HEADLINES: • LPP: 4Q prelims in line with expectations NEUTRAL • Poland macro: NBP on hold • Budimex: bids rank highest in two PSE tenders NEUTRAL • Romgaz: 4Q25 operational results NEUTRAL • Romania macro: positive news • OTE: Greek telecoms regulator launches public consultations on 900MHz and 1,800MHz spectrum POSITIVE • Metlen Energy & Metals: sells 283MW UK solar portfolio to Schroders Greencoat POSITIVE • Aselsan: strategic JV agreement with CSG POSITIVE • Erste Bank: 4Q25E preview (due on...
VEON Welcomes Expanded Kyivstar Free Float After the Successful Kyivstar Secondary Offering Dubai and New York, February 3, 2026 -- VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON”), notes that Kyivstar Group Ltd. (Nasdaq: KYIV; KYIVW), Ukraine’s leading digital operator (“Kyivstar”), is pleased to announce the closing of a secondary public offering of 14,375,000 common shares of Kyivstar (the “Offering”), at a public offering price of USD 10.50 per share. The Offering, which was over-subscribed by 5 times, was closed on February 2, 2026, and included Kyivstar shares held by VEON...
We reinitiate the coverage of Erste Bank with a Neutral recommendation. Our 2026 year-end ex-dividend target price is EUR 107.0, which implies an upside potential of approximately 4.6%. For 2025, we forecast a dividend of EUR 0.76 per share, corresponding to a payout ratio of 10%. At current levels, the stock trades at 1.88× P/TBV, 13.7× 2025 P/E, and 11.5× 2026 P/E.
Our portfolio of Top Picks has started 2026 strongly, up 6% ytd already. This month we make no changes to our top picks. This note also includes key news & other thoughts, to try to help investors generate alpha within the EM Telco space.
EME Equity Market – January 2026 All regions in the green in January, with the Turkish ISE the best performer. The MSCI EM Europe Index added 11.1% mom in EUR terms and 13.2% mom in USD terms in January. The Turkish ISE was the top performer (+20.8% mom), followed by the Hungarian BUX (+17.5% mom); the Romanian BET (+11.1% mom); the Greek ASE (+9.2% mom); the Polish WIG 20 (+5.9% mom); and the Czech PX (+2.4% mom; all in EUR terms).
VEON Partners with MindBridge to Enhance Financial Analytics, Audit and Internal Controls with Augmented Intelligence Capabilities Dubai and Ottawa, January 30, 2026: VEON Ltd. (NASDAQ: VEON), a global digital operator, and MindBridge, the leader in AI-powered financial intelligence, today announced a strategic collaboration to deploy artificial intelligence-powered analytics tools across VEON’s global operations. Under the collaboration, MindBridge will support VEON’s operating companies in finance, internal controls and internal audit with solutions that create standardized, scalable an...
Kyivstar upgraded their guidance for FY25 ahead of earnings in March and also announced a secondary offering. This dilutes VEON's stake in Kyivstar to ~84% from ~90%, but has a negligible effect on our sum of the parts valuation. We think VEON and Kyivstar are likely to re-rate due to their digital exposure with VEON being one of our GEM Top Picks.
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Kyivstar Announces Pricing of Secondary Offering of Common Shares Held by VEON NEW YORK, New York, January 29, 2026 -- VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON” or, together with its subsidiaries, the “VEON Group”) notes that Kyivstar Group Ltd. (Nasdaq: KYIV; KYIVW) (“Kyivstar” or the “Company”), Ukraine’s leading digital operator, today announced the pricing of the public offering of 12,100,000 common shares held by VEON Amsterdam B.V., the principal shareholder of the Company, and 400,000 common shares held by certain other selling shareholders (collectively, the “Selli...
VEON Notes Kyivstar Group Publication of Selected Full Year 2025 Financial Information Dubai, January 28, 2026 — VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON) (“VEON”) notes that Kyivstar Group Ltd. (Nasdaq: KYIV; KYIVW) ( “Kyivstar” or “the Group”), Ukraine’s leading digital operator, has announced the Group’s preliminary estimates of selected unaudited financial information for the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to the Group’s actual financial results for the year ended December 31, 2024. Based on information currently available to management, and subject to uncertainties, for the year ended December...
