EQS-Adhoc: Aumann increases EBITDA to €36 million in 2024 and expects 8-10% EBITDA margin in 2025 despite revenue decline and approves dividend proposal, treasury share redemption and share buyback

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Aumann increases EBITDA to €36 million in 2024 and expects 8-10% EBITDA margin in 2025 despite revenue decline and approves dividend proposal, treasury share redemption and share buyback


Beelen, 14 March 2025

At their joint meeting today, the Executive Board and Supervisory Board of Aumann AG ("Aumann", ISIN: DE000A2DAM03) discussed and resolved on the preliminary figures for 2024, the forecast for the 2025 financial year, the dividend proposal for the 2024 financial year, the redemption of treasury shares and a public share buyback offer.

According to preliminary figures, Aumann achieved revenue growth of 7.9% to €312.3 million in 2024. EBITDA grew by 73.4% to €35.8 million, corresponding to an EBITDA margin of 11.5%. Due to the financial result, net liquidity reached a record high of € 138.2 million and equity amounted to € 201.7 million. Due to the challenging market in the European automotive industry and restrained investments in production capacities for electric vehicles in 2024, order intake declined by 41.1% to €200.1 million. The order backlog reduced by 39.3% to €184.0 million. Profitability in the order backlog, on the other hand, remained high due to good price realization.

The Executive Board therefore forecasts a decline in revenue to between €210 million and €230 million in 2025, with a continued strong EBITDA margin of 8% to 10%. Over the year, Aumann expects the first signs of recovery in the industry and at the same time accelerates activities in the Next Automation segment for application areas such as clean tech, aerospace and life sciences.

Today, the Executive Board and Supervisory Board decided to propose a dividend of €0.22 per dividend-bearing share for the 2024 financial year to the Annual General Meeting scheduled for June 13, 2025. With 14,345,231 no-par value shares currently entitled to dividends, this corresponds to a total amount of € 3.2 million.

Furthermore, the Executive Board and Supervisory Board resolved today to cancel all of the current 904,769 treasury shares for the purpose of capital reduction. The number of shares will thus be reduced from 15,250,000 to 14,345,231. 

In view of the very successful year 2024, the Executive Board and Supervisory Board today decided to make use of the authorization granted by the Annual General Meeting on June 18, 2024 to buy back own shares in accordance with Section 71 (1) No. 8 of the German Stock Corporation Act (AktG) and to offer shareholders the buyback of up to 1,434,523 treasury shares (approx. 10% of the share capital) as part of a voluntary public buyback offer addressed to all shareholders. The share buyback is to be carried out at an offer price of € 12.37 per share. The period for acceptance of the offer begins on March 25, 2025 and ends on April 22, 2025. Details of the share buyback will soon be published on the Company's website at address www.aumann.com/en/investor-relations/share-buyback and in the German Federal Gazette (www.bundesanzeiger.de).

Against the backdrop of its solid substance and high cash flow, Aumann aims to increase its value per share with the share redemption and buyback and at the same time has sufficient financial resources for further growth and company acquisitions.

The full Annual Report 2024 will be published on www.aumann.com on 31 March 2025. 

Person making the notification: Jan-Henrik Pollitt, CFO

Aumann AG
Dieselstraße 6
48361 Beelen
Germany
Tel +49 2586 888 7800
Fax +49 2586 888 7805
ir@aumann.com
www.aumann.com

Executive Board
Sebastian Roll (CEO)
Jan-Henrik Pollitt (CFO)

Supervisory Board
Gert-Maria Freimuth (Chairman)
Christoph Weigler
Dr.-Ing. Saskia Wessel

Registration Court
District Court Münster, Registration Number: HRB 16399