Atos confirmed Wednesday all its annual targets after completing the first quarter organic growth of 2.4% of its turnover, driven by outsourcing, Germany and UK.
The computer services company, whose main competitors are Accenture and Capgemini, confirms this year include a slight organic growth of its turnover from the level proforma 2011 and is operating margin 6.5% compared to 4.8% on a proforma basis in 2011.
"We have confirmation now for three quarters as Germany, Eastern Europe, Central and Northern and the United Kingdom are now vehicles for growth, and continue to register a level 'satisfactory business, "said Gilles joined, executive vice president of Atos, during a conference call.
He told Reuters an acceleration of the group's organic growth in the second half compared to the first. He stressed the unfavorable comparative weighing of the second quarter, which has more public holidays in 2011.
The group achieved first quarter sales of 2.163 million euros, driven by organic growth of 3.9% of its center outsourcing (IT outsourcing) representing 45% of the activity.
Growth in Germany and the UK, its two largest markets, are also more than offset declines in the Benelux and France, which however had a recovery "in step".
Accenture has on his side out at the end of March a good resistance to its business in Europe.
Closely watched indicator, the ratio of new orders to billings (book-to-bill) stood at 107%, with a backlog of 14.5 billion euros at March 31, or 1.7 year of sales.
Gilles joined Atos has also stated its continued "close discussions" with Thales and Orange, the social project of "cloud computing" was approved Friday by the French government.
He said this could be done via Canopy, the partnership announced in February with the U.S. EMC and VMware in this activity.
"Cloud computing" ("cloud") is to store data in supercomputers called servers, grouped by hundreds of thousands in large premises belonging mostly to large IT groups.
WORLDLINE CRUCIAL FOR ATOS
Gilles joined also wishes to continue developing its cluster electronic payments and secure transactions, which includes Atos Worldline.
Rumors had been circulating there for ten days on this division following a note from Morgan Stanley essentially assuming that the integration of SIS, the IT division acquired from Siemens, promised to die pledge more synergies.
Gilles joined observed that these were "comments outside the company."
Atos Worldline is a "major division" Atos, which will help the group reach its operating margin target of 7% to 8% by 2013, he said.
"We are a management that is not dogmatic," but added Gilles joined. "It is our duty by definition never exclude any option that could accelerate and support the further development of this activity in our company."
Atos also aims to achieve a cash flow of around 250 million euros in 2012, against 194 million in 2011 to support an increase in operating margin and a tighter control of investment and working capital needs.
The action Atos closed Tuesday down 1.57% to 20.04 euros, giving a market capitalization of 3.69 billion. She has returned 30% since the beginning of the year.
Germany experienced between 2001 and 2011, the smallest increase across the EU, with an increase of 19.4%, while hourly labor costs in France rose by 39.2%, more than double the same period. A poster of the employers' union Verdi against the introduction of a general minimum wage in Germany
Germany experienced a decade of more moderate growth in labor costs of the entire European Union, according to statistics released Tuesday, but the hourly labor cost is one third higher than the European average. One hour of work in the private sector cost 30.10 euros for German employers, a figure of 32% above the EU average and that places Germany seventh among 27 EU countries, according to these figures published by the Federal Statistical Office Destatis.
Compared to the great French neighbor, the labor cost is 12% lower and 23% lower than in Belgium, the leading EU countries. Germany experienced between 2001 and 2011, the smallest increase across the EU, with an increase of 19.4%, while hourly labor costs in France rose by 39.2%, more than double the same period, according to Destatis.
German wage moderation is a key factor in the competitiveness of the country, including its industry. The downside, often cited by the unions, wages are low, in the absence of widespread minimum wage and an increasingly precarious, with greater use in some industrial sectors in labor and temporary work.
Volkswagen has further increased its stake in truck manufacturer MAN, as part of its planned merger of its two main activities of trucks.
The German automotive group now owns 73% of the shares of MAN and 71.08% of the total capital, MAN announced in a statement Friday.
Volkswagen previously held 55.9% of the voting rights and 53.71% stake.
VW wants to increase integration between MAN and Swedish Scania, he also controls, in order to save at least € 200 million in procurement, production and research and development.
In addition, the Wolfsburg group wants to encourage cooperation between the two truck manufacturers and its own activities to create vehicles capable of exceeding a set Daimler and Volvo.
