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WOOD Daily: CETV US; IIA AV; PEO PW; TEN PW; FXPO LN; GWI LN; OPAP GA; PL Banks; PZU PW; CCC PW; FMF PW; MNOD LI; TL Consumer Discretionary; KER PW; PGN PW; CPS PW; HTO GA; AFLT RX; ARCLK TI; ASELS TI; DPEU LN; PGSUS TI; TTKOM TI; SVST LI

HEADLINES:
• CME: 1Q20 results - sales and OIBDA down 2% yoy; merger with PPF to be completed in 3Q20E POSITIVE
• Immofinanz: 4Q19 in line - retail (45%) a risk, but LTV and liquidity sufficient to absorb stress
• Bank Pekao: recommends leaving 75% of 2019 net profit undistributed
• Bank Pekao: changes in the management and supervisory boards
• Ten Square Games: plan to change CEO and new incentive programme NEUTRAL
• Ferrexpo: pays 2019 final dividend of USc 6.6/share (a 4.0% yield) POSITIVE
• Globalworth: sudden share price drop creates a buying opportunity
• OPAP: 51% stake in Stoiximan approved, agreement for additional 15.5% + sole control POSITIVE
• Polish banks: receiving thousands of requests for credit suspensions
• PZU: will not pay a dividend for last year NEGATIVE
• CCC: announces review of strategic options for Swiss business POSITIVE
• Famur: management recommends not to pay dividend from 2019 profit NEGATIVE
• Norilsk Nickel: update on COVID-19 impact - worsening market for palladium
• Turkish white goods: 1Q20 sales up 11%, but 2Q likely to be difficult NEUTRAL
• Kernel: S&P affirms company's rating at `B' (stable outlook) POSITIVE
• PGNiG: operating estimates for 1Q20E
• Postcards from WOOD's Virtual EM Consumer and Industrials Conference
• Cyfrowy Polsat: postcard from our virtual consumer conference
• OTE: postcard from our virtual conference
• Aeroflot: postcard from our virtual consumer conference
• Arcelik: postcard from our virtual consumer conference NEUTRAL
• Aselsan: postcard from our virtual consumer conference
• DP Eurasia: postcard from our virtual consumer conference
• Pegasus: postcard from our virtual consumer conference
• Turk Telekom: postcard from our virtual consumer conference
• Severstal: 1Q20E preview - falling EBITDA and minimal cash flow, focus on guidance (due on 24 April)
Underlyings
Aeroflot Russian Airlines

PJSC Aeroflot Russian Airlines is an international air transport company which is engaged in operations in Russia. The principal activity of Co. is the provision of passenger and cargo air transportation services both domestically and internationally and other aviation services from its base at Moscow Sheremetevo Airport. Co. and its subsidiaries also includes activities comprising airline catering, the operation of a hotel and insurance services. Associated undertakings mainly comprise hotel and duty-free retail businesses. The principal business segments are airline operations, airline catering, hotel operations and other.

Arcelik A.S.

Arcelik is engaged in the commercial and industrial activities in respect of the production, sales and marketing, customer services after sales, exportation and importation of consumer durable goods and consumer electronics. Co. has two segments: white goods reportable segment, which comprises washing machines, dryers, dish washers, refrigerators, ovens, cookers and the services provided for these products; and the consumer goods reportable segment, which comprises televisions primarily with flat screens, computers, cash registers, other electronic devices and the services provided to consumers for these products.

Aselsan Elektronik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. Class B

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.

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.

Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. Cl A

Cyfrowy Polsat SA

DP Eurasia

DP Eurasia is the exclusive master frachisee in Turkey, Russia, Azerbaijan and Georgia of the Domino's Pizza brand. Co. offers pizza delivery and takeaway/eat-in facilities through its 212 corporate stores and 359 franchised stores as of Mar 31 2017. Co. offers pizza products at a range of price points and adapted to local tastes. It also offers complementary products such as chicken, other side dishes and desserts, some of which have been developed by Co.s innovation center in Istanbul and subsequently adopted by other master franchisees of DP Inc. around the world. Co. owns and operates five commissaries which manufacture the pizza dough and supply system stores in Turkey and Russia.

