Intermoney | The company (Hold, PO €65) has just announced its Q1 results and will hold a conference call at 1 p.m. CET. The main figures, which we show in the table below alongside our forecasts, show a slowdown in growth due to market weakness in North America. Air bookings and passengers boarded grew by 2% and 6% in Q1 2025, compared to 5% and 11% in 2024 as a…
Banco Sabadell: Last December, the company’s Board of Directors approved the distribution of an interim dividend against 2024 results for a fixed gross amount of €0.50 per share, 14% higher than the same dividend in 2023, to be paid on 17 January 2025. After applying a 19% withholding tax, the net amount will be €0.405 per share. The dividend yield is 0.7%. Amadeus maintains a policy of remunerating its shareholders…
Intermoney | Amadeus (Hold, PO 65 €) announced yesterday, with the market open, that it will distribute to its shareholders an interim dividend of €0.50/share on 17 January. The stock will trade ex date on 15 January. The Group reiterates its dividend policy of a pay-out of between 40 and 50% of consolidated profit for the year. Specifically, for 2024, the Board of Directors expects to be close to the…
Intermoney | Amadeus (Hold, PO €60) has just released its Q1 results, and will hold a conference call today at 1pm. Last quarter’s figures, which are shown in the attached table, have continued to converge, slowly, to those recorded in 2019, and were slightly above our estimates at the operational level. Air bookings and passengers boarded reached 77% and 109% of pre-pandemic figures at March 24, respectively, compared to IMVe…
Renta 4| The technology company has announced the acquisition of Voxel Media, dedicated to business-to-business (B2B) payment systems for travel agencies and hotels. The deal values Voxel Media at an Enterprise Value of €113 million. Voxel Media is headquartered in Barcelona, has around 200 employees, is present in around 100 countries and has more than 50,000 hotels and 1,000 tour operators and travel agencies as customers. Assessment: This acquisition allows…
Renta 4 | Amadeus has reached an agreement to acquire Vision-Box, a Lisbon-based company that provides biometric (facial recognition) solutions for passengers in airports, airlines and border systems. Vision-Box’s systems (hardware and software) facilitate passengers’ journey from airport check-in, check-out, lounges and security screening. Vision-Box is expected to generate €70 million in revenues and €20 million in EBITDA by 2023, is present in more than 100 countries, generates 50% of…
Morgan Stanley| The 1H23 corporate travel survey results indicate that travel volumes would fall -15% from pre-Covid levels on a permanent basis, which is above the recovery expectations it had for Amadeus and for the segment. Given this improvement and the expectation of respondents to reduce the proportion of virtual meetings, our industry analysts believe we could see even more recovery in corporate travel. In addition, they think that the…
Morgan Stanley | Our analyst, Laura Metayer, believes that the Hospitality & Other solutions division is Amadeus’ fastest growing segment (AMS), which is made up of its centralised reservations product (CRS), leading a €1.8bn market, and the newer hotel management system (PMS) in a €2.2bn market. The analyst team estimates that the hospitality IT market, with a size of €7.4bn MSe and growth of >8% CAGR, is moving towards a…
Morgan Stanley | The tech team is expecting a complicated year, with a slowdown in growth and inflation and interest rates still at high levels. Although rates will become more moderate, they believe it will be difficult for stocks to perform well if earnings expectations come under pressure. For that reason, they prefer to stick with defensive stocks. ASML, SAP and Sage. Further along, it will make sense to add…
MS| Amadeus CEO, Luis Maroto, indicated that demand remains solid, with airlines still planning to increase capacity. And once that is in place, they will cut prices to fill planes. He also flagged that the company’s revenues do not depend on ticket prices or those of hotel rooms, but on the added value it provides, (charging more for tickets reserved outside the airline’s country of origin). So the re-opening of…