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...Nor will Thales have to sacrifice on shareholder returns in terms of dividends and buybacks, said Caine....
...Next year, Thales predicted comparable sales growth of 4 to 6 per cent. The company’s order intake stood at €23.1bn in 2023, roughly stable from the previous year....
...Dassault, like other defence companies grappling with supply chain problems, such as Thales or Airbus, has been advancing funds to struggling small businesses or sending in its own teams as reinforcements...
...Unlike Thales’ core, most cyber security customers are civilian enterprises. Thales is paying an enterprise value just over six times 2024 sales for Imperva....
...Thales figures include civil businesses in avionics & space, and exclude disposed transport business from 2021. Rheinmetall figures from 2021 include orders & other agreements....
...Thales reports full-year earnings on March 8....
...“Thales is well positioned [for] growing defence spending.”...
...This story has been amended to clarify the net increase in staff at Thales under its recruitment drive...
...Earlier this month, France’s Thales said it was in exclusive talks to buy antenna and communications systems supplier Cobham Aerospace Communications for $1.1bn....
...Swedish telecoms equipment maker Ericsson, French aerospace company Thales and US chip company Qualcomm are testing how a 5G network could work using low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, to help individuals...
...Thales could also still sell electronic components to Lockheed Martin....
...Both BAE and Thales last month held ESG-focused seminars....
...The increasing margins in digital identity and security “will be key to raising the value of Thales’ shares”....
...The Thales boss derides that pure-player model as “fashionable for a while in the eyes of analysts” and contrasts it with Thales’ breadth in defence, aerospace, ground transport such as rail signalling and...
...Thales had pulled off a trifecta in the corporate twaddle stakes....
...Thales is hardly unique as a defence group muscling in on digital security. BAE’s cyber and intelligence division covers many of the areas in which Thales hopes to compete....
...Thales has spent €300m on research and development in the last five years, Mr Galle said....
...Strip out underlying net cash of €2.8bn, plus its 25 per cent holding of defence group Thales, and that discount doubles, according to Berenberg....
...It is not the first time that a deal between Alstom and Thales has been mooted....
...Brussels has approved Thales’ €4.8bn purchase of Dutch security company Gemalto after the French aerospace and defence group promised to sell its global nShield business to address EU antitrust concerns....
...Analysts at Agency Partners said it might encourage the French government to look again at a possible combination between aero-engine group Safran and Thales, the defence specialist, as “the nearest comparable...
...At the time Thales said it would combine its digital businesses into Gemalto, which would continue to operate under its own brand....
...Meanwhile, the industry leader, United Technologies, has got even bigger, closing its $30bn acquisition of avionics specialist Rockwell Collins this week....
...Babcock International and Thales, the defence companies, are expected to bid using a design based on one currently in use by the Danish navy....
...He expanded the software business with Dassault Systèmes; built a 25 per cent stake in defence company Thales; exported the Rafale and pushed the Falcon jet for the private market — yet he struggled to live...
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