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Bart Cuypers ...
  • Guy Sips
  • Jason Kalamboussis
  • Joachim Vansanten
  • Lenny Van Steenhuyse
  • Sandra Cauwenberghs
  • Wido Jongman
  • Wim Hoste

Morning Note: ARCAD NA, ASRNL NA, ATEB BB, BEKB BB, BCART BB, CYAD BB, FLUX BB, IBAB BB, MIKO BB, PIC BB, TESB BB, UMI BB, XIOR BB

Arcadis: Share buy-back and dividend cancellation
ASR: Close short, strong Sol 2, vanishing takeover hopes
Atenor: New lease agreement for Vaci Greens building E
Bekaert: COVID-19 impact
Biocartis: SeptiCyte commercialisation and guidance impact
Celyad: FY19 results and webcast feedback
Fluxys Belgium: Sturdy FY19 results
IBA: Earlier than expected margin pressure here to stay
Miko: No dividend as Covid19 impacts out-of-home coffee
Picanol: Covid-19 impact difficult to estimate
Tessenderlo: FY adj EBITDA slightly lower than expected
Umicore: COVID-19 update, guidance and dividend cancelled
Xior: Reassuring COVID-19 update
Underlyings
Alacer Gold

Alacer Gold is engaged in the exploration, development and operation of gold and mineral deposits in Turkey. Co. has eleven active exploration projects in Turkey which are joint ventures with Co.'s Turkish partner, Lidya Madencilik A.S., including an 80% interest in the Copler Gold Mine (an open-pit heap-leach operation producing gold from oxide ore) in eastern Turkey that produced 271,063 ounces of gold during 2013; this mine has proven and probable reserves of 3.8 million ounces and measured and indicated resources of 7.8 million ounces of contained gold.

Arcadis NV

Arcadis NV is a global asset design and consultancy company. The Company is engaged in providing consultancy, design, engineering and management services in the area of infrastructure, water, environment and buildings. The Company's segments include Americas; Europe and Middle East; Asia Pacific, and CallisonRTKL. Its business lines include infrastructure, water, environment and buildings. Infrastructure business line focuses on sustainable infrastructure solutions for transportation by road, rail, air and over water, and creating reliable energy supply systems. The Company is an environmental solutions provider to private industry, and delivers projects that protect the earth's resources. It offers water supply, treatment, management and conveyance solutions. The Company also offers contract solutions, master planning and sustainable urban development, commercially led program management, business advisory, data analysis and architecture and design solutions.

ASR Nederland NV

ASR Nederland NV is a multiline insurance company based in the Netherlands. The Company operates through six segments: Non-Life, comprising non-life insurances, including motor vehicle, fire, travel and leisure, transport, liability, agricultural, construction motorized vehicles and construction all risk and assistance insurance products, among others; Life, offering insurance policies that involve asset-building, asset protection, term life insurance and funeral expenses for consumers and business owners; Banking and Asset Management, providing banking activities and activities related to asset management, including investment property management; Distribution and Services, including the distribution of insurance contracts and intermediary services; Holding and Other, providing primarily holding activities of the Company, as well as Real Estate Development, specialized in the development of real estate properties. The Company operates in the Netherlands and internationally.

ATENOR S.A.

Atenor Group is a holding company. Co., through its subsidiaries, is a real estate developer that specializes in large-scale, urban real estate projects that meet strict criteria in terms of location, economic effectiveness and respect of the environment including office buildings, mixed used and residential complexes. Co. has acquired diversified know-how which it uses to design and build projects in Belgium and other countries throughout Europe.

Bekaert SA

Bekaert is a global technological and market company engaged in advanced solutions based in steel wire transformation and coatings as well as an independent manufacturer of drawn steel wire products. In addition, Co. teams up with customers and suppliers globally to develop, implement, upgrade, and protect both current and future technologies. Co.'s business activities are put in practice along two main axes: Product Innovation and Process Innovation. Product Innovation helps Co. better serve its customers, while Process innovation enables Co. to increase operational effectiveness, minimizing its impact on the environment.

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.

Celyad Oncology

Celyad is engaged in engineered cell therapy treatments with clinical programs initially targeting indications in cardiovascular disease and oncology. Co. provides C-CATHez, an injection catheter that delivers bio therapeutic agents into the myocardium. Co.'s main product is C-Cure, which is in Phase III clinical trials for the treatment of chronic heart failure secondary to ischemic cardiomyopathy. Co.'s drug product candidates are autologous cell therapy treatments. In autologous procedures, a patient's cells are harvested, selected, reprogrammed and expanded, and then infused back into the same patient.

Fluxys Belgium

Fluxys Belgium is engaged in building and operating transmission infrastructure within the scope of the north-Western european natural gas market. Co. is a public service business. Co.'s services include: Transmission; Storage; LNG Terminalling; Hub Services; and Operational Support Services.

Ion Beam Applications SA

IBA- Ion Beam Applications develops and markets technologies and pharmaceutical products for the healthcare sector, with a focus on cancer diagnosis and therapy. Co. is also engaged in the sterilization and ionization market. Co. operates in two primary business segments: Equipment and Pharmaceuticals. Co.'s Equipment segment encompasses development, fabrication, and services associated with medical and industrial particle accelerators, proton therapy systems, and a range of dosimetry products, while Co.'s Pharmaceuticals segment encompasses the production and distribution of radiopharmaceutical agents as well as its bioassay operations.

Miko N.V.

Miko SA. Miko NV is a Belgium-based company that is engaged coffee and snacks service and plastic packaging sectors. The Company's coffee segment delivers Its products to the out-of-home market, such as coffee, fruits, water and other beverages, snacks and sweets that are consumed outside the private home, in places like offices, businesses and restaurants. Within the Plastics segment, the Company manufactures plastic packaging products, among others for the food industry and the homecare sector, such as bubble wraps for laundry detergent. Miko NV has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Sweden, Denmark and Australia. It also sells its coffee concepts through independent distributors in thirty countries in Europe, among others.

Picanol NV

Picanol is an international, customer-oriented group specialized in development, production and sale of weaving machines and other high-tech, industrial products, systems and services. Co. operates in three business segments: Weaving Machines and Industries. Weaving Machines: Co. develops, manufactures and sells high-tech weaving machines based on air (airjet) or rapier technology. Industries: Proferro comprises all foundry activities and Co.'s machining activities. It produces cast iron parts for e.g. compressors, pumps and agricultural machinery, and parts for Picanol weaving machines.

Tessenderlo Group N.V.

Tessenderlo Group is engaged in providing solutions for food, agriculture, water management and use and re-use of natural resources. Co. has three operating segments: Agro, which is engaged in the production and marketing of crop nutrients (liquid crop fertilizers and Sulfate of Potash) and crop protection products; Bio-Valorization, which combines Co.'s activities in animal by-product processing, comprised of Akiolis (rendering, production and sales of proteins and fats) and PB Gelatins (production and sales of gelatins); and Industrial Solutions, with activities including the production and sales of plastic pipes systems and water treatment chemicals.

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.

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
Bart Cuypers

Guy Sips

Jason Kalamboussis

Joachim Vansanten

Lenny Van Steenhuyse

Sandra Cauwenberghs

Wido Jongman

Wim Hoste

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