KPN Update +0.2% – Holding for now as we continue to see value

Stock now -0.8% from Friday’s level after the company confirmed a press report this weekend that it has rejected two unrelated unsolicited approaches from EQT-Stonepeak and KKR – while we are excited to hear firm news about approaches we are not adding here Proposition from EQT did not include an offer price – Reports over…

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Current Mkt Thoughts: The worm is Turning

Over the last month or so there has been a reweight into defensive’s and a divergence between domestic reopening plays and international. I think there will be a period of time in the middle of the year where everything consolidates. When the rate of change data starts rolling over a bit. This could be what…

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UPDATE: BUY EDF: Government Buyout. Perf +25.45% to date

Reuters article out overnight saying the government set aside EUR 10bn to buyout the 16.3% minority interest and is having talks with unions – article cites people familiar Our back of the envelope calculation implies this is a >75% premium which would imply a price of EUR 19.8 versus the last price of EUR 11.225…

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Faurecia – Cutting our Trading Short -7.5% ABS, -1.8% REL

*Selling flow did not outweigh the strength in the market over the last couple of weeks *Our short thesis was based on our expectations that we would see 1/3 of the STLA’s stake distribution going to holders who would not wish to hold a small stake in a relatively small European listed company with no…

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Ferro-Alloy – Update – Reiterate BUY +30% ABS, +28% REL

Medium term upside 300%, Blue Sky 1,500% The company has just released a new corporate presentation where they highlight Vanadium as a green metal and its new cornerstone investor, the founder of Xstrata 90% of the consumed vanadium goes to the global steel industry but the company highlights in the presentation the entirely new major…

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