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WOOD Morning (19 November)

HEADLINES:
• Eurocash: weaker for longer (downgraded to SELL)
• Petrol Group: 3Q18 results - good, but high fuel prices hit retail margin NEUTRAL
• AmRest: management sees 20% EBITDA growth in 2018E as overly optimistic NEGATIVE
• Famur: signs EUR 22.7m contract with Russian coal mine POSITIVE
• ANY PLC: 3Q18E results preview (due out today, after the close)
• Medicalgorithmics: 3Q18E - another weak quarter (due out tomorrow) NEGATIVE
• Short News (ALR, GNB, PL politics)
Underlyings
Allami Nyomda

Any Security Printing is a securities products group based in Hungary. Co. produces security products and solutions (tax stamps. stickers with security elements), plastic and paper cards (document cards, bank and telephone cards, commercial cards), personalized business and administration forms, and conventional printing products. Co.'s product offering its organized along three segments: Security Products, Solutions (paper-based documents, excise and tax stamps, security printers and security inks, additives); Card Production, Personalization (document cards, bank cards and loyalty cards); and Form Production, Personalization (transactional mailing, business, lottery and election forms).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Petrol d.d.

Petrol Ljubljana. Petrol dd Ljubljana is a Slovenia-based company engaged in the provision of oil and other energy products. The Company operates through two segments, Oil and Merchandise sales and Energy activities. The Oil and Merchandise sales segment consists of sale of oil and petroleum products, and sale of supplementary merchandise comprised of automotive products, foodstuffs, accessories, tobacco, lottery products, coupons and cards. The Energy activities segment consists of sale and distribution of gas; generation, sale and distribution of electricity and heat; energy consumption projects and comprehensive energy supply projects, and environment activities. As of December 31, 2011, it operated a number of subsidiaries based in Slovenia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia, among others. On February 11, 2013, the Company acquired a 51% stake in Instalacija doo. On May 10, 2013, the Company acquired a 100% stake in Nafta Geoterm doo.

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