How Important Is The Licensing Business For Nokia?

April 13th, 2016 by Trefis Team
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Nokia Technologies – Nokia’s licensing business – contributes almost 40% to the company’s value, according to our estimates, despite accounting for just 8% of its revenues. This is because licensing is a highly profitable business with EBITDA margins close to 73%, as opposed to the networks business, where EBITDA margins are low at 15%. Additionally, revenues for the licensing segment are expected to grow almost four times as fast as those of the company overall, due to the presence of an extensive patent portfolio that Nokia can easily license after the sale of its smartphones business to Microsoft, which reduced the probability of countersuits.

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