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Tallink Grupp — Earnings Release 2020
Feb 25, 2021
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Q4 2020
TALLINK GRUPP AS RESULTS WEBINAR



PAAVO NÕGENE CHAIRMAN OF THE MANAGEMENT BOARD

JOONAS JOOST FINANCIAL DIRECTOR
TALLINK GRUPP
The leading European provider of leisure and business travel and sea transportation services in the Baltic Sea region.
OPERATIONS
- Fleet of 15 vessels
- Seven ferry routes (3 suspended)
- Operating four hotels (2 closed until 2021 high season)
KEY FACTS
- Revenue of EUR 443 million in 2020
- Served 3.7 million passengers in 2020
- Transported 360 thousand cargo units
- Operating EUR 1.5 billion asset base
- 4 200 employees (end of 2020)
- 2.8 million loyalty program members

STRONG BRANDS

COVID-19 IMPACT ON TRANSPORTED PASSENGERS 2020 VS 2016-2019 AVERAGE 7-DAY MOVING AVERAGE

OPERATING ENVIRONMENT AND ADJUSTMENTS IN 2020 Q4
- Extensive impact of Covid-19 and suspension of cruise ferries operations
- Effectively operating:
- Shuttle service on Tallinn-Helsinki route
- Turku-Stockholm route
- Muuga-Vuosaari & Paldiski-Kapellskär cargo routes
- Victoria I weekly Tallinn-Stockholm-Riga roundtrip
- Silja Europa floating weekend mall in Tallinn
- Stockholm-Härnösand in October
- Tallink Hotel Riga operations suspended from 18 October 2020 until spring 2021
- Cost cutting and extensive reorganisation in order to bring the costs in line with the income we are currently able to earn

Q4 2020 OVERVIEW – COVID-19 & TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS
| Q4 Selected Key Figures (financials in million euros) |
2020 | 2019 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of passengers | 462 859 | 2 280 805 | -79.7% |
| Number of cargo units | 81 861 | 93 645 | -12.6% |
| Number of passenger cars | 134 196 | 243 025 | -44.8% |
| Revenue | 79.3 | 226.4 | -65.0% |
| Gross profit / loss |
-18.4 | 39.1 | -147.0% |
| EBITDA | 1.2 | 33.4 | -96.5% |
| EBIT | -24.2 | 9.0 | -369.6% |
| Net result for the period | -26.9 | 5.5 | -590.5% |
| Capital expenditures | 4.8 | 10.0 | -52.0% |
| As at: | 31.12.20 | 30.09.20 | Change |
| Total assets | 1 516.2 | 1 542.9 | -1.7% |
| Total equity | 714.3 | 741.5 | -3.7% |
| Interest-bearing liabilities | 705.1 | 671.2 | 5.1% |
| Net debt | 677.3 | 640.5 | 5.7% |
| 2020 unaudited |
• Revenue EUR 79.3m (EUR -147.1m or -65.0% vs LY)
- Extensive impact from Covid-19 related travel restrictions
- More limited impact on cargo operations
- 26% less departures compared to Q4 2019
• Cost reduction & support
- Cost of sales reduced by 48% or EUR 90m
- Marketing & administrative cost reduced by 33% or EUR 10m
- Net direct financial support of EUR 14.7m in Q4 2020
- Positive EBITDA of EUR 1.2m (EUR -32.2m vs LY)
- Net loss of EUR 26.9m (EUR -32.3m vs LY)
Q4 REVENUE DEVELOPMENT BY OPERATING SEGMENTS (EUR MILLION)

Restaurant and shop sales on-board and onshore and ticket sales decline driven by decline in passengers
Lower cargo sales due to weak market and tight price competition
Effectively only one hotel operated in Q4 2020

REVENUE STRUCTURE IN Q4 2020
Q4 REVENUE DEVELOPMENT BY GEOGRAPHICAL SEGMENTS (EUR MILLION)

