Optical trade: Jenoptik pays extra to shareholders – 2025 loads of uncertainty | EUROtoday

The Thuringian expertise group Jenoptik Designed considerably extra final 12 months and desires to simply increase the dividend for its shareholders. The shareholders, which additionally embrace a participation firm within the state of Thuringia, ought to be paid 0.38 euros per share certificates, because the board introduced within the presentation of the enterprise figures for 2024 in Jena. For the present monetary 12 months, CEO Stefan Traeger dampened the expectation within the face of many financial uncertainties additionally on export markets.

Clear revenue leap of 28 %

Last 12 months 0.35 euros per share had been distributed. With the rise, funds to shareholders will improve by 8.6 % to 21.8 million euros in accordance with the corporate. In 2023 the dividend was 0.30 euros.

Jenoptik achieved a bunch revenue of 94.2 million euros in 2024 – a rise of 28 % within the earlier 12 months. The firm generated about 72 % of its annual gross sales of 1.12 (earlier 12 months: 1.07) billion euros overseas.

In explicit, orders for the semiconductor trade’s tools ensured the rise in gross sales of 4.7 % in 2024, because the CEO reported. In distinction, the automation expertise enterprise for the automotive trade was moderately weak. In the meantime, the development of a manufacturing facility with clear room situations in Dresden has been accomplished.

Fewer orders within the books

In the present monetary 12 months 2025, the board expects that after a weak begin within the second half of the 12 months, an upswing shall be used, particularly within the semiconductor tools trade. A turnover is forecast, for instance, on the earlier 12 months’s stage. Jenoptik began with a decrease order inventory than in 2024 this 12 months. Orders over a complete of 670.1 million euros have been within the books – a 12 months earlier it was 745.0 million euros.

According to Jenoptik, virtually 4,700 folks make use of, third of them overseas. The group is likely one of the few listed expertise corporations in East Germany. Its core enterprise is optical methods, lasers and measurement expertise for numerous industrial purposes in addition to lasers and different tools for site visitors monitoring.

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