.2%, according to data published by the National Statistics Institute (INE). One of the main reasons for this…
Link Securities| Elecnor (ENO), Applus (APPS), Amrest (EAT) and CAF have joined the list of companies whose shares will be subject to payment of the tax on financial transactions – known as the “Tobin tax” – in 2024, which includes Ferrovial (FER), Siemens Gamesa, Pharmamar (PHM), Linea Directa (LDA) and Mediaset, according to the business and economics daily Expansión. The Tax Agency has published the list of the 52 companies…
Bankinter| The Council of Ministers on Tuesday approved the non-financial state spending ceiling for 2024 at €199.12 billion (0.5% higher than in 2023). The spending ceiling includes an advance of €9,905 million from the NGEU funds. Excluding European funds, this would amount to €189.215 billion (up 9.3% year-on-year). In addition, the joint general government deficit of 3% in 2024, 2.7% in 2025 and 2.5% in 2026 was approved. Assessment: The…
Intermoney| Aena (AENA) (Hold, €150/share) announced on Tuesday, with the market open, the passenger and freight traffic figures for the month of November. Over the entire month, the number of passengers, 19.7 million, represented an increase of almost 8% compared to the same period in 2019. On this occasion, both Barajas and El Prat returned to growth compared to pre-pandemic, with increases of 1% and 4%, respectively. Malaga, Spain’s third…