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The Bull case, 20 quarters out

Model as of

Each segment is projected from its own operating driver, rolled up into consolidated cash flow, and discounted back to a fair value per share. The assumptions below are editable — change them and every number on this page moves with them.

CURRENCY. This model is entirely in EUROS, because Nokia reports in euros and its segment tables are in euros. The reference price is therefore the EUR 8.822 Nasdaq Helsinki close of 26 August 2026, NOT the USD 10.41 NYSE ADS close of the same session, and no figure anywhere in this spec has been converted. Two consequences to know about. First, our stored revenue series holds the same history in US dollars, converted at each quarter's own average ECB reference rate, so the basis quarter reads $5 599 million there against the EUR 4 815 million Nokia reported - the same quarter, with exchange-rate movement inside its growth rates that this model deliberately excludes. Second, the site's money formatter prints a dollar glyph in front of every figure on this page; read every one of them as euros. ACCOUNTING BASIS. Nokia publishes two operating profits for the same quarter and they disagree about whether it made money: reported EUR -50 million against comparable EUR +434 million in 2026 Q2, a gap that is mostly the EUR 390 million accelerated restructuring charge. All segment data, all guidance and all 2028 targets are on the COMPARABLE basis, so this model is too, on continuing operations after the Q2 2026 reclassification of Fixed Wireless Access CPE and Enterprise Campus Edge. The R40 card on the stock page is fed by the reported IFRS series and will not agree with this model's margin line. WHAT IS DISCLOSED AND WHAT IS NOT. Quarterly NET SALES are disclosed for all six business units, so splitting the two primary segments into their published lines copies a split rather than manufacturing one. PROFIT is disclosed only at segment level, so all three Network Infrastructure lines carry the parent segment's 12.74% derived EBITDA margin and the model differentiates their growth, which is disclosed, not their profit, which is not. The one exception is Technology Standards, whose 73.2% margin comes from its own FY2025 operating profit and depreciation under its former name, Nokia Technologies - which leaves Radio Networks and Core Software as an 8.97% residual. History starts at 2025 Q1 because Nokia recast 2024 to full year only on this segmentation; six quarters is the entire contiguous record. The 2026 Q1 column is derived as first half less the disclosed second quarter and reproduces the recast Network Infrastructure segment total to the euro. The six lines reconcile to reported consolidated net sales within EUR 13 million in every quarter, the gap being Group Common and Other net sales, inter-segment eliminations and two recast vintages. FREE CASH FLOW. The engine computes free cash flow as EBITDA less capital expenditure less tax; it carries no working capital, no restructuring cash outflow and no lease payments, all three of which Nokia's own free cash flow carries - which is exactly why Q2 2026 printed negative EUR 732 million against a EUR 434 million comparable operating profit. The projected EUR 911 million of second-half 2026 free cash flow is about 68% of the comparable operating profit those two quarters imply, inside Nokia's guided 55-75% conversion, but the model spreads it evenly while Nokia expects it as the Q2 working-capital outflow unwinds. No capital programme is encoded for the San Jose, Pennsylvania and Chandler build-outs: Nokia has disclosed no total cost for any of them, and a CapitalProgram needs one. Treat the 2027-2029 fab spend as unquantified downside to free cash flow.

NOK forward model
Horizon
Fair value per share €11.23 +27% against €8.82
Terminal-year revenue €29.21B last four projected quarters
Enterprise value €60.09B €11.39B explicit + €48.70B terminal

The AI and cloud order book converts on management's own schedule and the new capacity arrives to meet it. Q2 2026 order intake was EUR 2.8 billion, net sales to those customers doubled to EUR 446 million (+105% constant currency), Optical grew 20% and IP 16%, IP order intake growth was particularly strong on Q1 design wins, and Nokia states the constraint is supply rather than demand - which is why the San Jose fab ramps in Q4 2026, Pennsylvania test and packaging goes up 10x from Q3 2026 and the NXP Chandler campus is under a definitive agreement. Here Optical and IP each run a point a quarter faster, the three Network Infrastructure lines carry 3.4 points more margin - which takes the segment's 2028 operating margin to about 17%, the top of its 13-17% target - and the exit is 13x on an 8.5% discount rate. It is worth EUR 11.23 a share.

NOK REVENUE MODEL

Latest: €7.05B (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2025Q1 €4.29B
2025Q2 €4.44B
2025Q3 €4.69B
2025Q4 €6.01B
2026Q1 €4.43B
2026Q2 €4.81B
2026Q3E €4.91B
2026Q4E €6.33B
2027Q1E €5.12B
2027Q2E €5.22B
2027Q3E €5.33B
2027Q4E €6.86B
2028Q1E €5.54B
2028Q2E €5.65B
2028Q3E €5.76B
2028Q4E €7.41B
2029Q1E €5.98B
2029Q2E €6.09B
2029Q3E €6.20B
2029Q4E €7.97B
2030Q1E €6.44B
2030Q2E €6.55B
2030Q3E €6.67B
2030Q4E €8.57B
2031Q1E €6.92B
2031Q2E €7.05B
Scenarios

Where each case comes from

Bear case — primary sources

The primary sources this case is built from — filings, calls and posts. Where they are claims by an interested party rather than disclosures, every number in the Bear column is what happens if they are taken at face value.

Bull case — primary sources

The primary sources this case is built from — filings, calls and posts. Where they are claims by an interested party rather than disclosures, every number in the Bull column is what happens if they are taken at face value.

