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Veidekke Investor Presentation 2021

May 6, 2021

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Capital Markets Update Veidekke towards 2025

6 May 2021

Foto: Hundven-Clements Photography

Streamlined construction business with ambitions

Streamlined and focused construction business

High ambitions and C large potential

Growth, improvement and high ambitions Historical development and future targets

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Clear order book development over past five years From Norwegian to Scandinavian contractor

A more balanced project portfolio Shift towards public sector customers

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Annual revenue growth 2022–2025 Margin before tax in 2025 Dividend ratio

4-6% >5% >70%

Veidekke towards 2025 A streamlined contractor – with a clear focus

  • A passionate relationship with the customer and their project
  • Long-term customer relationships, early involvement and valuecreating interaction

The green shift

  • Play an active role in the transition to a low-emission society
  • Contribute cutting-edge expertise and practical solutions

  • Focus on taking, controlling and managing risk at all levels of the organisation
  • Systematic risk management before and during project execution

! Risk management Collaborative culture

  • Involve customers, suppliers and employees in valuecreating interaction
  • Consistent efforts to develop work methods and competence to ensure safe and efficient execution

Project profitability Organisation

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Value-creating interaction: Focus on delivering customer value – in

collaboration with the customer

Skills: Understanding and competence to solve the customer's most important challenges

Climate challenges are among the most demanding issues for the industry – also for customers

Selectivity: Selection of project and customer – early involvement and long-term customer relationships

Risk: Take, manage and handle risk at all levels of the organisation

Competence: Commercial understanding of risk management during implementation

= Veidekke's profitability

+ Calculated project margin +/- Sliding margin - Structural and overhead cost

Structure: Organisational structure that ensures proximity to customers in relevant markets

Competence: Manage and leverage expertise across the organisation

Measures and improvements 2018 to 2020 Many units on the right track – but with large potential

Veidekke Veidekke Infrastructure Veidekke Sweden
Construction Civ. Engineering Industrial Construction Civ. Engineering Hoffmann
2018 3.4% -13.2% 0.8% 1.0% 4.0% 6.6%
2020 CMU 4.0% 1.5% 3.5% 2.0% 4.0% >5%
2020 Actual 3.6% 1.6% 3.6% 2.2% 3.0% 7.5%
  • Business restructuring
  • From generalist to specialist
  • Selective project strategy

● Risk management

  • Selective project strategy
  • Less capital tied up and overhead costs
  • Safeguarding results and turnaround in Civ. Eng. and Maintenance yield results
  • Profitability before growth
  • Improved residential production and portfolio adjustments
  • Built competence and leadership capacity
  • Strengthened competitiveness
  • Clear customer strategy
  • Further developed the collaboration model
  • Focus on technical and service

Clearly better portfolio composition than in 2019 About 2 percentage points higher portfolio margin

Fewer loss-making projects and improved margin

Project revenue in ongoing projects ranked by profitability, quintiles

  • Extensive improvement in portfolio composition over the past two years
  • The improvement is expected to have a further effect on earnings in 2021 and 2022
  • Large potential by further reducing the number of projects with low and negative margins
  • Focus on core activities;
    • Selecting the right project
    • Understanding and managing risk
    • Effective execution

Veidekke towards 2025 A streamlined contractor – with a clear focus

  • A passionate relationship with the customer and their project
  • Long-term customer relationships, early involvement and valuecreating interaction

The green shift

  • Play an active role in the transition to a low-emission society
  • Contribute cutting-edge expertise and practical solutions

  • Focus on taking, controlling and managing risk at all levels of the organisation
  • Systematic risk management before and during project execution

! Risk management Collaborative culture

  • Involve customers, suppliers and employees in valuecreating interaction
  • Consistent efforts to develop work methods and competence to ensure safe and efficient execution

Passionate relationship with customer and project Create mutual success by value-creating interaction

Selectivity – which customers should we work for

  • Long-lasting customer relationships based on mutual trust
  • Opportunity for early involvement
  • Customer relationships based on Veidekke's strengths

Commerciality in value-creating interaction

  • Contribute to optimal solutions which in turn ensure added value for the customer
  • Veidekke's expertise and competence benefit the customer

Photo: Københavns Udvikling og Nybyggerier

Climate challenges are more than responsibility An opportunity in several parts of the value chain

An active role in the green shift A clear commercial and responsible position

Prioritisation of projects

  • Prioritise customers and projects where we can utilise our expertise to reduce the environmental footprint throughout the value chain
  • Climate issues require early involvement and cooperation with the client and consultants

Opportunities in the green shift

  • Climate issues are more than a social responsibility – they are an opportunity
  • Innovation, collaboration and selective investments that support climate-friendly solutions

! Focus on taking control and managing risk A commercial benefit for Veidekke and customers

Project selectivity

  • Through consistent risk management, Veidekke can identify potential deviations
  • Makes it possible to identify projects that suit Veidekke's expertise and resources

