European Event-Driven Analyst

Jesus Rodriguez Aguilar

Event-Driven

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<li>Discount dispersion remains structural rather than market-driven. Governance, balance-sheet quality and catalyst visibility continue to explain valuation gaps across European holding companies better than underlying portfolio performance.</li>
<li>GBL and Vivendi remain our preferred opportunities. GBL offers long-term NAV compounding after recent widening, while Vivendi still trades at a substantial discount despite improving strategic optionality.</li>
<li>Nordic investment companies remain fully valued. Investor AB trades around NAV and Industrivärden at a premium, while Porsche SE and Rio continue reflecting persistent structural valuation anomalies.</li>
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Discount dispersion remains structural rather than market-driven. Governance, balance-sheet quality and catalyst visibility continue to explain valuation gaps across European holding companies better than underlying portfolio performance.
GBL and Vivendi remain our preferred opportunities. GBL offers long-term NAV compounding after recent widening, while Vivendi still trades at a substantial discount despite improving strategic optionality.
Nordic investment companies remain fully valued. Investor AB trades around NAV and Industrivärden at a premium, while Porsche SE and Rio continue reflecting persistent structural valuation anomalies.


Selected European HoldCos and DLC: June 2026 Report

New Zealand Professional Investment Services Firm, Forsyth Barr

Forsyth Barr

New Zealand Professional Investment Services Firm

We are proud to be a New Zealand owned firm, with 21 offices throughout the country and over 300 employees. We assist personal, institutional and corporate clients providing a full range of investment services.

Forsyth Barr is a foundation New Zealand Exchange firm (NZX) and accredited market participant. We have been confirmed by the Financial Markets Authority as a Qualifying Financial Entity (QFE).

Research is the cornerstone of our advice. We have one of New Zealand's leading teams of analysts. Our global affiliations ensure comprehensive research coverage of all major investment markets.

Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Stride (SPG) continues to trade at a significant discount to its book value.</li><li>SPG has recently been more active in trying to unlock the latent value in its business (sale of Silverdale to Investore, restructure and growth of Industre) and assets under management and fee income are once again growing.</li><li>We continue to see value with SPG trading -16% below our conservative mark-to-market net asset value (NAV) and -34% to NTA, while offering a 10.7% gross yield that appears sustainable even if Diversified fees are lost.</li></ul>

Stride (SPG) continues to trade at a significant discount to its book value.SPG has recently been more active in trying to unlock the latent value in its business (sale of Silverdale to Investore, restructure and growth of Industre) and assets under management and fee income are once again growing.We continue to see value with SPG trading -16% below our conservative mark-to-market net asset value (NAV) and -34% to NTA, while offering a 10.7% gross yield that appears sustainable even if Diversified fees are lost.

Stride Property Buying Back Market Confidence

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<li>June was broadly directionless. The median tightened modestly, while the mean was essentially unchanged as convergence in Volkswagen and Roche was offset by widening in Danieli, Sixt and Carlsberg.</li>
<li>Liquidity-Driven convergence remained selective. Media for Europe, Roche and Volkswagen tightened further, while structurally constrained spreads such as Handelsbanken and Danieli remained firmly anchored.</li>
<li>Telecom Italia exits the universe following completion of the savings-share conversion, leaving ownership structure and implementation constraints as the primary drivers of European dual-class dispersion.</li>
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June was broadly directionless. The median tightened modestly, while the mean was essentially unchanged as convergence in Volkswagen and Roche was offset by widening in Danieli, Sixt and Carlsberg.
Liquidity-Driven convergence remained selective. Media for Europe, Roche and Volkswagen tightened further, while structurally constrained spreads such as Handelsbanken and Danieli remained firmly anchored.
Telecom Italia exits the universe following completion of the savings-share conversion, leaving ownership structure and implementation constraints as the primary drivers of European dual-class dispersion.


Liquid Universe of European Ordinary and Preferred Shares: June '26 Report

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

<p>The probability for a breakout for global equities (MSCI ACWI) has increased in the past week based on several positive technical developments which we highlight below. Still, there are several indicators that continue to tell us we are not yet out of the woods. In this report we outline key technical levels and drivers across major markets, and highlight attractive set ups in the following areas: European &amp; UK Banks, Exchanges/Markets, Asset Managers, and Insurance, Major Autos and Communications.</p>

The probability for a breakout for global equities (MSCI ACWI) has increased in the past week based on several positive technical developments which we highlight below. Still, there are several indicators that continue to tell us we are not yet out of the woods. In this report we outline key technical levels and drivers across major markets, and highlight attractive set ups in the following areas: European &amp; UK Banks, Exchanges/Markets, Asset Managers, and Insurance, Major Autos and Communications.

Global Equity Strategy: Bullish Breakout Probability on the Rise

<p>Adding to last week’s concerns reiterated above, additional developments which have further dampened our overall outlook include a breakdown in the global Discretionary vs. Staples ratio, price and RS deterioration for mainland China, Germany, and European Technology, and new lows in the NASDAQ Global Automobile index. Aside from Germany, other major indexes remain above support in Europe/UK and Japan.  We highlight a number of attractive opportunities in “defensive” Financials including electronic exchanges/markets, insurance, commercial/consumer financing, and select asset managers.</p>

Adding to last week’s concerns reiterated above, additional developments which have further dampened our overall outlook include a breakdown in the global Discretionary vs. Staples ratio, price and RS deterioration for mainland China, Germany, and European Technology, and new lows in the NASDAQ Global Automobile index. Aside from Germany, other major indexes remain above support in Europe/UK and Japan.  We highlight a number of attractive opportunities in “defensive” Financials including electronic exchanges/markets, insurance, commercial/consumer financing, and select asset managers.

Global Equity Strategy: More Cracks Begin to Show

Sweden

Investor AB is an industrial holding company. The Company owns significant shareholdings in major public multinational companies and conducts private equity activities in Europe, North America, and Asia. Investor takes an active ownership role in many of the companies it owns.

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