SÜSS MicroTec SE: Sales and EBIT in financial year 2017 below previous Expectations

DGAP-Ad-hoc: SÜSS MicroTec SE / Key word(s): Preliminary Results SÜSS MicroTec SE: Sales and EBIT in financial year 2017 below previous Expectations 19-Jan-2018 / 14:02 CET/CEST Disclosure of an inside information acc. to Article 17 MAR, transmitted by DGAP - a service of EQS Group AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.   Disclosure of an insider information acc. to Article 17 MAR Sales and EBIT in financial year 2017 below previous Expectations Garching, January 19, 2018 - SUSS MicroTec announces its preliminary figures for sales and earnings in the 2017 financial year. Accordingly, sales in the 2017 financial year are expected to reach a value of around EUR 166 million. As a result, sales are below the previously expected range of EUR 170 to EUR 180 million and thus also below the market expectations, which are at the upper end of the previously expected range. Decisive for the lower than expected sales are, in particular, postponements of final customer acceptances, which are prerequisites for revenue recognition. The corresponding sales will shift to the first quarter of 2018. Due to the lower sales, earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) will fall below the previously expected range of EUR 15 to 19 million in the financial year 2017. According to preliminary calculations, the company expects EBIT of around EUR 14 million, which is also below the current market expectations, which on average are based on reaching an EBIT of EUR 18.5 million. Although sales and EBIT in the financial year 2017 will be below the Company forecast and market expectations, the high order intake for the financial year 2017, reported on January 3, 2018, which resulted in an order backlog of approximately EUR 133 million as of December 31, 2017 and will result in corresponding sales and earnings in the 2018 financial year, will remain unaffected. The final figures for the 2017 financial year will be published by the company on March 27, 2018. End of the message Contact: SUSS MicroTec SE Franka Schielke Senior Manager Investor Relations Schleissheimer Strasse 90 85748 Garching, Deutschland [e-mail] Tel.: [phone] Fax: [phone] Email: [e-mail] 19-Jan-2018 CET/CEST The DGAP Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Archive at www.dgap.de

Language:	English
Company:	SÜSS MicroTec SE
	Schleissheimer Strasse 90
	85748 Garching
	Germany
Phone:	[phone]
Fax:	[phone]
E-mail:	[e-mail]
Internet:	www.suss.com
ISIN:	DE000A1K0235
WKN:	A1K023
Listed:	Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, Stuttgart, Tradegate Exchange

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