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WOOD Morning (26 February 2021)

HEADLINES:
• Alior Bank: posts solid set of 4Q20 results, giving hope for a further recovery POSITIVE
• Tekfen Holding: 4Q20 - big miss, promising FY21E guidance NEGATIVE
• Magyar Telekom: strong 4Q20 results, as expected, with 9% yoy EBITDA growth NEUTRAL
• Anadolu Efes: 4Q20 results - beat on EBITDA, Beer Group to underperform CCI in 2021E POSITIVE
• Erste Bank: 4Q20 results and 2021E guidance largely in line with our forecasts NEUTRAL
• AmRest: 4Q20 results review - recurring EBITDA halved and missed our forecast by 24% NEGATIVE
• LiveChat Software: reports strong set of 3Q20-21 (calendar 4Q20) results, as expected POSITIVE
• Banca Transilvania: another strong beat in 4Q20
• Hellenic Petroleum: 4Q20 - EBITDA beats our expectations, small dividend proposed
• Kernel: 2Q21 results - solid beat vs. our figures; 2021E volumes and margins guidance cut POSITIVE
• MedLife: 4Q20 EBITDA misses by 17%, opex (ex-labour) a negative surprise NEGATIVE
• Richter: 4Q20 operations broadly in line, net profit misses on FX and impairment charge
• Bank of Georgia: 4Q20 results review - COR stays stable, despite weaker-than-expected GDP NEUTRAL
• Arena Hospitality Group: 4Q20 revenues drop 89%, but losses contained on effective cost cutting NEUTRAL
• Alkaloid: 4Q20 results a small miss, but strong sales to Russia NEUTRAL
• Siauliu Bankas: 4Q20 numbers in line with management's guidance for the full year
• Sphera Franchise Group: 4Q20 EBITDA beat of 10% POSITIVE
• Purcari Wineries: good sales performance in 4Q, but weak underlying profitability
• Bank Millennium: to hold AGM on 24 March
• mBank: to hold AGM on 24 March
• Turkey macro: sentiment surveys suggest upside risks for the recovery
• EME Macro/Strategy: Ukraine - business cycle and policy outlook - 2021E
• Wirtualna Polska: tax investigation over PLN 61.3m tax liability ends positively POSITIVE
• AUGA Group: 4Q20E results - COVID-19 depressing sales but improvements ongoing (due out today)
• Sirma: 4Q20E preview - weak quarter expected (due on 1 March, TBC)
• Short News (BNET)
Underlyings
Agrowill Group AB

Auga Group AB. Auga Group AB, formerly Agrowill Group AB, is a Lithuania-based company engaged in the agriculture sector. The Company's activities are structured mainly into three divisions, namely Mushroom-growing, Plant production and Livestock production. The Company offers white, brown, portabella, eryngii, pleurotus and shiitake mushrooms. It specializes in organic wheat and other crops, including organic vegetables and organic feed for livestock in its farms. The Company supplies potatoes, beetroots, onions, carrots, marinated champignons, marinated beetroots, among others. The Company operates own trademark AUGA. In addition, the Company is involved in own farms management. The Company has numerous subsidiaries, including UAB Arginta Engineering, UAB AVG Investment and UAB Agro GIS, among others. It operates domestically on the Lithuania territory.

Alior Bank SA

Alior Bank is a universal lending and deposit-taking bank which renders services to individuals, legal persons and other entities which are Polish and foreign persons. Co.'s core activities include maintaining bank accounts, granting loans and advances, issuing banking securities and purchasing and selling foreign currency. Co. also conducts brokerage activities, consulting and financial agency services and renders other financial services.

Alkaloid AD Skopje

AmRest Holdings SE

Amrest Holdings SE is a Spain-based company active in the restaurants and bars sector. The Company's core activity is operating Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), Pizza Hut, Burger King and Starbucks restaurants through its subsidiaries in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, the Russian Federation, Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Spain and France, on the basis of franchises granted, and Applebee's in the United States. Additionally, in Spain and France the Company operates its own brands La Tagiatella, Trastevere and il Pastificcio. It also operates PizzaPortal.pl, an online portal for ordering food from various restaurants. The Company operates through subsidiaries, such as AmRest Sp z o o, AmRest sro, AmRest doo, AmRest Adria doo, Blue Horizon Hospitality Group PTE, AmRest TAG SL, SC Marinopoulos Coffee Company III Srl and Marinopoulos Coffee Company Bulgaria EOOD, among others.

