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Seco — Investor Presentation 2026
Mar 23, 2026
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FY 2025 Results Presentation & Business Update
March 23rd, 2026
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DISCLAIMER
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Disclaimer
This document has been prepared by SECO S.p.A. ("SECO" or the "Company"), for information purposes only, exclusively with the aim of assisting you to understand and assess the activities of SECO. The information contained in this presentation does not purport to be comprehensive and may not have been independently verified by any independent third party.
Statements contained in this presentation, particularly regarding any possible or assumed future performance of the SECO Group, are or may be forward-looking statements based on SECO's current expectations and projections about future events.
Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, the non-occurrence or occurrence of which could cause the actual results, including the financial condition and profitability of SECO to differ materially from, or be more negative than, those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, due to any number of several factors, many of which are beyond the ability of SECO to control or estimate precisely. Consequently, SECO and its management can give no assurance regarding the future accuracy of the estimates of future performance set forth in this document or the actual occurrence of the predicted developments.
The data and information contained in this document are subject to variations and integrations. Although SECO reserves the right to make such variations and integrations when it deems necessary or appropriate, SECO assumes no affirmative disclosure obligation to make such variations and integration, except to the extent required by law.
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In addition, this presentation includes or may include certain "Adjusted" financial and operating indicators and other measures, which have been adjusted to reflect extraordinary events, non-recurring transactions and activities which are not directly related to the Group's ordinary business.
Such "Adjusted" information has been included to allow a better comparison of financial information across the periods; however, it should be noted that such information is not recognized as measures of financial performance or liquidity under IFRS and/or do not constitute an indication of the historical performance of the Company or the Group. Therefore, investors should not place undue reliance on such data and information.
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Presenting today

Massimo Mauri
Chief Executive Officer

Lorenzo Mazzini
Chief Financial Officer

Clarence Nahan
Head of Corp. Dev. & IR
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FY 2025 results overview
Guidance exceeded
2025 guidance KPIs

€200M+
FY25 Revenues¹

50%+
FY25 Gross Profit Margin
Strong revenue momentum
+16% vs same Quarter last year

Gross Profit Margin
54.5%² 53.2% 53.5% 54.7% 53.0%
Record EBITDA progression
+21% vs same Quarter last year

Adj. EBITDA Margin
17.6% 20.0% 20.9% 22.2% 18.4%
1 At constant FX
2 Gross Profit Margin adjusted
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2025 was a pivotal year
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Punctuated by extended partnerships, significant business wins, and new offerings for both our Edge Computing and Clea business

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Key takeaways
Proving the profitability of our model
- FY25 Net sales: €197.6m, +8% YoY with 4Q25 up 16% vs. 4Q24
- Clea revenues: €21.0m, contributing 11% of our overall top line, now 39% of which recurring
- Gross profit margin: 53.6%, improving YoY and above guidance
- EBITDA Adj.: consolidated at levels above 20% margin in FY25
Stronger base, continued investment
- Adj. Net financial position: €37.6m as of 31st December 2025, significantly improving YoY
- €13.6m of cash generation in 4Q25, thanks to strong EBITDA conversion
- Continued focus on Net Working Capital
End-to-end Edge AI offering
- End-to-end Edge AI solution, combining hardware, Clea software framework and App Hub
- Secure & scalable solutions, with built-in cybersecurity, OTA updates and easy AI deployment
- Market-ready applications: industrial, medical, transport, defence & a lot of other verticals covered
2026: further growth in a complex year
- Sustained demand for integrated HMIs, especially from fast-growing end-markets (robotics & drones)
- Ongoing geopolitical tensions provide a competitive advantage vs. main competitors
- Significant components price increase already addressed to provide better business visibility
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Detailed FY 2025 Results
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FY 2025 financial performance in details
| FY 24 | → FY 25 | |
|---|---|---|
| Net sales | €183.5m | €197.6m |
| Adj. Gross margin | €96.8m | |
| 52.7% | €105.9m | |
| 53.6% | ||
| Adj. EBITDA | €28.2m | |
| 15.4% | €40.2m | |
| 20.3% | ||
| Adj. Net Income | €1.4m | |
| 0.7% | €13.1m | |
| 6.6% |
- Revenues up 8% YoY and 16% 4Q25 vs. 4Q24, showing a positive market trend
- Clea revenues at €21.0m, 11% of our overall mix in FY25
- Margin improvement (+9%) compared to FY24
- Positive progression mainly attributable to a different sales mix
- Significant YoY rebound (+43%) thanks to business expansion and strong operating leverage
- Margin increase of 5 p.p. vs. FY24
- Profit in absolute terms increased by €11.8m YoY
- Income taxes slightly higher vs. FY24 despite an important increase in profitability, reflecting a good tax management, supported in part by the use of the Italian tax consolidation regime and the activation of the patent box for software developments
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Net sales - €197.6m
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Edge computing
- €176.6m in FY25, +9% vs. FY24
- Sales volume expansion well distributed across geographical areas, with US growth outperforming the other regions
- Positive trajectory from Medical, Industrial, Fitness and Transport


