Nokia - Company Announcement

Higher returns through focused growth: Nokia sets key financial and strategic targets at Capital Markets Day 2016

Nokia Corporation
Stock Exchange Release
November 15, 2016 at 09:00 (CET +1)

Higher returns through focused growth: Nokia sets key financial and strategic
targets at Capital Markets Day 2016

Barcelona, Spain - Nokia today outlined its vision and strategic priorities for
ensuring sustainable growth in its core businesses and tapping new opportunities
in fast-growing markets. The company also set key financial targets that
underscore its ambition to lead in a connected world following three years of
fundamental transformation.

President and CEO Rajeev Suri said at the company's Capital Markets Day event in
Barcelona that the pace of change at Nokia has accelerated since the last
investor event in 2014, with the company now bigger, stronger and more agile,
bolstered especially by the acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent.

"Nokia is extremely well-positioned to win in its primary market with
communication service providers, and we aim to target superior returns through
focused growth into more attractive adjacent markets where high-performance,
end-to-end networks are increasingly in demand," Suri said.

"We also see opportunities to renew current patent licensing agreements at
favorable terms, add new licensees in the mobile phone area and expand licensing
further into new areas such as consumer electronics and the automotive sector.
Given the appeal to others of our innovations in Networks, virtual reality and
digital health, we are confident that we can continue to build our patent and
technology licensing business further in the coming years," he continued.

"Simultaneously, we will remain focused on flawlessly executing our EUR 1.2
billion cost saving program."

Nokia's new strategy builds upon its enhanced business portfolio following the
Alcatel-Lucent acquisition, and focuses on four key priority areas:

  * Lead in high-performance, end-to-end networks with communication service
    providers: Use our unparalleled, end-to-end portfolio to sustain our market
    and profitability leadership.
  * Expand network sales to select vertical markets needing high-performing,
    secure networks: Broaden our footprint in five select verticals: energy,
    transportation, public sector, technological extra-large enterprises and
    webscale.
  * Build a strong, standalone software business: Move beyond our current
    product-attached software model and create a software business with the
    margin profile of large software companies, focused on areas including
    enterprise software and IoT platforms.
  * Create new business and licensing opportunities in the consumer ecosystem:
    Expand successful patent licensing efforts into areas like automotive,
    consumer electronics and IoT. Create new revenue streams from technology and
    brand licensing, and establish new businesses in digital media and digital
    health.

"During the next two years, we aim to advance our leading position with
communications service providers, become a credible and recognized player in our
target verticals and tap growth in software with a broader ambition to build a
significant, standalone software business. As we do this, we will continue to
stick closely to our disciplined operating model to deliver compelling financial
results that reward our shareholders," Suri said.



Long-term targets

  * Nokia targets to grow net sales for Nokia's Networks business faster over
    the long-term than its primary addressable market through continued industry
    leadership and disciplined expansion and diversification to adjacent
    markets. Nokia's primary addressable market size is approximately EUR 113
    billion in 2016, and is expected to have a 5-year compound annual growth
    rate of approximately 1%. Nokia's adjacent addressable market size is
    approximately EUR 18 billion in 2016, and is expected to have a 5-year
    compound annual growth rate of approximately 13%.
  * Nokia targets the long-term operating margin range for Nokia's Networks
    business to be 10% to 15%, with all Networks business groups expected to
    contribute double-digit long-term operating margin. If the market
    environment and Nokia's execution are both in-line with Nokia's
    expectations, Nokia expects operating margin to be around the midpoint of
    this range.
  * Taxes

      * Nokia expects its long-term effective non-IFRS tax rate to be
        approximately 30%.
      * Nokia expects cash outflows related to taxes to continue at
        approximately EUR 400 million annually until Nokia's deferred tax assets
        have been fully utilized. The cash tax amount may vary depending on
        profit levels in different jurisdictions and the amount of license
        income potentially subject to withholding tax.

  * Nokia targets to maintain total cash and other liquid assets at
    approximately 30% of its annual net sales over time.


