DGAP-News: FUCHS PETROLUB SE / Key word(s): Preliminary Results
2016-02-19 / 07:00
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FUCHS with provisional figures for the financial year 2015:
Record sales revenues and earnings
- Sales revenues: +11% to over EUR 2 billion (acquisitions +6%, currency
+5%)
- Earnings (EBIT): +9% to EUR 342 million
- Dividend proposal: +7% to EUR 0.82 per preference share
Once again FUCHS PETROLUB achieved profitable growth and generated record
sales revenues and earnings in the financial year 2015. Group sales
revenues increased to EUR 2,079 million and were therefore EUR 213 million
or 11% above the previous year. Adjusted for currency translation effects,
the increase was 6%. Pentosin and Statoil Fuel & Retail Lubricants, the two
major acquisitions in 2015, contributed EUR 94 million to the growth.
Organic sales revenues were at previous year's level.
All three global regions recorded growth in sales revenues. In Europe
(+10%), the increase was largely due to acquisitions made, while the gains
made in Asia-Pacific, Africa (+13%), as well as in North and South America
(+12%) were primarily due to currency translation effects.
In the financial year 2015, the Group not only recorded its best earnings
before interest and tax (EBIT) of EUR 342 million (previous year: 313), but
also its highest earnings after tax of EUR 236 million (previous year: 220)
in the company's history. Earnings per preference share rose to EUR 1.70
(previous year: 1.58).
The acquisitions were entirely financed from free cash flow. At the end of
2015, net liquidity was EUR 101 million (previous year: 186).
Compared to the end of 2014 the workforce increased by 711 to 4,823
employees. 649 of these new employees resulted from the acquisitions made.
Subject to a corresponding Supervisory Board resolution on March 21, 2016,
the Executive Board of FUCHS PETROLUB SE intends to propose a dividend of
EUR 0.82 per preference share and EUR 0.81 per ordinary share for the
financial year 2015 to the Annual General Meeting scheduled for May 4,
2016. This would represent an increase of around 7%.
FUCHS anticipates further increases to both sales revenues and earnings in
all regions for the financial year 2016. This is based on forecasts
indicating overall positive global economic development for 2016 - despite
the known risks in many regions that are important for us.
FUCHS PETROLUB will publish the final figures for the financial year 2015
on March 22, 2016.
Key figures of the Group
in EUR million 2015(1) 2014 Dev. Dev. %
Sales revenues 2,079 1,866 213 11.4
Europe(2) 1,227 1,113 114 10.2
Asia-Pacific, Africa(2) 583 517 66 12.8
North and South America(2) 353 316 37 11.7
Consolidation -84 -80 -4
EBIT 342 313 29 9.3
Earnings after tax 236 220 16 7.3
Earnings per share in EUR
Ordinary share 1.69 1.57 0.12 7.6
Preference share 1.70 1.58 0.12 7.6
Dividends in EUR
Ordinary share 0.81(3) 0.76 0.05 6.6
Preference share 0.82(3) 0.77 0.05 6.5
Free cash flow before acquisitions 232 210 22 10.5
Acquisitions -170 -22 -148
Free cash flow 62 188 -126
Employees as at December 31 4,823 4,112 711 17.3
(1) Provisional figures
(2) By company location
(3) Proposal of the Executive Board
Mannheim, February 19, 2016
FUCHS PETROLUB SE
Public Relations
Friesenheimer Str. 17
68169 Mannheim
Tel. +49 621 3802-1104
tina.vogel@fuchs-oil.de
www.fuchs.com/group
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Important note
This press release contains statements about future developments that are
based on assumptions and estimates by the management of FUCHS PETROLUB SE.
Even if the management is of the opinion that these assumptions and
estimates are accurate, future actual developments and future actual
results may differ significantly from these assumptions and estimates due
to a variety of factors. These factors can, for example, include changes in
the overall economic climate, changes in procurement prices, changes to
exchange rates and interest rates, and changes within the lubricants
industry. FUCHS PETROLUB SE provides no guarantee that future developments
and the results actually achieved in the future will match the assumptions
and estimates set out in this press release and assumes no liability for
such.
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Language: English
Company: FUCHS PETROLUB SE
Friesenheimer Str. 17
68169 Mannheim
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)621 / 3802-0
Fax: +49 (0)621 / 3802-7190
E-mail: ir@fuchs-oil.de
Internet: www.fuchs-oil.de
ISIN: DE0005790430, DE0005790406
WKN: 579043, 579040
Indices: MDAX
Listed: Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard), Stuttgart;
Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg,
Munich; Terminbörse EUREX
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