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ODDO BHF Small & MIDCAP MORNING NEWS - 02/23/2022

Despite the recent de-rating (-60% over three months), upside on the AUTO1 stock seems limited, justifying our Underperform rating. The lack of visibility on cash generation (breakeven in 2025e) should act as a drag in a context of rate hikes, while operating leverage is overestimated in our view (weak pricing power, limited scale effects, hefty marketing spend required). A downward revision to the results forecasts in the medium term therefore looks likely to us. - ...
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Aedifica SA

Aedifica is a property company, which is specialized in residential real estate. Co.'s portfolio has a superstructure of more than 225,911 sq. m as of June 30 2010. It owns: residential or mixed buildings in Belgian cities with classical leases; buildings with furnished apartments buildings in the heart of Brussels with shorter term leases; senior houses and serviceflats with very long term and triple net leases; and hotels. Co. invests: in existing and already leased buildings; and in projects with future completion. Co.'s activities can be divided into four segments: Residential or mixed buildings; Furnished apartments buildings; Senior houses; and Hotels and others.

Altarea SCA

Altarea Cogedim is a real estate investment trust and development company. Co. is an active operator in the three main segments — retail, residential & office-hotels property — with the ability to design, develop, market & manage custom-tailored real estate products. In the Retail segment, Co. is active in real estate investment, development, asset management, providing services to third-party customers. In the Residential segment, Co. is a residential property developer. In the Office Property segment, Co. is a global operator active in all commercial property formats: high-rise buildings, business districts, corporate headquarters, renovation projects, green districts & luxury hotels.

Alten SA

Alten is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. operates in three areas: Engineering and Technology Consulting (ETC), Telecoms Networks and Multimedia, and Information Systems (NTIS). Through the Engineering and Technology Consulting (ETC) segment, Co. studies and designs technology products for technical divisions in industry and telecoms. The Telecoms Networks and Multimedia segment focuses on Product design, Architecture, deployment, and operation of networks. Lastly, the IT systems segment comprises Applications and software development, and Infrastructure and Telecoms (Applications, systems and networks Corporate telecommunications).

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.

Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings

B&S Group S.A.

B&S Group SA is a Luxembourg-based company, which serves as a distributor of consumer goods. The Company acts as a source supplier to a number of channels and specialized markets. B& Group SA operates within three segments: The HTG Segment, which purchases products in bulk on an ad hoc basis from manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and international retail chains, as well as provides suppliers the opportunity to dispose of stock lots, closeout products and excess inventory; the B&S segment, which includes the purchase of consumer goods directly from premium brand owners and informs customers regarding strict food safety guidelines or specific cultural and national preferences and requirements, and the Retail Segment, which sources a focused selection of travel electronics from various partnerships and offers a selected assortment of the product groups sourced within the distribution activities in HTG and B&S.

BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT

Bayerische Motoren Werke is a holding company, engaged in the development, manufacture and sale of cars and motorcycles. Co. owns three brands: BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce. Co.'s BMW automobile range encompasses the 1 Series, including coupe and convertible models; the 3 Series, including sedan, touring, coupe and convertible models; the 5 Series, including sedan and touring models; the 6 Series, including coupe or convertible; the 7 Series large sedan; the Z4 roadster and coupe; the sports utility vehicles, X3, X5 and X6 and M models. Co. also provides cars under the MINI brand and motorcycles under the BMW brand. The Rolls-Royce brand provides three cars, Phantom, Coupe and Ghost.

Daimler AG

Daimler provides a range of transportation products, including passenger cars and commercial vehicles, and also financial services. Co. operates in five segments. Mercedes-Benz Cars sells passenger cars and off-road vehicles under the Mercedes-Benz brand and small cars under the smart brand. The Daimler Trucks distributes its trucks (Mercedes-Benz, Freightliner, FUSO, Western Star, Thomas Built Buses and BharatBenz). The vans of the Mercedes-Benz Vans segment are sold under the brand name Mercedes-Benz and Freightliner. Daimler Buses sells completely built-up buses (Mercedes-Benz and Setra). The Daimler Financial Services division supports sales of Co.'s automotive brands.

