DGAP-Adhoc: Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA gives early preliminary indicative guidance for 2019

Fresenius Medical Care, the world's largest provider of dialysis products and services, has decided to update the market early on its indicative preliminary assumptions for the business development in 2019. For 2019, Fresenius Medical Care currently broadly assumes solid comparable¹ revenue growth and the comparable¹ net income to be around the level of fiscal year 2018.

Fresenius Medical Care is currently reviewing all factors as part of its budgeting process and plans to publish the guidance for 2019, at the usual level of detail, along with the company's fiscal year 2018 results, which are planned to be released on February 20, 2019.

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^[1] "comparable" is on a constant currency basis and reflects an adjustment for those effects that are as per the company's view not related to the company's operating business performance such as, for example, the effects of IFRS 16, sizeable portfolio changes like the divestiture of Sound Inpatient Physicians Holdings, the pending acquisition of NxStage Medical Inc., or other effects of one-time nature like FCPA-related charges or the cost of the 2018 U.S. ballot initiatives. For the preliminary indicative 2019 guidance the "comparable" 2018 basis translates roughly at current currencies for revenue in a range of 15,850 - 16,050 EUR million and for net income in a range of 1,350 - 1,365 EUR million. This is subject to fluctuations in the currency rates in the fourth quarter of 2018.

For more information visit the company's website at www.freseniusmedicalcare.com.

The envisaged date of February 20, 2019 for announcement on the guidance for 2019 is subject to compliance with applicable laws, i.e. if applicable legal regimes so demand, the publication may occur at an earlier point in time.