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CIE Automotive challenges the sector with a record profit of 326 million euros in 2024

27/02/2025

Increases sales and results with a high level of cash generation that brings debt to historic lows

Bilbao, 27.2.2025 – CIE Automotive has presented today the results for the 2024 financial year, challenging with significant growth an Automotive industry weakened by uncertainties.

Sales have exceeded 3.96 billion euros, which represents a growth of 1.1%, outperforming by more than 2 basic points the decrease in global vehicle production.

In terms of operating margins, an EBITDA – gross operating profit – of 728 million has been reached, and an EBIT – net operating profit – of 538 million euros, which represents margins of 18.4% and 13.6% respectively, significantly higher than the average margins of the sector.

All of the above results in a record net profit of 326 million which, on a comparable perimeter, represents a growth of almost 5% compared to 2023.

According to Jesús María Herrera, CEO of CIE Automotive, “We continue growing above the market, improving our results, and above all, we continue with an extremely high cash generation that has brought our leverage to historic lows, which, in the current sectoral context, highlights the value of our management model and our positioning as a reference supplier in the global Automotive industry”.

And he adds: “For all these reasons and due to our expectations for the current year, we are in a position to reconfirm that the commitments of the 2025 Strategic Plan will be fulfilled.”

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2021 brings good prospects and more visibility to CIE Automotive

05/05/2021

The company outperforms once again and achieves a net profit of 78.2 million euros, the highest quarterly profit in its history.

Bilbao, 5.5.2021 – CIE Automotive presented today its results for the first quarter of 2021 during the General Shareholders' Meeting, which was held by telematic means given the mobility restrictions in place.

Turnover in this period was 873.8 million euro, 6% more than in 2020 and 8% more than in 2019, despite the strong negative impact of exchange rates and the fact that the volume of vehicles produced is still significantly lower than before the pandemic.

Its EBITDA - gross operating profit - was 157.2 million, and its EBIT - net operating profit - was 116.3 million, both growing by 12% compared to the same period last year. These figures imply outstanding operating margins of 18% and 13.3% on sales respectively and represent record performances in the group's current perimeter, which are already 200 points above pre-Covid levels, 

Net profit reached 78.2 million, the highest quarterly profit in the company's history and 7% higher than in the first quarter of 2020.

According to Jesús María Herrera, CEO of CIE Automotive, "We feel like winners in this post-Covid scenario of market share consolidation for suppliers in the sector, where we are reinforcing our unique positioning every day thanks to our focus on electrification, comfort, presence in Asia and ESG commitment".

And he concluded, "Hence the cautious optimism that pushes us to be more ambitious and commit to new challenges, revising upwards the initial 2021 objectives, among which the high cash generation that allows us to recover normal levels of indebtedness".

In this context, the company has announced a Capital Markets Day to be held on 28 June 2021, during which it will unveil CIE Automotive's challenges, opportunities and strategic lines of action.

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