EANS-Adhoc: voestalpine AG
voestalpine with significant increase in earnings
in the first half of business year 2014/15
05.11.2014 – 07:32
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ad-hoc disclosure transmitted by euro adhoc with the aim of a Europe-wide distribution. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Financial Figures/Balance Sheet/6-month report 05.11.2014 In Europe the economic development lost steam in the course of the first half 2014/15 after a good start. North America shows sustained strong economic growth, China stays on solid level, Brazil and Russia under continuing pressure. In this environment, despite declining sales revenues, voestalpine Group was able to significantly increase earnings in all categories, with positive one-off effects in the second financial quarter 2014/15 (+66.5 EURm EBITDA resp. +45.2 EURm EBIT-effect) from portfolio optimization measures. But also on a pure operational basis, meaning excluding these positive one-off effects, all earnings categories, partly substantially, increased on an annual comparison. Due to the redemption of the hybrid bond 2007 (volume: 500 EURm, accounted as equity under IFRS) in September 2014 the gearing ratio rose to 58.8% per 09/30/ 2014. Despite the, predominantly in Europe, more difficult economic environment, voestalpine should succeed in improving the profitability at least somewhat compared to last business year, even without taking positive one-off effects into account. The outlook for the business year 2014/15 therefore stays unchanged: From the current vantage point, it can be anticipated that the operating result (EBITDA) and profit from operations (EBIT) of the voestalpine Group will be somewhat higher than the figures of the past business year. Key figures of voestalpine Group _______________________________________________________________________ |(acc._IFRS;_in_EURm)______|H1_2013/14*_______|H1_2014/15________|Change| |__________________________|04/01-09/30/2013 |04/01-09/30/2014 |in_%__| |Revenue___________________|5,643.4___________|5,561.1___________|-1.5__| |EBITDA____________________|680.4_____________|756.9_____________|+11.2_| |EBITDA_margin_in_%________|12.1______________|13.6______________|______| |EBIT______________________|396.3_____________|444.7_____________|+12.2_| |EBIT_margin_in_%__________|7.0_______________|8.0_______________|______| |Profit_before_tax_________|312.1_____________|391.7_____________|+25.5_| |Profit_for_the_period**___|238.4_____________|324.0_____________|+35.9_| |EPS_(in_EUR)______________|1.15______________|1.65______________|+43.5_| |Gearing_ratio_in_%_(09/30)|46.8______________|58.8______________|______| *Business year 2013/14 retroactively adjusted **Before deduction of non-controlling interests and interest on hybrid capital Further details on the 2nd quarter results 2014/15 are available on our homepage www.voestalpine.com. Further inquiry note: DI Peter Fleischer Head of Investor Relations Tel.: +43/50304/15-9949 Fax: +43/50304/55-5581 mailto:peter.fleischer@voestalpine.com http://www.voestalpine.com end of announcement euro adhoc -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- issuer: voestalpine AG voestalpine-Straße 1 A-4020 Linz phone: +43 50304/15-9949 FAX: +43 50304/55-5581 mail: IR@voestalpine.com WWW: www.voestalpine.com sector: Metal Goods & Engineering ISIN: AT0000937503 indexes: WBI, ATX Prime, ATX stockmarkets: official market: Wien language: English