EXOSENS ANNOUNCES 2024 ESTIMATED RESULTS ABOVE IPO GUIDANCE; 2025 GUIDANCE HIGHLIGHTING LOW TWENTIES ADJUSTED EBITDA GROWTH
PRESS RELEASE
MÉRIGNAC, FRANCE– 8th JANUARY 2025
- 2024 estimated figures showing strong revenue growth and sustained profitability, above guidance provided at IPO
- Continued strong performance expected in 2025, with revenue growth in the high-teens and adjusted EBITDA growth in the low twenties
- Overall increased market demand further improves the perspectives which implies a high-teens 2024-2026 adjusted EBITDA CAGR
Exosens (Ticker: EXENS; ISIN: FR001400Q9V2), a high-tech company focused on providing mission and performance-critical amplification, detection and imaging technology, today publishes full-year 2024 unaudited estimated revenue and adjusted EBITDA, its guidance for full-year 2025 as well as its outlook.
2024 estimated figures, above guidance provided at IPO
Based on unaudited estimated figures, the Group expects for full-year 2024:
- Total revenue of between €390–395 million, representing a growth of more than 34% compared to full-year 2023;
- Adjusted EBITDA of between €116–118 million, representing an adjusted EBITDA margin of around 30%.
Outlook for 2025 and the 2024-2026 period
The Group expects continued strong performance in 2025, with revenue growth in the high-teens and adjusted EBITDA growth in the low twenties compared to full year 2024.
Market demand is higher than initially expected as reflected with the approval of the third option of the OCCAR night vision contract by the German parliament on 18 December 2024, under which 25,000 binoculars will be equipped with Exosens’ image intensifier tubes (this contract will gradually ramp up over the 2025–2026 period, the bulk of the contract hitting 2026).
On that basis, the Group expects a high-teens 2024-2026 adjusted EBITDA CAGR and a cash conversion1 ratio in the range of 75%–80% over the period.
Furthermore, the Group intends to pursue its bolt-on acquisition strategy, at a pace consistent with historical trend, and aims to progressively balancing revenue mix between Amplification and Detection & Imaging segments. while maintaining a leverage ratio2 of around 2x.
“While the final full results for 2024 are yet to be announced, we anticipate strong performance, above IPO guidance. Our amplification markets are showing a stronger than initially expected demand which will require further capacity expansion, while our Detection and Imaging markets are taking benefits of new technological developments driven by artificial intelligence for industrial control, nuclear energy and healthcare stakes. Our main focus will remain customer satisfaction, operational excellence, and accelerated growth derived from synergies with acquisitions which will fuel performance in 2025 and beyond. We are pleased to announce the robust growth reflecting our strategy based on technology and innovation, strong positions on niche value added markets, further accelerated by selective M&A and corporate and social responsibility”, commented Jérôme Cerisier, CEO of Exosens.
Financial Calendar
- 3 March 2025: Full-Year 2024 Results (publication before market opening);
- 28 April 2025: First-quarter update (publication before market opening).
About Exosens
Exosens is a high‐tech company, with more than 85 years of experience in the innovation, development, manufacturing and sale of high‐end electro‐optical technologies in the field of amplification, detection and imaging. Today, it offers its customers detection components and solutions such as travelling wave tubes, advanced cameras, neutron & gamma detectors, instrument detectors and light intensifier tubes. This allows Exosens to respond to complex issues in extremely demanding environments by offering tailor‐made solutions to its customers. Thanks to its sustained investments, Exosens is internationally recognized as a major innovator in optoelectronics, with production and R&D carried out on 12 sites, in Europe and North America and with over 1,700 employees. Exosens is listed on compartment A of the regulated market of Euronext Paris ﴾Ticker: EXENS – ISIN: FR001400Q9V2﴿. Exosens is a member of Euronext Tech Leaders segment and is also included in several indices, including CAC All-Tradable, CAC Mid & Small, FTSE Total Cap and MSCI France Small Cap. For more information: exosens.com.
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Forward-looking statements
Certain information included in this press release are not historical facts but are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on current beliefs, expectations and assumptions, including, without limitation, assumptions regarding present and future business strategies and the environment in which Exosens operates, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from the forward-looking statements included in this press release. These risks and uncertainties include those set out and detailed in Chapter 3 “Risk Factors” of the registration document approved on 22 May 2024 by the French financial markets’ authority (“Autorité des marchés financiers”) under number I. 24-010. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release and the Group expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release any update or revisions to any forward-looking statements included in this press release to reflect any change in expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which these forward-looking statements are based. Forward-looking information and statements are not guarantees of future performances and are subject to various risks and uncertainties, many of which are difficult to predict and generally beyond the control of the Group. Actual results could differ materially from those expressed in, or implied or projected by, forward-looking information and statements. This press release is provided for information purposes only. It does not constitute and should not be deemed to constitute an offer to the public of securities.
1 Cash conversion is defined as (adjusted EBITDA – capitalized R&D – capex) / (adjusted EBITDA – capitalized R&D).
2 Leverage ratio is defined as net financial debt / adjusted EBITDA.
