Fernando González Urbaneja | What we have been hearing and reading these days about Ferrovial’s change of headquarters from Madrid to Amsterdam is astonishing; both the round of interventions by members of the government and some reports and editorials in very reputable media. For example, the front-page headline in Friday’s El País: “Ferrovial was awarded contracts worth 1 billion in the Sánchez era” requires you to read it twice and…
Link Securities | Ferrovial (FER) has set out the rules for carrying out the move of its headquarters to Amsterdam, Expansión newspaper reported on Wednesday. The company will compensate shareholders opposed to the move with €26 per share, the average price of the last three months. In relation to this same issue, the newspaper Expansión reports on Thursday that the largest foreign investor in FER, The Children’s Investment (TCI), which…
Ferrovial, the large Spanish construction company owned by the Del Pino family, one of the 35 companies that make up the Ibex 35, is moving to the Netherlands and the Spanish press is talking in its editorials about “Unrest in the government over Ferrovial’s flight to the Netherlands” (Vozpópuli), “The possible domino effect of Ferrovial” (El Economista) and “The Podemos effect pushes Ferrovial out of Spain” (El Español)…. Given that…
CdM | The Board of Directors of Ferrovial has approved a proposal to the General Meeting to merge the parent company of the Ferrovial, S.A. group with its subsidiary Ferrovial International SE by absorption of the former by the latter. As a result, the head of the group will become a European public limited company (“Societas Europaea”) with its registered office in the Netherlands. At the same meeting, the Board…
Intermoney | Ferrovial are to build a new data centre for Microsoft in San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid), according to the business and finance daily, Cinco Días. Although the amount of the investment has not been disclosed, the newspaper’s sources put it at “hundreds of millions”… Microsoft plans to invest up to 12 billion euros in 17 data centres in Europe; in this way, the company would comply with…
Bankinter | Ferrovial is interested in participating in the development of the new airport in Warsaw, which will be located between the Polish capital and the city of Lodz. The project is valued at around 8 billion euros and the Spanish firm has put itself forward to invest in it, along with other partners. Analyst team’s view: Good news for Ferrovial. The operation would make strategic sense, as it would…
Link Securities | Iberdrola, via its susidiary Avangrid, Acciona, Ferrovial and EDPR will compete for some of the five areas which will be up for auction in California to install offshore floating wind turbines. This will be the first offshore wind energy auction on the west coast of the US, as well as the first the country will carry out to support the potential development of offshore floating wind energy on…
Ferrovial has reached an agreement for the sale of 100% of the Amey group, almost completing the divestment of its former Services division. The acquiring vehicle is a UK company controlled by funds managed by One Equity Partners. They are entering into the transaction alongside their acquisition partner Buckthorn Partners. The transaction represents an enterprise value of GBP 400 million (€455 million) and an estimated equity value of approximately GBP…
The National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) has fined six of Spain’s leading construction companies 203.6 million euros for having altered thousands of public tenders for building and civil works infrastructure contracts over 25 years. The companies penalised are Acciona, Dragados, FCC, Ferrovial, OHLA and Sacyr. According to the CNMC, between 1992 and April 2017, the construction companies met weekly to analyse tenders for works carried out by the various…
Bankinter | The UK’s Heathrow airport has improved its passengers’ estimate for 2022 to 54,4 million, which would mean a recovery of 67% of 2019 levels. It’s an improvement of 3% on the 52,8 million forecast in April. The company foresees revenues doubling to 2.593 billion pounds and adjusted EBITDA growing 257% to 1.370 billion pounds. That said, it has warned that uncertainty remains high and that there are significant…