Lufthansa starts the year with another high loss + Hellofresh suffers from sluggish demand for cooking boxes at the start of the year + Symrise on course for annual targets
Lufthansa $LHA (-0.41%)starts the year with another high loss
- Despite significantly higher revenues, Lufthansa has once again started the year with figures in the deep red.
- While several strikes had had an expensive impact in the previous year, operating costs rose noticeably in the first quarter.
- In addition, Easter only fell in the second quarter this time.
- However, despite the customs dispute with the USA, the Group counted significantly more travelers from the United States in March than a year earlier, as it announced in Frankfurt on Tuesday.
- Bookings from the USA continued to increase.
- This is another reason why CEO Carsten Spohr is sticking to his goal of increasing profits in day-to-day business (adjusted EBIT) in the current year and "significantly" exceeding the previous year's figure of around 1.65 billion euros.
- In the first quarter, the Group's turnover rose by ten percent year-on-year to 8.1 billion euros.
- The operating loss adjusted for special items (adjusted EBIT) decreased by 15 percent to 722 million euros.
- In the passenger business, however, the loss widened to 934 million euros.
- At the bottom line, the Group's loss increased by more than a fifth to 885 million euros due to lower tax relief.
Hellofresh $HFG (+0.43%)suffers from sluggish demand for cooking boxes at the start of the year
- Hellofresh suffered a decline in sales at the start of the year due to the continued sluggish business with cooking boxes.
- Revenues in the first quarter fell by around seven percent year-on-year to 1.93 billion euros, as the Berlin-based MDax company announced on Tuesday.
- In mid-March, the management had already predicted a difficult first quarter.
- While sales of cooking boxes shrank by 13.5 percent, the ready meals division grew by 10.5 percent.
- Hellofresh confirmed its forecast for the year.
- Adjusted for special effects, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (adjusted EBITDA) soared by around 250 percent to 58.1 million euros due to the ongoing savings program.
- Savings in personnel costs and production were particularly noticeable in the cooking box business.
- Meanwhile, the growing ready meals business is still making an operating loss.
- The bottom line for shareholders was a loss of 123.8 million euros after 83.9 million in the same quarter of the previous year.
- Hellofresh continues to expect a decline in sales of three to eight percent in the current year.
- The adjusted operating profit is expected to be between 450 and 500 million euros and thus at least reach the level of two years ago.
- Back in March, the food delivery company announced a savings program: from 2026, a total of 300 million euros are to be saved annually.
Symrise $SY1 (+0.83%)on course for annual targets
- Despite a slower start to the year, Symrise believes it is on track to achieve its annual targets.
- Sales in the first quarter rose by just under two percent year-on-year to around 1.32 billion euros, as the manufacturer of fragrances, flavors and food additives announced on Tuesday.
- Excluding exchange rate effects as well as acquisitions and disposals of parts of the company, the increase amounted to 4.2 percent.
- Business with additives for beverages and sweets as well as fragrances for expensive perfumes provided a tailwind, while the sunscreen business was slower due to very strong figures from the previous year.
- Group sales were roughly in line with market expectations, while organic growth was slightly higher.
- The company confirmed its annual targets.
- Accordingly, organic growth should continue to reach 5% to 7% in 2025.
- Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) are expected to account for around 21% of sales, which would continue the margin recovery of the previous year.
- Symrise will comment specifically on the profit trend when it publishes its half-year figures.
Tuesday: Stock market dates, economic data, quarterly figures
Japan stock exchange holiday
- ex-dividend of individual stocks
- Henkel VZ EUR 1.85
- Banco Santander EUR 0.11
- Henkel 2.02 EUR
- Vivendi 0.04 EUR
- Akzo Nobel EUR 1.54
- Inditex 0.84 EUR
- Signify 1.56 EUR
- Quarterly figures / company dates USA / Asia
- 12:00 Spotify | UPS quarterly figures
- 12:30 General Motors | Honeywell quarterly figures
- 12:45 Pfizer quarterly figures | Astrazeneca analyst conference
- 13:00 Coca-Cola | Kraft Heinz quarterly figures
- 13:15 Paypal quarterly figures
- 15:00 Citigroup | American Express AGM
- 19:00 IBM AGM
- 20:00 Meta AGM
- 22:00 Booking Holdings | Starbucks | Edison International | First Solar | Snap quarterly figures
- 22:05 Visa | Mondelez quarterly figures
- Without time information: Paccar | Universal Music | Corning | Jetblue Airways Quarterly figures
- Quarterly figures / Company dates Europe
- 07:00 Deutsche Bank | Lufthansa | Novartis | DWS | Hellofresh | HSBC
- 07:00 Banco Bilbao | Stratec | Capgemini | Volvo Car annual results
- 07:30 Adidas | Symrise | Mutares quarterly figures
- 08:00 Porsche AG | Astrazeneca | BP | AB Foods quarterly figures | Deutsche Bank PK
- 08:30 Hellofresh analyst and press conference
- 09:00 Flatexdegiro PK on the 1Q figures | Porsche AG PK
- 09:30 DWS | Banco Bilbao Analyst Conference
- 10:00 Lufthansa | Adidas PK
- 10:30 Hochtief AGM
- 11:00 Deutsche Bank | Symrise Analyst Conference
- 11:30 Lufthansa Analyst Conference
- 14:00 Novartis | BP Analyst Conference
- 14:00 Deutsche Börse Analyst and Investor Conference 1Q
- 15:00 Adidas Analyst Conference
- 18:00 ASM International quarterly figures
- 19:00 Telekom Austria quarterly figures
- 22:00 Logitech quarterly figures
- Economic data
08:00 DE: GfK Consumer Climate Indicator May FORECAST: -26.0 points previously: -24.5 points
09:00 DE: ECB Director Cipollone, speech on "Financial and trade fragmentation: risks and policy alternatives"
09:00 ES: GDP (1st release) 1Q FORECAST: +0.6% yoy/+3.1% yoy 4th quarter: +0.8% yoy/+3.4% yoy
09:00 ES: HICP and consumer prices (preliminary) April HICP FORECAST: +2.0% yoy previously: +2.2% yoy
09:40 DE: ECB Banking Supervisor Donnery, speech on the ECB's supervisory priorities for 2025
10:00 EU: ECB, M3 money supply and lending March M3 money supply FORECAST: +4.0% yoy previous: +4.0% yoy | ECB publication of consumer survey results
11:00 EU: Economic Sentiment Index April Eurozone Economic Sentiment Forecast: 94.5 Previous: 95.2 Eurozone Industrial Confidence Forecast: -10.3 Previous: -10.6 Eurozone Consumer Confidence Forecast: -16.7 Previous: -16.7 Previous: -14.5
11:00 EU: Eurozone Business Climate Index April
16:00 US: Consumer Confidence Index April FORECAST: 87.7 previous: 92.9
