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Vossloh AG

Quarterly Report Apr 30, 2020

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QUARTERLY STATEMENT AS OF MARCH 31, 2020

WERDOHL, APRIL 30, 2020

Focused. Dynamic. Green.

DISCLAIMER NOTE

This presentation contains statements concerning the future business performance of the Vossloh Group that are based on assumptions and estimates from the Company management. If the assumptions that the projections are based on fail to occur, the actual results of the projected statements may differ substantially. Uncertainties include changes in the political, commercial and economic climate, the actions of competitors, legislative reforms, the effects of future case law and fluctuations in exchange rates and interest rates. Vossloh and its Group companies, consultants and representatives assume no responsibility for possible losses associated with the use of this presentation or its contents. Vossloh assumes no obligation to update the forecast statements in this presentation.

The information contained in this presentation does not constitute an offer or an invitation to sell or buy Vossloh shares or the shares of other companies.

VOSSLOH GROUP: FOCUSED. DYNAMIC. GREEN.

GOOD START TO THE 2020 FISCAL YEAR

OPERATIONAL BUSINESS PERFORMANCE

Portfolio-adjusted sales of €177.5 million in the previous year increased to €182.9 million, with higher contributions especially from the Tie Technologies business unit

EBIT from operational business up despite initial negative impact of COVID-19; thanks to the positive earnings effect resulting from a business combination achieved in stages of a company in the Fastening Systems business unit, EBIT came to €16.5 million (previous year: €(0.6) million); 2019 performance program taking effect

Positive development in orders received continues; Group's book-to-bill ratio (ratio of orders received to sales) at a high level of 1.6; book-to-bill ratio greater than 1 in all business units

COVID-19 – CURRENT SITUATION

Employee protection policies and measures still in place; high proportion of worldwide administrative staff working from home; special safety precautions implemented at production sites

Stable position for Vossloh: highly crisis-resistant industry; railway industry systemically relevant in many countries (e.g. Germany, France, U.S.); most customers from the public sector; business based largely on maintenance and repairs

Individual sites affected by temporary restrictions and occasional production shutdowns; all key production sites are operating or ramping up again

Initial negative financial impact in Q1/2020 mainly in Customized Modules; further negative impact on earnings likely to come in the course of the year; dividend suspension proposed; further measures taken to secure liquidity

SALE OF VOSSLOH LOCOMOTIVES

Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt) approval issued without conditions; all contractual conditions have been met

Sale to be completed in the coming weeks

Sale secures the future of unprofitable locomotive business and ends the long-standing outflow of funds needed for further development of core business

DUE TO 2019 PERFORMANCE PROGRAM GOOD EARNINGS DEVELOPMENT IN FIRST QUARTER DESPITE COVID-19

KEY GROUP INDICATORS 1-3/2019 1-3/2020
Sales revenues € mill. 190.01 182.9
EBITDA/EBITDA margin € mill./% 12.2/6.4 28.8/15.7
EBIT/EBIT margin € mill./% (0.6)/(0.3) 16.5/9.0
Net income € mill. (22.5) (2.6)
Earnings per share (1.50) (0.15)
Free cash flow2 € mill. (52.0) (50.2)
Capital expenditure € mill. 8.1 14.4
Value added € mill. (17.6) 1.6

1Excluding sales from the U.S. businesses sold at the end of 2019, sales came to €177.5 million. 2Comprising effects from discontinued operations.

NOTES

Portfolio-adjusted sales revenues up by approx. 3 percent despite initial impact of COVID-19; increase in sales in Core Components and Lifecycle Solutions; Customized Modules on a par with previous year in portfolio-adjusted terms

Significant improvement in EBIT and EBIT margin compared with the previous year, particularly due to an earnings effect from a business combination achieved in stages of a company in the Fastening Systems business unit; marked improvement also in Customized Modules and Lifecycle Solutions

Net income up considerably over the previous year due to higher EBIT, on the other hand burdened by continued weak operating profitability and impairment in discontinued operations

