London, June 27, 2026, 22:06 BST
• Vodafone ended Friday at 105.65p, up 0.67% for the session but still down 1.26% over the week. The FTSE 100 gained about 1.40% for the same period. Investors Chronicle
• Four senior managers picked up 268,453 shares at 105.125p on June 25, spending around £282,211 as part of bonus deferral plans. Investegate
• Almost 60% of Vodafone’s weekly share volume traded on Monday and Tuesday. Friday, with 45.28 million shares, was the quietest day. Investing
• Next up for Vodafone: the Q1 FY27 trading update on July 27, with the FY26 final dividend set for July 30.
Vodafone Group Public Limited Company (LON:VOD) heads into the week with shares in London trading less than 1% above the price senior managers used to buy deferred-bonus shares. Early in the week, trading volume was heavy, but Friday saw only a slight uptick. The last company filing over the past 48 hours was a directors’ dealing notice, according to RNS listings.
The shares closed Friday at 105.65 pence, gaining 0.67% for the session. But the stock gave up 1.26% since the previous Friday’s 107.00p finish. The FTSE 100 finished the week at 10,508.02, up 1.40% from 10,363.27 a week ago.
Vodafone’s selloff mostly came early in the week. The stock saw 134.95 million shares trade Monday, then 121.37 million Tuesday. That’s out of a five-day total of 429.54 million. On Friday, 45.28 million shares traded—about half the daily average for the week.
Vodafone said Friday four senior execs bought ordinary shares on June 25, picking them up at 105.125p. The company named Group CFO Pilar López, Vodafone Business CEO Marika Auramo, Vodafone Investments and Strategy CEO Guillaume Boutin, and Chief HR Officer Ruth McGill. The buys are part of bonus deferral executive pay deals.
Vodafone’s £24.33 billion market cap dwarfs the size of the deal, so this isn’t a story about trading flows. Price stands out: Friday’s close came in 0.5% above the executive’s buy-in, with shares finishing Thursday at 104.95p.
The stock has gained 36.08% over the past year, but Friday’s close was 19.4% under its 52-week peak at 131.10p. The focus now shifts from a bounce off lows to whether Vodafone can hold on to its earnings recovery.
Vodafone posts FY26 numbers: total revenue up 8.0% to 40.5 billion euros, with service revenue advancing 8.8% to 33.5 billion euros. Organic service revenue climbed 5.4%. Germany was still negative for the year, off 0.2%, though Q4 grew 1.3%. Africa organic service revenue rose 12.9%.
Vodafone CEO Margherita Della Valle said in the May results that the company was back to top-line growth in Germany and called Vodafone “well set for mid-term growth.” The July update gives the first look at whether the German recovery is holding. Investegate
Della Valle repeated her scale message at Reuters Next on June 16. “I think speed is always the challenge, and the faster the better,” she said about EU merger rules. “If we want this, we need more investment, which needs scale,” she added. Reuters
Vodafone is moving ahead in the UK. The company said in May it will pay £4.3 billion to buy out the last 49% of VodafoneThree. That deal would hand Vodafone full control over the biggest mobile operator in the country, as well as one of the fastest-growing broadband players.
Vodafone isn’t planning a trading update next week, according to its financial calendar. The next event is a Q1 FY27 trading update set for July 27. Vodafone will pay its final FY26 dividend of 2.3625 euro cents per ordinary share on July 30.
