Bharti Airtel surges on plan of selling Bangladesh tower assets

23 Jan 2014 Evaluate

Bharti Airtel is currently trading at Rs. 313.75, up by 4.00 points or 1.29% from its previous closing of Rs. 309.75 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 311.00 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 315.00 and Rs. 306.80 respectively. So far 91634 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 5 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 373.50 on 01-Nov-2013 and a 52 week low of Rs. 266.95 on 05-Apr-2013.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 332.05 and Rs. 302.60 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 125178.58 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 65.23% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 24.53% and 10.24% respectively.

In a bid to bolster its cash reserves, Bharti Airtel, the world's fourth largest mobile telephony firm is planning to sell its Bangladesh tower assets. The mobile operator is expecting to fetch at least $200 million from divesting its towers in Airtel Bangladesh. Bharti Airtel took full control of its mobile service operations in Bangladesh last year, buying out a 30% stake held by Warid Telecom, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Group.

In separate development, the company is planning to split its $1.8 billion-valued African tower business. Further, the company is planning to sell African tower business on a country-by-country basis. The company has put Nigeria towers on the block first. The valuation of Nigeria towers has pegged at around $500-$550 million.

Bharti Airtel is a leading integrated telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa. The company ranks amongst the top 5 mobile service providers globally in terms of subscribers.

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