[metafunctor]

So Orange won 12 years time to pay whatever you won in the end?

That's a factor of about 2.2x, assuming 7% capital gains year-on-year.

If the sums are large, it would've made a lot of sense for Orange to delay the decision for 12 years until having to pay.

But I'm not sure at all of the sums here were that substantial.

[brlewis]

Isn't that assuming that Orange's legal costs would have been the same whether or not they settled?

[sofixa]

> That's a factor of about 2.2x, assuming 7% capital gains year-on-year.

Why would you assume 7% year on year? Did you look into Orange's stock price or quarterly/yearly reports, or did you think all companies have the same return as investing in the S&P500 would have?

https://www.boursorama.com/cours/1rPORA/

e.g. over 10 years, their stock price is roughly the same as it was back then after a few years slightly higher.

[codethief]

7% is (roughly) what you can make by investing in ETFs tracking some "world market" index like MSCI World, FTSE All World, et cetera, averaged over long periods.

[Matheus28]

That stock pays dividends of about 7.07% a year it seems