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- Chris Hoare
Global EM Telcos & Towers Continuing strong: NSR GEM Top-10 September...
August was a rather eventful month for two of top picks as LILAC announced the Puerto Rican asset separation and Kyivstar, the Ukraine arm of VEON, successfully listed on the NASDAQ (see our initiation HERE). All of our top picks performed well again. This note also includes key news & other thoughts, to try to help investors generate alpha within the EM Telco space. We make our first change to the list, swapping TIM Brasil for Telefonica Brasil.
Kyivstar Rings Opening Bell at Nasdaq Marking Landmark Listing and Hig...
Kyivstar Rings Opening Bell at Nasdaq Marking Landmark Listing and Highlighting Ukraine’s Investment Case New York – August 29, 2025 – VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON) (“VEON), a global digital operator and parent company of Ukraine’s leading digital operator Kyivstar Group Ltd (Nasdaq: KYIV; KYIVW) (“Kyivstar”), today rang the opening bell on Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”) in New York, capping a week of activities highlighting Kyivstar’s listing and the investment opportunities for Ukraine’s reconstruction. Kyivstar Board and Kyivstar President Oleksandr Komarov were joined by the Prime Minister...
- Chris Hoare
VEON and Kyivstar to Host Investor Meeting on August 28, 2025
VEON and Kyivstar to Host Investor Meeting on August 28, 2025 New York, August 28, 2025 – VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator and Kyivstar Group Ltd. (Nasdaq: KYIV; KYIVW), a leading telecommunications and digital operator in Ukraine (“Kyivstar”), announced today that Kyivstar will host an investor meeting on Thursday, August 28, 2025, from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM Eastern Time. The meeting will provide an update on Kyivstar’s strategic initiatives, financial performance, and market outlook. Members of the senior management team will present key developments from the second qu...
VEON and Kyivstar to Mark Historic Listing with Nasdaq Opening Bell an...
VEON and Kyivstar to Mark Historic Listing with Nasdaq Opening Bell and to Launch “Invest in Ukraine NOW!” Campaign in the U.S. New York, August 27, 2025 – VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON) (“VEON”), a global digital operator and parent company of Ukraine’s leading digital operator Kyivstar Group Ltd (Nasdaq: KYIV; KYIVW) (“Kyivstar”), are today kicking off a series of strategic engagements in New York to celebrate the first Ukrainian landmark listing on Nasdaq and to officially launch their “Invest in Ukraine NOW!” campaign in the United States. Kyivstar began trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market (...
“KYIV” Ticker Goes Live on Nasdaq as Kyivstar Group Commences Trading
“KYIV” Ticker Goes Live on Nasdaq as Kyivstar Group Commences Trading Landmark listing makes Kyivstar the first and only publicly listed pure-play Ukrainian investment opportunity in the U.S. Stock Markets Kyiv, New York, Dubai - August 15, 2025 – VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON) (“VEON”), a global digital operator and the parent company of Kyivstar Group Ltd. (Nasdaq: KYIV) (“Kyivstar” or “Kyivstar Group”), is proud to announce that Kyivstar today starts trading on Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”) under the ticker symbol “KYIV”. With the commencement of today’s trading, Kyivstar Group (Nasdaq: KY...
Ahead of Its Historic Listing on Nasdaq, Kyivstar Group Completes Bus...
Ahead of Its Historic Listing on Nasdaq, Kyivstar Group Completes Business Combination with Cohen Circle Kyiv, New York, Dubai, and Philadelphia – 14 August 2025 - VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON) (“VEON”), a global digital operator and parent company of Ukraine’s leading digital operator JSC Kyivstar (“Kyivstar”), and Cohen Circle Acquisition Corp. I (Nasdaq: CCIR) (“Cohen Circle”), a special purpose acquisition company, have today closed the previously announced business combination between Kyivstar Group Ltd. and Cohen Circle (the “Business Combination”), which will make Kyivstar Group Ltd. a...
