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<a href="https://smartkarma.com/entities/synthomer-plc">Synthomer</a> is navigating a challenging period marked by significant financial losses and revenue decline over the past three years, driven by volatile end-market demand and competitive pressures. The company has suspended its dividend to preserve cash and focus on deleveraging.</li>
 <li>A strategic transformation is underway, focused on simplifying the portfolio through divestments of non-core assets, reducing costs, and pivoting towards higher-margin specialty products. This strategy is beginning to show early signs of success, with an improved outlook for FY 2026 profitability and cash flow.</li>
 <li>Key risks remain elevated, including high balance sheet leverage, uncertainty in the global macroeconomic environment impacting key end markets like construction and coatings, and volatility in raw material costs. The company's ability to successfully execute its turnaround strategy and refinance its debt is critical for future value creation.</li>
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Synthomer is navigating a challenging period marked by significant financial losses and revenue decline over the past three years, driven by volatile end-market demand and competitive pressures. The company has suspended its dividend to preserve cash and focus on deleveraging.
  A strategic transformation is underway, focused on simplifying the portfolio through divestments of non-core assets, reducing costs, and pivoting towards higher-margin specialty products. This strategy is beginning to show early signs of success, with an improved outlook for FY 2026 profitability and cash flow.
  Key risks remain elevated, including high balance sheet leverage, uncertainty in the global macroeconomic environment impacting key end markets like construction and coatings, and volatility in raw material costs. The company's ability to successfully execute its turnaround strategy and refinance its debt is critical for future value creation.
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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.

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Market dynamics remain largely positive which continues to support our constructive outlook, and we view recent weakness as a buying opportunity. Below we highlight notable recent developments and actionable stocks within the Technology, Financials, and Materials Sectors.

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Global equities (MSCI ACWI, ACWI ex-US, and EAFE) remain bullish with their uptrends intact, and the MSCI Emerging Markets index continues to hold above major support at $52 on the EEM-US. Additionally, Europe’s STOXX 50 and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng are on the cusp of short-term breakouts, while the major indexes in China (Shanghai Composite &amp; CSI 300) are currently breaking above short-term resistance... see chart below. Considering the absence of breakdowns and the fact that market dynamics remain largely positive, our overall constructive outlook remains appropriate.

Global equities (MSCI ACWI, ACWI ex-US, and EAFE) remain bullish with their uptrends intact, and the MSCI Emerging Markets index continues to hold above major support at $52 on the EEM-US. Additionally, Europe’s STOXX 50 and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng are on the cusp of short-term breakouts, while the major indexes in China (Shanghai Composite &amp; CSI 300) are currently breaking above short-term resistance... see chart below. Considering the absence of breakdowns and the fact that market dynamics remain largely positive, our overall constructive outlook remains appropriate.

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Global Head of Research & Head of Europe, Lucror Analytics

Felix Fischer

Global Head of Research & Head of Europe

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Lucror Analytics is a leading credit and ESG research specialist and a provider of technology solutions for differentiated fixed income strategies. Our roots are in bottom-up fundamental credit analysis with a specialization in high yield corporate credits from Europe, Asia and Latin America. We are one of few research specialists integrating ESG considerations with fundamental credit research through a dedicated ESG platform. Our ESG assessment covers five key criteria: Disclosure, E,S, & G Pillars, Controversies, ESG Impact on Credit and ESG Momentum.

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The Europe HY Trade Book for September 2024 includes current trade recommendations drawn from our European HY coverage universe, along with relative-value scatter plots and tables by industry.

  The Europe HY Trade Book for September 2024 includes current trade recommendations drawn from our European HY coverage universe, along with relative-value scatter plots and tables by industry. 

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 The Europe HY Trade Book for August 2024 includes current trade recommendations drawn from our European HY coverage universe, along with relative-value scatter plots and tables by industry.  

Europe HY Trade Book - August 2024 - Lucror Analytics

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Synthomer is a British specialty chemicals company that produces and supplies high-performance polymers and ingredients. The company's products are used in various sectors, including coatings, construction, adhesives, health and protection, and paper, carpet & foam. Synthomer was founded in 1863 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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