How to buy and short Vantage Towers shares

How to buy Vantage Towers shares: investing or trading

You can either buy and own physical Vantage Towers shares (investing) or speculate on its share price, predicting whether it will rise or fall (trading).

Investing in Vantage Towers shares

Investing in Vantage Towers’s shares gives you direct ownership of them, making you eligible to receive dividends if the company happens to grant them. Plus, you’ll have voting rights as a shareholder. With us, you can own physical Vantage Towers shares from zero commission.¹

You can become a Vantage Towers shareholder in these steps:

1. Create an account or log in
2. Search for ‘Vantage Towers’ on our share dealing platform
3. Select ‘buy’ in the deal ticket
4. Choose the number of shares you want to buy
5. Open and monitor your investment position

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To buy and own Vantage Towers shares, your initial outlay must be the full value of your investment. With a possible rise and fall in the share price, you may get back less than the amount you committed. However, potential losses are capped at your total initial outlay (excluding additional fees).

You’ll make a profit if the company offers dividends or if you sell the shares when the share price is higher than the original buy price, or both.

Trading Vantage Towers stock

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 spread bets and CFDs, and you may be eligible to receive certain tax benefits.²

Learn about the differences between spread betting and CFD trading

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.

Discover more about the impact of leverage on trading

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How to short Vantage Towers shares

You can short Vantage Towers shares using spread bets and 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, both spread bets and 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.

Learn more about short-selling

How to sell or close your Vantage Towers position

You can sell your Vantage Towers investment or close your trade in these steps:

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

Footnotes:

¹ Commission rates differ for UK and US shares. Trade in your share dealing account three or more times in the previous month to qualify for our best commission rates. Please note published rates are valid up to £25,000 notional value. See our full list of share dealing charges and fees.
² Tax laws are subject to change and depend on individual circumstances. Tax law may differ in a jurisdiction other than the UK.