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SGL Carbon's business performance after nine months confirms the announced stabilization and investment year

02/11/2023

Due to the better-than-expected sales and earnings development of the business units Graphite Solutions, Process Technology and Composite Solutions, SGL Carbons consolidated sales for the first nine months amounted to 821.7 million (9M 2022: 853.9 million) and were only slightly (3.8%) below the previous years level. As a result, the continued weak business development of the Carbon Fibers unit can almost be compensated at group level. Accordingly, the adjusted EBITDA of the Group also decreased only slightly by 4.5% to 130.0 million (9M 2022: 136.1 million).

Graphite Solutions (GS) is the Groups largest sales driver after nine months in 2023 with a 9.4% increase in sales to 418.4 million (9M 2022: 382.5 million). The rise in sales is based on business with customers from the semiconductor industry and here in particular on the high demand for graphite components for the silicon carbide-based semiconductor business. Overall, sales in the Semiconductor and LED market segment rose by 38.5% to 189.0 million in the first nine months of 2023.

The two business units Process Technology (PT) and Composite Solutions (CS) developed above expectations. With an increase in sales of 24.3%, PT contributed 95.7 million and CS 114.3 million (+3.0%) to the groups sales. CS was able to fully compensate the loss of sales due to the divestment of the business in Gardena (USA). Overall, the sales of the three business units GS, PT and CS increased by 57.9 million in a nine-month comparison. In contrast, sales and result of the Carbon Fibers (CF) business unit declined. Due to the continued insufficient demand from the wind industry, CFs sales decreased by 89.4 million or 33.2% to 179.6 million (9M 2022: 269.0 million). In the previous year, CF still benefited from the profitable automotive business in the first six months before the i3 contract ended as planned in the first half of 2022.

Earnings situation

The sales development is also reflected in SGL Carbons adjusted EBITDA (EBITDApre). Compared to the first nine months of the previous year, adjusted EBITDA was 4.5% lower at 130.0 million (9M 2022: 136.1 million). The development of the adjusted EBITDA of GS, PT and CS had a positive effect, whereas CF burdened the earnings development.

Changes in volume and product mix led to a stronger increase in adjusted EBITDA at GS of 18.5% to 99.5 million (9M 2022: 84.0 million) compared to sales growth (+9.4%). PT also performed positively, with adjusted EBITDA more than doubling to 17.0 million (9M 2022: 7.5 million). CS also made a positive contribution to the Groups adjusted EBITDA with an increase of 1.8 million (+12.2%) to 16.6 million (9M 2022: 14.8 million). On the other hand, the adjusted EBITDA of CF decreased significantly from 42.7 million to 3.2 million after nine months in 2023. Due to the lack of demand from the wind industry, the production capacity utilisation of CF dropped, so that production capacities had to be reduced and idle capacity costs burdened the result.

Taking into account depreciation and amortisation of 43.3 million, adjusted EBIT (EBITpre) after nine months amounted to 86.7 million (9M 2022: 92.2 million). The one-off effects and non-recurring items not included in the adjusted EBIT in the first nine months totalled minus 47.2 million, of which 44.7 million resulted from the impairment in the CF at the end of the first half of the year. EBIT decreased accordingly from 100.0 million to 39.5 million.

Including the slightly weaker financial result of minus 24.7 million (9M 2022: minus 22.7 million) and the income tax of 9.0 million (9M 2022: 7.8 million), the consolidated result for the first nine months 2023 amounts to 5.3 million (9M 2022 70.6 million).

Net financial debt and equity

Based on the re-financing completed in the 2nd and 3rd quarters of 2023, including the issuance of a convertible bond ( 118.7 million), the drawdown of an existing term loan ( 75 million) and the early repayment of the corporate bond (outstanding nominal value 240.0 million), financial debt (nominal) decreased to 316.0 million as at 30 September 2023 (31.12.2022: 398.1 million). Including cash and cash equivalents of 149.4 million, net financial debt also decreased slightly by 2.5% to 166.6 million (31.12.2022: 170.8 million).

Free cash flow after nine months in financial year 2023 amounts to 35.0 million and is significantly higher than the previous years figure ( 22.7 million). This was achieved despite investments of 59.1 million, which far exceeded depreciation and amortisation, and which SGL Carbon primarily used to expand production capacities for graphite components used in the semiconductor industry. Besides internal funding, customer prepayments were used for this investments, of which almost 40 million were collected already in the current financial year and are to be used quickly for further capacity expansion.

Despite the impairment in Carbon Fibers of 44.7 million in H1 2023, shareholders equity increased slightly to 599.1 million as at 30 September 2023 (31.12.2022: 569.3 million). This corresponds to an equity ratio of 42.5% (31.12.2022: 38.5%).

Based on the business performance in the first nine months 2023 and the currently prevalent market environment, SGL Carbon confirms its sales and earnings forecast 2023 and expects adjusted EBITDA to be rather at the lower end of the given range. Following strong sales and earnings growth in the last two years, the company had forecasted Group sales at the previous years level and adjusted EBITDA (EBITDApre) between 160 million and 180 million for the stabilisation and investment year 2023.

Further details on business development and outlook can be found in the Group interim statement on the first nine months of 2023.

Key figures of the third quarter 2023
LINK: https://www.sglcarbon.com/en/newsroom/news/press-report/sgl-carbons-bu...
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