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Earnings Release • Feb 14, 2006

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Ad-hoc | 14 February 2006 17:44

HCI Capital AG: Preliminary financial results 2005

Ad hoc announcement transmitted by DGAP – a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. —————————————————————————— Ad-hoc release §15 WphG 14th February 2006 HCI Capital AG: Preliminary Financial Results 2005 Hamburg, 14th February 2006 –According to preliminary calculations, HCI Capital AG – ISIN DE000A0D9Y97- generated revenue of round EUR 150 million in fiscal year 2005. Revenue was thus up 26% over 2004 (EUR 119 million). Groups net income showed strong growth over last year’s figure (EUR 20.6 million), climbing by 82 % to round EUR 37.5 million. The increase in net income, which outpaced revenue growth, resulted primarily from the dynamic growth in the business, particularly in the area of high margin products and due to HCI’s broadening activities in the shipping sector. Earnings per share in 2005 stood at EUR 1.56 based on 24 million shares, up by EUR 0.70 over last year (2004: EUR 0.86 based on 24 million shares). The managing board of HCI Capital AG confirms its intent to propose that the company distribute a dividend of round EUR 1.40 per share outstanding. Given the current share price this represents a dividend yield of around 8%. HCI will announce its final 2005 financial statements on March 8th 2006. (c)DGAP 14.02.2006 ————————————————————————— language: English emitter: HCI Capital AG Bleichenbrücke 10 20354 Hamburg Deutschland phone: +49 (0)40 88881-0 fax: +49 (0)40 88881-109 email: ir@hci.de WWW: www.hci.de ISIN: DE000A0D9Y97 WKN: A0D9Y9 indexes: SDAX stockmarkets: Amtlicher Markt in Frankfurt, Hamburg; Freiverkehr in Berlin-Bremen, Düsseldorf, München, Stuttgart End of News DGAP News-Service —————————————————————————