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Schaeffler reports three divisions for the first time and confirms guidance for the year

May 22, 2018 by Jasmine

Global automotive and industrial supplier Schaeffler has announced its quarterly results for the first three months of 2018.

As a result of the organizational realignment initiated last year, this is the first time the company is also reporting on the performance of its three divisions:

  1. automotive original equipment manufacturers (64.2 percent of revenue);
  2. automotive aftermarket (12.5 percent of revenue); and
  3. industrial (23.3 percent of revenue).

Automotive OEM grows more rapidly than market

Automotive OEM division revenue increased by 3.2 percent at constant currency to approximately 2.3 billion euros during the reporting period.

Compared to global automobile production, which declined by 0.7 percent over the same period, the Automotive OEM division grew significantly above market, outperforming it by approximately 4 percent.

All four of the Automotive OEM division’s business divisions contributed to this growth, including the newly reported “E-Mobility” business division, which expanded its revenue by 6.6 percent at constant currency in the first quarter.

At 12.4 percent, the constant currency growth rate was particularly high in the Greater China region, followed by 3.7 percent in the Americas region, while both Asia/Pacific and Europe generated only slight growth of approximately 0.5 percent.

Based on this performance, the Automotive OEM division generated EBIT before special items of 217 million euros (prior year: 275 million euros).

The division’s EBIT margin before special items for the first three months amounted to 9.5 percent (prior year: 11.9 percent).

Reasons for the decrease include launching costs incurred for the ramp-ups in the second half of the year as well as rising development expenses and other expenses to accelerate implementation of the “E-Mobility” initiative that is part of the company’s program for the future, the “Agenda 4 plus One”.

Based on an increasing number of product launches in the second half of the year, the Automotive OEM division continues to expect to generate revenue growth of 6 to 7 percent at constant currency and an EBIT margin of between 9.5 and 10.5 percent before special items for the full year 2018.

Automotive aftermarket revenue drops temporarily

The Automotive Aftermarket division reported a slight temporary drop in first-quarter revenue of 4.4 percent at constant currency to 446 million euros (prior year: 484 million euros).

The slight decrease is primarily due to lower revenue in the Europe region as well as in the Americas region. Benefits of playing online casino in Canada here.

The drop in first-quarter revenue largely results from the favorable impact of one-off additional business with US customers in the first quarter of 2017 that was not repeated in the first quarter of 2018.

Good headway was made in developing the Greater China region where revenue grew by 40.9 percent at constant currency in the first quarter as a result of higher Original Equipment customers’ requirements.

At 16.1 percent, the Asia/Pacific region reported a considerable increase in revenue at constant currency as well, largely due to growth in the Independent Aftermarket (IAM) in the Southeast Asia subregion.

These developments resulted in EBIT before special items of 80 million euros (prior year: 93 million euros).

The resulting EBIT margin before special items of 17.9 percent (prior year: 19.2 percent) slightly exceeded the guidance for the full year.

The decrease compared to the prior year is mainly due to the one-off business in the first quarter of 2017 described above.

The group expects the Automotive Aftermarket division to generate revenue growth of 3 to 4 percent at constant currency and an EBIT margin before special items of 16.5 to 17.5 percent for the full year.

Rapid growth for industrial division

The Industrial division expanded its revenue to 826 million euros in the first quarter (prior year: 782 million euros), representing a growth rate of 10.8 percent at constant currency.

This means the Industrial division has grown considerably more rapidly – for reasons related to the market – than expected.

The increase was primarily driven by the Industrial Distribution unit which raised its revenue by 12.4 percent at constant currency.

The railway, raw materials, offroad, power transmission, and industrial automation sector clusters also contributed to the increase.

Looking at the regions, the Greater China region reported the highest constant currency growth rate, with approximately 40 percent, followed by 8.2 percent in the Europe region, 5.4 percent in the Americas region, and 3.2 percent in the Asia / Pacific region.

Thus, EBIT before special items of 94 million euros (prior year: 67 million euros) led to an EBIT margin before special items of 11.4 percent (prior year: 8.6 percent).

This improvement was buoyed especially by considerably higher demand and improvements to the functional cost structure from the “CORE” initiative under the company’s program for the future, the “Agenda 4 plus One”.

For the Industrial division as well, the group confirms its target for 2018 of increasing revenue by between 3 and 4 percent at constant currency and generating an EBIT margin before special items of 9 to 10 percent in 2018.

Over 300 million euros invested

The Schaeffler Group generated free cash flow of minus 71 million euros in the first quarter of 2018 (prior year: minus 130 million euros).

This amount includes 2 million euros (prior year: 19 million euros) in cash outflows for M&A activities.

Working capital increased slightly while capital expenditures amounted to 306 million euros (prior year: 299 million euros), representing a capex ratio of 8.6 percent (prior year: 9.1 percent).

At the same time, the Schaeffler Group’s financing situation has improved further. Despite slightly higher net financial debt, the gearing ratio, that is the ratio of net financial debt to shareholders’ equity, improved to approximately 89 percent (end of previous year: 93 percent).

The headcount increased by 1,263 or 1.4 percent from the end of December 2017 to 91,414 as at the end of March 2018.

Transformation accelerated

As most recently described at Schaeffler AG’s annual general meeting on April 20, 2018, the 20 initiatives comprising the company’s program for the future, the “Agenda 4 plus One”, are being executed consistently and energetically. Nearly all initiatives made progress.

Implementation of the program was 40 percent complete as at the end of March 2018. In support of this implementation, on April 16, 2018, the company signed a Future Accord with the IG Metall trade union that complements the program, setting out priorities for and a joint approach to implementation of the program.

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