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Strategic Repositioning Towards Core Strengths: Under its 'Trust the Future' plan, Orange is intensifying its focus on its core telecommunications business, aiming to enhance value from its extensive network infrastructure in Europe while exiting or consolidating in challenging markets like Spain through the MasOrange joint venture.</li>
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Africa &amp; Middle East as a Key Growth Engine: The Africa and Middle East (AMEA) region consistently delivers double-digit revenue growth, acting as a crucial driver for the Group's overall performance and offsetting slower growth in mature European markets.</li>
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Transition to a Digital Services Integrator: Orange Business is undergoing a significant transformation, shifting from legacy connectivity to higher-value services such as cybersecurity, cloud, and AI-driven solutions to better serve enterprise clients and improve profitability.</li>
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Strategic Repositioning Towards Core Strengths: Under its 'Trust the Future' plan, Orange is intensifying its focus on its core telecommunications business, aiming to enhance value from its extensive network infrastructure in Europe while exiting or consolidating in challenging markets like Spain through the MasOrange joint venture.
  
Africa &amp; Middle East as a Key Growth Engine: The Africa and Middle East (AMEA) region consistently delivers double-digit revenue growth, acting as a crucial driver for the Group's overall performance and offsetting slower growth in mature European markets.
  
Transition to a Digital Services Integrator: Orange Business is undergoing a significant transformation, shifting from legacy connectivity to higher-value services such as cybersecurity, cloud, and AI-driven solutions to better serve enterprise clients and improve profitability.
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Independent research on the U.S. markets, Baptista Research

Baptista Research

Independent research on the U.S. markets

Baptista Research is an independent financial research house focused on the U.S. markets. We provide equity research as well as credit research reports on the top-listed U.S. companies with most of our focus on technology, consumer goods and services, automobiles, industrials, oil and gas, pharma, and healthcare. Our research has served more than 3000 institutional investors including mutual funds, hedge funds, banks, family offices, and various buy-side firms. We operate a research subscription service where institutions, as well as retail investors, can have priority access to all our research. We also have a wide distribution of our research reports across some of the top global financial platforms. Apart from equity research and credit research, we also provide advisory services with respect to mergers & acquisitions (M&A), private equity/ venture capital fundraising, valuation reports, and investment management services for corporates.
Baptista Research is owned and managed by Ishan Majumdar, an ex-Venture Capitalist/ Investment Banker, a Chartered Accountant, and a Masters’ degree holder in Management from HEC Paris. Ishan has nearly a decade of experience in Mergers and Acquisitions, Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs), Venture Capital Investing, Corporate Strategy, and Valuation in front-office roles at the likes of BNP Paribas CIB, Credit Agricole CIB, Groupe Danone, and TIW Private Equity. He has worked on and closed multiple acquisition deals, leveraged buyouts, and start-up investment transactions.

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<li>Orange, a major telecommunications company, presented its financial results for the first half of 2025, highlighting a period of solid performance with notable revenue and EBITDA growth across its various geographic markets.</li>
<li>The company's revenues reached EUR 19.9 billion, marking a marginal increase of 0.3% from the previous year, primarily driven by strong service growth in the Middle East and Africa.</li>
<li>The EBITDAaL (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, Amortization, and after Lease) grew by 3.8%, with a 70 basis point improvement in the group EBITDAaL margin, underscoring the company's efficiency initiatives and robust commercial activities.</li>
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Orange, a major telecommunications company, presented its financial results for the first half of 2025, highlighting a period of solid performance with notable revenue and EBITDA growth across its various geographic markets.
The company's revenues reached EUR 19.9 billion, marking a marginal increase of 0.3% from the previous year, primarily driven by strong service growth in the Middle East and Africa.
The EBITDAaL (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, Amortization, and after Lease) grew by 3.8%, with a 70 basis point improvement in the group EBITDAaL margin, underscoring the company's efficiency initiatives and robust commercial activities.


Orange S.A.: Restructuring and Consolidation in Key Markets & Critical Growth Levers!

