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Christophe Chaput ...
  • Hela Zarrouk
  • Thomas Zlowodzki

ODDO BHF Small & MIDCAP MORNING NEWS - 03/15/2023

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank are not isolated events, in our view. They reflect the refinancing difficulties of the global economic fabric caused by higher interest rates, which could cause systemic global banking stress. In our sectoral allocation, we have decided to take profits on the banking sector and to downgrade it from Overweight to Underweight. We are also upgrading Pharmaceuticals and Telecoms to give a more defensive profile to our sectoral allocat...
Underlyings
Allianz SE

Allianz is engaged in the provision of a range of insurance and asset management products and services. Co. has three business segments: Property-Casualty, which provides insurance products to both private and corporate customers, including motor liability and own damage, accident, general liability, fire and property, legal expense, credit and travel insurance; Life/Health, which provides life and health insurance products including annuities, endowment and term insurance, unit-linked and investment-oriented products and private health and supplemental health and long-term care insurance; and Asset Management, which provides institutional and retail asset management products and services.

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.

Assystem SA

Assystem SA is a France-based company that is principally engaged in engineering and innovation consultancy. The Company offers solutions within a number of sectors, such as Aerospace, Defence, Energy, Nuclear, Life Sciences, Infrastructure, Automotive and Transport. The Company develops the infrastructural engineering and externalized R&D services. It's activities include managing infrastructural investments, from conception to dismantling; aerospace mechanical engineering, providing technical services to aerospace, engine and automotive manufacturers and technology & product engineering, providing services in transport, defense, product hardware and software development. The Company is present Europe, North America and Asia. The main shareholder of the Company is HDL Developpement SAS. It operates through Onyx Promavi, Batir Group, Edison Technical Recruitment Ltd, Radicon Gulf Consult, Engineering Partner Automotive Nordic AB and The Biotech Quality Group, among others.

AXA
AXA

AXA is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged in insurance and assets management. Co. operates primarily in Europe, North America, the Asia-Pacific Region and, to a lesser extent, in other regions including the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. Co. has five operating business segments: Life & Savings, Property & Casualty, International Insurance, Asset Management, and Banking. In addition, various holding companies within the AXA Group conduct certain non-operating activities. As of Dec 31 2013, Co. had total assets of Euro757,143,000,000.

CABKA N.V.

Dermapharm Holding SE

Dermapharm Holding SE. Dermapharm Holding SE is a Germany-based company engaged in manufacturing of patent-free branded pharmaceuticals. The Company operates through two segments: Branded pharmaceuticals and other healthcare products, which includes in-house development, in-house production, and distribution of branded pharmaceuticals and other healthcare products, and Parallel import business, which operates under the axicorp brand. It holds around 950 marketing authorizations for more than 250 active pharmaceutical ingredients, which are marketed as pharmaceuticals, dietary supplements or supplemental balanced diets. The Company offers its products through a number of brands, including Dekristol, Ampho Moronal, Keltican, Tromcardin, among others. It is active primarily in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Additionally, it operates production facility in Germany. Trommsdorff & GmbH Co KG is a subsidiary of the Company.

ERG S.p.A.

ERG is engaged in the generation of energy from renewable sources and from thermoelectric plants, in the marketing of electricity, steam and gas, in the refining, marketing and distribution of petroleum products both in Italy and abroad. Co., also through its own subsidiaries and joint ventures with primary international operators, operates in the following segments: renewable energy sources, under which Co. operates through its ERG Renew S.p.A. subsidiary in the wind power generation business; power and gas, which includes the production and marketing of electric energy, steam and gas; and refining and marketing, which includes the results of Coastal Refining and Integrated Downstream.

Hannover Rueck SE

Hannover is global reinsurance company. Co. operates through two business groups, Non-Life Reinsurance and Life and Health Reinsurance. Non-Life Reinsurance provides structured reinsurance solutions. Co.'s target markets are Germany and North America, and its specialty lines include Marine, Aviation, Credit and Surety, Structured Reinsurance, Insurance-Linked Securities and the United Kingdom, London market and direct business. Non-Life Reinsurance's Global Reinsurance consists of treaty reinsurance worldwide, facultative reinsurance and global catastrophe business. Life and Health Reinsurance provides solutions for life and health reinsurance and financial solutions.

Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A.

Intesa Sanpaolo is a commercial bank. Co. is engaged in lending and deposit collection operations in Italy and associated financial services, serving Households, Personal, Small Business, Private and Small and Medium Enterprise customers. Co. provides medium-term credit, leasing, factoring and agribusiness (Mediocredito Italiano), consumer credit (Intesa Sanpaolo Personal Finance), management of electronic payments (Setefi), and trust services (Sirefid). Co. has approximately 4,300 branches, including Retail and Business branches, distributed broadly throughout Italy. At Dec 31 2014, Co. had total assets of Euro646.43 billion.

Jacquet Metals SA

Jacquet Metal Services is a European distributor of specialty steels, also active in China and the U.S.A. Co.'s main activity consists of purchasing, storing, and delivering different families of products. Co. is active in four markets for the distribution of special steels through four brands: JACQUET (distribution of stainless steel thick "Quarto" plates); Stappert (distribution of long stainless steel products); Abraservice (distribution of wear-resistant "Quarto" plates); IMS group (distribution of engineering steels). Co.'s main consumer sectors are the following industries: chemical; agro foods; treatment and storage of gases; water treatment; environment and cleanup; and energy.

