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    Covestro Annouces 3Q Results

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    Covestro Annouces 3Q Results
    10.25.18
    Covestro reported strong third quarter results. Group sales grew by 4.8 percent to €3.7 billion over the same quarter in 2017 thanks to higher selling prices and volumes sold.
     
    Core volumes were up marginally by 0.2 percent, remaining at last year’s level despite limited product availability. At €859 million, the Group’s EBITDA also matched the prior year period. Declining margins in the Polyurethanes segment were offset by higher margins in the Polycarbonates segment. Net income rose slightly by one percent to €496 million. Earnings per share advanced by 6.6 percent to €2.59, supported by the ongoing share buyback. Free operating cash flow was down 12.2 percent to €578 million due to increased investments.
    “We are continuing on a successful path. The investments we have decided on point us in our future direction and lay the foundation for organic growth going forward,” Covestro CEO Dr. Markus Steilemann said. “Our efficiency program will also improve cost structures over the medium term.”

    With investments totaling around €1.5 billion, Covestro recently announced the expansion of its MDI capacity in Baytown, Texas. There, a new world-scale plant is expected to produce 500 kilotons of MDI per year by 2024. At the same time, investment projects are underway in Brunsbüttel, Germany, Tarragona Spain, Antwerp, Belgium, and Caojing, China to boost Covestro’s capacity to produce MDI and its precursors in order to benefit from global market growth. The MDI market is projected to grow by around five percent per year in the long term, exceeding global GDP by some two percentage points.

    Covestro is also committed to developing innovative products driven mainly by sustainability: Since fall 2018, the company has marketed the first representative in a new series of thermoplastic polyurethanes manufactured with the help of CO2-based raw materials. Compared with conventional materials, these new polyurethanes have a smaller ecological footprint and therefore contribute to meeting the demand for more sustainable solutions.

    Full year guidance confirmed
    “The third quarter met our expectations. We are seeing increasingly challenging economic conditions and also experienced limited product availability in Europe and Asia in the past quarter,” Covestro CFO Dr. Thomas Toepfer said. “Nonetheless, we were able to keep volumes stable. In this context, we today confirm our guidance for 2018.”

    Covestro aims for a low- to a mid-single-digit percentage increase of core volumes for full-year 2018. Free operating cash flow is expected to be above €2 billion. The company expects ROCE around the previous year’s level while continuing to project EBITDA above previous year’s level. 

    In the past quarter, Covestro continued its share buyback program, launching the third tranche in August. Since the beginning of the program, shares totaling some €1.2 billion, or nearly 8 percent of capital stock, have been repurchased. Overall, Covestro aims to buy back own shares totaling up to €1.5 billion, or up to 10 percent of its capital stock by mid-2019.

    Cost savings targeted at €350 million per year
    Simultaneously, Covestro is making good progress with another strategic lever: The company stepped up cross-division collaboration and increased use of digital solutions are anticipated to boost effectiveness and efficiency markedly. By 2021 at the latest, the cost savings are estimated at around €350 million per year with the goal of limiting the increase in operational costs. The measures identified are intended mainly to permanently reduce non-labor costs, although roughly 900 full-time positions will be reduced worldwide, e.g., in administrative areas. The job reductions will be carried out by way of socially acceptable solutions that have already been agreed with the Works Council in Germany.

    Strong growth in Polycarbonates and Coatings, Adhesives, Specialties
    In the Polyurethanes segment, sales decreased marginally in the third quarter of 2018, by 1.2 percent to €1,849 million. A decline in sales in the EMLA and APAC regions was balanced out by an increase in the NAFTA region. Price changes, currency effects, and unplanned plant downtime had negative effects. Core volumes in the Polyurethanes segment dropped by two percent. EBITDA in the segment was down 21.5 percent to €432 million. This was attributable mainly to rising purchase prices for raw materials.

    The Polycarbonates segment continued to see strong growth in the third quarter, registering an 11.3 percent increase in sales to €1,038 million. A rise in core volumes (up 2.6 percent) and higher selling prices positively impacted sales. Sales in the EMLA and APAC regions grew substantially, balancing out a decline in the NAFTA region. The Polycarbonates segment’s EBITDA benefited from higher margins and prices, rising 49.3 percent to €315 million. This result also includes non-recurring income of €36 million from the sale of the U.S. sheet business. 

    In the Coatings, Adhesives, Specialties segment, sales increased 8.8 percent to €606 million. All regions contributed to the growth in sales. In the third quarter, the segment’s core volumes also increased sharply, expanding by 7.2 percent. EBITDA was €126 million, around the previous year’s level (+0.8 percent).

    Successful business performance in the first nine months of 2018
    In the first nine months, Covestro has already built a solid overall foundation for the year as a whole. Cumulatively, core volumes were up 1.5 percent over the previous year’s figures. Sales climbed 6.9 percent to €11.3 billion, and EBITDA jumped 13.7 percent to €2.9 billion. In addition, the company increased free operating cash flow by 9.9 percent to €1.3 billion.
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