Vodafone to Virgin spectrum sale: More details revealed

As part of the Vodafone-Three merger (VOD3UK), the merging companies committed to sell a portfolio of spectrum to VMO2. The details of that spectrum portfolio have now been formally disclosed by Ofcom, which has published a notification listing the frequencies that are due to be transferred (LINK). In this note, we run through the final decisions and implications for potential UK revenue share.

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.

Benelux Morning Notes

Belgian telecoms: Orange Belgium's new B2B offensive. BE Semiconductor Industries: Investor Day highlights. Proximus: Sale of Be-Mobile, asset disposals upped from ‘>€500m' to ‘up to €600m'. UCB: To invest in a new US manufacturing site

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?

Benelux Morning Notes

Ageas: Reinsurance partnership with TRIGLAV, taking QS on Italian motor direct insurance Belgian Telecoms: Digi introduces a new mobile subscription at €3. Kinepolis: Box office in US/Canada up 76% YoY while France visitors were down 25%. NN Group & ASR: Dutch coalition collapse not affecting Dutch Pension Reform. SBM Offshore: Farewell Aseng after 13.5 years of service. Events Calendar

Expert speaker call: latent market share gains

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)|

The company started seeing signs of recovery as subscriber losses begu...

As we expected, the UK merger completed this morning, so we wanted to take this opportunity to highlight the note we put out on Saturday, in which we published our new model (including the UK merger, and assuming Vodafone buys out the Hutchinson minority in 3 years’ time). The terms of the deal are as initially announced. We believe the value creation is +9p per share, included within our 120p price target. We still see >50% upside from current levels.

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.

Vodafone (Buy, 120p, +56%) Was 135p Target price/ model update: T...

We don't usually aim to publish price target updates over the weekend, so please do forgive us, but with today being May 31st and Vodafone's desire to close the UK merger during H1 and at a month-end, we would like to think that the UK deal closing could be very imminent - and maybe even today.

Tele2 AB: 2 directors

A director at Tele2 AB bought 4,500 shares at 144.000SEK and the significance rating of the trade was 71/100. 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 years clearly show...

Vodafone Group: 1 director

A director at Vodafone Group bought 356,000 shares at 72p and the significance rating of the trade was 55/100. 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 years clearly sho...

ODDO BHF SECURITIES LARGE CAPS MORNING NEWS 05/20/2025

Vodafone (Buy, 135p, +82%) FY 2025: Trying to move the debate on from ...

The broad theme of Vodafone’s results remains the same as in past periods: Germany has been disappointing and has been the main focus of the market, but other parts of the business have been able to offset it, with increasing weight now on Vodacom for FY26.

Vodafone : FY 2026 FCF guidance better than expected despite Germany

Vodafone : FY 2026 FCF guidance better than expected despite Germany

Benelux Morning Notes

Alfen: Dead cat bounce? Ayvens: Overhang cure. Belgian telcos: Hey! discontinues €5 offer, OBEL price increases from June 2025. B&S Group: Pulls FY EBITDA guidance in light of tariffs. D'Ieteren: CMD, 1Q25 Preview. Kendrion: Wrestling through difficult macro conditions. NN Group, ASR: Vote on Dutch pension reforms postponed. TKH Group: Not that bad, good progress at Eemshaven. UCB: US Most Favoured Nation initiative back on the agenda. Vastned: Good results, integration ongoing...

Coffee, Croissants & Credit/Proximus, Orange, Telefonica

Proximus is confident it can weather Digi's competition and reports solid results. Orange could acquire remaining stake in MasOrange. Telefonica could sell is business in Chile

Vodafone (Buy, 135p, +87%) Vodafone CFO departing: Quick thoughts

Vodafone has announced that Luka Mucic will be stepping down as Vodafone CFO by year-end, after only taking on the role in September 2023. We run through some quick thoughts on this move here and set out our estimates ahead of results in 2 weeks time