DEUTZ AG Q3 Report 2023
Highlights
- Margin remains high thanks to success of performance initiatives
- New logistics concept established at headquarters in Cologne
- Progress with warehouse consolidation
- Before the pandemic, orders on hand were at a maximum of around €500 million
- Increase in orders on hand to €676 million in 2021 due to supply chain bottlenecks
- Levels of new orders and of orders on hand returning to normal in 2023 as the supply chain situation eases and the fixed-volume program expires
Q3 In numbers:
- Year-on-year reduction in new orders, mainly due to the fixed-volume program for compact engines implemented in Q4 2022; book-to-bill-ratio at 0.93 (Q1–Q3 2022: 1.09)
- Orders on hand remain at high level of €666.5 million as at September 30, 2023 (September 30, 2022: €828.8 million)
- Group’s unit sales lower than in prior-year period due to fall in demand at Torqeedo (unit sales of DEUTZ engines up by 5.1%)
- Net income before exceptional items amounted to €66.5 million (Q1–Q3 2022: €52.2 million)