TIDMNOKIA 
 
   Nokia Company 
 
   Inventory Alternate Launch 
 
   18 March 2021 at 8:00 EET 
 
   Nokia quickens transformation to enhance profitability 
 
   Capital Markets Day 2021 
 
 
   -- Firm units out a three-phased journey to ship sustainable, 
      worthwhile development and expertise management. 
 
   -- Reiterates its monetary outlook for 2021 and offers outlook for 2023. 
 
   -- Anticipates comparable working margin to extend to 10--13% in 2023 
      and to develop sooner than the market in full-year 2023. 
 
   -- Launches new firm goal and methods of working. 
 
   -- Capital Markets Day displays will replace on key market alternatives, 
      focus areas and long-term traits. 
 
 
   Right this moment Nokia is holding its Capital Markets Day 2021 and offering an 
overview of long-term market traits, how it's setting itself up for 
worth creation, detailed plans for every of its enterprise segments, its 
monetary outlook and its up to date dividend coverage. 
 
   "Nokia is repositioning itself to ship sustainable, worthwhile development, 
adapting our enterprise to steer in an more and more digitalized world. We 
have a transparent and detailed plan for the way we'll reset the enterprise, 
speed up competitiveness and scale up our lead within the markets we 
select to play in. This plan will allow us to ship double-digit 
comparable working margins in 2023," says Pekka Lundmark, President 
and CEO of Nokia. 
 
   "We've moved away from end-to-end as a cornerstone of our fairness story 
and have as a substitute put in place 4 absolutely accountable, empowered enterprise 
teams, organized based on how prospects purchase. Every of those enterprise 
teams has strong methods and targets to develop market share and margins 
by way of enhanced expertise management," he continues. 
 
   Nokia sees a variety of main traits impacting the business over the subsequent 
few years, with 5G and ensuing applied sciences at their core and creating 
alternatives for CSPs, enterprises and webscales. 
 
   These traits embody next-generation entry with fiber-to-the-home and 
optimized transport applied sciences delivering a seamless expertise for 
shoppers in houses and workplaces, enabling a "gigabit society" when 
mixed with cellular 5G. As well as, related digital enterprise will 
drive large productiveness, effectivity and security positive aspects throughout 
industries. A results of this will likely be important development within the 
Enterprise market. 
 
   "5G continues to be in its early section. We estimate that the height of the 5G 
market will final roughly twice so long as it did with 4G. So these 
traits of subsequent era entry and digital related enterprise nonetheless 
have a protracted strategy to run. I would like Nokia have the ability to form them, delivering 
best-of-breed merchandise, companies and connectivity that enable our 
prospects to ship continually bettering efficiency," says Lundmark. 
 
   New firm goal 
 
   The world is altering quickly and going through elementary challenges. 
Stress on the planet is growing, productiveness is stalling and 
entry to alternative stays stubbornly unequal. 
 
   Nokia believes expertise is central to the answer. 
 
   Know-how may also help to reply to local weather change by way of extra environment friendly 
use and re-use of the world's sources. It may be important for 
restoring productiveness development by digitalizing bodily business, and it 
may also help present extra inclusive entry to work, healthcare, markets and 
schooling. 
 
   "With that in thoughts, our new goal at Nokia is to create expertise 
that helps the world act collectively. With our prospects, we create the 
crucial networks that carry collectively the world's folks, machines, and 
units. And all the things we do in our enterprise will contribute to this 
purpose" Lundmark continues. 
 
   To ship on its refreshed goal, Nokia will strengthen its place 
as a trusted accomplice for crucial networks, which underpin increasingly 
mission-critical features for companies and throughout societies. In 
addition, Nokia focuses on expertise management in every of its 
companies and captures the worth shift to cloud and new enterprise fashions 
as crucial networks evolve. Nokia additionally creates worth with long-term 
analysis and mental property which offer each the expertise and 
the monetary platform for the corporate to achieve success over the lengthy 
time period. 
 
   As well as, Nokia is refreshing its methods of working and selling a 
tradition the place its persons are open to steady growth, fearless to 
experiment and empowered to behave with clear accountability. 
 
   Reset, Speed up, Scale -- three phases to delivering above market 
development 
 
   To ship on its targets for sustainable development Nokia has set out a 
three-phased strategy. 
 
   First, an ongoing reset, with give attention to securing expertise management; 
implementing the brand new working mannequin to scale back complexity and enhance 
accountability; securing full portfolio competitiveness in Cellular 
Networks; resetting its price base; and renewing the methods of working. 
 
   From 2022 onwards the corporate will speed up competitiveness and goals 
to develop margins by way of enhanced expertise management, digitalization 
of personal operations, automation and capturing rising alternatives. It 
then plans to scale as much as drive development in new use instances and enterprise 
fashions together with in enterprise and personal wi-fi with a purpose to develop 
sooner than the market. 
 
