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[Nordic Catalyst @NordicCatalyst]

Nordic markets are full of ignored catalysts.

Strategic reviews.
Takeover bids.
IPO windows.
CMD resets.
Ownership moves.
Profit warnings.
Special situations.

Most global investors see them too late.

That is the gap.

[Nordic Catalyst @NordicCatalyst]

And now we know the customer.

Anthropic.

$AKER-backed Nscale has reportedly signed a:

$45bn / 6-year AI compute deal

• ~460 MW
• $NVDA Vera Rubin
• West Virginia

Anthropic is behind Claude.

So Nscale now sits alongside:

Anthropic · OpenAI · $MSFT · $NVDA

And an IPO may still be ahead.

$AKER

[Nordic Catalyst @NordicCatalyst]

$AKER

Remember Nscale?

It just signed a $45 BILLION AI compute contract in the US.

Customer: undisclosed.

For perspective, Aker’s Nscale stake was valued at roughly NOK 32bn in Q2. (TipRanks)

Nscale already has major AI infrastructure ties to:

$MSFT
$NVDA
OpenAI

Now a $45bn customer contract lands at its Monarch campus in West Virginia. (https://t.co/PWy30GiZFj)

And an IPO is still one of the key catalysts around the story.

Who is the customer?

[Nordic Catalyst @NordicCatalyst]

Kenneth Dart has spent decades making concentrated bets others avoided.

Now he’s quietly building positions across $EVO, $FLUT, $DKNG and $HACK.

One already triggered takeover law.

We went down the rabbit hole ↓ https://t.co/EcWqZH74rk

[Nordic Catalyst @NordicCatalyst]

One more thing.

Kenneth Dart’s gaming exposure now stretches across:

• $EVO — 31.56% + mandatory offer
• $FLUT — ~29% economic exposure
• $DKNG — ~5.8%
• $HACK — ~0.6%

So today’s $EVO developments sit inside a much bigger pattern.
One billionaire.
Four gaming names.

This is no longer an $EVO story. It’s a gaming story.

[Nordic Catalyst @NordicCatalyst]

$EVO

Things are getting interesting around Evolution again.

This morning:

1. The board told shareholders NOT to accept Kenneth Dart’s SEK 695 offer.

$EVO is trading around SEK 824 — almost 19% ABOVE the offer.

And then this:

2. A SEK 49m block traded before the open at a ~17% discount.

Buyer unknown.
Seller unknown.
Meanwhile:

• Candle Lake owns ~30%
• Mandatory offer: SEK 695
• $EVO: ~SEK 824
• Acceptance deadline: ~Sept. 15

The board says no.
The market is pricing far above the bid.
And a heavily discounted block just changed hands.
Something is moving around $EVO again.

[Nordic Catalyst @NordicCatalyst]

$SYSR

A $14bn US HVAC giant is about to become Systemair’s 2nd-largest shareholder.

$MAIR is buying ebm-papst for $5.4bn.

Hidden inside the deal:

• ebm-papst owns 10.68% of $SYSR
• 22.24m shares
• $MAIR is expanding hard into AI/data-center cooling

So a strategic US industrial buyer is about to inherit a 10.7% block in Systemair.

Not a fund.

Not passive capital.

A direct industry player.

What happens to that stake next?

[Nordic Catalyst @NordicCatalyst]

$HM-B

Something is brewing into September 24.

Citi has put H&M on a **90-day positive Catalyst Watch**.

The interesting part?

H&M could potentially receive **up to SEK 1.45bn in tariff repayments**.

Citi also sees:

• EBIT: **SEK 5.09bn**
• **4% above consensus**
• Target: **SEK 158 → 171**

But the real catalyst may be what the market **doesn't know yet**.

How much of the tariff money comes back?

When?

And what does it do to H&M's margins?

**September 24.**

That's when we find out.

[Nordic Catalyst @NordicCatalyst]

Read the full story on Amazon:

https://t.co/I2rVjwnaQ5

Greatest Trades Ever #2

[Nordic Catalyst @NordicCatalyst]

The Greatest Trade Ever

The Trade That Made $660 Million

Nine traders.
One small office in Essex.
And one enormous bet on oil.
They weren’t Wall Street legends.
But when the oil market moved, their trade became one of the most profitable energy bets ever made.

$660 million.

The full story 👇

[M1 @M1nvest]

Kenneth Darts portfolio 2026-08-13

🏅 $FLUT 🇺🇸 | $4.8 billion ~35%
🥈 $EVO 🇸🇪 | $4.6 billion ~34%
🥉 $BAT 🇺🇸 | $3,3 billion ~24%
4. $IMB 🇬🇧 | $1.1 billion ~8%
5. $HACK 🇸🇪 | $13.3 million ~0.1%

*Dart Enterprises has invested $2 billion in real estate on the Cayman Islands 🇰🇾

[Nordic Catalyst @NordicCatalyst]

Exactly — and now the clock is ticking.

$DNO has until Sept. 4 to decide what it really wants with $GENL.

The first approach:

• 69p/share
• £202m
• Rejected
So within weeks, DNO must either:
raise the bid, walk away — or ask for more time.

That makes Sept. 4 a very real catalyst.

And after already showing its hand, walking away would be interesting too.

[Nordic Catalyst @NordicCatalyst]

M&A

38%.

That's what $DNO was willing to pay.

🇳🇴 Bid for $GENL rejected.

• 69p per share
• £202m equity value
• 38% premium

Higher bid...

Or no deal?

$DNO $GENL

[Nordic Catalyst @NordicCatalyst]

Exactly — and this is where it gets even more interesting.

