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Auto1: Berlin site visit takeaways – reinforcing our bullish stance; upside in particular underappreciated in the Merchant business
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Auto1: Berlin site visit takeaways – reinforcing our bullish stance; upside in particular underappreciated in the Merchant business
J P M O R G A N Europe Equity Research
30 June 2026
Auto1
Berlin site visit takeaways – reinforcing our bullish Overweight
stance; upside in particular underappreciated in the AG1G.DE, AG1 GR
Merchant business Price (29 Jun 26):€23.10
Price Target (Dec-27):€37.00
We spent ~half a day visiting several of AUTO1’s key sites around Berlin (see European Internet
ACseparate Alert for entire trip feedback here). The visit was hosted by CEO Christian Marcus Diebel
Bertermann, CFO Christian Wallentin, VP Group Treasury Philip Reicherstorfer (44-20) 7742-4447
and Maria Shevtova (IR). We started at the Charlottenburg drop-off / pick-up marcus.diebel@jpmorgan.com
location (including a purchasing walk-through around the center) then traveled to J.P. Morgan Securities plc
the refurbishment center in Ketzin, where we toured operations and also received Lara Simpson
a detailed deep-dive on the AUTO1 Merchant portal by management. Overall, the (44-20) 7134-3637
lara.simpson@jpmorgan.com
day strengthened our conviction that AUTO1 has multiple volume and GPU levers, J.P. Morgan Securities plc
with particularly meaningful upside potential in the Merchant ecosystem. We
Carmen Graves
reiterate our Overweight (Top Pick in Internet) rating and €37 PT (c.50% (44-20) 3493 0506
potential upside). Below we summarise our key takeaways in “snippet” format carmen.graves@jpmorgan.com
(our numbers remain unchanged at this point). J.P. Morgan Securities plc
Thyagarajan J
We flag that we will be hosting 1x1 investor calls with more detailed feedback (91-22) 6157-5005
today/tomorrow - please reach out to your J.P. Morgan sales representative to thyagarajan.j@jpmchase.com
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