21.11.2018, 3204 Zeichen

Kapsch TrafficCom: Kapsch TrafficCom, provider of intelligent transportation systems in the fields of tolling, traffic management, smart urban mobility, traffic safety and security reached revenues in the first half of the current fiscal year of Euro 335.8 mn, an amount slightly (-1.2%) below the previous year’s level. The EBIT amounted to Euro 17.8 mn (-29.5%) and the EBIT margin decreased from 7.4% to 5.3%. “After disappointing first three months we managed to achieve a significant improvement in the second quarter of the current fiscal year. That we are heading in the right direction is also demonstrated by the various new orders that we have announced in the last few weeks. And we are working hard to report further major successes by the end of the fiscal year“, Georg Kapsch, CEO of Kapsch TrafficCom, commented.
Kapsch TrafficCom: weekly performance: -5.19%

Uniqa: In the first nine months of 2018, Uniqa Insurance Group AG increased its recurring premiums written including the savings portion by 3.1 per cent and with earnings before taxes of Euro 212.4 mn, exceeded the previous year’s figure by 17.1 per cent. This includes one-time gains on disposal from the sale of indirect interest in Casinos Austria Aktiengesellschaft from the first quarter of 2018 of Euro 47.4 mn. For 2018 as a whole, Uniqa still anticipates growth in property and casualty insurance and health insurance. Despite high expenses for the innovation and investment programme launched in 2016, Uniqa is pursuing further improvement in its earnings before taxes, the company emphasized. The Group is likewise keeping to its plan to continuously increase the annual distribution per share in the years to come as part of a progressive dividend policy.
Uniqa: weekly performance: -1.32%

Semperit: At Euro 670.3 mn, total revenue of Semperit Group, a producer of highly specialised rubber and plastic products, in the first nine months of 2018 was at the previous year’s level. The Industrial Sector achieved an increase in revenue of 5.6%, which was offset by a revenue decrease by 8.7% in the Medical Sector. Adjusted EBIT increased from Euro 7.9 mn in the first nine months of 2017 to Euro 17.5 mn in the same period of 2018, while the adjusted EBIT margin rose from 1.2% to 2.6%. The reported EBIT was Euro –45.5 million in the first three quarters of 2018 after Euro 46.1 million (contained one-off effects from the joint venture transaction in Thailand) in the same period of 2017. "We see a clear progress, which manifests itself particularly in the Industrial Sector," says Martin Füllenbach, Chairman of the Management Board of Semperit AG Holding. "More than 600 initiatives, which we have introduced within the scope of our restructuring and transformation process, contribute significantly to the improvement of operating results. On the personnel side, we have also made considerable changes of the course in recent months and restructured the first and second management levels in the Sempertrans segment. In this quarter, Sempertrans has achieved the best quarterly results in two years."
Semperit: weekly performance: -10.64%

(From the 21st Austria weekly https://www.boerse-social.com/21staustria (21/11/2018)

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