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2010 2009 2008 2007 Tania Gold, Equity Analyst (UniCredit Bank London)
+44 20 7826 7946
Source: Bloomberg, UniCredit Research tania.gold@unicreditgroup.de
Contents
Investment case 3
Company Forecasts
Alpha Bank 18
Eurobank 21
NBG 24
Piraeus 27
Investment case
We remain underweight Greek banks, downgrading Alpha and NBG to Sell and reiterating
our Sell recommendations on Eurobank and Piraeus. We cut our earnings estimates by
22% p.a. on average to reflect the deteriorating macro environment in Greece. We also
calculate that only NBG is covering its cost of equity, with returns from plain-vanilla
banking operations, i.e. excluding income from Greek government bonds (GGBs). We
also note the disconnect that has recently appeared between the spread-widening of
5Y Greek sovereign debt and the fall in the share prices of the Greek banks. This leads
us to believe that a recovery in sovereign spreads is unlikely to fuel a large rally in the
Greek banking index and that the risk is more on the downside. Current CDS levels imply
52% downside risk for the Greek banking sector.
The Greek government recently announced that it plans to cut the deficit to GDP to 3% by
2012, from an estimated 12.7% in 2009. Should they be able to do this without any external
help, we would expect to see much fiscal tightening in Greece and a prolonged recession.
There is also the risk of social unrest.
We are now on average 32% below consensus for 2010E and 2011E.
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From the chart above, it is clear that Greece has recently overtaken Ireland in the cost of
insuring its debt and therefore the risk perception of the country. This is not really a surprise
given the admission of the new government that the expected deficit to GDP was much higher
than initially thought. Now Greece takes the spot of worst performer in the EMU when looking
at the government deficit to GDP in 2009 and runner-up for debt to GDP.
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We are not trying to forecast Greek CDS, but as we show in the charts below, current banks'
valuations imply that spreads will tighten or the banks' valuations will continue to fall.
RELATIVE PERFORMANCE OF GREEK BANKS VS. EURO BANKS ON PRICE AND CDS
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Looking at the chart above, it appears that recently a disconnect between Greek CDS and
bank share price movements has appeared; with the Greek CDS widening whilst the banks
share prices have fallen less than would be implied. This could mean a couple of things. First,
that the market believes the CDS spreads at 313bp for Greece are too high, or second that
the share prices still might fall considerably further to catch up with the higher CDS.
We are not going to try and forecast CDS spreads for Greece, but we do believe that even if
there is a tightening of spreads, given that the share prices have not fallen that much in
comparison, they will not rise that much in a tightening era. Therefore on this basis there is
currently limited upside to the banks share prices. But there is the risk that CDS spreads stay
near current levels and banks share prices continue to fall. The chart above implies this would
mean a massive 52% fall in banks' valuations – not our base case scenario. Looking at it the
other way around, current share prices indicate a CDS spread of 180bp.
We repeat the above chart, but for each individual stock price vs. Greek CDS, and see that
there is considerable downside risk at each bank.
Alpha Eurobank
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We cannot write a note on the Greek banks without mentioning Greek government bonds
(GGBs) – although it is hard to estimate the impact these portfolios will have on earnings due
to a lack of disclosure on duration. NBG is the only bank to have given enough disclosure to
determine the impact for 4Q09. In its 3Q09 presentation, it showed us that for every 1bp
movement in the spread of GGBs there would be up to a EUR -0.5mn movement in the trading
line and EUR -4.7mn movement in the AFS. Given that the spreads tightened 100bp vs. the
bund in 4Q09, that will leave us with a EUR 50mn hit to trading and a EUR 470mn hit to
equity. It is worth noting that in Greece any movement in the AFS and therefore equity do not
flow through to capital, so there will be no impact on the tier 1 ratio.
