Uponor Corporation Stock exchange release 11 February 2021
Financial statements bulletin 1–12/2020: Strong performance in all segments continued in Q4
October–December 2020
- Net sales were €280.5 (269.2) million, a growth of 4.2%. Organic growth was 6.0% in constant currency terms.
- Comparable operating profit was €27.3 (21.8) million, a growth of 25.6%.
- Operating profit was €23.8 (20.4) million, a growth of 16.7%.
- Earnings per share were €0.27 (0.18).
January–December 2020
- Net sales were €1,136.0 (1,103.1) million, a growth of 3.0%. Organic growth was 4.6% in constant currency terms.
- Comparable operating profit was €142.7 (92.7) million, a growth of 53.9%.
- Operating profit was €132.3 (91.3) million, a growth of 44.9%.
- Earnings per share were €1.21 (0.72).
- Cash flow from business operations was €207.5 (109.2) million.
- Return on investment was 21.8% (14.4) and gearing 3.6% (37.6).
- The Board’s dividend proposal: €0.57 (0.53) per share be paid, of which
0.28 cents will be paid inMarch 2021 and0.29 cents is planned to be paid inSeptember 2021 .
“During the exceptional year of 2020, our primary focus was to keep our employees safe and ensure uninterrupted deliveries to our customers. After a slowdown at the start of the pandemic, demand for our offering remained at a good level and a number of favourable drivers, including cost improvements partly triggered by COVID-19, supported our profitability development. This resulted in a record year for
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Uponor Infra had a solid year in terms of both net sales and operating profit. Even though COVID-19 had a negative impact on sales of large designed solutions projects, it was offset by the segment’s solid performance in other product groups. Profitability development was supported by improvements in operations and favourable input costs.
During 2020, we also advanced our sustainability agenda. Climate change is one of the biggest global threats we are facing, and we want to play our part in the fight against it. In December, we committed to the Science Based Targets initiative and we expect to gain approval for our new GHG emission reduction targets during the first half of 2021.
I want to thank all our employees for their hard work and commitment, as well as our customers and other stakeholders for their unwavering trust in us in 2020.
Our outlook for 2021 still involves uncertainties regarding the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. We do not expect to witness significant growth in demand overall for 2021, as construction is a late cyclical industry. We will continue to execute our operational excellence programme, as communicated earlier. On the other hand, there are already signs that some of our input costs are on the rise. While we will mitigate this development with price increases, we expect it to have some impact on our profitability in 2021.
We are happy to witness a strong start into the year 2021. Demand in January has been good much driven by high activity in the North American residential building segment.”
Guidance statement for 2021:
Excluding the impact of currencies,
*Stay at the level indicates a range of +/- 2.5% in comparison to the year 2020.
The Board’s dividend proposal:
The Board proposes to the Annual General Meeting that a dividend of €0.57 (0.53) per share be paid, of which
When deciding on its dividend proposal, the Board considered the solvency, investment plans and other capital needs of the company. Further, the Board decided to deviate from the long-term target of dividend pay-out to be at least 50% of annual earnings, because the 2020 result was favourably impacted by pandemic triggered cost savings of around €10 million and non-recurring tax cost reductions of around €3 million, which had over
Key figures
M€ | 10-12/ 2020 | 10-12/ 2019 | Change | 1-12/ 2020 | 1-12/ 2019 | Change |
Net sales | 280.5 | 269.2 | 4.2% | 1,136 | 1,103.1 | 3.0% |
Building Solutions – | 126.8 | 116.0 | 9.3% | 499.5 | 489.3 | 2.1% |
Building Solutions – | 100.5 | 102.0 | -1.5% | 389.1 | 375.4 | 3.6% |
Uponor Infra | 54.1 | 52.0 | 4.0% | 252.0 | 243.9 | 3.3% |
Operating expenses | 243.5 | 235.7 | 3.2% | 952.0 | 961.3 | -1.0% |
Depreciation and impairments | 13.5 | 13.1 | 2.5% | 52.7 | 51.8 | 1.7% |
Other operating income | 0.3 | 0.1 | 9.1% | 1.0 | 1.3 | -37.0% |
Operating profit | 23.8 | 20.4 | 16.7% | 132.3 | 91.3 | 44.9% |
Building Solutions – | 8.5 | 5.3 | 62.0% | 45.1 | 31.6 | 42.9% |
Building Solutions – | 15.6 | 19.0 | -17.9% | 74.5 | 57.1 | 30.5% |
Uponor Infra | 2.0 | 0.0 | 19.0 | 10.8 | 75.5% | |
Comparable operating profit | 27.3 | 21.8 | 25.6% | 142.7 | 92.7 | 53.9% |
Building Solutions – | 11.9 | 5.9 | 100.7% | 55.1 | 32.3 | 70.6% |
Building Solutions – | 15.6 | 19.0 | -17.9% | 74.6 | 57.1 | 30.6% |
Uponor Infra | 2.1 | 0.0 | 19.0 | 10.8 | 75.9% | |
Financial income and expenses | -3.5 | -3.1 | 10.6% | -6.3 | -11.6 | -43.3% |
Profit before taxes | 19.4 | 16.3 | 19.0% | 121.8 | 75.6 | 61.1% |
Profit for the period | 20.8 | 12.3 | 68.4% | 96.1 | 55.3 | 73.8% |
Earnings per share | 0.27 | 0.18 | 53.4% | 1.21 | 0.72 | 68.1% |
M€ | Change | ||
Net working capital | 65.9 | 115.1 | -42.8% |
Net interest-bearing debt | 15.1 | 139.1 | -89.2% |
Solvency | 48.7 | 44.6 | 9.1% |
Gearing | 3.6 | 37.6 | -90.5% |
Return on investment | 21.8 | 14.4 | 50.8% |
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Annual targets and actuals | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
Organic net sales growth to exceed GDP growth (1 by 3 ppts (2020E: -1.2%) | 3.0 | -0.4 | 4.9 | 6.5 | 2.0 |
Comparable (2 EBIT margin >10% | 12.6 | 8.4 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 8.2 |
Return on investment, ROI (3 (p.a.) >20% | 21.8 | 14.4 | 17.2 | 16.3 | 14.1 |
Gearing (3 (annual average for the four latest quarters) 40–80% | 28.6 | 57.5 | 53.0 | 58.4 | 56.7 |
Dividend payout > 50% of earnings | 47.1 | 73.6 | 70.8 | 59.0 | 79.3 |
1) GDP growth based on weighted average growth in the top 10 countries, measured by net sales.
2) The targets issued in
3) The impact of IFRS 16 adoption on
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Uponor Corporation’s financial reporting in 2021
Week 8 Annual report 2020
27 July 2021 Interim report 1–6/2021
28 Oct 2021 Interim report 1–9/2021
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Uponor financial statements bulletin 2020
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