Free cash flow in core business negative in Q1, as is typical for the season; nevertheless, marked improvement compared with the previous year from around €(41) million to current total of approximately €(20) million; free cash flow from discontinued operations of around €(30) million due to extensive processing of locomotives

Capital expenditure up considerably, particular increase in Lifecycle Solutions and Customized Modules divisions

4 Quarterly Statement Q1/2020

EQUITY SLIGHTLY LOWER THAN END OF 2019, INCREASE IN NET FINANCIAL DEBT MAINLY DUE TO DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS

KEY GROUP INDICATORS 1-3/2019
3/31/2019
2019
12/31/2019
1-3/2020
3/31/2020
Equity € mill. 503.4 403.6 392.9
Equity ratio % 34.9 30.3 28.6
Average working capital € mill. 237.9 227.2 185.3
Average working capital
intensity
% 31.3 24.8 25.3
Closing working capital € mill. 259.9 180.3 190.3
Average capital employed € mill. 907.9 904.1 853.4
Closing capital employed € mill. 953.8 839.5 867.3
Net financial debt1 € mill. 370.7 321.3 386.4

NOTES

Equity slightly lower than end of 2019; due to negative currency effects and slightly negative net income; equity ratio slightly lower also due to higher total assets (mainly increase in assets held for sale)

Average working capital intensity down considerably on previous year's quarter due to lower average working capital in Customized Modules

Increase in closing capital employed compared with the end of 2019, also due to higher working capital and expansion investments

Net financial debt up slightly compared with the end of Q1 2019 despite positive FCF in core business of about €24 million in 12-month period; mainly due to negative FCF of about €(64) million from discontinued operations, interest, leasing and dividend payments affected; proceeds from capital increase in mid-2019 and the sale of businesses as part of the 2019 performance program had an offsetting effect

1Net financial debt before application of IFRS 16. Taking into account IFRS 16, net financial debt would increase by €46.9 million on 3/31/2020.

VERY ENCOURAGING PERFORMANCE IN ORDERS RECEIVED, BOOK-TO-BILL AT 1.6

NOTES

Orders received up in all divisions, in Core Components largely due to good order situation at Vossloh Tie Technologies; orders received by Customized Modules also at a high level; book-to-bill ratio considerably greater than 1 in all divisions, with Group ratio of 1.6

Vossloh Group's order backlog up by 7.8 percent year-over-year; Tie Technologies business unit (Core Components) up considerably over the previous year; Customized Modules and Lifecycle Solutions more or less on par with prior year

Core Components Customized Modules Lifecycle Solutions

1For purposes of comparability, values are represented without U.S. businesses sold in 2019 (orders received adjusted by €28.5 million and order backlog adjusted by €70.8 million).

CORE COMPONENTS DIVISION

SALES UP BY 7.9 PERCENT OVER PREVIOUS YEAR, SIGNIFICANT POSITIVE INFLUENCE ON EARNINGS AND PROFITABILITY THROUGH EFFECT OF IAS 28

7 Quarterly Statement Q1/2020

FASTENING SYSTEMS BUSINESS UNIT

SALES ALMOST UNCHANGED IN COMPARISON WITH PREVIOUS YEAR, VALUE ADDED UP CONSIDERABLY THANKS TO CONSOLIDATION EFFECT

46.0 43.9 1-3/2019 1-3/2020 2.9 16.6 1-3/2019 1-3/2020 Project-related downturn in sales in Eastern Europe and China almost completely offset by higher sales in Tanzania, the Middle East and the U.S. Value added up considerably on previous year thanks to the effect from the business combination achieved in stages; excluding this effect, slight decline due to sales development Book-to-bill ratio at 1.05; considerable volume of orders received in Italy and the U.S.; high level of orders received for maintenance in China in the previous year ORDERS RECEIVED (in € mill.) ORDER BACKLOG (in € mill.) 1-3/2019 1-3/2020 3/31/2019 3/31/2020 61.3 46.3 206.4 184.8

VALUE ADDED (in € mill.)

SALES (in € mill.)

TIE TECHNOLOGIES BUSINESS UNIT

SALES UP CONSIDERABLY, BOOK-TO-BILL AT 1.85

SALES (in € mill.)

