VOD.L - Vodafone Group Plc
| Previous close | 195.28 |
| Open | 196.16 |
| Bid | 196.50 x 0 |
| Ask | 200.00 x 0 |
| Day's range | 195.50 - 199.88 |
| 52-week range | 190.10 - 239.65 |
| Volume | 96,606,053 |
| Avg. volume | 65,007,797 |
| Market cap | 53.123B |
| Beta | 1.16 |
| PE ratio (TTM) | 18.44 |
| EPS (TTM) | 10.80 |
| Earnings date | N/A |
| Forward dividend & yield | 0.13 (6.87%) |
| Ex-dividend date | 2018-06-07 |
| 1y target est | 2.47 |
- Bloomberg Video•7 days ago
Vodafone CEO to Depart After a Decade in October
May.15 -- Lawrence Hatheway, group chief economist and head of investment solutions at GAM, and Bloomberg's Joe Mayes, discuss changes in leadership at Vodafone. They speak with Francine Lacqua on "Bloomberg Surveillance."
- Business Wire•yesterday
Asavie: Vodafone Launches IoT Express Giving Irish Businesses Access to its Global Internet of Things Network
Vodafone Ireland, in partnership with Asavie, a leader in secure Enterprise Mobility and IoT Connectivity, have today announced the launch of Vodafone IoT Express. Vodafone IoT Express is a new offering designed to enable Irish businesses avail of highly scalable and secure SIM-based IoT connectivity on cellular networks, including Vodafone’s latest Narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT) network.
- Bloomberg•yesterday
Vodafone Qatar Obtains $250 Million Facility for Network Rollout
Vodafone Qatar QSC obtained 911 million riyals ($250 million) in financing to help accelerate the phone operator’s fixed-line service rollout and 5G deployment in the country.
- Reuters - UK Focus•4 days ago
BUZZ-Vodafone: falls after Citi downgrades
** Shares down 1.6 pct; among worst performing stocks on FTSE 100 ** Citigroup downgrades stock to "neutral" from "buy," after co struck a more cautious tone for 2019 earlier this week ...
- The Wall Street Journal•6 days ago
[$$] Permanent Digital Revolution Faces Vodafone’s New Boss
“Everything needs to change, so everything can stay the same.” Vittorio Colao must be wearily familiar with this maxim from classic Italian novel “The Leopard” after a decade as chief executive of mobile giant Vodafone. With 5G on the way, his successor Nick Read may find change just as constant. When Mr. Colao, a North Italian cycling enthusiast, took the top job in July 2008, he inherited a sprawling empire of mobile-phone assets on five continents.
- The Wall Street Journal•6 days ago
[$$] Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao to Depart After a Decade
Vodafone Group PLC Chief Executive Vittorio Colao is set to leave his position after reshaping the world’s second-biggest mobile carrier by subscribers over the past 10 years. The move comes less than a week after the U.K. telecommunications company announced a $23 billion deal to buy operations in Germany, Hungary, Romania and the Czech Republic from cable tycoon John Malone’s Liberty Global. Mr. Colao, a 56-year-old Italian reserve military officer who took over as CEO of Vodafone in 2008, will be replaced by Chief Financial Officer Nick Read on Oct. 1, the company said Tuesday.
- Reuters - UK Focus•6 days ago
Germany to auction 2 Gigahertz, 3.6 Gigahertz frequencies for 5G
Germany's Federal Network Regulator (BNetzA) said on Wednesday it would auction spectrum in the 2 Gigahertz and 3.6 Gigahertz frequency ranges that mobile operators will need to launch fifth-generation services. Final auction conditions will be made available by the end of the year, the BNetzA said in a statement, after confirming on Tuesday that the auctions themselves would not be held until early 2019. Further frequencies will also be offered for local and regional networks in the 3,700 to 3,800 Megahertz and 26 Gigahertz ranges.
Sky News•7 days agoColao to step down from Vodafone after 10 years in charge
Vodafone's chief executive Vittorio Colao will step down on October 1 after more than 10 years in charge of the world's second-largest mobile phone company. Nick Read, group chief financial officer, who will become chief executive designate from July 27, will replace Mr Colao. Under Mr Colao's tenure, Vodafone sold its joint venture with Verizon (NYSE: VZ - news) for $130bn and merged its business in India with Idea Cellular (BSE: 532822.BO - news) .
