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Vesuvius H1 2025 earnings summary
Complete event summary combining all related documents: earnings call transcript, report, and slide presentation.H1 2025 earnings summary6 Aug, 2025
Executive summary
Revenues declined 0.4% underlying and 3.1% reported, but market share gains in both Steel and Foundry divisions offset weak end markets.
Trading profit fell 16.1% underlying and 20.7% reported, with return on sales down 160bps to 8.5%.
Strong cost-reduction actions delivered £10.1m in H1 savings, with R&D investment supporting new product sales growth.
Interim dividend maintained at 7.1p per share, reflecting confidence in future performance.
Net debt/EBITDA rose to 2.0x at June 2025, expected to fall to 1.8x by year-end.
Financial highlights
Revenue: £907.5m, down 0.4% underlying and 3.1% reported year-over-year.
Trading profit: £77.0m, down 16.1% underlying and 20.7% reported.
Headline EPS: 17.1p, down 16.4% year-over-year.
Free cash flow: outflow of £12.6m in H1, expected to turn positive in H2.
Share buybacks totaled £100m since November 2023.
Outlook and guidance
Challenging market conditions expected to persist through year-end, especially in Europe.
H2 2025 performance anticipated to be similar to H1, with pricing actions underway to recover cost inflation.
Confidence in long-term growth, especially in India, and in ability to improve profitability through cost reductions.
Free cash flow generation and leverage reduction expected to improve with completed capacity investments.
2025 guidance: tax rate 27.5%, depreciation c.£65m, interest cost c.£20m, in-year cost savings c.£20m.
Explain the adverse product mix impact.
Assess Foundry's market share gains.
How will pricing performance improve?
India induction furnace growth: temporary or structural?
How confident in temporary EU product mix shift?
China's steel overcapacity: expected impact timing?
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Vesuvius plc provides engineering services and solutions principally to steel and foundry industries worldwide. It operates in two divisions, Steel and Foundry. The company offers foundry consumables and equipment, including binders, coatings, feeding systems, filtration and gating systems, melt shop refractories, metallurgical and pouring control systems, die dressings and coatings, melt treatment products, crucibles, and ceramics for the iron, steel, and nonferrous foundries. It also provides nonferrous metals, such as primary and secondary aluminum, copper, and other metals and alloys; cement and lime solutions, iron ore pelletizing and calcination products
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