Clea business
- €21.0m in FY25
- Substantially steady contribution in terms of incidence on Net sales
- Recurring portion of revenue at €8.2m in FY25 (from 36% FY24 to 39% FY25)

Note: percentages may not sum to 100% due to rounding; all numbers in €m are rounded to the closest first decimal place, so there may be deltas for up to €0.1m when variation figures are displayed
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Adjusted EBITDA

Adj. EBITDA bridge (€m)
① Gross margin effect and operating costs
- Gross margin at 53.6% of sales, increasing vs. FY24 level, driven by a different sales mix and software recurrent revenue component
- Positive operating leverage, supported by business expansion and reduction of manufacturing costs
② Adjustments
- FY 2025 EBITDA Adjustments
(€m)

Note: percentages may not sum to 100% due to rounding; all numbers in €m are rounded to the closest first decimal place, so there may be deltas for up to €0.1m when variation figures are displayed
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Adjusted Net financial position

Adj. Net debt evolution (€m)
① FY 2025
- Δ Net working capital mainly due to disciplined management

② Net debt Adjustments

③ Leverage
- Solid financial position
Leverage
(Net Debt Adj. / Adj. EBITDA)
0.9x FY25
④ Extraordinary CAPEX
- Mainly related to the investment for:
- the new production plant in the Arezzo area;
- the setup of new lines in Hangzhou plant
The overall investment for the two plants is estimated in €10m
Note: percentages may not sum to 100% due to rounding; all numbers in €m are rounded to the closest first decimal place, so there may be deltas for up to €0.1m when variation figures are displayed
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Embedded world 2026, Nuremberg
24° edition
SECO present since 2012
36.000+ visitors
from 90+
countries
110+
customers
visited SECO booth
260+
leads
collected







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SECO's end-to-end vertical solutions

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Enabling the Edge-to-AI transition with an extensive pipeline
From AI accelerators to Modular vision, numerous new products entering mass production in 2026




A range of solutions optimized across all major architectures through partnerships with leading silicon vendors

Qualcomm

AMD

Rockchip

Raspberry Pi™
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Recent win – Deck Control Device for aircraft carriers
Operating on the U.S. Navy’s first operational, carrier-based unmanned aircraft refueler
- Flightworthiness specifications compliance
(safety critical redundancy, harsh electromagnetic environment operation) - Rugged device capable of operating in complex conditions
- Simple and user-friendly interface for remote-control
- Compatibility with air vehicle mounted radio devices
SECO winning points
- Cross-industry expertise and close collaboration with partners
- Agile process of iterative design to optimize human factors and ergonomics
- A set of air vehicle mounted radios ruggedized to meet flightworthiness specs

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SECO is empowering the Edge AI transition across every industry
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AI is dramatically transforming the industrial sector: Clea from a nice-to-have to a must-have

Augmented User Experience
Faster, more intuitive, immersive human-machine interactions

Data Monetization
Real-time decision-making to unlock business value

New Functionalities
Smart automation and process optimization
A complete offering for rapid AI deployment
Bringing together advanced hardware, the Clea software framework, and app enablement to deliver a comprehensive, ready-to-deploy Edge AI platform
From idea to AI in minutes

Production-ready AI models portfolio
Select the models from the dozens already available on the Application Hub
Enabling OEMs to develop their own apps
Build containerized applications creating a pipeline on Studio AI
Edge running on field devices
Deploy AI models on any hardware and run it seamlessly thanks to Clea OS
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Interoperable
Interoperable
Interoperable
Introducing Clea Studio AI
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A no-code environment that empowers anyone to develop functional IoT and AI applications
Allows users to visually design AI solutions
Simply describe the AI you want to create using intuitive visual building blocks
Leverage SECO Application Hub
Deploy no-code Edge AI flows using ready-to-use building blocks from the Application Hub
Generates complete applications
For edge devices and cloud-based telemetry data analysis
Turns concepts into cutting-edge AI-driven services
Enabling embedded computers in devices to perform tasks in previously unimaginable ways

