Report
Alan Vandenberghe ...
  • Bart Cuypers
  • Cedric Duinslaeger
  • Guy Sips
  • Jason Kalamboussis
  • Joachim Vansanten
  • Marcel Achterberg
  • Michiel Declercq
  • Ruben Devos
  • Wido Jongman
  • Wim Hoste

Morning Note: ACKB BB, ASM NA, ASML NA, BESI NA, BRNL NA, CRBN NA, DIE BB, ELI BB, FUR NA, KPN NA, BOLS NA, PROX BB, RTL BB, SOLB BB, TNET BB, UMI BB, VAN BB, XFAB FP, XIOR BB

Ackermans: Quality Over Quantity
ASM International: Lower Estimates and TP Due to COVID-19, BUY
ASML: Lower Estimates and TP, Downgrade to Hold
BESI: 1Q20 offers mixed picture
Brunel International: Holding up in 1Q20, with a challenging 2Q20 ahead
Corbion: Solid start of the year with 1Q EBITDA +27%
D'Ieteren: Royalty in the portfolio
Elia Group: Company note - Quality comes at a price
Fugro: Acceptable Q1, low FY20 visibility
KPN: Q1 a mixed bag, FY20 outlook maintained for now
Lucas Bols: Preliminary FY figures and COVID-19 update
Proximus: Q1 beat driven by cost cuts, Operational KPIs soft
RTL Group: 3% sales decline in Q1, ad markets in a tough spot
Solvay: Preview 1Q results
Telenet: Good start of 2020, outlook lowered incl. COVID-19
Umicore: FY20 recurring EBIT guided to be well below 2019
Van de Velde: Impact of Covid-19
X-FAB: Offers cautious outlook
Xior: 1Q20 no COVID-19 impact
Real Estate Investment & Services: A fundamental Buy on logistics
Underlyings
Ackermans & van Haaren NV

Ackermans & Van Haaren is an investment company. Co. operates in five sectors: Marine Engineering & Infrastructure, which includes DEME NV, a dredging and marine company; Private Banking, which includes BDM NV - Continentale Verzekeringen NV (ASCO NV), which focuses on marine and industrial insurance via brokers; Real Estate, Leisure & Senior Care, which includes Extensa Group NV, a real estate developer; Energy & Resources, which includes Telemond Group, a supplier to the crane and automotive industry; and Development Capital, which is engaged in ICT and engineering, retail and distribution, real estate development, and media and printing.

ASM International N.V.

ASM International is an equipment supplier mainly to the semiconductor manufacturing industry. Co. designs, manufactures and sells equipment and services to its customers for the production of semiconductor devices, or integrated circuits. Co.'s front-end segment manufactures and sells equipment used in wafer processing, encompassing the fabrication steps in which silicon wafers are layered with semiconductor devices. Co.'s back-end segment manufactures and sells equipment and materials used in assembly and packaging, encompassing the processes in which silicon wafers are separated into individual circuits and subsequently assembled, packaged and tested.

ASML Holding NV

ASML Holding provides lithography systems for the semiconductor industry, manufacturing machines that are used in the production of integrated circuits or chips. Co. develops, produces, markets, sells and services advanced semiconductor equipment systems exclusively consisting of lithography systems. Co. sells its products to micro-processor manufacturers and Foundries, NAND-Flash memory and DRAM memory chipmakers. Co.'s products line includes the following: PAS 5000 lithography systems, which Co. no longer manufactures but continues to refurbish; PAS 5500 products; TWINSCAN DUV systems and TWINSCAN EUV systems based on a new platform utilizing the concepts of the TWINSCAN platform.

BE Semiconductor Industries N.V.

Brunel International N.V.

Accrued employee expensesBrunel is a global provider of business services that specializes in the flexible placement of professionals in the fields of Engineering, IT, Legal, Finance, Insurance & Banking and Energy. Co. provides such specialists through a range of staffing, project management, recruitment and consultancy services. Co. serves the world market for professional staffing and recruitment services from two main perspectives. On the one hand, Co. aims its services at specific supra-regional business lines. On the other hand, Co. focuses on specific countries such as The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Canada.

Corbion NV

Corbion is an internationally operating company engaged in the development, production, sale and distribution of bakery supplies and food ingredients. Co. is engaged in the Bakery Supplies and Lactic Acid business. Co.'s operations are divided into two segments: Bakery operations and Lactic acid operations. Co.'s Bakery operations comprise the development, production and sale of bakery ingredients and products. Co.'s Lactic acid operations involve the production of lactic acid and lactic acid derivatives which are used in food, pharmaceutical and technical products. Co. operates mostly in Europe and North America. Co.'s brands are Waldkorn, Kate's cakes, Purac, Carel, MeisterMarken.

D'Ieteren SA

D'Ieteren is engaged in two sectors of services to the motorist: Automobile Distribution, which is a distributor of Volkswagen, Audi, Seat, Skoda, Bentley, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Porsche, and Yamaha brands in Belgium; and Vehicle Glass, which is engaged in the repair and replacement of vehicle glass mainly in Europe, North and South America, Australia and New Zealand through Belron s.a. and notably its CARGLASS®, AUTOGLASS® and SAFELITE® AUTO GLASS brands.