Increase in sales largely due to higher sales contributions in Australia as a result of processing of substantial order backlog (e.g. Rio Tinto order), higher sales also generated in the U.S. (e.g. project in Florida)

Value added negatively affected by start-up costs for concrete tie factories in Canada and Australia and ongoing effects from purchase price allocation

Book-to-bill ratio at very high level of 1.85; high level of orders received in the U.S. in the transit business and for the Florida project, among others; continued positive development in Australia as well; order backlog more than doubled

VALUE ADDED (in € mill.)

CUSTOMIZED MODULES DIVISION

PORTFOLIO-ADJUSTED SALES1 ON A PAR WITH PREVIOUS YEAR DESPITE COVID-19, MARKED IMPROVEMENT IN EARNINGS AND PROFITABILITY

Book-to-bill ratio at 1.69; in particular, more orders received in Poland and Serbia (4.6)

1Excluding sales from the U.S. businesses sold at the end of 2019, sales came to €88.5 million.

10 Quarterly Statement Q1/2020

LIFECYCLE SOLUTIONS DIVISION

HIGHER SALES, IMPROVEMENT IN EARNINGS AND PROFITABILITY

SALES (in € mill.) EBITDA (in € mill.) EBITDA MARGIN (in %) EBIT (in € mill.) EBIT MARGIN (in %)
19.1 20.2 0.7 1.1 3.6 5.6 (2.6) (1.8) (9.0)
1-3/2019 1-3/2020 1-3/2019 1-3/2020 1-3/2019 1-3/2020 1-3/2019 1-3/2020 (13.6)
1-3/2019
1-3/2020
particular contribution to sales growth (+6.0 percent) Higher sales in the area of logistics and good utilization levels in welding plants make (in %) 1-3/2019 (5.7)
EBIT and EBIT margin negative, as is typical for the season, but up on previous year; ROCE 1-3/2020 (4.0)
earnings contributions from machine sales higher earnings contributions from logistics and stationary welding, countered by lower (in € mill.) 1-3/2019 (6.0)
Book-to-bill ratio at 1.9; good level of orders received in Sweden (Flexis), Germany
(mainly stationary welding and logistics), and in the Netherlands (milling)
VALUE ADDED 1-3/2020 (5.0)

HIGHER SALES IN AUSTRALIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST PARTLY OFFSET LOWER SALES IN THE AMERICAS AND ASIA

Lower sales in CM in the U.S. due to portfolio-related factors partially offset by higher sales at VTT and VFS; also lower sales contributions from Canada

Lower sales in Western Europe (in particular France) offset by higher sales in Northern Europe (in particular Finland)

Sales in Australia higher thanks to VTT; higher contributions from Africa (in particular Tanzania)

Lower sales mainly in China and Malaysia, offset by higher sales in Israel and the United Arab Emirates

VOSSLOH GROUP, OUTLOOK1

NOTICEABLE INCREASE IN PROFITABILITY EXPECTED IN 2020

Sales

2019: €916.4 million 2020 forecast: €900 million to €1 billion

/ Missing sales due to the exit from the American switch business are expected to be compensated by significantly higher sales, especially at Vossloh Fastening Systems and Vossloh Tie Technologies

Value added

2019: €(105.4) million 2020 forecast: €0 to €15 million

/ In 2020, a return to positive value added levels is expected as a result of improved profitability and lower average capital employed; WACC down from 7.5 percent to 7.0 percent due to the persistently low interest rate level

EBITDA margin

2019 (adjusted): 11.5 percent 2020 forecast: 12 to 13 percent

EBIT margin

2019 (adjusted): 6.1 percent 2020 forecast: 7 to 8 percent

/ Increase in profitability in particular due to improvements resulting from the performance program; operational profitability still expected to increase in Customized Modules and Lifecycle Solutions; slight drop in operational profitability at Core Components due to COVID-19 is more than offset by the effect from a business combination achieved in stages

1Based on current knowledge and a careful risk assessment, and with reference to the obvious uncertainties regarding the further impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