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SECO Application Hub – a key milestone in our strategy
A marketplace designed to radically simplify the development & deployment of Edge AI

Simplified AI deployment
Optimize, validate, and deploy AI models in minutes for any architecture, choosing the best fit for the specific field application
Qualcomm intel. NXP

Comprehensive AI toolkit
Access a rich library of advanced software containers, sample apps and deployment guides specifically designed for Edge AI

Faster experimentation, Smarter solutions
Reduce pre-work with curated software packages to streamline computer vision, deep learning, and AI model optimization for Edge computing
New Apps being released monthly

Emergency Safety Control via Audio Detection
by SECO
Detects critical alarm sounds (e.g. the alarm's) and triggers immediate machine shutdown for safety compliance.
Industrial Safety Surveillance

People Counter
by SECO
Lightweight real-time people counting model-based air-aided (PACE) optimized for edge devices using QEDT (TuneoFlow Lite).
Industrial Safety Surveillance

PoseNet for Multi-Person Pose Detection
by SECO
Lightweight and quantized PoseNet model for real-time multi-person pose estimation on edge hardware.
Industrial Safety Surveillance

Time Series Anomaly Detection with Isolation Forest
by SECO
Lightweight anomaly detection for time series data using Isolation Forest, designed for edge environments.

FFNet for Real-Time Semantic Segmentation
by SECO
Lightweight semantic segmentation model optimized for real-time street scene analysis on edge devices.
Quality Control

MiDaS for Monocular Depth Estimation
by SECO
Efficient single-common depth estimation using quantized MiDaS v2 model optimized for edge AI deployment.
Prediction Maintenance
Anomaly Detection

HIRNet for Human Pose Estimation
by SECO
High-resolution neural network for accurate segment detection in human pose estimation tasks.
Industrial Safety Surveillance

Object Detection
by SECO
Fast object detection using POCR optimized for embedded edge devices.
Quality Control
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Update on the new Arezzo plant

3,500 sqm production
400 sqm offices
10 assembly lines
6 SMT + 4 PTH
MES OpCenter
by SIEMENS
Certifiable for standards
Automotive, Railway,
Medical, and more


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Supply chain market update: 2026 a challenging year

Electronic components market
Renewed volatility
After 2021–23 shortages, driven by exponential growth in memory demand driven by Datacenter and AI applications
Consequent increase in memory prices
With an impact even on SSD modules
Overall lead times remain manageable
With localized allocation on selected components

Mitigation actions
BOM optimization
R&D is actively working on alternative components to reduce overall BOM cost
Strategic inventory
Large-volume purchases of available market stock to secure supply continuity through 2026-27

Customer impact
Demonstrated pricing power
Supported by transparent communication
Positive customer dialogue
With strong awareness of ongoing market criticalities and business visibility increasing
SECO’s global supply and operations infrastructure play a key role in effective market response
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Record Incoming backlog in February
Strengthening customer activity reflected in positive order momentum, contributing to backlog growth and visibility

Improving Incoming Backlog trend

Consistent Book-to-Bill performance
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1Q26 guidance
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While the environment remains complex, the year is starting on a strong pace, supported by robust demand for Edge AI-driven solutions

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Empowering Sustainable Business Through Innovation
Our Mission: A digital, sustainable, intelligent future
Our technologies drive the automation of industrial processes, enhance production efficiency, minimize product waste, and optimize the use of resources and energy - enabling a smarter, more sustainable future for business
ESG – A key priority for the Group
MSCI
Rating confirmed at BBB in April 2025 (upgraded from BB in 2023)
MSCI
ESG RATINGS
BBB
CCC B BB 10 A AA AAA
SUSTAINALYTICS
The score places us at the lower end of the "Medium Risk" category (20-30), as of August 2025
22.8
Medium Risk
Rank | Percentile
Industry
(Technology Hardware) 409 / 614 | 67th
Subindustry
(Technology Hardware) 75 / 112 | 67th
ecovadis
First rating obtained in August 2025 with a Bronze medal
Punteggio complessivo
64/100
Percentile
72nd
BRONZE | Top 50% ecovadis
BRONZE | AUD 2025
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Why invest in SECO?
- Top 5 player globally in one of the fastest growing end-market in technology
- Profitable business model focused on long term sustainable high margin
- End-to-end technological partner with unrivalled R&D excellence
- Fully integrated offering, from edge computing to software platform & AI
- Uniquely positioned product range to fully benefit from Edge AI tailwind
- Highly diversified client base, consistently growing through new project wins
- Strong balance sheet allowing for a robust organic growth
- Experienced management team with a clear strategy to deliver value creation
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