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WOOD Daily: OPAP GA; CDR PW; VGO PW; DAT PW; KAP LI; LAMDA GA; AEGN GA; ACP PW; HUG PW; CAR PW; PGE PW; BHW PW; GTC PW; KTY PW; BFT PW; ADNOCDRI UH; ALPHA GA

HEADLINES:
• OPAP: 1Q25 – strong, as expected NEUTRAL
• CD Projekt: 1Q25 EBIT broadly as expected, guidance on three unannounced projects POSITIVE
• VIGO Photonics: adjusted EBITDA up 2x yoy (on a low base), in line with our estimate NEUTRAL
• DataWalk: actual 1Q25 numbers fully in line with the preliminaries NEUTRAL
• Kazatomprom: 1Q25 results – much weaker than expected NEGATIVE
• Lamda Development: 1Q25 results – opex outside the Ellinikon better than expected, but quarterly capex still slow
• Aegean Airlines: 1Q25 – a strong start to the year POSITIVE
• Asseco Poland: key takeaways from the 1Q25 earnings call NEUTRAL
• Huuuge Games: 1Q25 earnings call takeaways – no major surprises NEUTRAL
• Inter Cars: 1Q25 earnings call takeaways – ambition to grow 2025E revenue above 10% yoy NEUTRAL
• PGE: 1Q25 conference call highlights NEUTRAL
• Bank Handlowy: corrected dividend flow
• GTC: management proposes no dividend from the 2024 profit
• Kety: PLN 55.5 DPS approved by the AGM NEUTRAL
• Benefit Systems: Benefit Invest 1 Company sells its whole 13.85% stake in ABB
• ADNOC Drilling: to acquire stake in Kuwait and Oman drilling business POSITIVE
• Alpha Services and Holdings: UniCredit to acquire a 9.7% stake, bringing its total stake to c.20%
• Short News (ALR, MIL, PEO)
Underlyings
ADNOC DRILLING CO

Aegean Airlines SA

Aegean Airlines is an airline carrier based in Greece. Co. is engaged in aviation transportation, providing services that concern the transportation of passengers and commodities in the sector of public aviation transportation inside and outside Greece, conducting scheduled and unscheduled flights. Co. provides full service, premium quality short and medium haul services. Co. maintains a network of 145 destinations, 111 international in 45 countries and 34 domestic destinations. Co. is a member of global airline network, the Star Alliance network.

Alpha Bank AE

Alpha Bank is a banking and financial services group which is based in Greece. Co. is engaged in offering a range of services including retail, SME and corporate banking, credit cards, asset management, investment banking, private banking, brokerage, leasing and factoring. Co. is also active in international financial market, with a presence in Cyprus, Romania, London, Serbia, Albania, Jersey (Channel Islands), Bulgaria, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and New York. Co. maintains a focus on retail banking in Greece and particularly loans to individuals and small business loans, and overall expansion in Southeastern Europe. Co.'s activities are divided into retail and wholesale banking.

Asseco Poland SA

Asseco Poland is a provider of proprietary information technology ("IT") solutions which is based in Poland. Co. is engaged in provision of consulting on IT infrastructure, security solutions, human resources solutions, outsourcing services as well as fully comprehensive IT support. Co.'s profile includes software and computer hardware consultancy, production of software as well as supply of software and hardware. This category includes analysing, developing, and programming ready-to-use IT systems. In addition to IT services, Co. also sells goods including mainly computer hardware.

Bank Handlowy w Warszawie S.A.

Bank Handlowy W Warszawie is a Polish bank holding company engaged in a wide range of banking services for individuals and corporate customers in the domestic and foreign markets. Additionally Co. operates in brokerage operations, lease services and investment operations. Customers have access to these services at the branches, ATM's, telephone services and electronic banking services.

