{"id":994475,"date":"2026-02-25T09:38:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994475"},"modified":"2026-02-25T09:49:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:19:59","slug":"spains-telefonica-sees-core-profit-growing-1-5-2-5-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/25\/spains-telefonica-sees-core-profit-growing-1-5-2-5-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain&#8217;s Telefonica sees core profit growing 1.5%-2.5% in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID: Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica said on Tuesday it expects core profit to grow between 1.5% and 2.5% in 2026, with a similar increase in revenues, as it works to further \u200creduce \u2060leverage under \u2060its new strategy. <\/p>\n<p>The company forecast free cash flow of about 3 billion euros ($3.53 billion) this year, 45% higher than the nearly 2 billion euros generated in 2025, citing lower capital intensity and operational efficiency gains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID: Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica said on Tuesday it expects core profit to grow between 1.5% and 2.5% in 2026, with a similar increase in revenues, as it works to further \u200creduce \u2060leverage under \u2060its new strategy. The company forecast free cash flow of about 3 billion euros ($3.53 billion) this year, 45% higher than the nearly 2 billion euros generated in 2025, citing lower capital intensity and operational efficiency gains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}