CENIT 9 Months 2020: Sales decline by 13% compared to the previous year
November 04, 2020 at 01:15 am EST
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CENIT 9 Months 2020: Sales decline by 13% compared to the previous year
Stuttgart, November 4th, 2020 - During the first nine months, CENIT group generated sales revenues of EUR k 109,710 (prior year: EUR k 126,156/-13.0%). Sales revenues in CENITs consulting and services segment decreased by -20.1% to EUR k 29,127 (prior year: EUR k 36,474). Sales of third-party software increased by approx. -11.5% to EUR k 69,227 (prior year: EUR k 78,231). Sales proceeds from CENIT's proprietary software decreased as well from EUR k 11,364 to EUR k 11,053 (-2.7%).
The gross profit (operating output less cost of materials) amounted to EUR k 53,977 (prior year: EUR k 63,119), representing a decrease of -14.5%. CENIT achieved EBITDA of EUR k 6,049 (prior year: EUR k 8,901/-32.0%) and EBIT of EUR k 1,672 (prior year: EUR k 4,546/-63.2%). Results per share were 0.11 EUR (prior year: 0.36 EUR).
Orders Development
During the first nine months, the group-wide order intake totaled EUR k 105,195 (prior year: EUR k 124,939). On September 30th, 2020 orders in hand amounted to EUR k 42,708 (prior year: EUR k 52,172).
Asset and Financial Situation
On the balance-sheet date, equity capital totaled EUR k 41,400 (31 Dec. 2019: EUR k 40,940), accounting for an equity ratio of 50.2% (31 Dec. 2019: 45.8%). On the balance-sheet date, bank deposits and liquid assets totaled EUR k 27,234 (31 Dec. 2019: EUR k 18,461). The operative cash flow was EUR k 12,320 (prior year: EUR k 12,540).
Employees
On September 30th, 2020, CENIT group employed 711 (prior year: 734). Group-wide personnel costs for the reporting period were EUR k 41,325 (prior year: EUR k 45,520).
Outlook
The global economic environment continues to be characterized by great uncertainties due to the corona virus pandemic, especially in our main sectors of automotive, aerospace and mechanical engineering. It therefore remains difficult to predict the negative effects.
Based on the results so far and the current business development, we expect sales in the range of EUR k 145,000 to EUR k 150,000 and EBIT of EUR k 1,500 to EUR k 2,000.
Please visit CENIT's homepage for the full 9 Months Report 2020: www.cenit.com/reports.
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CENIT AG is a Germany-based company that provides information technology (IT) software and consultancy services for business processes in the manufacturing industry and financial service providers. The Company divides its business into two segments: Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Enterprise Information Management (EIM). The PLM segment concentrates on industrial customers and corresponding technology and focuses on the automotive, aerospace, mechanical engineering, and shipbuilding industries, products, and services in PLM, such as CATIA by Dassault System software or SAP and internally generated software, such as cenitCONNECT and FASTsuite. The EIM segment concentrates on the customer segment trade, banks, insurance, and providers. The focus is on products of the strategic software partner IBM and internally generated software and consulting services in the field of document management and business intelligence.
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