Investor Presentation • Mar 28, 2024
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Earnings Call FY 2023
March 28, 2024
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44.2
Key highlights

Exceeding upper end of revenue forecast (€175 million) by +7% with significant and highly profitable top-line growth across all business segments

Adjusted pro forma EBITDA and EBIT up by +41% compared to prior year, especially driven by highly accretive add-on acquisitions

Despite significant investments already made, high financial reserves available for future growth initiatives with cash and cash equivalents of €54 million

Adjusted pro forma
EBIT
Note: For definitions and detailed explanations of the alternative performance measures, please refer to page 94 onwards of our Annual Report 2023. 3
FY 2022 FY 2023
+41%
62.4
Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) Highlights
(in €)


Strong performance of business segments lead to a doubling of adj. pro forma EPS from €0.64 in 2022 to €1.29 in 2023

Compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of +77% over the last three years

Proposal to Annual General Meeting to distribute a dividend of €0.22 per share




(€ million) IHSE Bikeleasing Prior-year period Note: In 2023 revenue is not adjusted for reduced result from value step up anymore. 2022 figures are adjusted accordingly.

(monthly # of bikes facilitated in percent of year's volume)





(€ million) IHSE Bikeleasing Prior-year period Note: In 2023 revenue is not adjusted for reduced result from value step up anymore. 2022 figures are adjusted accordingly.

| (€ thousand) | Financial Technologies | Security Technologies | Central Functions and Consolidation |
BKHT Group |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pro forma FY 2023 |
FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | Pro forma FY 2023 |
FY 2022 | |
| Revenue | 146,213 | 106,623 | 40,468 | 36,086 | (51) | 2 | 186,631 | 142,712 |
| Revenue growth | 37.1% | 12.1% | - | 30.8% | ||||
| Gross Profit | 93,123 | 65,120 | 30,542 | 26,331 | 372 | 269 | 124,037 | 91,721 |
| Gross Profit Margin | 63.7% | 61.1% | 75.5% | 73.0% | 66.5% | 64.3% | ||
| Adjusted EBITDA | 63,081 | 43,938 | 11,088 | 8,617 | (7,181) | (5,155) | 66,988 | 47,400 |
| Adjusted EBITDA Margin | 43.1% | 41.2% | 27.4% | 23.9% | 35.9% | 33.2% | ||
| Adjusted EBIT | 60,070 | 41,980 | 9,670 | 7,485 | (7,304) | (5,311) | 62,437 | 44,155 |
| Adjusted EBIT Margin | 41.1% | 39.4% | 23.9% | 20.7% | 33.5% | 30.9% |
Total cash and cash equivalents of €54 million as per end of December 2023



Available financing capacity driven by significant deleveraging allows for future growth through new acquisitions

Conservative net leverage ratio of ~0.87x adj. pro-forma EBITDA 2023 (target value of ~2.5x) despite high payouts for sales agencies and share buyback

High balance sheet quality underlining resilience of our business



Share buyback of €11m in December 2023 acquiring 4.6% of outstanding BKHT shares

Acquisition of 4 sales agencies of Bikeleasing for total cash-out of €19.5m
Bikeleasing distributed €35m to its shareholders

• €19.2m to the intermediate holding, which repaid debt
• €15.8m to the founders and external co-investor


Record year for Bikeleasing in terms of financial and operating KPIs

# of facilitated bikes grew by +28% to ~151,000
# of corporate customers grew to ~60k with ~3.3 million employees

Stable cash at ~€23m despite purchase of 4 sales agencies for €19.5m, voluntary repayment of the senior acquisition loan for €10m as well as a first dividend of €35m to its shareholders


Acquisition and integration of sales agencies Continued shift to variable leasing factor Completion of C-Level management





Further acceleration of revenue growth to +12.1% in 2023 especially due to a continued strong development in Americas and overall successful second half year

EBITDA margin of 27.4% significantly above previous year's level of 23.9% showcasing the operational leverage of the business

Improvement of gross profit not only due to positive top line development but also due to continuously increasing product gross profit margins



Investing in new, cutting-edge products, commercialization of new technology and revenue streams, as well as intensified market presence in security and government verticals are drivers for continuous growth

Applications to bridge proprietary and IP based solutions with software-based KVM were launched, as well as the new generation of IP-based products

New markets in East-Asia and Oceania are now addressable for IHSE, generating future business opportunities while at the same time production capacity is established by increased automatization in Oberteuringen



JPEG-XS video IP core (encoder/decoder)
Extended software-based KVM portfolio
NextGen extender platform



Revenue
(2023: €187m | +18% to 29%)
Adj. EBITDA
€80m - €90m
(2023: €62m | +29% to +45%)

(€ million)



Note: For additional details please see the ad-hoc announcements dated June 6, 2023 and March 22, 2024; Figures for 2021 include adjustment for decrease in earnings due to value step up.



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