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WOOD Daily: ILRA CZ; CCC PW; VESBE TI; OTKAR TI; ASELS TI; AKBNK TI; GARAN TI; CDR PW; MIL PW; SPL PW; FIVE LI; PL Utilities; PLY PW; OMV AV; SNP RO; PKN PW; SAB1L LH; HTO GA

HEADLINES:
• Ilirija d.d.: Adriatic tourism, by land and by sea (BUY - initiation of coverage)
• CCC: actual 3Q20 results close to the prelims; strong operating cash flow POSITIVE
• Vestel Beyaz: 3Q20 results - strong delivery, guidance for 4Q remains upbeat POSITIVE
• Otokar: 3Q20 results - strong beat POSITIVE
• Aselsan: 3Q20 results - poor execution continues NEGATIVE
• Akbank/Garanti: 3Q20 results wrap up - good numbers, but quality probably different
• CD Projekt: delays Cyberpunk 2077 release until 10 December 2020 NEGATIVE
• Bank Millennium: additional takeaways after the 3Q20 results
• Santander Bank Polska: additional takeaways after the 3Q20 results
• X5: key takeaways from the Capital Markets Day POSITIVE
• Polish utilities: PGNiG, PGE, PFR and IFM bid for Fortum's assets in Poland and the Baltics
• Play Communications: EC approves tender on 100% shares of Play NEUTRAL
• OMV: 3Q20E results preview (due out tomorrow, before the open)
• OMV Petrom: 3Q20E results preview (due out tomorrow, before the open)
• PKN Orlen: 3Q20E results preview (due out tomorrow, before the open)
• Siauliu Bankas: 3Q20E results preview (due on 30 October)
• OTE: 3Q20E results preview - 2% yoy adjusted EBITDA drop expected (due on 12 November)
• Short News (ENA, ENG)
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.

Aselsan Elektronik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. Class B

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ilirija d.d.

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).

Otokar Otomotiv ve Savunma Sanayi A.S.

Otokar Otomotive Ve Savunma Sanavi is engaged in the import, manufacture, assembly, sale and export of bodies, engines, and all other components of all kinds of land, sea and air defense vehicles, as well as security vehicles, commercial buses, trucks, minibuses, midibuses, panel vans, cross-country vehicles, etc. Co.'s primary focus is on the production of Land Rover 4x4 and minibuses.

Petrom S.A.

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.

Play Communications SA

Play Communications SA Formerly known as Play Holdings 2 SARL. Play Communications SA, formerly Play Holdings 2 SARL, is a Luxembourg-based provider of financial investment services. The Company is the owner of mobile operator P4 Sp z o o, that provides a wide range of mobile telecommunications services, including voice, data transmission services, messaging, video service (PLAY NOW), as well as Value Added Services and sales of handsets and other devices, to individual and business subscribers in Poland.

Polski Koncern Naftowy ORLEN S.A.

Polski Koncern Naftowy Orlen's activities are divided into three main business segments: the Refining Segment that comprises crude oil processing as well as wholesale and retail trade in refinery products. The Petrochemical Segment that encompasses production and sale of petrochemicals and chemicals. The Retail Segment that comprises of sales at petrol stations. Co.'s basic products include gasolines, diesel oils, light heating oil, Jet fuel, liquid gas, polyetylene, polypropylene, benzene, butadiene, acetone, phenol, glycols, toluen, ortoxylene.

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.

Santander Bank Polska SA

Bank Zachodni is a bank seated in Poland. Co. and its subsidiaries provide a range of banking services for individual and business customers and operate in domestic and interbank foreign markets. Additionally, Co. provides also the following services, including intermediation in trading securities, leasing, factoring, asset/ fund management, insurance services, trading in stock and shares of commercial companies, and brokerage activity. Operational activity of Co. and its subsidiaries has been divided into five segments: Retail Banking, Business and Corporate Banking, Global Banking and Markets, ALM (Assets and Liabilities Management) and Centre, as well as Santander Consumer.

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.

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.

Vestel Beyaz Esya Sanayi ve Ticaret

Vestel Beyaz Esya Sanayi ve Ticaret AS (Vestel Beyaz Esya) is a Turkey-based manufacturer of home appliances, including no-frost, double door, and single door, refrigerators; washing machines with different capacities; air conditioners; ovens with different functions, and dishwashers. The Company operates production facilities in Manisa and Turkey. The Company's marketing and sales activities are carried out by two other group companies, Vestel Dayanikli Tuketim Mallari Pazarlama AS and Vestel Dis Ticaret AS. Vestel Beyaz Esya is a subsidiary of Vestel Group. In January 2014, Vestel Elektronik Sanayi ve Ticaret AS, increased its stake in the Company to 92.6%.

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.

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