What is interesting to note is that both Alpha and Eurobank have more ECB funding than
GGBs, therefore potentially implying they are using some of this funding for the operating
business. Although looking at Alpha's balance sheet, it might have placed this excess funding
in the interbank market. Either way, when this ECB funding rolls off it could lead to a decent
increase in funding costs.
BONDS OUTSTANDING
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Range of 2%-22% off profits for every 50bp extra refinancing cheap
ECB liquidity and wholesale funding in 2010
We look at the impact for each bank on 2010 profit of refinancing this cheap ECB funding with
more expensive funding. For every 50bp extra it costs to refinance, this ranges from 2% off
NBG's 2010 profits to 20% at Piraeus.
It would be harsh to assume that as Greek CDS spreads have gone from 50bp a couple of
years ago to over 300bp in 2010 that the cost of renewing this wholesale funding would be
over 250bp higher. Instead we look at the impact that an extra 50bp on the cost of this
wholesale funding would do to profits.
Profit impact from 50bp higher cost when refinancing cheap ECB Profit impact from 50bp higher cost when refinancing maturing
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Also, we can clearly see a large drop in the annualized tangible RoE of each bank. We cannot
ignore the positive effect of this income as it does help to absorb loan loss provisions, but we
also see this as low-quality income and highlight that apart from NBG, none of the banks were
covering their cost of equity with returns from plain-vanilla banking operations (i.e. excluding
GGB income) in 3Q09.
Piraeus' 2010E EPS actually rises slightly on our new numbers, due to a release of the cost of
the preference dividend paid on the government preference shares issued in May 2009, as
we are now assuming it will pay them back in May 2010 along with the other banks. Without
this adjustment, our earnings estimates would not have changed in 2010 as we had already
been more prudent in our numbers for Piraeus, as we were always expecting a wave of
corporate and SME bad debts in 2010.
Consensus EPS 0.816 0.84 1.214 0.554 0.726 1.169 2.145 2.281 2.91 0.705 0.803 1.161
UCG estimates vs. consensus -15% -37% -45% -12% -32% -32% -2% -23% -25% 4% -37% -29%
The reason for these earnings reductions stems from the domestic business in Greece, where
we see a prolonged recession. With the government deficit to GDP estimated at 12.7% in 2009
and the target of reducing this to 3% by the end of 2012, this leaves Greece with little choice.
Either it will cut the deficit itself, with much fiscal tightening and a prolonged (we estimate
three years) recession, as it represents 10% off GDP, or it will need external help in the form
of an IMF bailout, say, or it could potentially default on sovereign debt. Our base case
scenario is the former option.
A prolonged recession in Greece would be bad for growth and provisions in our view. We
therefore reduce our estimates, as we:
■ increase domestic tax charges. With the government needing to reduce its deficit in
Greece, we believe higher corporate tax will be one of the ways. This might not come as
an official rise in the corporate tax rate, and if it does not rise then we expect the 2009
"one-off" tax hike (based on 2008 domestic profits) to be repeated annually and therefore
no longer be a one-off.
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We decrease our domestic net interest margin and therefore net interest income projections
for a couple of reasons:
• Rising funding costs in 2010, as Greece is now considered significantly more risky a
country than it was six months ago (as evidenced by the rise in CDS spreads), which will
push up the cost of wholesale funding. Also, with higher wholesale funding costs, we believe
we might see more competition in deposits and therefore we lower the improvement we
expect to see in both sight and time deposit spreads for 2010 and 2011 (see appendix for
detailed breakdown of domestic NIM forecasts).
• 2009 asset re-pricing complete. We see little room for further asset re-pricing. Also, when
for example Eurobank calculates its asset spreads, it does this vs. an internally weighted
cost of funding. Some of this will be wholesale funding, so reported asset spreads are
likely to fall here. Should CDS spreads stay at these high current levels, then there is the
potential that some of the higher funding costs may be offset by higher than previously
expected assets spreads. But this would then be matched off by higher than expected
provisions, in our view.
