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Ahmed Ben Salem ...
  • Anis Zgaya
  • Antoine Boivin-Champeaux
  • Baptiste Lebacq
  • Benoit Valleaux
  • Christophe Chaput
  • Delphine Brault
  • Emira Sagaama
  • Fatma Agnès Hamdani
  • Geoffroy Michalet
  • Jerôme Bodin
  • Louis Boujard, CFA
  • Martial Descoutures
  • Matthias Desmarais
  • Michael Foundoukidis
  • Olfa Taamallah
  • Philippe Ourpatian
  • Pierre Tegner
  • Roland Pfaender,MBA,CFA,CCRA
  • Stephane Houri
  • Sven Edelfelt
  • Yan Derocles
  • Yassine Batini

ODDO BHF SECURITIES MORNING NEWS – DETAILED COMMENTS 07/26/2019

The market is holding up, but its apparent resilience is resting on very shaky foundations, in our view. For the time being, the results season has not delivered any unpleasant surprises thus far, but has not invalidated the downward trend in EPS growth. The erosion of PMI continues apace In this context, dependency on monetary policy increases. Lastly, our integration indicators for US-China trade tensions underscore, in the US as in Europe, in the wake of the post-G20 truce, the ret...
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ABB Ltd.

ABB specializes in power and automation technologies. Co. provides a broad range of products, systems, solutions and services that are designed to boost industrial productivity, increase power grid reliability, and enhance energy efficiency. Co.'s automation businesses serve a full range of industries with process optimization, control, measurement and protection applications. Co.'s power businesses focus on power transmission, distribution and power-plant automation, and support electric, gas and water utilities, as well as industrial and commercial customers.

Aeroports de Paris SA

Aeroports de Paris is the airport authority that owns and manages the fourteen civil airports and airfields in the Ile-de-France (Paris) area. Co. owns and operates the three main airports of the Ile de France region (Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly and Paris-Le Bourget), 10 general aviation airfields and the Issy-les-Moulineaux heliport. In the three main airports, Co. provides facilities to accommodate passengers, airlines and cargo and postal services, and offers a range of services. Co.'s activities are divided into five business segments: Aviation, Retail and Services, Real Estate, Airport Investments and Other Activities.

Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A.

Assicurazioni Generali is the parent company for The Generali Group (the Group), an insurance and financial services provider. The commercial offer is composed of savings and pure risks policies, which constitute the majority of the portfolio, which includes protection and pension funds. In the non-life sector the Group is focused primarily on the retail market. In addition, through the Europ Assistance Group, Co. is engaged in services in motor, travel, health, home and family. The Group has also expanded its business from insurance to a range of asset management, property and financial services.

Atresmedia Corporacion de Medios de Comunicacion SA

Atresmedia Corporacion De Medios De Comunicacion is a television and radio broadcasting company based in Spain. Co. is engaged in the indirect management of television and radio services, which include the broadcasting, creation, production and distribution of television and radio programming, and the sale of advertising time. Group companies mainly carry on business activities relating to the production, copying and broadcasting of sounds and images, and TV and Internet home shopping. Co. provides National and World Digital Television Services. Co. is the parent company of Grupo Antena 3.

Bureau Veritas SA

Bureau Veritas specializes in inspecting, testing, auditing or certifying products, assets (such as buildings, industrial infrastructure, equipment and ships) and management systems (particularly against ISO standards) based on regulatory or voluntarily adopted standards. Co.'s operations can be divided into eight businesses: ship classification; industry services; inspection and verification of equipment in service; construction services; certification of management systems or services; inspection and testing of consumer products; services related to customs control and international trade services; and inspection and testing of commodities.

Carrefour SA

Carrefour is a distribution group based in France. Co. is engaged in retailing business, primarily in Europe (France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Poland, and Romania); Asia (China, India, and Taiwan); and Latin America (Argentina and Brazil). Co. offers a variety of fresh produce, products from local suppliers and major-brand products. Co. operates Hypermarkets, Supermarkets, Convenience stores and Cash & Carry stores, as well as food and non-food e-commerce sites. Co. also offers services such as financial and insurance services, travel, entertainment, after-sales services, and leasing of commercial vehicles. As of Dec 31 2013 Co. operated 10,105 stores under its brand.

Casino Guichard-Perrachon SA

Casino Guichard-Perrachon is a food retailer based in France. Co. operates hypermarkets, supermarkets, discount stores, convenience stores and cafeterias. Co.'s stores are discount stores selling groceries and consumer goods, and providing services like financial and insurance services, real estate, and restaurants. Co. operates hypermarkets under the brand Geant Casino; urban and rural supermarkets under the brand Casino Supermarches; city-centre supermarkets under the brand Monoprix; convenience/national superettes under the brands Petit Casino, Vival and Spar; covenience-paris area stores under the brand Marche Franprix; and discount stores under the brand Leader Price.

