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Orange Polska S.A.OPL.WACompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

Poland · PLN·Communication Services›Wireless Telecommunications

Poland's Orange-branded telecom operator providing mobile, fixed broadband and pay-TV services nationwide.

≈ Poland's Orange-branded telecom operator (mobile, broadband, TV)Momentum strong 75
Mkt cap
$5.53B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
49%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$5.68M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
19.4×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
-3.8 pp
WACC 8.6%
Hurdle
+11 pp
Req g minus delivered
Next earnings
119 days
5 Mar 2027
Close · PLNPLN 16.52
1D-1.2%
1W+1.0%
1M+9.8%
3M+10.8%
6M+6.7%
YTD+62.1%
1Y+82.0%
ATR %3.6%
52w lowhigh2.9% off high

What Orange Polska does

Poland's Orange-branded telecom operator providing mobile, fixed broadband and pay-TV services nationwide.

Earns monthly fees on mobile and fixed contracts, increasingly sold as convergent bundles of mobile plus home broadband that reduce customer churn. Its fibre network is held in a joint venture with the Dutch pension fund APG, formed in 2022, which sells wholesale access to others. Orange SA, the French group, holds a majority of the shares.

In one line: Poland's Orange-branded telecom operator (mobile, broadband, TV).

Products and services

  • Mobile telecom services
  • Fixed broadband/fiber
  • Pay-TV services
  • Wholesale/infrastructure (fiber JV)

Customers

  • Retail and business telecom customers in Poland

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Telecommunications
  • Mobile & fixed network operator
  • Broadband & pay-TV services

What could go right

  • Fiber/broadband upgrade monetization
  • Converged bundle growth

What could go wrong

  • Intense mobile/broadband price competition
  • Capex-heavy fiber rollout

Moat: narrow (installed base, scale, brand). Established national network infrastructure and the Orange global brand.

Headquarters: Warsaw, Poland · Founded: 1991 · Employees: 8,532

Named competitors

  • Cyfrowy Polsat CPS.WA
  • Play (Iliad) private or unlisted
  • T-Mobile Polska private or unlisted
  • Netia private or unlisted

Orange Polska at a glance

Size Orange Polska (OPL.WA) is a Poland Communication Services company (Wireless Telecommunications) with a market value of $5.53B, the 18th largest of 83 Poland companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at PLN 16.52 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 6.7%, against -17.6% for the median peer and +14.3% for the Poland market (cap-weighted) — 5th highest of 20 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 5.4% over the last twelve months (peer median +2.5%); the operating margin is 9.0% (peer median 13.1%).

Valuation It trades at 19.4× forward earnings against a peer median of 17.5× (8th most expensive of 16).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 13% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +3%, so the hurdle is +11 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.

Capital Return on invested capital runs 3.8 points below its cost of capital (8.6% WACC).

Next results Next results expected around 5 Mar 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

809010011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026OPL.WA 105Peer median 80
Six months, rebased to 100: Orange Polska against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Orange Polska financials

Reported figures in PLN; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
RevenuePLN 13.8BPLN 13.1BPLN 12.7BPLN 13.0BPLN 12.5B
Revenue growth—+3%-2%+4%—
Gross profitPLN 1.32BPLN 1.08BPLN 1.14BPLN 1.22BPLN 1.10B
EBITDAPLN 4.01BPLN 3.26BPLN 3.21BPLN 3.23BPLN 3.08B
Net incomePLN 973MPLN 762MPLN 913MPLN 818MPLN 724M
Free cash flowPLN 1.60BPLN 769MPLN 1.05BPLN 1.16BPLN 616M
Capital expenditurePLN 1.97BPLN 2.83BPLN 2.36BPLN 2.29BPLN 2.32B
Total debtPLN 7.32BPLN 7.26BPLN 7.22BPLN 7.29BPLN 7.79B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Orange Polska competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-50%-25%0%+25%+50%-10%0%+10%TPGELISAVEONTKCSUNNTIMBTDSBHARTIHEXA002465TLKGSATAD0176704904AAFTITTIGOTIDEAOPL.WA6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Orange Polska is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

-100%-50%0%25×50×75×TPGELISAVEONTKCTDSBHARTIHEXATLKAD0176704904AAFTIGOOPL.WARevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Orange Polska is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

-20%0%+20%-20%0%20%TPGELISAVEONTKCTIMBBHARTIHEXATLK0176704904AAFTITIDEAOPL.WAGrowth delivered (Del g) →Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) →
Above the diagonal = the price needs more growth than the company has been delivering; below = the price already allows for a slowdown. Orange Polska is the large dot.

