This article was published on April 4, 2012

Poor Nokia isn’t even the most valuable company in Finland anymore


Poor Nokia isn’t even the most valuable company in Finland anymore

Troubled Nokia is troubled. As pointed out by Horace Dediu on Twitter, the company no longer even wears the crown of most valuable company in Finland anymore. In fact, Finnish electric utilities giant Fortum recently took the lead on the Helsinki Stock Exchange in terms of market value.

Today, Fortum’s market cap is roughly 15.8 billion euros. Nokia, now in second place among Finnish companies, boasts a total value of only 14.8 billion euros.

In third place is financial services and insurance company Sampo, with a market cap of roughly 12 billion euros at present. Watch your back, Nokia.

To put things in perspective: at its peak in the past five years, more precisely at the end of 2007, Nokia was valued at a whopping 110 billion euros. That was, of course, before the iPhone and Android smartphones ate the world.

Last year, Nokia took action to reverse its smartphone business, signing a deal with Microsoft to make Windows Phone its primary smartphone operating system.

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Despite Nokia overhauling its strategy, it still suffered a massive $1.4 billion operating loss, compared to a $2.74 billion profit in 2010.

Meanwhile, Apple is still the most valuable company in the world with a $587 billion market cap (€446 billion). But keep trashing your rivals, Nokia.

Also read: Nokia’s ex-employees are building Finland’s future

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