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What has to happen in Fixed Networks

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Horizon
Consolidated fair value €7.45 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue €426M 8% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution €1.19B EBITDA less segment capex, before corporate items

Management's own three-year numbers, held to literally - and the surprise is that on growth they are a DOWNGRADE. The 19 November 2025 Capital Markets Day targets a 6-8% Network Infrastructure net sales CAGR for 2025-2028, including 10-12% for Optical and IP combined, with a 13-17% segment operating margin and comparable operating profit of EUR 2.7-3.2 billion by 2028. The base case, built from the disclosed quarterly rates and the 2026 guides, already runs Network Infrastructure at a 12.0% CAGR and Optical plus IP at 16.3% - well ABOVE those targets. So this case slows Optical and IP by 1.6 points a quarter, landing Optical plus IP at an 11.1% CAGR and Network Infrastructure at 7.9%, both at the top of their target ranges, and pays for it with the 3.4 margin points that take the segment to the 17% top of its margin range. FY2028 EBITDA of EUR 4 049 million is about EUR 3.3 billion of comparable operating profit after roughly EUR 0.75 billion of depreciation, at the top of the EUR 2.7-3.2 billion target. What it does NOT reach is today's price: at EUR 7.45 a share it is worth slightly LESS than the base case and 15.5% below the market, because at a 10x exit the multiple decides this model, not the operations.

Fixed Networks

Basis quarter€490M
Final quarter€426M
Implied CAGR−3%
Final revenue mix8%

Fibre access - passive optical network line terminals, fixed access software and premises equipment. The only Network Infrastructure line in decline: down 2% on a constant-currency basis in 2026 Q2 and down 8% across the first half, because Nokia is deliberately steering the line towards higher-margin products rather than defending volume.

Last four quarters
2025 Q3 €490M Reported
2025 Q4 €568M Reported
2026 Q1 €382M Estimated
2026 Q2 €490M Reported
Fibre access / PONOptical line terminalsFixed access software
Sequential growth −0.9%/qtr decaying toward −0.5% Deseasonalised Q2'25-Q2'26 trend of -0.86%/qtr; consistent with the disclosed -2% quarter and -8% first half.
Fixed Networks

Latest: €426M (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2025Q1 €468M
2025Q2 €507M
2025Q3 €490M
2025Q4 €568M
2026Q1 €382M
2026Q2 €490M
2026Q3E €486M
2026Q4E €573M
2027Q1E €477M
2027Q2E €473M
2027Q3E €470M
2027Q4E €555M
2028Q1E €463M
2028Q2E €459M
2028Q3E €456M
2028Q4E €539M
2029Q1E €450M
2029Q2E €447M
2029Q3E €444M
2029Q4E €525M
2030Q1E €438M
2030Q2E €436M
2030Q3E €433M
2030Q4E €512M
2031Q1E €428M
2031Q2E €426M

Assumptions & reasoning

  • Fixed Wireless Access CPE and Site Implementation and Outside Plant were taken out of this line from 1 January 2026, so the 2025 figures shown here are already on the narrowed definition and are not comparable with pre-2025 Fixed Networks disclosure.
  • A managed decline can turn into an unmanaged one: the Capital Markets Day's 6-8% Network Infrastructure CAGR against a 10-12% Optical-plus-IP CAGR arithmetically requires this line to keep shrinking.
  • 2026 Q1 is derived as first-half less the disclosed second quarter: 872 - 490 = 382, part of the three-line sum that reproduces the recast segment total exactly.
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