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[waldron] 16/5/2020 10:32

October 21, 2020

(before market opens)
Third Quarter 2020 revenue

July 21, 2020

(before market opens)
Half-year 2020 results

June 9, 2020 Shareholder’s Annual General Meeting

[grupo] 02/3/2020 14:15

Worldline plans to expand footprint in US and Asia-Pacific regions
By Verdict Staff March 2, 2020

Worldline is planning to expand its footprint in the global payments space, particularly in the US and Asia-Pacific regions.

Indian business news website Moneycontrol reported the move citing Worldline managing director of global merchant services Vincent Roland. The company manages more than one million merchant terminals in India.

Recently, the payment services firm signed a deal to acquire Ingenico. The $8.6bn deal will create the fourth-biggest payments company in the world.

Worldline plans to leverage the new capabilities to expand its services beyond terminal businesses, Roland told the publication.

It will also provide the company with the capabilities of TechProcess, an Indian firm acquired by Ingenico in 2017.

Roland told the publication: “Going forward, we will be offering an omnichannel payment experience to our merchants and partners, further, as a technology company, we can also provide the entire suite of payment options for banks, thereby opening a new set of business opportunities.”;
Worldline- Ingenico deal: Details

As agreed, Ingenico shareholders will receive 11 Worldline shares and €160.5 in cash for seven Ingenico shares in a primary tender offer. The secondary offer involves an exchange of 56 Worldline shares against 29 Ingenico shares.

The deal value represents a premium of around 16% to Ingenico’s current market capitalisation of around €6.7bn.

The transaction is expected to close by the third quarter of this year.

Worldline shareholders would own 65% of the combined entity, while Ingenico stakeholders will hold the remaining stake.

[the grumpy old men] 18/10/2019 10:08

october/23/2019 | 04:45pm Q3 2019 Sales and Revenue Release

october/23/2019 | 05:15pm Q3 2019 Sales and Revenue Call

[waldron] 16/10/2019 09:41

October 23, 2019 Q3 2019 revenue

[misca2] 15/10/2019 14:59

Summary

Worldline accounts for 4.74 % of our European Portfolio. A trade is currently open since 03/20/2019 with a purchase price of € 51.90.

Discover the other 19 stocks of the European portfolio managed by the MarketScreener portfolio management team.

Strengths

Growth progress expectations are rather promising. Indeed, sales are expected to rise sharply in the coming years.

The company is in a robust financial situation considering its net cash and margin position.

Over the past year, analysts have regularly revised upwards their sales forecast for the company.

Over the last seven days, analysts have been revising upwards their EPS estimates for the company.

For the last 4 months, the company has been enjoying highly positive EPS revisions, which were frequently and significantly raised.

Weaknesses

Sales estimates for the next fiscal years vary from one analyst to another. This clearly highlights a lack of visibility into the company's future activity.

With an enterprise value anticipated at 4.44 times the sales for the current fiscal year, the company turns out to be overvalued.

With an expected P/E ratio at 40.81 and 35.26 respectively for both the current and next fiscal years, the company operates with high earnings multiples.

The company is not the most generous with respect to shareholders' compensation.

[sarkasm] 10/9/2019 15:14

Worldline launches second edition of e-payments challenge
By Verdict Staff September 10, 2019

Payment services firm Worldline has announced the second edition of the ‘e-Payments Challenge 2019’ in Frankfurt, Germany.

The challenge will be held from 17th to 19th September. It will involve fintech start-ups, industry leaders and Worldline experts.

Worldline has pre-selected 25 fintech start-ups, who will be a part of this year’s challenge. The start-ups will partner with the payments company and propose their solutions to its clients with an aim to develop business relationships.

The Worldline clients, including Accor and Erste Group, have set 16 challenges covering B2B payments, digital identity, in-store ultrasound biometric authentication and mobile payment, try now and buy later, among others.

The participants will get 48 hours to develop digital payment solutions for the challenge that they have selected.

They will be able to access Worldline’s assets which include, WL Trusted Authentication, Xs2A TPP and WL Tap 2 Use.

Worldline deputy CEO Marc-Henri Desportes said: “We strongly believe that open collaboration is the key to developing payments solutions for the future. This year’s e-Payments Challenge will not only enable us and our partners to work together with Fintechs to solve some of the business challenges we face, but provide Worldline the opportunity to test our assets and continue to innovate our technology solutions in order to adapt to the changing landscape of payments.”

The team that wins the competition will be able to collaborate with Worldline and the client who sets the challenge.

The winning team can also be a part of global events like National Retail Federation (NRF), New York City, and Mobile World Congress, Sibos.

[maywillow] 19/7/2019 14:41

Summary

Worldline accounts for 5.16 % of our European Portfolio. A trade is currently open since 03/20/2019 with a purchase price of € 51.90. Discover the other 19 stocks of the European portfolio managed by the MarketScreener portfolio management team.