Dividend

  * Nokia targets to deliver an earnings-based growing dividend. Nokia targets
    to grow the dividend by distributing approximately 40% to 70% of non-IFRS
    EPS, taking into account Nokia's cash position and expected cash flow
    generation.
  * For 2016, Nokia targets to propose a dividend of EUR 0.17 per share, subject
    to shareholder approval in 2017.



2017 outlook for Nokia's Networks business

  * Nokia expects net sales for Nokia's Networks business to decline in line
    with its primary addressable market in full year 2017.
  * Nokia expects operating margin for Nokia's Networks business in full year
    2017 to be in the range of 8% to 10%.
  * Nokia's outlook for net sales and operating margin for Nokia's Networks
    business in full year 2017 are expected to be influenced by factors
    including:

      * A low single digit percentage decline in the primary addressable market
        for Nokia's Networks business;
      * Competitive industry dynamics;
      * Product and regional mix;
      * The timing of major network deployments; and
      * Execution of cost savings and reinvestment plans, with operating
        expenses down on a year-on-year basis.



2017 outlook for Nokia Technologies

  * Due to risks and uncertainties in determining the timing and value of
    significant licensing agreements, Nokia believes it is not appropriate to
    provide an annual outlook for full year 2017. Nokia expects annualized net
    sales related to patent and brand licensing to grow to a run rate of
    approximately EUR 950 million by the end of 2016. License agreements which
    currently contribute approximately EUR 150 million to the annualized net
    sales run rate are set to expire before the end of 2016. If we do not renew
    these license agreements, nor sign any new licensing agreements, the
    annualized net sales run rate for patent and brand licensing would be
    approximately EUR 800 million in early 2017, with approximately 30% of the
    global smartphone market, by value, under license.
  * Nokia expects total net sales from Digital Health and Digital Media to grow
    year-on-year in full year 2017, primarily influenced by increased consumer
    adoption of our Digital Health and Digital Media products.



Additional financial guidance

  * Nokia expects its free cash flow in 2016, 2017 and 2018 to be affected by
    cash outflows related to its EUR 1.2 billion cost savings program and
    network equipment swaps. Consequently, Nokia's free cash flow is expected to
    be clearly negative in full year 2016, slightly positive in full year 2017
    and clearly positive in full year 2018.
  * Nokia's EUR 1.2 billion cost savings program

      * Nokia targets approximately EUR 1.2 billion of total annual cost savings
        in full year 2018 compared to the combined non-IFRS operating costs of
        Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent for full year 2015, excluding Nokia
        Technologies. Nokia expects approximately EUR 800 million of the cost
        savings to come from operating expenses and approximately EUR 400
        million from cost of sales. The cost savings are expected to be achieved
        as follows:

          * approximately EUR 400 million in full year 2016 (approximately EUR
            250 million to come from operating expenses and approximately EUR
            150 million from cost of sales);
          * an additional approximately EUR 400 million in full year 2017
            (approximately EUR 200 million to come from operating expenses and
            approximately EUR 200 million from cost of sales; and
          * an additional approximately EUR 400 million in full year 2018
            (approximately EUR 350 million to come from operating expenses and
            approximately EUR 50 million from cost of sales).

      * Under this cost savings program, restructuring and associated charges
        are expected to total approximately EUR 1.7 billion, of which
        approximately EUR 640 million was recorded as of Q3 2016. Nokia expects
        approximately EUR 700 million of the total restructuring and associated
        charges to be recorded in full year 2016, approximately EUR 800 million
        to be recorded in full year 2017, and approximately EUR 200 million to
        be recorded in full year 2018. This is an update to the earlier guidance
        commentary for expected restructuring and associated charges to total
        approximately EUR 1.2 billion.
      * Related restructuring and associated cash outflows are expected to total
        approximately EUR 2.15 billion, of which approximately EUR 280 million
        was recorded as of Q3 2016. Nokia expects approximately EUR 500 million
        of the total restructuring and associated cash outflows to be recorded
        in full year 2016, approximately EUR 700 million to be recorded in full
        year 2017, approximately EUR 500 million to be recorded in full year
        2018, and approximately EUR 450 million of cash outflows in full year
        2019 and beyond. This is an update to the earlier guidance commentary
        for expected restructuring and associated cash outflows to total
        approximately EUR 1.65 billion.
      * The updated guidance commentary for restructuring and associated charges
        and cash outflows is primarily related to plans to mitigate the more
        challenging than expected market environment with additional
        transformation initiatives. These transformation initiatives include
        plans to further optimize site utilization and plans to further
        streamline activities that impact our cost of sales, as well as plans to
        reinvest in our primary business to maintain industry leadership and
        plans to reinvest to capture growth opportunities, including in the
        cable access market and targeted enterprise sectors.

