Vodafone Share Chat (VOD)

Share Name	Share Symbol	Market	Type	Share ISIN	Share Description
Vodafone Group Plc	LSE:VOD	London	Ordinary Share	GB00BH4HKS39	ORD USD0.20 20/21

	Price Change	% Change	Share Price	Bid Price	Offer Price	High Price	Low Price	Open Price	Shares Traded	Last Trade
	-0.68p	-0.42%	159.80p	159.34p	159.38p	162.04p	159.24p	160.32p	60,480,376	16:35:25

Industry Sector	Turnover (m)	Profit (m)	EPS - Basic	PE Ratio	Market Cap (m)
Mobile Telecommunications	37,636.6	-2,252.2	-25.0	-	42,691

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18/10/2019 14:55	https://www.ft.com/content/1b16087e-f0f3-11e9-ad1e-4367d8281195 Vodafone signs flying car deal with EHang in Germany Telecoms group wants to provide a drone management system based on air traffic control Vodafone has signed a deal with a Chinese flying car company as part of its ambition to develop an air traffic control system for drones and aerial taxis. The British-based telecoms group will supply EHang with sim cards to connect its electric one- or two-seat drones to its network in Germany. “This is a significant step forward in advancing urban air mobility in Europe, with the goal being to create a new traffic ecosystem,” EHang's founder Hu Huazhi told the Financial Times. Mr Hu envisages his drones being used to transport everything from emergency medical materials to commuting passengers. EHang says it has already done “thousands” of test flights in China and other countries, including in Europe, but has not yet done so in Germany. Its tests are most advanced in Guangzhou, the southern Chinese city where the company is headquartered. Vodafone has already held talks with European regulators to develop a drone management system in the style of air traffic control. The telecoms company has carved out a niche in drone technology in recent years as it looks for uses for its 5G technology. Last year, Vodafone unveiled a drone detection system that can protect areas around power stations or airports from rogue devices. It is also a large player in the automotive market with 22m vehicles connected to its network that sends digitised information to insurance companies and to help track stolen vehicles. The EHang deal has been signed with Vodafone Germany, based in Düsseldorf, which has become a hub for the group’s technology development. It is supplying 5G connectivity to control the manufacturing lines for the eGo driverless car factory in Aachen. More companies are developing passenger drones to fight for a slice of a potential huge market for flying taxis. Bristol-based company Vertical Aerospace this week revealed that it had completed a test flight of its Seraph “vertical take off and landing” vehicle in Wales while Uber has pledged to spend €20m in France to develop the technology. It is early days for aerial taxis. Limited trials have taken place but a commercial launch of drone-based vehicles might still be a long way off due to the length of time needed to create a regulatory framework. Vodafone said it would take until 2025 for these aerial vehicles to launch in Germany. Mr Hu said that Vodafone’s deployment of 5G networks will be “a key infrastructure component for the commercial deployment of autonomous aerial vehicles, since it enables take-offs and landings that are precisely controlled within centimetres”.  spud	spud	Read Full Thread Reply
18/10/2019 14:03	BT has already bounced off its low and I don't think it has as far left to rise as VOD. Staying put here for a bit :D	markth	Read Full Thread Reply
18/10/2019 12:54	Always said Vod would get back to 160p when they was 129p. Taken profits, gone into BT I think 20% to be made before Xmas.	montyhedge	Read Full Thread Reply
17/10/2019 16:30	So sorry oh wise and great one ( Idiot ) - i forgot I am not allowed to post on here	fudge10	Read Full Thread Reply
17/10/2019 15:35	Oh crumbs - fudge is back - must be half term, I suppose	erogenous jones	Read Full Thread Reply
17/10/2019 14:54	Dont speak too soon SPUD - We are on our way down	fudge10	Read Full Thread Reply
17/10/2019 11:15	Getting a nice little bump today thanks to Brexit deal agreement. However, convincing an Irishman/lady to agree to anything, is about as simple as landing a monkey on Mars. spud	spud	Read Full Thread Reply
16/10/2019 18:50	I wanna know what SR thinks. Shows where the market ISNT going	1oughton	Read Full Thread Reply
16/10/2019 18:46	Chart absolutely fine IMO though I'm trading this on wide setup so small moves either direction are pretty meaningless to me	davr0s	Read Full Thread Reply
