During the period under review, the company’s performance was monitored and assessed by 23 financial analysts, who regularly issued comments and recommendations relating to Wincor Nixdorfs stock. These analysts were as follows (in alphabetical order):
Bankhaus Lampe, Berenberg Bank, BHF Bank, B. Metzler, Cazenove, Cheuvreux, Commerzbank, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Kleinwort, DZ Bank, Fairesearch, Goldman Sachs, HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt, Landesbanki Kepler, LBBW, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Nord/LB, Sal. Oppenheim Research, UBS, Unicredit, WestLB.
Based on the announcements issued pursuant to Section 21 of the Securities Trading Act (Wertpapierhandelsgesetz – WpHG), at the end of the reporting period the following entities had a Wincor Nixdorf shareholding of a scope that requires disclosure:
- AKO Capital LLP (more than 5%)
- Ameriprise Financial Inc./Threadneedle Asset Management Ltd. (more than 5%)
- Capital Research and Management Company/Capital Income Builder, Inc. (more than 5%)
- Neuberger Bermann Inc./Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (more than 5%)
- Allianz SE (more than 3%)
- FMR LLC/Fidelity Management & Research (more than 3%)
During the quarter under review, the Board of Directors and Investor Relations team presented the company’s business model at a number of investor conferences and roadshows in Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain and the United States and met up with several institutional investors.
Among the key events were the German Equity Forum on November 11, 2008, and the WestLB Deutschland Conference on November 12, 2008, both of which were staged in Frankfurt am Main, as well as the TMT Conference organized by Morgan Stanley in Barcelona on November 19, 2008.
On November 5, 2008, an analysts’ conference call was arranged for the purpose of presenting the company’s preliminary results for fiscal 2007/2008.
