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ISS A/S : Growing visibility on short- to medium-term triggers leads to a stock upgrade

Les marchés actions européens ont fléchi en octobre après les nombreuses déceptions sur la saison des résultats. L’approche de l’élection US, très incertaine selon les sondages, pourrait également avoir poussé à la prudence certains opérateurs. Les taux longs souverains ont nettement remonté, en particulier aux Etats-Unis, sur la base d’indicateurs macro susceptibles de donner des arguments aux plus faucons des banquiers centraux. Tous les yeux sont désormais rivés sur le scrutin du 5...
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Banco de Sabadell SA

Banco de Sabadell is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. provides a range of banking and financial services in Spain and internationally. Co.'s activities include investment banking, private banking, portfolio management, mortgage loans, commercial loans and other financial products and services, deposits and international banking operations. Co. is also engaged in life insurance underwriting and brokerage. Additionally, Co. is engaged in capital property and development, as well as investing in environmental projects. As of Dec 31 2014, Co. had total assets of Euro163,345,673,000 and total customer deposits of Euro98,208,370,000.

Burckhardt Compression Holding AG

Burckhardt Compression is engaged in the manufacture of reciprocating compressors. Co. provides a range of Laby (labyrinth piston), process gas, and hyper compressors. The compressors are used to compress, cool or liquefy gases. Co.'s customers include companies that are active in the chemicals, petrochemicals, refinery, industrial gas and gas transport and storage industries. Additionally, Co. provides a portfolio of compressor components as well as spare parts.

Corticeira Amorim SGPS SA

Corticeira Amorim, S.G.P.S. is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged in the production, sale and distribution of cork products, including natural and agglomerated cork stoppers for the wine industry; cork stoppers and other components for the sparkling wines, spirits and champagne industry; cork plank and other products resulting from the processing of cork and used in other segments of the cork industry; floor and wall coverings; composition and granulated corks with several technical and industrial applications; cork with rubber; and expanded pure agglomerated and regranulated corks for technical, acoustic and vibration insulation.

Delfingen Industry SA

Delfingen Industry is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged in the manufacture and distribution of protected, insulated electric cabling for use in land, sea and air based vehicles. Co. has developed applications for other markets that can be classified into five groups: Construction industry- tube sheathing for sanitary hydro-cabling; Sanitary equipment- water evacuation products; Household appliances- protection of electric functions, machine joints, drain pipes, etc.; Industry- technical protection solutions for electric cables (transformers, cabinets, etc.), Miscellaneous- protection items for industries as varied as the naval, furniture and gardening industry, etc.

EXCLUSIVE NETWORKS SA

Fraport AG

Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide is an airport operator. Co. is divided into four segments: aviation, which includes airside and terminal management as well as corporate safety and security at the Frankfurt site; retail and real estate, which consists of retailing activities, parking facility and real estate management at Frankfurt Airport; ground handling, which comprises services dealing with passengers, aircraft and cargo; and external activities and services, which comprises Co.'s companies outside the Frankfurt site and auxiliary services in Frankfurt, including information technology and facility management in particular.

ISS A/S

ISS is a Facility Services company based in Denmark. Co.'s focus of operations is on providing its customers a full range of facility services required to meet each customers needs. Co. offers a wide range of services such as: Facility Management, Cleaning Services, Support Services, Property Services, Catering Services and Security Services. Co. maintains operations in more than 50 countries across Europe, Asia, North America, Latin America and Pacific, serving public and private sector customers in business services and information technology, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, transportation and infrastructure, energy, leisure, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and other sectors.

Leifheit AG

Leifheit is engaged in the development and distribution of household products. Co. supplies household items in the cleaning, laundry care, kitchen and wellbeing sectors. Co.'s operating business is divided into two segments: Brand Business and Volume Business. In the brand business segment, Co. develops, produces and distributes household goods and appliances under the Leifheit brand, as well as scales and relaxation products under the Soehnle brand. The volume business of Co. comprises the activities of Birambeau and Herby, as well as Project business. Co.'s products are distributed mostly in Germany and Europe as well as in the U.S., the Middle East and the Far East.

