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Nokia’s fourth-quarter earnings per share, minus one-off items, rose to 0.47 euros, helped by buoyant demand for cheap phones in emerging Asian markets, and beating the average forecast of 0.44 euros in a Reuters poll of 34 analysts.
Shares in Nokia soared on the news and were up 13.4 percent at 23.50 euros at 1218 GMT.
“These are fantastic numbers, I must say,” said analyst Thomas Langer from WestLB. “I think we see a lot of green lights for Nokia.”
Nokia sold 133.5 million phones in the quarter, more than its three closest rivals combined, and beating analysts’ average forecast of 130.7 million phones in the poll.
The Finnish company has a strong lead in emerging markets including China and India, which it has been fiercely defending.
Nokia’s multimedia unit, which sells advanced phones aimed at consumers in the developed world, more than doubled its operating profit from a year ago to 670 million euros, helped by Apple’s foray into the cellphone business with its iPhone.
“iPhone raised consumer awareness of those kinds of devices, and Nokia benefited as a result,” said analyst Geoff Blaber at CCS Insight.
Nokia and other large vendors increased their market share in the quarter at the expense of struggling Motorola, which said on Wednesday it would post an operating loss in the current quarter as recovery in its cell-phone business was taking longer than expected.
“Again we see a testament (that) whatever Motorola is losing, Nokia is gaining. And that trend was true throughout 2007, and the question is whether it will continue through 2008. If it will, we need to upgrade numbers,” said analyst David Hallden, CAI Cheuvreux.
Nokia said it expected its market share to stay at the 40 percent level in the first quarter, but it is targeting market share growth in 2008.
Nokia said the average price of phones sold rose by 1 euro from the previous quarter to 83 euros, beating analysts’ average expectation of 82 euros.
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