Orange Polska competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (OPL.WA vs CPS.WA)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Orange Polska OPL.WA$5.53B+7%+5%9%19.4×13.2%
Cyfrowy Polsat CPS.WA$2.08B-24%0%10%14.5×6.6%

How Orange Polska compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Orange Polska against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureOPL.WAPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+9.8%-2.0%3rd highest of 21
6-month return+6.7%-17.6%5th highest of 20
Distance from 52-week high-2.9%-30.2%2nd highest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+5.4%+2.5%10th highest of 21
Operating margin9.0%13.1%9th lowest of 21
Forward P/E19.4×17.5×8th most expensive of 16
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)13.2%2.6%4th most demanding of 16
Growth delivered (Del g)+2.7%+4.7%6th lowest of 15
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)+10.5 pp-3.2 pp3rd most demanding of 15
ROIC minus cost of capital-3.8 pp+0.5 pp8th lowest of 21
EV / EBITDA7.2×7.5×8th cheapest of 18
Net debt / EBITDA1.8×1.8×10th least indebted of 19

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Orange Polska OPL.WAPoland$5.53B+7%+5%9%19.4×13.2%+2.7%
TPG Telecom TPG.AXAustralia$5.58B+1%-5%8%34.8×8.1%+3.0%
Elisa ELISA.HEFinland$6.11B-17%0%20%14.3×-2.7%+3.6%
VEON Ltd. Sponsored ADR VEONUnited States$4.95B+57%+15%23%11.2×-4.8%-9.1%
Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S. Sponsored ADR TKCUnited States$4.02B-31%+16%15%8.0×-12.0%+8.1%
Sunrise Communications SUNN.SWSwitzerland$3.92B+2%-1%3%n/a21.2%n/a
TIM S.A. Sponsored ADR TIMBUnited States$8.61B-24%+14%25%9.4×-12.4%+7.3%
Telephone and Data Systems TDSUnited States$3.54B-29%-74%-3%92.2×n/an/a
Bharti Hexacom BHARTIHEXA.NSIndia$8.84B+10%+8%29%36.6×33.4%+15.2%
Guangzhou Haige Communications 002465.SZChina$3.43B-38%+1%-16%n/an/an/a
PT Telkom Indonesia (Persero) Tbk Sponsored ADR TLKUnited States$10.3B-35%-3%24%9.5×-16.1%-1.1%
Globalstar GSATUnited States$10.9B+3%+8%5%n/an/an/a
Array Digital Infrastructure ADUnited States$2.59B-46%-94%1%27.6×n/an/a
SKTelecom 017670.KSSouth Korea$12.1B-18%+2%10%12.3×-9.8%+1.2%
Far Eastone Telecommunications 4904.TWTaiwan$12.2B+17%+10%15%26.1×3.8%+6.8%
Airtel Africa AAF.LUnited Kingdom$13.5B-33%+27%34%14.6×-1.2%+10.0%
Telecom Italia TIT.MIItaly$13.6B-20%0%11%31.8×5.3%-2.8%
Millicom International Cellular TIGOUnited States$13.9B+3%+29%23%22.9×3.6%+6.9%
Digi Spain Telecom, S.A. Unipersonal DIGIS.MCSpain$2.16Bn/a+19%6%n/an/an/a
TELUS T.TOCanada$14.5B-27%-1%15%17.5×2.6%+5.8%
Vodafone Idea IDEA.NSIndia$14.6B+14%+3%-6%n/a29.6%+1.3%

Questions

Who are Orange Polska's main competitors?
Named competitors: Cyfrowy Polsat (CPS.WA), Play (Iliad) (private or unlisted), T-Mobile Polska (private or unlisted), Netia (private or unlisted). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes TPG Telecom (TPG.AX), Elisa (ELISA.HE), VEON Ltd. Sponsored ADR (VEON), Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S. Sponsored ADR (TKC), Sunrise Communications (SUNN.SW), TIM S.A. Sponsored ADR (TIMB).
Is Orange Polska expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 19.4× against a peer median of 17.5×, 8th most expensive of 16 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 13% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +3%, so the hurdle is +11 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.
How has Orange Polska stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +6.7% against -17.6% for the median peer; over one year +82.0%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.