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If I could, yes, I would take Orange off the stock market.
“The little phrase released by Stéphane Richard on the sidelines of a press conference on Friday morning says a lot about the weariness of the operator's boss in the face of a dying stock price.
While the CAC 40 has been stealing from records to records, the Orange share has been living in the area of 9.50 euros for many months.
A historic low, which dropped the valuation of the group to 25.35 billion euros.
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The phenomenon is not unique to the French.
All the major European operators are housed in the same boat,
"a real game of massacre"
, according to Stéphane Richard.
The only exception: Deutsche Telekom, more than two-thirds of whose revenues are generated in the United States.
Others have simply thrown in the towel: SFR and Free have left the rating, tired of the repeated cold showers inflicted by the financial markets.
To escape this infernal logic, and for lack of being able to say goodbye to the stock market, the management of Orange has
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