Compagnie de Saint-Gobain SA

Compagnie de Saint-Gobain manufactures, produces, and distributes industrial materials. Co.'s activities are divided into four sectors: Innovative Materials (Co. makes, processes and sells glass and glazing products for the building, the automotive and solar energy industries; Co. also manufactures Ceramics and Plastics, Abrasives, and Textiles), Construction Products (Co. offers products for the Insulation, Gypsum, Exterior Products, Pipe and Industrial Mortars), Building Distribution (Co. distributes building materials (plumbing, heating and sanitaryware products) and ceramic tiles), and Packaging - Verallia (Co. manufactures glass containers and jars for foodstuffs and beverages).

Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin SCA

Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin is active in the tire and mobility-related service markets. Co. manufactures, distributes and sells tires for all kinds of vehicles, publishes maps and guides and operates a number of services. Co.'s operates in three segments: Passenger car/Light truck tires and related distribution; Truck tires and related distribution and Specialty businesses segment including tires for specialty vehicles and maps and guides. Co. distributes its products through two tire distribution networks: Euromaster (Europe) and TCI (U.S.A.) and its brands include Michelin, BFGoodrich, Kleber, Uniroyal, Warrior, Kormoran, Riken, Taurus and Tigar.

CRH Plc

CRH is a diversified international building materials company. Co. is engaged in the manufacture and distribution of a range of building materials products from the fundamentals of heavy materials and elements to construct the frame, through value-added products that complete the building envelope, to distribution channels which service construction fit-out and renewal. Co. operates seven operating segments: Europe Heavyside, Europe Lightside, Europe Distribution, Americas Materials, Americas Products, Americas Distribution and Asia.

Diageo plc

Diageo is a premium drinks business based in the United Kingdom. Co. is engaged in producing and distributing spirits, beer and wine. Co.'s operations include producing, distilling, brewing, bottling, packaging, distributing, developing and marketing of a range of brands. The brands that it produces and distributes include Smirnoff vodka, Johnnie Walker scotch whisky, Baileys Original Irish Cream liqueur, Captain Morgan rum, J&B scotch whisky, Tanqueray gin and Guinness stout. In addition, Co. also has the distribution rights for the Jose Cuervo tequila brands in North America and other countries.

EDP-Energias de Portugal SA

EDP Energias de Portugal is a utility company engaged as a generator, distributor and supplier of electricity in Portugal, and as an electricity generation company and a gas distributor in the Iberian Peninsula. In addition, Co. is a wind power operator with windfarms for energy generation in the Iberian Peninsula, the U.S., Canada, Brazil, France, Belgium, Italy, Poland and Romania and is engaged in developing wind projects in the U.K. Co. is also engaged in generating solar photovoltaic energy in Portugal, Romania and the U.S, and in Brazil it is engaged as an operator in electricity generation. As of Dec 31 2015, Co. had 9.7 million electricity customers and 1.4 million gas customers.

Electricite de France SA

Electricite de France is an integrated energy company with a presence in a range of electricity-related businesses: nuclear, renewable and fossil-fuel fired energy production, transmission, distribution, marketing as well as energy management and efficiency services, along with energy trading. Co. is an integrated energy company engaged in all aspects of the energy business: generation, transmission, distribution, supply and trading of energies. Co. is an electricity operator in France and abroad. The breakdown used by Co. for its activities is as follows: France; United Kingdom; Italy; Other International; and Other activities.

Eurazeo SA

Eurazeo is a listed investment company in Europe. Co. invests in French or other European companies in which it can exercise influence. Co. divides its operaion in five divisions: Holding company, Eurazeo Capital, Eurazeo PME, Eurazeo Croissance, and Eurazeo Patrimoine. Holding company focuses on investment in non-consolidated fund business; Eurazeo Capital invests in companies valued over Euro150,000,000 to Euro200,000,000; Eurazeo PME invests in enterprises valued at less than Euro150,000,000 to Euro200,000,000; Eurazeo Croissance targets companies with high growth potential in promising markets; and Eurazeo Patrimoine groups Co.'s real estate asset management and investment activities.