Volkswagen holds 71.8% voting rights in Scania and 49.3% of its capital.
MAN has declined to comment, a spokesman for Volkswagen could not be immediately available for comment.
U.S. stocks ended sharply higher Tuesday on signs of economic improvement.
The Dow Jones gained 1.68% or 218.12 points to 13,177.83 points. The Standard & Poor's 500 took 1.8% or 24.89 points to 1,395.97 while the Nasdaq Composite gained 1.88% or 56.22 points to 3039.88 points.
These data are likely to vary even slightly.
Free said Thursday a "huge success" for its mobile business launched earlier this year, but without giving the number of its subscribers, and promised to accelerate the deployment of its network, subject of much controversy.
The internet service provider has a spectacular entrance in January on the French market of mobile telephony with offers at bargain prices, forcing competitors to lower rates of part of their bids to try to stem the exodus of their subscribers.
The speculation is rife, since the number of subscribers attracted to entering the fourth, recently estimated at 1.5 million by the CEO of France Telecom.
The parent company, Iliad, does not figure in its earnings release issued on Thursday, making only a state of "tremendous success" commercial activity of its rolling the dice goal of the year.
The chief financial officer, Thomas Reynaud, said that the numerical results would be unveiled in May to mark the publication of first quarter figures.
At 10:04, the title earns 0.34% to 99.09 euros, while the sector index losing 0.2% in the same time.
The group led by Xavier Niel plans to accelerate deployment of its network in order to have 2,500 sites equipped by the end of the year, against a thousand now.
Nearly 250 million additional investment expected to be incurred in 2012, after more than 400 million euros last year, said Thomas Reynaud at an international ; Conference call.
In total, the group's investments jumped nearly 50% last year to 1.2 billion euros, largely as a result of deploying the new Freebox Revolution and the frequency acquisition "4G".
This sharp rise affected the free cash flow of the group that spring -413 000 000 euros for all of 2011 while net income excluding items declined 7% to 255 million.
Iliad has also released last year a turnover of 2.12 billion, up 4%, operating profit (EBITDA) of EUR 833 million ( also 4%), against 2.14 billion and 861.4 million euros expected on average, according to Thomson Reuters I / B / E / S.
For 2012, the focus group said a surge in sales with a growth of over 5% in the fixed without providing forecast figures for the mobile.
ACCELERATE THE DEPLOYMENT OF MOBILE NETWORK
Free Mobile has already upset the French telecom sector, only two months after its launch.
SFR has already said anticipating a decline of 12 to 15% of operating profit (EBITDA) this year while Bouygues Telecom expects a decline of 10% of its turnover.
France Telecom did not provide detailed forecast but also table for the whole group on a sharp decline in its operating cash flow from 2012 to 8,000,000,000 euros, and EBITDA of the incumbent is expected to decrease to one billion euros this year.
Stéphane Beyazian, analyst at Raymond James, said the mobile revenue per subscriber is expected to contract a third on average in the sector over the coming years. Nomura expects the bank for its part the result of operational activities of the three mobile incumbents expected to fall by 28% by 2015.
The launch of Free Mobile has however experienced some delays in the ignition. Some consumers have had to wait several days or weeks before receiving their SIM cards because of congestion of applications portability within the agency responsible for managing them.
The new entrant competitors were quick to question the proper functioning of its network and the controversy has been widely reported in the press.
Free Mobile has been charged off its branches to rest largely on the network of France Telecom, with whom he concluded a roaming agreement.
This series has led to many twists and turns of the policeman to lead a second telecommunications network inspection of Free Mobile, which demonstrated according to ARCEP, that it was meeting its commitments.
Thomas Reynaud acknowledged that about 90% of Free mobile traffic currently passing through the network of France Telecom, while stress that the network deployment of the fourth entrant in e ; silent still in its infancy.
"Our priority in 2012, is make up of mobile subscribers in the network and deploy as soon as possible", he said, adding that it was too early to say whether the group should pay more than a billion euros initially planned as part of the roaming agreement concluded for six years with France Telecom.
GDP grew by only 2.7% in 2011 against 7.5% in Brazil in 2010. The Brazilian economy has actually stagnated in the third quarter. Bay View of Barra da Tijuca in Rio de Janeiro
Brazil's economic growth slowed to 2.7% in 2011, after reaching 7.5% at the end of fiscal 2010, according to data released Tuesday by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE, public). This is slightly lower than the government forecast that predicted a GDP growth of around 3%, confirming a slower growth of the Brazilian economy was already expected by the experts because of the international crisis.
