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Focus: Kazatomprom’s 1H19 results – good cost control, conservative market outlook; Eurocash’s 2Q19 results in line with expectations; Warimpex’s 2Q19 – significant progress achieved on number of key operating milestones

HEADLINES:
• Kazatomprom: 1H19 results - good cost control, conservative market outlook
• Eurocash: 2Q19 results in line with expectations NEUTRAL
• Warimpex: 2Q19 - significant progress achieved on number of key operating milestones POSITIVE
• 11 bit studios: 2Q19 beat on EBIT (higher revenue) and miss on NI (tax rate) NEUTRAL
• Bank of Cyprus: mixed 2Q19 results
• Play Communications: key takeaways from 2Q19 earnings call NEUTRAL
• Wirtualna Polska: key takeaways from meeting with management NEUTRAL
• Polish telecoms: 5G frequencies to be distributed in an auction instead of a tender NEUTRAL
• Polish telecoms: UKE expects PLN 1.5bn inflow from 5G auction in 2020E POSITIVE
• Immofinanz: buys six STOP.SHOP retail parks for c.EUR 77m (an 8.6% yield) POSITIVE
• Tauron: comments on in.ventus lawsuit and wind farms deal NEUTRAL
• Gazprom: fairly modest 2Q19E results expected (due out tomorrow)
• Hellenic Petroleum: 2Q19E results preview (due out tomorrow)
• Short News (MIL)
Underlyings
11 Bit Studios S.A.

11 BIT STUDIOS SA is a Poland-based company engaged in the game development industry. Its product portfolio includes four games: Anomaly Korea, Sleepwalker's Journey, Funky Smugglers and Anomaly Warzone Earth. The Company produces video games for different devices, such as video consoles, personal computers (PC), and Apple products (iPhone, iPad), among others.

Bank of Cyprus PCL

Cyfrowy Polsat SA

Eurocash S.A.

Eurocash, through its subsidiaries, is engaged in the distribution of food products, household chemicals, alcohol, and tobacco products (fast moving consumer goods). Through a range of distribution formats, Co. and its subsidiaries focus its business activities on the wholesale distribution to customers across the wholesale market segments, in particular, to stores throughout Poland such as retail stores, convenience stores at petrol stations, restaurants, hotels and cafeterias. Co. and its subsidiaries operate a range of distribution formats focused on supplying independent stores in Poland, which primarily include: Cash and Carry, Franchise Systems, and Distribution.

Gazprom (GDR)

IMMOFINANZ AG

Immofinanz AG is an Austria-based real estate company that invests in commercial properties. The Company's core activities are the management and development of retail and office properties in selected Central and Eastern European countries. The Company focuses its operations on such markets as Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Romania and Poland. The Company manages a portfolio of approximately 240 properties, covering rentable space of approximately 1.8 million square meters. In the office sector, the Company concentrates on the capital cities of the core countries and the major office locations in Germany with its international myhive brand. The Company's activities in the retail sector are based on the brands STOP SHOP for retail parks and VIVO! for shopping centers which are designed for secondary and tertiary cities of Central and Eastern Europe.

National Atomic Company Kazatomprom

Orange Polska S.A.

Orange Polska SA is a supplier of telecommunications services in Poland. Co. provides services, including fixed-line telecommunication services, Integrated Services Digital Network, voice mail, dial-up and fixed access to the Internet and Voice over Internet Protocol. Co. is one of Poland's three DCS 1800 and GSM 900 mobile telecommunications providers. Co. provides also third generation UMTS services. In addition, Co. provides leased lines, radio-communications and other telecommunications value added services, sells telecommunications equipment, produces electronic phone cards and provides data transmission, telephone directories, multimedia services and various Internet services.

Play Communications SA

Play Communications SA Formerly known as Play Holdings 2 SARL. Play Communications SA, formerly Play Holdings 2 SARL, is a Luxembourg-based provider of financial investment services. The Company is the owner of mobile operator P4 Sp z o o, that provides a wide range of mobile telecommunications services, including voice, data transmission services, messaging, video service (PLAY NOW), as well as Value Added Services and sales of handsets and other devices, to individual and business subscribers in Poland.

TAURON Polska Energia S.A.

Tauron Polska Energia is engaged in the generation, transmission, distribution, and sale of electricity and heat in Poland. Co. generates electricity from various conventional and renewable energy sources, including hard coal, lignite, natural gas, biomass, wind, solar, and hydro power. It is also involved in quarrying, crushing, and breaking of limestone; quarrying of stone for the construction industry; mining of hard coal; trading in electricity; and production of technical gases. In addition, Co. engages in the repair and maintenance of machinery and electrical equipment; electrical installations; and construction of power lines.

Warimpex Finanz und Beteiligung

Warimpex is a real estate group based in Austria Co. is a "hybrid" real estate company that develops and operates properties itself as an asset manager and property owner until the time at which the highest added value can be realized through sale. The majority of these projects is located in Central and Eastern Europe. Co. has developed real estate with investments including hotels in the five-, four- and three-star categories. In addition, Co. also develops office buildings and other real estate. Accordingly, Co. generates revenue from the operation of hotel properties and the letting of commercial and office space while simultaneously realizing proceeds from real estate sales.

Wirtualna Polska Holding SA

Wirtualna Polska Holding SA is a Poland-based holding company. The Company owns entities that are engaged in the Internet publishing and broadcasting content, including operating business, technology, sports and entertainment portals, as well as electronic mail (e-mail) and electronic commerce (e-commerce). It also offers a range of advertising products, including display ads. The Company operates through such Internet portals as Wirtualna Polska, o2.pl, Money.pl, WP SportoweFakty, Dobreprogramy.pl, WP Parenting, Domodi and Homebook, among others. The Company operates domestically.

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WOOD & Company is the leading investment bank in Emerging Europe. Founded in 1991 and head-quartered in Prague, our footprint spans the region and touches investors around the globe.

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