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Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Wacker Chemie AG's Q1 2025 results reveal a mixed performance across different segments, reflecting the broader challenges in the market.</li><li>The company reported sales of EUR 1.48 billion, slightly down from the previous year but higher than the preceding quarter due to seasonality.</li><li>Group EBITDA stood at EUR 127 million, down from EUR 172 million year-over-year, mainly attributed to weak demand in solar-grade polysilicon and construction-related polymers, alongside lower utilization rates.</li></ul>

Wacker Chemie AG's Q1 2025 results reveal a mixed performance across different segments, reflecting the broader challenges in the market.The company reported sales of EUR 1.48 billion, slightly down from the previous year but higher than the preceding quarter due to seasonality.Group EBITDA stood at EUR 127 million, down from EUR 172 million year-over-year, mainly attributed to weak demand in solar-grade polysilicon and construction-related polymers, alongside lower utilization rates.

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Blue Lotus China New Economy Research, Blue Lotus Research Institute

Eric Wen

Blue Lotus China New Economy Research

China growth and global non-US Internet equities

Blue Lotus Research Institute

Blue Lotus Research is a Hong Kong Type 4 Licensed investment advisory firm focusing on Chinese growth equities and global non-US Internet equities

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<li>Contrary to battery, Chinese renewable energy companies have largely been absent in EU's solar capacity buildup.We believe the main reason is supply chain structure differences;</li>
<li>One year after we tallied the capacity in C2Q23,11% of the tallied capacity have been cancelled, but another 66% more have been added, among which, however,no ingot or polysilicon projects; </li>
<li>Wacker Chemie's 39GW polysilicon project needs to supply ~10GW of ingot and wafer,~13GW of cell and ~52GW of module, comparing to EU's 2023 installation of only 56GW, which is insufficient.</li>
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Contrary to battery, Chinese renewable energy companies have largely been absent in EU's solar capacity buildup.We believe the main reason is supply chain structure differences;
One year after we tallied the capacity in C2Q23,11% of the tallied capacity have been cancelled, but another 66% more have been added, among which, however,no ingot or polysilicon projects; 
Wacker Chemie's 39GW polysilicon project needs to supply ~10GW of ingot and wafer,~13GW of cell and ~52GW of module, comparing to EU's 2023 installation of only 56GW, which is insufficient.


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Index Rebal Trades & Special Situations, Quiddity Advisors

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

Index Rebal Trades & Special Situations

Quiddity Advisors

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Index Rebalance

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<li>The index changes for the STOXX Europe Indices for the June 2022 Rebalance were announced yesterday. </li>
<li>There will be 11 Adds and 11 Deletes for the STOXX Europe 600 Index. Some of these changes will also be reflected in the EURO STOXX Index.</li>
<li>Below is a closer look at the Inclusion Parameters and price performance of the names involved in this Rebalance Event.</li>
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The index changes for the STOXX Europe Indices for the June 2022 Rebalance were announced yesterday. 
There will be 11 Adds and 11 Deletes for the STOXX Europe 600 Index. Some of these changes will also be reflected in the EURO STOXX Index.
Below is a closer look at the Inclusion Parameters and price performance of the names involved in this Rebalance Event.


STOXX Europe June 2022 Rebal: Focus on Wacker Chemie, Telefonica Deutschland, CD Projekt, and Nokian

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<li>The STOXX Europe 600 Index is a benchmark index with a fixed number of 600 components representing large, mid and small capitalization companies across 17 countries of the European region.</li>
<li>The EURO STOXX Index is a subset of the STOXX Europe 600 Index and is also the parent index for the widely-tracked EURO STOXX 50 Index.</li>
<li>This is a follow-up insight to <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/insights/stoxx-europe-indices-quiddity-leaderboard-for-june-2022-rebalance" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="insights:68708" rel="noopener">STOXX Europe Indices: Quiddity Leaderboard for June 2022 Rebalance</a> with an updated look at potential index changes in June 2022.</li>
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The STOXX Europe 600 Index is a benchmark index with a fixed number of 600 components representing large, mid and small capitalization companies across 17 countries of the European region.
The EURO STOXX Index is a subset of the STOXX Europe 600 Index and is also the parent index for the widely-tracked EURO STOXX 50 Index.
This is a follow-up insight to STOXX Europe Indices: Quiddity Leaderboard for June 2022 Rebalance with an updated look at potential index changes in June 2022.


STOXX Europe Indices: Quiddity Leaderboard for June 2022 2.0

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

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<li>Broad global MSCI equity indexes (ACWI, ACWI ex-US, EAFE, and EM) remain bearish, as do indexes in Japan, Hong Kong, China, Europe, and Germany.</li>
<li>Until we see these indexes break above downtrends and key resistance levels, we cannot be bullish.</li>
<li>Remain overweight Energy and Materials with the secular commodity bull market intact. Defensive Sectors are also hitting 1-2-year RS highs; we recommend overweights to Health Care, Utilities, and Consumer Staples.</li>
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Broad global MSCI equity indexes (ACWI, ACWI ex-US, EAFE, and EM) remain bearish, as do indexes in Japan, Hong Kong, China, Europe, and Germany.
Until we see these indexes break above downtrends and key resistance levels, we cannot be bullish.
Remain overweight Energy and Materials with the secular commodity bull market intact. Defensive Sectors are also hitting 1-2-year RS highs; we recommend overweights to Health Care, Utilities, and Consumer Staples.


Opportunities Within Energy and Materials

Germany

Wacker Chemie AG is a globally active chemical company with a wide range of specialty chemical products. The Company's products include hyperpure polysilicon for the electronics and solar industries, semiconductor wafers, a broad range of silicones, vinyl acetate based polymers, and biotech products.

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