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Fluidra piscina

Companies, Ibex 20th August 2024

Fluidra announces agreement to acquire Australia’s leading filtration systems manufacturer Chadson Engineering

Link Securities | Spanish company Fluidra (FDR), which specialises in connected pool and wellness equipment and solutions, announced on Monday an agreement to acquire Chadson Engineering, a leading designer and manufacturer of granular and regenerative filtration systems. This acquisition complements Fluidra’ s commercial pool product offering and enhances its ability to offer a wide range of solutions to customers in the Asia-Pacific region. With over 50 years’ experience and based…

Abertis reorders its shareholder's debt through its dividend policy

Companies, Ibex 20th August 2024

Abertis (ACS) awarded concession of Chile’s Ruta 5 motorway, investment of around €1,000m needed

Banc Sabadell | Abertis (~46% ACS (ACS) net minority interests and 15% of our P.O.) announced that it has been awarded the concession for the Ruta 5 Santiago-Los Vilos highway (Chile), a 223 km highway connecting the capital (Santiago) with the coastal/tourist area of Los Vilos. This is an asset that has been operating for more than 20 years (brownfield) and links the Autopista Central with the Autopista de Los…

acciona canada

Companies, Ibex 20th August 2024

ACS and Acciona win motorway in US for almost €10 billion

Intermoney | ACS (Buy, PO 46 €) and Acciona (Buy, PO 200 €) have been awarded, together with the Meridian fund, the SR400 toll road, which will be located in the vicinity of Atlanta (United States), according to the newspaper El Confidencial. With an investment of approximately €9.8 billion, the project has a construction period of approximately 5.5 years with an operation and maintenance period of a further 50 years….

Sacyr

Companies, Ibex 19th August 2024

Sacyr, Acciona and Plenary Americas consortium closes financing for construction of Calcasieu River Bridge

Link Securities | The Calcasieu Bridge Partners (CBP) consortium, formed by Sacyr (SCYR), Acciona (ANA) and Plenary Americas, has reached financial closure for the design, construction, operation and maintenance for 50 years of the bridge over the Calcasieu River, part of the Interstate Highway (I-10), in Louisiana (USA), according to Expansión newspaper. According to Efe, the financing includes a tax-exempt private activity bond issue for an amount of $1.333 billion…

naturgy eolica

Companies, Ibex, Markets 19th August 2024

Buy Naturgy: improving environment, high dividend yields and attractive multiples

Bankinter | Despite a less favourable environment for gas and electricity prices, Naturgy has been able to maintain its H1 results at a similar level to last year thanks to the better contribution of the regulated network activity, new investments in renewables and the improvement of the marketing margin. For the full year, the management team expects to achieve an EBITDA of over €5.3bn and a Net Profit Restated of…

Repsol novedad

Companies, Ibex, Relevant News Item 14th August 2024

Repsol signs alliance with Honeywell to create new avenues for production of biofuels and circular materials

Link Securities | Repsol (REP) has signed a partnership with Honeywell to create new production pathways for biofuels and circular materials, according to BolsaMania. The two companies will also explore the possible integration of these methods into Repsol’s existing facilities. They plan to expand and commercialise Honeywell’s technologies for the production of renewable chemicals and fuels at REP’s refineries. They aim to produce different biofuels, including sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)…

grifols edificio

Companies, Ibex, Relevant News Item 14th August 2024

L.A. law firm files class action lawsuit against Grifols based on allegations about accounts

Alphavalue/DIVACONS | A Los Angeles law firm, The Schall Law Firm, filed a class action lawsuit against the Catalan company on Tuesday, based on allegations made earlier this year by Gotham City about its accounts. This comes at a time when Grifols is debating a possible takeover bid being prepared by the Grifols family in conjunction with Canadian fund Brookfield. Grifols shares dropped -5.38% yesterday. Grifols: Buy, Target Price €19.9/share.

Telefonica guapa

Companies, Ibex, Relevant News Item 14th August 2024

Interior Ministry awards Telefónica two contracts for almost €138 million to provide services to General Directorate of Police

Link Securities | The Ministry of the Interior has awarded Telefónica (TEF) two of the three lots of the public contract for the provision of telecommunications services for the Directorate General of Police for almost €138 million, according to the newspaper Expansión. Specifically, Telefónica has been awarded the lot relating to unified communications for the National Police for €112.49 million and the part of the contract relating to information and…

Aena nuevita

Companies, Ibex, Relevant News Item 13th August 2024

Aena airports in Spain register 31.9 million passengers in July, up 7%

CdM | Aena’s airports in Spain registered more than 31.9 million passengers in July, which is an all-time record for the month. The figure is 7.2% higher than in July last year, according to data provided by the company. Specifically, the seventh month of 2024 closed with 31,900,662 passengers in the airports of the Aena network in our country. Of these, 31,828,032 were commercial passengers: 22,241,650 travelled on international flights,…