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Hive Box Holdings / Equity Capital Markets

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<li>In this insight we compare Hive Box to InPost, a smart locker specialist</li>
<li>The firms play in different geographies, making apples:apples comps tough</li>
<li>In the absence of better comps, comparing Hive Box to InPost still useful</li>
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In this insight we compare Hive Box to InPost, a smart locker specialist
The firms play in different geographies, making apples:apples comps tough
In the absence of better comps, comparing Hive Box to InPost still useful


Hive Box Holdings Pre-IPO, Part 3: Hive Box Vs InPost Group: Similarities & (BIG) Differences

European Event-Driven Analyst

Jesus Rodriguez Aguilar

Event-Driven

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<li>Recommended all-cash €15.60 offer values InPost at €7.8bn, implying a 50% premium to the undisturbed price, backed by 48% irrevocable support, unanimous boards and fully committed certain-funds financing.</li>
<li>Transaction risk is low, primarily timing-driven: strong margin resilience, improving international ROIC and comfortable pro-forma debt service capacity reduce break risk, leaving regulatory duration and free-float tendering as key variables.</li>
<li>At €15.10, the 3.3% gross spread implies a ~90% market-implied success probability and mid-single-digit annualised returns on a Q4-2026 close, offering attractive risk-adjusted upside for event-driven investors.</li>
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Recommended all-cash €15.60 offer values InPost at €7.8bn, implying a 50% premium to the undisturbed price, backed by 48% irrevocable support, unanimous boards and fully committed certain-funds financing.
Transaction risk is low, primarily timing-driven: strong margin resilience, improving international ROIC and comfortable pro-forma debt service capacity reduce break risk, leaving regulatory duration and free-float tendering as key variables.
At €15.10, the 3.3% gross spread implies a ~90% market-implied success probability and mid-single-digit annualised returns on a Q4-2026 close, offering attractive risk-adjusted upside for event-driven investors.


Locker Secured: InPost’s Take-Private Trades Time, Not Uncertainty

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In this edition: • Aegon | starts EUR 227m share buyback today • BE Semiconductor Industries | records strong order intake in 25Q4 • Heineken | Dolf van den Brink to step down as CEO at the end of May • Wolters Kluwer | acquires StandardFusion for EUR 32m • Fagron | completes acquisition of University Compounding Pharmacy • TomTom | 4Q25 new car registrations expected to increase mid-single digit in Europe • Odido | revives plan for IPO in Amsterdam; possibly already this month • Dutch politics | the Netherlands heading for a minority coalition?• Webinar | 𝗜𝗻𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗲: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗕𝗶𝗱?• Corporate agenda | week 3 – 8

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<li>InPost’s disclosure that it has received an indicative proposal for the acquisition of all outstanding shares has materially increased the likelihood of a take-private transaction.</li>
<li>While the company initially provided no details, subsequent reporting by Bloomberg strongly supports the scenario outlined in our earlier analysis.</li>
<li>Strategically, a take-private makes sense.</li>
</ul>


InPost’s disclosure that it has received an indicative proposal for the acquisition of all outstanding shares has materially increased the likelihood of a take-private transaction.
While the company initially provided no details, subsequent reporting by Bloomberg strongly supports the scenario outlined in our earlier analysis.
Strategically, a take-private makes sense.


InPost | Coming Back to the Nest? (Part II)

<ul>
<li>We issued a company report (11 pages) featuring InPost.</li>
<li>InPost received an indicative proposal for a potential acquisition of all shares.</li>
<li>The company will evaluate the proposal, ensuring the interests of the company and all stakeholders are considered.</li>
</ul>


We issued a company report (11 pages) featuring InPost.
InPost received an indicative proposal for a potential acquisition of all shares.
The company will evaluate the proposal, ensuring the interests of the company and all stakeholders are considered.


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InPost S.A. is an e-commerce enablement platform. InPost provides delivery services through its network of automated parcel machines, including those in the UK, as well as to-door couriers and fulfillment services to e-commerce merchants.

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