After 8 extremely strong months, September bucked the trend. 6 of our Top Picks saw profit taking with only Airtel Africa, Millicom, Telefonica Brasil and LILAC posting positive returns. This note also includes key news & other thoughts, to try to help investors generate alpha within the EM Telco space. Having strongly outperformed we switch out Millicom for AMX which we now see as a cheaper, lower risk, way to play Latin American telcos.
VEON Inaugurates JazzCash Experience Lounge in Islamabad Dubai and Islamabad, September 18, 2025 – VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON), a global digital operator (“VEON” and together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”), today announce the inauguration of the experience lounge of JazzCash, its digital financial services platform in Pakistan. Governor State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Jameel Ahmad; Deputy Governor SBP Saleem Ullah; VEON Group CEO Kaan Terzioglu; and JazzCash CEO Murtaza Ali inaugurated the Experience Lounge in Islamabad, Pakistan today. On this occasion, Jazz CEO and Chairman Mobilink Microf...
Moody's Ratings (Moody's) has today assigned a Baa3 rating to the two EUR-denominated hybrid securities both with maturity in 2055 to be issued by Vodafone Group Plc (Vodafone or the company). The outlook is unchanged at stable. RATINGS RATIONALE The Baa3 rating assigned to the new hybrids is on...
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 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...
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 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 (...
A director at Vodafone Group sold after exercising options/sold 871,500 shares at 87p and the significance rating of the trade was 100/100. 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 t...
“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 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...
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...
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