Ferrari NV

Greenyard NV

Greenyard processes and commercializes fruits, vegetables, and ready-to eat food products in France, the United kingdom, Germany, Belgium, other EU-countries, and internationally. Co.'s operation is divided into two divisions: The frozen division known as Pinguin and the canning division under the name of Noliko. The Frozen division offers frozen vegetables and fruits, deep-frozen vegetable dishes, and ready-to-use meals to retail, food service, and food industry. The Canning division processes vegetables and fruit from the field into preserved foods in cans and jars. The division also prepares ready-to-eat food such as soups, sauces, dips and pasta dishes.

Ontex Group N.V.

Ontex Group NV is a Belgium-based company, which operates in the manufacturing sector of industry. The Company is a producer of disposable personal hygiene solutions for babies, women and adults. It offers a range of such products as baby diapers, baby pants, baby wet wipes, pads, pantyliners, tampons, light incontinence products, pull-ups, belt diapers, all-in-one tape systems, shaped pads and underpards. Its products are distributed through retail partner brands, as well as under its own brands (canbebe, canped, Helen Harper, Moltex, Baby Charm) across several distribution channels, such as retail trade, care institutions and pharmacies. The Company is present in Europe, Northern Africa, Australia and Asia.

Plastic Omnium SE

Compagnie Plastic Omnium is a manufacturing and services company which partners with car manufacturers and local communities, through its two core businesses which are Automotive Equipment and Environment. Co.'s activities can be divided into two divisions: the Automotive division and the Environment division. The Automotive division designs, manufactures and sells vehicle body parts (exterior parts and modules) and plastic fuel systems. The Environment division provides products and services for local authorities, including waste pre-collection and management equipment and services, and road and highway signage.

Renault SA

Renault is an automobile manufacturer. Co.'s activities have been organized into two main business sectors, in more than 120 countries: Automotive and Sales Financing. Co. designs, develops and sells passenger cars and light commercial vehicles. Following the acquisition of Romanian carmaker Dacia and Samsung Motors' operating assets in South Korea, Co. has three automotive brands: Renault, Dacia and Samsung. RCI Banque, Co.'s captive financing arm, finances sales of the Renault, Renault Samsung Motors (RSM) and Dacia brands, and, in Europe, the Nissan and Infiniti brands. In addition to these two activities, Co. has equity investments in the following two companies: Nissan and AVTOVAZ.

Software AG

Software is a holdinc company. Co. is engaged as a provider of process and integration software. Co.'s operates through three reporting lines: business process management or Business Process Excellence (BPE), data management or Enterprise Transaction Systems (ETS) and Consulting. The BPE segment consists of software products for integrated solutions in the field of Business Process Management for organizations of all industries and sizes. The ETS segment is engaged in providing database solutions for mainframes and the development of mainframe-based IT systems. The Consulting segment includes all consulting and services pertaining to the BPE, ETS and IDS Scheer Consulting business lines.

Solocal Group

Stellantis N.V.

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.

Wienerberger AG

Wienerberger is a building materials group. Co.'s segments include: Clay Building Materials Eastern Europe, Clay Building Materials Western Europe, Pipes & Pavers Eastern Europe, Pipes & Pavers Western Europe, North America and Holding & Others. The Clay Building Materials Europe division covers activities in the areas of clay blocks, facing bricks and roof tiles. The Pipes & Pavers Europe division includes Co.'s business activities with plastic pipes, ceramic pipes and concrete pavers. The North America division covers activities in the areas of facing bricks, plastic pipes and concrete products. The Holding & Others division covers activities in the areas of clay blocks.

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Marc Lavaud

Nicolas David

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