Also, we cannot ignore the level of ECB funding that we believe the Greek banks are currently
using to fund their government bond portfolios.
The guidance from management on NIM has been for it to continue rising due to better
deposit spreads. As we have said, this is not something we forecast to occur as quickly as the
Greek banks would like, and therefore we see domestic NIM being at best stable in 2010 for
the majority of the banks. For NBG, we expect it to fall, mainly due to the large GGB portfolio
not earning the same spread as in 2009 due to higher funding costs.
Although NBG is in a strong position, with a domestic loan-to-deposit ratio of 87%, these
excess deposits appear to have been used to fund the purchases of Greek government
bonds. Therefore this benefit is of relatively minimal value unless it were to sell a sizeable
portion of its government bond portfolio.
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We also try to look at the cost of risk on an underlying basis. All Greek banks (to varying
degrees) booked collective provisions in 4Q08 (in fact Alpha was very prudent and also
booked one in 3Q08).
COLLECTIVE PROVISIONS
Alpha did not disclose its collective provision booked, but we calculate what we consider a
reasonable estimate by using the other Greek banks' 2008 provision charge movement as
guidance, normalizing 3Q08 and 4Q08 and assuming that the difference in provisions booked
in the P&L are all collective.
On the 3Q09 conference call, Eurobank told us that it had "used" half of its collective provision
and we use the same assumption for NBG when calculating its underlying cost of risk. For
Alpha and Piraeus, we look at the fall in coverage since 4Q08 and assume this is due to new
NPLs which do not need any extra provisioning as they are covered by the collective
provision. We accept that this does not take into account any change in mix in NPLs, etc, but
believe it gives good guidance as to what the banks have been doing.
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In our initiation report, "Beware Medusa's stare", published 18 August 2009, we calculate that
both Piraeus and Eurobank had underprovided to date. We still believe that both banks have
underprovided and, when looking at their coverage ratios compared with other European banks,
they are at the lower end. If using the collective provision continues to reduce coverage, we
believe the market will not react well to this.
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2. Increased CoE to take into account the higher risk-free rate that Greece now bears vs. six
months ago
3. Lower sustainable RoE as we are starting to believe Greece will not return to the growth
we expected previously
■ We roll forward our valuations to use 2011 estimates (rather than 2010)
■ Estimate sustainable ROE for each division and in turn calculate a P/B, with the
exception of corporate centers and asset management divisions which are valued
on a P/E multiple basis
■ Comparing our allocated equity to equity Tier 1 capital, we then add/deduct the
excess/deficit at 1x book.
EUR mn Value Valuation tool Equity Net profit RoE Sustainable CoE Growth P/NAV Implicit
2011 2011 2011 (%) RoE (%) % % P/E
2011E
Retail 1,173 RoE-CoE 1,052 159 15.1 15.5 14 1.0 1.12 6.6
Commercial & corporate 925 RoE-CoE 1,336 110 8.3 10.0 14 1.0 0.69 7.4
SE Europe 866 RoE-CoE 1,237 105 8.5 10.0 13 3.0 0.70 7.3
Investment banking & treasury 288 RoE-CoE 625 33 5.3 7.0 14 1.0 0.46 7.7
Asset mgmt & insurance 55 RoE-CoE 64 5 7.3 12.0 14 1.0 0.85 10.3
Total operating business (I) 3,306 4,313 413 7.1
Corporate centre, minorities + prefs (II) -454 P/E multiple -64 7.1
Excess capital at 1xP/BV (III) 562 562 6
Group (I+II+III) 3,414 4,875 355
No. of shares (mn) 534
12M target price (EUR) 5.7
Current price (EUR) 7.15
Upside/(downside) -20.4%
EUR mn Value Valuation Equity Profit RoE Sustainable CoE Growth P/NAV Implied.
