Report
Jean-François Granjon

ODDO BHF Small & MIDCAP MORNING NEWS - 02/04/2022

The market is characterised at the beginning of this year by a rotation towards value combined with a fall in the indices. We are tempted, reasonably enough, to justify this trend, by the prospect of monetary normalisation linked to the persistence of high inflation but also, which we tend to forget, macroeconomic growth well above its potential rate. This combination of monetary normalisation and growth is acting as a catalyst for powerful mean-reversion trends which we expect to la...
Underlyings
Acerinox SA

Acerinox is the parent company of a group engaged in the manufacture and sale of flat and long stainless steel products, and stainless steel wires. Co.'s major products include slabs, billets, black coils, plates, hot-rolled coils, hot-rolled sheets, flat bars, hot-rolled re-bars, hot-rolled black bars, engraved sheets, cold-rolled coils, cold-rolled sheets and circles. Co. also provides long stainless steel products, such as wire rods, angles, hot rolled flat bars, hot rolled re-bars, reinforced bars in coils, cold rolled re-bars, hot rolled black bars, cold drawn bars, and smooth turned bars. In addition, Co. offers wires, welding wire bars, and bars for electrodes.

Aperam SA

APERAM is a stainless and specialty steel producer. Co. produces a range of stainless steel products and products including electrical steel (grain oriented, non-grain oriented, and non-grain oriented semi-processed steel), nickel alloys and specialties. Co. sells its products to customers on three continents in over 40 countries, including aerospace, automotive, catering, construction, household appliances and electrical engineering, industrial processes, medical, and oil & gas industries. Co. manages its business according to three operating segments: Stainless and Electrical Steel; Services and Solutions; and Alloys and Specialties.

Bonduelle SCA

Bonduelle is active in the market of processed vegetables both within and outside the European Union. Co.'s business is made up of three activities: canned, frozen and fresh vegetables (prepared and fresh-cut). It distributes its products mostly through retail channels (large supermarkets and stores) and food service sectors (restaurants, inter-company canteens). Some of Co.'s brands are Bonduelle, Cassegrain, Frudesa and Artic Gardens. Co. is organized into two geographic regions and four business segments: Bonduelle Europe Long Life (BELL), Bonduelle Fresh Europe (FRESH), Bonduelle Americas (BAM), and Bonduelle Development (BDV).

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.

LNA Sante SA

LNA Sante SA Formerly known as Le Noble Age. LNA Sante SA, formerly known as Le Noble Age SA is a France-based company that owns and operates retirement homes and complexes for elderly residents. The Company's residences provide care and assistance for elderly people with a variety of needs, from those with a high level of independence, to those who are completely dependent. LNA Sante SA is also engaged in real estate operations. The Company has residences in France and Belgium. LNA Sante SA operates through its several subsidiaries, including Le Parc de Diane Sarl, Institut Medicalise de Mar Vivo, Gerhome, Residence le Point du Jour and the home healthcare service provider ARAIR Assistance, as well as ARAIR Group's support and training services, among others.

Marel hf.

Marel hf is an Iceland-based holding company active within the food industry. It is primarily engaged in providing equipment, systems and services for the poultry, meat and fish processing industry. The Company activities are divided into following segments: Poultry, including processing systems for broilers, turkeys and ducks; Fish, providing equipment and system for processing whitefish an salmon; Meat, including systems and services to the red meat industry, such as deboning and trimming, case ready and bacon processing; Further Processing, including portioning and forming, marinating, coating, frying, cooking and sausage making; and More Foods, including systems and services to processing such foods as vegetables, fruit and cheese. The Company's distribution network includes sales and service units in over 30 countries. The Company operates Sulmaq Industrial e Comercial SA as subsidiary.

NRJ Group SA

NRJ Group is engaged in the multimedia industry, particularly in France's private radio market. Co. also operates in 22 other countries, as of Dec. 31, 2012. Co. works as a publisher, producer, and brodcaster, while marketing its own media space. Co. also develops new media such as television, internet and mobile telephony. Co.'s core business consists of creating and developing media, whether it be radio stations, television or the Internet. Co.'s operations can be divided into six segments: Musical Media and Events; Television; International Activities; Shows and Other Productions; Broadcasting and Other Activities. Co.'s brands are NRJ, NOSTALGIE, CHERIE FM, RIRE and CHANSONS.

