The news gave its share price a near 14 percent lift on the Helsinki exchange to €3.45 (US$4.54).
You can see all the details in this extensive press release but the main points are:
- Better than expected sales of mobile devices, including Lumia smartphones, resulted in fourth-quarter net sales of €3.9 billion (US$5.14 billion) and the possibility of a small adjusted operating profit (after one-time costs) for the Devices & Services division. Nokia had been expecting the division to report an adjusted operating loss. The company says it shipped 86.3 million devices, including 4.4 million Lumia smartphones.
- Better than expected sales of high-margin products and lower costs helped Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) hit fourth-quarter revenues of €4 billion ($5.27 billion) and achieve an adjusted operating margin (excluding one-time costs) of between 13 percent and 15 percent, compared with the 8 percent (plus or minus 4 percent) that had been forecast.
— Ray Le Maistre, International Managing Editor, Light Reading
And with Nokia already warning of a tough Q1 2013 that's seasonally weak as it continues to ramp up the Lumia devices, Nokia still has a long way to go in its turnaround efforts.