tool 2011E 2011E 2011E (%) RoE (%) (%) target
P/E
Retail 994 RoE-CoE 731 134 18.4 18.5 14.0 1.5% 1.36 6.6
Corporate 1,429 RoE-CoE 1,190 195 16.4 16.5 14.0 1.5% 1.20 6.5
AM, PB, INS 207 P/E multiple 18 17 N/A N/A NA NA N/A 10.7
Treasury & capital mkts 753 RoE-CoE 653 104 15.9 16.0 14.0 1% 1.15 6.5
SEE 869 RoE-CoE 1,737 60 3.4 8.5 13.0 4.0% 0.50 13.0
Total operating (I) 4,251 4,329 510 7.4
Other non operating (II) -667 P/E multiple 140 -80 7.4
Excess capital (III) -135 -135 -1
Group (I+II+III) 3,448 4,333 428
No. shares (mn) 538
12M TP (EUR) 5.6
Current price (EUR) 7.28
Upside/downside -23%
EUR mn Valuation Valuation tool Equity Net RoE 11E Sustainable CoE Growth P/B (x) Implied
profit RoE (%) (%) 10 P/E
2011E
Retail 1,241 RoE-CoE 1,152 172 14.9 15.0 14.0 1.0 1.08 6.4
Corporate, Investment banking & Insurance 1,603 RoE-CoE 906 224 24.7 24.0 14.0 1.0 1.77 6.3
Global mkts & asset mgmt 577 RoE-CoE 577 434 75.2 14.0 14.0 1.0 1.00 1.2
S&EE (excl FB) 1,276 RoE-CoE 1,276 159 12.5 13.0 13.0 3.0 1.00 7.2
Finansbank 4,577 RoE-CoE 2,397 591 24.6 25.0 15.0 4.0 1.91 6.8
Total operating business(I) 9,274 6,309 1,580 5.2
Other -1,601 P/E multiple 272 (273) 5.2
Total group (I+II) 7,672 8,899 1,307
Excess equity (III) 2,319 2,319 23
Total (I+II+II) 9,991 8,899 1,330
Shares (mn) 607
12-month target price (EUR) 14.4
Current price (EUR) 16.7
Upside/downside -14%
EUR mn Value Valuation Equity Net profit RoE Sustainable CoE % Growth P/NAV Implicit
tool 2011E 2011E 2011E RoE (%) % P/E
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Greece 576 RoE-CoE 1,497 79 5.3 6.0 14 1.0 0.38 6.5
SE Europe 1,433 RoE-CoE 1,837 190 10.3 10.8 13 3.0 0.78 6.8
Total operating business (I) 2,008 3,334 268 6.7
Excess capital at 1xP/BV (III) 40 40 0
Group (I+II+III) 2,048 3,374 269
No. of shares (mn) 325
12M target price (EUR) 5.6
Current price (EUR) 7.16
Upside/downside -22.3%
Net profit attributable to common equity EUR mn 798 447 319 282 355
as a percentage of total revenues % 36 19 13 12 15
UCG adjusted EPS EUR 1.66 1.00 0.69 0.53 0.66
Spreads
Mortgages 143 167 171 175 164 150 125
Consumer 784 842 859 875 839 775 725
SBL 690 733 737 740 728 700 650
M&L corporate 193 228 233 240 225 200 175
Balances
Mortgages 11,186 11,184 11,191 11,191 11,191 11,303 11,462
Consumer 4,972 5,031 5,127 5,165 5,165 5,216 5,290
SBL 5,063 5,122 5,119 5,119 5,119 5,170 5,243
M&L corporate 18,254 18,344 18,329 18,329 18,329 18,513 18,774
Total 39,475 39,681 39,766 39,804 39,804 40,203 40,769
Sight & savings 12,400 14,014 14,400 15,209 15,209 15,196 15,470
Time 22,100 22,000 20,900 21,213 21,213 21,730 22,664
NII earned
Mortgages 40 47 48 49 183 169 142
Consumer 97 105 109 113 424 402 381
SBL 87 93 94 95 369 360 338
M&L corporate 88 104 107 110 409 368 326
Total 312 350 358 366 1,385 1,300 1,188
Total NII from loans & deposits 288 325 328 335 1,276 1,354 1,341
Other NII 16 21 22 22 81 40 40
Total NII 304 346 350 357 1,357 1,394 1,381
Financials – Eurobank
EUROBANK P&L
Net profit attributable to common equity EUR mn 808 613 225 266 430
as a percentage of total revenues % 29 19 7 9 14
UCG adjusted EPS EUR 1.63 1.17 0.49 0.49 0.80
Spreads
Mortgages 122 125 130 135 127 125 100
