26.04.2020, 5196 Zeichen

Andritz: International technology group Andritz has received an order from Northern Copper Industry, Co., Ltd., P.R. China, to deliver a 20-high cold-rolling mill in four-column design to their new production facility located in the Yuncheng economic and technological development zone in Shanxi Province. Start-up is scheduled for December 2021. The Andritz scope of supply includes the engineering work as well as delivery of the uncoiler group with separate uncoiler, the two reversing coilers, the rolling mill stand, the two inlet and discharge groups including shape measurement and control as well as the entire hydraulic and rolling oil systems. Northern Copper with headquarters in Yuncheng, China was established in December 2002 and operates in the mining, mineral processing and smelting sector for copper.
Andritz: weekly performance: 5.29%

RCB: The annual tender procedure at Vienna Stock Exchange for the function of Specialist on the cash market, which ended on April 16th, 2020 after only one bidding round, saw Raiffeisen Centrobank AG (RCB) as the largest domestic market participant in this segment with 19 mandates. As Specialist and Market Maker, RCB will be responsible for providing liquidity, i.e. regular pricing, for the respective shares for an entire year. As per May 4th, 2020, RCB will act again as a Specialist and Market Maker for all 38 shares listed in the ATX Prime Market. The Austrian competence center for equities and certificates is thus the only Market Maker covering the Prime Market in its entirety. This underscores RCB’s commitment to the local stock exchange: “As leading Specialist and Market Maker, the RCB is committed to support Austrian small and mid-caps on the Vienna Stock Exchange. We are particularly pleased that we were also selected as Specialist for all non-ATX listed stocks, which underscores our sustained commitment as Austrian expert to the local capital market,” said Martin Kreiner, Head of trading. Specialists and Market Makers are under the obligation to place binding buy and sell prices (quotes) into the system during a certain period in continuous trading, which must comply with a predefined minimum size and maximum spread. In contrast to the Market Maker, the requirements of a Specialist are generally higher because a larger minimum quote size must be quoted with a narrower spread. The Vienna Stock Exchange has introduced the Specialist and Market Maker system in order to enhance market liquidity.

Agrana: The Management Board of Agrana Beteiligungs-AG, an internationally-oriented Austrian fruit, starch and sugar company, has today decided to propose a dividend payout in the amount of Euro 0.77 per share for the 2019|20 financial year (dividend for 2018|19: Euro 1.00 per share) to the 33rd Annual General Meeting to be held on 3 July 2020. The company remains essentially committed to a predictable, reliable and transparent dividend policy that is geared to continuity. The dividend is guided by earnings as well as cash flow and the debt position of the Group in the past financial year, but also takes into account current events and forecasts of future business development. According to preliminary figures, Agrana achieved an operating result (EBIT) as forecast of Euro 87.1 mn in its 2019|20 financial year (1 March 2019 to 29 February 2020), significantly higher than that of the prior year (2018|19: Euro 66.6 mn). Group revenue amounted to Euro 2,480.7 mn (2018|19: Euro 2,443.0 mn). On the basis of the forecasts prepared before the incidence of COVID-19, the Agrana Group anticipated a significant increase (of between ten and 50 percent) in consolidated EBIT. Although negative impacts of COVID-19 are expected on revenue and EBIT in all segments, it is not yet possible to sufficiently quantify these.
Agrana: weekly performance: -2.44%

Vienna Insurance Group: Against the backdrop of the ongoing Covid-19 crisis and the associated increased insecurities on capital markets and on the operative business development, VIG Group expects dampening effects on its full year results 2020. The Covid-19 pandemic did not yet substantially burden the results of the first quarter. In contrast, the first three months of 2020 indicate a positive premium and stable results development compared to the same period in the previous year. Given the substantial uncertainties on the operative insurance business as well as on capital markets, the expected impacts of the Covid-19 crisis for the full year cannot be assessed at the moment. In particular, new business is assumed to decline. At the same time, negative impacts from impairments, especially on the financial result in subsequent quarters, cannot be excluded. Accordingly, VIG Group closely monitors the economic environment and capital markets in order to be able to assess effects on its assets in a timely manner. The solvency ratio of the Group as of 31 March 2020 based on first estimates and considering the substantial volatilities in interests and spreads is on a solid level at the lower end of the defined comfort zone of 170% to 230%.
VIG: weekly performance: -2.19%

(From the 21st Austria weekly https://www.boerse-social.com/21staustria (22/04/2020)

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