Kenneth Dart now has:

• $EVO — 31.56% + fully financed mandatory offer
• $FLUT — ~29.8% economic exposure
• $HACK — new ~0.6% position
Three gaming companies.
One billionaire.

And now we know he has the firepower to finance a full $EVO acquisition if enough shareholders accept.

Hard not to ask:

What exactly is Kenneth Dart building in gaming?

[Nordic Catalyst @NordicCatalyst]

@M1nvest That’s the part that caught my attention too.

$EVO — 31.56%
$FLUT — ~29% economic exposure
$HACK — 1.69m shares / 0.59%, newly acquired
Three gaming names.
At some point, coincidence starts looking like a pattern.

What exactly is Kenneth Dart building?

[Nordic Catalyst @NordicCatalyst]

THE BID IS HERE.

The same billionaire who has quietly built ~29% exposure to $FLUT is now formally bidding for Sweden’s $EVO.

Kenneth Dart / Candle Lake:

• Offer: SEK 695/share
• Wednesday close: SEK 737.20
• Discount: 5.7%
• Implied equity value: ~SEK 132bn
• Candle Lake ownership: 31.56%

But this is NOT a normal takeover bid.

Candle Lake explicitly says it does not intend to acquire all of Evolution.

The offer was triggered because Dart crossed Sweden’s 30% mandatory bid threshold.

And look at the wider gaming empire around him.

Dart also has ~28.9% exposure to $FLUT — owner of:

• FanDuel
• Paddy Power
• Betfair
• PokerStars
• Sky Bet

Meanwhile, $EVO supplies live casino products to some of the biggest names in global gambling:

• $DKNG
• FanDuel / $FLUT
• BetMGM / $MGM

$BLK is also among Evolution’s largest shareholders.

We flagged the 30% threshold before the offer arrived.

Now the formal bid is here.

One billionaire.
Huge positions in $EVO and $FLUT.
Connections across the global online-gambling ecosystem.

What does Kenneth Dart do next?

[Nordic Catalyst @NordicCatalyst]

Good point — the Irish 30% rule makes $FLUT very interesting to watch.

Dart is still below the threshold on actual voting shares, with a large part of his exposure sitting through swaps.

But the financing point is the really interesting part.

Do you have a source for Dart having financing in place to take $FLUT private?

If so, that could be a much bigger story.

[Nordic Catalyst @NordicCatalyst]

A seller is accepting shares 19% above market price.

$MDATA

Magnora Data Center is buying the remaining 30% of its 120 MW AI-ready data center project in Finland.

Ownership:

70% → 100%

But look at how the seller is being paid.

• 1.33m $MDATA shares
• Valued at NOK 15/share
• Closing price: NOK 12.60
• Premium: 19%
• Premium to 30-day VWAP: 26%
• Lock-up: up to 2 years

The total consideration remains confidential.

The project has secured its building permit and is progressing toward an investment decision by an industrial partner.

Interesting signal:

The seller isn’t just taking cash.

It’s accepting $MDATA shares well above market price — and locking them up.

$MGN still owns 52.7% of $MDATA.

[Nordic Catalyst @NordicCatalyst]

$DELIA

A profit warning — in the middle of a strategic review.

Shares are down ~33%.

Dellia just cut its FY2026 revenue guidance hard:

• NOK 910–960m → NOK 750–800m
• Midpoint cut: ~17%
• Q2 revenue: NOK 167.1m
• Q1 revenue: NOK 214.4m
• Nordic guidance: ~NOK 810m → ~NOK 650m
• Share price: NOK 28.70 → ~NOK 19.2

But this is what makes it interesting.

Just one month ago, Dellia said it had received unsolicited approaches and expressions of interest from several parties.

It then hired Pareto Securities to evaluate strategic alternatives — including a possible sale of the company or its assets.

Today’s update cuts revenue guidance.

It does NOT provide new margin guidance.

And the stock is suddenly worth ~33% less than yesterday.

Does the warning weaken the strategic process…

or make $DELIA more interesting to the parties already circling?

[Nordic Catalyst @NordicCatalyst]

And now $SBB is suddenly moving.

Swedish financial press has picked up the sharp move.

No clear trigger yet.

Interesting timing given everything happening around the company.

[Nordic Catalyst @NordicCatalyst]

$SBB

Another trigger.

SBB is changing CEO in the middle of a major transformation.

Andreas Morfiadakis will take over as CEO.

• Currently CEO of KlaraBo
• Will temporarily run BOTH $SBB and KlaraBo
• KlaraBo–Sveafastigheter merger expected to close in September
• $AKER controls 28.8% of $SBB votes

And this comes just as billionaire Erik Salén has been accumulating $SBB, becoming the 3rd-largest shareholder.

New CEO.
Major merger.
New heavyweight shareholders.

A lot is moving at $SBB.

[Nordic Catalyst @NordicCatalyst]

Interesting timing.

A few hours after this post, $SBB suddenly started moving higher.

Swedish financial press is now flagging the move.

Still no obvious explanation.

Worth watching.

[Nordic Catalyst @NordicCatalyst]

Real Estate

$SBB

Something is happening in Swedish real estate.

Billionaire Erik Salén keeps buying.

• +19.4m $SBB shares in July
• Now owns 4.5% of the company
• Stake worth ~SEK 277m
• Now the 3rd-largest shareholder

And look who's ahead of him:

• $AKER — 8.6% of capital / 28.8% of votes
• Founder Ilija Batljan — 7.5% / 30.2% of votes

Salén isn't a random investor.

His family is a major owner in $SAGA Sagax, one of Sweden's best-known listed property companies, where his brother Staffan Salén is Chairman.

Aker has already made a major move into Swedish real estate.

Now another heavyweight property investor is accumulating $SBB.

Worth watching.