The Brazilian economy grew by 7.5% in 2010, in frank recovery from the crisis of 2008 and 2009. The sectors that grew the most in 2011 were the food (3.9%), services (2.7%) and industry (1.6%), according to IBGE.
In the fourth quarter 2011, GDP in the first Latin American economy grew by 0.3% over the third quarter and 1.4% over the same period in 2010. From July to September, growth had stagnated écomomie Brazilian.
Strengthening the European firewall is essential before the International Monetary Fund's resources are strengthened, ministers agreed the G20 finance summit meeting in Mexico City, said the final communiqué issued ; Sunday.
The central bankers of the world reflected this weekend in how to avoid a spreading crisis of European sovereign debt to all of the e ; global economy, calling into question an already fragile growth.
By combining existing resources and new financing, they intend to bring to nearly 2,000 billion the firewall surrounding the euro area.
Countries in the euro area have planned to meet in March to discuss this issue. Some countries, like China or Japan, have found that the decision by the euro area itself to raise more funds would be "essential" before they decide to turn to provide more funds to the IMF.
Germany and other European countries pleaded for this contribution is described as "important".
The British Finance Minister George Osborne has also been tough. "We are ready to consider a strengthening of IMF resources, but only once we have seen the color of money in the euro area, and we have not seen" , he told Sky TV.
At their next meeting in April, the G20 agreed to agree on a financial firewall around 2,000 billion dollars (1.487 billion euros) to prevent European debt crisis from spreading and threatening the global recovery.
GERMANY MORE FLEXIBLE?
This would be the most ambitious effort since the financial crisis of 2009, when the G20 has reached 1,000 billion dollars to save the global economy.
For many partners in the euro area, it is indeed the first European leaders to implement the necessary means to control the risks of contagion from the debt crisis, for example by combining lending capacity of its two mechanisms of financial stability, the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF) and the European Financial Stability Mechanism (MES ).
This would bring their firepower combined with some 750 billion euros. G20 countries would then be more inclined to answer the call of the IMF, who wants more than double its capacity to respond by raising $ 600 billion of additional resources.
Added together, all these measures would create a global financial firewalls of about 1,950 billion.
A government official close to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, however, said Sunday that the MES already had adequate funds and that Berlin did not see the utility of a combination of SS and EFSF.
In Mexico, however, the negotiators at the G20 summit have suggested a different story, that of Germany more flexible.
"Everyone in the euro area and even in the European Union is reasonably satisfied to see a combination of SS and EFSF, even Germany, but it is too early to say that we will decide at the EU summit in early March, "said Margrethe Vestager, Minister of Finance of Denmark, which currently chairs the European Union.
Unemployment continued to rise in January in France, according to figures released Friday by the Ministry of Labour and job center.
The number of job seekers in category A (those who have carried on any activity) increased by 13,400 (+0.5%) last month in France compared to the month of de December to $ 2,861,700. Over one year the increase stands at 6.2%.
Taking into account persons engaged in a Pool (Class B and C), the number of jobseekers rose by 0.1%, or 4,800 more people to reach 4,258,200 (+5.5% yoy).
With the overseas departments, the number of unemployed stood at 4,525,900, a figure significantly in two months of the first round of the presidential election.
Vinci said Tuesday expect a stabilization of its operating margin in 2012 to its 2011 level, in a context of expected stagnation in activity due to economic uncertainty in Europe.
The world leader in construction and has made concessions in 2011 a turnover of 36.96 billion euros, above the consensus of seven analysts gave 36.41 billion euros.
The Group turnover increased by 10.7%, higher than the growth "of about 7%" he anticipated so far.
Operating profit from ordinary activities (ROPA) group has meanwhile increased by 6.6% to 3.66 billion euros, according to the consensus, and gives a margin of 9, 9%.