Valuation

From cash flow to fair value

The published model, discounted at 8.5% a year with an exit multiple of 13.0x on EBITDA. The horizon and sliders above do not change this walk.

Present value of free cash flow, 20 quarters€11.39B
Terminal-year revenue€29.21B
Terminal-year EBITDA€5.63B
Exit multiple, on EBITDA13.0x
Terminal value€73.23B
Discounted at 8.5% a year, terminal value becomes€48.70B
Share of enterprise value from the terminal81%
Enterprise value€60.09B
Net cash€2.78B
Equity value€62.87B
Shares5.60B
Fair value per share€11.23
Against the deployed price of €8.82+27%

The exit multiple decides this model, so it is worth being explicit about the arithmetic. At the EUR 8.822 Helsinki close of 26 August 2026 and 5 598 645 thousand shares, Nokia is a EUR 49.4 billion market capitalisation and a EUR 46.6 billion enterprise value against EUR 2 917 million of trailing COMPARABLE EBITDA - 16.0x, and 2.33x trailing net sales. Its own 2028 target is comparable operating profit of EUR 2.7-3.2 billion; add the roughly EUR 0.7 billion of comparable depreciation the business currently carries and that is EUR 3.4-3.9 billion of 2028 EBITDA, so today's enterprise value is already 12-14x a target management calls a separate long-term ambition and explicitly not part of its outlook. The base case exits at 10x, which is what a networking incumbent earns once it is no longer being priced on an order book, and it sits below the current multiple by design - exiting at 16x would be calibrating the model onto today's price. The bear case uses 8x on a 10% discount rate and the bull 13x on 8.5%. No peer multiple is asserted: none was verified against a primary document, so the exit rests on Nokia's own trading history and its own 2028 target, both recorded here. Move this number before touching any growth rate.

Read the other way round: at €8.82 the market is paying 9.4x terminal-year EBITDA, holding every other assumption on this page fixed. That is the number to argue about.

Quarter by quarter

The projected path

The published model's 20 quarters. The horizon and sliders above do not change this table.

Quarter Optical NetworksIP NetworksFixed NetworksRadio Networks and Core SoftwareTechnology StandardsPortfolio Businesses Revenue YoY EBITDA Capex FCF R40 PV of FCF
2026 Q3E €915M€711M€486M€2.30B€410M€93M €4.91B +5% €850M €201M €486M +15 €476M
2026 Q4E €1.13B€994M€573M€3.13B€413M€91M €6.33B +5% €1.04B €254M €592M +15 €568M
2027 Q1E €1.01B€777M€477M€2.35B€416M€90M €5.12B +16% €914M €201M €535M +26 €503M
2027 Q2E €1.06B€810M€473M€2.37B€419M€89M €5.22B +9% €945M €201M €558M +19 €514M
2027 Q3E €1.11B€843M€470M€2.39B€422M€88M €5.33B +8% €975M €202M €580M +19 €523M
2027 Q4E €1.37B€1.17B€555M€3.26B€425M€87M €6.86B +8% €1.19B €256M €704M +19 €623M
2028 Q1E €1.22B€912M€463M€2.44B€428M€86M €5.54B +8% €1.03B €204M €622M +19 €539M
2028 Q2E €1.27B€947M€459M€2.46B€430M€85M €5.65B +8% €1.06B €205M €642M +19 €545M
2028 Q3E €1.32B€982M€456M€2.48B€433M€84M €5.76B +8% €1.09B €207M €661M +20 €550M
2028 Q4E €1.62B€1.36B€539M€3.37B€435M€83M €7.41B +8% €1.33B €263M €803M +19 €654M
2029 Q1E €1.43B€1.05B€450M€2.52B€438M€82M €5.98B +8% €1.14B €210M €699M +20 €559M
2029 Q2E €1.49B€1.09B€447M€2.54B€440M€82M €6.09B +8% €1.17B €212M €718M +20 €562M
2029 Q3E €1.55B€1.13B€444M€2.56B€442M€81M €6.20B +8% €1.20B €214M €736M +20 €565M
2029 Q4E €1.89B€1.56B€525M€3.48B€444M€80M €7.97B +8% €1.46B €273M €894M +19 €672M
2030 Q1E €1.67B€1.21B€438M€2.60B€447M€80M €6.44B +8% €1.25B €219M €772M +20 €569M
2030 Q2E €1.73B€1.25B€436M€2.61B€449M€79M €6.55B +8% €1.27B €222M €790M +20 €570M
2030 Q3E €1.79B€1.29B€433M€2.63B€451M€78M €6.67B +8% €1.30B €225M €807M +20 €571M
2030 Q4E €2.18B€1.77B€512M€3.57B€453M€78M €8.57B +7% €1.60B €287M €981M +19 €680M
2031 Q1E €1.92B€1.37B€428M€2.67B€455M€77M €6.92B +8% €1.35B €231M €843M +20 €572M
2031 Q2E €1.99B€1.41B€426M€2.69B€457M€77M €7.05B +8% €1.38B €234M €861M +20 €572M

Every row is projected. A year-over-year change is shown only where the quarter it compares against exists — an em dash means there is no comparable quarter, not a flat year.

Track record

Model revisions

Assumptions are marked to reality as each quarter prints. Every change is appended here, with the fair value the model produced at the time, so the model's own history stays visible.

DateFair value thenNote
2026-08-29 €7.52 Model created from the verified research brief on the 2026 Q2 business-unit net sales tables, in EUR on Nokia's comparable segment basis. Base case exits at 10x terminal EBITDA on a 9% discount rate.