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WOOD Daily: EL RO; TEL RO; TGN RO; SPL PW; MIL PW; PL Banks; GARAN TI; OPL PW; KSPI LI; TUPRS TI; POLY LN; MNOD LI; PLZL LI; PKN PW; CCOLA TI; BIMAS TI; MGROS TI; SOKM TI; BNET RO; KER PW

HEADLINES:
• Romanian utilities: for those willing to wait (Electrica stays BUY, Transgaz stays HOLD, Transelectrica upgraded to HOLD)
• Santander Bank Polska: 1Q22 results review - strong beat vs. expectations on low provisions
• Bank Millennium: 1Q22 results review - results in line with expectations
• Polish banks: government proposals to aid mortgagors may hit Polish banks' 2022-23E earnings NEGATIVE
• Garanti: 1Q22 highlights NEUTRAL
• Orange Polska: 1Q22 results - EBITDAaL up 2% yoy, in line with our estimates and the consensus NEUTRAL
• Kaspi.kz: 1Q22 highlights - slower start due to backdrop, but maintains guidance NEUTRAL
• Tupras: to acquire Aygaz subsidiary Entek, through a capital increase
• Polymetal: 1Q22 production update and CMD - 2022E capex guidance cut by 7%, TCC guidance hiked by 3% NEGATIVE
• Norilsk Nickel: 1Q22 production results - 2022E output guidance reiterated, nickel output rises yoy NEUTRAL
• Polyus: decides not to publish its 1Q22 IFRS results, switching to semi-annual reporting
• PKN Orlen: 1Q22E results preview, one-offs to distort strong result (due on 28 April)
• Coca-Cola Icecek: 1Q22E results (due on 6 May) NEUTRAL
• BIM: 1Q22E preview - 68% yoy EBITDA expected (due on 9 May, after the close) NEUTRAL
• Migros: 1Q22E preview - 38% EBITDA growth expected (due on 9 May, TBC) NEUTRAL
• SOK Marketler Ticaret: 1Q22E - 18% yoy EBITDA growth expected (due on 9 May) NEUTRAL
• Bittnet Systems: 1Q22E preview - solid quarter, but harmed by investment revaluation (due on 13 May)
• Kernel: 3Q22E preview (due on 27 May)
Underlyings
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.

BIM Birlesik Magazalar A.S.

Bim Birlesik Magazalar is engaged in operating retail stores through its retail shops throughout Turkey, which sell an assortment of approx. 600 items, including a number of private labels. Co.'s object is to offer consumers basic food items and consumer goods at discount prices with quality. Co.'s private labels provides its consumers with quality tasting sausage, salami and similar meat products while at the same time being suitable to the consumers family budget. Products include meat products, breakfast and dairy products, beverages, legumes and bakery, snacks and sweets, fruits and vegetables, frozen foods, and non-food items - cleaning supplies.

Bittnet Systems

C.N.T.E.E. Transelectrica

Coca-Cola Icecek A.S.

Coca-Cola Icecek is a bottler and distributor of alcohol-free beverages in Turkey, Pakistan, Central Asia and the Middle East. Co. focuses on the production, sales and distribution of sparkling and still beverages with The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) trademarks. Co. has rights to produce, sell and distribute TCCC branded beverages including Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Zero, Coca-Cola Light, Fanta, Sprite, Cappy, Sen Sun, Powerade and Fuse Tea in TCCC authorized packages throughout Turkey. Co. also has the right to produce, sell and distribute Burn and Gladiator branded energy drinks throughout Turkey, as well as bottling and distribution rights in Turkey for Schweppes branded beverages.

Kaspi kz

Kernel Holding S.A.

Kernel Holding is a holding company. Co.'s is a diversified agribusiness engaged in the production and sale of bottled sunflower oil (sold under brand names Schedry Dar, Stozhar and Chumak Zolota), the production and subsequent export of bulk sunflower oil and meal, the wholesale trade of grain (mainly wheat, barley and corn), farming, and the provision of logistics and transshipment services n the ports of Ilyichevsk, Taman and Mykolaiv. The majority of Co.'s manufacturing facilities are primarily based in Ukraine and Russia. In addition, Co. is a private provider of inland silo services in Ukraine.

Migros Ticaret A.S

Migros Ticaret is a retailing group based in Turkey. Co. offers spacious stores in a wide range of formats and locations whose vast selection of stationery, glass and kitchenware, appliance, book, clothing, and other items along with groceries and other necessities. Co. maintains a store network of 1,004 national and international locations with a national presence in 70 provinces in Turkey's seven geographical regions. Store brand names include M, MM, MMM, 5M, MigroJet, Tansas, Macrocenter and Ramstores. Co. also provides customers alternatives such as internet, call centers, kiosks, catalogues, and mobile shopping networks.

Mining and Metallurgical Company NORILSK NICKEL (GDR)

Orange Polska S.A.

Orange Polska SA is a supplier of telecommunications services in Poland. Co. provides services, including fixed-line telecommunication services, Integrated Services Digital Network, voice mail, dial-up and fixed access to the Internet and Voice over Internet Protocol. Co. is one of Poland's three DCS 1800 and GSM 900 mobile telecommunications providers. Co. provides also third generation UMTS services. In addition, Co. provides leased lines, radio-communications and other telecommunications value added services, sells telecommunications equipment, produces electronic phone cards and provides data transmission, telephone directories, multimedia services and various Internet services.

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.

Polymetal International Plc

Polymetal International is the ultimate parent entity of Polymetal Group, a precious metals mining group operating in Russia, Kazakhstan and Armenia. Co. has five reportable segments: Magadan; Ural; Khabarovsk; Kazakhstan; and Armenia. Each segment is engaged in gold, silver or copper mining and related activities, including exploration, extraction, processing and reclamation.

Polyus (GDR)

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.

Societatea Energetica Electrica

Societatea Nationala de Transport Gaze Naturale Transgaz S.A.

Sok Marketler Ticaret AS

Sok Marketler Ticaret AS. Sok Marketler Ticaret AS, located in Istanbul, Turkey, owns and operates grocery stores. It sells Amigo, Crown, Deren, Evin, Karmen, Lio, Peki, Piyale and Tempo brands. The Company was founded in 1995.

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 Petrol Rafinerileri A.S.

Turkiye Petrol Rafinerileri is an energy and refining company based in Turkey. Co. is engaged in providing and refining crude oil, the importing and exporting of oil products, and establishing and operating refineries in Turkey and foreign countries. Also, Co. is establishing and operating factories and facilities in the petrochemical industry. Co. is engaged in purchasing, selling, importing, exporting, storing, marketing and distributing (wholesale, retail, foreign and domestic) all kinds of petroleum products, LPG and natural gas. Co. runs its business through the refineries in Izmit, Izmir, Kirikkale and Batman.

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