PRESS RELEASE: SKW Stahl-Metallurgie Holding AG: SKW Metallurgie with improved adjusted operative EBITDA
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07.02.2014 / 17:21
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SKW Metallurgie with improved adjusted operative EBITDA
* Preliminary adjusted operative EBITDA increased by EUR 2.5 million to EUR 22.0 million * First successes of earnings increase program EPC visible * Optimism for 2014
Unterneukirchen (Germany), February 07, 2014. Global specialty chemicals group SKW Metallurgie attained - according to preliminary, unaudited figures - in business year 2013 an operative EBITDA in the amount of EUR 22.0 million. Thereby, the capital markets guidance (pledging to surpass the previous year's figure of EUR 19.5 million) was delivered. This increase (compared to the previous year) in the amount of EUR 2.5 million (+13%) is remarkable, in particular with respect to the decrease in steel production in the relevant geographical markets. The steel industry remains the most important client industry for the SKW Metallurgie Group and demands SKW Metallurgie Products mainly in dependence of their own production volume.
The increase in operative EBITDA is also due to first successes of the Group-wide earnings increase program 'Every Penny Counts' (EPC), which was implemented in the second half of 2013.
The accounting EBITDA (compiled according to international accounting standard IFRS) for business year 2013 - according to preliminary, unaudited figures - amounted to EUR 15.2 million (previous year: EUR 20.8 million). Main reasons for that are unrealized - and hence non-cash - foreign currency effects, which mainly derive from the valuation of Group-internal loans. In 2012, those currency effects amounted to EUR 1.0 million; in 2013, however, EUR -3.3 million. The remaining decrease also includes the net effects from two aperiodic legal cases, including the accrual of provisions (with effect in Q4/2013) based on judgments by the Court of Justice of the European Union, as already communicated on January 23, 2014.
Central financial performance indicator of the SKW Metallurgie Group remains 'operative EBITDA', which was introduced in Q3/2013 reporting. This indicator clearly shows the operative facts and significantly strengthens the meaningfulness of financial reporting. Unrealized currency effects as well as aperiodic one-offs from legal cases are of a non-operative nature and are therefore apt to disguise the view onto operative capabilities. Hence, the introduction of an operative indicator was a consequent step in order to be able to present to investors an undisguised view onto the SKW Metallurgie Group.
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PRESS RELEASE: SKW Stahl-Metallurgie Holding AG: SKW Metallurgie with improved adjusted operative EBITDA