16/10/2019 10:01	These shares seam to be holding there own lately, which is good. It shows the strength of Nick Read's bein positives about things. Just my thoughts. What do others think, apart from SR	veryniceperson	Read Full Thread Reply
15/10/2019 16:27	https://www.ft.com/content/3802f906-ec1b-11e9-a240-3b065ef5fc55 Vodafone puts Germany at heart of grand design to challenge rivals Unitymedia deal shifts UK group’s focus but pressure is on to make strategy work Nic Fildes in Düsseldorf 12 HOURS AGO Hirschburg is one of the stranger assets to be found on Vodafone’s books. The UK telecoms company inherited the gothic 19th-century palace as part of its blockbuster £112bn acquisition of Germany’s Mannesmann at the turn of the millennium. Germany is now driving the future of Vodafone as it digests its €18.4bn acquisition of Unitymedia, the German cable network it bought from Liberty Global alongside three smaller assets in eastern Europe. The deal has cemented the company’s position as the main challenger to Europe’s incumbent telecoms groups, including Deutsche Telekom, Europe’s largest telecoms company. The Unity takeover shifted Vodafone’s centre of gravity to Germany, where its operations generate 30 per cent of group revenue, 35 per cent of earnings and 40 per cent of cash flow. The country is also at the forefront of the company’s technological development in areas including 5G and the internet of things. Nick Read, Vodafone chief executive, said the hard-fought deal had made Germany “the heart of the company”. “Germany is the engine of Europe and the telecoms structure is one of the best. We have a fantastic asset position,” he said last week. Vodafone, still seen as a mobile phone provider by many in its home market, is now Germany’s largest pay-TV company with 14m customers and the second-biggest in Europe, behind Sky. It has a cable network covering 25m German homes that can connect to “gigabit” broadband speeds. In mobile, where it endured a “painful” spectrum auction this year, it was first to launch 5G in Germany and expects to build a network covering 20m people by 2021. Mr Read believes the British company has a “structural advantage unparalleled in Europe” to grow in Germany given its gigabit network and set a path for other Vodafone territories to follow. “Vodafone was a diversified business spread across five large markets but the story is now simpler,” said Polo Tang, head of telecoms research at UBS. “Germany is so big it becomes a focal point for investors.” “The move to bulk up made sense,” Mr Tang added. “European telecoms is a challenged sector with revenue stalling and high levels of capital expenditure. But Germany is seeing growth with a healthy mobile market and an opportunity in broadband.” Mannesmann may be Vodafone’s best-known deal, remembered as a record-breaking takeover that also triggered a record-breaking loss. But it was the 2013 acquisition of Kabel Deutschland for €10.7bn that set Vodafone on a path towards “convergence” — offering broadband, mobile and television services as a block — that now underpins its growth strategy. “The German market has been good for Vodafone and has now become even more important,” said Robert Grindle, an analyst with Deutsche Bank. However, he added that any sustained economic weakness in the country could see “customers shift to lower-price providers”. The pressure is now on the company to make the Unity deal work, having paid a hefty price to complete its German telecoms jigsaw. The pain will initially be felt in job cuts, with €135m of cost savings earmarked. More than 1,000 roles, both at Unity and at Vodafone’s existing operations, are likely to go. The takeover provoked a public fight with Vodafone’s main rival in Europe, with Deutsche Telekom chief executive Tim Höttges arguing that creating a dominant pay-TV company and combining it with a telecoms powerhouse was “very tricky for democracy”. European regulators nonetheless approved the takeover after Vodafone cut a side deal to allow Telefónica Deutschland to use its network to offer broadband to its customers, albeit at a slower rate than Vodafone’s own service. Vodafone also needs to bat away concerns that it could lose an advantage it has inherited in Germany. Local politicians are calling for a rethink of the country’s unusual Nebenkostenprivileg law, which allows landlords to automatically add a cable subscription to a resident’s rent. With many housing associations tied into deals with regional providers, that acts as a deterrent for about 11m consumers to switch providers, locking in a huge amount of profit — as much as half of Unitymedia’s by some estimates. The law has been the subject of heated debate for years, with companies