Conergy reaped sales of 913.5 million in the past fiscal year. This is an increase of over 50 percent from 2009, which saw sales of 600.9 million. The company says it expanded both its national and international businesses, with 54 percent of sales coming from overseas.
Showing positive signs of improvement, Conergys earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) achieved strong results at 30.1 million (2009: -10.7 million), meaning the company went into the black for the first time since 2006.
In a statement, it explains: "In addition to the encouraging rise in sales, one contributing factor was also the clearly improved gross profit margin, which Conergy managed to increase by four percentage points to 23.7 percent. Among other things, this was achieved by an increased use of products produced by Conergy itself."
However, due to "extraordinary" depreciation, the company reports that its (EBIT) was negatively affected during the fourth quarter. Conergy explained: "At the level of individual subsidiaries, there was the need for a liquidity-neutral value adjustment on goodwill and other fixed assets of roughly 17 million due to ongoing restructuring measures."
It adds that 13 million worth of consultancy fees also impacted the EBIT. It says though, that it was still possible to reduce the loss of -36.8 million in 2009 by 23.0 million to -13.8 million.
Meanwhile, Conergy says the "extraordinary" depreciation also affected earnings after taxes by around 9.5 million. Consequently, the tax result from continuing operations amounted to -13.5 million (2009: -22.5 million). When taking into account a financial result of -14.7 million (2009: -21.8), the after-tax result reportedly amounted to -42.0 million (2009: -81.1 million). As a result, the company says the loss was reduced by 39.1 million compared to the previous year.
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