  * Network equipment swaps

      * Nokia expects to record approximately EUR 900 million of network
        equipment swaps in total. The charges and related cash outflows are
        expected to be recorded as follows: approximately EUR 300 million in
        full year 2016, approximately EUR 300 million in full year 2017, and
        approximately EUR 300 million in full year 2018. The charges related to
        network equipment swaps will be recorded as non-IFRS exclusions and,
        therefore, will not affect Nokia's non-IFRS operating profit.

  * Financial income and expenses

      * Nokia expects non-IFRS financial income and expenses to be an expense of
        approximately EUR 300 million in full year 2017. This is expected to
        primarily include net interest expenses related to interest bearing
        liabilities, interest costs related to defined benefit pension and other
        post-employment benefit plans, as well as the impact of foreign exchange
        rate fluctuations on certain balance sheet items.
      * Nokia expects the cash outflows related to financial income and expenses
        to be approximately EUR 200 million in full year 2017. This is expected
        to primarily include net interest expenses related to interest bearing
        liabilities and the impact of foreign exchange rate fluctuations on
        certain balance sheet items.

  * Taxes

      * In full year 2017 and 2018, Nokia expects its effective non-IFRS tax
        rate to be between 30% and 35%. Nokia expects its non-IFRS tax rate in
        full year 2017 to be at the high end of the guidance range. Nokia
        expects its non-IFRS tax rate in full year 2018 to be at the low end of
        the guidance range.
      * Nokia expects cash outflows related to taxes to be approximately EUR
        400 million in full year 2017 and 2018. The cash tax amount may vary
        depending on profit levels in different jurisdictions and the amount of
        license income potentially subject to withholding tax.

  * Nokia expects capital expenditures to be approximately EUR 500 million in
    full year 2017, primarily attributable to capital expenditures by Nokia's
    Networks business.


About Nokia
Nokia is a global leader in creating the technologies at the heart of our
connected world. Powered by the research and innovation of Nokia Bell Labs, we
serve communications service providers, governments, large enterprises and
consumers, with the industry's most complete, end-to-end portfolio of products,
services and licensing.

From the enabling infrastructure for 5G and the Internet of Things, to emerging
applications in virtual reality and digital health, we are shaping the future of
technology to transform the human experience. www.nokia.com