Elia Group SA/NV

Elia System Operator develops, operates and maintains very-high-voltage (380 kV, 220 kV and 150 kV) and high-voltage (70 kV, 36 kV and 30 kV) networks, providing its customers with consultancy and engineering services. Whether in Belgium, Germany or elsewhere in Europe or the U.S., Co. ensures that electricity flows reliably from energy producers to distributors and large corporate customers. Co.'s main activities include transmission operator, system operator and market facilitator, developing and maintaining grid infrastructure, connecting electrical installations to grids, providing transparent access to grids, while taking initiatives to improve electricity market operations.

Fugro NV Cert of Shs

Fugro collects and interprets data related to the earth's surface, soils, and rocks beneath. Co. provides advice to oil and gas, mining, and construction industries. Co. provides the people, equipment and technology that support the exploration, development, production and transportation of the world's natural resources. Co. also provides its clients with the technical data and information required to design, construct and maintain structures and infrastructure in a safe, reliable and efficient manner. Co. operates in three divisions: Geotechnical, Survey, and Geoscience.

Lucas Bols NV

Lucas Bols NV manages the product development, bottling, distribution, sales and marketing of the brands Bols, Galliano, Vaccari, Damrak Gin, Pisang Ambon, Bokma, Hartevelt, Coebergh, PassoAPS and a large group of Dutch jenevers and liqueurs. Co.'s objective is to strengthen and grow its global brands in the international cocktail market while maintaining the competitiveness of its regional brands in regional and local markets.

NN Group N.V.

NN Group is a financial services company based in the Netherlands. Co. engages in insurance and investment management activities, providing life and non-life insurance products primarily in the Netherlands, Belgium, rest of Europe, and Asia. Co. offers group and individual life insurance; and motor, transport, fire, liability, travel, and income insurance. Co. also offers retirement, insurance, investments, and banking services to retail, SME, corporate, and institutional customers. Co. is active in 18 countries, with a presence predominantly in a number of European countries and Japan.

Proximus SA de droit public

Proximus supplies integrated telecommunications services on the Belgian market. Co.'s activities are divided into four segments: Consumer Business Unit (CBU), which sells voice products and services, internet and television, on fixed and mobile networks, to residential customers; Enterprise Business Unit (EBU), which caters to professional customers; Service Delivery Engine and Wholesale, which centralizes all the network and IT services and costs, provides services to CBU and EBU and sells these services to other telecom and cable operators; and International Carrier Services, which focuses on international carrier activities.

RTL Group S.A.

RTL Group is a holding company. Co. through its subsidiaries is engaged in the operation of television and radio broadcasting services, television content production and distribution. Co. has interests in 40 television channels and 33 radio stations in 11 countries. Co. is involved in television content production, such as talent and game shows, drama and daily soap operas, through its subsidiary, FremantleMedia. Co. also provides services in the digital entertainment environment, including online games, community and dating services, as well as user-generated content exchange platforms.

Solvay SA

Solvay is engaged in chemical and plastic businesses worldwide. Co. offers chemical products such as advanced materials, barium strontium, calcium chloride, caustic soda, chlorinated products, fluor, peroxygen products, polyglycerols, precipitated calcium carbonate, soda ash, and sodium bicarbonate. It also provides specialty polymers, such as Spire ultra polymers, Solviva biomaterials, and sulfone polymers. Co. structures its activities around five operating segments: Advanced Formulations, Advanced Materials, Performance Chemicals, Functional Polymers and Corporate & Business Services, each with its own specific business model and each comprised of Global Business Units (GBUs).

Telenet Group Holding NV

Telenet Group Holding is a holding company. Through its subsdiairies and its broadband network, Co. is engaged in the provision of cable television, including television services, broadband internet and telephony services to residential subscribers in Flanders and certain communes in Brussels as well as broadband internet, data and voice services in the business market throughout Belgium and parts of Luxembourg. In addition, Co. is engaged in the provision of mobile telephony services through a mobile virtual network operator partnership with Mobistar NV.

Umicore

Umicore is global player in the materials technology and recycling industries. Co. focuses on application areas such as chemistry, materials science, metallurgy and recycling. Co.'s business model comprises four segments: Catalysis, Performance Materials, Energy Materials and Recycling. Catalysis focuses on the abatement of global automotive emissions; Performance Materials focuses on materials that help develop more sophisticated and safer products; Energy Materials produces materials used in the production and storage of clean energy including rechargeable batteries and photovoltaics; and Recycling treats complex waste streams containing precious and other non-ferrous metals.

Van De Velde S.A.

Van de Velde creates, produces and sells luxury women's lingerie under its own brand names. Co.'s brands are Marie Jo – 'Haute Lingerie' which provides timeless underwear fashion for the woman in all her forms; Marie Jo L'Aventure – 'Lingerie Pure' which provides Graphic luxury lingerie for the young-at-heart woman; and PrimaDonna – 'Exigez l'excellence' which provides luxury lingerie that combines a fit with fashion. Co. operates in a single reporting business segment, which is the production and sale of luxury lingerie. Co. reports its opeStefaan Vandammerations based on the geographical location of customers divided into euro zone and non euro zone.

X Fab Silicon Foundries SE

Xior Student Housing N.V.

Xior Student Housing NV is a Belgium-based company active in the field of residential Real Estate. The Company's offer is mainly for students and it includes several types of rooms for rent, including a student house in Leiden.

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Analysts
Alan Vandenberghe

Bart Cuypers

Cedric Duinslaeger

Guy Sips

Jason Kalamboussis

Joachim Vansanten

Marcel Achterberg

Michiel Declercq

Ruben Devos

Wido Jongman

Wim Hoste

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