Benefit Systems S.A. Allotment

Benefit System SA is a Poland-based company engaged in providing work benefits in the area of sport, recreations, culture and entertainment for employers. Its products portfolio includes MultiSport Plus card, program that allows access to the sport and recreation clubs and multi-purpose facilities; MultiBet, providing access to more than 90 cinemas through Poland; and cafeteria programs, which allow employees to select items from such segments as sport, recreation, culture, entertainment, tourism and health and beauty. The Company is a parent entity of a capital group, which includes subsidiaries, such as MyBenefit Sp z o o, FitSport Polska Sp z o o, Vanity Style Sp z o o and Multisport Benefit sro, based in the Czech Republic.

CD Projekt S.A.

CD Projekt is a holding company of the CD PROJEKT Capital Group which conducts its operations in two activity segments: CD PROJEKT RED and GOG.com. CD PROJEKT RED's activities cover the creation and publication of videogames, licensing the associated distribution rights and manufacturing tie-in products which exploit the commercial appeal of brands owned by Co. The activities of GOG Ltd. involve digital distribution of videogames via Co.'s proprietary GOG.com distribution platform, on the basis of contracts signed by GOG Ltd. with producers, IPR holders and external publishers. The platform enables customers to purchase games, remit payment and download game files to their personal devices.

Globe Trade Centre S.A.

Globe Trade Centre is the parent company of the capital group, Globe Trade Centre (the Group). The Group is engaged in the development and rental of office and retail space and the development and sale of residential units. The Group is a real estate company in Central and Eastern Europe and South-eastern Europe, operating in Poland, Romania, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Slovakia. Additionally, it co-owns land in Ukraine and Russia and operates in the Czech Republic. The Group's portfolio comprises: completed office buildings and office parks as well as retail and entertainment centres; residential projects; and undeveloped plots of land and suspended projects.

Grupa Kety SA

Grupa Kety is an aluminum industry company based in Poland. Co.'s operations are organized in three business segments: Aluminum Extrusions, Aluminum Architectural Systems and Flexible Packaging. Co. offers aluminum extrusions in different shapes, bars, tubes and wires of aluminum and its alloys, which are used in the construction & building, advertising, indoor fittings, transportation, automotive industry, white goods, machinery engineering and electrical engineering. Co.'s Aluminum Architectural Systems produces aluminum joinery, realizing investment projects and selling systems. Co.'s flexible packaging segment offers packaging made of aluminum foil, films and paper.

Inter Cars S.A.

Inter Cars is an automotive spare parts distributor for passenger cars, commercial vehicles and trucks in Middle-Eastern Europe. The product range of Co. reaches over one million different automotive spare parts for passenger cars and trucks. No matter if the car is European or Asian one, Co.'s customers can find full range of products for their cars as well as all the necessary tools and garage equipment. Besides spare parts distribution, which is the core business of Co., Co. is also an exclusive distributor of legendary motorcycle brand “TRIUMPH” in Poland (via motorcycle distribution network, called Inter Motors) and distributor of spare parts and accessories for other motorcycle brands.

Lamda Development S.A.

Lamda Development is a real estate development group based in Greece. Co.'s main activities comprise investment, development and maintenance of innovative real estate projects. Co. operates in Greece, as well as in other neighboring Balkan countries mainly Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro. Co.'s operations are organized along two business segments: Real Estate; and Marine Services. Co. is a subsidiary of Lamda Holdings.

National Atomic Company Kazatomprom

PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna S.A.

PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna is an electricity company based in Poland. Co. is engaged in the generation and selling of electricity. Co. is a predominant power producer and supplier in Poland and a major heat and power sector company in Central and Eastern Europe. Co. supplies over 5 million households, businesses and institutions through a combination of its own fuel resources (lignite), power generation and final distribution networks. Co.'s activities focus on the following areas: Conventional Power Generation, Renewable Power Generation, Nuclear Power Generation, Wholesale, Distribution and Retail. Co. has 12.2 GW of installed generation capacity.

Vigo System SA

Vigo System SA is a Poland-based company engaged in the production of detectors business sector. The Company is a manufacturer of standard and customized High Operating Temperature cadmium mercury telluride (HgCdTe) detectors. The Company's products are divided into three categories, including Infrared Detectors, Infrared Cameras and Measurement Equipment. The Company sells its products worldwide, including the United States, Canada, Finland and Australia, among others. It also cooperates and sells the products to NASA.

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