Kontron Confirms 2025 Profit Guidance Despite Revenue Adjustment

Kontron AG has published preliminary financial figures for the first nine months of 2025, revealing a significant increase in profitability while confirming its full-year profit guidance. The announcement comes in response to recent share price declines that the company describes as fundamentally unfounded, aiming to prevent market speculation about its financial performance.

According to preliminary calculations, revenue for the first nine months of 2025 reached €1,182 million compared to €1,208 million in the same period last year. This decrease reflects the strategic discontinuation of the COM business as part of the company's focus on higher-margin operations. More importantly, EBITDA showed substantial improvement, increasing to €194 million from €141 million in the previous year, representing a 37% growth. This figure includes a one-off effect of approximately €46 million resulting from the deconsolidation of the COM business. On an operating basis, excluding this one-time item, EBITDA for the first nine months amounted to approximately €148 million.

The company's full-year 2025 revenue forecast has been adjusted to €1.7 billion from the previously expected €1.8 billion, reflecting the impact of the COM business discontinuation and the strategic shift toward higher-margin operations. However, management maintains its EBITDA guidance of around €270 million for the full year. This projection includes approximately €220 million in operating EBITDA plus preliminary one-off income of about €46 million from the portfolio adjustment. Hannes Niederhauser, CEO of Kontron AG, emphasized the company's strong operational performance, stating that order intake remains robust with a book-to-bill ratio exceeding 1x, particularly in key growth sectors including railway infrastructure, defense, aerospace, and artificial intelligence.

Kontron's strategic repositioning appears to be yielding positive results, with the company successfully transitioning toward more profitable business segments while maintaining strong customer demand in critical technology areas. The company will publish its complete results for the first nine months of 2025 on November 5 as originally scheduled. Additional information about Kontron can be found on their official website at https://www.kontron.com. The original press release is available for reference at https://www.newmediawire.com.