Vodafone (Buy, 135p, +93%) Vodacom upside undervalued

When talking about Vodafone with market participants, almost all of the discussion tends to be on Germany. However, this morning my colleague Chris has upgraded his estimates for Vodacom and we have increased our target from ZAR150 to ZAR180 – with the full details published here. We believe the positive benefits from Vodacom are being overlooked in the Vodafone share price and we re-visit that thesis in this note with an updated view on Vodafone.

EU TELCOS: What a recessionary scenario might look like

When the news of the Trump tariffs first hit the tapes, we didn’t write anything initially as a) we didn’t think we had much of value to add to the thousands of column inches already written on the topic, and b) the direct impact from the tariffs to the EU telecoms sector is minimal – resulting in relative outperformance for the group over the past few days.

Vodafone (Buy, 135p, +87%) India value extraction on the horizon?

Vodafone’s lock-up in India expires at the end of this month. Given the news today on a debt-for-equity swap involving the Indian Government at Vodafone Idea, we explore the implications of this and whether there could be a surprise value crystallisation for Vodafone on the cards.

Mobileye 1Q25: legacy business healing, SuperVision adoption slow, important win with Uber. Buy, $20 TP.

Google 1Q25: Compute is king and calls for a re-platforming

Google reported 1Q25 yesterday. See our updated perspective on cloud spending, capex and technology infrastructure.

Intel 1Q25: Weakening outlook near term; hints on the road ahead.