EQS-News: SUSS is aiming for further sales growth in the 2025 financial year

• Sales expectation for 2025 between € 470 million and € 510 million
• Gross profit margin guidance of 39 to 41% and EBIT margin of 15 to 17%
• Dividend for 2024 proposed to increase by 50% to € 0.30 per share

Garching, Germany, March 27, 2025 – SUSS, a leading manufacturer of equipment and process solutions for the semiconductor industry, today publishes its 2024 Annual Report and also announces its guidance for the 2025 financial year.

“SUSS is set to remain a growth company in 2025,” says Burkhardt Frick, CEO of SUSS, looking ahead to the 2025 financial year. “We are confident that we can increase sales to a level between € 470 million and € 510 million this year.” At the midpoint of this range, this would represent sales growth of around 10% compared to the previous year's figure of € 446.1 million. The basis for the targeted growth is the solid order book of € 428.4 million as of December 31, 2024, the majority of which is to be executed in 2025. “Our recently increased production capacity, especially for Advanced Backend Solutions, is not yet fully utilized,” adds Dr. Thomas Rohe, COO of SUSS. “We will therefore be able to process further orders that we receive in the first half of 2025 in the same year.” While sales growth in the Advanced Backend Solutions segment is expected to be in the mid-single-digit percentage range compared to the previous year, SUSS is aiming for sales growth of 10 to 20% in the Photomask Solutions segment.

With the outlook for the financial year 2025, the positive development of 2024 is set to continue. In the past financial year, Group sales reached a new high of € 446.1 million and increased by 46.6% compared to the previous year. Both segments contributed to the Group's sales increase with growth rates of 46.6% (Advanced Backend Solutions) and 46.5% (Photomask Solutions). In the Advanced Backend Solutions segment, the execution of numerous orders for temporary bonders and debonders used in the production of high-bandwidth memory and AI chip modules was the main driver. As a result, the bonder business more than tripled year-on-year. The positive development in the Photomask Solutions segment benefited from continued high demand from Asia.

SUSS expects the gross profit margin, which improved significantly from 34.1% to 40.0% in 2024 due to a favourable product and customer mix and the very high business volume, to stabilize in the 2025 financial year. “As we expect an increase in sales with a product and customer mix comparable to 2024, but also anticipate one-off expenses as a result of the preparations for and relocation to our new production site in Taiwan, we expect the gross profit margin for the 2025 financial year to be in the range of 39 to 41%,” says Dr. Cornelia Ballwiesser, CFO of SUSS.

EBIT will benefit from the volume-driven increase in gross profit in the 2025 financial year. Dr. Cornelia Ballwiesser: "At the same time, however, our growth transformation is now having a greater impact, which is why we expect an increase in administrative costs, particularly due to various IT and digitalization projects." Overall, SUSS expects an EBIT margin in the range of 15 to 17% for the financial year 2025. In 2024, the EBIT margin reached a record level of 16.8% due to the higher gross profit and the relatively lower increases in selling and administrative expenses, as well as research and development spending.

Overall, SUSS generated net profit of € 110.3 million in the 2024 financial year, of which € 52.1 million came from continuing operations and € 58.3 million from the sale of the MicroOptics business. In the previous year, net profit amounted to € 4.7 million. Free cash flow from continuing operations, i.e. excluding the sale of MicroOptics, increased notably to € 25.3 million (previous year: € 7.9 million). Based on the excellent financial year 2024, the Management Board and Supervisory Board will propose to the Annual General Meeting on June 3, 2025 a dividend increase of 50% to € 0.30 per share.

The 2024 Annual Report is available for download in German and English at www.suss.com in the “Investor Relations” section.

Media contact:
Sven Koepsel
Vice President Investor Relations and Communications
E-Mail: sven.koepsel@suss.com
Tel.: +49 89 32007151
 

About SUSS
SUSS is a leading supplier of equipment and process solutions for microstructuring in the semiconductor industry and related markets. In close cooperation with research institutes and industry partners SUSS contributes to the advancement of next-generation technologies such as 3D Integration and nanoimprint lithography as well as key processes for MEMS and LED manufacturing. With a global infrastructure for applications and service SUSS supports more than 8,000 installed systems worldwide. SUSS is headquartered in Garching near Munich, Germany. The shares of SUSS MicroTec SE are traded in the Prime Standard of the German Stock Exchange (ISIN DE000A10K0235). For more information, please visit suss.com.
 

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