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| Most notably, we saw sequential acceleration in growth across our six key financial metrics |
| This creates the best customer lifetime value compared to the rest of our competitors |
| While there is clearly a lot more to do, I am confident that we have a solid foundation to build upon |
| But we are seeing and we are experiencing very strong commercial momentum |
| Telefonica has demonstrated robust financial help this year, as evidenced by the solid free cash flow, which was comfortably covered shareholder remuneration and employee commitments |
| We are growing revenues with B2B remaining a differential engine, growing 6.3% year-on-year in organic terms, significantly above the overall 3.7% top line organic growth |
| OIBDA also grew more than 3%, and we reduced CapEx by another 3%, allowing us to expand our OIBDA-CapEx margin to 19% |
| In turn, this higher OIBDA and lower capital intensity contributed to the very strong free cash flow of €4.2 billion, €200 million above what we guided to in July |
| We are delivering solid results across all our markets, driving exceptional performance in Brazil and Germany and improving trends in Spain |
| These successes are underpinned by our investment in the latest technologies, which have enabled significant growth in our customer base, who now enjoy the benefits of our advanced fiber and 5G networks |
| Germany's guidance as issued yesterday is slightly positive revenue growth and low -- to low mid-single digit EBITDA growth |
| OIBDA ramped up 1.5 percentage points to +4.5% year-on-year with all geographies growing, Spain reaching stabilization and Brazil and Germany seeing robust growth |
| In terms of EBITDA guidance, I mean, for 1% to 2%, primarily, but we are starting from a stronger, I mean figure in 2023, which is good news, with stronger traction in the businesses in terms of revenue B2C, B2B and wholesale |
| We continue with a very strong liquidity position |
| We had an acceleration on commercial revenue on handsets in this year |
| So very confident on our levers around free cash flow evolution |
| This strong free cash flow generation supports our key capital allocation priorities, including our dividend, our expectation to deleverage over time and our path to creating significant shareholder value |
| I'm confident in the direction of our business and the opportunities that lie ahead |
| And that surpass means our dividend is better coverage and we can improve the deleverage path |
| I mentioned it should be a positive balance and it should be Telefonica Tech driving growth and also a headquarters being more efficient driving growth |
| This provide us with new opportunities to monetize our network and enhances our ability to increase our return on invested capital |
| Secondly, our focus on an enhanced customer experience and being customer centric organization has generated considerable rewards |
| So we think we have strong, we have experience of reformulations of the Spanish market and we have very strong assets that allow us to compete and to stay confident with the outlook that we're giving for 2024 and beyond |
| Organic revenue growth stood at 4.1% year-on-year in the quarter, 1.7 percentage points more than in Q3, driven by better service revenue performance and again strong B2B, a truly differentiating factor of Telefonica |
| Thanks to the active refinancing exercise undertaken in previous years and the robust position at fixed interest rate in strong currencies, allowing immunization to raising rates environment |
| We continue to see and post in the last quarter ARPU growth with a record minimum churn |
| Lastly, our pursuit of leaner and more efficient operations has propelled us into the new level of operational excellence |
| OIBDA-CapEx fell 5% year-on-year in 2023, a significant sequential improvement on improving OIBDA and full-year CapEx over revenue ratio, reducing 1 percentage point year-on-year to 9.4% |
| On the environmental side, I am proud to report that we have been included on the CDP Climate A-List for the 10th consecutive year |
| Following our strong 2023, we have even more conviction in our journey and are looking to continue to make strong progress in 2024 |
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| This coupled with goodwill impairment change in the U.K., led to reported losses in 2023 |
| We continue to move towards an asset light model in the region, resulting in a decline in the average invested capital of 37% since December 2019 |
| We also have Telefonica Infra with Telxius is slightly below last year EBITDA in euro |
| In Hispam, which is an EBITDAaL-CapEx story, Jose Maria already commented on some FX pressures that we are experiencing and we are reporting from this year onwards on reported basis |
| Looking ahead, we are looking for a further drop to up to 13% in 2024 and for it to continue to fall below 12% by 2026 |
| Espana is showing decline in leases as we are turning the network off in Mexico |
| The impairment is a consequence of this new business plan, but even more of the increase in the discount rate |
| Therefore, that is impacting the negative OIBDA in this line |
| And bear in mind that in our recently shared 23, 26 spend and in the implied financial guidance that we are putting forward today for 2024, we are already assuming certain pricing pressure in our wholesale activity in Spain over the next periods, which probably is a realistic assumption with respect to the dynamic that we expect to see in the market |
| In Spain will be declining intensity, in Germany the guidance, as issued yesterday, in a range of 13% to 14% |
| So you should expect this not being negative, the negative being linked to the restructuring |
| Moreover, whilst continuing to show benchmark low churn, the lowest in a decade and industry leading ARPU |
| But despite that and that's linked to the latest restructuring in Spain |
| CapEx to sales declined year-on-year to 14% |
| And on the other -- on the opposite direction, some operational companies like the supply company reflecting our lower CapEx and CapEx peak being behind |
| Our capital intensity continues to decline |
| Capital intensity has consistently decreased in 2017 from 17% then down to 13.3% in 2023 |
| On the others, this is usually difficult to track |
| Moreover, we have made significant progress in phasing legacy networks, including the shutdown of almost 2,000 copper central switches central offices in Spain, with full retail copper network shutdown to be finished by April of this year |
| But what gives you the confidence that such an approach won't be disruptive to the wider German market? And secondly, you implemented 4 percentage point lower price rise in Spain than the prior year |
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