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Johanna Jourdain ...
  • Matthias Desmarais

ODDO BHF SECURITIES MORNING NEWS – DETAILED COMMENTS 09/22/2020

The market’s mood is darkening. A pessimistic reading, fuelled by the resurgence of the pandemic, a “softening” of the rate of macro surprises, and the political uncertainties in the US, etc., is taking shape. These real causes for concern should be seen in perspective as, barring a lockdown, the deterioration in the health situation does not seem to be calling into question the improvement in macroeconomic growth. This market decline may therefore be seen as a pause for breath. On wh...
Underlyings
Compass Group PLC

Compass Group is engaged in providing outsourced food and support services. The five sectors in which Co. operates are: Business & Industry, which provides food for employees during their working day; Healthcare & Seniors, which helps hospitals in the public and private sectors manage and enhance quality of food and support services; Education, which provides dining solutions from kindergarten to college; Sports & Leisure, which provides hospitality and service at sporting and leisure venues, exhibition centers, visitor attractions and events; and Defence, Offshore & Remote, which provides food and support services to companies in the oil and gas and mining and construction industries.

Edenred SA

Edenred designs and delivers services to clients, companies or public sectors, enabling them to offer beneficiaries additional purpose-directed purchasing power, such as the Ticket Restaurant® meal voucher, and provides prepaid corporate services. Co.'s product offering ensures that allocated funds are used as intended, allowing its clients to manage: Employee benefits (Ticket Restaurant®, Ticket Alimentacion®, Ticket CESU, Childcare Vouchers®, etc.); Expense management process (Ticket Car®, Ticket Clean way®, Repom®, etc.); and Incentive and rewards programs (Ticket Compliments®, Ticket Kadeos®, etc.). Co. also supports public institutions in managing their social benefits programs.

Elior Group SA

Elior is a contracted food and support services group based in France. Co. provides personalized catering and service solutions to 3.7 million customers in the business & industry, education, healthcare, leisure and travel markets through 17,500 restaurants and points of sale in 13 countries. Co. offer solutions in two core segments, Contract Catering & Support Services (provides foodservice solutions to Business & Industry, Education and Healthcare as well as support services for facilities management and cleaning services) and Concession Catering & Travel Retail (food service solutions for motorways, airports, railway stations and leisure).

Sodexo SA

Sodexo is a services company which partners with companies, institutions and local authorities. Co. designs, manages and delivers Quality of Life services. Co.'s offers are: On-Site Service Solutions (Co.'s services are: Corporate, Defense, Justice Services, Remote sites, Health Care, Seniors, Education and Sports and Leisure), Benefits and Rewards Services Solutions (Co.'s offers focus on the following services: recruit and retain employees and increase their motivation; mobilize teams around quantitative or qualitative objectives; ensure delivery of Public Benefits), and Personal and Home Services (services in childcare; tutoring and adult education; concierge services and senior care).

TUI AG

TUI is engaged in the tourism business, operating in some 180 countries. Co.'s segments include Hotels & Resorts, Cruises and Other Tourism. The Hotels & Resorts segment comprises all Group-owned hotels and hotel companies in TUI Group. The segment comprises majority participations in hotels, joint ventures with local partners, stakes in companies. The Cruises segment consists of Hapag-Lloyd Cruises and the joint venture TUI Cruises. Other Tourism segment comprises central functions such as destination services, IT, aviation control and the French airline Corsair.

Unilever NV

Unilever is engaged in the supply of consumer goods in foods, household care and personal products. Co.'s activities are carried out through four categories: Personal Care, sales of skin care and hair care products, deodorants and oral care products; Home Care, sales of home care products, such as powders, liquids and capsules, soap bars and a range of cleaning products; Foods, sales of soups, bouillons, sauces, snacks, mayonnaise, salad dressings, margarines and spreads; and Refreshment, sales of ice cream and tea-based beverages. Co.'s products are sold in over 190 countries around the world.

Whitbread PLC

Whitbread is a hospitality company. Co. serves its customers in the U.K. and beyond through its two businesses: Premier Inn and Restaurants; and Costa. Premier Inn is a hotel business, with over 760 hotels and more than 68,000 rooms as of Mar 2 2017. Co.'s hotel are located alongside its own restaurant brands. Co. also have hotels in the Middle East, and Germany, with more hotels in the pipeline. Costa is the coffee shop, with over 2,200 coffee shops in the U.K., over 1,300 stores in 29 international markets and over 6,800 Costa Express self-serve units as of Mar 2 2017.

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Oddo BHF
Oddo BHF

​Oddo Securities provides securities brokerage and research services. The company offers equity, economic, and derivatives research and credit analysis services. It focuses on insurance, automotive, building materials, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, information technology, and agri-food industries.

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Johanna Jourdain

Matthias Desmarais

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