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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 CIE Automotive obtains 335.7 million euros net profit on the first nine months of the year

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CIE Automotive obtains 335.7 million euros net profit on the first nine months of the year

23/10/2018

The company registers a 20% improvement on normalized net profit reaching 189.7 million euros and an extraordinary net result of 146.0 million euros.

 

Bilbao, 24.10.2018 – CIE Automotive maintains its excellent performance in the first nine months of the year, reaching a normalized net profit of 189.7 million euros, 20% more than in the same period of the previous year.

 

The Group’s turnover has been 2,292.1 million euros, 125 million more than in September 2017, which means growth at the same exchange rate of more than 11% and a purely organic growth of 10%. In other words, in a convulsive sector environment and in a weakened market that has grown below 1%, CIE has once again demonstrated the strength and resilience of its business model.

 

Regarding the operating margins, in EBITDA - gross operating result -, CIE has achieved 404.2 million euros, 12% more than in the same period of 2017, while EBIT - net operating profit - has increased up to 306.4 million euros, 18% more.

 

The return on net assets reached is already 22%. Regarding the NFD - net financial debt - it has decreased by 44.4 million euros in the last twelve months, improving the DFN / EBITDA ratio from 2.16x to 1.85x.

 

Jesús María Herrera, CEO of CIE Automotive, highlighted: "After Dominion's exit, we focus on our core business, working both on organic growth and on improving operating margins in all geographical areas where we are present; and in inorganic growth, which leads us to tackle projects as ambitious as the recently announced acquisition of Inteva's roof systems division. "

 

We must remember that INTEVA ROOF SYSTEMS is specialized in the design and manufacture of sunroofs for the Automotive sector and is positioned among the global Top-3 sunroof manufacturers. This integration, with approximately $1 billion sales, represents a significant leap in the positioning of CIE among the main Automotive suppliers, hand in hand with a product of complex engineering, high added value and framed in the innovative trends of vehicle comfort.

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