DEUTZ AG has announced its consolidated financial results for the first half of 2016.



In a tough economic environment, new orders in the DEUTZ Group rose by 1.0 per cent to €677.2 million (H1 2015: €670.7 million). Orders in the second quarter of 2016 amounted to €349.9 million, which was 6.9 per cent higher than the figure of €327.3 million for the first quarter, and the same level as the second quarter of 2015 (€349.7 million).

The number of engines sold fell to 69,705, down by 10.8 per cent compared with the corresponding period of 2015 (H1 2015: 78,120 engines). The sales of 37,594 engines in the second quarter of 2016 represented a 17.1 per cent increase on the first quarter of 2016 (32,112 engines), but an 8.8 per cent drop on the prior-year quarter (Q2 2015: 41,213 engines).

Revenue amounted to €644.4 million in the six-month period and was 3.8 per cent lower than the figure of €670.2 million reported for the corresponding prior-year period.

Broken down by region, revenue was up by 1.0 per cent in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region and by 10.3 per cent in the Asia-Pacific region, but down by 22.4 per cent in the Americas. In the second quarter of 2016, revenue was down by 2.2 per cent year on year, falling to €344.2 million (Q1 2015: €352.1 million), although it was 14.7 per cent higher than in the first quarter of 2016 (€300.2 million).

Despite the fall in revenue, the figure of €20.7 million for operating profit (EBIT) was slightly higher than in the comparable prior-year period (H1 2015: € 20.3 million) because of cost-cutting measures and lower depreciation and amortisation. As a result, the EBIT margin went up to 3.2 per cent. Net income for the first six months of 2016 amounted to €20.0 million (H1 2015: €16.7 million), which resulted in earnings per share of €0.17 compared with €0.14 for the same period of 2015.

“This means that the first half of 2016 proceeded as we had expected, so we are well on the way to achieving our forecast for the year as a whole," said Dr Helmut Leube, chairman of the DEUTZ Board of Management.

DEUTZ has confirmed its forecast for 2016 as a whole and, in a tough market environment, continues to expect revenue to stagnate or, at best, rise slightly and the EBIT margin to increase moderately. Due to seasonal factors, the second half of 2016 is expected to be weaker than the first six months.