Experts in dealing with risk

  • Risk is not exclusively a contractor challenge
  • Involvement of customer and consultants helps discover risks for all parties

The most important factor for Veidekke's success Competent and committed employees

Involved, committed and enthusiastic

  • People are the most important driver for value creation in construction
  • In Veidekke, we build agile teams; efficient teams that build schools, bridges and operate tunnels
  • Involvement is a key to creating ownership of direction and ambitions

Commercial understanding across the board

  • Commercial competence and insight are key to remaining relevant
  • Co-ownership creates commercial insight

Co-worker and co-owner Veidekke employees are also owners

  • The employees have broadly participated in Veidekke's high value creation since the introduction of the share program for employees in 1986
  • Veidekke prioritises co-ownership for employees, and the company wants as many as possible to have the opportunity to own shares
  • Annually, all employees in Veidekke receive an offer to buy shares in the company with a 20% discount – and with a two-year commitment period
  • Almost half of all employees currently own shares, and they represent 11% of the company's owners

Number of employees with shares in Veidekke

About 47% of employees own shares

Expansion in the coming years Selective growth in our main markets

Mainly organically driven growth

  • Further develop existing customer positions
  • Strengthening project owner management and leadership
  • Development of Veidekke's structural capital

Targeted expansion investments

  • Project investments and structural transactions
  • Strengthening positions within relevant geographic markets and product segments
  • Expand Veidekke's position in the value chain
  • Business which contributes to the green shift

Financial strategy

Jørgen Wiese Porsmyr, CFO Capital Markets Update, 6 May 2021

Improve result margin and grow profitably Higher ambitions towards 2025

Profitability targets for 2022 remains, with raised ambitions towards 2025

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Capital efficiency with return on invested capital above 15%

Selective growth in all three countries

2016-2020* 2020 2022 2025
Revenue growth p.a. Revenue growth p.a Revenue growth p.a.
2021 -
2022
Revenue growth p.a.
2023 -
2025
6% 4% 0% -
2%
4% -
6%
Average margin Margin 2020 Margin target 2022 Margin target 2025
2.1% 3.0% >4% >5%

* Historical pro forma figures, adjusted for the sale of Veidekke's Property Development business in 2020

Veidekke's financial strategy Balance investments, dividend and solidity

Strong financial position and capital-light business New capital structure after the sale of Property Dev.

two-thirds of Veidekke's turnover

  • Limited fixed assets
  • Negative working capital as a result of good project liquidity

Infrastructure – a more capital-intensive business: one-third of Veidekke's turnover

  • Asphalt and aggregates with long-term positions and machinery
  • Special machines for larger projects, as well as local machine contractors
  • Capital-light projects

Development in net interest-bearing position Construction – a capital NOK million -light business:

Priorities ahead Capital discipline and selective investments

Priorities

  • Continue the work from previous years
  • Limited investments in fixed assets
  • Prioritisation of contracts without major own investments
  • Disputes / accounts receivable, operating properties and unprofitable business

acquisitions

  • Strengthens positions and existing business
  • Accretive profitability
  • Quickly achieve good profitability
  • Return on invested capital >15%
  • Moderate integration risk and possibilities for synergies

Debt structure and financing Robust position and financial capacity for growth

Debt and debt facilities

  • Refinancing in fourth quarter 2020 after sale of Property Development
    • New bank financing with DNB and SEB
    • Bond loan of NOK 1 000 million redeemed
  • Veidekke has a large financing capacity
Bond loan (VEI10)
NOK 0.6 bill.
Maturity: 2025
Covenant: NIBD / EBITDA < 3.0 over time
Overdraft facility in DNB
NOK 1.75 bill.
Maturity: rolling 364-day facility
Covenant: NIBD / EBITDA < 3.0 over time
Credit facility in SEB
NOK 0.75 bill.
Maturity: 3 +1 +1 years
Covenant: NIBD / EBITDA < 3.0 over time
Includes sustainability targets:
50 % reductions of CO
emissions
by 2030
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Zero serious injuries

Veidekke shall be financially solid

  • Targeted equity ratio > 15%
  • Solidity target decided by :
    • Capital-efficient business models
    • Requirements from customers for project tenders
    • Basis for bank financing and guarantees
  • Solidity target impacts dividend payment ability

Development in equity ratio

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High and attractive dividends

  • Veidekke's ambition is to provide shareholders with a competitive return, in the form of a combination of dividend and share price development
  • Dividend target of above 70% of net result
  • In the short term, the financial position indicates that Veidekke plans to pay out a higher than 70% share

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Dividends NOK per share 2.50 3,00 3.50 4.00 4.50 5.00 5.00 2.50 5.75 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 120% 140% 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 NOK 20/share Ordinary dividends Extraordinary dividends Pay-out ratio ordinary dividends

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Annual revenue growth 2022–2025 Margin before tax in 2025 Dividend ratio

4-6% >5% >70%