Open Joint Stock Company Vimpel-Communications, a telecommunications operator, provides voice and data services through fixed, wireless and broadband technologies in
The company offers its telecommunications services primarily under the "Beeline" and "Beeline Business", including "Kyivstar" and "Djuice" brands. In 2009 VimpelCom trademark “Beeline” was rated as the ”Most Valuable Russian Brand” by European Brand Institute. OJSC VimpelCom was the first Russian company to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol "VIP", back in in November 1996.
The company provides fixed-line services including corporate services, carrier and operator services and Internet services. It offers mobile telecommunications services, call services and access to national and international roaming services. Also, VimpelCom provides messaging, data access, media and content delivery, call forwarding, voice mail, wireless Internet access, IP telephony, and music and data transmission services. The company offers its telecommunications services primarily under the Beeline and Beeline Business brand names. In addition, it sells mobile handsets, equipment, and accessories. The Russian newspapers "Vedemosti" just has announced that VimpelCom and another Russian giant telecom company Mobile Telesystems (NYSE: MBT), plan to start selling Apple Inc.’s iPhone 4 on September 22, offering the 16-gigabyte version of the handset.
VimpelCom’s covers a territory with a population of about 345 million. By the end of the last year, the company served approximately 64.6 million mobile subscribers: 50.9 million in Russia, 6.1 million in Kazakhstan, 2.0 million in Ukraine, 3.5 million in Uzbekistan, 0.5 million in Armenia, 0.7 million in Tajikistan, and 0.4 million in Georgia; 0.4 million in Cambodia; and approximately 2.3 million residential broadband subscribers.
VIP has a market capitalization of $758,170,000. Annual sales are $8,961,000,000 but the sales growth is negative: -2.00% per year. VIP has 51,000,000 shares of stock outstanding so the annual sales of $174.75 per share. Price to Sales Ratio (P/S): 0.09. Estimated EPS: $2.06 per share. P/E: 7.22. Dividend Yield: 3.16 %. Annual dividend: $0.47 per share. Recommendation: HOLD.
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