MBB Industries SE

MBB SE, formerly MBB Industries AG, is a German-based private equity firm specializing in acquisitions of established medium-sized industrial companies. The Company makes investments in entities seeking to sell off a part of their business or the entire operation, perhaps as part of a succession process; selling a subdivision or an affiliated entity that no longer forms part of the organization's core business, and seeking for a management buyout or buy-in. It targets investments in firms with turnovers of 10 million euros and above. Its portfolio consists of Aumann AG, specializing in e-mobility, coil winding and automation, CT Formpolster GmbH, a producer of flexible polyurethane foams, Delignit AG, a supplier of ecological hardwood-based materials, DTS IT AG, a cloud computing and cyber security provider, Hanke Tissue Spolka Z O.O., a producer of tissue paper, and OBO-Werke GmbH, a supplier of products for model construction, toolmaking and mould production, among others.

NORMA Group SE

NORMA Group is a holding Company. Co. manufactures and markets joining products and solutions in three product categories clamps (CLAMP), joining elements (CONNECT) and connections/fluid systems (FLUID). Co.'s clamp products and solutions are manufactured from unalloyed steels or stainless steel and are generally used to join or seal elastomer hoses. Co.'s connection products include connectors made of unalloyed steels or stainless steel that are partly equipped with elastomer or metal seals and are used as the joining and sealing elements of metal and thermoplastic pipes. Co.'s fluid products are either single or multiple layer thermoplastic plug-in connectors for liquid systems.

Prosegur Compania de Seguridad SA

Prosegur, Compania de Seguridad and its subsidiaries are engaged in the provision of security guards and related services; fund transport and handling through a fleet of armored vehicles; alarm and electronic security systems; distribution and auxiliary services, including storage, logistics and distribution services; document transport and courier services; cleaning services and temporary employment. Co. is also engaged in security consulting and external training.

Salzgitter AG

Salzgitter is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. organized its businesses into five divisions. The Steel Division manufactures steel and special steels. The Tubes Division is involved with the manufacture of line pipes, HFI-welded pipes, precision tubes and stainless steel tubes. The Trading Division operates a European sales network as well as trading companies and agencies worldwide. The companies in the Services Division provide services such as data processing, telecommunications services, scrap dealing, the handling and storage of bulk cargo, transportation, and other services. The Technology Division operates in the filling and packaging technology segment.

Scout24 AG

Scout24 AG, formerly Asa NewCo GmbH, is a Germany-based holding company engaged in the Internet services industry. Through its subsidiaries, the Company provides digital classified advertisement platforms in Germany and other European countries, notably Scout24.com, ImmobilienScout24.de and Autoscout24.com. The Company owns the automotive classifieds Websites AutoScout24.nl and European AutoTrader BV, and the real estate online portals my-next-home.de and immodirekt.at, as well as an online comparison portal for consumer loans FINANZCHECK.de.

Shop Apotheke Europe NV

Shop Apotheke Europe NV is a company based in the Netherlands that retails pharmaceutical products online. The Company focuses on non-prescription medication (OTC), as well as on pharmacy-related beauty and personal care (BPC) products. The Company is active in Belgium, Spain, Italy, France, Austria, the Netherlands and Germany.

SHURGARD SELF STORAGE LIMITED

Solutions 30 SE

Solutions 30 SE is a France-based company that specializes in information technology (IT) repair services for individual and business clients. Its activity is divided into five key fields, such as IT-Telecom, Energy, Audiovisual, Piont of services and Security. Solutions 30 SE has a network of locally based teams throughout France that provide on-site IT assistance either at home or in the workplace. The Company is also present in Italy. Solutions 30 SE operates through Telima Mediterranee, Telima Ile de France, Mulot Assistance, Telima Reims Family, Telima Mediterranee Family, Mixnet, B&F GmbH in Germany, Connecting Cable GmbH and Vodafone Kabel Deutschland Field Services Gmbh, among others.

Tubacex S.A.

Tubacex SA is a Spain-based company primarily engaged, through its subsidiaries, in the steel industry. The Company's main activity is the manufacture, distribution and sale of seamless stainless steel tubes and pipes. The Company's product portfolio also includes hollow bars, steel and fittings. It has operations established in Europe, the Americas and Asia.The Company is a parent of Grupo Tubacex, a group, which comprises a number of controlled entities, including Aceria de Alava SA, Tubacex Tubos Inoxidables SA, Schoeller-Bleckmann Edelstahlrohr Inmobilien AG, Salem Tube Inc, Tubacex Taylor Accesorios SA and Metaux Inox Services SAS, among others.

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.

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Thomas Zlowodzki

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