Consumer 980 981 985 980 975 925 850
SBL 504 514 520 525 512 475 425
Wholesale 217 237 240 245 234 225 200
Balances
Mortgages 10300 10300 10410 10410 10,410 10,514 10,662
Consumer 8000 8020 7570 7570 7,570 7,646 7,754
SBL 7000 7000 7080 7080 7,080 7,169 7,270
Wholesale 16600 16683 17420 17420 17,420 17,595 17,842
Total 41,900 42,003 42,480 42,480 42,480 42,924 43,528
Sight & savings 12,000 12,434 12,319 12,830 12,830 12,919 13,962
Time 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,125 25,251
NII earned
Mortgages 32 32 34 35 133 131 106
Consumer 200 196 192 185 774 704 654
SBL 89 90 92 93 363 338 309
Wholesale 90 99 102 107 398 394 354
Total 410 417 419 420 1,667 1,567 1,424
Total NII from loans & deposits 345 354 365 386 1,449 1,561 1,511
Other NII 17 46 43 30 136 70 70
Total NII 362 399 408 416 1,585 1,631 1,581
Financials – NBG
NBG P&L
Net profit attributable to common equity EUR mn 1,572 1,447 1,120 1,070 1,324
as a percentage of total revenues % 36 29 22 21 24
UCG adjusted EPS EUR 2.86 2.94 2.10 1.76 2.18
Spreads
Mortgages 372 380 393 390 384 330 305
Consumer 981 1050 1093 1075 1046 950 850
SBL 569 552 524 525 559 500 450
Corporates 276 291 293 290 292 275 225
Bonds 164 118 109 100 159 75 75
Balances
Mortgages 19,200 19,600 20,100 20,603 20,603 21,439 22,089
Consumer 6,800 7,000 7,200 7,380 7,380 7,529 7,757
SBL 4,500 4,900 5,000 5,100 5,100 5,255 5,414
Corporates 17,300 17,187 17,187 17,187 17,187 17,533 18,065
Bonds 17,000 24,500 24,500 17,500 17,500 17,500 17,500
Total 47,800 48,687 49,487 50,270 50,270 51,756 53,326
Sight & savings 26,000 27,765 27,143 28,119 28,119 28,779 29,463
Time 30,300 30,746 30,057 31,139 31,139 31,868 32,627
NII earned
Mortgages 176 184 195 198 754 694 664
Consumer 166 181 194 196 737 708 650
SBL 61 65 65 66 257 259 240
Corporates 117 125 126 125 493 477 400
Total 520 556 580 585 2,240 2,138 1,954
Bonds 62 61 67 53 242 131 131
Total 581 617 647 638 2,482 2,269 2,085
Total NII from loans & deposits 605 617 629 634 2,485 2,413 2,396
Financials – Piraeus
PIRAEUS P&L
Net profit attributable to common equity EUR mn 622 315 221 172 269
as a percentage of total revenues % 42 19 13 10 16
UCG adjusted EPS EUR 1.70 0.95 0.74 0.51 0.83
Spreads
Mortgages 203 211 220 225 213 200 175
Consumer 804 810 820 825 805 775 675
SME 336 342 345 350 341 325 275
M&L 176 177 175 175 174 150 130
Balances
Mortgages 5,920 5,855 5,939 5,969 5,969 6,029 6,114
Consumer 3,387 3,334 3,267 3,267 3,267 3,299 3,346
SME 6,307 6,293 6,352 6,384 6,384 6,448 6,539
Corp 14,039 14,006 14,139 14,209 14,209 14,352 14,554
Total 29,653 29,488 29,697 29,829 29,829 30,129 30,553
Sight & savings 6796 7499 7451 7490 7,490 7580 7938
Time 19417 19283 19159 19417 19,417 19491 20411
NII earned
Mortgages 30 31 32 33 127 120 106
Consumer 69 68 68 67 272 254 224
SME 53 54 55 56 217 209 179
Corp 62 62 62 62 248 214 188
Total 215 215 216 219 865 797 697
Total NII from L&D 164 166 173 182 686 740 747
Other NII -2 7 3 3 11 0 0
Total NII 162 173 176 185 697 740 747
Notes
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c) UniCredit Bank AG Milan Branch, Via Tommaso Grossi 10, 20121 Milan, Italy, duly authorized by the Bank of Italy to provide investment services.
