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Helios Towers PLC
Helios Towers owns and manages mobile phone towers and related site infrastructure in parts of Africa and the Middle East. It rents space on those towers to mobile network operators that need places to install antennas and other equipment so they can carry voice and data traffic across their networks. The company makes money mostly through long-term contracts with telecom customers. A single tower can host equipment for several operators, so Helios Towers earns recurring rental and service fees from the same site over time. Its business sits in the middle of the mobile network value chain: it does not sell phones or service plans, but it supplies the physical tower network that operators rely on to reach customers. What makes this model different is that tower infrastructure is expensive to build but relatively stable to operate once in place. Helios Towers focuses on owning the sites, maintaining them, and adding more tenants to existing towers, which lets telecom operators expand coverage without having to build and run every tower themselves.
Helios Towers owns and manages mobile phone towers and related site infrastructure in parts of Africa and the Middle East. It rents space on those towers to mobile network operators that need places to install antennas and other equipment so they can carry voice and data traffic across their networks.
The company makes money mostly through long-term contracts with telecom customers. A single tower can host equipment for several operators, so Helios Towers earns recurring rental and service fees from the same site over time. Its business sits in the middle of the mobile network value chain: it does not sell phones or service plans, but it supplies the physical tower network that operators rely on to reach customers.
What makes this model different is that tower infrastructure is expensive to build but relatively stable to operate once in place. Helios Towers focuses on owning the sites, maintaining them, and adding more tenants to existing towers, which lets telecom operators expand coverage without having to build and run every tower themselves.
Demand: Helios Towers said customer demand is accelerating, with a record 2,511 tenancy additions in H1 and demand already building for 2027.
Guidance raised: The company lifted full-year FY’26 guidance to 3,500-4,000 tenancy additions, EBITDA of $520 million-$535 million, and recurring free cash flow of $220 million-$235 million.
Returns: Helios announced its inaugural interim dividend of 0.6 pence per share, or $8 million, while also continuing buybacks that have totaled $58 million since last November.
Long runway: Management spent much of the call arguing that the tower opportunity in Africa and the Middle East extends for decades, with an estimated 72,000 additional addressable tenancies by 2040.
Satellite view: The company said satellite can complement, not replace, terrestrial networks, mainly by extending coverage and providing backhaul in hard-to-reach areas.
Balance sheet: Net leverage fell to 3.4x, and management said liquidity is now above $500 million after securing an undrawn $250 million term loan.