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Ad-hoc notification in accordance with Section 15 WpHG [Securities Trading Act]: Analytik Jena Closes Third Quarter 2012/2013 Below Expectations and Revises Forecast for the Year
Jena (Germany), July 26, 2013 — Analytik Jena AG (Prime Standard: AJA, ISIN: DE0005213508) closes the third quarter 2012/2013 below expectations. The Thuringia-based manufacturer of analytical instrumentation technology, life science instruments and optoelectronics generated with consolidated sales of EUR 71.3 m (previous year: EUR 68.4 m) a sales increase of 4.1 % after nine months. Consolidated operating profit (EBIT) amounted to EUR 2.8 m (previous year: EUR 4.4 m), representing a decrease of 37.2 % to previous year.
Analytik Jena in total recorded a consolidated net loss after nine months of EUR 0.2 m (previous year: consolidated net profit of EUR 2.4 m). On the basis of its nine-months-figures below expectations the Company revises its profit forecast for the current 2012/2013 financial year downwards and now assumes that it will achieve an operating profit (EBIT) of EUR 4.5 m to EUR 5.0 m and an EBITDA margin nearly below 10.0 %. In the previous financial year Analytik Jena generated an operating profit of EUR 6.1 m. EBITDA margin was 10.8 %. The Company corrects its revenue target of more than EUR 100.0 m downwards to a range from EUR 96.0 m to EUR 98.0 m. In the previous financial year Analytik Jena had generated consolidated sales of EUR 94.0 m.
The lower sales and earnings figures after nine months essentially result from a lower revenue in the core business Analytical Instrumentation especially due to considerably weaker sales in Japan.
The information about the 9-months-figures 2012/2013 is based on preliminary financial figures. The complete figures for the third quarter and on nine months of the 2012/2013 financial year will be announced by the Company on August 8, 2013.
