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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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CIE Automotive, among the top suppliers in several publications

08/11/2020

The Brazilian magazine Valor 1000 and the North American publication Automotive News acknowledge CIE Automotive's positioning in the automotive sector

The CIE Autometal group in Brazil has been highlighted in the traditional economic magazine of great local circulation Valor 1000, of the Valor publishing group, as one of the main companies in the automotive sector in the country.

 

With a large local circulation, it is an annual supplement that recognizes the main companies in the country based on the performance of the previous year - in this case it refers to the activity of 2019.

 

The companies that make up the ranking are distributed by sector and are analyzed through various indicators, including profitability, margin, liquidity or growth, among others. CIE Autometal is included in the group of vehicles and spare parts, and this year it appears in position number 4 in the general classification of the sector, behind Baterias Moura, Facchini and Nakata. It should also be noted that CIE Autometal ranks 503rd out of the 1,000 largest companies in Brazil.

 

This good news joins the publication at the end of June of the Automotive News magazine ranking of the Top Suppliers in the industry. In this list also referring to 2019, CIE Automotive is ranked 59th worldwide, which represents an improvement of 7 positions compared to the same ranking the previous year. At the European level, the company remains in position 41, the same position as the previous year, while in North America an improvement of 3 positions is obtained to position 67.

 

This classification, prepared by the leading source of news about the global automotive industry based in Michigan, ranks the players based on their annual turnover.

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