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Sašo Stanovnik

Slovenian Weekly Regional Overview 19.11.2018 - 23.11.2018

PETROL:
Please note recommendation and coverage is till temporarily suspended.
Group reported 9M18 EBITDA at EUR 124.1m, up by mild 1% YoY, while net profit is at EUR 68.7m for the period, up by 11.5% YoY.
Petroleum volume is up by 1% to 2,502 thousand tons while merchandise sales amounted to EUR 445.9m or up by 11% by its 495 retail station network.
Net debt (only cash deducted) amounted to EUR 278.3m on 30th September 2018 vs 2017 end year EUR 374.9m.
CAPEX amounted to EUR 24.3m for the period.
For 2018 Petrol at the beginning of the year guided for EUR 170.1m of EBITDA, EUR 86.9m of profit and CAPEX of EUR 99m.
Petrol also announced its 2018 Audited report will be made public on 8th March 2019. Based on initial calendar schedule for the year, Petrol will announce its 2019 plan and key targets for 2019 on 14th December 2018. Please note Petrol has published its 2018-2022 strategy in June of this year.

KRKA 2019 plan:
Krka posted 2019 sales guidance at 1,375m or up 5% while profit level at EUR 172m. Both figures are slightly above our estimates.
In addition CAPEX level for 2019 is guided at EUR 124m, but due to some investment being moved from 2018 to 2019. Consequently level is lower than we expected.

Underlyings
KRKA d.d.

Krka is a public generic pharmaceutical company based in Slovenia. Co. is engaged in the development, production, sale and marketing of human health products (prescription and selfmedication pharmaceuticals and cosmetics), animal health products and health resort and tourist services. Co. focuses on a range of generic prescription pharmaceuticals, which are marketed under Co.'s own brands. Co. offers customers in over 70 countries a broad range of prescription pharmaceuticals, self-medication products and animal health and cosmetic products. Co.'s activities are supplemented by health resort and tourist services of Terme Krka.

Petrol d.d.

Petrol Ljubljana. Petrol dd Ljubljana is a Slovenia-based company engaged in the provision of oil and other energy products. The Company operates through two segments, Oil and Merchandise sales and Energy activities. The Oil and Merchandise sales segment consists of sale of oil and petroleum products, and sale of supplementary merchandise comprised of automotive products, foodstuffs, accessories, tobacco, lottery products, coupons and cards. The Energy activities segment consists of sale and distribution of gas; generation, sale and distribution of electricity and heat; energy consumption projects and comprehensive energy supply projects, and environment activities. As of December 31, 2011, it operated a number of subsidiaries based in Slovenia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia, among others. On February 11, 2013, the Company acquired a 51% stake in Instalacija doo. On May 10, 2013, the Company acquired a 100% stake in Nafta Geoterm doo.

Pozavarovalnica Sava

Pozavarovalnica Sava dd (or Sava Reinsurance Plc), also known as Sava Re dd, is a Slovenia-based reinsurance undertaking. It operates as a parent company of Sava Re Group, which comprises direct insurance and pension undertakings. The Company's activities are divided into four segments: Reinsurance operations, Non-life insurance operations, Life insurance operations and Other business segment. The Reinsurance operations segment comprises treaty and facultative arrangements for intra-group clients and insurance and reinsurance partners worldwide. The Non-life insurance operations segment supports local markets with non-life insurance products and customer oriented services. The Life insurance operations segment is focused on life protection and saving products, including pension schemes. The Other business segment comprises operations of the Company's non-insurance subsidiaries. Sava Re Group operates through subsidiaries in Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Kosovo.

Salus Ljubljana

Salus Ljubljana dd is a Slovenia-based company engaged in the wholesale and distribution of medical products. The Company's portfolio includes pharmaceuticals, medical devices, medical supplies, food supplements, cosmetic products and other health products. The Company's core clients are pharmacies, hospitals and health centers from both Slovenia and abroad. Moreover, Salus Ljubljana dd offers the products to its business partners through the Internet store. The Company also provides additional services related to the registration of medicines and the distribution and storage of pharmaceuticals and other medical products.

Zavarovalnica Triglav d.d.

Zavarovalnica Triglav DD. Zavarovalnica Triglav dd is Slovenian-based company principally engaged in the insurance and financial services. Zavarovalnica Triglav dd is the controlling company of the Triglav Group which offers insurance, asset management and banking services. Zavarovalnica Triglav dd, Zdrastvena zavarovalnica dd and Pozavarovalnica Triglav Re dd provide wealth, life, voluntary additional pension and health insurances. The insurance sector of the Company also operates in the Czech Republic, Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Macedonia. Through Triglav DZU ddo, Triglav Nalozbe financna druzba dd and Triglav nepremicnine dd the Company provides investment fund management, real estate and banking services. As of June 22, 2012, the Company acquired a 100% stake in Investicijsko podjetje, Trgovanje z lastnimi nepremicninami doo from Sava dd.

Provider
Alta Invest
Alta Invest

ALTA Invest, investicijske storitve, d.d., (ALTA Invest, investment services, Inc.) is a part of ALTA Group, the biggest financial non-banking group in Slovenia. ALTA Invest has around 28% market share on the domestic Ljubljana Stock Exchange and has more than EUR 95m of assets under management.

Our trading advantage is our execution of large trading blocks with low impact on the market. We offer trading on several platforms on numerous markets, with a wide variety of financial instruments. Our advantage is also a research department, which is both sell side and buy side and has the far most extensive and regular coverage of domestic companies. We cover 9 companies on Ljubljana Stock Exchange, which is around 90% of Mcap on LJSE – and here we are practically the only local broker providing this kind of extensive and regular coverage for Slovenian companies.

A part of ALTA Group are ALTA Skladi, a mutual fund asset management company with roughly EUR 260m of asset under management. ALTA Group is also extensively involved in corporate finance projects and raised considerable assets (fixed income and equity) in the last two years for several companies.

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