** Order intakes in the European capital goods sector have troughed after a prolonged period of customer destocking across many end-markets, BNP Paribas says

** It expects the improved intake momentum to result in a return to sector growth in 2025

** The broker's preferred end-market exposures are in short-cycle industrial production and truck markets

** "Short-cycle industrial activity appears to be stabilising sequentially and we should see sequential improvement when destocking comes to an end" - BNP

** Truck markets are poised for a rebound, driven by North America and Europe, it adds

** Construction market is no longer BNP's least preferred, though it remains selective on companies' exposure to it

** Its least preferred end-markets are now process/oil&gas and marine, where it says order growth could slow by the year's end

(Reporting by Marta Frąckowiak)

((marta.frackowiak@thomsonreuters.com))