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

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Suzhou Dongshan Precision A / Technical Analysis

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<li>We remain near-term bullish as long as $141.50 support on ACWI-US continues to hold. We discussed last week (2/26/26 Int'l Compass) to trim exposure to Korea and Taiwan...</li>
<li>...Noting for Korea that "with recent upside acceleration there is risk of a larger pullback following the current parabolic upside period."</li>
<li>That pullback has begun to materialize, and the growing list of concerns that we have highlighted since early-February remains a problem for global equities near-term</li>
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We remain near-term bullish as long as $141.50 support on ACWI-US continues to hold. We discussed last week (2/26/26 Int'l Compass) to trim exposure to Korea and Taiwan...
...Noting for Korea that "with recent upside acceleration there is risk of a larger pullback following the current parabolic upside period."
That pullback has begun to materialize, and the growing list of concerns that we have highlighted since early-February remains a problem for global equities near-term


Pullback Offering Buying Opportunities; Crucial Support at $141.50 on ACWI-US Holding for Now

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<li>We are not fighting the trend with all the MSCI global indexes (MSCI ACWI, EAFE, ACWI ex-US, and EM) hitting multi-year highs, but we are monitoring a few potential concerns</li>
<li>Concerns: notably global Consumer Staples (KXI-US) near 5.5-month RS highs, crude oil prices bottoming, and gasoline prices (UGA) breaking out from a 3.5+ year downtrend</li>
<li>Actionable Themes: Energy, Materials, Transports, Real Estate, Telecom, and Utilities. Remain Overweight Emerging Markets, Taiwan, Korea, Spain, Japan, and Canada</li>
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We are not fighting the trend with all the MSCI global indexes (MSCI ACWI, EAFE, ACWI ex-US, and EM) hitting multi-year highs, but we are monitoring a few potential concerns
Concerns: notably global Consumer Staples (KXI-US) near 5.5-month RS highs, crude oil prices bottoming, and gasoline prices (UGA) breaking out from a 3.5+ year downtrend
Actionable Themes: Energy, Materials, Transports, Real Estate, Telecom, and Utilities. Remain Overweight Emerging Markets, Taiwan, Korea, Spain, Japan, and Canada


Opportunity in Global Cyclical Value and Defensives: Energy, Materials, Real Estate, Telecom, Utes

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In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen

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<ul><li>Technology plays a significant role in connecting people during both good and bad times, with the telecom sector being crucial in providing connectivity</li><li>The main trends in the sector currently include the fast adoption of AI, which is increasing traffic volume and creating new use cases</li><li>One of the main challenges in the telecom industry is the need for consolidation due to the capital-intensive nature of the business and the importance of scale in operations</li></ul>This content is sourced through publicly available sources and has been machine generated. Information displayed is for general informational purposes only.

Technology plays a significant role in connecting people during both good and bad times, with the telecom sector being crucial in providing connectivityThe main trends in the sector currently include the fast adoption of AI, which is increasing traffic volume and creating new use casesOne of the main challenges in the telecom industry is the need for consolidation due to the capital-intensive nature of the business and the importance of scale in operationsThis content is sourced through publicly available sources and has been machine generated. Information displayed is for general informational purposes only.

Orange CEO: Telecommunications Future, Network Investment and Leadership

France

Orange SA provides telecommunications services to residential, professional, and large business customers. The Company offers public fixed-line telephone, leased lines and data transmission, mobile telecommunications, cable television, Internet and wireless applications, and broadcasting services, and telecommunications equipment sales and rentals.

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Orange SA (ORA FP)

Primer: Orange SA (ORA FP) - Aug 2026

Strategic Repositioning Towards Core Strengths: Under its 'Trust the Future' plan, Orange is intensifying its focus on its core...

αSK Primers

Orange S.A.: Restructuring and Consolidation in Key Markets & Critical Growth Levers!

The company's revenues reached EUR 19.9 billion, marking a marginal increase of 0.3% from the previous year, primarily driven by strong service...

Baptista Research

Pullback Offering Buying Opportunities; Crucial Support at $141.50 on ACWI-US Holding for Now

Pullback Offering Buying Opportunities; Crucial Support at $141.50 on $ACWI Holding for Now; Discussed to trim exposure to Korea $EWY and Taiwan...

Vermilion Research

Opportunity in Global Cyclical Value and Defensives: Energy, Materials, Real Estate, Telecom, Utes

Opportunity in Global Cyclical Value and Defensives; Actionable Themes: Energy, Materials, Transports, Real Estate, Telecom, and Utilities....

Vermilion Research

Orange CEO: Telecommunications Future, Network Investment and Leadership

The telecom industry has undergone significant transformation with the adoption of mobile technology, big data, and AI, presenting challenges such...

In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen

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