Q2 2026 Suedzucker AG Earnings Call Transcript
Key Points
- Suedzucker AG (SUEZY) confirmed its full-year financial guidance for operating profit, expecting it to range between €100 and €200 million.
- The food segment showed a positive development, with revenues increasing from €824 million last year to €858 million this year.
- The company successfully issued a new €700 million hybrid bond, modernizing its financial structure.
- Suedzucker AG (SUEZY) expects a continuation of working capital improvements, which should help offset lower operating results.
- The ethanol prices have recently increased significantly in Europe, which is a positive sign for the crop energy segment.
- The company reported a weak performance in Q2, with group revenues significantly below the prior year level at €4.2 billion.
- Operating profit for the sugar segment turned to a loss situation, with a decrease from €72 million to a loss of €89 million.
- Suedzucker AG (SUEZY) had to revise downwards its operating profit guidance for the sugar segment due to bearish market conditions.
- The special product segment saw a decrease in operating profit from €108 million to €71 million, mainly due to rising production costs.
- Net financial debt increased by €40 million compared to the beginning of the fiscal year, and the company aims to maintain it at the same level as last year.
Ladies and gentlemen, good morning from Mannheim.
We welcome all of you to our conference call.
The underlying presentation for this call has already been published this morning on our website.
Today we released a statement for the first half of the financial year 20,526.
We are going to present you the highlights of the period. We visit our full year group earnings guidance for the business year, which we adjusted on August 21.
Following the presentation, we are going to answer your questions.
As I already mentioned, a recording of this call will be available, on our homepage shortly after the call. Now, let me hand over to our CFO, Doctor Shavan Mela.
Thank you for the introductions. Ladies and gentlemen, also a warm welcome from my side, and thank you very much to all of you for your interest in.
As mentioned, I would like to give you a brief overview about the business performance in the 1st 6 months of
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