IHS Holding: Navigating Growth And Volatility With Hidden Levers

Summary

• IHS offers high-margin, stable growth via telecom infrastructure in emerging markets, with strong organic revenue and EBITDA momentum despite currency headwinds.
• The company’s end-to-end service model, long-term contracts, and strategic asset disposals underpin operational resilience and future profitability.
• Risks include currency volatility, especially the Nigerian Naira, operational complexities, and customer concentration, but management’s mitigation strategies are proactive.
• Given the secular growth in mobile data and management’s financial discipline, I rate IHS a Buy for investors with a higher risk tolerance and long-term horizon.

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Concentrated in Africa, particularly Nigeria, but increasingly in Latin America, IHS Holding Limited (NYSE:IHS) is a major independent owner, operator, and developer of shared telecommunications infrastructure, including mobile telecom towers.

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