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WOOD Daily: PEO PW; MONET CP; AKBNK TI; THYAO TI; TOASO TI; TTKOM TI; FROTO TI; PKN PW; STH PW; ADPL ZA; YNDX US; DAT PW; TRP RO; PINK CP; RICHT HB; CIE PW; BRISA TI; CCC PW; MYTIL GA; FMF PW; LVC PW

HEADLINES:
• Bank Pekao: 1Q22 results review - strong beat vs. market's expectations
• MONETA Money Bank: 1Q22 results review - in line with our expectations and 5% ahead of consensus
• Akbank: 1Q22 results highlights - better than expected, due to trading
• Turkish Airlines: 1Q22 yet another strong quarter, continued recovery of traffic and yield strength POSITIVE
• Tofas: 1Q22 results - strong beat POSITIVE
• Turk Telekom: 1Q22 - results in line, no guidance change NEUTRAL
• Ford Otosan: 1Q22 results - in line NEUTRAL
• PKN Orlen: 1Q22 results
• STS Group: 4Q21 miss on higher winnings payout, which turned lower in 1Q22; FY22E guidance in line NEGATIVE
• AD Plastik: 1Q22 results review - weak numbers and a difficult year ahead NEGATIVE
• Yandex: 1Q22 results - weaker margins, guidance withdrawn NEUTRAL
• DataWalk: key takeaways from the call with investors POSITIVE
• TeraPlast: key takeaways from the 1Q22 earnings call NEUTRAL
• Pilulka: cuts 2022E revenues guidance by c.10%, to CZK 2.8bn NEGATIVE
• Richter: Vraylar gets Canadian approval for bipolar I POSITIVE
• Ciech: CEO on new strategy and M&A NEUTRAL
• Brisa: 1Q22E preview (due out today, after the market close)
• CCC: preliminary 1Q22E numbers - PLN 66m EBIT loss expected (due on 4 May)
• Mytilineos: 1Q22E results preview (due on 4 May)
• Famur: 1Q22E preview (due on 23 May)
• LiveChat Software: 4Q21-22E preview - 19% yoy growth in EBITDA expected (due on 30 June)
Underlyings
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Akbank TAS

Akbank is a commercial bank. Co. operates in five segments: Retail banking offers a range of retail services, such as deposit accounts, loans, credit cards, insurance products and asset management services; Corporate and Small and Medium Size Enterprises banking provides financial solutions and banking services; Treasury Activities conducts regional and foreign currency spot and forward transactions, bonds and other domestic securities; Private banking offers banking and investment transactions for upper-income groups and the International banking provides services for foreign trade financing and Turkish Lira clearances, and money transfers through agent financial institutions.

BANK POLSKA KASA OPIEKI SA

Bank Polska Kasa Opieki (the Bank) is a commercial bank providing a range of banking services, mainly in Poland. The segments of the Bank are as follows: Retail banking, which comprises all banking activities related to retail customers and small and micro companies; Private banking, which comprises all banking activities related to the affluent individual customers; Corporate and Investment banking, which comprises all banking activities related to the companies, interbank market, debt securities and other instruments; and Assets and Liabilities Management and other, which is engaged in the supervision and monitoring of fund transfers, and other activities centrally managed.

Brisa-Bridgestone Sabanci Lastik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S.

Brisa Bridgestone Sabanci Lastik Sanayi ve Ticaret is engaged in the manufacture and sale of vehicle tires for domestic and foreign brands.

CCC SA

CCC is engaged in the wholesale and retail trade of clothing and footwear. Co. offers its products to wide range of consumers, from demanding clientele of trendy boutiques to value-oriented medium segment customers, to less wealthy customers seeking reasonably priced quality footwear. Co. pursues a strategy of brand diversification, which is reflected in its three autonomous distribution channels: a chain of official CCC stores, BOTI footwear shops and QUAZI boutiques. Co. offers more than 2,500 designs of footwear. Co. also owns more than 67 proprietary brand names e.g. Lasocki.

Ciech S.A.

Ciech is engaged in the production, trade and distribution of chemicals as well as comprehensive service activities directed at the domestic and foreign market. The main products sold by Co. are soda ash, TDI, plastics, resins, chemical fertilizers, plant protection chemicals, glass blocks and glass packaging, salt and other chemicals.

Datawalk SA

Datawalk SA Formerly known as Pilab SA. Datawalk SA, formerly known as Pilab SA, is a Poland-based a software publisher. The Company specializes in the area of data analysis, offering Business Intelligence solutions. It operates DataWalk, an agile analysis platform, which enables financial and insurance institutions to discover fraud attempts, combat money laundering, as well as analyze and monitor business processes, such as sales, claim adjustment and debt collection, among other applications. The Company operates through Datawalk Inc, its wholly-owned subsidiary based in the United States.

Famur SA

FAMUR SA is a Poland-based manufacturer of mining equipment and machinery. The main area of the Company's operations is manufacture of automated longwall systems enabling the exploitation of coal. The Company also specializes in design and production of equipment for underground mines and open pits, as well as bulk material handling equipment and machines for coal preparation plants. The Company's products portfolio includes electric and hydraulic shearers, roof support, hydraulic control system, conveyors and crushers. FAMUR SA is also engaged in the development of information technology solutions and management system for coal industry. The Company operates through subsidiaries, based in Poland, Germany and the Russian Federation. The Company's major shareholder was TDJ SA, with a stake 71.28%. On November 27, 2014 the Company acquired 76,69% of stake in FAMAK SA.