Revenues of all routes negatively affected by Covid-19, travel restrictions, suspensions in operations and weak cargo market
Estonia-Finland
The results reflect the operations of the Estonia-Finland Shuttle and cargo service and includes also the operations of Victoria I on the Tallinn-Helsinki route
Estonia-Sweden
Operations of the Paldiski-Kapellskär route and the limited operations of the Tallinn-Stockholm route in September
Latvia-Sweden
No daily operations; The results include limited operations of Victoria I on the Riga-Stockholm route
Finland-Sweden
The results reflect the operations of Turku-Stockholm route and include also limited number of special cruises from Stockholm to Härnösand
RESULTS QUARTERLY SEASONALITY BREAKDOWN

PASSENGERS (MILLIONS)
REVENUE (EUR MILLION)

CARGO (TH. UNITS)





THE DYNAMICS OF HIGH SEASONALITY ON THE PROFIT LEVEL
NET PROFIT BY QUARTERS (EUR MILLION)

MOST OF THE PROFITS ARE TYPICALLY EARNED IN THE SUMMER, THE HIGH SEASON
2020 OVERVIEW – COVID-19 & TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS
| Selected Key Figures (financials in million euros) |
2020 | 2019 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of passengers | 3 732 102 | 9 763 210 | -61.8% |
| Number of cargo units | 359 811 | 379 634 | -5.2% |
| Number of passenger cars | 702 702 | 1 110 314 | -36.7% |
| Revenue | 442.9 | 949.1 | -53.3% |
| Gross profit / loss |
-43.5 | 196.9 | -122.1% |
| EBITDA | 8.0 | 171.1 | -95.3% |
| EBIT | -92.6 | 74.9 | -223.7% |
| Net result for the period | -108.3 | 49.7 | -317.8% |
| Capital expenditures | 100.1 | 60.9 | 64.4% |
| As at: | 31.12.20 | 31.12.19 | Change |
| Total assets | 1 516.2 | 1 533.0 | -1.1% |
| Total equity | 714.3 | 822.8 | -13.2% |
| Interest-bearing liabilities | 705.1 | 577.9 | 22.0% |
| Net debt | 677.3 | 539.0 | 25.7% |
| 2020 unaudited |
• Revenue EUR 442.9m (EUR -506.2m or -53.3% vs LY)
- Extensive impact from Covid-19 related travel restrictions
- More limited impact on cargo operations
- 20% less departures compared to 2019
• Cost reduction & support
- Cost of sales reduced by 35% or EUR 266m
- Marketing & administrative cost reduced by 31% or EUR 38m
- Net direct financial support of EUR 36.6m in 2020
- Positive EBITDA of EUR 8.0m (EUR -163.1m vs LY)
- Net loss of EUR 108.3m (EUR -158.0m vs LY)
- Capital expenditure related mainly to MyStar
FULL YEAR COSTS BREAKDOWN
| (EUR million) | (3) 20203 |
2019 | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost of goods | 116 624 | 221 139 | -47.3% | |
| Staff costs | 116 818 | 163 148 | -28.4% | |
| Marketing & Administration (1) | 71 797 | 110 974 |
-35.3% | |
| Port & Stevedoring | 68 100 | 103 446 | -34.2% | |
| Fuel cost | 56 341 | 89 614 | -37.1% | |
| Ship operating expenses | 36 923 | 72 594 | -49.1% | |
| Other costs | 3 430 | 9 005 | -61.9% | |
| Total costs from operations | 470 033 | 769 920 | -39.0% | |
| Depreciation & amortisation |
100 661 | 96 246 | 4.6% | |
| Net finance cost (2) |
18 000 | 17 683 | 1.8% | |
| Total costs | 588 694 | 883 849 | -33.4% |

Notes:
- (1) Depreciation and amortisation excluded
- (2) Includes share of profit/loss of equity-accounted investees
TALLINK GRUPP (3) Unaudited
INVESTMENT AND FINANCING HIGHLIGHTS IN Q4 2020
ACTIVITIES TOWARD LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY
- MyStar prepayments concluded
- EUR 60m working capital loan drawn
- Loan agreement with Nordic Investment Bank, EUR 10m drawn
- Opening of the first Burger King restaurants in Latvia and Lithuania, one more restaurant in Tallinn

