According to sources at the newspaper The Wall Street Journal, Nokia could shuffle the purchase of 50% of its German partner.
With the decline in the market of Nokia mobile phones, due to the inrush of large competitors of smartphones, Siemens predicted earlier this year some changes for joint venture Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) which maintains telecommunications manufacturer.
The Chief Financial Officer of Siemens, Joe Kaeser, said that "NSN is not a business we want to maintain and 2013 will be the moment to seek a better projection".
Now, as reported by The Wall Street Journal, the German Siemens looking for private equity firms interested in a potential purchase of its stake in Nokia Siemens Networks.
It is not clear you see Nokia total or partial sale of the part of Siemens in NSN private equity investors and could even barajase that the manufacturer bought 50% of its German partner, according to sources cited by the newspaper.
NSN market valuation has improved after their efforts to reduce costs and focus on fourth-generation wireless networks, strategy that has begun to bear fruit.
In the fourth quarter of 2012, the company recorded an operating profit of approximately 250 million euros (332 million dollars).
Some analysts are running if all business is public, it would have a value of 7 billion euros ($9.360 billion), including debt.
If a purchase agreement is not reached, another possibility would be to open an initial public offering of the shares of NNS.
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