Daily analyst comments

We are upbeat on Magnit’s intention to make its first-ever dividend payments. However, the company’s current dividend yield is still extremely low.

OGK-1 management does not rule out that, despite a cost-cutting program, the genco may see its finances down in FY 2009 as electricity prices fall.

Although a merger of some of Alpha Group and Telenor’s communication assets would help solve a lot of outstanding problems, such an outcome of events does not seem likely, given the ongoing tensions between the two companies.