Research Unplugged: The HALO effect: Heavy Assets, Low Obsolescence including stock ideas Part 2

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Research Unplugged: The HALO effect: Heavy Assets, Low Obsolescence including stock ideas Part 2

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16 July 2026 | 9:25PM BST

Research Unplugged: The HALO effect: Heavy Assets, Low Obsolescence

including stock ideas Part 2

We revisit the HALO theme and what we expect for Phase 2, with some Sahar Islam

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Buy-rated ideas that fit into this framework. Guillaume Jaisson in Strategy takes us sahar.islam@gs.com

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through why he thinks the first phase of the trade is largely complete but that the

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second phase is only just beginning. The first phase has been underpinned by a +44(20)7552-3000 |

re-rating, but he sees this second phase as increasingly driven by earnings, with guillaume.jaisson@gs.comGoldman Sachs International

greater dispersion between winners and losers. Given this expected dispersion, we Alberto Gandolfi

highlight some Buy-rated ideas from Guillaume’s Capital Intensive basket: +39(02)8022-0157alberto.gandolfi@gs.com|

Alberto Gandolfi on RWE and E.ON, Andrew Lee on BT (on CL), Telefonica and Goldmanbranch Sachs Bank Europe SE - Milan

Orange, Sam Burgess on Rheinmetall (on CL) and Safran, Ben Rada Martin on Holcim Andrew Lee

and Rockwool, Matt Greene on Antofagasta and Gabriel Simoes on SIG Group. We +44(20)7774-1383 | andrew.j.lee@gs.com

also hear Jonathan Kownator on Real Estate on Vonovia (on CL) given the Goldman Sachs International

asset-heavy nature of the sector. We finish off with Camille Cerisey from our EMEA Sam Burgess

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Custom Baskets team (GBM) on colour on flows and positioning. Listen in for more! sam.burgess@gs.com

See below for the full list of topics and speakers; approximate start times are in parentheses. Ben Rada Martin

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