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How to buy and short Vantage Towers shares

Vodafone’s Vantage Towers, an industry leader in Europe, marked Germany’s largest stock market debut in three years with its 2021 listing. Discover how to get exposure to Vantage Towers with us in this guide.

Vodafone Source: Bloomberg

How to trade Vantage Towers shares

Trading Vantage Towers stock means that you’re speculating on the price movements of the company’s share price without owning the underlying assets. If you think that the share price will rise, you’ll ‘buy’ (go long) and if you think it will fall, you’ll ‘sell’ (go short).

With us, you can trade Vantage Towers shares in these steps:

  1. Create an account or log in
  2. Search for ‘Vantage Towers’ on our trading platform
  3. Select ‘buy’ to go long or ‘sell’ to go short in the deal ticket
  4. Set your position size and take steps to manage your risk
  5. Open and monitor your position

When trading with us, you’ll use leveraged derivatives such as CFDs.

Trading with leverage means that you can get full exposure while only committing a deposit called margin. It’s vital that you manage your risk as leverage can magnify both your possible profits and losses to the full value of your position.

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How to short Vantage Towers shares

You can short Vantage Towers shares using CFDs with us. Short-selling is a way for you to potentially profit (or make a loss) from a drop in share price by selling (going short on) the underlying shares rather than buying (going long).

With us, you can short-sell in these steps:

  1. Create an account or log in
  2. Search for ‘Vantage Towers’ on our platform
  3. Select ‘sell’ in the deal ticket
  4. Choose your position size
  5. Open and monitor your position

If you think that the Vantage Towers share price will drop, you’d take a short position. If your prediction is correct, you’d make a profit. If incorrect, you’d make a loss.

Remember, CFDs are leveraged, meaning you’d pay an initial deposit that’s a percentage of the full value of your position, but both possible profits and losses are magnified to the full value of your trade.

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How to close your Vantage Towers position

You can close your Vantage Towers trade in these steps:

  1. Log in and go to your share trading account
  2. Go to the positions tab and select ‘Vantage Towers’
  3. Select ‘sell’ in the deal ticket
  4. Choose your position size
  5. Close your position

A brief history of Vantage Towers

Vantage Towers’ inception was in 2020 when Vodafone spun off around 68,000 towers spanning across nine European markets.

Vodafone’s Vantage Towers listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in March 2021, with shares priced at €24 each. This became the largest stock market debut in Germany since 2018.

As of 2021, the company has over 82,000 macro sites across ten countries, the company stated that it seeks to ‘accelerate a sustainably connected Europe’.

What’s the Vantage Towers business model?

Vantage Towers’ business model is to use its towers as shared infrastructure for other mobile carriers. With 82,000 towers across ten countries, the bulk of the company’s sites are based in Germany, Spain and Greece, as well as Italy through its co-controlled operations with Inwit.

Vantage Towers share price: how to analyse the Vantage Towers share price

You can analyse Vantage Towers shares using two methods – technical and fundamental analysis – however a combination of the two is usually more useful.

  • Technical analysis comprises of chart patterns, technical indicators and historical price action that can help you predict future price movements
  • Fundamental analysis entails elements such as a company’s net revenue, profit and loss statements, as well as wider macroeconomic factors, that can help you in determining likely share price movements

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