euro adhoc: ComBOTS AG
quarterly or semiannual financial statement
ComBOTS
AG Q3 figures: realignment on schedule
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9-month report
26.10.2007
Karlsruhe, October 26, 2007. ComBOTS AG (ISIN: DE000CMBT111) today published its results for the third quarter of fiscal 2007. The realignment decided at the end of September is on schedule and within the framework of the announcements. As a further step, after the discontinuation of the further development of the ComBOTS communication service in September, the Supervisory Board and the Executive Board decided today to also discontinue the operation of the service and to no longer offer the product in future.
The loss on an EBITDA basis including cash effective restructuring costs (2.4 million Euro) amounted to 9.1 million Euro during the last quarter (Q3/2006: 11.3 million Euro). With scheduled depreciations and amortizations of 2.0 million Euro and one-off non cash effective depreciations in the amount of 7.5 million Euro, the EBIT for Q3 amounts to -18.6 million Euro. Therefore, the result before tax amounted to -17.4 million Euro, including one-off expenses from restructuring in a total amount of 9.9 million Euro. The company anticipates for Q4/2007 an already significantly reduced cost basis and a result before tax and one-off effects of approximately -5 million Euro.
The shareholding in United Internet AG based on the dual corporate strategy again enjoyed a very positive development (Q1-Q3/2007: +79.1 million Euro). With the shareholding in United Internet the company had liquid assets (including tradable securities) of 510 million Euro as at September 30, 2007.
The company plans to complete the restructuring largely in Q4/2007. In parallel to this, the company wants to develop and then implement realization and continuation concepts for the existing assets and, more particularly, for the data center and the real estate. With a small team the company plans to evaluate possible new online services during the first half year 2008 and subsequently to possibly develop them. Furthermore, the company will also review during this period in an open manner to what extent the capital resources and also the capital market strategy need to be adjusted overall to the future scope of business.
For Q1/2008 the company proceeds on the assumption of total costs with within the group of approximately 2.2 million Euro, income still being negligible. These include material costs of approximately 0.9 million Euro (Q3/2007 without one-off effects: 4.3 million Euro), personnel expenses of 0.9 million Euro (Q3/2007 without one-off effects: 2.4 million Euro) as well as depreciations and amortizations of 0.4 million Euro (Q3/2007 without one-off effects: 2.0 million Euro). Acquisitions are not scheduled according to the current planning for 2008. For the full year 2008 the company forecasts a positive result of 1-2 million Euro on the basis of the current asset and financial structure including the financial income.
Appendix: Table
According to IFRS 5, the operation ComBOTS will in future be shown as "Result from discontinued product operation ComBOTS". This is due to the discontinuation of the development and operation of the service.
|in million Euro |Q3/07 |Q3/06 |Q1-Q3/07 |Q1-Q3/06 | | | | | | | |General administration costs |(1.9) |(1.7) |(4.9) |(6.3) | |Operating result from continued |(1.9) |(1.7) |(4.9) |(6.3) | |operations | | | | | |Financial result and result from |1.2 |1.1 |7.1 |6.8 | |associated companies | | | | | |Tax income (expense) |(1.1) |(0.2) |(1.2) |1.1 | |Result from continued operations |(1.8) |(0.8) |1.1 |1.6 | |Result from discontinued product |(16.8) |(11.7)|(30.1) |(28.0) | |operation ComBOTS | | | | | |Net result for the period |(18.5) |(12.5)|(29.1) |(26.4) | |Net result for the period per share |(0.53) |(0.35)|(0.83) |(0.73) | |(in Euro) | | | | | |Liquid funds and other securities |510.0 |432.5 |510.0 |432.5 | |Shareholders' equity |525.0 |462.4 |525.0 |462.4 | |Balance sheet total |545.1 |481.4 |545.1 |481.4 |
Additional information:
The complete Quarterly Financial Report is available for Download at www.combots.com.
end of announcement euro adhoc 26.10.2007 14:24:02
Further inquiry note:
Investor Relations:
Silvia Teschner
Tel. +49 721 5160 2701
investor.relations@combots.com
Public Relations:
Oliver Schwartz
Tel. +49 721 5160 2222
public.relations@combots.com
Branche: Online
ISIN: DE000CMBT111
WKN: CMBT11
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