Regulatory authority: “Bank of Italy”, Via Nazionale 91, 00184 Roma, Italy and Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht, Lurgiallee 12, 60439 Frankfurt, Germany.
The UniCredit CAIB Group, consisting of
d) UniCredit CAIB AG, Julius-Tandler-Platz 3, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Regulatory authority: Finanzmarktaufsichtsbehörde (FMA), Praterstrasse 23, 1020 Vienna, Austria
e) UniCredit CAIB Securities UK Ltd., Moor House, 120 London Wall, London EC2Y 5ET, United Kingdom
Regulatory authority: Financial Services Authority (FSA), 25 The North Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London E14 5HS, United Kingdom
f) UniCredit Securities, Boulevard Ring Office Building, 17/1 Chistoprudni Boulevard, Moscow 101000, Russia
Regulatory authority: Federal Service on Financial Markets, 9 Leninsky prospekt, Moscow 119991, Russia
g) UniCredit Menkul Değerler A.Ş., Büyükdere Cad. No. 195, Büyükdere Plaza Kat. 5, 34394 Levent, Istanbul, Turkey
Regulatory authority: Sermaye Piyasası Kurulu – Capital Markets Board of Turkey, Eskişehir Yolu 8.Km No:156, 06530 Ankara, Turkey
h) Zagrebačka banka, Paromlinska 2, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Regulatory authority: Croatian Agency for Supervision of Financial Services, Miramarska 24B, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
i) UniCredit Bulbank, Sveta Nedelya Sq. 7, BG-1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
Regulatory authority: Financial Supervision Commission (FSC), 33 Shar Planina str.,1303 Sofia, Bulgaria
This report may contain excerpts sourced from UniCredit Bank Russia, UniCredit Tiriac Bank, Bank Pekao or Yapi Kredi all members of the UniCredit group. If so, the pieces and
the contents have not been materially altered.
Key 1a: UniCredit Bank AG, UniCredit Bank AG London Branch, UniCredit CAIB AG, UniCredit Bank AG Milan Branch, UniCredit CAIB Securities UK Ltd., UniCredit Securities,
UniCredit Menkul Değerler A.Ş., Zagrebačka banka and UniCredit Bulbank and/or a company affiliated with it (pursuant to relevant domestic law) owns at least 2% of the capital
stock of the company.
Key 1b: The analyzed company owns at least 2% of the capital stock of UniCredit Bank AG, UniCredit Bank AG London Branch, UniCredit CAIB AG, UniCredit Bank AG Milan
Branch, UniCredit CAIB Securities UK Ltd., UniCredit Securities, UniCredit Menkul Değerler A.Ş., Zagrebačka banka and UniCredit Bulbank and/or a company affiliated with it
(pursuant to relevant domestic law).
