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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 | ||
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| 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 2 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
Percent

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%