Anadolu Efes Biracilik ve Malt Sanayii A.S.

Anadolu Efes Biracilik ve Malt Sanayii AS is a Turkey-based company, which is engaged in the production, bottling, selling and distribution of beer under a number of trademarks and also in the production, bottling, selling and distribution of sparkling and still beverages with The Coca-Cola Company trademark. The Group owns and operates more than 14 breweries, over five malt production facilities and over 15 facilities for sparkling and still beverages production. Furthermore, the Group has joint control over Anadolu Etap Penkon Gida ve Tarim Urunleri San. ve Tic. AS (Anadolu Etap) which undertakes production and sales of fruit juice concentrates and purees in Turkey. The Group also has joint control over Syrian Soft Drink Sales & Dist. LLC (SSDSD) which undertakes distribution and sales of sparkling and still beverages in Syria.

Arenaturist d.d.

Banca Transilvania S.A.

Bank Millennium SA

Bank Millennium provides various banking products and services to individual clients, small businesses, corporate, and public sector entities in Poland. Co. offers current account, custody account, and escrow account; standard deposits, negotiated deposits, millenet deposits, and automatic overnight deposits; debit and charge cards; funds management; professional cash services; and management of balances of current and auxiliary accounts. Co. also provides current account overdraft facility, real estate loans, revolving credits, working capital loans, investment loans, energy financing facility, sureties, line of guarantees, letters-of-credit, preferential loans, and bid bond guarantees.

Bank of Georgia

Erste Group Bank AG

Erste Group is a financial services provider based in Austria. As of Dec 31 2015, Co.'s total assets amounted to Euro199,743 million and the number of customers was approximately 16.5 million. Co.'s key business is the retail business, covering the entire spectrum from lending, deposit and investment products to current accounts and credit cards. In addition to providing financial services to private individuals, Co.'s core activities also include advisory services and support for corporate clients in financing, investment and access to international capital markets, public sector funding and interbank market operations.

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.

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.

Magyar Telekom Telecommunications

Magyar Telekom is engaged in the providing fixed line and mobile telecommunication services for public and business customers. Co. provides voice and non-voice (SMS, MMS, internet, data and content provision) within mobile services; voice, data, internet and TV services within fixed line services. In addition, Co. sells equipment needed for using fixed line and mobile services (telephones, tablets, notebooks, TV sets etc.).

MBANK SA

mBank is a provider of comprehensive corporate banking services in Poland. Co. and its subsidiaries make up the mBank Group which is engaged in offering financial services. Co.'s service offering includes a comprehensive financial offer tailored to the needs of corporate clients, Private Banking clients, and retail clients. The business activities of Co. is conducted in the following business segments: Retail Banking and Corporates and Markets.

Med Life

Siauliu Bankas

Siauliu bankas AB is a Lithuania-based company engaged in the provision of commercial banking and financial services to private and corporate clients. It offers such services as provision of bank accounts, offering the debit and credit cards and safety deposit boxes, cash and non-cash money transfers, operations with securities, currency exchange, lending and investment services, Internet banking, financial brokerage and real estate development. It also issues monetary warranties, guarantees and other warranty liabilities, as well as performs operations with payable documents, such as checks and others. The Bank has several branches, numerous client service units and subsidiaries.

Sirma Group Holding JSC

Tekfen Holding

Tekfen Holding conducts its operations in four main business segments: Contracting, Agriculture, Real Estate and Other operations. Contracting group focuses on construction of petroleum and gas facilities, land and sea terminals, offshore platforms and tank farms. Agricultural group has operations in chemical fertilizer, ground and vegetable grain, production, distribution and trade of seedling and sapling. Real estate group operates in designing, constructing, renting, and sale of real estates such as residents, offices, shopping centers and hotels. Operations of other segment comprise of light-pulp trading, cotton yarn production and trading, insurance services and holding operations.

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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