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Speaker 2: The Stock Movers Report, your roundup of companies making moves

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Speaker 3: Now let's take a look at some of the stocks

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Speaker 3: on the move here in Europe. I'm Caroline HepG with

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Speaker 3: Tom McKenzie and we're joined by Bimberg reporter Chloe Malay.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, So let's think about the power gear maker

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Speaker 3: Schneider Electric having a very good day in markets.

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Speaker 4: But why Yeah, Well it's about big buyo back. Usually

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Speaker 4: that's always received it very well and that's no different

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Speaker 4: for Schneider Electric today. So it announced the buyo back

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Speaker 4: of as much as three point five billion euros through

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Speaker 4: to twenty thirty and so this is part of a

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Speaker 4: broader medium term strategy for the company. So it's targeting

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Speaker 4: a really big step up in profitability over those next

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Speaker 4: five years, and they'll be driven by really positive trends

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Speaker 4: in artificial integents of course, but also grid infrastructure and electrification.

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Speaker 4: So big driver of growth that the one has been

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Speaker 4: really talked about for Schneider has been of course data centers,

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Speaker 4: so it provides some of that equipment that's really key

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Speaker 4: to the running of data centers, so we're talking about

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Speaker 4: cooling technologies, serverax, electrical equipment, etc. And in its latest results,

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Speaker 4: Streider had said that the sales had really been boosted

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Speaker 4: by that growing demand for this AI infrastructure and so

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Speaker 4: that is something that will continue that it's hoping we'll

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Speaker 4: continue over this next five years. So we have this

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Speaker 4: strategy and also this big buy bag, this kind of

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Speaker 4: focus on capital allocation of really driving those shares this

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Speaker 4: morning and being welcomed quite warmly by the market and City.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Food for Thought in their take on Delivery hero.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so Delivery Heroes is down this morning after being

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Speaker 4: downgraded to a cell rating by City ant List. So

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Speaker 4: the analysts mentioned that it will be facing increasing competition

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Speaker 4: in two regions of particular, so the Middle East and

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Speaker 4: North Africa, and its biggest competitor which is metal On,

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Speaker 4: which is the Chinese food delivery company. That is going

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Speaker 4: to be a real big challenge for Delivery hero and

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Speaker 4: that will really hurt growth and hurt the margin going forward,

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Speaker 4: according to according to City. And so we have seen

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Speaker 4: those shares coming down today and this comes just a

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Speaker 4: day after shares again actually quite a bit yesterday because

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Speaker 4: Delivery Hero had said that it was considering the next

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Speaker 4: strategic steps for the company in response to investor pressure.

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Speaker 4: So some investors are pushing for a sale of the

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Speaker 4: entirety or parts of that company to try and boost

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Speaker 4: profitability and try and turn things around for Delivery Hero.

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Speaker 4: And so the fact that the company had said it

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Speaker 4: was listening to those investors had boosted those shares yesterday.

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Speaker 4: But now that downgrade is really weighing on that stock

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Speaker 4: and it looks like next year will be quite tough

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Speaker 4: for the food delivery company.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Meanwhile, a company that makes items for kind of

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Speaker 1: low light levels, I kind of nightgoggles, that sort of thing,

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Speaker 1: Exo Sense. What's been happening with them?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we have exo Sense in France Dntheon in Greece,

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Speaker 4: which are too smaller kind of defense names, and both

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Speaker 4: of them are making night vision goggles. And they've both

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Speaker 4: gained quite a lot this morning because they have signed

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Speaker 4: a five hundred million euro contract to provide night vision

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Speaker 4: equipment to the German and Belgian armed forces. So it's

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Speaker 4: the largest contract ever in the history of night vision technology,

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Speaker 4: at least according to those companies, and it's particularly big

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Speaker 4: for them because they are actually obviously obviously on the

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Speaker 4: smaller side than on the kind of level of ryin

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Speaker 4: Mattaw when we think about defense, and Bunstein analysts have

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Speaker 4: said that this was really supportive of that defense sector

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Speaker 4: in general after the recent sell off that we've seen,

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Speaker 4: in that this contract really supported the view that European

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Speaker 4: countries will be continuing and are continuing to invest in

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Speaker 4: their military and their defense efforts despite the fact that

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Speaker 4: we are actually perhaps moving closer to peace in Ukraine

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Speaker 4: and to the easing of those tensions between Russia and Ukraine.

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Speaker 4: So the fact that that contract, that big contract was

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Speaker 4: signed is essentially seen as a good sign for both

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Speaker 4: the companies involved, directly those two smaller companies, but also

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Speaker 4: for that broader industry where we have seen a little

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Speaker 4: bit of concern perhaps that there will be a pullback

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Speaker 4: in in spending.

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