Strengths

Growth is a substantial asset for the company, as anticipated by dedicated analysts. Within the next three years, growth is estimated to reach 59% by 2021.
Thanks to a sound financial situation, the firm has significant leeway for investment.
Over the last twelve months, the sales forecast has been frequently revised upwards.

Weaknesses

Prospects from analysts covering the stock are not consistent. Such dispersed sales estimates confirm the poor visibility into the group's activity.
The company's enterprise value to sales, at 4.86 times its current sales, is high.
With an expected P/E ratio at 57.09 and 42.8 respectively for both the current and next fiscal years, the company operates with high earnings multiples.
The firm pays small or no dividend to shareholders. For that reason, it is not a yield company.
Analysts covering the stock have recently lowered their earnings forecast.
For the last few months, analysts have been revising downwards their earnings forecast.
For the last 12 months, analysts have been regularly downgrading their EPS expectations. Analysts predict worse results for the company against their predictions a year ago.
The appreciation potential seems limited due to the average target prices set by the analysts covering the stock.

[maywillow] 19/7/2019 14:39

Worldline: Macquarie goes from outperformance to neutral from 57.89 to 62.31 EUR.

[waldron] 03/7/2019 15:29

Worldline. Credit Suisse confirms its "underperformance" recommendation and raises its target price from 38 to 47 euros.

[grupo] 16/6/2019 08:57

investir.fr | The 06/13/19 at 08:11 | Updated on 14/06/19 at 11:11
Morgan Stanley degrades its opinion on Saint-Gobain, while Worldine has a price target revised upwards by Berenberg.



Saint Gobain. Morgan Stanley reduces from "overweight" to "online weighting," while lowering its price target from 39.2 to 37.5 euros.

Worldline. Berenberg revises its price target upwards by 9 euros to 70 euros.

[grupo guitarlumber] 05/6/2019 17:28

PARIS (Agefi-Dow Jones) -Worldline and Ingenico gained 6.1% and 3.7%, respectively, Wednesday, in response to press reports suggesting a rapprochement with the Italian Sia.


According to Il Sole 24 Ore, the infrastructure and technology services company for financial institutions Sia is studying several options "all of which lead to a pan-European wedding". Among the potential candidates for this merger are the French Worldline and Ingenico, the newspaper said.


However, there are several obstacles to a transalpine marriage, including the desire of the Italian Caisse des Dépôts, 85% shareholder in Sia, to retain an important role in the new entity, he added.


"That Atos [Worldline's parent company] does not look at the Sia file would be almost worrying.This merger would make sense and would have an accretive effect in a context of consolidation of the European payments industry," said a Paris analyst.


Contacted by Agefi-Dow Jones, a spokeswoman for Sia did not wish to comment. Worldline and Ingenico were not immediately available to respond to this information.


-Francois Schott, Agefi-Dow Jones; [e-mail] ed: ECH


Agefi-Dow Jones The financial newswire


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June 05, 2019 10:38 ET (14:38 GMT)

[waldron] 04/6/2019 07:07

Worldline: Goldman Sachs goes from neutral to buy with a target price of 52 to 65 EUR.

[grupo] 28/5/2019 08:47

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28/05/2019 | 9:25

Bezons / Zurich, May 28, 2019 - Worldline [Euronext: WLN], European leader in payment and transaction services, announces it has reached the top position among European UnionPay buyers in 2018, with nearly 20% of the European volume of the card system.

In its annual acquirer statistics, UnionPay lists SIX Payment Services *, which is now part of Worldline, in first place for its European acquisition volumes. The company has been a close partner of UnionPay International since 2006 and offers UnionPay acceptance to its merchant customers in more than 30 countries, both in stores and in e-commerce. Thanks to its leading market position and its unmatched base for UnionPay acceptance in many European countries, including Switzerland and Austria, Worldline has particularly supported the growth of the system acceptance network in high-end retailers and in the Horeca sector in Europe. There is even a UnionPay solution dedicated to hospitality to meet the specific needs of Chinese customers in this important industry. In addition, Worldline provides 100% acceptance coverage for UnionPay at ATMs in Switzerland.

Worldline and UnionPay continue to expand their collaboration: Recently, UnionPay and Worldline announced an agreement to allow the card system to be accepted by some 40,000 additional merchants in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.

Globally, Worldline's combined volume ranks 17th among UnionPay's international acquirer partners.

With more than 7.5 billion cards, UnionPay is the world's largest customer-facing payment agency and primarily targets key sectors for tourists, such as shopping malls, duty-free shops, hotels and restaurants. .