Reuters•7 days agoFTSE gets energy boost while Vodafone flags
Britain's top share index hit a four-month high on Tuesday as oil majors rallied, though Vodafone's shares struggled after the world's second largest mobile operator said its boss was leaving. The FTSE blue-chip benchmark ended the day up 0.2 percent, while Vodafone's shares fell 4.3 percent, the worst-performing on the index. Vodafone, which also announced its full-year results, said CEO Vittorio Colao, who spent 10 years reshaping the group into a digital communications powerhouse, would be replaced by its current finance director.
- Reuters - UK Focus•7 days ago
Britain's FTSE gets energy boost while Vodafone flags
Britain's top share index hit a four-month high on Tuesday as oil majors rallied, though Vodafone's shares struggled after the world's second largest mobile operator said its boss was leaving. The FTSE blue-chip benchmark ended the day up 0.2 percent, while Vodafone's shares fell 4.3 percent, the worst-performing on the index. Vodafone, which also announced its full-year results, said CEO Vittorio Colao, who spent 10 years reshaping the group into a digital communications powerhouse, would be replaced by its current finance director.
- Reuters - UK Focus•7 days ago
Germany likely to hold 5G spectrum auction next year - regulator
Germany's Federal Network Regulator said on Tuesday it planned to auction spectrum for fifth-generation (5G) mobile services in early 2019, rather than this year as originally planned. "We want to auction the frequencies as quickly as possible," said a spokesman for the Bonn-based regulator, confirming a report in the Handelsblatt newspaper. Handelsblatt reported that the delay had resulted from a row between the transport ministry and the network regulator, which is also known as BNetzA, over the conditions under which bidders will be admitted to the auction.
Reuters•7 days agoEnd of an era as Vodafone boss Colao hands over to protege Read
Vodafone Chief Executive Vittorio Colao will step down in October after 10 years in which the Italian reshaped the world's second largest mobile operator into a digital communications powerhouse with a string of major deals. The urbane Colao will be replaced by Nick Read, finance director since 2014, whose broad international experience had marked him out as the likely next leader of a group with 536 million mobile customers and 47 billion euros (41.3 billion pounds) in revenue. Last week Vodafone struck a $21.8 billion deal to buy Liberty Global's cable TV and broadband networks in Germany and other markets to strengthen its business in Europe, where 35 percent of its proforma revenue came from fixed line last year.
Reuters•7 days agoEnd of an era as Vodafone boss Colao hands over to protege Read
Vodafone (VOD.L) Chief Executive Vittorio Colao will step down in October after 10 years in which the Italian reshaped the world's second largest mobile operator into a digital communications powerhouse with a string of major deals. The urbane Colao will be replaced by Nick Read, finance director since 2014, whose broad international experience had marked him out as the likely next leader of a group with 536 million mobile customers and 47 billion euros ($56 billion) in revenue. Last week Vodafone struck a $21.8 billion deal to buy Liberty Global's (LBTYA.O) cable TV and broadband networks in Germany and other markets to strengthen its business in Europe, where 35 percent of its proforma revenue came from fixed line last year.
- Reuters - UK Focus•7 days ago
End of an era as Vodafone boss Colao hands over to protege Read
Vodafone Chief Executive Vittorio Colao will step down in October after 10 years in which the Italian reshaped the world's second largest mobile operator into a digital communications powerhouse with a string of major deals. The urbane Colao will be replaced by Nick Read, finance director since 2014, whose broad international experience had marked him out as the likely next leader of a group with 536 million mobile customers and 47 billion euros ($56 billion) in revenue. Last week Vodafone struck a $21.8 billion deal to buy Liberty Global (Frankfurt: A1W0FL - news) 's cable TV and broadband networks in Germany and other markets to strengthen its business in Europe, where 35 percent of its proforma revenue came from fixed line last year.
- The Telegraph•7 days ago
Vodafone boss Vittorio Colao bows out after 10 years at helm
Vodafone boss Vittorio Colao bows out after 10 years at helm
- Bloomberg•7 days ago
New Vodafone CEO Needs ‘Safe Pair of Hands’ for Deals, Rivalry
Vodafone Group Plc’s choice of Nick Read as its next chief executive officer suggests the board is looking for more of the same for one of the biggest jobs in European telecoms. Read, a long-time deputy of current CEO Vittorio Colao, will take over in October after four years as CFO and having previously run Vodafone’s emerging markets and U.K. divisions. An accountant by training, Read joined Vodafone in 2001 following senior finance roles at UBM Plc and FedEx Corp.
