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Vinod Nedumudy

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<ul><li>UK Trade Remedies Authority recommends raising lorry and bus tire duties  </li><li>ETRMA notes steep spike in low-cost tire imports from China to Europe  </li><li>Volkswagen mulling closing two plants in Germany under China impact</li></ul>

UK Trade Remedies Authority recommends raising lorry and bus tire duties  ETRMA notes steep spike in low-cost tire imports from China to Europe  Volkswagen mulling closing two plants in Germany under China impact

UK, EU Squirm As Chinese Tire Exports To The Continent Go Up

European Event-Driven Analyst

Jesus Rodriguez Aguilar

Event-Driven

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<li>GBL and Porsche became more attractive in August as discounts widened to 26.4% and 30.2%, respectively, despite higher NAVs; Investor and Industrivärden remain above NAV.</li>
<li>Vivendi remains the valuation outlier at a 55.5% discount after July's court ruling removed mandatory-offer optionality, leaving substantial upside but no obvious near-term convergence catalyst.</li>
<li>Holding-Company valuations remain driven by governance, balance sheets and catalysts rather than historical averages: GBL offers the best balance, while Investor's premium leaves little margin of safety.</li>
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GBL and Porsche became more attractive in August as discounts widened to 26.4% and 30.2%, respectively, despite higher NAVs; Investor and Industrivärden remain above NAV.
Vivendi remains the valuation outlier at a 55.5% discount after July's court ruling removed mandatory-offer optionality, leaving substantial upside but no obvious near-term convergence catalyst.
Holding-Company valuations remain driven by governance, balance sheets and catalysts rather than historical averages: GBL offers the best balance, while Investor's premium leaves little margin of safety.


Selected European HoldCos and DLC: August 2026 Report

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<li>European holding company discounts remain highly dispersed, reflecting governance, capital allocation and catalyst visibility rather than asset quality. Structural valuation gaps continue to define relative-value opportunities across the sector.</li>
<li>Vivendi's Court of Appeal ruling removed mandatory bid expectations, widening its discount sharply, while GBL's strategic transformation and Nordic governance models continue supporting structurally tighter valuations.</li>
<li>Rio Tinto's DLC premium remains elevated, Porsche SE still trades below historical valuation despite improving fundamentals, and Heineken Holding's discount remains unusually tight versus long-term averages.</li>
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European holding company discounts remain highly dispersed, reflecting governance, capital allocation and catalyst visibility rather than asset quality. Structural valuation gaps continue to define relative-value opportunities across the sector.
Vivendi's Court of Appeal ruling removed mandatory bid expectations, widening its discount sharply, while GBL's strategic transformation and Nordic governance models continue supporting structurally tighter valuations.
Rio Tinto's DLC premium remains elevated, Porsche SE still trades below historical valuation despite improving fundamentals, and Heineken Holding's discount remains unusually tight versus long-term averages.


Selected European HoldCos and DLC: July 2026 Report

Smartkarma Research Team, Smartkarma

Smartkarma Research

Smartkarma Research Team

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<p>In our next Webinar, we welcome Analysts <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/profiles/sc-capital/analysis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Redl (SC Capital)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/profiles/sameer-taneja-a0539e0c-84dd-4e66-9c40-6e598edfb4c5/analysis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sameer Taneja (Investics Research)</a>, who will be joined by Smartkarma CEO Raghav Kapoor in an exciting discussion on the EV landscape in China.</p>
<h3>The webinar will be hosted on Friday, 21 October 2022, 11:00 SGT/HKT.</h3>
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<p>Chris Redl has over 20 years' experience covering the global automotive industry both on the Sell-side (UBS &amp; Morgan Stanley) and Buy-side (Och-Ziff). His current focus is on electric vehicle stocks &amp; their supply chains, aiming is to identify the winners and losers from a long/short perspective. This includes close coverage of legacy automakers as well.<br><br>Sameer Taneja is the founder of Investics Research, a firm that engages in bottom-up sectoral research, fundamental research of publicly listed companies as well as forensic analysis. He started his career as a sell-side analyst in a stockbroking firm called B&amp;K Securities (India) from 2004-07, covering the ferrous sector. From 2007-16 he worked as an investment analyst in a hedge fund called Kelusa Capital, covering the materials, utilities, construction &amp; heavy machinery, and the auto sector. He continued to work on the buy-side from 2017-19 in a firm called Skale Investments (with similar sectoral coverage), before founding Investics Research in 2019.</p>
<p>Raghav is the co-founder and CEO of Smartkarma.</p>

