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Research Team

WOOD Morning (13 July)

HEADLINES:
* Play Communications: guidance at risk (downgraded to HOLD)
* Polish banks: 2Q18E previews - it's all about costs baby
* Waberer's International: management expects 2018E EBITDA to drop yoy NEGATIVE
* DP Eurasia: trading update - good system sales and very good store rollout POSITIVE
* Medicalgorithmics: cardiac rehabilitation product admitted for sale in US NEUTRAL
* Short News (GPW)
Underlyings
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.

Bank Handlowy w Warszawie S.A.

Bank Handlowy W Warszawie is a Polish bank holding company engaged in a wide range of banking services for individuals and corporate customers in the domestic and foreign markets. Additionally Co. operates in brokerage operations, lease services and investment operations. Customers have access to these services at the branches, ATM's, telephone services and electronic banking services.

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 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.

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.

Getin Noble Bank SA

Getin Noble Bank SA is a Poland-based universal bank. The Company divides its activity into three segments: Banking, providing banking services and operating in the area of accepting cash deposits, running deposit and other bank accounts, granting loans, issuing and confirming bank guarantees, issuing bank securities, checque and bill of exchange operations and operations related to warrants, issuing payment cards, among others; Financial Intermediary, providing services related to financial intermediation, loans, deposits, savings, investment intermediation; Asset and Fund Management, placing cash collected by means of public offering of unit fund, advising, managing securities portfolios, creating and managing investment funds, as well as providing rental services and property management. It is the parent company of Getin Noble Bank SA Capital Group and operates through subsidiaries, including Noble Funds TFI SA, Noble Concierge Sp z o o, Getin Leasing, among others.

ING Bank Slaski S.A.

ING Bank Slaski is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged in providing a range of banking services rendered for individual and institutional clients in line with the scope of services outlined in Co.'s charter. Co. runs operations both in the home currency and in foreign currencies. Co. is also active on the domestic and foreign financial markets. The subsidiary, ING Bank Hipoteczny S.A., also runs banking business, including loans secured with mortgage. Additionally through subsidiaries, Co. operates brokerage services, real estate, leasing of real estate and advisory and acts as a financial intermediary as well as provides other financial services.

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.

Medicalgorithmics SA

Medicalgorithmics SA is a Poland-based company engaged in the advanced medical equipment and technology industry. The Company develops and manufactures system for the diagnosis of heart arrhythmia. Its product, named PocketECG, is used for remote monitoring of cardiac disorders, arrhythmia diagnosis and monitoring of heart, as well as is used for clinical drugs trials for cardiac safety. In addition, Medicalgorithmics SA provides services in the field of information technology and biotechnology, scientific research and development of natural sciences. Moreover, the Company works on the several projects, such as a device for tele-rehabilitation cardiology, software for optimizing repetitive task in hospitals, as well as devices and systems for remote description of the electrocardiography (ECG). It operates through MEDICALGORITHMICS US HOLDING CORPORATION and Medi-Lynx Cardiac Monitoring LLC and Medi-Lynx Cardiac Monitoring LLC.

PKO Bank Polski S.A.

PKO Bank Polski is a universal commercial bank offering services to both domestic and foreign retail, corporate and other clients. Co. is licensed to hold foreign exchange and currencies and sell/buy them, as well as perform a full range of foreign exchange services; open and hold bank accounts abroad and to deposit foreign exchange in these accounts. In addition, Co. conducts activities relating to leasing, factoring, electronic settlements via payment cards, as well as renders other financial services. As of Dec 31 2009, Co. had total assets of Zl156,478,685,000 and total deposit of Zl124,628,562,000. Co. operates in the Republic of Poland, Ukraine and Sweden.

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.

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.

Waberer's International Zrt

Waberer's International Nyrt, formerly Waberer's International Zrt, is a Hungary-based company engaged in the provision of the transportation services in the region of Central and Eastern Europe. The Company provides international road transportation, forwarding of LTL and groupage cargo, overseas and air transportation management, customs services, vehicle repair, second hand vehicle sales and logistics services. The Company operates also through subsidiaries, including Waberer's Logisztika Ltd that is charge of domestic transportation activities and operates with four divisions - gas, food, dry-cargo transportation and large truck operation, and H-Rapid service that operates within the dry-cargo division, delivering freight to its destination within 24 hours. Waberer's International Nyrt manages also subsidiaries in Romania, Poland and Slovakia as well as in the western region, in Spain and Germany.

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