FINANCIAL CALENDAR AND CONTACT INFORMATION

HOW YOU CAN REACH US

Financial calendar 2020

  • / May 27, 2020 Virtual Annual General Meeting
  • / July 30, 2020 Interim report as of June 30, 2020
  • / October 29, 2020 Quarterly statement as of September 30, 2020

Contact information for investors:

Dr. Daniel Gavranovic Email: [email protected] Phone: +49 (0) 23 92 / 52-609 Fax: +49 (0) 23 92 / 52-219

Contact information for the media:

Gundolf Moritz (Mirnock Consulting) Email: [email protected] Phone: +49 (0) 23 92 / 52-608 Fax: +49 (0) 23 92 / 52-219

VOSSLOH GROUP INCOME STATEMENT

€ mill. 1
-3/2019
1
-3/2020
Sales revenues 190.0 182.9
Cost of sales (155.0) (147.4)
General administrative and selling expenses (36.0) (33.4)
Allowances for financial assets (0.0) (0.2)
Research and development costs (2.6) (2.3)
Other operating result 2.3 0.6
Operating result (1.3) 0.2
Income from investments in companies accounted for using the equity method 0.7 0.7
Other net financial result 0.0 15.6
Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) (0.6) 16.5
Interest income 0.3 1.8
Interest and similar expenses (6.1) (5.9)
Earnings before taxes (EBT) (6.4) 12.4
Income taxes 1.4 4.8
Result from continuing operations (5.0) 17.2
Result from discontinued operations (17.5) (19.8)
Net income (22.5) (2.6)
thereof attributable to shareholders of Vossloh AG (23.9) (2.7)
thereof attributable to noncontrolling interests 1.4 0.1
Earnings per share
Basic/diluted earnings per share (€) (1.50) (0.15)
thereof attributable to continuing operations (0.40) 0.97
thereof attributable to discontinued operations (1.10) (1.12)

VOSSLOH GROUP BALANCE SHEET

Assets (€ mill.) 3/31/2019 12/31/2019 3/31/2020
Intangible assets 304.0 280.1 295.5
Property, plant and equipment 313.0 296.8 301.7
Investment properties 2.3 1.8 1.8
Investments in companies accounted for using the equity method 66.9 74.6 71.6
Other noncurrent financial instruments 7.8 6.0 6.4
Other noncurrent assets 3.4 4.0 3.9
Deferred tax assets 18.1 17.7 25.5
Noncurrent assets 715.5 681.0 706.4
Inventories 207.5 152.1 166.4
Trade receivables 223.3 212.8 204.3
Contract assets 12.1 5.0 7.1
Income tax assets 7.3 5.8 6.5
Other current financial instruments 41.9 29.6 32.0
Other current assets 29.5 25.8 29.0
Short-term securities 0.4 0.0 0.0
Cash and cash equivalents 36.9 56.7 44.0
Current assets 558.9 487.8 489.3
Assets held for sale 168.9 162.6 177.8
Assets 1,443.3 1,331.4 1,373.5
Equity and liabilities (€ mill.) 3/31/2019 12/31/2019 3/31/2020
Capital stock 45.3 49.9 49.9
Additional paid-in capital 146.5 190.4 190.4
Retained earnings and net income 295.2 158.7 153.5
Accumulated other comprehensive income 3.8 (4.8) (14.0)
Equity excluding noncontrolling interests 490.8 394.2 379.8
Noncontrolling interests 12.6 9.4 13.1
Equity 503.4 403.6 392.9
Pension provisions/provisions for other post employment benefits 31.1 33.2 35.1
Other noncurrent provisions 8.1 10.5 8.3
Noncurrent financial liabilities 397.8 385.8 440.2
Noncurrent trade payables 0.0 1.4 0.0
Other noncurrent liabilities 10.9 10.6 3.3
Deferred tax liabilities 7.9 7.9 8.6
Noncurrent liabilities 455.8 449.4 495.5
Other current provisions 39.5 59.4 57.7
Current financial liabilities 66.3 41.3 37.2
Current trade payables 129.8 132.8 124.9
Current contract liabilities 0.0 0.2 0.0
Current income tax liabilities 2.3 4.4 3.5
Other current liabilities 102.9 91.7 109.9
Current liabilities 340.8 329.8 333.2
Liabilities related to assets held for sale 143.3 148.6 151.9
Equity and liabilities 1,443.3 1,331.4 1,373.5

