EQS-News: GESCO SE: Publication of consolidated financial statements & outlook 2025

• Preliminary business figures and dividend proposal for 2024 confirme
• Reduced working capital leads to high cash flow from operating activities
• Confident outlook for 2025:
  - Sales: € 485 - 515 million (2024 adjusted: € 480.1 million)
  - Group earnings of € 13 - 17 million (2024 adjusted: € 13.1 million)

GESCO SE, listed in the Prime Standard, published its Annual Report 2024 today, confirming the preliminary figures reported on 24 March 2025.

Overall, GESCO closed fiscal year 2024 with sales of € 513.8 million and operating EBIT of € 15.2 million. This is accompanied by Group earnings after minority interest of € 4.4 million.

As reported, the Foundry and Steelworks divisions at Doerrenberg were sold at the end of 2024. There was also a management buyout at the portfolio company AstroPlast. Adjusted for these activities, GESCO Group sales would have totalled € 480.1 million in the past fiscal year and Group earnings after minority interest would have reached € 13.1 million.

The € 29.9 million reduction in working capital was the main reason for the € 18.1 million increase in cash flow from operating activities to € 51.2 million and the significant reduction in debt to banks of € 29.8 million.

The Management's dividend proposal for the 2024 fiscal year reflects the profit appropriation strategy presented in March 2025, according to which the priorities for future profit appropriation have been defined as follows: 1. organic and inorganic growth, 2. share buyback and 3. dividend distribution.

The Executive Board and Supervisory Board will therefore propose the distribution of a dividend of 0.10€ per share for the 2024 fiscal year at the Annual General Meeting on 25 June 2025.

Forecast:

For the current fiscal year, the Executive Board expects an increase in sales to € 485 - 515 million (2024 adj.: € 480.1 million) and Group earnings (after minority interests) of € 13 - 17 million
(2024 adj.: € 13.1 million).

The 2024 Annual Report is available at www.gesco.de/en/investor-relations/financial-reports.

You can follow today’s annual accounts press conference live on the GESCO website at www.gesco.de from 11:00 a.m. A video recording of the annual accounts press conference will be available shortly after the event on the GESCO website at www.gesco.de/en/investor-relations/financial-reports.

Key figures (IFRS) GESCO Group:

1) as at the balance sheet date

2) Dividend proposal to the 2025 Annual General Meeting

About GESCO:
GESCO SE is an industrial group with market- and technology-leading companies in the capital goods industry, specialising in Materials Refinement & Distribution, Lifescience & Healthcare and Industrial Assets & Infrastructure. As a Prime Standard-listed company, GESCO gives institutional and private investors access to a portfolio of hidden champions in the industrial SME sector.

Contact:
Peter Alex
Head of Investor Relations & Communications

Phone +49 (0) 202 24820-18
E-Mail: ir@gesco.de
Internet: www.gesco.de