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Focus: Kruk – Romanian law proposal introducing collection cap on overdue payments deemed unconstitutional; CCC’s FY18 as weak as preliminary numbers, 2019E development guidance maintained; Energa’s 4Q18 results in line with prelims

HEADLINES:
• Kruk: Romanian law proposal introducing collection cap on overdue payments deemed unconstitutional POSITIVE
• CCC: FY18 as weak as preliminary numbers, 2019E development guidance maintained NEUTRAL
• Energa: 4Q18 results in line with prelims NEUTRAL
• JSW: to pay out first dividend since 2013, with a 2.8% yield for FY18 NEUTRAL
• Bank Handlowy: DPS at PLN 3.74, a 5.5% yield NEUTRAL
• PZU: additional takeaways after 4Q18 results NEUTRAL
• PKP Cargo: to report a PLN 51m write-off related to AWT Group assets for 2018 NEGATIVE
• JSW: 4Q18E financial results preview - above consensus on EBITDA (due out today, after the close) POSITIVE
• Short News (MIL, PFL, PZU, MTS)
Underlyings
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.

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.

Energa SA

Energa SA is a Poland-based company engaged in the electric power sector. It produces and distributes the electric power and participates in the electric power market in Northern and Central Poland. It divides its business into seven segments: Electricity Distribution consists of electricity distribution conducted by subsidiaries; Renewable Energy invests in renewable energy sources and produces electricity through hydro, wind and bio-energy plans; Baseload Power Plant consists of manufacturing and investment activities in the area of conventional power plants, service and repair activities related to the generation of electricity; Combined Heat and Power (CHP) includes manufacturing activity of power plants and the heat distribution; Sales is engaged in lighting services, trading of electrical energy and customer service; Services provides accounting, human resources (HR) and payroll services, among others; Other includes hotel and training centers, and transportation services.

Jastrzebska Spolka Weglowa S.A.

Jastrzebska Spolka Weglowa is a producer of type 35 coking coal (“orthocoking coal” according to Polish Standard). The main line of Co.'s business is also the mining and sales of steam coal. Co. is also central for selling all coal derivative products, i.e. coke and hydrocarbons produced by coking plants owned by the JSW S.A. Capital Group. The mining area is located in the Upper Silesian Coal Basin. The principal clients for Co.'s products are located primarily in Poland, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and also India and Brazil.

Kruk S.A.

Kruk SA. Kruk SA is a Poland-based company, which is engaged in the business support industry. The Company is a multi-operator, which offers loss prevention and debt collection services. The Company divides its business into two main operating segments: Debt Purchase, including acquisition of non-performing debt portfolios, and Debt Collection Outsourcing, offering fee-based collection of debt on client's behalf, focused on consumer and corporate loans. The Company provides services to financial institutions and large corporate customers. It manages receivables of banks, credit intermediaries, leasing companies and digital platform providers, among others. The Company's operating activities concentrate in a number of countries, such as Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Spain. The Company's subsidiaries include Kruk Deutschland GmbH, Presco Investments Sarl and Espand Soluciones de Gestion y Recuperacion de Deuda SL, among others.

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).

Powszechny Zaklad Ubezpieczen Spolka Akcyjna

Powszechny Zaklad Ubezpieczen is an insurance group based in Poland. Co. is engaged in offering a broad range of insurance and financial products. Co. pursues three main lines of business: Property and Casualty Insurance, offered by PZU; Life Insurance, offered by PZU Zycie; and Open-end Pension Funds, offered by PTE PZU, the manager of OFE PZU Zlota Jesien. Co. maintains a network of sales and service outlets including 500 outlets throughout Poland, including 243 shared outlets (common for PZU and PZU Zycie), 137 outlets of PZU Zycie and 120 outlets of PZU. Co.'s business is focused on the Polish market but it also conducts insurance business in the Lithuanian and Ukrainian markets.

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