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

Core Components Fastening Systems Tie Technologies Customized Modules Lifecycle Solutions
1-3/2019 1-3/2020 1-3/2019 1-3/2020 1-3/2019 1-3/2020 1-3/2019 1-3/2020 1-3/2019 1-3/2020
Sales revenues € mill. 72.0 77.7 46.0 43.9 28.5 36.5 101.0 87.6 19.1 20.2
EBITDA € mill. 11.5 24.7 4.1 5.7 0.7 1.1
EBITDA margin % 15.9 31.8 4.0 6.5 3.6 5.6
EBIT € mill. 6.5 19.4 (0.3) 1.8 (2.6) (1.8)
EBIT margin % 9.0 25.0 (0.3) 2.1 (13.6) (9.0)
Average working capital € mill. 93.9 95.9 132.4 76.1 16.3 15.3
Average working capital intensity % 32.6 30.8 32.8 21.7 21.3 18.9
Average capital employed € mill. 276.1 306.6 453.3 362.9 180.5 182.7
ROCE % 9.4 25.4 (0.3) 2.0 (5.7) (4.0)
Value added € mill. 1.3 14.1 2.9 16.6 (1.6) (2.5) (8.8) (4.6) (6.0) (5.0)
Orders received € mill. 90.7 107.9 61.3 46.3 32.0 67.5 131.51 147.7 36.4 38.4
Order backlog (3/31) € mill. 256.0 302.8 206.4 184.8 54.0 123.9 333.91 333.2 30.2 28.6
Capital expenditure € mill. 4.3 4.8 2.7 3.0 1.6 1.8 1.1 3.5 2.7 5.8
Depreciation/amortization € mill. (5.0) (5.2) (2.0) (2.0) (3.0) (3.3) (4.4) (3.9) (3.3) (2.9)

1For the purpose of comparability, values are represented without US-businesses sold in 2019 (orders received adjusted by €28.5 million and order backlog adjusted by €70.8 million).

€ mill. 1-3/2019 1-3/2020
Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) (0.6) 16.5
EBIT from discontinued operations (18.7) (16.5)
Amortization/depreciation/impairment losses (less write-ups) of noncurrent assets 22.8 32.3
Change in noncurrent provisions 0.7 (0.4)
Gross cash flow 4.2 31.9
Income taxes paid (2.0) (3.8)
Change in working capital (43.3) (42.3)
Other changes (3.8) (22.3)
Cash flow from operating activities (44.9) (36.5)
Investments in intangible assets and property, plant and equipment (7.1) (13.6)
Investments in companies accounted for using the equity method 0.0 (0.1)
Free cash flow (52.0) (50.2)

VOSSLOH GROUP EMPLOYEES

Closing date Average Employees 3/31/2019 3/31/2020 1-3/2019 1-3/2020 Core Components 879 911 877 910 Customized Modules 2,382 1,992 2,382 1,984 Lifecycle Solutions 552 507 546 518 Vossloh AG 63 60 63 60 Total 3,876 3,470 3,868 3,472

PRICE PERFORMANCE, SHARE INFORMATION AND SHAREHOLDER STRUCTURE

Information on the Vossloh share
ISIN DE0007667107
Trading locations Xetra, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg,
Hanover, Stuttgart, Munich
Number of shares outstanding on 3/31/2020 17,564,180
Share price (3/31/2020) €31.60
High price/low price, January to March 2020 €42.50/€23.60
Market capitalization (3/31/2020) €555.0 million
Reuters code VOSG.DE
Bloomberg code VOS:GR

Shareholder structure in %

Heinz Hermann Thiele

  • Franklin Mutual Advisers
  • Others

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