"The margin ROPA / CA was 9.9% of sales, against 10.3% in 2010. This was due to the increased weight of the contracting industry in the total ('mix effect'), "Vinci said in a statement
…. The contracting activity ….. includes the construction and energy, one of two core businesses of Vinci near concessions, including motorway (ASF, Escota, Cofiroute and Arcour)
. The first pole represents 85% of sales but only 39% of operating profit of Hence the group's ambition to increase the weight of concessions in its business by purchasing an existing business, including Vinci airport assets
. was in line to the airports offered for sale by Hochtief of Germany, but it has recently suspended the tender because of the Greek crisis – including Hochtief wants to sell the airport Athens. According to sources familiar with the matter, it is now well positioned to take 40% of the first Turkish airport operator, TAV Havalimanlari.
UNCERTAINTY IN EUROPE
For 2012, the group plans "at least a stabilization of its activity" in a context marked by economic growth prospects more uncertain in Europe and a possible slowdown in orders on the continent in some segments or certain geographical areas.
In late January, the CEO, Xavier Huillard, had told Reuters that order intake in France may be less strong in the coming months because of questions about the financing community.
"The group remains confident and sets the objective to maintain its operating margin rate compared to good levels reached in 2011," continued Vinci.
It accounts for it on a slight increase in toll revenue and enters the year with a backlog of 30.6 billion euros in the contracting business, up 18% and its highest level ever.
"The position of the strong order book underpins their forecasts," said one industry analyst who requested anonymity. "In general, comments on 2012 are reassuring, we think that in the current action is interesting that these figures should cause a positive reaction tomorrow to scholarship. "
Before this publication, the action of the group closed at 36.83 euros (-0.37%), giving a market capitalization of 20.87 billion. Since the beginning of the year, the stock rose 9.1% after dropping 17% in 2011.
Vinci, who reached last year's net income, group share, of € 1.9 billion (+7.2%), proposes a dividend of 1.77 euro per share (6.0%) for the past year.
His group's net debt, largely inherited from the acquisition of French motorways during their privatization in 2005, declined last year by 3.6% to 12.59 billion euros.
Values to follow Monday at the Paris Bourse, where the CAC 40 index yields 1.09% to 3,390.68 points at 12:16, investors are showing cautious pending re Greece's response to the proposal of its private creditors, originally expected around noon.
* European financial stocks are sharply lower in the pending developments on the Greek front.
The Stoxx index of European banks and insurers that drop both 1.15%, largest declines sector in Europe. SOCIETE GENERALE lost 3.73%, largest drop in the CAC 40 and SBF 120 to FARM CREDIT (-3.7%) while BNP Paribas 1.7% yield.
* Many CYCLIC suffer the consequences on growth of a possible failure of Greece, that even Jean-Claude Juncker, Eurogroup President, no longer rules.
LAFARGE loses 2.9%, Saint-Gobain 2.5% and 2.64% PSA. The Stoxx auto sector abandons 0.5% and 1.06% of the construction.
* ArcelorMittal loses 2.96%. The Financial Times, the giant commodities Glencore International (-4%) should offer a higher premium than what was expected to seal its proposed 88 billion merger dollars with mining group Xstrata (-2.2%).
The Stoxx mining shares were down 1.17%.
* ALCATEL drops 2.15%. S & P Equity lowered its recommendation on the title to "sell" against "hold".
* AIR FRANCE-KLM lost 2.77%, French trade unions of pilots and the majority of organizations stewards, hostesses and ground staff who called the strike until 9 Febru ; February.
* A reverse trend, Unibail-Rodamco gained 0.76%, highest of the few increases in the CAC 40, the group advantage as the rest of the real estate sector (0.52% for the Stoxx sector index) of its status safe haven.
* CAP GEMINI (0.62%) continues its forward march, the title now showing a gain of 21% since the beginning of the year after a consolidation period end January between 27.5 and 28 euros.
* ORPEA (2.22%) signed the largest increase in the SBF 120 index. Presidential ads on the evolution of the coefficient of land use (COS) argue, when applied, land prices, note CM-CIC Securities, believes that the value created reach 0.4 to 1.1 euros per share.
* Pierre et Vacances rose 1.16%. Acto, a fund of Groupama, has a mandate to Lazard to sell its 55% in Belambra, according to Les Echos, which sources said the memorandum of information is expected in a week.
* ASSYSTEM (0.35%) recorded an increase of 19.5% of its turnover in 2011, to 760.6 million euros, the international activities that experienced a Year e record (+30.7%) thanks to the dynamism of all countries and the acquisition of Berner & Mattner in Germany. Assystem has confirmed its 2011 operating margin target of between 7.5% and 8%.
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