Russian stock market morning report by Veles Capital (June 25, 2009, Thursday, 7.30 a.m. GMT)
On Wednesday the domestic market was recovering from the two-day drop. Sberbank was the leader: the shares of the company showed highest adding by the end of the day and were of the most demand on behalf of the trade participants. Against the background of climbing oil prices life returned to the oil-and-gas sector: Gazprom, LUKOIL and Rosneft added 3-5%. On the threshold of stats output on the orders of long-term goods in the U.S. the RTS index drifted in the range of 945-950 points, however, the unexpectedly good results provoked upping to 960 points.
Main news
NOVATEK wants to work with Total.
The French concern Total signed with NOVATEK the main terms of the deal on purchasing 49% of the participation share in Terneftegas, JSC (a 100% subsidiary of NOVATEK) for the joint development of the Termokarstovoe deposit, imparts the press-release of NOVATEK.
In 2009 Gazprom will sell less gas to the abroad.
Export of Gazprom’s gas to the far abroad in 2009 is planned to be at the level of 142.1 bn cubic meters versus 158.8 bn cubic meters in 2008, stated the deputy-chairman of Gazprom’s board, CEO of Gazpro Export Alexander Medvedev at the press-conference, imparts Interfax.
Other news
- Mechel corrected the investment program for 2009-2012, and will invest 2.9 bn USD.
Mechel Group plans to direct 2.9 bn USD within the framework of the investment program for 2009-2012, 1.4 bn USD out of which will be directed to the mining segment, 1.2 bn USD – to the steel smelting, 110 mn USD – to Ferro-smelting and about 36 mn USD – to the energy sector.
- NMTP summed up the results of 1Q 2009 by IAS.
Net profit of Novorossiyskiy sea trade port (NMTP) lost 40.1% by IAS in 1Q 2009 versus the similar estimate of the previous year to 33.732 mn USD.
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Russian stock market daily morning report (March 19, 2010, Friday)
On Thursday the Russian share market was lightly volatile. The trades began with the slight gap down, but during the first minutes the market changed the movement direction and began climbing. In the second half of the trading session the sharfes were mainly slipping down. The oil quotes were the main driving factors. Besides, the stats on the unemployment of the U.S. showed slight restricting affect on the quotes. Among the liquid shares we should outline the shares of Rosneft and Vimpelcom. Shares of Rosneft continued slipping down due to the news on possible problems will accounting for the sold oil as a result of the acts by the courts of the U.S. and the UK. In case of Vimpelcom the quotes reduction of the company’s shares was indicated at NYSE, which might have been related to the possibility of excluding the notes of the operator from MSCI Barra indices.
Russian stock market daily morning report (March 18, 2010, Thursday)
On Wednesday the movement of the Russian indices gave a good run for market participants’ money. The session was extremely volatile, but in the end the market closed with good adding. Basing on positive macroeconomic stats and news early that day, and also on the climbing Asian and commodity markets, the open of the Russian markets was optimistic. The shares were adding more than percent since the very open. Later on the growth was warmed up by the open of European grounds and domestic indices reached maximum levels, having added on RTS and MICEX 2.1% and 1.5% respectively. However, closer to the end of the session a slight wave of sale swapped the market, being provided by the correction at the oil market because of the output information on oil supplies in the U.S. Also several corporate stories were developing at a time. Such as the possible claims against Rosneft on behalf of the foreign legal authorities of U.S. and UK on YUKOS case that still is in progress and made the shares of the given company become outsiders. So by the end of the day they lost 1.5%. Also rally went on in the shares of Gazprom Neft due to approved long-term dividend strategy. The shares of LUKOIL were among the growth leaders, due to Wednesday the head of the company confirmed that in April the deposit after Yu.Korchagin at Caspian would be launched and that is supposed to affect the extraction level of the current year positively. On Wednesday growth continued in the power energy segment also and the reason for that was the total fundamental underestimation of the shares within the sector.
Russian stock market daily evening report (March 18, 2010, Thursday)
The market was lightly volatile. The day began with growth and ended with dropping and mainly repeated the dynamics of the oil cost. A bit more aggressive sale was on the shares of Rosneft – threat on behalf the western legislation laid the quotes down. Demand is gradually returning to the preferred shares of telecommunication companies’ shares.
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Surgutneftegas: Currency rates are putting away the dividends..., 26 November 2009
We have revised our model of Surgutneftegas. The reason for that was the output of the 3Q 2009 report, correction of our suppositions of the company’s future development, and also the postponing of the target time and evaluation one year forward. Particularly, in our model of Surgutneftegas we have corrected the former forecast of income for the current year towards reduction: on EBIT – by 2.2%, on the net profit – by 21.5%. Mainly that happened due to the corrections on the operating estimates, and also due to the continuing strengthening of Russian ruble, which, considering significant dollar liquidity of the company, turns into negative currency exchange. Due to the negative currency exchange precisely For the second quarter in a row Surgutneftegas shows low level of the net profit. The fourth quarter, as we see it, will not make an exception and we expect negative currency exchange similar to the ones in the third quarter.
Gazprom: Having passed the bottom, 23 November 2009
We have revised our estimation of Gazprom’s shares. The reason for up-dating the company’s model was the report by IAS for 1H 2009, the budget draft for the next year and corrections of WACC method calculation. The provided financial report of the gas monopoly totally brought no surprises. As it has been expected, the second quarter was worse than the first one and likely was the weakest within the whole year. In 1H 2009 the financial estimates were affected by the decline of the gas sale at all markets by 22.3% average, and by the reduction of the retail price of gas by 9.6% in the state of the far abroad and by 24% in Russia. As a result within the six months of the year 2009 sales slipped by 24.1 bn USD or by 32.8% and formed 49.285 bn USD, operating profit and EBITDA showed reduction by 56.7% and 52.6% respectively and formed 12.98 bn USD and 16.18 bn USD.
Rostelecom: Prospects are limited again, 11 November 2009
On Monday Rostelecom summed up the results of 1H 2009 by IAS. According to the report, the sales within the half year year grew by 4.4% versus 1H 2008 and formed 32.8 bn RUR. Net profit dropped from 9.8 bn RUR to 1.5 bn RUR. OIBDA margin reduced by 7.6 p.p. to the level of 17.6%.
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