Q1 missed expectations due to a slowdown in Enterprise and a weak US hearing aid market. The 2025 guidance was cut to organic sales growth of -3% to +3% and an EBITA margin of 11–13%, reflecting the implications of tariffs. Guidance was cut for Enterprise and Gaming, but maintained for Hearing, signalling strong confidence in ReSound Vivia. We reiterate our BUY, but have cut our target price to DKK170 (200).
Interim Report Q1 2025: Growth challenged by market uncertainty – proactive cost mitigation initiated to support long-term margins Highlights The Hearing division delivered -1% organic revenue growth driven by a strong initial uptake of ReSound Vivia, but off-set by a challenged U.S. market as well as some slowdown of existing products in anticipation of ReSound Vivia. The strong uptake of ReSound Vivia has continued into April, lending support for expected market share gains. As a consequence of the launch initiatives and the challenged U.S. market, the divisional profit margin ended at 2...
Guidance updated: Impact from and mitigation to navigate the global trade environment Following the recent announcements by the U.S. administration regarding tariffs, GN now takes further actions to counter the negative direct and indirect effects from the increased tariff levels. With the actions, GN is capable of mitigating the majority of the assumed tariff impact on the EBITA margin in 2025 as well as protecting its mid-term earnings growth. The development in tariffs and its impact on our markets makes our environment more uncertain than normal. As a base assumption for our revised...
Market sources suggest Saudi Aramco will further reduce its rig count in the coming months through early contract terminations and potentially more suspensions, which would mark the ‘fourth round’ of rig reductions. This follows last month’s request for dayrate discussions (historically, such requests have preceded it suspending rigs). We believe this round could be extensive, affecting c10 jackups out of its current rig count of c57 rigs. At the peak, Aramco had 92 jackups (22% of global demand...
We forecast Q1 organic sales growth of 1.7% YOY and an EBITA margin of 11.9%. We see strong traction for ReSound Vivia, but the weak US hearing aid market may weigh on results. For Enterprise, we expect sequential improvement, though Q1 has the toughest YOY comparable in 2025. We expect unchanged guidance, but find the lower end more likely. We reiterate our BUY, but have cut our target price to DKK200 (230).
Following Q1 earnings calls by some of the oil service companies, 2025 outlooks appear more challenging than previously. Baker Hughes expects international upstream spending to decline by mid- to high-single digits, while Halliburton sees its international revenues flat to slightly down. Furthermore, Weatherford expects 2025 international revenue to decline by low double- to mid-double digits. Precision Drilling flagged additional rig suspensions by Saudi Aramco, and SLB highlighted a slow start...
Driven by macro headwinds and uncertainty around trade tariffs, ENI was the first large oil company to introduce capex cuts for 2025, contributing to a more challenging business environment for oil services. Over the past five years, we estimate ENI to have been the oil major with strongest offshore spending growth, and it has been considered active and opportunistic while others have been more conservative. Hence, we see its reduction as a soft datapoint for oil services. ENI has optimised its ...
We expect a muted Q1 EBITA of EUR33m, as seasonality weakens the results along with a slowdown in sales to new markets for Collection. We have cut our 2026–2027e EPS by 2% on adjustments to margins and order backlog. We have not heard any announcements regarding upcoming DRS’ status during the quarter. We reiterate our SELL and NOK120 target price.
The US Trade Representative on 17 April published revised US port fees with significant changes to the initial proposal based on industry feedback. In its current form, the fees will primarily discourage use of Chinese-controlled maritime trade services to the US, and directly affect the use of Chinese-built vessels in US ports (with several considerable exemptions to avoid harm to US trade). The previous broader fees based on fleet composition and share of Chinese-built vessels has been scrappe...
Updates suggest Petrobras yesterday launched a new tender for “one or more” deepwater rigs for the Buzios field starting late-2026/early-2027. As it has been a while since the last Petrobras tender, and there has been uncertainty related to the timing of upcoming tenders, we believe a new Petrobras tender would offer relief for investors. As we count nine rigs already contracted with Petrobras to match the start-up window, we expect the requirement would be filled by rigs already in the country,...
Although there are several ongoing deepwater tenders, the lack of recent deepwater fixtures has created uncertainty among investors related to day-rates. Consequently, we have analysed the required day-rates to support current share prices and valuations. Given the high operating leverage and multiple variables involved (utilisation, lifetime and cost of capital), we estimate the sector requires 7G drillship day-rates from the mid-USD300k and above to support the current share prices.
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