- Chris Hoare
VEON Completes Sale of Beeline Kyrgyzstan
VEON Completes Sale of Beeline Kyrgyzstan Dubai, August 13, 2025: VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON”), announces that it has completed the sale of its 50.1% indirect stake in Sky Mobile LLC, operating under the Beeline brand in Kyrgyzstan, to Open Joint Stock Company “Eldik Bank” (“Eldik Bank”). The transaction was completed following receipt of all necessary regulatory approvals. This transaction follows VEON’s previously announced strategy to simplify its group structure and optimize its portfolio, focusing on countries with larger populations and with opportu...
- Chris Hoare
VEON’s Kyivstar Delivers First Messages via Starlink in Direct to Cel...
VEON’s Kyivstar Delivers First Messages via Starlink in Direct to Cell Satellite Connectivity Test in Ukraine Dubai and Kyiv, August 12, 2025 – VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator, today announces that Kyivstar, its digital operator in Ukraine, has successfully conducted a test of satellite and terrestrial network integration using Starlink Direct to Cell technology. This is the first field test of of Starlink Direct to Cell in eastern Europe. During the pilot in the Zhytomyr region, Kyivstar CEO Oleksandr Komarov and Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhail...
- Chris Hoare
- Chris Hoare
VEON (Buy, TP: $65/ADR, +24%) Q2 25: Tracking well, guidance lifted
VEON delivered another round of decent growth across almost all geographies, driving 6% revenue growth and 13% EBITDA growth in US$. As a result, it lifted local currency revenue and EBITDA guidance by 1%, a function of the acquisition of Uklon rather than underlying upgrades.
VEON 2Q25 Earnings Release: Direct Digital Revenues Up 57% YoY. Solid ...
VEON 2Q25 Earnings Release: Direct Digital Revenues Up 57% YoY. Solid Execution, Strong Results VEON 2Q25 Earnings Release: Direct Digital Revenues Up 57% YoY. Solid Execution, Strong Results Dubai, August 7, 2025 VEON 2Q25 Highlights Total revenue growth of 5.9% YoY to USD 1,087 million (11.2% YoY in local currency terms) EBITDA growth of 13.2% YoY to USD 520 million (19.6% YoY in local currency terms) Direct digital revenue growth of 56.6% YoY to USD 180 million (+62.4% YoY in local currency terms), representing 16.5% of revenues for quarterTotal cash and cash equivalents and deposits ...
- Chris Hoare
- Russell Waller
Orange (Buy, TP: €15.8, +19%) MasOrange (Equal Weight) It’s not all a...
We have been long-term Buyers of Orange, and are pleased about the YTD share price performance (+37% vs the sector +10%). Some of that outperformance is probably due to the prospect of French market repair (France is 56% of the value), but actually it is the Spanish and AME divisions that cause our target to rise to €15.8 from €14.9 post the Q2 results.
- Chris Hoare
Global EM Telcos & Towers Another monster month: NSR GEM Top-10 Augus...
Our top picks performed very strongly again in July, marked by a strong recovery from VEON, Millicom and IHS Towers alongside continued momentum at Singtel and Airtel Africa. Heading into earnings season, we continue to see the EM Telco cycle in an upswing. This note also includes key news & other thoughts, to try to help investors generate alpha within the EM Telco space. In our view, our picks remain undervalued, so we make no changes to the list.
- Chris Hoare
- Chris Hoare
- Russell Waller
Orange (Buy, TP: €14.9, +14%) Q2 25: EBITDA guidance lifted thanks to...
Orange has reported a solid set of results, with Telco EBITDA c+0.3% ahead of consensus, and has lifted Group EBITDAaL guidance thanks to AME. French KPIs are solid, but French retail SR growth has turned negative y/y. There are some encouraging signs on French front-book low-end mobile pricing in July (HERE), but clearly overall conditions remain difficult (albeit Orange is doing a good job of off-setting those difficulties at the EBITDAaL level in France).
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