Exasol Reports Strong 2025 Financial Performance and Strategic Progress in Focus Industries

Exasol AG has reported significant improvements in key financial metrics for the 2025 financial year, demonstrating the effectiveness of its strategic transformation toward focus industries. The company achieved EBITDA of €4.1 million, reaching the upper end of its guidance range of €3.5 million to €4.0 million and more than doubling from the prior year's €2.0 million. Revenue increased by 5.6% to €41.8 million, in line with expectations for mid-single-digit percentage growth, while group net income rose substantially to €3.1 million from €0.2 million in the prior year.

The company's strategic focus on specific industries drove meaningful progress, with annual recurring revenue in focus industries increasing by 10.1% to €26.7 million. Consequently, the share of focus industries in total ARR rose to 68% from 57% at the end of 2024. This growth partially offset declines in non-focus industries, resulting in an overall ARR decrease of 8.0% to €39.1 million, which the company attributed to pull-forward effects from contract adjustments and terminations originally expected in 2026. The equity ratio improved significantly to 34.2% from 23.8% at the end of 2024, while cash and cash equivalents increased to €18.7 million.

Exasol implemented several strategic initiatives during the year, including the realignment of European sales structures along focus industries rather than across industries. This reorganization has increased sales effectiveness by enabling more targeted customer engagement supported by deeper industry expertise. Technologically, the company expanded the capabilities of its analytics engine, making progress on the cloud-based Lakehouse Turbo solution that connects to the Databricks database platform. This solution aims to reduce data analytics costs, accelerate results delivery, and allow continued use of existing Databricks environments, currently being tested with a reference customer.

The company successfully brought to market its solution for integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning applications into the analytics engine, reaching a key strategic milestone. Customers can now perform AI-based data analytics and training models via the Exasol analytics engine and store resulting structured data in Exasol's data warehouse. A double-digit number of customers are already using these new functionalities. For the 2026 financial year, Exasol expects mid-single-digit percentage ARR growth driven by reduced churn and accelerated new customer acquisition, supported by strategic partnerships concluded in 2025 with MariaDB, Stackit, and Exoscale. Revenue is projected to decline in the mid-single-digit percentage range due to lagging effects from the 2025 ARR decline and lower expected one-time hardware and services revenue. Against this backdrop, the company anticipates EBITDA in the range of €3 million to €4 million while continuing planned investments in innovation and technology. Exasol invites interested investors and media representatives to a virtual webcast to discuss these results further at https://www.appairtime.com/de/event/94fe37a3-8f7c-4877-8728-060d21f8b292.