Fresenius with weak third quarter driven by ongoing challenging macroeconomic environment

• Healthy organic sales growth and ongoing margin pressure
• Fresenius Medical Care’s business development impacted by delayed effects from improvements in North American Services business in challenging environment
• Fresenius Kabi with healthy sales growth and sequential improvement
• Fresenius Helios with strong organic sales growth, solid EBIT in line with usual third quarter seasonality
• Fresenius Vamed impacted by macroeconomic headwinds and COVID-19

Michael Sen, CEO of Fresenius said, “Over the past month, I’ve met with many of my Fresenius colleagues. Like me, they have tremendous passion and commitment to patients, physicians and health care professionals. What we do is life-saving.”

Sen continued, “Everyone at Fresenius knows we must improve on what we do. My priorities are clear: Reset the company aiming at becoming a stronger company and delivering value for our shareholders. Our businesses are growing yet in a more challenging environment. Now we sharpen our focus on structural productivity. More fundamentally, we have embarked on a top-to-bottom review of every business activity, looking at the entire corporate portfolio. The focus is on returns. This will not happen overnight, but we will move at a faster pace and more decisively than ever before. This will benefit all our stakeholders. This is #FutureFresenius.”

Sen concluded, “Fresenius is a strong company, with great products, great market positions. Now we have to make it stronger.”

FY/22 Group guidance

Since Fresenius Medical Care continues to operate in a challenging environment, the impacts of the Company’s focused efforts to improve North American Health Care Services operations are delayed against previous assumptions. Therefore, Fresenius Medical Care now assumes lower contributions in the financial year 2022.

Consequently, Fresenius Medical Care now expects net income (attributable to shareholders of Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA) for the financial year 2022 to decline in the high teens to mid-twenties percentage range. The Company continues to anticipate revenue to grow at a low-single digit percentage range in the financial year 2022. These targets are in constant currency and exclude special items.
All other business segments of the Fresenius Group, in particular Vamed, are also affected by a challenging overall economic environment. Thus, there are increased uncertainties, inflation-related cost increases, staff shortages, disruptions in supply chains, and increased energy costs. This has a direct impact on customer and patient behavior.

However, as a consequence of the development at Fresenius Medical Care, Fresenius Vamed, and in view of increasing indications of a persistent unfavorable development of these and other factors for the further course of the financial year, the Management Board has changed its risk assessment and consequently also adjusted the Group outlook for FY/22.

At constant currency, the Company now anticipates Group net income1,2 to decline around ten percent (previously: decline in a low-to-mid single-digit percentage range). Group sales3 in constant currency continue to be expected to grow in a low-to-mid single-digit percentage range.

Without the closed acquisition of Ivenix and the completed acquisition of a majority stake in mAbxience as well as any further potential acquisitions, Fresenius expects the net debt/EBITDA4 ratio to be roughly on the same level as in Q3/22 (3.64×5) by the end of 2022 (December 31, 2021: 3.51×5).

This release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to various risks and uncertainties. Future results could differ materially from those described in these forward-looking statements due to certain factors, e.g. changes in business, economic and competitive conditions, regulatory reforms, results of clinical trials, foreign exchange rate fluctuations, uncertainties in litigation or investigative proceedings, the availability of financing and unforeseen impacts of international conflicts. Fresenius does not undertake any responsibility to update the forward-looking statements in this release.

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