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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 obtiene un beneficio neto normalizado de 243 millones de euros en 2018, un 20% más

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CIE Automotive obtains a normalized net profit of 243 million euros in 2018, a 20% more

23/02/2019

The company achieves a significant improvement in net profit to 397 million euros, thanks to an extraordinary result of 154 million.

Bilbao, 25.2.2019 – CIE Automotive continues to offer record growth levels. For the year 2018 the group reached a net profit of 396.8 million, with an improvement of the normalized net profit of 20% to reach 242.8 million euros and an extraordinary net profit of 154 million.

 

The revenue for the year amounted to 3,030 million euros, 7% higher than the 2,843 million of the previous year (discounting the exit of Dominion from the perimeter and the discontinued activities), which includes an 11% growth despite the negative impact of the exchange rates and of a global automotive market that has contracted for the first time since 2009.

 

This important growth has been accompanied by improvements in the normalized operating profits: EBITDA - gross operating profit - of 529 million euros, 12% more than in the same period of 2017, and EBIT - net operating profit - of 399 million euros, 18% higher. It should also be noted that this improvement in EBIT has happened in an important manner in each and every one of the geographical areas in which CIE Automotive has a presence.

 

According to Jesús María Herrera, CEO of CIE Automotive, "both the complexity of the current macroeconomic and geopolitical context and the slowdown of the sector highlight the magnificent results achieved in 2018. It is at times like these when we focus our efforts on what we are excellent, which is the management of processes, and when our strict financial discipline becomes more important, which has enabled us to grow 11% without increasing our financial leverage. "

 

It is noteworthy that, among other recent corporate transactions, CIE Automotive exited the shareholding of Dominion during last July, where it had 50.01%, in September 2018 the company announced the acquisition of the roof systems division of INTEVA and in January 2019 sold the biofuels manufacturing division.

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