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Guy Sips ...
  • Jeroen Van Den Bossche
  • Michiel Declercq
  • Olivier Vandewoude
  • Ruben Devos
  • Thomas Couvreur
  • Thomas Vranken
  • Wim Lewi

Morning Note: AGS BB, AGFB BB, EURN BB, INTO BB, MDXH BB, PROX BB, SIP BB

Ageas: Gaining controlling share in Indian JV
Agfa: Potential Offset sale puts SOTP valuation ‘en vogue’
Euronav: AGM Highlights
IO&W: Welcome rental renewals in Mechelen
MDxHealth: SelectMDx’ LCD reaches the finish line
Proximus: Thoughts on NAAC’s postponement of EGM
Sipef: Indonesia lifts export ban
Underlyings
Ageas SA/NV

Ageas is an insurance company engaged in providing a range of life and non-life products distributed through a variety of channels. Co. focuses on helping its customers to mitigate risks related to property, casualty, life and pensions. Co. serves its customers through a combination of wholly owned subsidiaries, equity associates and partnerships, with financial institutions and distributors in Belgium, the U.K., Luxembourg, Italy, Portugal, Turkey, France, China, Malaysia, India, Thailand and Hong Kong. Co. is organized into five operating segments: Belgium, U.K., Continental Europe, Asia, and General Account.

Agfa-Gevaert NV

Agfa-Gevaert develops, produces and distributes various analog and digital imaging systems and IT solutions, mainly for the printing industry and the healthcare sector, as well as for specific industrial applications. Co.'s operations can be divided into three business segments: Agfa Graphics, which provides integrated prepress products and services to the printing industry; Agfa HealthCare, which provides diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT products for hospitals and care centers around the world; and Agfa Specialty Products, which supplies a variety of film-based products to business- to-business customers outside the graphic and healthcare markets.

Euronav NV

Euronav is a provider of maritime shipping and offshore services engaged primarily in the transportation and storage of crude oil. As of Apr. 4, 2017, Co. owned and operated a modern fleet of 55 vessels (including four chartered-in vessels) with an aggregate carrying capacity of approximately 13.7 million deadweight tons, or dwt, consisting of 31 very large crude carriers, one ultra large crude carrier, 21 Suezmax vessels, and two floating, storage and offloading vessels. Co. has two operating segments: the operation of crude oil tankers on the international markets (tankers) and the floating production, storage and offloading operations.

Intervest Offices & Warehouses SA

Intervest Offices & Warehouses is a Belgian property investment fund. Co. specializes in investments in office buildings and semi-industrial properties situated on locations outside municipal centres. Co.'s business properties are located on the Antwerp-Brussels axis. Its activities can be divided into two business segments: Offices segment which includes the properties that are let to companies for professional purposes as office space; and Semi-industrial buildings segment which includes those premises with a logistical function, storage facilities and high-tech buildings. At Dec 31 2010, Co.'s portfolio consists of 69% in offices buildings and 31% in semi-industrial buildings.

MDxHealth S.A.

MDxHealth is a molecular diagnostics company that develops and commercializes epigenetic assays and service testing for cancer assessment and the personalized treatment of patients. Co. offers two main products: Clinical Molecular Diagnostics (ClinicalMDx) Solutions that provide physicians with tests for the identification and treatment of their cancer patients; and Pharmaco Molecular Diagnostics (PharmacoMDx) Solutions for the development of companion diagnostics, biomarker discovery, and clinical trial testing. Co.'s ClinicalMDx solutions include ConfirmMDx, InformMDx, RecurMDx, and PredictMDx.

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.

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.

Provider
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Analysts
Guy Sips

Jeroen Van Den Bossche

Michiel Declercq

Olivier Vandewoude

Ruben Devos

Thomas Couvreur

Thomas Vranken

Wim Lewi

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