Lanson-BCC

Lanson-BCC produces, sells and markets champagne. Co. owns a portfolio of houses which are: Champagne Lanson (international market), Champagne Boizel (French-mail order, wines distributed in the traditional sector for international markets), Champagne Chanoine Freres (mass retail market), Champagne Philipponnat and Champagne De Venoge (selective retail markets), Champagne Alexandre Bonnet (traditional sectors), Maison Burtin (mass retail supplier, distributed through traditional networks). Co.'s brands are Boizel, Chanoine Freres, Tsarine, Philipponat, Clos des Goisses, Abel Lepitre, De Venoge, Alexandre Bonnet, Lanson, Besserat de Bellefon, Alfred Rothschild.

LANXESS AG

Lanxess is a management holding company, engaged in chemicals enterprise with a portfolio ranging from polymers to industrial, specialty and fine chemicals. Co. has three segments, which comprise 14 business units. Co.'s Performance Polymers segments include five units, Butyl Rubber, Performance Butadiene Rubbers, Keltan Elastomers, High Performance Elastomers, and High Performance Materials. Advanced Intermediates segments include two units, Advanced Industrial Intermediates, and Saltigo. Performance Chemicals segments, include seven units, Material Protection Products, Inorganic Pigments, Functional Chemicals, Leather, Rhein Chemie, Rubber Chemicals, and Liquid Purification Technologies.

MAJOREL GRP SA(LUXEMBOURG)

Mersen SA

Mersen produces materials and electrical components intended for alternative energies, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, rail transportation, electronics and process industries. Co. divides its operations into two segments: Advanced Materials and Technologies (AMT - Materials), and Electrical Components and Technologies (ECT - Electrical). In addition, Co. produces four types of products: Electrical Applications, Electrical Protection, High-Temperature Applications, and Anticorrosion Equipment. Co. also caters to the process industries, supporting their transition towards greater energy efficiency and boasts an efficient manufacturing base with plants employing the very latest technologies.

Munich Reinsurance Company

Muenchener Rueckversicherungs-Gesellschaft is engaged in reinsurance, primary insurance and asset management. Co.'s international life business is written in the Life Division. The Global Clients and North America division manages accounts with international insurance groups. The Europe and Latin America division manages property-casualty business in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. The Germany, Asia Pacific and Africa division conducts property-casualty business in Germany, Africa, Asia, Australia and the Pacific Islands. The Special and Financial Risks division manages the classes of credit, aviation and space, agriculture, enterprise and contingency risks.

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.

Stadler Rail AG

Stadler Rail AG is a Switzerland-based company engaged in design and manufacturing of rail vehicles. The Company's product portfolio includes suburban and regional transport trains, light rail vehicles, trams, high-speed and intercity trains, city transport vehicles, locomotives, passenger trains and tailor-made vehicles. The Company serves customers worldwide.

Swiss Re AG

Swiss Re is engaged in wholesale reinsurance, insurance and risk transfer solutions. Co.'s clients include insurance companies, corporations, the public sector and policyholders. Co.'s business units include: Property & Casualty Reinsurance, which includes the business lines property and casualty (including motor); Life & Health Reinsurance, which includes the life and health line of business; Corporate Solutions, which serves mid-sized and large corporations, with product offerings ranging from property and casualty insurance to customised solutions; and Admin Re®, which provides risk and capital management solutions.

Talanx AG

Talanx is a financial and management holding company. Co. is internationally active in primary insurance and reinsurance and in both property/casualty and life business. In the more than 100 years of Co.'s history, Co. has evolved from a single-line liability insurer for industry into a global insurance group with a focus on the industrial and retail lines and reinsurance business. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged in five business segments: Life/Health Reinsurance; Non-Life Reinsurance; Retail Germany; Industrial Lines; and Retail International.

TFF Group

Tonnellerie Francois Freres S.A.. TFF Group, formerly Tonnellerie Francois Freres SA, is a France-based company that manufactures and distributes oak barrels that are used to conserve and transport liquids. The Company has four core businesses: stave milling, cooperage, cask manufacturing and oak wine-aging products. Tonnellerie Francois Freres SA also offers oak products for oenology, where the wine is put in contact with wood in varied forms, and has developed products for the alcohol maturing and aging market, especially the whisky market. The Company offers four brands of barrels: Exclusif, Privilege, Classique and Horizon. As of December 31, 2011, Tonnellerie Francois Freres SA operated through its subsidiaries, including: Sogibois, Bouyoud, Treuil, Francois Inc, Classic Oak New Zealand, Demptos Napa, among others. The Company has operating units in France, the United States, Spain, Hungary, South Africa, China, New Zealand, Australia and Ireland. In May 2016, the Company acquired metal manufacturer SAS Lejeune.

UniCredit S.p.A.

Unicredit is a pan-European commercial banking group based in Italy. Co. is engaged in the provision of in-branch and online corporate and investment banking services, providing customers with access to banks in 14 core markets as well as to an another 18 countries worldwide. Co.'s operations are organized along six business lines: Commercial Banking Italy; CEE Division; CIB; Commercial Banking Germany; Commercial Banking Austria; and Asset Gathering. Co.'s European banking network includes Italy, Germany, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia and Turkey.

Zurich Insurance Group Ltd

Zurich Insurance Group is a multi-line insurance company. Co. provides a range of general insurance and life insurance products and services, serving individuals, small businesses, and mid-sized and large companies, including multinational corporations, in more than 170 countries. Co.'s business segments include: General Insurance, which provides property and casualty insurance and services, risk insights; Global Life, which provides protection, savings and investment solutions; and Farmers, which provides management services related to property and casualty insurance.

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Christophe Chaput

Hela Zarrouk

Thomas Zlowodzki

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