Tui gains at the start of winter + UBS positive on Delivery Hero + Mediamarkt parent Ceconomy significantly increases sales and operating profit
TUI $TUI1 (-1,21 %)
grows at the start of winter and reduces losses
- Tui, the world's largest travel group, has started the winter season with clear growth.
- In the first financial quarter to the end of December, the Group counted 3.7 million customers, six percent more than a year earlier, as it announced on Tuesday before the start of its Annual General Meeting in Hanover.
- For the rest of the year, smaller increases are expected so far: Tui has so far registered two percent more bookings than in the previous year for both the winter as a whole and the summer season.
- Prices rose by four percent. "We are on track for further growth for the year as a whole," said Tui CEO Sebastian Ebel.
- In the travel-weak months of October to December, turnover jumped by 13 percent to around 4.9 billion euros.
- Before interest, taxes and special effects (adjusted EBIT), Tui earned around 51 million euros, more than eight times as much as a year earlier.
- The bottom line was a loss of a good 85 million euros for shareholders.
- Tourism companies are usually in the red in winter.
- They make their profits in the peak travel season in summer.
UBS positive on Delivery Hero $DHER (-3,81 %)
- Shares in online food delivery services are in demand on Monday.
- MDax leader Delivery Hero made it back above the technically significant 21-day moving average thanks to price gains of 5 percent.
- This is an important trend indicator for the short-term development.
- The same applied to the shares of cooking box mail order company Hellofresh , which rose by 2.6 percent.
- In Amsterdam and London, the shares of industry colleagues Just Eat Takeaway and Deliveroo met with buying interest, as shown by price gains of 2.9 and 1.3 percent respectively.
- The major Swiss bank UBS continues to recommend buying Delivery Hero.
- The confirmed price target of 55 euros implies a doubling of the current share price.
- Analyst Jo Barnet-Lamb wrote that data showed a stabilized market share for the subsidiary Baemin in South Korea in January.
- Market growth there remained in the double-digit percentage range in December.
- The focus remains on a possible gradual recovery story for the company in 2025.
- One trader also saw advance praise for Delivery Hero's upcoming quarterly figures this Thursday as a possible price driver for the sector.
Mediamarkt parent company Ceconomy $CEC (-2,01 %)significantly increases turnover and operating profit
- The Mediamarkt and Saturn parent company Ceconomy has achieved a leap in operating profit thanks to a strict cost-cutting program.
- The SDax company increased its earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) adjusted for special effects by almost 13 percent to 279 million euros in the three months to the end of December compared to the previous year, as it announced in Düsseldorf on Tuesday.
- Analysts had expected roughly that much.
- Currency and portfolio-adjusted sales increased by almost a tenth to 7.6 billion euros, exceeding the average analyst estimates.
- The Executive Board is sticking to its known targets for the current financial year 2024/25 (until the end of September).
- Adjusted for currency and portfolio effects, Group sales are set to increase "moderately".
- Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) adjusted for special effects, on the other hand, are expected to increase "significantly".
- Last week, rumors of renewed interest from Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com boosted Ceconomy's share price.
- The news agency Bloomberg reported that the Beijing-based company had recently approached the company and had begun to sound out major shareholders of the Düsseldorf-based company with a view to a possible deal, citing people familiar with the matter.
Tuesday: Stock market dates, economic data, quarterly figures
Japan stock exchange holiday
- ex-dividend of individual stocks
- Visa USD 0.59
- ASML Holding USD 1.59
- Quarterly figures / company dates USA / Asia
- 12:00 DuPont quarterly figures
- 12:30 Humana quarterly figures
- 13:00 Coca-Cola | Marriott International annual results
- No time specified: American International Group | Lyft | Gilead Sciences Quarterly figures
- Quarterly figures / Company dates Europe
- 07:00 Ceconomy | Tui | Unicredit | AMS-Osram annual results
- 07:10 Norma Group preliminary annual results
- 07:45 Kering annual results
- 08:00 Cancom | BP annual results | Tui PK
- 09:00 Ceconomy analyst conference
- 11:00 Tui AGM | Ceconomy PK
- 19:00 Deutsche Börse | Telekom Austria Annual Results
Economic data
- 07:30 FR: Unemployment rate 4Q PROGNOSE: 7.5% Q3: 7.4%
- 08:00 DE: Domestic tourism December and year 2024
- 11:30 DE: Auction of 2.40% German government bonds maturing in April 2030 (volume EUR 5bn)
- 16:00 US: Fed Chairman Powell, hearing in the Senate Banking Committee
- 18:00 DE: ECB Director Schnabel, participation in IAB panel
- 19:00 Deutsche Börse | Telekom Austria annual results
- 21:30 US: Fed New York President Williams, speech at Pace University Economics Society event
No time specified:
- US: President Donald Trump receives Jordan's King Abdullah II at the White House
- EU: End of the two-day international summit on artificial intelligence, Paris