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Alan Vandenberghe ...
  • Guy Sips
  • Ruben Devos
  • Wim Hoste

Morning Note: ASML NA, AVTX NA, GVNV NA, MIKO BB

ASML: Intel revamps investment plans
Avantium: FY20 results, still no green light on FDCA plant
GrandVision: Gets crucial EU approval
Miko: FY20 impacted by drop in coffee sales at offices
Underlyings
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.

Avantium NV

Avantium NV Formerly known as Avantium Holding BV. Avantium NV, formerly Avantium Holding BV, is a company based in the Netherlands engaged in environmental research and development (R&D). The Company develops chemical technologies and production processes to convert bio-based feedstock into sustainable products. The Company's business comprises three segments: Catalysis, Renewable Chemistries, and YXY. Catalysis segment provides catalysis R&D services and systems to chemical, refinery and energy companies, utilizing its Flowrence Technology Platform to devise the appropriate catalyst testing solutions. Renewable Chemistries is the development division with a portfolio of projects focusing on the conversion of biomass to chemical building blocks and plastic materials. The YXY segment comprises the activities of Syviana, the joint venture with BASF SE. The YXY technology is used to convert plant-based sugars into chemical building blocks for plastics, such as polymer polyethylenefuranoate (PEF), and other applications.

GrandVision NV

GrandVision offers wide access to vision services and products, which includes prescription glasses, contact lenses and care products, and sunglasses both with and without prescription lenses. Co.'s exclusive brands includes: Frames (5th Avenue Heritage, Activ, BeBright, C-line, DbyD, Enzzo, Fuzion, Go Green, Heritage, Julius, IN STYLE, iSwitch, LightFly, Miki Ninn, Play!, Seen, Sensaya, The one, twiins); Sunglasses (Heritage, Seen, Solaris, Unofficial); Lenses (LightView, VariView); and Contact Lenses (Eyexpert, iWear). As of Dec. 31, 2016, Co.'s network includes 6,516 stores across more than 40 countries in Europe, the Americas, and Asia and operates under 29 local retail banners.

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.

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Analysts
Alan Vandenberghe

Guy Sips

Ruben Devos

Wim Hoste

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