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Bastei Lübbe increases revenues and profitability and meets its repeatedly raised earnings forecast
Bastei Lübbe increases revenues and profitability and meets its repeatedly raised earnings forecast
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EQS-News: Bastei Lübbe AG / Key word(s): Annual Report/Annual ResultsBastei Lübbe increases revenues and profitability and meets its repeatedly raised earnings forecast 15.07.2025 / 07:30 CET/CESTThe issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.Bastei Lübbe increases revenues and profitability and meets its repeatedly raised earnings forecastGroup revenues up 3.3 percent, rising to EUR 114.0 million (previous year: EUR 110.3 million)22.4 percent growth in Group EBIT to EUR 17.1 million (previous year: EUR 14.0 million) Improvement in EBIT margin to 15.0 percent (previous year: 12.7 percent)Dividend increases to 36 cents per share (previous year: 30 cents)Outlook for strong revenue growth with continued high profitability in the 2025/2026 financial year Cologne, 15 July 2025 – Publishing group Bastei Lübbe AG (ISIN ), which is listed in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, can look back on an extremely successful financial year in 2024/2025 on the basis of the audited figures published today. Despite the persistently challenging market environment, it benefited from the continued success of its new adult community imprint LYX and the up-and-coming young adult ONE imprint, among other things, and was able to continue on its trajectory of profitable growth. Accordingly, the proportion of revenue generated by community-driven business models increased by a further four percentage points to 39 percent (previous year: 35 percent). Group revenues rose by EUR 3.7 million to EUR 114.0 million (previous year: EUR 110.3 million), thus easily reaching the original forecast (EUR 111 – 115 million) as well as the first upward adjustment (EUR 113 – 117 million). However, the Group fell slightly short of the most recently revised revenue forecast of EUR 116 – 119 million due to the muted state of the book market in the first quarter of 2025. Underpinned by print, audio and digital business, revenues continued to grow on a broad basis across all playout formats. The digital share of revenues increased from 29 percent in the previous year to 31 percent in the 2024/2025 financial year.Group EBIT was extremely favourable, rising by 22.4 percent from EUR 14.0 million to EUR 17.1 million. This clearly exceeded the original forecast (EUR 13 – 14 million) as well as the first upward adjustment (EUR 15 – 16 million) and matched the most recentl...