Report
Alan Vandenberghe ...
  • Guy Sips
  • Joachim Vansanten
  • Lenny Van Steenhuyse
  • Michiel Declercq
  • Ruben Devos
  • Sandra Cauwenberghs
  • Wido Jongman

Morning Note: AED BB, BAR BB, BCART BB, COMB BB, OBEL BB, SIP BB, SLIGR NA, TWEKA NA, WKL NA

Aedifica: Liquidity and solvency improved
Barco: Happy to have a safe roof!
Biocartis: Explosive 1Q20 + COVID-19 test development
Bois Sauvage: € 7.80 dividend approved
Orange Belgium: OK Q1 / dividend lowered yet little risk for outlook
Sipef: 1Q trading update
Sligro: Slow path to recovery
TKH Group: Covid-19: Q1 sales -2%, Industrial in the hot seat
Wolters Kluwer: Interim update - Organic revs. growth of 4% in 1Q20
Underlyings
Aedifica SA

Aedifica is a property company, which is specialized in residential real estate. Co.'s portfolio has a superstructure of more than 225,911 sq. m as of June 30 2010. It owns: residential or mixed buildings in Belgian cities with classical leases; buildings with furnished apartments buildings in the heart of Brussels with shorter term leases; senior houses and serviceflats with very long term and triple net leases; and hotels. Co. invests: in existing and already leased buildings; and in projects with future completion. Co.'s activities can be divided into four segments: Residential or mixed buildings; Furnished apartments buildings; Senior houses; and Hotels and others.

Barco NV

Barco operates in three divisions: Entertainment, which delivers projection, lighting, LED and software solutions for markets such as cinema, venues, and hospitality and the retail and advertising; Enterprise, which targets the corporate and the control rooms market and provides a portfolio of visualization solutions with videowalls, corporate projectors in combination with collaboration software and networking and connectivity capabilities; and Healthcare, which delivers displays for the diagnostic and modality imaging market, including segments such as radiology, mammography, surgery and dentistry along with digital networked solutions for the operating room and point-of-care devices.

Biocartis Group NV

Biocartis Group NV is a Belgium-based company, which specializes in the development of molecular diagnostic systems, especially for the treatment of cancers and infectious diseases, the products ensure the analysis of biomolecules associated with risk factors, early detection, treatment selection and monitoring of disease. The group has the Idylla system to deliver results within a period of between 35 to 150 minutes.

Compagnie du Bois Sauvage SA

Compagnie du Bois Sauvage SA, (also CBS), is a Belgium-based holding company that invests in both listed and unlisted companies. The Company provides assistance in financial management, structural development and capital stability to the companies in which it invests. The Company's portfolio is based on three separate pillars: a Real Estate sector, a Long-Term Investment division composed of strategic participating interests and a Cash Portfolio focused on liquid values that serve as a basis for derivatives activity. As of December 31, 2011, CBS had a number of wholly owned subsidiaries, such as Parfina, CBS Services, Neuhaus and CBS Nederland and affiliated companies, including Cofinimmo, Ceran, Codic, Noel Group, among others. In March 2014, it acquired Chocolate-Maker Corne Port Royal, sold its stake in Ceran and a real estate property in Luxembourg.

Orange Belgium SA

Orange Belgium is a telecommunications operator in Belgium. Co. provides a range of products and services to the residential and business markets, including mobile telephony, fixed telephony, fix data, Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line. Co.'s Belgium segment is divided into two operating units: Mobile as well as Fix voice data. Co.'s Mobile operating unit provides mobile phone equipment and services to residential and corporate customers, while Co.'s Fix voice and data operating unit provides fix voice, data and internet services to residential and corporate customers.

SIPEF group

Sipef is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries and associated companies, Co. is primarily engaged in the development and production of sundry commodities, including palm oil, palm kernels, tea, tropical fruits and flowers, bananas, pineapples, ornamental plants, guava, pepper and natural rubber. Palm oil, which is Co.'s most important commodity, is used within the cosmetics industry, in soaps and detergents, as a supplement to cattle and poultry feed, for production of protein, and for several other purposes. In addition, Co. provides management, marketing and consultancy services in the agro-industry.

Sligro Food Group N.V.

Sligro Food Group NV is a company engaged in the food distribution industry, based in the Netherlands. It divides its business into two segments: Food Retail activities comprise around 130 full-service EMTE supermarkets with 30 operated by independent retailers; Food Service offers nationwide network of cash and carry and delivery service outlets serving large and small-scale hospitality, establishments, leisure facilities, volume users, company and other caterers, forecourt retailers, small and medium-sized enterprises, smaller retail businesses and the institutional market. The Company serves the institutional market trading under the name Van Hoeckel and the other segments of the market as Sligro. The Company's subsidiaries include CaterTechBV and Bejaco NV, including its subsidiaries JAVA BVBA and Freshtrans BVBA, jointly known as JAVA Foodservice.

TKH Group N.V. Cert

TKH Group creates and supplies Telecom, Building and Industrial Solutions. Telecom Solutions develops, produces and supplies systems ranging from outdoor infrastructure for telecom and CATV networks through to indoor home networking applications. Building Solutions develops, produces and supplies solutions in the field of electro-technology ranging from applications within buildings through to technical systems that - combined with software - provide solutions for the care and security sectors. Industrial Solutions develops, produces and supplies solutions ranging from specialty cable, "plug and play" cable systems through to integrated systems for the production of car and truck tires.

Wolters Kluwer NV

Wolters Kluwer operates through four divisions: Health is a global provider of information for medical and health professionals; Financial & Compliance Services is a U.S. provider risk management, compliance, finance, and audit professionals the services they need to optimize risk and business performance, and ensure compliance with local, regional, and global regulation; Tax & Accounting is a provider of tax, accounting, and audit information, and services; and Legal & Regulatory provides customers with expert content, software, and services in the areas of law, business, and regulatory compliance in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific.

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Analysts
Alan Vandenberghe

Guy Sips

Joachim Vansanten

Lenny Van Steenhuyse

Michiel Declercq

Ruben Devos

Sandra Cauwenberghs

Wido Jongman

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