Sky News•7 days agoHow Vodafone was shaped into a behemoth
It says much about Vodafone's relatively youthful status as a public company and its meteoric growth that Nick Read will be only the fifth chief executive in the mobile giant's history when he succeeds the highly-regarded Vittorio Colao in October. Sir Gerry Whent, the first chief executive, oversaw the birth of the company when Racal Electronics, a military radio specialist, was in 1982 awarded one of two licences by Margaret Thatcher to run what was then called a cellular telephone network. Sir Gerry oversaw the flotation on the stock market, in October 1988, of what was still called Racal Telecom and was valued at just £1.8bn.
- Forbes•7 days ago
Should You Buy FTSE 100 Giant Vodafone After This News?
Vodafone Group was backsliding in Tuesday trade following the release of full-year trading numbers. Instead, market jitters were set in motion after it was announced that company veteran Vittorio Colao, whose leadership over the past decade has seen Vodafone’s global customer base almost double, would be replaced as chief executive in October by current chief financial officer Nick Read. As well as creating questions over the future direction of Vodafone, people are also questioning the appointment of Read given his lack of experience as head with a major listed company.
- The Independent•7 days ago
Vodafone boss Vittorio Colao departs with mixed legacy
The boss of Vodafone has just agreed an €18.4bn (£16.1bn) to buy the German and eastern European cable networks owned by America’s Liberty Global, but will leave it to his successor, finance chief Nick Read, to make the deal fly. The urbane Italian, who may have a future in politics, has radically reshaped the business in his time at the helm, pulling back in some areas, notably the US with a $130bn (£96bn) exit from its US joint venture with Verizon, while expanding in others. Vodafone trumpeted that it has, under hin, been “transformed“ from “a consumer focussed 2G/3G mobile operator” to “one of the world’s leading converged communications companies”.
- MarketWatch•7 days ago
U.K. stocks inch higher after mixed jobs report
U.K. stocks inched higher on Tuesday after a mixed jobs report that was seen as easing pressure on the Bank of England to raise interest rates. The FTSE 100 index (^FTSE) was up 0.2% at 7,727.95, on track for its highest close since late January, according to FactSet data. Sterling has lost almost 5% against the dollar over the past month as expectations of an imminent rate hike dwindled following dovish comments from BOE Gov. Mark Carney and a string of disappointing data.
- Evening Standard•7 days ago
Vodafone boss Vittorio Colao hands over the reins
Vodafone chief executive Vittorio Colao is quitting after 10 years in which he built the business into one of the biggest telecom players in Europe while returning billions to shareholders. Under Colao, Vodafone scrapped sprawling global ambitions, most notably with the $130 billion (£96 billion) sale of its joint venture with US giant Verizon. Over the period, Vodafone became the biggest payer of dividends in the FTSE 100 and therefore a core holding of almost every pension fund.
- MarketWatch•7 days ago
European stocks waver with data, earnings deluge in focus
European stocks swung between small gains and losses on Tuesday, with traders digesting a mixed bag of economic data and a deluge of corporate news.
- Bloomberg•7 days ago
Vodafone CEO to Depart After a Decade in October
Lawrence Hatheway, group chief economist and head of investment solutions at GAM, and Bloomberg's Joe Mayes, discuss changes in leadership at Vodafone. They speak with Francine Lacqua on "Bloomberg ...
- Fool.co.uk•7 days ago
Why 6% yielder Vodafone’s share price could smash the FTSE 100 this year
Roland Head gives his verdict on the latest figures from FTSE 100 (INDEXFTSE:UKX) income giant Vodafone Group plc (LON:VOD).
- Reuters - UK Focus•7 days ago
Vodafone weighs on Britain's FTSE after CEO steps down
The announcement of the departure of Vodafone's boss later this year hit shares in the world's second largest mobile operator and held back Britain's leading stocks index on Tuesday morning. The FTSE blue-chip benchmark was broadly flat by 0840 GMT while Vodafone shares, index heavyweights, were the worst performer with a 2.5 percent fall. Vodafone, which also announced its full-year results, said CEO Vittorio Colao, who spent 10 years reshaping the group into a digital communications powerhouse would be replaced by its current finance director.