HeidelbergCement AG

HeidelbergCement is engaged in the production and distribution of cement and aggregates, concrete and building products. Co.'s product range is complemented by downstream activities, such as ready-mixed concrete, concrete products, and concrete elements; in some countries, asphalt and building products, such as bricks and roof tiles, lime, or sand-lime bricks, are also manufactured. Furthermore, Co. provides services such as worldwide trading in cement and coal by sea. Co.'s products are used for the construction of houses, infrastructure, and commercial and industrial facilities.

Imerys SA

Imerys is engaged in the production and the processing of minerals. Co.'s operations can be divided into four business groups: Minerals for Ceramics, Refractories, Abrasives and Foundry (minerals mainly for floor tiles, sanitaryware, porcelain, mobile energy as well as high-temperature and abrasive industries); Performance and Filtration Minerals (plastics, rubber, coatings, sealants and adhesives, health, beauty and filtration of nutrition liquids); Pigments for Paper (filler and coating products for paper) and Materials and Monolithics (construction materials in clay and slate and monolithic products and solutions for high-temperature industries).

Intertek Group plc

Intertek Group provides Assurance, Testing, Inspection and Certification (ATIC) services. Co.'s segments comprised of Products, Trade and Resources. Co.'s products-related division consists of business lines that are focused on quality and safety of physical components and products, as well reducing risk through assessing the operating process and quality management systems of its customers. Co.'s trade division consists of three Global business lines, Cargo & Analytical Assessment, Government & Trade Services, and Agriculture business. Co.'s resources division consists of two business lines, Industry Services, and minerals business.

JCDecaux SA

JC Decaux specializes in outdoor advertising. Co.'s business mainly consists of the sale of advertising space for these activities: Street Furniture, Transport Advertising and Billboard. The Street Furniture segment covers the advertising agreements relating to public property entered into with cities and local authorities. It also includes advertising in shopping centers, renting of street furniture, sale and rental of equipment, cleaning and maintenance. The Transport Advertising segment covers advertising in airports, subways, buses, tramways and trains. The Billboard segment covers advertising on private property and neon-type activity.

LafargeHolcim Ltd.

LafargeHolcim is a producer of cement and aggregates. Co. also supplies ready-mix concrete, concrete products, asphalt and a range of services. Co. operates through three segments: cement, aggregates, and other construction materials and services. Co.'s cement segment provides a range of cementitious materials and also develops customized blends for special applications. Through its aggregates segment, Co. produces aggregates which include crushed stone, gravel and sand mainly used in the manufacture of ready-mix concrete, concrete products and asphalt, as well as for road building and railway tracks, with production centered on quarrying, preparing and sorting the raw material.

Mediaset Espana Comunicacion SA

Gestevision Telecinco is a television network company based in Spain. Co. heads a group of dependent companies, which form the Telecinco Group. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged in the management and commercial exploitation of a television network. Co.'s television network acquires, produces, and distributes audiovisual content. Co. also sells the network advertising airtime, carried out by its subsidiary. In addition, Co. is involved in the sale of other advertising products; production of news programs; the production and sale of audiovisual property rights; and teleshopping.

Mediaset S.p.A.

Mediaset S.p.A. is a joint stock company. Co.'s majority shareholder is Fininvest S.p.A. Mediaset is a multinational media group. Its core business is commercial television broadcasting in Italy and Spain. In Italy, Co. has two main areas of business: Integrated television operations and Network infrastructure services and management. In Spain, Co. is the main shareholder of Mediaset Espana, a Spanish commercial television broadcaster with two main general interest channels (Telecinco and Cuatro) and a range of six free-to-air thematic channels.

Metropole Television SA

Co. is engaged in the media industry, primarily television edition & broadcasting. Co.'s operations can be divided into three segments. In the Free-to-Air segment, Co. operates a Free-to-Air terrestrial TV network, financed exclusively by advertising. In the Digital TV segment, Co. broadcasts many digital channels. In the Diversification & audiovisual rights segment, Co. purchases audiovisual rights. Co. is also engaged in distance-selling business, allows viewers to play an active role in the unfolding of programs proposed to them, develops mobile phone content; publishes a family of websites, organizes events & shows, & manages football Club des Girondins de Bordeaux.

MTU Aero Engines AG

MTU Aero Engines manufacturers engine modules and components, and providers MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul) services for commercial aero engines. Co.'s activities range through the development, construction, testing and production of new commercial and military engines and spare parts, through to maintenance, repair and overhaul of commercial and military engines. Co.'s segments comprised of: OEM business (Original Equipment Manufacturing), which covers new commercial engines, including spare parts, and the whole of the military sector; and MRO business, which engaged in commercial maintenance activities covering the areas of maintenance and logistical support for commercial engines.

