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Research Team

WOOD Morning (16 March)

HEADLINES:
* EMEA steel producers: making EVRAZ great again (Erdemir and NLMK downgraded to HOLD; EVRAZ and MMK stay BUY; Severstal stays HOLD)
* Aegean Airlines: 4Q17 results - very strong quarter on higher yields, DPS proposal in line POSITIVE
* Wirtualna Polska: 4Q17 - strong operating results, bottom line affected by one-offs and taxes POSITIVE
* Wirtualna Polska: concludes annex to agreement considering acquisition of minority stake in Domodi NEUTRAL
* PKP Cargo: 4Q17 results - EBITDA in line, net profit beat vs. our forecast, but miss vs. consensus NEUTRAL
* PKP Cargo: 2018E non-consolidated guidance - weak EBITDA and very high capex NEGATIVE
* PZU: CEO optimistic on 2017 net profit dividend payout POSITIVE
* OMV: acquires Shell's Upstream business in New Zealand POSITIVE
* Pegasus Airlines: deceleration in traffic dynamics in February NEGATIVE
* Raiffeisen Int.: takeaways from the Investor Day
* Banca Transilvania: receives approval from central bank for Bancpost acquisition NEUTRAL
* Emlak Konut: the 2018E tender season is on! NEUTRAL
* OTE: reportedly no bids for 5% stake in HRADF tender NEUTRAL
* Orange Polska: plans to implement 5G network in 2020-21 NEUTRAL
* Dino: 4Q17E results preview (due on 19 March, before the close) NEUTRAL
* Rosneft: 4Q17E results preview - no material improvements expected (due on 19 March)
Underlyings
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.

Banca Transilvania S.A.

Dino Polska S.A.

Dino Polska is engaged in the business of retail sale in non-specialized stores with food, beverages and tobacco. In addition, Co. conducts processing of meats and the resulting products are dedicated, in the form of culinary meat, to external recipients within Co.'s retail chain. As of December 31, 2016, Co. operated a network of 628 Dino stores.

Emlak Konut Gayrimenkul Yatirim Ortakligi A.g.

Emlak Konut Gayrimenkul Yatirim Ortakligi AS (Emlak Konut) is a Turkey-based real estate investment trust. It is engaged in coordinating and executing real estate property projects mostly housing, besides, commercial units, educational units, social facilities, and all related aspects, controlling and building audit services of the ongoing projects, marketing and selling the finished housing. The ultimate parent and ultimate controlling party of the Company is T.C. Basbakanlik Toplu Konut Idaresi Baskanligi (the Housing Development Administration of Turkey, TOKI). The Company's projects include Agaoglu My Towerland, Alemdag Emlak Konutlari, Varyap Meridian, Mavisehir Modern, Spradon Quartz and Gebze Emlak Konutlari.

Eregli Demir ye celik Fabrikalari T.A.S.

Eregli Demir Ve Celik Fabrikalari is engaged in the production of iron and steel rolled products, alloyed and non-alloyed iron, steel and pig iron castings, cast and pressed products, coke and their by-products.

Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (GDR)

NLMK (GDR)

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.

Pegasus Hava Tasimaciligi AS

Pegasus Hava Tasimaciligi is a low-cost airline group based in Turkey. Co. provides reasonably-priced transportation opportunities on point-to-point basis in short and medium range flight lines on its domestic and international network. Co. primarily provides transportation opportunities from its main hub in Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen International Airport, but also offers scheduled flights from other domestic hubs, primarily in Adana, Antalya and Izmir. Co.'s fleet is composed of 49 airplanes in total. Co.'s flight network consists of 76 locations (45 abroad and 31 domestic flight locations in 30 countries). Co. also provides cargo services and provides various training services.

PKP Cargo

PKP Cargo SA is a Poland-based company active in the transportation sector. The Company's main activity is domestic and international transport of goods by rail and provision of logistic services in the field of railway cargo transport services. The Company divides its services into six divisions: Transport, offering rail transport carried out by PKP Cargo, road transport and ferry transport; Intermodal, providing intermodal rail transport; Forwarding, services carried out by Trade Trans, Cargosped and PKP Cargo International; Terminals, offering service of reloading terminals; Sidings, providing railway sidings; and Rolling Stock, which provides repairs of the rolling stock. It operates through Advanced World Transport BV (AWT).

Powszechny Zaklad Ubezpieczen Spolka Akcyjna

Powszechny Zaklad Ubezpieczen is an insurance group based in Poland. Co. is engaged in offering a broad range of insurance and financial products. Co. pursues three main lines of business: Property and Casualty Insurance, offered by PZU; Life Insurance, offered by PZU Zycie; and Open-end Pension Funds, offered by PTE PZU, the manager of OFE PZU Zlota Jesien. Co. maintains a network of sales and service outlets including 500 outlets throughout Poland, including 243 shared outlets (common for PZU and PZU Zycie), 137 outlets of PZU Zycie and 120 outlets of PZU. Co.'s business is focused on the Polish market but it also conducts insurance business in the Lithuanian and Ukrainian markets.

Raiffeisen Bank International

Rosneft Oil Co. Sponsored GDR RegS

Severstal (GDR)

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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