Credit Morning 06/30/2025

Worldline: Belgian authorities open investigation into local subsidiary for money laundering|

Morning Crédit 30/06/2025

Worldline : la justice belge ouvre une enquête sur la filiale locale pour blanchiment d’argent|

Mobile traffic growth: still no sign of stabilisation

Rethinking BEAD 2.0 as States Rethink Their Options

Earlier this month, as expected, Secretary of Commerce Lutnick released new rules for BEAD, requiring all the states to rebid and prioritizing the lowest cost option. Our initial reaction was that the new rules would shift funds from fiber to satellite, a negative for wired providers including CMSCA, CHTR, T, and VZ/FYBR. We still think that but in talking to numerous stakeholders, that magnitude of the shift may be less than we initially thought. In this note we examine two themes that have ...

Mobile and broadband pair trades to consider this summer

While we have been intensively focused on such things as a Presidential intervention to prevent a Chapter 11, we admit that our mind occasionally drifts to thoughts of summer. So to help others who may have similar thoughts, we thought, in honor of summer beginning, we should provide our thoughts as to which alcohols pair best with the purchase of the stocks we cover (actually, we just asked ChatGPT and, given its attitude about intellectual property, we have no fears about just cutting and pas...

CHTR Quick Hit: Insights from preliminary proxy

Charter filed a preliminary proxy earlier today. We now have detailed historical and projected financials for Cox. The standalone forecasts and synergy forecasts are below ours, but in-line with consensus and prior guidance. We provide comparisons in this brief note.

The Tech Infrastructure Quarterly Bible 1Q25

We publish today our comprehensive quarterly bible: 237 pages of detailed analyses on what happened in the last 3 months, and how we interpret it, in light of our current convictions. The first section acts as a PM summary, outlining our key findings, and latest thoughts on the semi cycle, in 6 slides.

Sun still shining in the US

Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson: 1 director

A director at Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson bought 6,000,000 shares at 79.915SEK and the significance rating of the trade was 68/100. Is that information sufficient for you to make an investment decision? This report gives details of those trades and adds context and analysis to them such that you can judge whether these trading decisions are ones worth following. Included in the report is a detailed share price chart which plots discretionary trades by all the company's directors over the ...

Sub-Saharan African Telecoms Good quarter, Vodacom price target to ZA...

The Sub-Saharan African (SSA) operators performed well in Q1 with service revenue trends accelerating, solid Fintech and sequentially stable margins.

Global EM Telcos M&A Cycle in-bound; buy the targets

With sentiment, leverage and cash flow all improving for EM Telcos we think we are approaching the point of the cycle where M&A is going to become more prevalent, and shift from bearish (in-market consolidation), to bullish (out of footprint). Investors should consider building portfolios based on likely targets. Who are they?

Charter Communications Inc: 1 director

A director at Charter Communications Inc sold 178,887 shares at 392.470USD and the significance rating of the trade was 67/100. Is that information sufficient for you to make an investment decision? This report gives details of those trades and adds context and analysis to them such that you can judge whether these trading decisions are ones worth following. Included in the report is a detailed share price chart which plots discretionary trades by all the company's directors over the last two ...

CHTR Quick Hit: Charter Buys Back $0.6BN of Shares in May; Increasing ...

Advance/Newhouse filed its latest Charter ownership disclosure today. The buyback amount was higher than our expectation. With only one more month to go, we are increasing our 2Q25 share repurchase estimate.

Expert speaker call: latent market share gains

Vodafone UK and Three UK merger completed

Credit Morning 06/02/2025

Flos B&B Italia: lower results and increased leverage in Q1|Announcement by the Gabonese Government to ban crude manganese export from 2029|Eutelsat is reportedly in talks with investors to raise € 1.5bn (Bloomberg)|

Morning Crédit 02/06/2025

Flos B&B Italia : résultats en repli et augmentation du levier auT1|Annonce du Gouvernement gabonais d’interdire les exportations de manganèse brut à partir de 2029|Eutelsat discuterait avec des investisseurs pour lever 1,5 md EUR (Bloomberg)|

Global EM Telcos & Towers Bull market continues – NSR GEM Top-10 June...

It was another very strong month for our picks as the EM Telco bull market continues. As we have been arguing for some time EM Telco is a much better space than it used to be, and the market has now started to understand this. This note also includes key news & other thoughts, to try to help investors generate alpha within the EM Telco space.

More capex ramp at Vodafone Idea

A closer look at Cox footprint

We’ve been getting questions from clients about competitive dynamics in Cox’s markets after Charter announced its acquisition. In this note, we use Broadband Insights to explore the fiber competition in Cox’s markets today and in the future, who the largest competitors are, and market demographics.