Key Takeaways Integrated fintech and digital banking momentum, along with asset monetization, is poised to drive significant profit growth, boosted by efficient cost control and reinvestment. Early leadership in AI-ready data centers, accelerating 5G adoption, and digital home innovation will underpin outsized enterprise and consumer revenue gains, surpassing market expectations.
Key Takeaways Strong growth in fiber broadband, 5G, and digital offerings positions PLDT for expanding revenues, especially among younger, tech-savvy customers. Strategic focus on enterprise solutions, fintech, and cost management diversifies earnings and improves profitability through enhanced cash flow and margin expansion.
Key Takeaways Regulatory changes and open access laws will undermine PLDT's pricing power, compressing margins and exposing the company to greater competition and revenue erosion. Heavy capital investments amid rising disruptive competition and government intervention threaten free cash flow, profitability, and the sustainability of PLDT's core business model.
PLDT Inc. provides telecommunications and digital services in the Philippines. The company operates through three segments: Wireless, Fixed Line, and Others. It offers cellular mobile, internet broadband distribution, operations support, software development, and satellite information and messaging services; and sells Wi-Fi access equipment. The company also provides fixed line telecommunications services; business infrastructure and solutions; intelligent data processing and implementation, and data analytics insight generation services; and information and communications infrastructure for Internet-based services, e-commerce, customer relationship management, and information technology (IT) related services. In addition, it offers managed IT outsourcing, Internet-based purchasing, IT consulting and professional, and bills printing and other related value-added services; provides full-services customer rewards and loyalty programs; and distributes Filipino channels and content services. Further, the company engages in the sale of mobile handsets, broadband data routers, tablets, and accessories; and cross-border digital platforms, and other allied services. Additionally, it provides gaming support services; internet services; mobile internet and broadband, and data services; content and mobile application; IT solutions; data and multi-media services; domestic leased lines; alternative messaging solutions, such as over-the-top services, social media, and messenger application; inbound roaming and other services; mobile prepaid and postpaid services; and fixed wireless broadband services. The company was formerly known as Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company and changed its name to PLDT Inc. in July 2016. PLDT Inc. was incorporated in 1928 and is headquartered in Makati City, the Philippines.
