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Focus: keeping our BUY on Surgutneftegas’ preferred shares and our HOLD on the GDRs; Georgian banks – margin blues – sub-20% ROEs in sight already; Erste Bank – solid 2Q19 delivery, a notch above expectations

HEADLINES:
• Surgutneftegas: piggy bank getting bigger... for now (preferred shares stay BUY, GDRs stay HOLD)
• Georgian banks: margin blues - sub-20% ROEs in sight already
• Erste Bank: solid 2Q19 delivery, a notch above expectations, well on track to deliver on promises
• Garanti Bank: 2Q19 results review POSITIVE
• OMV: 2Q19 results - strong net income
• OMV Petrom: 2Q19 results - net income slightly below expectations
• Atrium: 2Q19 - no surprises NEUTRAL
• PKP Cargo: 2Q19 preliminary EBITDA misses consensus by 6% NEGATIVE
• Pfleiderer: preliminary 1H19 results
• EME Macro/Strategy: Germany - the sick man of Europe again
• CCC: potential acquisition of a small clothing brand NEUTRAL
• Sarantis: Estee Lauder joint venture renewal and agreement for Coty portfolio in Greece
• MMK: 2Q19E preview - 15% qoq growth in EBITDA & c.2.5% quarterly dividend yield (due out tomorrow) NEUTRAL
• Ferrexpo: 1H19E financial results - predictably strong growth in EBITDA and FCF (due on 2 August) NEUTRAL
• Enerjisa Enerji: 2Q19E - another solid quarter (due on 7 August)
• X5: 2Q19E results preview (due on 15 August) NEUTRAL
• Short News (MTSS)
Underlyings
Atrium European Real Estate Limited

Atrium European Real Estate is engaged in the ownership, management and operation of commercial real estate in the retail sector. Co. primarily operates in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, Hungary and Romania. Co. has two reportable segments: the standing investment segment includes all commercial real estate held to generate rental income for Co.; and the development segment includes all development activities and activities related to land plots. As of Dec 31 2016, the portfolio of standing investments consisted of 59 properties in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, Hungary, and Romania.

Bank of Georgia

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.

Enerjisa Enerji

Enerjisa Enerji AS is a Turkey-based company engaged in the utilities sector. The Company, together with its subsidiaries, is primarily engaged in making investments in energy companies, and deals with the generation, sale, and distribution of electricity, as well as the trade of natural gas. The Company reports its business activities into two main segments: Electricity Distribution and Retail. The Electricity distribution segment includes the transmission of electricity over lines users through distribution networks and provides infrastructure investments in conformity with the energy market regulation authority (EMRA). The Retail segment conducts mainly retail sales of electricity to customers. Enerjisa Enerji AS operates through a number of subsidiaries, such as Baskent Edas, Ayedas and Toroslar Edas, among others.

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.

Ferrexpo plc

Ferrexpo is an iron ore pellet producer. Co. produces, develops and markets its product for sale to the metallurgical industry. Co. operate two mines and a processing plant near Kremenchug in Ukraine, and an interest in a port in Odessa. Co. also owns logistics assets in Austria which operate a fleet of vessels operating on the Rhine and Danube waterways and an ocean-going vessel. Co.'s operations are integrated from iron ore mining through to iron ore concentrate and pellet production and subsequent logistics. Co.'s mineral properties lie within the Kremenchug Magnetic Anomaly and are being extracted at the Gorishne-Plavninskoye and Lavrikovskoye and Yeristovskoye deposits.

Gr. Sarantis S.A.

Co. is a consumer goods manufacturer and distributor engaged in operations in Greece. Co. produces consumer goods such as cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, households, pet products, car's accessories and apparel. Co. produces its own brand name of cosmetic products such as Prosar, Str8, BU99, Clochard, Carroten, Tokalon and others. Co.'s product portfolio also includes a range of international brands such as Estee Lauder, Clinique, Aramis, Donna Karen, Orlane, Montana Versace and others.

Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (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).

Petrom S.A.

Pfleiderer Group SA

Pfleiderer Grajewo, through its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and veneering of wood and wood-based products, and impregnation of paper in Poland and internationally. Co. is also involved in the manufacture of melamine-faced, raw chipboards, laminated and raw HDF boards, worktops, high-pressure laminates (HPL), MFP panels, finish foils, adhesive resins and other wood and wood-based products; production of materials from wood waste; wholesale of own and third-party products; and generation and distribution of heat.

PKP Cargo

PKP Cargo SA is a Poland-based company active in the transportation sector. The Company's main activity is domestic and international transport of goods by rail and provision of logistic services in the field of railway cargo transport services. The Company divides its services into six divisions: Transport, offering rail transport carried out by PKP Cargo, road transport and ferry transport; Intermodal, providing intermodal rail transport; Forwarding, services carried out by Trade Trans, Cargosped and PKP Cargo International; Terminals, offering service of reloading terminals; Sidings, providing railway sidings; and Rolling Stock, which provides repairs of the rolling stock. It operates through Advanced World Transport BV (AWT).

Surgutneftegas (GDR)

TBC Bank Joint Stock Co

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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