EQS-Adhoc: NORMA Group SE: Management Board approves guidance for the 2025 financial year

NORMA Group SE: Management Board approves guidance for the 2025 financial year

Maintal, March 7^th 2025 The Management Board of NORMA Group SE today approved the guidance for key financial figures for the 2025 financial year.

The guidance in its current form relates to the Group including the water management business which is intended for sale. Against this background, as well as the continuing challenging market environment, the guidance is subject to a number of uncertainties. On the one hand, these relate to associated transaction costs in connection with the sale of the water management business. These are currently expected to total around EUR 20 million. On the other hand, extraordinary expenses are expected for a transformation of the organisation in the course of the sale of the water management business, the exact amount of which cannot yet be estimated. The company intends to adjust all extraordinary expenses that might arise in the operating result (EBIT).

On this basis, the Management Board is assuming a guidance for key financial figures for the current year that deviates in part from market expectations:

Group Sales:  around EUR 1.1 bn. to around EUR 1.2 bn. (consensus: EUR 1,198 m.)

Adjusted EBIT margin*: around 6% to around 8% (consensus: 8.4%)

Net Operating Cashflow: around EUR 75 m. to around EUR 95 m. (consensus: EUR 91 m.)

As of today, the Management Board assumes that business will continue to be characterised by subdued demand in the first half of the year, with business expected to pick up in the second half of the year.

The full outlook report will be published as part of NORMA Group´s Annual Report 2024 on 31 March 2025.

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* NORMA Group adjusts certain expenses for the operational management of the company. Details of the adjustments can be found on page 273f. of the 2023 annual report.