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CONSOLIDATED CASH FLOW STATEMENT
| (EUR million) |
2019 | 2020 | Q4 2019 | (1) Q4 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | 175 | (7) | 49 | (12) |
| Capital expenditure | (61) | (100) | (10) | (17) |
| Asset disposal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Free cash flow | 114 | (107) | 39 | (29) |
| Debt financing (net effect) | (52) | 112 | 12 | 31 |
| Interests & other financial items | (17) | (16) | (3) | (4) |
| Dividends & reduction of share capital | (80) | 0 | (47) | 0 |
| Income tax on dividends paid | (8) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Change in cash | (43) | (11) | 1 | (3) |
Totals may not sum due to rounding (1) Unaudited
TALLINK GRUPP
CASH FLOW GENERATION AFFECTED BY COVID-19
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION
| (EUR million) |
31.12.2018 | 31.12.2019 | 30.09.2020 | (2) 31.12.2020 |
1500 | Cash Intangibles |
Other liabilities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 1 501 | 1 533 | 1 543 | 1 516 | 1000 500 |
Other | |
| Non-current assets | 1 333 | 1 412 | 1 443 | 1 428 | assets | ||
| Current assets | 168 | 121 | 100 | 88 | Share holders' |
||
| - of which cash |
82 | 39 | 31 | 28 | equity | ||
| Total liabilities | 644 | 710 | 801 | 802 | |||
| Interest bearing liabilities | 510 | 578 | 671 | 705 | |||
| Other liabilities | 134 | 132 | 130 | 97 | |||
| Shareholders' equity | 857 | 823 | 742 | 714 | Ships | ||
| Loans | |||||||
| Net debt/EBITDA | 3.0x | 3.1x | 15.9x | 84.2x | |||
| Net debt | 428 | 539 | 640 | 677 | |||
| Equity/assets ratio | 57% | 54% | 48% | 47% | |||
| (1) BVPS (in EUR) |
1.28 | 1.23 | 1.11 | 1.07 | 0 | Assets | Liabilities & |
| Totals may not sum due to rounding | Equity |
(1) Shareholders' equity / number of shares outstanding
(2) Unaudited
TALLINK GRUPP
YEAR END TOTAL LIQUIDITY EUR 147 MILLION (EUR 129 MILLION IN 2019)
DEBT STRUCTURE
LONG TERM BANK LOANS
- EUR 603 million as at 31.12.2020
- 7 loan agreements outstanding: syndicated loans, amortizing project and working capital loans
- Maturities 1-9 years
- EUR denominated, fixed and EURIBOR floating
OVERDRAFTS (as at 31.12.2020)
- EUR 16 million used
- EUR 119 million unused
SIGNED, NOT YET DRAWN
- EUR 198 million from KfW IPEX-Bank GmbH (MyStar)
- EUR 90 million undrawn of EUR 100 million working capital loan from Nordic Investment Bank
Total EUR 705 million interest bearing liabilities as at 31.12.2020

2020 unaudited
2020 WEIGHTED AVERAGE INTEREST RATE 2.16%
EUR million
EVENTS AFTER THE REPORTING PERIOD & OUTLOOK

Image courtesy of RMC
- Tighter restriction for entering Finland and Sweden effective from late January
- Second Burger King restaurant in Latvia opened in January. Ongoing preparations for opening 7 more Burger King restaurants in 2021.
- Due to a deteriorated operating environment and considering the Company's long-term interests, the Management will propose not to pay dividends for the financial year 2020.
Due to the ongoing Covid-19 situation the earnings outlook is uncertain and continues to be largely subject to external factors such as the progress of vaccinations, states' decisions regarding the timing of lifting of the travel restrictions, allowing passenger traffic as well as the duration of the recovery period.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
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