shares in orange sa surged in thursday morning trading after the french telecommunications company set out financial targets for 2025 along with plans to raise its dividend after betterthanexpected fourthquarter results the company said it was aiming for revenue of 13 billion euros 139 billion by 2025 in the fastgrowing cybersecurity market orange will also continue to focus on its legacy fixed and mobile networks businesses our aim is to achieve sustainable growth particularly in cybersecurity in africa and in the middle east we have already taken the first steps with the sale of ocs the consolidation projects in spain and belgium and targeted acquisitions in cybersecurity chief executive christel heydemann said for the fourth quarter orange said revenue climbed to eur1135 billion from eur1120 billion the previous year earnings before interest taxes depreciation and amortization after leasesa key indicator of profitabilityrose 85 to eur345 billion analysts had forecast revenue of eur1118 billion on earnings of eur344 billion according to a companyprovided consensus orange said it would propose a dividend of eur070 a share for 2022 raising it to eur072 for 2023 and to eur075 for 2024 for 2023 orange targets slight growth in ebitda after leases and organic cash flow from telecoms activities of at least eur35 billion for 2025 it expects low singledigit growth in ebitda after leases and organic cash flow from telecoms activities of eur4 billion