European Event-Driven Analyst

Jesus Rodriguez Aguilar

Jesús is an Insight Provider (Event-driven) on the Smartkarma network, where he looks across sectors at opportunities arising from securities mispricing (both credit and equity), share classes, bid announcements, prospective bids, and special situations. He has served as Economic and Business Advisor at the Spanish Congress in Madrid. Prior to that, he has worked in the City of London: as a Credit Analyst at Bloomberg; Event-driven associate at former boutique European Research; and doubled as Special Situations and Equity-linked VP (convertible bonds) at Merrill Lynch. Jesús has an MBA from the London Business School, a BA (Hons.) degree in Economics from the Complutense University in Madrid, and a BA (Hons.) in Law from U.N.E.D., also in Madrid.

Bankia - CaixaBank: Merger in Progress, Spread Attractive

CaixaBank - Bankia: Merger Approval at the EGMs, Spread

CaixaBank - Bankia Negotiations:La Caixa, Approvals, Badwill, Exchange Ratio and Synergies

Event-Driven

<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/caixabank-sa" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:21255:1" rel="noopener">CaixaBank SA (CABK SM)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/bankia-sa" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:21252:1" rel="noopener">Bankia SA (BKIA SM)</a> will carry out this Friday 26 March, at market close, the exchange of shares by which this merger by absorption will materialise.
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<li>This is conditional on having all the regulatory authorizations (only that of the Ministry of Economy is missing).</li>
<li>The exchange ratio was set in September at 0.6845 CaixaBank shares for each Bankia share. This valuation implied a 20% premium for Bankia shareholders.</li>
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On 23 March, the Spanish anti-trust watchdog (CNMC) gave the green light to the creation of the largest entity in Spain, establishing a series of rules agreed with the banks to restrict for a time their power in the network of branches and ATMs, cards and other products.
Fluidra will take Bankia's place on the Ibex 35. The pool manufacturer rises 13.37% this year and capitalizes €4,646 mn. It will be ranked on the 25th place, between Enagás and Merlin Properties.
Most of the merger restructuring expenses will occur in 2021 and, therefore, CET1 ratio should reach 11.9% - 12.2% for 2021e. Post-merger, organic capital generation (after dividends) should amount to about 50 bps per year. CaixaBank expects to obtain annual cost synergies of c. €770 mn and additional annual income of around €290 mn.
The proposed €0.0268 DPS (1% yield) will be subject to merger execution, and complies with the ECB cap (maximum dividend 15% of net income). That dividend includes the consolidated pro forma results of CaixaBank and adjusted Bankia. Bankia posted a FY 2020 net income of €230 mn.
At market close of 24 March, the adjusted Bankia/CaixaBank spread is -0.02%, and therefore there is no arbitrage opportunity, in my view.
(The Insight is labelled bearish because the merger spread is almost nil)

CaixaBank SA (CABK SM) and Bankia SA (BKIA SM) will carry out this Friday 26 March, at market close, the exchange of shares by which this merger by absorption will materialise.

This is conditional on having all the regulatory authorizations (only that of the Ministry of Economy is missing).
The exchange ratio was set in September at 0.6845 CaixaBank shares for each Bankia share. This valuation implied a 20% premium for Bankia shareholders.

On 23 March, the Spanish anti-trust watchdog (CNMC) gave the green light to the creation of the largest entity in Spain, establishing a series of rules agreed with the banks to restrict for a time their power in the network of branches and ATMs, cards and other products.
Fluidra will take Bankia's place on the Ibex 35. The pool manufacturer rises 13.37% this year and capitalizes €4,646 mn. It will be ranked on the 25th place, between Enagás and Merlin Properties.
Most of the merger restructuring expenses will occur in 2021 and, therefore, CET1 ratio should reach 11.9% - 12.2% for 2021e. Post-merger, organic capital generation (after dividends) should amount to about 50 bps per year. CaixaBank expects to obtain annual cost synergies of c. €770 mn and additional annual income of around €290 mn.
The proposed €0.0268 DPS (1% yield) will be subject to merger execution, and complies with the ECB cap (maximum dividend 15% of net income). That dividend includes the consolidated pro forma results of CaixaBank and adjusted Bankia. Bankia posted a FY 2020 net income of €230 mn.
At market close of 24 March, the adjusted Bankia/CaixaBank spread is -0.02%, and therefore there is no arbitrage opportunity, in my view.
(The Insight is labelled bearish because the merger spread is almost nil)

Bankia SA

Bye Bye Bankia