{"id":10695,"date":"2026-02-17T17:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/10695\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:15:08","slug":"ubs-upgrades-ssp-to-buy-shares-spark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/10695\/","title":{"rendered":"UBS upgrades SSP to \u2018buy\u2019, shares spark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SSP Group surged on Tuesday after UBS upgraded the shares to \u2018buy\u2019 from \u2018neutral\u2019, saying it expects the company\u2019s focus on cash flow generation to alleviate investor concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The bank said the risk\/reward was looking &#8220;increasingly skewed to the upside&#8221; for the Upper Crust and Caffe Ritazza owner.<\/p>\n<p>It pointed to an estimated free cashflow yield of 7.5% in FY26 and three-year earnings per share compound annual growth rate of 14%.<\/p>\n<p>UBS said potential catalysts for the stock include share buybacks and potential value crystallisation from Indian operations.<\/p>\n<p>At 1520 GMT, the shares were up 6.2% at 201.40p.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SSP Group surged on Tuesday after UBS upgraded the shares to \u2018buy\u2019 from \u2018neutral\u2019, saying it expects the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[8210,1971,8212,1976,1972,8213,2220,8211,223,8209],"class_list":{"0":"post-10695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ubs","8":"tag-8216buy8217","9":"tag-categoryall","10":"tag-categorybroker-recommendations","11":"tag-categorymarket-pulse","12":"tag-categorymarket-report","13":"tag-categorysectorial-consumer-services","14":"tag-shares","15":"tag-spark","16":"tag-ubs","17":"tag-upgrades"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}