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WOOD Daily: MONET CP; MIL PW; KRKG SV; AKBNK TI; WIZZ LN; Poland macro; Hungary macro; G2M SS; EBS AV; SHO PW

HEADLINES:
• • MONETA Money Bank: solid 4Q24, solid dividend, material upgrade to MT guidance but all priced in very generously POSITIVE
• Millennium: 4Q24 adjusted results in line on pre-provision profit, beat from low LLPs POSITIVE
• Krka: preliminary 4Q24 numbers seem weak NEGATIVE
• Akbank: 4Q24 results and 2025E guidance highlights NEUTRAL
• Wizz Air: 3Q FY25 – a miss, as groundings weigh on costs
• Poland macro: positive GDP preliminary estimate, 2.9% for 2024 overall
• Hungary macro: economy exits technical recession
• Gentoo Media: proposal to delist shares from Oslo Børs POSITIVE
• Erste Bank: 4Q24E preview (due on 28 February)
• Shoper: 4Q24E preview - forecasting 17% yoy growth in adjusted EBITDA (due on 2 April)
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.

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.

GAMING INNOVATION GROUP

Gaming Innovation Group Inc. (GIG) is a holding company. The Company provides gambling solutions and entertainment. The Company's principal activity is to provide a platform for and facilitate Internet gambling, gaming and sports betting. The Company operates two segments, the Business to Consumer (B2C) segment which includes the gaming operations directed towards end users, and the Business to Business (B2B) segment which includes its iGC platform offering, sports trading, games and affiliate marketing. The Company's GiG Core is a cloud-based solution licensed in Malta, United Kingdom, New Jersey, Germany, Sweden, Iowa, Latvia and Romania. The Company's sportsbook can deliver end users a betting experience on offline or online channels. The Company's GiG Data is a data platform, which can be integrated with GiG Core or with third-party solutions for data system. The Company operates in Nordic countries, Europe excluding Nordic countries and Rest of world.

KRKA d.d.

Krka is a public generic pharmaceutical company based in Slovenia. Co. is engaged in the development, production, sale and marketing of human health products (prescription and selfmedication pharmaceuticals and cosmetics), animal health products and health resort and tourist services. Co. focuses on a range of generic prescription pharmaceuticals, which are marketed under Co.'s own brands. Co. offers customers in over 70 countries a broad range of prescription pharmaceuticals, self-medication products and animal health and cosmetic products. Co.'s activities are supplemented by health resort and tourist services of Terme Krka.

MOL Nyrt

SHOPER SA

Wizz Air Holdings Plc

Wizz Air Holding is a European airline. As of Mar 31 2017, Co. provided more than 500 routes from 28 bases, connecting 141 destinations across 42 countries. Co. has two reportable segments: the airline and the tour operator business units, marketed under the Wizz Air and Wizz Tours brand names, respectively. Wizz Air sells flight tickets and related services to external customers and, to an extent, to Wizz Tours. Wizz Tours sells travel packages to external customers covering the network of Wizz Air.

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Wood and Company
Wood and Company

WOOD & Company is the leading investment bank in Emerging Europe. Founded in 1991 and head-quartered in Prague, our footprint spans the region and touches investors around the globe.

A pioneer in Emerging Europe, WOOD executed many of the first CEE equity trades and landmark investment banking transactions. Our electronic trading platform was the first in the region, and remains the best. We are continually expanding our relevance and reach in these ever-evolving markets.

Our equity market share reflects our stature: 7% in Warsaw, 20% in Bucharest, 16% in Hungary, 40% in Prague and 5% in Vienna. Our distribution is unparalleled, with the largest salesforce in the region, servicing a uniquely diverse investor base.

We couple local expertise with a truly international perspective. With offices on the ground in the region, and in key financial hubs such as London and Milano, we are never far from our clients and we remain at the forefront of what’s afoot in the CEE emerging and frontier landscape.

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