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Luuk Van Beek
  • Luuk Van Beek

(Sponsored) Fastned - Gearing up for a growth spurt

Scaling up its succesful station approachRolling out tried-and-tested concept. Fastned is a clear market leader in highway fast charging in the Netherlands. In the past years it has optimized its concept to provide market-leading reliability and a high service level to customers at competitive costs. It is now rolling out this concept to other European countries, aiming to grow from 346 stations at YE2024 to 1,000 stations by 2030.Significant operating leverage. The stations have been operating ...

David Seynnaeve ... (+2)
  • David Seynnaeve
  • PhD

(Sponsored) Biotalys NV - Fungal foes, natural fixes

Today, we initiate coverage on Biotalys, a Belgian regulatory-stage agricultural biotech (AgBiotech) company, with a BUY rating & TP of EUR 7.2.In this report, we deep-dive into the company's differentiated AGROBODY FoundryTM platform and the unique value-add of its protein-based biocontrols (AGROBODIESTM) meant to treat fungal diseases affecting fruits & vegetables. We consider Biotalys a compelling investment opportunity, based on:1/ Growing awareness on the impact of chemical crop protec...

Joren Van Aken
  • Joren Van Aken

(Sponsored) Whitestone Group - FY24: Important step in transparency

Whitestone launched its annual report for FY24 including some important improvement to its transparency to shareholdersWith the disclosure of a NAV overview and more financial data per portfolio company, Whitestone's transparency is now in line with some of the biggest investment companies in EuropeWe estimate today's NAV to be EUR 16.2 p/s, implying a discount of 20.5%. Our target valuation comes in at EUR 17 p/s. Applying our target discount of 10%, we arrive at our new TP of EUR 15 ...

Fernand de Boer
  • Fernand de Boer

(Sponsored) ForFarmers - Key figures on track

In Q1-25, ForFarmers continued to deliver on strategy with positive LFL volume and earnings growth. ROACE came in at 13.8%, in line with FY ‘24.We maintain our Hold rating, and 12m TP of EUR 5.3. Company continues to perform well, solidly executing its strategy. However, market conditions and the consolidation of the feed activities of team agra/HaBeMa create some lower visibility. Hence our Hold rating. 

Luuk Van Beek
  • Luuk Van Beek

(Sponsored) Fastned - High revenue growth, reiterates outlook

Q1 revenues were in line, gross profit was a small miss due to a temporary effect of higher electricity pricesReiterates outlook, states to be resilient to current volatilityNo significant changes to our estimates

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