Investor Presentation • Nov 11, 2021
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Q3 / 9M 2021 Results Analyst Call, 11 November 2021
Tobias Hartmann (CEO) Dirk Schmelzer (CFO)


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We are on an attractive growth and value creation path addressing the specifics of the German market …
Q3-ARPU +7.4% fuelled by high RLE demand and continued price increases
Q3 = first period with organic growth from immoverkauf24: +41.0%
Dynamic growth of Consumer Plus product revenue: +23.0%
Membership / Acquisition products for agents
Search / Subscription products for consumers
Capitalising on further digitisation tailwinds
Q3-EPS increase by 27.2%
Capital reduction by 8.5m shares to 83.6m shares
Next SBB of €200m recently announced

… delivering strong revenue growth with the right product offering for the tight market situation
listings1 decline reflecting shortage of supply 4.6m +23.3%
increase with growing mobile usage compensating for declining desktop traffic (-16.9%) due to changed cookie consent
almost at previous year's level (despite cookie consent) reflect a significant increase in demand

(without Austria & FLOWFACT, including IV24 since H2 2020)


| … translating into strong 9M 2021 KPIs |
€287.2m +9.4% |
€164.7m +4.5% |
59.1% -0.9pp |
|---|---|---|---|
| Group revenue (growth driven by 12.8% increase in Residential Real Estate) |
Group ordinary operating EBITDA (57.4% margin) |
Organic Group ordinary operating EBITDA margin (excl. H1 2021 IV24, Vermietet.de and Propstack) |
|
| €751 / €1,748 +5.9% / +0.5% |
20,511 +2.5% |
~670,000 +34.3% |
236,612 +82.8% |
| ARPU with residential / business real estate partners |
Professional customers (residential + business real estate partners) |
Homeowners registered on ImmoScout24 |
Consumer Plus product subscribers |


9M 2021 Group revenue: €287.2m (+9.4%) €281.9m (+7.4%)*
62.9% 59.8% 61.6%
9M 2021 Group ooEBITDA margin: 57.4% (-2.6pp) 59.1% (-0.9pp)*
% % % ooEBITDA margin

Residential Real Estate ARPU increase is fuelled by high RLE demand and continued price increases, while we again managed to win new customers.
| Q3 2021 | Q3 2020 | +/- | 9M 2021 | 9M 2020 | +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential real estate partners Residential agents and property managers, finance partners (# of core customers1 end of period) |
17,721 | 17,216 | +2.9% | 17,721 | 17,216 | +2.9% |
| Residential real estate partner ARPU2 (€/month) |
754 | 703 | +7.4% | 751 | 709 | +5.9% |
| Business real estate partners Commercial agents, project developers, new home builders (# of core customers1 end of period) |
2,790 | 2,789 | +0.0% | 2,790 | 2,789 | +0.0% |
| Business real estate partner ARPU2 (€/month) |
1,745 | 1,715 | +1.7% | 1,748 | 1,740 | +0.5% |
1 Customers with an existing contract containing an obligation for payment which entitles the customer to publish more than one object within the runtime of the contract 2 Average revenue per user per month, calculated by dividing the revenue generated with the respective core customer in the reported period by the average number of core customers in this period (calculated from the opening and closing balance) further divided by the number of months in the corresponding period

| (€m) | Q3 2021 |
Q3 2020 |
+/- | 9M 2021 |
9M 2020 |
+/- |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenues | 97.5 | 89.6 | +8.8% | 287.2 | 262.6 | +9.4% |
| Own work capitalised | 7.2 | 5.3 | +35.4% | 19.5 | 16.1 | +20.9% |
| Personnel costs |
-21.7 | -19.4 | +11.7% | -63.0 | -55.0 | +14.5% |
| Marketing costs | -9.9 | -8.4 | +19.0% | -27.8 | -21.7 | +28.2% |
| IT costs | -4.6 | -4.4 | +5.3% | -12.7 | -12.7 | -0.1% |
| Other operating costs | -13.9 | -10.6 | +31.4% | -38.5 | -31.7 | +21.4% |
| Total operating effects | -50.2 | -42.8 | +17.4% | -142.0 | -121.1 | +17.2% |
| ooEBITDA | 54.5 | 52.2 | +4.4% | 164.7 | 157.6 | +4.5% |
| ooEBITDA-margin | 9% 55 |
58 2% |
-2 3pp |
4% 57 |
60 0% |
-2 6pp |

| (€m) | Q3 2021 |
Q3 2020 |
+/- | 9M 2021 |
9M 2020 |
+/- |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ordinary operating EBITDA | 54.5 | 52.2 | +4.4% | 164.7 | 157.6 | +4.5% |
| Non-operating effects | 2.4 | 8.1 | -70.6% | 11.3 | 17.2 | -34.0% |
| Reported EBITDA | 52.1 | 44.1 | +18.2% | 153.4 | 140.5 | +9.2% |
| D&A | -14.9 | -12.2 | +22.7% | -42.7 | -37.0 | +15.4% |
| EBIT | 37.2 | 31.9 | +16.5% | 110.6 | 103.4 | +7.0% |
| Financial result | -1.9 | 2.1 | -191.6% | -7.5 | -5.7 | -31.3% |
| Earnings before Tax | 35.3 | 34.0 | +3.8% | 103.1 | 97.7 | +5.5% |
| Taxes on Income | -11.3 | -11.1 | +2.2% | -32.6 | -28.9 | +12.7% |
| Net income | 24.0 | 22.9 | +4.6% | 70.5 | 68.8 | +2.5% |
| Basic EPS in € (undiluted) |
0.29 | 0.23 | +27.2% | 0.79 | 0.67 | +18.1% |
| Weighted # shares (million) av |
83 5 |
101 5 |
-17 7% |
89 7 |
103 3 |
-13 2% |



As we are approaching year end, we are refining our full year 2021 outlook
| Initial Guidance | Refined Guidance |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021E Revenue outlook (% growth) |
mid-to-high single-digit % | around 9% |
||
| 2021E ooEBITDA outlook |
up to 60% |
58% - 59% (excluding Vermietet.de and Propstack) |
57% - 58% (including Vermietet.de and Propstack) |




CMD: 2 December 2021 at 2 pm CET
Ursula Querette Head of Investor Relations & Treasury Tel +49 89 262 02 4939 | [email protected]
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