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Focus: Turkish banks - as good as it gets (AKBNK and VAKBN downgraded to SELL; BUYs maintained on GARAN and YKBNK; HOLD maintained for ISCTR); Bizim Toptan’s 3Q19 results - broadly in line, a with beat on net profit from a lower tax rate

HEADLINES:
• Turkish banks: as good as it gets (Akbank and Vakifbank downgraded to SELL; BUYs maintained on Garanti Bank and Yapi Kredi; HOLD maintained for Isbank)
• Bizim Toptan: 3Q19 results - broadly in line, with a beat on net profit from a lower tax rate NEUTRAL
• X5: miss on gross margin followed poor traffic in 3Q19
• LiveChat: tax ruling on IP Box implementation POSITIVE
• CPS: UKE has not prolonged Polkomtel's right to charge fees on international roaming NEGATIVE
• Polyus: 3Q19 trading update - production volumes, gold sales and net debt broadly in line NEUTRAL
• NLMK: 3Q19 financial preview - 8% fall in EBITDA, but higher FCF and dividends (due on 24 October) NEUTRAL
• OMV: 3Q19E results preview (due on 30 October)
• Magyar Telekom: 3Q19E preview - 3% EBITDA (ex. IFRS 16) growth expected (due on 6 November)
• CPS: 3Q19E results preview - 2% EBITDA ex. IFRS 16 drop yoy expected (due on 7 November)
• Eurocash: 3Q19E results preview - 17% yoy EBITDA recovery expected (due on 13 November)
• PGNIG: 3Q19E full results preview (due on 14 November)
• WPL: 3Q19E preview - 13% yoy adj. EBITDA (ex. IFRS 16) growth expected (due on 19 November)
Underlyings
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.

Bizim Toptan Satis Magazalari AS

Cyfrowy Polsat SA

Eurocash S.A.

Eurocash, through its subsidiaries, is engaged in the distribution of food products, household chemicals, alcohol, and tobacco products (fast moving consumer goods). Through a range of distribution formats, Co. and its subsidiaries focus its business activities on the wholesale distribution to customers across the wholesale market segments, in particular, to stores throughout Poland such as retail stores, convenience stores at petrol stations, restaurants, hotels and cafeterias. Co. and its subsidiaries operate a range of distribution formats focused on supplying independent stores in Poland, which primarily include: Cash and Carry, Franchise Systems, and Distribution.

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.).

NLMK (GDR)

OMV AG

OMV is an international energy company with activities in Exploration and Production (E&P), Refining and Marketing including petrochemicals (R&M), and Gas and Power (G&P). Co. explores and develops oil and gas resources and supply energy to over 100 million people. OMV has three operating segments: Exploration and Production (E&P), Refining and Marketing, including petrochemicals (R&M), and Gas and Power (G&P), as well as the segment Corporate and Other (Co&O).

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.

Polyus (GDR)

Turkiye Garanti Bankasi Anonim Sirketi

Turkiye Garanti Bankasi is a private banking group based in Turkey. Co. operates as an integrated financial services group in every segment of the sector including corporate, commercial, SME, payment systems, retail, private and investment banking together with subsidiaries in pension and life insurance, leasing, factoring, brokerage, and asset management. Co. provides a range of financial services to 13 million customers through a distribution network of 994 domestic branches; 6 foreign branches in Cyprus, Luxembourg and Malta; 3 international representative offices in London, Dusseldorf and Shanghai with more than 4,152 ATMs, a Call Center and internet.

Turkiye Is Bankasi Anonim Sirketi Class C

Turkiye Is Bankasi is a commercial banking group based in Turkey Co. is engaged in the provision of private, retail, commercial and corporate banking, money market and securities market operations as well as international banking services. Co. provides services to corporations, SMEs and other trading companies (excluding real trading persons) within the course of its corporate and commercial operations. Co. is organized into two main business segments: Banking segment, which includes corporate, retail and private banking, as well as treasury; and non-banking operations, which are followed according to insurance, ‘investment and finance' and ‘manufacturing and trading' segments.

Turkiye Vakiflar Bankasi Turk Anonim Ortakligi

Turkiye Vakiflar Bankasi (Vakifbank) is a banking and financial services company based in Turkey. Co. offers products and services that cover corporate, commercial, investment and small-scale enterprise banking as well as the retail and private banking sectors. Co. also provides financial leasing, portfolio management, real estate, insurance and factoring services through its financial participations. Co.'s deposit products include time and demand deposits, as well as loans comprise spot loans, foreign currency indexed loans, consumer loans, automobile and housing loans, working capital loans, gold loans, foreign currency loans, eximbank loans, and pre-export loans.

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.

X5 Retail Group N.V. Sponsored GDR RegS

X5 Retail Group is a holding company. The main activity of Co. is the development and operation of grocery retail stores. Co. operates a retail chain of soft-discount, supermarket and hypermarket stores under the brand names "Pyaterochka", "Perekrestok" and "Karusel" in major population centres in Russia, including but not limited to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhniy Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Kazan, Samara, Lipetsk, Chelyabinsk, Perm, Ekaterinburg and Kiev, Ukraine.

Yapi ve Kredi Bankasi A.S.

Yapi Ve Kredi Bankasi is a financial services group. Co. serves its customers through its retail banking segment comprising of individual banking, Small and Medium Size Enterprises banking and card payment systems, corporate and commercial banking as well as private banking and wealth management segments. Co.'s operations are supported by domestic subsidiaries in asset management, brokerage, leasing and factoring as well as international banking subsidiaries in the Netherlands, Russia and Azerbaijan. As of Dec 31 2014, Co. had total assets of TL194.96 billion and total deposits of TL107.63 billion.

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