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Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Aegon | beats consensus estimates, increases interim dividend and sbb; CFO change Aegon reported a resilient 1H26, with operating result rising almost 9% to EUR 804m and operating capital generation (OCG) after holding costs up 27% to EUR 416m.</li>
<li>Both were ahead of consensus average estimates. Net result was essentially flat at EUR 608m.</li>
<li>Valuation equity per share increased 4% to EUR 9.42 in the period, supported by business growth despite significant capital returns. </li>
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Aegon | beats consensus estimates, increases interim dividend and sbb; CFO change Aegon reported a resilient 1H26, with operating result rising almost 9% to EUR 804m and operating capital generation (OCG) after holding costs up 27% to EUR 416m.
Both were ahead of consensus average estimates. Net result was essentially flat at EUR 608m.
Valuation equity per share increased 4% to EUR 9.42 in the period, supported by business growth despite significant capital returns. 


What's News in Amsterdam - 20 August (Aegon | Ahold Delhaize | Arcadis)

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

NASDAQ Composite Index / Technical Analysis

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<li>Following last week's pullback, a consistent theme we are seeing is that many broad market indexes and Sector ETFs are holding above (and bouncing at) major base supports.</li>
<li>As long as these base supports continue to hold, it tells us this is likely just a normal pullback within the overall bullish trend.</li>
<li>Important supports that we need to see hold in order to remain bullish include 4600 on the S&amp;P 500 and 14,400 on the Nasdaq Composite.</li>
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Following last week's pullback, a consistent theme we are seeing is that many broad market indexes and Sector ETFs are holding above (and bouncing at) major base supports.
As long as these base supports continue to hold, it tells us this is likely just a normal pullback within the overall bullish trend.
Important supports that we need to see hold in order to remain bullish include 4600 on the S&amp;P 500 and 14,400 on the Nasdaq Composite.


Major Base Supports Holding; DXY Testing the 2-Month Downtrend; 4600 on SPX Remains Key Support

Netherlands

Aegon Ltd. offers life and health insurance, and related pension, savings, and investment products in Europe and North America. The Company also offers property and casualty insurance in the Netherlands, Spain, and Hungary, and financial services including banking, equipment lease financing, and mortgage lending.

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Aegon (AEG US)

What's News in Amsterdam - 20 August (Aegon | Ahold Delhaize | Arcadis)

egon | beats consensus estimates, increases interim dividend and sbb; CFO change Aegon reported a resilient 1H26, with operating result rising...

The IDEA!

Major Base Supports Holding; DXY Testing the 2-Month Downtrend; 4600 on SPX Remains Key Support

A consistent theme we are seeing is that many broad market indexes and Sector ETFs are holding above (and bouncing at) major base supports...

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