EQS Group-Ad-hoc: Leonteq AG / Key word(s): Profit Warning 
Press release: Leonteq expects to generate record profits for the first half of 2021 
15-Jun-2021 / 07:00 CET/CEST 
Release of an ad hoc announcement pursuant to Art. 53 KR 
The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. 
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PRESS RELEASE | LEONTEQ EXPECTS TO GENERATE RECORD PROFITS FOR THE FIRST HALF OF 2021 
Zurich, 15 June 2021 | Ad hoc announcement pursuant to Art. 53 LR 
Leonteq AG (SIX: LEON) announced today that it expects to generate record profits for the first half of 2021 and its 
capital base to reach the CHF 800 million area by end-June 2021. 
Following a strong start to the year 2021, Leonteq continued to register high levels of client activity across its 
increasingly diversified business and achieved strong fee income in the year to date. Furthermore, Leonteq continued to 
focus on disciplined risk management and recorded a substantial positive net trading result in a favourable market 
environment in the same period. 
As a result, Leonteq expects to generate record profits^[1] for the first half of 2021 and its capital base^[2] to 
reach the CHF 800 million area^[3] by end-June 2021 (previous guidance: end-December 2021). 
Leonteq will publish its half-year 2021 results on 22 July 2021. 
^[1] For reference: the highest previous profits were reported for the second half of 2018 (pre-tax profit of CHF 52.9 
million). 
^[2] Capital base amounted to CHF 723 million at end-December 2020 and is defined as the aggregate amount of 
shareholders' equity and deferred fee income. 
^[3] Area is defined as a range of +/- 3% of the target indicated. 
 
CONTACT 
Media Relations 
+41 58 800 1844 
media@leonteq.com 
Investor Relations 
+41 58 800 1855 
investorrelations@leonteq.com 
LEONTEQ 
Leonteq is a Swiss fintech company with a leading marketplace for structured investment solutions. Based on proprietary 
modern technology, the company offers derivative investment products and services and predominantly covers the capital 
protection, yield enhancement and participation product classes. Leonteq acts as both a direct issuer of its own 
products and as a partner to other financial institutions. Leonteq further enables life insurance companies to produce 
capital-efficient, unit-linked pension products with guarantees. The company has offices and subsidiaries in 12 
countries, through which it serves over 50 markets. Leonteq AG is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (SIX: LEON). 
www.leonteq.com 
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research. This press release and all materials, documents and information used therein or distributed in the context of 
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Company or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries in any jurisdiction or an inducement to enter into investment activity 
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This press release may contain specific forward-looking statements, e.g. statements including terms like "believe", 
"assume", "expect", "target" "forecast", "project", "may", "could", "might", "will" or similar expressions. Such 
forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may result in 
a substantial divergence between the actual results, financial situation, development or performance of the Company or 
any of its affiliates or subsidiaries and those explicitly or implicitly presumed in these statements. These factors 
include, but are not limited to: (1) general market, macroeconomic, governmental and regulatory trends, (2) movements 
in securities markets, exchange rates and interest rates and (3) other risks and uncertainties inherent in our 
business. In addition, currently, it is very difficult to provide a meaningful prediction on how the governmental 
actions in response to the ongoing outbreak of a novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and other COVID-19 related 
factors will affect Leonteq's operations and how long such measures will remain in place. The COVID-19 outbreak has 
caused, and may continue to cause, uncertainty, economic instability and a significant decrease of total economic 
output in the affected areas and globally. The impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the general economic environment in 
the markets in which Leonteq operates remain uncertain and could be significant. Against the background of these 
uncertainties, you should not rely on forward-looking statements. Neither the Company nor any of its affiliates or 
subsidiaries or their respective bodies, executives, employees and advisers assume any responsibility to prepare or 
disseminate any supplement, amendment, update or revision to any of the information, opinions or forward-looking 
statements contained in this press release or to adapt them to any change in events, conditions or circumstances, 
except as required by applicable law or regulation. 
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