Outokumpu Oyj

Outokumpu is organized into the following five business areas: Coil Europe, Middle East and Africa, which consists of stainless operations as well as ferrochrome production in Europe; Coil Americas, which produces standard austenitic and ferritic grades as well as tailored products; APAC, which includes cold rolling facility and coil and plate service center in China, as well as a coil service center in Australia; Quarto Plate, which is comprised of the quarto plate production facilities in Sweden and in the U.S.; as well as Long Products, in which its products are used in a range of applications such as springs, wires, surgical equipment, automotive parts and construction.

Royal Vopak NV

Royal Vopak is a holding company. Via its subsidiaries, Co. acts as a tank storage provider for the oil and chemical industry. Co. operates a network of terminals located at locations along trade routes. Co. also provides a range of additional services, from loading and unloading a range of transport modalities to heating, cooling, blending and customs formalities. The customers Co. serves range from global to local clients and include national and global producers, governments, distributors and traders of liquid and gaseous bulk products. Co.'s customers are active in the production, trading and marketing of oil products, chemicals, gases, biofuels, edible oils and liquefied natural gas.

SBM Offshore NV

SBM Offshore is a holding company. Co. provides floating production solutions to the offshore energy industry, over the full product life-cycle. Co.'s main activities are the design, supply, installation, operation and life extension of floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels. Other products include semi-submersibles, tension-leg platforms, floating production storage and offloading liquefied natural gas, turret mooring systems, brownfield and offshore (off) loading terminals. As of Dec 31 2015, Co.'s fleet consisted of 10 FPSOs, two floating storage and offloadings, one mobile offshore production unit, one semisubmersible in operation worldwide.

SECHE ENVIRONNEMENT

Seche Environnement offers environmental management solutions for industrial clients or local authorities. Co. operates waste treatment and recovery facilities and develops tools to produce energy from waste. Co. also collects and sorts all types of waste, whether household or industrial, hazardous or non-hazardous. For local authorities, Co. manages household waste and other environmental concerns. Co. is engaged in thermal treatment, storage, methanization of household waste and production of alternative fuels. For industrial clients, Co. has developed products and services for handling industrial waste from waste production sites to elimination facilities.

Signify NV

Signify NV Formerly known as Philips Lighting NV. Signify NV, formerly Philips Lighting NV, is a company based in the Netherlands that provides lamps and lighting solutions. Its product portfolio includes, among others, incandescent lamps, halogen lamps, fluorescent lamps, linear fluorescent lamps (LFL), compact fluorescent lamps (CFL), high-intensity discharge lamps (HID) and light-emitting diodes (LED), as well as electronic components, such as electronic ballasts and drivers. The Company also provides integrated and customized lighting systems. Its service portfolio includes light management and value-added services, such as energy audits, light design and engineering, as well as remote monitoring and managed services. The Company operates through four segments: The Lamps segments comprises conventional lamps and lamp electronics; the LED segment focuses on LED lamps; the Professional segment includes lighting systems and services for professional consumers, and the Home segment covers consumer luminaries and home systems.

Theranexus SA

Theranexus SA is a France-based company engaged in the healthcare industry. The Company is a biopharmaceutical entity that develops drug candidates to be used in the treatment of central nervous system (CNS) disorders, including epilepsy, narcolepsy, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, neuropathic pain and psychiatric disorders. Its patented technology is aimed at increasing the efficacy of CNS drugs, which are approved and available on the market. The Company's technology is protected, scalable and versatile, and used to generate high value-added proprietary drug candidates for different conditions, while reducing time-to-market and market entry costs and risks in comparison with standard drug development processes. Theranexus SA operates in the domestic market.

TomTom NV

TomTom develops and sells of navigation and location-based solutions, which include among others, Portable Navigation Devices, sport watches, maps, traffic, navigation software and fleet management services. As of Dec 31 2014, Co. had four segments: Consumer business, which is focused on creating location-based products; Automotive business, which provides modular components, being maps, traffic and navigation software, to car manufacturers and head unit vendors; Licensing business, which sells TomTom map, traffic and navigation software as well as cloud-based products and platforms; and Telematics business, which provides fleet management solutions for commercial fleets of any size.

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Jean-François Granjon

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