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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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null Lorea Aristizabal and Irache Pardo, guest speakers at IMAP International Conference

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Lorea Aristizabal and Irache Pardo, guest speakers at IMAP International Conference

09/11/2022

The directors of Corporate Development and Finance and Purchasing, respectively, took part in IMAP's annual event, which this year brought together more than 130 specialists from all over the world in mergers and acquisitions and corporate operations (M&A).

The International Conference of IMAP, a global organisation focused on mergers and acquisitions and corporate transactions, was held in Bilbao from 3 to 5 November. During the conference, and in the words of IMAP's president, Jurgis V. Oniunas, "ideas on transactions in the current economic context were shared. We are heading into one of the most challenging economic environments in at least the last 40 years, and there is still too much complacency. We want to share that there will be relevant changes in the market due to a slowdown in GDP and falling but persistently high inflation, i.e. a stagflationary environment not seen since the early 1980s".

In this context, Lorea Aristizabal explained the key role of M&A in CIE Automotive's history and growth, while Irache Pardo explained the integration of ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) values into the group's business model, and concluded by reflecting on the growing importance and potential impact of ESG in the M&A world.

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