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Wizz Air - Director buying highlights value

May 2020

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While Aldi and Lidl have hoovered up market share in food retail through their discounted offerings, Ryanair, Easyjet and Wizz have done much the same in the low-cost airline segment. Wizz is a particular favourite of ours as its core Central & Eastern European (CEE) markets are less mature; there are over 300 million people living in the CEE but just 0.4 flights per person per year versus 1.8 flights in Western countries. On the back of this, good economic growth in its largest markets of Poland, Hungary and Romania, and significant fleet growth, Wizz has in exemplary fashion increased net profits from Eu146m in FY’15 to €292m in FY’ March 19. That was forecast to wind merrily higher to €355m (279 cents / 258p) ...

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