Nestle S.A.

Nestle is a holding company which is based in Switzerland. Through its subsidiaries and allied companies, Co. is engaged in the food processing industry. Co.'s product portfolio has seven categories, Powder and Liquid Beverages, Nutritional and Health Science, Milk products and ice cream, Prepared dishes and cooking aids, PetCare, Confectionery and Water.

Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.

Nissan Motor, along with its subsidiaries and associated companies, is engaged in the manufacture and sale of vehicles, marine products and related parts; and the provision of finance services throughout world. Co.'s principal businesses are automobile and sales financing. Automobile segment manufactures electric vehicles, sedans, sport coupes, compact cars, mini vans, SUVs, pick-up trucks, and station wagons. Co.'s principal brand names include "Leaf," "Infiniti," "Murano," "Altima," "Maxima," "Sentra," "Quest," "Cedric," "Days Roox," "e-NV200," "Note e-Power," "Caravan," "Wingroad," "GT-R," "Farilady Z, among others. Sales Financing segment provides sales financing services..

ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE

ProSiebenSat.1 Media is a holding company engaged as a media corporations in Europe, with TV stations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Co.'s core business consists of free TV financed by advertising. Co. also owns an international production network along with digital and ventures portfolio. In addition, Co. is engaged as online seller of video content on the internet. Also, Co. is involved in the online games business and operates an e-commerce portfolio. Through its Red Arrow Entertainment Group, Co. produces international TV programs and sells them to TV stations worldwide. Co. has three segments: Broadcasting German-speaking, Digital & Adjacent and Content Production & Global Sales.

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.

Schneider Electric SE

Schneider Electric is engaged in energy management. Co. is organized into four areas: Buildings and Partner, Infrastructure, Industry and IT; and operates in four principal markets: non-residential & residential buildings, utilities & infrastructure, industry & machine manufacturers and data centers & networks. The non-residential and residential buildings market includes end-users, property developers, design firms, and systems integrators. The utilities and infrastructure market includes energy operators. The industries market serves end users and companies, and engineering firms. The data centers and networks contain servers that process and store digital data in secure rooms.

Scor SE

SCOR is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged mainly in reinsurance. Its customers are insurers and large corporations. Co. is engaged in life reinsurance through SCOR Global Life SE and non-life reinsurance through SCOR Global P&C SE. In the life reinsurance business, Co. offers reinsurance for individual and group life insurance, long-term care, substandard risks, critical illness and financing products. The non-life reinsurance business comprises traditional reinsurance business; Treaty, Business Solutions, and Specialty Lines. In addition, Co. through SCOR Global Investments SE, manages, directly or indirectly its global investment portfolio.

SES SA FDR (Class A)

SES is engaged as a provider of satellite-delivered services. As a strategic management company, Co. operates through a unique network of leading satellite operators around the world. This network comprises the fully-owned SES ASTRA in Europe and SES AMERICOM in the U.S., as well as participations in regional satellite operators. SES ASTRA is European direct-to-home satellite operator. SES AMERICOM operates a fleet of 17 satellites serving the Americas, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. AsiaSat provides transponder capacity for broadcast, broadband and telecommunications services in the Asia-Pacific region.

STMicroelectronics NV

STMicroelectronics is a global independent semiconductor company that designs, develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of semiconductor integrated circuits (“ICs”) and discrete devices. Co. offers a diversified product portfolio and develops products for a wide range of market applications, including automotive products, computer peripherals, telecommunications systems, consumer products, industrial automation and control systems. Within its diversified portfolio, Co. is focused on developing products that leverage its technological strengths in creating customized, system-level solutions with digital and mixed-signal content.

SUEZ SA

Suez is active in each stage of the water and waste cycles. Co. is organized around three main segments: Water Europe (water distribution and treatment services, particularly under concession contracts, to individuals, local authorities and industrial clients); Waste Europe (waste collection and treatment services for local authorities and industrial clients; these services include collection, sorting, recycling, composting, energy recovery and landfilling for both non-hazardous and hazardous waste) and International (water, waste and engineering services, with a special focus on risk-management resulting from specific local environments by setting up partnerships).

TechnipFMC Plc

TechnipFMC is global leader in oil and gas projects, technologies, systems, and services. Co. offers subsea, surface, onshore, and offshore solutions for oil and gas projects. Co. serves customers worldwide. With Co.'s technologies and production systems, integrated expertise, and comprehensive solutions, Co. is transforming Co.'s clients' project economics. Co. is uniquely positioned to deliver greater efficiency across project lifecycles from concept to project delivery and beyond. Through innovative technologies and improved efficiencies, Co.'s offering unlocks new possibilities for Co.'s clients in developing their oil and gas resources.

