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Phoenix Tower International acquires 100% of Cellnex’s business in Ireland for €971 million

Alphavalue / Divacons | The Spanish communications tower company and Phoenix Tower International closed the deal announced on 5 March 2024, whereby PTI has acquired 100% of the Irish telecommunications tower and infrastructure operator for €971 million. ‘As we announced at the results presentation, next Monday we will begin the share buyback programme of up to €800 million as the first step in our unequivocal commitment to shareholder remuneration. It…


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Cellnex considers sale of stake in Swiss subsidiary, worth over €1.1 billion

Norbolsa | Cellnex (CLNX) has hired JP Morgan as an advisor to explore the potential sale of its stake in the telecommunications group’s subsidiary in Switzerland. It currently holds a 72% stake which, according to press reports, could have a market value of around €1.1 billion. This would imply valuing 100% of the subsidiary at €1.5 billion. This divestment would be the fourth in a row after sales in Austria,…


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Cellnex buys six new NOS telecom tower sites in Portugal, bringing total to 6,400

Norbolsa | The company has strengthened its presence in Portugal by acquiring six new telecommunications tower sites from NOS, extending its partnership initiated in 2020. Through its subsidiary On Tower Portugal, Cellnex already manages some 6,400 sites across the country. The transaction is pending approval by the Portuguese Competition Authority. Under the agreement, Cellnex and NOS have signed an initial 15-year contract, extendable to successive additional 15-year periods, under which…


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Cellnex continues with divestment plan of non-strategic assets and sells business in Austria for €803 million

Bankinter | Cellnex (CLNX) has reached an agreement to sell 100% of its business in Austria, its subsidiary On Tower Austria, for €803 million. Part of the payment (€272 million) will be deferred in December 2028. Opinion of the Bankinter analysis team; Good news for Cellnex. This divestment is part of the process of selling non-strategic assets and will allow Cellnex to continue reducing debt, with the objective of reaching…


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Cellnex slightly beats expectations with Ebitda of €778m and maintains guidance for rest of year

Bankinter : Cellnex (CLNX) 1Q2024 results slightly beat expectations. Revenues are up 7% to €946M (versus €947M estimated); Adjusted EBITDA is up 7% to €778M (versus €777M estimated) and Recurrent cash flow is up14% to €384M (versus €375M estimated). Maintains guidance for 2024: Revenues of €3,850-3,950m, EBITDA of €3,150-3250m and cash flow of €1,650-1750m. Assessment by Bankinter’s research team: Slightly better-than-estimated results in cash flow, although guidance remains unchanged for…


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Cellnex enters into an absolute return swap agreement for €150 million

Link Securities | In a Significant Event it was reported that Cellnex Finance Company, S.A. (Unipersonal), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cellnex (CLNX), has entered into a total return equity swap contract with a global financial institution, guaranteed by the company, in relation to Cellnex shares for a notional amount of €150,000,000 which, at current market prices, represents approximately 5,000,000 Cellnex shares, or approximately 0.7% of its share capital, maturing within…


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Cellnex acquires 100% of OnTower Poland after buying Illiad’s 30% stake in Polish company for €510mn

Santander Corporate & Investment | Cellnex (BB+ p, BBB- e) has announced the acquisition from Iliad of its 30% stake in OnTower Poland, the Polish telecommunications infrastructure company controlled by Cellnex. The transaction costs around €510mn and brings Cellnex’s stake in OnTower Poland to 100%. According to the press release, OnTower Poland currently operates a total of 8,500 sites in Poland, plans to deploy up to 3,400 new sites by…


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Benetton family now Cellnex group’s largest shareholder again after increasing stake to 9.903%

The Benetton family, through its holding company Edizione, has announced that it has increased its stake in the Spanish telecommunications tower company Cellnex (CLNX) from 8.205% to 9.903%, according to Expansión newspaper. In this way, the Italian family, which was the reference shareholder of CLNX a few years ago, once again becomes the largest shareholder of the group, overtaking the activist fund TCI, which had raised its stake in recent…


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New Chair says Cellnex not giving up on growth through acquisitions, but not in short term

Banc Sabadell | In an interview granted by Anne Bouverout (current Chair of Cellnex (CLNX), after the departure of Bertrand Kan as a result of the intervention of TCI) the executive has issued the following messages concerning the Company: ▪ She considers that Cellnex is not vulnerable to a takeover bid and that if there has ever been such a perception it was the result of the uncertainty derived from…


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Cellnex: green light for the appointment of a director by TCI

Banc Sabadell : The board of Cellnex (CLNX) on 26 April will proceed to appoint a director representing TCI (9.4% of CLNX), probably Jonathan Amouya (TCI partner) as requested by the fund in its letter. It is also expected that an additional independent director will be appointed to restore the number of directors to 11, following the departure of Bertrand Kan and Peter Shore. After the incorporation of the proprietary…