Key 2: UniCredit Bank AG, UniCredit Bank AG London Branch, UniCredit CAIB AG, UniCredit Bank AG Milan Branch, UniCredit CAIB Securities UK Ltd., UniCredit Securities,
UniCredit Menkul Değerler A.Ş., Zagrebačka banka and UniCredit Bulbank and/or a company affiliated with it (pursuant to relevant domestic law) belonged to a syndicate that
has acquired securities or any related derivatives of the analyzed company within the twelve months preceding publication, in connection with any publicly disclosed offer of
securities of the analyzed company, or in any related derivatives.
Key 3: UniCredit Bank AG, UniCredit Bank AG London Branch, UniCredit CAIB AG, UniCredit Bank AG Milan Branch, UniCredit CAIB Securities UK Ltd., UniCredit Securities,
UniCredit Menkul Değerler A.Ş., Zagrebačka banka and UniCredit Bulbank and/or a company affiliated (pursuant to relevant domestic law) administers the securities issued by
the analyzed company on the stock exchange or on the market by quoting bid and ask prices (i.e. acts as a market maker or liquidity provider in the securities of the analyzed
company or in any related derivatives).
Key 4: The analyzed company and UniCredit Bank AG, UniCredit Bank AG London Branch, UniCredit CAIB AG, UniCredit Bank AG Milan Branch, UniCredit CAIB Securities UK Ltd.,
UniCredit Securities, UniCredit Menkul Değerler A.Ş., Zagrebačka banka and UniCredit Bulbank and/or a company affiliated (pursuant to relevant domestic law) concluded an
agreement on services in connection with investment banking transactions in the last 12 months, in return for which the Bank received a consideration or promise of consideration.
Key 5: The analyzed company and UniCredit Bank AG, UniCredit Bank AG London Branch, UniCredit CAIB AG, UniCredit Bank AG Milan Branch, UniCredit CAIB Securities UK Ltd.,
UniCredit Securities, UniCredit Menkul Değerler A.Ş., Zagrebačka banka and UniCredit Bulbank and/or a company affiliated (pursuant to relevant domestic law) have concluded
an agreement on the preparation of analyses.
Key 6a: Employees of UniCredit Bank AG Milan Branch and/or members of the Board of Directors of UniCredit (pursuant to relevant domestic law) are members of the Board of
Directors of the Issuer. Members of the Board of Directors of the Issuer hold office in the Board of Directors of UniCredit (pursuant to relevant domestic law).
Key 6b: The analyst is on the supervisory/management board of the company they cover.
Key 7: UniCredit Bank AG Milan Branch and/or other Italian banks belonging to the UniCredit Group (pursuant to relevant domestic law) extended significant amounts of credit
facilities to the Issuer.
The information contained herein may include forward-looking statements within the meaning of U.S. federal securities laws that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Factors
that could cause a company’s actual results and financial condition to differ from expectations include, without limitation: political uncertainty, changes in general economic
conditions that adversely affect the level of demand for the company’s products or services, changes in foreign exchange markets, changes in international and domestic
financial markets and in the competitive environment, and other factors relating to the foregoing. All forward-looking statements contained in this report are qualified in their
entirety by this cautionary statement.
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UniCredit Research*
Thorsten Weinelt, CFA Dr. Ingo Heimig
Global Head of Research & Chief Strategist Head of Research Operations
+49 89 378-15110 +49 89 378-13952
thorsten.weinelt@unicreditgroup.de ingo.heimig@unicreditgroup.de
Equity Research
Mark Robinson, Head
+44 20 7826-7960, mark.robinson@caib.unicreditgroup.eu
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*UniCredit Research is the joint research department of UniCredit Bank AG (UniCredit Bank), UniCredit CAIB Group (UniCredit CAIB), UniCredit Securities (UniCredit Securities),
UniCredit Menkul Değerler A.Ş. (UniCredit Menkul), Zagrebačka banka and UniCredit Bulbank.