Teleperformance SE

Teleperformance is engaged in outsourced customer experience management. Co. delivers integrated solutions to corporations and administrative bodies worldwide to manage all aspects of the customer-relations cycle on their behalf. Co.'s activities include four core business areas: customer care (these are services provided as part of customer service management); technical support; debt collection; and business information and marketing actions. As of Dec. 31, 2013, Co. had approximately 110,000 computerized workstations across 46 countries. Co.'s client includes industries like Telecoms, Internet, Financial services, Technology/media, Insurance, Government sector and Utilities.

Television Francaise 1 SA

Television Francaise 1 is a French general-interest television channel. Co. is an integrated communications group. Its activities cover the whole of the audiovisual industry: upstream in production, acquisition and sale of audiovisual rights and also in distribution of feature films to cinemas; downstream in sale of advertising space, and publishing and distribution of DVDs and music CDs. Co. is also engaged in home-shopping TV with Teleshopping, and pay-TV market. In addition, Co. produces multimedia content. Its activities can be divided into four sectors: Broadcasting France, Broadcasting International, Audiovisual Rights and Other Activities.

Total SE

Total is an international integrated oil and gas company also active in solar and biomass energy sources. Co. engages all aspects of the petroleum industry, including Upstream operations (oil and gas exploration, development and production, and LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas)) and Downstream operations (refining, petrochemicals, specialty chemicals, marketing and marketing and trading and shipping of crude oil and petroleum products). In addition, Co. is engaged in the coal mining and power generation sectors. Co.'s worldwide operations are conducted through three business segments: Upstream, Refining & Chemicals, and Marketing & Services.

UCB S.A.

UCB is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on severe diseases in two therapeutic areas, namely central nervous system disorders and immunology. In the area of central nervous system disorders, Co. is focused on advanced Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, restless legs syndrome and epilepsy. In the area of immunology disorders, Co. is focused on rheumatoid arthritis, axial spondyloarthritis, psoriatic arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, post-menopausal osteoporosis, systemic lupus erythematosus and immunological diseases.

Vicat-Ciments Vicat SA

Vicat specializes in the production and marketing of cement, ready-mixed concrete and aggregates. Co. is also engaged in other activities which are: transport brokering (transporting materials and merchandise to large work sites) and contract work, production of prefabricated concrete products, fabrication of building products and paper. Co.'s business is divided into four segments: Cement, Ready-Mixed Concrete, Aggregates and Other Products and Services. Co.'s activities are conducted in eleven countries across Europe, North America Asia, Africa and the Middle East such as: France, U.S.A., Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, Egypt, Senegal, Mali, Mauritania, Kazakhstan and India.

Vivendi SE

Vivendi is an audiovisual group active in the entertainment industry with activities in music, TV, cinema, mobile, fixed and internet, and games. Co.'s operations are divided into five businesses: Canal+ Group which produces and distributes pay-TV in France, analog or digital, and is involved in film making; Universal Music Group which sells recorded music (physical and digital media); GVT which serves as a telecommunication operator for fixed ultra high-speed broadband, fixed-line telecommunications and Pay-TV in Brazil; SFR which is engaged in mobile phone services in France, as well as fixed and ADSL services; and Other Activities which involves ticketing, Wengo and Watchever.

Volkswagen AG Pref

Volkswagen the parent company of the Volkswagen Group. It develops vehicles and components for the Group's brands, and produces and sells vehicles such as passenger cars and light commercial vehicles for the Volkswagen Passenger Cars and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles brands. In the electricity sector, Co. performs electricity generation, sales and distribution together with a Group subsidiary. Western Europe, China, Brazil, the U.S., Russia, Mexico and Argentina are the key markets of the Group. The automotive division comprises the passenger cars, commercial vehicles, and power engineering segments, while the financial services division corresponds to the financial services segment.

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Ahmed Ben Salem

Anis Zgaya

Antoine Boivin-Champeaux

Baptiste Lebacq

Benoit Valleaux

Christophe Chaput

Delphine Brault

Emira Sagaama

Fatma Agnès Hamdani

Geoffroy Michalet

Jerôme Bodin

Louis Boujard, CFA

Martial Descoutures

Matthias Desmarais

Michael Foundoukidis

Olfa Taamallah

Philippe Ourpatian

Pierre Tegner

Roland Pfaender,MBA,CFA,CCRA

Stephane Houri

Sven Edelfelt

Yan Derocles

Yassine Batini

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