Date

04 March 2025

Continental Increases Profit and Drives Forward Realignment in 2025

• Consolidated sales of €39.7 billion (2023: €41.4 billion, -4.1 percent)
• Adjusted EBIT of €2.7 billion (2023: €2.5 billion, +6.6 percent)
• Adjusted EBIT margin of 6.8 percent (2023: 6.1 percent)
• Net income of €1.2 billion (2023: €1.2 billion, +1.0 percent)
• Adjusted free cash flow of €1.05 billion (2023: €1.3 billion, -18.6 percent)
• CEO Nikolai Setzer: “Our priority is to create value. By rigorously implementing this strategy, we further improved our earnings in this challenging environment and achieved our annual targets for the Continental Group”
• CFO Olaf Schick: “Our goal is to continue to improve in 2025. Our cost and efficiency measures are proving effective. This is all the more important because we again do not expect any tailwinds from the market this year”
• Automotive makes further gains: adjusted EBIT margin of 2.3 percent
• Tires remains strong: adjusted EBIT margin of 13.7 percent
• ContiTech within margin range: adjusted EBIT margin of 6.2 percent
• Expectations for fiscal 2025: consolidated sales of around €38.0 billion to €41.0 billion; adjusted EBIT margin of around 6.5 to 7.5 percent
• Dividend proposal of €2.50 per share (2023: €2.20 per share)