In our next Webinar, we welcome Analysts Chris Redl (SC Capital) and Sameer Taneja (Investics Research), who will be joined by Smartkarma CEO Raghav Kapoor in an exciting discussion on the EV landscape in China.
The webinar will be hosted on Friday, 21 October 2022, 11:00 SGT/HKT.



Register for the Webinar here



Chris Redl has over 20 years' experience covering the global automotive industry both on the Sell-side (UBS &amp; Morgan Stanley) and Buy-side (Och-Ziff). His current focus is on electric vehicle stocks &amp; their supply chains, aiming is to identify the winners and losers from a long/short perspective. This includes close coverage of legacy automakers as well.  Sameer Taneja is the founder of Investics Research, a firm that engages in bottom-up sectoral research, fundamental research of publicly listed companies as well as forensic analysis. He started his career as a sell-side analyst in a stockbroking firm called B&amp;K Securities (India) from 2004-07, covering the ferrous sector. From 2007-16 he worked as an investment analyst in a hedge fund called Kelusa Capital, covering the materials, utilities, construction &amp; heavy machinery, and the auto sector. He continued to work on the buy-side from 2017-19 in a firm called Skale Investments (with similar sectoral coverage), before founding Investics Research in 2019.
Raghav is the co-founder and CEO of Smartkarma.

Smartkarma Webinar | China EVs: Sales Strong, Stocks Weak?! 🤨

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<li>Mid-July saw aggregate dispersion widen across Europe’s liquid dual-class universe. Median and mean became more negative as widening in Media-for-Europe and Grifols outweighed convergence across several structurally wide positive-premium pairs.</li>
<li>Convergence nevertheless remained broad beneath the headline statistics. Handelsbanken, Schindler, Henkel, Fuchs, Sixt and Carlsberg all tightened, reinforcing the episodic rather than linear character of ordinary/preference-share relative value.</li>
<li>BMW exits the universe following the conversion of all preferreds into ordinary shares and termination of preferred-share trading, marking the second major capital-structure resolution in consecutive months after Telecom Italia.</li>
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Mid-July saw aggregate dispersion widen across Europe’s liquid dual-class universe. Median and mean became more negative as widening in Media-for-Europe and Grifols outweighed convergence across several structurally wide positive-premium pairs.
Convergence nevertheless remained broad beneath the headline statistics. Handelsbanken, Schindler, Henkel, Fuchs, Sixt and Carlsberg all tightened, reinforcing the episodic rather than linear character of ordinary/preference-share relative value.
BMW exits the universe following the conversion of all preferreds into ordinary shares and termination of preferred-share trading, marking the second major capital-structure resolution in consecutive months after Telecom Italia.


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

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Porsche Automobil Holding SE is a holding company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, offers development, production, and sale of automobiles along with financial services. Porsche operates worldwide.

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Selected European HoldCos and DLC: August 2026 Report

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Jesus Rodriguez Aguilar

Selected European HoldCos and DLC: July 2026 Report

European holding company discounts remain highly dispersed. Vivendi loses its legal catalyst, GBL continues its strategic re-rating, while Nordic...

Jesus Rodriguez Aguilar

Smartkarma Webinar | China EVs: Sales Strong, Stocks Weak?! 🤨

On 21 October 11am SGT, Smartkarma CEO Raghav Kapoor will be joined Analysts Chris Redl and Sameer Taneja in an exciting discussion on the EV...

Smartkarma Research

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

-July widened dispersion across Europe’s dual-class universe, yet selective convergence persisted beneath the surface. Structural anomalies...

Jesus Rodriguez Aguilar

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