Perhaps the biggest surprise from last night’s White House announcement was the scale of tariffs imposed on Asian exporters (and South Africa). Being an ally of America provided no benefit with Thailand (36%) facing higher tariffs than China (34%). By contrast, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa are less negatively impacted, and may even benefit overall from dollar weakness. We run through likely implications for our coverage in Global EM and Japan. Spoiler alert: we see Rakuten as most negati...
Millicom has posted solid Q4/24 results, with double-digit y-o-y EBITDA growth due to cost efficiency measures and higher mobile ARPU, despite decreased revenues on account of lower fixed ARPU and phone & equipment sales. Liquidity remained solid, despite decreased cash. The company re-affirmed its shareholder remuneration policy during the earnings call, and expects to resume dividend distribution on a quarterly basis. This should impact FCF. Moreover, at FYE 2025, we expect net leverage t...
In today's Morning Views publication we comment on developments of the following high yield issuers: Embraer, Falabella, Grupo Posadas, Pemex, TGS, Iochpe-Maxion, Millicom, Klabin, Total Play, Buenaventura, Marfrig, Liberty Puerto Rico, BRF, Braskem, Hidrovias, Cosan SA
Indian FWA net adds continue to accelerate and reached roughly c. 2.1m in the December quarter. India is probably therefore now accounting for around 50% of global shipments. We continue to think this is a critical development, and likely to drive an S-curve of adoption in Global EM.
We update the NSR GEM Top Picks list. No stocks are dropped, and we add LILAC and TIM Brasil to our list, extending it to a Top-10 list from Top-8. Our picks had a good start, up 12% on average since the start of the year. This note also includes key news & other thoughts in order to help investors generate alpha within the EM Telco space.
In a separate note published last week we introduced the NSR GEM-Top 8. However, many of the stocks in that list are not liquid and so, given the tailwinds we now see in the Telco industry we introduce a second list – the GEM Telco & Towers Liquid Compounders; large cap, well-managed telcos in attractive markets at cheap valuations that are likely to generate market-beating returns over time. These are the best large cap investments in the Global EM Telco & Towers space we think.
In today's Morning Views publication we comment on developments of the following high yield issuers: Frontera Energy, Aegea, Braskem, YPF, Petrobras, Millicom, Iochpe-Maxion, Canacol, Geopark, Rumo, C&W Communications, Telecom Argentina, Minerva, LATAM Airlines, Aeromexico, Movida
Millicom has reported a solid set of results with improving service revenue trends, a nice reversal in Home Broadband nets adds (driven by Colombia) and strong EFCF this quarter. The company has lifted its FY24 guidance for EFCF to ~$650m from “more than $600m previously” – though consensus is close to this level for FY24.
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