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Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements
Pankl achieves operative profit in the first half year 2004 (E)

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Sales increase of 5.5 percent in the first half year
EBIT with EUR 0.3 million even after R&D expenditures positive again
Turnaround after only 9 months
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                    QII 2003      QII2004   HY I 2003      HY I 2004
Net sales          TEUR  19.373   20.274    33.969         35.847
EBIT before R&D    TEUR   1.843    2.035     3.307          3.041
EBIT before R&D      %    9,5      10        9,7           8,5
R&D project expensesTEUR    815    1.212     1.488          2.711
EBIT after R&D      TEUR  1.028      823     1.819            330
EBIT after R&D        %     5,3      4,1       5,4           0,9
Financial result    TEUR   -228     -315      -135           -402
Net income          TEUR    569      305     1.197           -270
Result per share    EUR      0,15     0,08      0,31           -0,07
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Bruck a. d. Mur, 25 May 2004. In the first half year 2004 with sales
of EUR 35,85 million, i.e. a growth of 5,5 percent compared to the
period of last year (EUR 33,97 million), Pankl Racing Systems AG
broke even again in the second quarter. The sales growth of Pankl
Racing Systems AG in the first half year 2004 in the first place
results from an increasing demand for pistons in the USA. Besides
Formula I there is also an increasing demand for Pankl transmission
and engine systems in the field of touring car racing series like
DTM, the rallye-series and particularly within American racing series
like NASCAR. With EUR 30,34 million the racing segment contributes 84
percent to the half year result.
Positive operating result (EBIT) in the first half year 2004
Thus the red could be left again within only nine months. With a
positive operating result (EBIT) of EUR 0,8 million, after EUR -0,5
million in the first quarter 2004, the result of the second quarter
2004 in particular contributed to this. The company achieved this
clear result improvement despite persistently  high R&D project
expenditures amounting to EUR 2,7 million in the first half year 2004
(last year's period: EUR 1,5 million). With just 1 percent in the
reporting period (01/10/2003 - 31/03/2004) the EBIT margin after R&D
expenditures certainly has a potential for increase. Before taking
into account the costs for defined development projects, which are
worked on besides the current development work of the company, Pankl
reaches a margin of 8.5 percent in the first half year 2004. Pankl is
expecting R&D expenditures of altogether maximally EUR 5.4 million
for this business year. Due to lower financial earnings the financial
result developed a little more weakly in the second quarter of 2004
compared to last year (QII 2004: TEUR -315 TEUR to QII 2003: TEUR
-228). In the first half year of the current business year the result
per share is EUR - 0.07.
Outlook:
With the end of the last business year 2003 the management of Pankl
Racing Systems AG announced an overall sales growth between 5 and 10
percent for the business year 2004. Under the motto Back to Profit a
further improvement of the result situation is being planned. Both
statements can be fully confirmed at the half-time of the business
year 2004.
You can find the report on the first half year on our IR-portal
under: www.pankl-ir.com
end of announcement        euro adhoc 25.05.2004

Further inquiry note:

Head of Investor Relations & Corporate Communications, Heidrun
Sölkner, Tel.: 0043 3862 33 999 114; mail: ir@pankl.co.at; Internet:
www.pankl.com; IR-Portal: www.pankl-ir.com

Branche: Technology
ISIN: AT0000800800
WKN: 914732
Index: Prime Standard
Börsen: Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse / official dealing
Nasdaq Europe / official dealing

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