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Viscom SE: 2024 revenue and EBIT in line with guidance despite challenging market environment; restructuring and personnel measures completed; 2025 outlook with positive earnings expectation
Viscom SE: 2024 revenue and EBIT in line with guidance despite challenging market environment; restructuring and personnel measures completed; 2025 outlook
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\nEQS-News: Viscom SE\n\n\n / Key word(s): Annual Results\n\n\n\n\n\nViscom SE: 2024 revenue and EBIT in line with guidance despite challenging market environment; restructuring and personnel measures completed; 2025 outlook with positive earnings expectation \n\n\n\n\n\n\n25.03.2025 / 08:00 CET/CEST\n\n\n\nThe issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.Viscom SE: 2024 revenue and EBIT in line with guidance despite challenging market environment; restructuring and personnel measures completed; 2025 outlook with positive earnings expectation \nIncoming orders: K€ 75,050 (previous year: K€ 113,248, -33.7 %)\nRevenue: K€ 84,082 (previous year: K€ 118,780, -29.2 %)\nEBIT: K€ -11,818 (after special items) (previous year: K€ 6,611); K€ -7,095 (before special items) \nHanover, 25 March 2025 – Viscom SE (ISIN DE0007846867), the European market leader for automated optical and X-ray inspection systems in the electronics industry, found itself in a highly challenging market environment in the 2024 financial year, with the reluctance of its customers to invest continuing to be felt, particularly in the automotive and industrial electronics sectors. The weak demand in the markets is reflected in the order intake. Customers placed around 34 % fewer orders with the mechanical engineering company based in Lower Saxony in the 2024 financial year, with a total of € 75,050 thousand (previous year: € 113,248 thousand). The incoming order trend was characterized by numerous postponements and was additionally burdened by a cancellation of an order worth around € 4 million by a customer in the battery sector. The incoming orders generated in the 2024 financial year were thus outside the forecast range of € 80 million to € 95 million. In total, Viscom generated revenue of € 84,082 thousand in the course of the year, down around 29 % on the previous year's figure of € 118,780 thousand but within the revenue forecast range for 2024 (€ 80 million to € 95 million).\n\nThe operating result (EBIT) was significantly impacted by the low total operating revenue, balance sheet value adjustments on receivables and one-off effects from the implemented personnel reductions and amounted to € -11,818 thousand (previous year: € 6,611 thousand). The reported EBIT for the 2024 financial year i...