Tower revenue trends were slightly slower across the board except for Indus Towers as it benefited again from VIL’s network catch up spend. EBITDA margins were roughly stable across EM except in Indonesia which faces the near-term pressure of the XL-Smartfren consolidation. Africa continue to perform well and the LatAm Towers space had a decent Q3.
VEON Unveils the New Beeline Uzbekistan Network Operations Center, Launches BuildX to Accelerate Software Development in Uzbekistan Dubai and Tashkent, January 26, 2026: VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON” or, together with its subsidiaries, the “VEON Group”), today unveiled the new network operations center for Beeline Uzbekistan in Tashkent, in a ceremony attended by Sherzod Shermatov, Minister of Digital Technologies of Uzbekistan, and Kaan Terzioglu, VEON Group CEO as well as Beeline Uzbekistan board members and its executive team. Today, VEON also launched Build...
We hosted VEON management including the CFO and Head of Strategic Development in Hong Kong and Singapore last week. Operationally the message from the company continues to be strong. VEON operates in high risk countries, but has a quality, and technical capability that far exceeds similar sized EM Telcos in our view. We still see substantial upside in the stock and retain our Buy recommendation and US$100/ADR price target.
VEON’s Kyivstar Reaches 3.0 million Customers with Starlink Direct to Cell Services Dubai and Kyiv, January 15, 2026 – VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON”), today announced that Kyivstar (Nasdaq: KYIV; KYIVW), Ukraine's leading digital operator, has now reached over 3.0 million registered users for Direct to Cell satellite connectivity services, powered by Starlink. This user base corresponds to over 10% of Kyivstar’s mobile subscribers. Since the launching of the service on November 24, 2025, over 1.2 million SMS messages have been delivered via satellite connect...
VEON’s Kyivstar Launches 5G Pilot in Lviv Lviv, January 12, 2026 – VEON, a global digital operator (Nasdaq: VEON), today announces that Kyivstar (Nasdaq: KYIV), Ukraine's leading digital operator and a VEON Group company, has launched a 5G test zone in the historical center of the city of Lviv in Ukraine. This marks Kyivstar’s first local pilot 5G project and is being implemented in coordination with the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine. The goal of the 5G pilot is to evaluate network performance in real-world urban conditions. Pending successful pilot testing in Lviv, Kyivsta...
HEADLINES: • Kruk: 4Q25 trading update – miss on annual investments, but recoveries strong NEUTRAL • Santander Bank Polska/Erste Bank: shift of shareholdings finalised as of 9 January NEUTRAL • Inter Cars: December sales increased by 13.6% yoy NEUTRAL • Duna House: strong 4Q KPIs; Czexit; Italy stake raised to 95% POSITIVE • Coca-Cola Icecek: 4Q25 trading update and 2026E volume guidance NEUTRAL • EME Macro/Strategy: macro all-in-one (1-8 January)
2025 was a very strong year for African Telcos, as macro stabilized and pricing recovered across the continent but especially in Nigeria. We think 2026 should be more of the same as stocks re-rate due to strength in the core coupled with exposure to digital. Very strong performance by Airtel Africa means Vodacom becomes our top pick in Africa, and VEON our top pick overall.
2025 was when the EM Telco bull market really took off. Two of our top picks returned >100% and four more 50%+. We make one change to our top picks for 2026 from 2025, introducing Megacable in exchange for IHS Towers. In a separate note out today we run through the Themes that we think will drive performance in 2026.
EM Telcos have been strong for some time, but 2025 was a banner year. Multiples have expanded somewhat, but we remain bullish, as we think EM Telcos operate on a long cycle driven by market structure which has now definitively turned up We therefore see EM Telcos in a true stealth bull market as conditions still seem ripe for the best to exhibit pricing power and hence GDP+ revenue growth and rising ROIC. This note explains the key themes we see for 2026.
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