Ford Otomotiv Sanayi A.S.

Ford Otomotiv Sanayi is an automobile manufacturing company based in Turkey. Co. operates as a joint venture between Ford Motor Company and the Koc Group of Companies. Co. is engaged in manufacturing, assembling and selling motor vehicles, primarily commercial vehicles, imports and sells passenger cars and manufactures and imports and sells spare parts of those vehicles. Co. has two plants located in Kocaeli and Eskisehir, has a spare part distribution warehouse in Kartal, Istanbul and a branch in Tubitak Marmara Research Centre, Gebze Campus Technological Free Zone (TEKSEB).

Livechat Software SA

Livechat Software SA is a Poland-based company engaged in the software industry. The Company is a producer and global provider of software as a service (SaaS) LiveChat, communication software for business. LiveChat enables fast and intuitive communication between company's employees and customers visiting corporate Website. The application also tracks customers' activity on a Website. The Company produces and distributes software for business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) communication. Its product portfolio includes three types of LiveChat plans: Solo, dedicated to single user and offering such features as unlimited chats, ticketing system, enhanced security and basic reporting; Team, for numerous teams that additionally includes chat routing and groups creation; and Enterprise, for companies that, additionally to previous ones, provides advanced reporting, work scheduler and unlimited visits on a Website.

MONETA Money Bank AS

Moneta Money Bank as is a Czech Republic-based retail and expanding small and medium enterprises (SME) bank. The Company holds an universal banking licence and provides a range of retail and SME-focused financial products and services. The Company operates through a national distribution network of 229 branches and through alternative distribution channels, such as the internet, its call centre, auto dealers, brokers and approximately 4,700 leasing partners. The Company together with its controlled subsidiaries offers current accounts, savings accounts, term deposits and transactional banking products including payment services and debit cards, consumer loans, credit cards, overdrafts, mortgages and auto loans, auto leases and other complementary products such as bancassurance and sales of investment funds.

MYTILINEOS S.A.

Mytilineos Holdings is an industrial group engaged in the sectors of Metallurgy, EPC, Energy, and Defence. Co. and its subsidiaries are engaged in three main operating business segments: Metallurgy, Constructions and Energy. Co. and its subsidiaries monitor its performance on Metallurgy and Mining Sector through the subsidiaries Aluminium S.A. (Alumina-Aluminium) and Sometra S.A. (Zinc-Lead). Co., through its subsidiary, METKA S.A., is an EPC Constructor in Greece.

Polski Koncern Naftowy ORLEN S.A.

Polski Koncern Naftowy Orlen's activities are divided into three main business segments: the Refining Segment that comprises crude oil processing as well as wholesale and retail trade in refinery products. The Petrochemical Segment that encompasses production and sale of petrochemicals and chemicals. The Retail Segment that comprises of sales at petrol stations. Co.'s basic products include gasolines, diesel oils, light heating oil, Jet fuel, liquid gas, polyetylene, polypropylene, benzene, butadiene, acetone, phenol, glycols, toluen, ortoxylene.

STS Group AG

STS Group AG is a Germany-based supplier of vehicle parts. The Company develops and manufactures solutions for acoustic and thermal insulation (soft trim) and components made of plastics or composite material (hard trim) for the automobile and trucking industries, focusing on four categories of vehicles: medium and heavy commercial vehicles (MHCV), light commercial vehicles (LCV), agriculture and construction vehicles (ACV), and light vehicles (LV), and supplying its products directly to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). The Company operates through three business segments: STS Acoustics, which includes mainly soft trim products with acoustic and thermal features that reduce noise and protect against heat; STS Plastics, which includes mainly hard trim products used for exterior body parts or interior modules, and Materials, which includes semi-finished goods from mixed composite recyclables. The Company operates production facilities in Europe, China, Mexico and Brazil.

Teraplast

Tofas Turk Otomobil Fabrikasi A.S.

Turk Hava Yollari A.O.

Turk Hava Yollari is engaged in the airline industry with the airline flying to 103 destinations, throughout Turkey and internationally. As of the year end, Co. maintains 66 aircrafts with a total seat capacity of 10,672, and leases a A300-200 cargo aircraft. Co. has various services for their customers which include: various ways of checking in and on-line ticket sales.

Turk Telekomunikasyon A.S.

Turk Telekomuniksayon is an integrated telecommunications company in Turkey. Co.'s principal activities include the provision of local, national, international and mobile telecommunication services, internet products and services, as well as call centre and customer relationship management, technology and information management. Co. has service network and product range in the fields of individual and corporate services. Co. provides services in all 81 cities of Turkey. Co. has two main segments; fixed line and mobile. As of Dec 31 2015, Co. had 12.9 million fixed access lines, 8.0 million broadband and 17.3 million mobile subscribers.

Yandex NV Class A

Yandex is an internet and technology company that operates an internet search engine in Russia. Co. builds intelligent products and services powered by machine learning. Co.'s products and services are based on complex, unique technologies that are not easily replicated. Co. generates substantially all of its revenues from online advertising. Co. also generates revenues from its e-commerce offerings, classifieds and e-hailing service. Co.'s businesses are organized in the following operating segments: Search and Portal; E-commerce; Taxi; Classifieds and Experimental businesses.

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