* Worldline acquired SIX Payment Service in December 2018, becoming the largest European provider of payment services.
Vincent Roland, Managing Director Merchant Services at Worldline: "The influx of purchasing power from China is a determining factor for the European distribution and tourism sector. Worldline is pleased that our long-term relationship with UnionPay and the European merchant community allows us to promote the acceptance of UnionPay for the benefit of all parties involved. Wei Zhihong, Market Director and Head Europe at UnionPay International, confirms: 'Long-term sustainable relationships are a major success factor for UnionPay. Worldline has been part of our success since the beginning, and we look forward to continuing to grow our business with our largest partner in Europe. "

[grupo] 06/5/2019 07:38

Worldline: Macquarie remains with outperform with a price target raised from 52.32 to 57.89 EUR.

[waldron] 01/5/2019 08:30

PARIS (Agefi-Dow Jones) - Atos shareholders approved a 23.5% stake in Worldline on Tuesday and reappointed CEO Thierry Breton until 2022 .


The IT services group announced at the end of January its intention to sell 23.4% of the capital of its payment subsidiary to its shareholders, in the form of a distribution of shares in kind.


MAIN POINTS OF THE COMMUNIQUE:


-The general meeting approved the payment of an ordinary dividend for this financial year of € 1.70 per share, as well as the option for the payment of the ordinary dividend in shares or in cash.


-The General Meeting approved 91.52% of the remuneration and benefits paid or awarded for the 2018 fiscal year to Thierry Breton, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.


-The General Meeting also renewed the terms of directors of Vernon Sankey for a term of three years, and Aminata Niane and Lynn Paine for a two-year term. It also approved, for a period of two years, the appointment of Vivek Badrinath as a director and the appointment, for a period of one year, of General Jean-Louis Georgelin as censor.


-Agefi-Dow Jones; [phone]; [e-mail] ed: ECH




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April 30, 2019 13:08 ET (17:08 GMT)

[waldron] 25/4/2019 08:03

WORLDLINE posted quarterly revenue up 6.2% and confirmed its 2019 targets.

[waldron] 16/4/2019 09:05

Worldline: HSBC goes from buy to HOLD despite a goal raised from 53 to 55 EUR.

[waldron] 23/2/2019 20:47

April 30 2019* Shareholder's Annual General Meeting
April 24 2019* First quarter 2019 revenue
February 20 2019* Full year 2018 results

[ariane] 17/1/2019 11:40

Worldline Launches WL One Commerce Hub, the Single Payment Platform for Europe and Beyond
by Matt DoveJanuary 17, 2019
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Worldline, a provider of payment and transactional services, has taken a major step towards helping merchants develop their payment strategies across countries and channels, with the launch of WL One Commerce Hub.

WL One Commerce Hub is designed to satisfy rapidly evolving consumer expectations and build brand loyalty. Nowadays consumers are at the centre of the retail world, orchestrating interactions with brands, regardless of the time or the place (always connected and looking for new experiences). WL One Commerce Hub is designed to enable merchants to provide strong, consistent, convenient and customised commerce experiences across all points of interaction and countries.

To meet the needs of merchants and their customers, WL One Commerce Hub is a single platform for all payments in Europe and beyond. It allows merchants to expand their business in new markets with optimised transaction costs. It also enables them to deliver an omnichannel client experience such as ‘try and pay later’ services. Directly supported by tokenisation technology, WL One Commerce Hub empowers its clients by gathering all transaction data in one place regardless of the point of interaction or the country.

The modular design of WL One Commerce Hub allows merchants to grow across geographies and channels, to open new concepts like pop-up stores, self-checkout, online and mobile interactions but also provide new services based on tokenisation such as subscribe in-store or customer retargeting.

WL One Commerce Hub is supported by Worldline’s global reach with true domestic connectivity and deep local expertise. Based on a tremendous range of payment methods (more than 200), it allows shoppers to pay as they want with their preferred payment means in 175 countries.

Vincent Roland, Managing Director for Merchant Services Worldline said:

“The environment in which Merchants now operate is transforming due to digitalisation, globalisation and growing consumer expectations. Worldline, as a Payment and Digital Innovator, is proud to announce the launch of our powerful end-to-end payment orchestrator solution: WL One Commerce Hub. Now merchants get a single global payment solution perfectly matching their requirements for Europe and beyond. I’m very glad to say it has already been given the go ahead by many of our clients.”

[waldron] 17/12/2018 06:35

Worldline: Morgan Stanley goes underweight with a target reduced from 50 to 43 EUR.

[waldron] 09/8/2018 10:18

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09/08/2018 | 10:58
UBS raised its price target from € 45.50 to € 53 and confirmed its Neutral recommendation on Worldline. The consulting firm has updated its long-term Ebitda margin estimates in Financial Services and Merchant Services after the acquisition of Six Payment, to 30% and 27% respectively. With regard to the outsourcing contract with Commerzbank, it represents 25 to 50 million euros of additional revenue, ie 1% of organic growth.