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European Telecom sector – protracted investment cycle, or just a value trap?

Do telcos have pricing power; is the sector at the cusp of an upswing as it comes out of a protracted investment cycle, or just a value trap? For those despairing at the billions already being chucked at 5G licences (€6.5bn last week in Italy) before they’ve extracted much of a return from 4G, one […]

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Wazzup today in the markets – 16th May 2017

ITE (ite_l) – H1 FY17 results & strategy review:  Underwhelming on both                                                                     . Vodafone (vod_l) – FY17 results:  Value trap as investors […]

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Value traps and opportunities and how to spot them

With a relative lull today in the results deluge, I thought it might be interesting to review how some of last week’s stack up, but from a GrowthRating perspective. As we’ve all had to wade thru far to much verbiage, I’ve kept it simple with some annotated charts and only a very few words.  The […]

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Vodafone – Recovery play or just a value trap?

Are super-low interest rates good for capital intensive businesses such as the Telcos? Intuitively, the answer seems obvious, in that lowering funding costs ought to improve the marginal returns from employing that capital. An analogy might be with fuel prices for airline stocks, with again a seemingly clear inverse relationship. In both cases however you might […]

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