including Deutsche Telekom saying it in effect freezes them out of much of the broadband market. Yet Hannes Ametsreiter, chief executive of Vodafone Germany, is sanguine about the prospects of renewed political pressure. “You will need the commitment and consent of all the federal states. Good luck,” he told the Financial Times, adding that removing the law would result in rising costs. “Do you want to be the politician who is known for a price increase for consumers?” One German telecoms veteran said that even if the law is to change, it would not happen for years and the bigger challenge for Mr Read and Mr Ametsreiter would be driving enough growth to justify the price Vodafone paid for Unity. Mr Read is confident, pointing to £1.5bn of “revenue synergies” from the rapid merger of the two cable companies. Another executive at a rival German telecoms company argues that while the company has positioned itself as the “gigabit provider”, it has been less forward in committing to new network investment. Vodafone Germany, which is at the heart of the group’s technological developments, could also be key to stimulating growth as it increases its small share of the business market. At its Düsseldorf headquarters, workers in an on-site laboratory can control robotic arms at an electric car factory 80km away in Aachen using 5G. Even the car park is wired up to show where the free spaces are, a service it has exported to Lidl supermarkets in Germany and car parks in Malta. spud	spud	Read Full Thread Reply
15/10/2019 14:16	I reckon it has to be £s paid and nothing to do with yield - the top two are the biggest in capital terms so a company like IMB which is 8x smaller than HSBA but basically double the yield isn't mentioned.	scrwal	Read Full Thread Reply
15/10/2019 10:30	AJB is that by total amount or percentage? For example some of the builders have paid out close to 13% annually over the last 5 years.	1carus	Read Full Thread Reply
15/10/2019 09:34	Interesting posts QuePassa. I'm with TalkTalk but have never considered it as an investment. Perhaps I should think again.	grahamite2	Read Full Thread Reply
15/10/2019 09:27	Excellent full-page article in today's FT about Vodafone, mentioning their dominance, size and importance in Germany and their industry-leading streaming TV services in Germany. ALL IMO. DYOR. QP	quepassa	Read Full Thread Reply
14/10/2019 21:01	Top UK dividend payers Rank Company 1 HSBC (HSBA) 2 Royal Dutch Shell (RDSA) 3 Rio Tinto (RIO) 4 BP (BP) 5 Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Subtotal £11.9bn % of total dividends 33% 6 BHP Group (BHP) 7 British American Tobacco (BATS) 8 Glencore (GLEN) 9 National Grid (NG) 10 BT (BT) 11 Vodafone (VOD) 12 GlaxosmithKline (GSK) 13 Astrazeneca (AZN) 14 Lloyds (LLOY) 15 Anglo American (AAL) Subtotal £10.1bn Top 15 grand total £22bn % of total dividends 62%	adrian j boris	Read Full Thread Reply
11/10/2019 10:52	SentimentRules still short here at 1.47 hes burning everywhere hmmmm loving that smell	1oughton	Read Full Thread Reply
11/10/2019 10:51	MAKE NO BONES ABOUT IT. RECENT RNS's ABOUT TOSCA'S VORACIOUS SHARE-BUYING AND STAKE-BUILDING IN TALKTALK; 1. 12th. SEPTEMBER, TOSCA @ 18.7% and INCREASE to 20.1%, 2. 2nd. OCTOBER, TOSCA @ 20.1% and INCREASE to 22%, 3. 9th. OCTOBER, TOSCA @ 22% and INCREASE to 23.5% 4. 10th. OCTOBER, TOSCA @ 23.5% and INCREASE to 25.6% TOSCA have bought another enormous chunk of almost 7% of TalkTalk in just one month. That's a lot of shares to buy in a very short space of time in my view. Why the enormous appetite? ALL IMO. DYOR. QP	quepassa	Read Full Thread Reply
10/10/2019 21:20	Yes your right, just read the definition of noise.	beerboy2	Read Full Thread Reply
10/10/2019 19:57	Think you are looking at noise - late trades and not an unusual volume day	davr0s	Read Full Thread Reply
10/10/2019 19:43	whats going on with all those massive sells after 4 , looks like the share price is set to fall tomorrow	beerboy2	Read Full Thread Reply
10/10/2019 17:17	Suspect Vodafone's management don't know what they're doing either frankly. Their customer service is woeful as well.	crossing_the_rubicon	Read Full Thread Reply
10/10/2019 13:14	Astonishing. Tosca have just bought another 2.1% of TalkTalk as per today's RNS. Tosca now own 25.6% of Talktalk. That's a lot of shares to buy in just a few days. That's a major stake in TalkTalk. Watch this space. ALL IMO. DYOR. QP	quepassa	Read Full Thread Reply
10/10/2019 13:09	That article by Karl is abit naff really.Don't think HE actually understands what Vodafone are doing.	anony mous	Read Full Thread Reply

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