Mobile TeleSystems (MBT) is Russia’s biggest mobile telecom operator. It’s a very profitable company, in a stable business environment, with some potential growth catalysts outside of mobile telephony (cloud initiatives). It also trades for a very low valuation – it carries a ~3.6x EV/EBITDA and pays a gross dividend yield of ~10.5%.
Against this backdrop, we’d expect Mobile TeleSystems to perform very well. However, the stock has stagnated for the last year (though the absolute return has still been reasonable due to the dividend).
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