EQS-News: INDUS successfully completes share buyback program

INDUS successfully completes share buyback program

• EUR 44.8 million returned to shareholders since the beginning of 2024
• Retirement of around 1.1 million shares strengthens INDUS share as a dividend stock
• INDUS now holds 3.5% as treasury shares

Bergisch Gladbach, 7 March 2025 – Stock exchange listed INDUS Holding AG has successfully completed its share buyback program announced on 11 November 2024. Since the start of the buyback program on 2 December 2024, the investment company has repurchased 200,000 shares at an average price of EUR 21.20 via the stock exchange. INDUS has thus acquired a total of 2 million shares via buyback programs since February 2024.

“In addition to the dividend payment of EUR 31 million, our shareholders received a total of EUR 41.7 million from the buyback of shares in 2024,” says Dr. Johannes Schmidt, Chairman of the INDUS Board of Management. “Despite these high payouts, we were able to increase our equity ratio to 38.7%. Additionally, around EUR 3.1 million went to INDUS shareholders in 2025 via the now completed buyback program.”

On 5 March 2025, the INDUS Supervisory Board approved the Board of Management’s resolution to cancel 1,095,559 shares without adjusting the share capital. The share capital is now divided into 25,800,000 shares. INDUS holds 3.5% of these as treasury shares.

Schmidt continues: “INDUS’ decision to retire around 1.1 million shares permanently reduces the number of shares entitled to dividends and consequently increases the pro rata earnings per share. In addition, we have retained own shares, which we can use as an acquisition currency for the further expansion of our portfolio.”

More information on the share buyback program can be found here. The share buyback program was supported by Commerzbank AG, Frankfurt/M., and McDermott Will & Emery Rechtsanwälte Steuerberater LLP.

About INDUS Holding AG:

Established in 1989 and headquartered in Bergisch Gladbach, INDUS Holding AG is a leading specialist for sustainable corporate development in the German-speaking SME sector. INDUS acquires technology-oriented and promising industrial engineering companies for the Engineering, Infrastructure, and Materials segments. As a value-driven investment company with a clear focus on defined growth topics, INDUS provides its operationally independent portfolio companies with active, long-term support in their corporate development, especially in the fields of innovation, market excellence, operational excellence, and sustainability. SDAX-listed INDUS Holding AG has been included in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (DE0006200108) since 1995. INDUS generated sales of around 1.8 billion euros in 2023. For more information, visit www.indus.de.

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This press release contains forward-looking statements. These statements are based on the current views, expectations and assumptions of the management of INDUS Holding AG and comprise known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance or events to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements. INDUS Holding AG assumes no obligation to update forward-looking statements.