euro adhoc: quarterly or semiannual financial statement
Record figures again
for United Internet
Earnings per share up 36%
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9-month report
08.11.2007
Montabaur, November 8, 2007. The Management Board of United Internet AG today adopted the Group's consolidated results according to IFRS for the first nine months of 2007. The figures reveal further record levels of sales and earnings. Earnings per share grew by 36%.
Consolidated sales of United Internet AG achieved year-on-year growth of 27.1% to EUR 1,073.1 million (comparable prior-year figure after deconsolidation and completed sale of twenty4help: EUR 844.4 million). Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) grew by 32.9% from EUR 177.2 million (comparable prior-year figure) to EUR 235.5 million. Earnings before taxes (EBT) of the United Internet Group improved by 29.6% from EUR 140.4 million (comparable prior-year figure) to EUR 182.0 million. These earnings figures include a non-recurring net positive effect from the Online Marketing segment in the second quarter of 2007 of EUR 16.8 million in EBITDA and of EUR 7.4 million in EBT. Earnings per share (EPS) climbed 117.1% from EUR 0.35 (split-adjusted prior-year figure) to EUR 0.76, of which EUR 0.28 (prior year: EUR 0.02) was from discontinued operations.
|Nine-month comparison in EUR |9 months |9 months |Growth | |million |2006 |2007 | | |Sales |844.4 |1.073.1 |27.1% | |EBITDA |177.2 |235.5 |32.9% | |EBITDA without one-off positive |177.2 |218.7 |23.4% | |effect | | | | |EBT |140.4 |182.0 |29.6% | |EBT without one-off positive |140.4 |174.6 |24.4% | |effect | | | | |EPS in EUR |0.35 |0.76 |117.1% | |Of which from continued operations|0.33 |0.48 |45.5% | |Of which from discontinued |0.02 |0.28 |- | |operations | | | | |EPS in EUR (from continued |0.33 |0.45 |36.4% | |operations) without one-off | | | | |positive effect | | | |
|Quarterly figures in EUR million |Q3 2006 |Q3 2007 |Growth | |Sales |295.2 |375.1 |27.1% | |EBITDA |66.1 |76.6 |15.9% | |EBT |53.1 |60.1 |13.2% | |EPS in EUR |0.14 |0.16 |14.3% | |Of which from continued operations|0.13 |0.16 |23.1% | |Of which from discontinued |0.01 |- |- | |operations | | | |
The number of fee-based customer contracts grew to 7.07 million as of September 30, 2007 (prior year: 6.05 million). Of this total, the Information Management product line accounted for 1.19 million (prior year: 1.07 million), the Webhosting business for 3.20 million (prior year: 2.73 million), of which 1.55 million were outside Germany (prior year: 1.16 million), and Internet Access for 2.68 million (prior year: 2.25 million), of which 2.54 million were DSL
contracts (prior year: 2.07 million). In comparison with September 30, 2006 the number of telephony customers grew by 560,000 to 1.60 million. Over 800 million telephone minutes were completed per month (prior year: 540 million). The number of DSL connection customers also continued to grow: it rose to 2.19 million (prior year: 1.59 million).
|Customer contracts in million |30.09.2006 |30.06.2007 |30.09.2007 | |Information Management |1.07 |1.16 |1.19 | |Webhosting |2.73 |3.11 |3.20 | |thereof abroad |1.16 |1.47 |1.55 | |Internet Access |2.25 |2.57 |2.68 | |thereof DSL |2.07 |2.42 |2.54 | |Total |6.05 |6.84 |7.07 |
Information Management: excluding test contracts Internet Access and DSL: excluding provider-independent VoIP flat rate contracts
end of announcement euro adhoc 08.11.2007 19:58:00
Further inquiry note:
Marcus Schaps
Head of Press and Public Relations
United Internet AG
Elgendorfer Strasse 57
56410 Montabaur
Germany
Tel: +49 2602/96-1076
Fax: +49 2602/96-1013
E-mail: mschaps@united-internet.de
Internet: www.united-internet.de
Branche: Telecommunications Services
ISIN: DE0005089031
WKN: 508903
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