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and uncertainties and certain statements herein that are not historical facts
are forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, those regarding:
A) our ability to integrate Alcatel Lucent into our operations and achieve the
targeted business plans and benefits, including targeted synergies and cost
savings in relation to the acquisition of Alcatel Lucent announced on April
15, 2015 and closed in early 2016; B) expectations, plans or benefits related to
our strategies and growth management; C) expectations, plans or benefits related
to future performance of our businesses; D) expectations, plans or benefits
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timing of the deliveries of our products and services; H) expectations and
targets regarding collaboration and partnering arrangements, joint-ventures or
the creation of joint-ventures, as well as our expected customer reach; I)
outcome of pending and threatened litigation, arbitration, disputes, regulatory
proceedings or investigations by authorities, including the implications of the
legal action brought against the French stock market authority's (Autorité des
marchés financiers) clearance decision on Nokia's public buy-out offer followed
by a squeeze-out; J) expectations regarding restructurings, investments, uses of
proceeds from transactions, acquisitions and divestments and our ability to
achieve the financial and operational targets set in connection with any such
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information currently available to it. Because they involve risks and
uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from the results that we
currently expect. Factors, including risks and uncertainties, that could cause
such differences include, but are not limited to: 1) our ability to execute our
strategy, sustain or improve the operational and financial performance of our
business or correctly identify or successfully pursue business opportunities or
growth; 2) our ability to achieve the anticipated business and operational
benefits and synergies from the Alcatel Lucent transaction, including our
ability to integrate Alcatel Lucent into our operations and within the timeframe
targeted, and our ability to implement our organization and operational
structure efficiently; 3) the outcome of the decision by the French Court of
Appeal in relation to the clearance decision of Nokia's public buy-out offer and
squeeze-out; 4) our dependence on general economic and market conditions and
other developments in the economies where we operate; 5) our dependence on the
development of the industries in which we operate, including the cyclicality and
variability of the telecommunications industry; 6) our exposure to regulatory,
political or other developments in various countries or regions, including
emerging markets and the associated risks in relation to tax matters and
exchange controls, among others; 7) our ability to effectively and profitably
compete and invest in new competitive high-quality products, services, upgrades
and technologies and bring them to market in a timely manner; 8) our dependence
on a limited number of customers and large multi-year agreements; 9) Nokia
Technologies' ability to maintain and establish new sources of patent and
intellectual property licensing income and IPR-related revenues, particularly in
the smartphone market; 10) our dependence on IPR technologies, including those
that we have developed and those that are licensed to us, and the risk of
associated IPR-related legal claims, licensing costs and restrictions on use;
11) our exposure to direct and indirect regulation, including economic or trade
policies, and the reliability of our governance, internal controls and
compliance processes to prevent regulatory penalties; 12) our reliance on third-
party solutions for data storage and the distribution of products and services,
which expose us to risks relating to security, regulation and cybersecurity
breaches; 13) Nokia Technologies' ability to generate net sales and
profitability through licensing of the Nokia brand, the development and sales of
products and services, as well as other business ventures which may not
materialize as planned, including in the areas of Digital Health and Digital
Media; 14) our exposure to legislative frameworks and jurisdictions that
regulate fraud, economic trade sanctions and policies, and Alcatel Lucent's
previous and current involvement in anti-corruption allegations; 15) the
potential complex tax issues, tax disputes and tax obligations we may face in
various jurisdictions, including the risk of obligations to pay additional
taxes; 16) our actual or anticipated performance, among other factors, which
could reduce our ability to utilize deferred tax assets; 17) our ability to
retain, motivate, develop and recruit appropriately skilled employees; 18) our
ability to manage our manufacturing, service creation, delivery, logistics and
supply chain processes, and the risk related to our geographically concentrated
production sites; 19) the impact of unfavorable outcome of litigation,
arbitration, agreement-related disputes or allegations of product liability
associated with our businesses; 20) exchange rate fluctuations, as well as
hedging activities; 21) inefficiencies, breaches, malfunctions or disruptions of
information technology systems; 22) our ability to optimize our capital
structure as planned, including completing intended share repurchases, and to
re-establish our investment grade credit rating or otherwise improve our credit
ratings; 23) uncertainty related to the amount of dividends and equity return we
are able to distribute to shareholders for each financial period; 24) our
ability to achieve targeted benefits from or successfully implement planned
transactions, as well as the liabilities related thereto; 25) our involvement in
joint ventures and jointly-managed companies or failures to create planned joint
ventures; 26) performance failures by our partners or failure to agree to
partnering arrangements with third parties; 27) our ability to manage and
improve our financial and operating performance, cost savings, competitiveness
and synergy benefits after the acquisition of Alcatel Lucent; 28) adverse
developments with respect to customer financing or extended payment terms we
provide to customers; 29) the carrying amount of our goodwill may not be
recoverable; 30) risks related to undersea infrastructure; 31) unexpected
liabilities with respect to pension plans, insurance matters and employees; and
32) unexpected liabilities or issues with respect to the acquisition of Alcatel
Lucent, including pension, postretirement, health and life insurance and other
employee liabilities or higher than expected transaction costs as well as the
risk factors specified on pages 69 to 87 of our annual report on Form 20-F filed
on April 1, 2016 under "Operating and financial review and prospects-Risk
factors", as well as in Nokia's other filings with the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission. Other unknown or unpredictable factors or underlying
assumptions subsequently proven to be incorrect could cause actual results to
differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. We do not
undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise forward-looking
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