   Market growth 2020 to 2023 
 
   Nokia's whole estimated addressable market is predicted to develop at a 
compounded annual development fee (CAGR) of roughly 1% from 2020 to 
2023, comprising of the next estimates: 
 
 
   -- Cellular Networks estimated 2020 -- 2023 addressable market CAGR, excluding 
      China, of roughly 1%; 
 
   -- Community Infrastructure estimated 2020 -- 2023 world addressable market 
      CAGR of roughly 2%; 
 
   -- Cloud and Community Companies estimated 2020 -- 2023 world addressable 
      market CAGR of two%. 
 
 
   Monetary outlook for 2021 and 2023 
 
   Right this moment, Nokia reiterated its monetary outlook for 2021 and supplied its 
outlook for 2023. 
 
 
 
 
Outlook                       Full 12 months 2021        Full 12 months 2023 
Web gross sales, adjusted for     EUR 20.6 billion to  Develop sooner than the 
 foreign money fluctuations(1)     EUR 21.8 billion          market 
Comparable working 
 margin(2)                             7 to 10%             10 to 13% 
Free money movement(3)                      Constructive      Clearly constructive 
Comparable ROIC(2,4)                  10 to fifteen%             15 to twenty% 
 
   (1) Assuming continuation of 2020 year-end EUR/USD fee of 1.23. 
 
   (2) Comparable measures exclude intangible asset amortization and different 
truthful worth changes, goodwill impairments, restructuring associated 
fees and sure different objects affecting comparability. 
 
   (3) Free money movement = web money from/(utilized in) working actions - 
capital expenditures + proceeds from sale of property, plant and 
gear and intangible belongings -- buy of non-current monetary 
investments + proceeds from sale of non-current monetary investments. 
 
   (4) Comparable ROIC = (Comparable working revenue after tax) / (Common 
whole fairness + common interest-bearing liabilities -- common whole 
money and present monetary investments). 
 
   Offering transparency to Nokia's 4 new enterprise teams 
 
   As well as, concerning the underlying assumptions of Nokia's monetary 
outlook, Nokia up to date its outlook assumptions for its 4 new enterprise 
teams and Group Widespread and Different in 2021, and supplied new outlook 
assumptions for 2023. 
 
   Between 2021 and 2023, every enterprise group is predicted to contribute to 
shareholder worth creation. Every enterprise group is targeted on driving 
improved give attention to capital allocation and expertise management in 2021, 
positioning Nokia to develop profitably in 2022 and past. Over time, every 
enterprise group is predicted to generate a return on capital employed 
(ROCE) larger than Nokia's weighted common price of capital (WACC) of 
7%. 
 
 
 
 
 Comparable working margin 
Outlook assumptions           Full 12 months 2021  Full 12 months 2023 
Cellular Networks                   -1% to +2%         5 to eight% 
Community Infrastructure              7 to 10%        9 to 12% 
Cloud and Community Companies           3 to six%        8 to 11% 
Nokia Applied sciences            >75%*           >75%* 
 
 
   *Though we at the moment are offering our outlook assumption for Nokia 
Applied sciences when it comes to comparable working margin, we proceed to 
preserve our expectation for Nokia Applied sciences to ship a slight 
enchancment in comparable working revenue in full 12 months 2021, relative 
to full 12 months 2020, and secure efficiency over the long run. 
 
   Group Widespread and Different primarily consists of help operate prices. 
The place attainable, we've got now embedded help operate prices immediately 
into our enterprise teams. Subsequently, we count on the web damaging impression 
of Group Widespread and Different to lower, relative to earlier ranges, to 
roughly EUR200 million in 2021 and 2023. 
 
   Sustainability 
 
   Nokia strongly believes that connectivity and expertise will play a key 
position in serving to to unravel many future challenges. Its sustainability 
technique is targeted on areas it believes could have the best impression 
on sustainable growth and on its enterprise. To enhance folks's 
lives, it's specializing in local weather, integrity and tradition: 
 
 
   -- On local weather, Nokia lately introduced that it's concentrating on to scale back 
      emissions by 50% throughout each its personal operations and merchandise in use 
      between 2019 and 2030. Its new recalibrated Science Based mostly Targets 
      fulfil its dedication to align with a 1.5degC world warming situation. 
 
   -- On integrity, Nokia has been acknowledged as one of many world's most 
      moral corporations by the Ethisphere institute and intends to proceed to 
      strengthen its place. 
 
   -- On tradition, Nokia desires to prioritize larger inclusion and variety. As 
      one instance, it's concentrating on a rise of feminine hires in world 
      exterior recruits. 
 
 
   Up to date dividend coverage 
 

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