GESCO AG

Report Publication Announcement • Aug 13, 2024

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Corporate | 13 August 2024 07:30

GESCO SE publishes half-year report 2024

EQS-News: GESCO SE / Key word(s): Half Year Report/Half Year Results

GESCO SE publishes half-year report 2024

13.08.2024 / 07:30 CET/CEST

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• Subdued demand leads to decline in sales and earnings
• No recovery in demand expected in the second half of the year
• Increase in earnings expected in the second half of the year due to projects

Prime Standard-listed GESCO SE, an industrial group of medium-sized market and technology leaders, published its half-year report 2024 today.

The economic upturn expected at the beginning of the year for the second half of the year continues to be delayed. The recent deterioration in sentiment indicators and the renewed decline in incoming orders and production show a continuing weakness in German industry. The mechanical engineering sector is currently experiencing an even worse development. While a decline of 3% is expected for the EU as a whole in the current year, mechanical engineering in Germany is expected to fall by as much as 4%. GESCO Group was unable to escape this persistently weak economic development in Germany and Europe, with noticeably subdued demand in the first half of the year.

As in the first quarter, incoming orders at GESCO Group exceeded sales in the second quarter and, for the first time in some time, were higher than in the same quarter of the previous year. In conjunction with the usual delivery of some mechanical engineering projects at the end of the second half of the year, GESCO anticipates an increase in earnings in the second half of the year. However, the overall economic development of GESCO Group prompted the Executive Board to adjust its forecast for the current financial year at the end of July and reduce its sales and earnings expectations. Group sales of € 520 – 540 million and Group earnings after minority interest of around € 8 – 12 million are expected for financial year 2024 as a whole.

The full 2024 half-year report is available at www.gesco.de/investor-relations/finanzberichte

Key figures of the GESCO Group (IFRS)	in	01/01/2024 – 06/30/2024	01/01/2023 – 06/30/2023	Change (in %)
Incoming orders	T€	275,500	288,785	-4.6%
Sales	T€	252,845	292,135	-13.4%
EBITDA	T€	15,678	31,688	-50.5%
EBIT	T€	6,568	22,844	-71.2%
EBIT margin	%	2.6%	7.8%	-522 bp
EBT	T€	4,082	21,245	-80.8%
Group earnings 1)	T€	2,019	14,303	-85.9%
Earnings per share	€	0.19	1.32	-85.6%
Closing price 2)	€	16.65	24.40	-31.8%
Employees 3)	Quantity	1,869	1,889	-1,1%

1) After minority interests 2) XETRA closing price on the balance sheet date 3) Number on the balance sheet date

About GESCO:

GESCO SE is an industrial group with market- and technology-leading companies in the capital goods industry specialising in process, resource, healthcare and infrastructure technology. As a Prime Standard-listed company, GESCO SE gives private and institutional investors access to a portfolio of hidden champions in the industrial SME sector.

Contact:

Peter Alex

Head of Investor Relations

Phone +49 (0) 202 24820-18

Fax +49 (0) 202 24820-49

E-mail: ir@gesco.de

Internet: www.gesco.de

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Language:	English
Company:	GESCO SE
	Johannisberg 7
	42103 Wuppertal
	Germany
Phone:	+49 (0)202 24820 18
Fax:	+49 (0)202 2482049
E-mail:	ir@gesco.de
Internet:	www.gesco.de
ISIN:	DE000A1K0201
WKN:	A1K020
Listed:	Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, Stuttgart, Tradegate Exchange
EQS News ID:	1966233

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