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.

Ferrexpo plc

Ferrexpo is an iron ore pellet producer. Co. produces, develops and markets its product for sale to the metallurgical industry. Co. operate two mines and a processing plant near Kremenchug in Ukraine, and an interest in a port in Odessa. Co. also owns logistics assets in Austria which operate a fleet of vessels operating on the Rhine and Danube waterways and an ocean-going vessel. Co.'s operations are integrated from iron ore mining through to iron ore concentrate and pellet production and subsequent logistics. Co.'s mineral properties lie within the Kremenchug Magnetic Anomaly and are being extracted at the Gorishne-Plavninskoye and Lavrikovskoye and Yeristovskoye deposits.

Globalworth Real Estate Investments Limited

Globalworth Real Estate Investment is a integrated real estate company operating in the Central and Eastern Europe and South-Eastern Europe region with a primary focus on Romania, where it acquires, develops and directly manages primarily office and logistics/light-industrial real estate assets. Co. has three reportable operating segments: the Offices segment, which acquires, develops, leases and manages offices and spaces; the Residential segment, which builds, acquires, develops and leases apartments; and the Other segment, which acquires, develops, leases and manages industrial spaces and corporate holding offices.

Greek Organisation of Football Prognostics SA

OPAP is engaged in the operating and management of numerical lottery and sports betting games as well as lottery games. Co. holds concession to operate and manage new sports betting games in Greece as well as a right of first refusal to operate and manage any new lottery games permitted by the Hellenic Republic. Co. operates six numerical lottery games, including Joker, Lotto, Proto, Extra 5, Super 3, and Kino; and three sports betting games consisting of Stihima, Propo, and Propo-goal. Co. is also engaged in designing new lottery games, including Bingo and Super 4. Co. distributes its games through an extensive on-line network of agents.

Hellenic Telecommunications Organization SA

Hellenic Telecommunications Organization is a full-service telecommunications group. Co. provides local, long-distance and international fixed-line telecommunications services in Greece and Romania, and mobile telephony services through its Cosmote subsidiary in Greece, as well as in Albania, Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Romania. Co. also provides internet access services and Internet Protocol (IP) -based telecommunications applications, as well as information technology application development and hosting services using IP technologies. Also, Co. provides several other telecommunications services, including value-added services and public telephone services.

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.

Kernel Holding S.A.

Kernel Holding is a holding company. Co.'s is a diversified agribusiness engaged in the production and sale of bottled sunflower oil (sold under brand names Schedry Dar, Stozhar and Chumak Zolota), the production and subsequent export of bulk sunflower oil and meal, the wholesale trade of grain (mainly wheat, barley and corn), farming, and the provision of logistics and transshipment services n the ports of Ilyichevsk, Taman and Mykolaiv. The majority of Co.'s manufacturing facilities are primarily based in Ukraine and Russia. In addition, Co. is a private provider of inland silo services in Ukraine.

Mining and Metallurgical Company NORILSK NICKEL (GDR)

Polskie Gornictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo SA

Polskie Gornictwo Naftowe I Gazownictwo SA Polish Oil & Gas Co (PGNiG) is an integrated natural gas company based in Poland. Co.'s core activity covers exploration and production of natural gas and crude oil as well as import, storage, trade and distribution of gas and liquid fuels. Co.'s scope of activity includes gas trading and commercial support, as well as operation, maintenance and expansion of its distribution system. Co.'s distribution networks comprises over 100 thousand kilometers of gas pipelines (high, upper-medium, medium and low pressure), which cover primarily industrialized and urbanized areas of the country.

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.

Severstal (GDR)

Ten Square Games

Ten Square Games SA is a Poland-based mobile games development company. The Company is focused on 3D simulation hobby games for people who seek outdoor experiences on their mobile devices, like fishing or hunting games. Its games are available on social platforms, a network of partner sites, as well as on Google Play, App Store and Microsoft Store.

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.

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