EQS-News: AGRANA achieves solid 2025|26 operating profit of € 81.2 million before exceptionals and joint ventures
EQS-News: AGRANA achieves solid 2025|26 operating profit of € 81.2 million before exceptionals and joint ventures
EQS-News: AGRANA Beteiligungs-Aktiengesellschaft / Key word(s): Annual
Results
AGRANA achieves solid 2025|26 operating profit of € 81.2 million before
exceptionals and joint ventures
12.05.2026 / 07:30 CET/CEST
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AGRANA achieves solid 2025|26 operating profit of € 81.2 million before
exceptionals and joint ventures
• Food & Beverage Solutions segment makes largest contribution to
earnings
• Measures in ACS – Sugar segment begin to gain traction; ACS – Starch
remains under pressure due to market conditions
• Impairment charges weigh on Group results for the year
On 15 April 2026, AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG announced the preliminary results
for the 2025|26 financial year (ended 28 February 2026). With today’s
publication of the annual report, the final figures are presented. While
the Group’s revenue decreased by 7.9% to € 3,237.3 million in the 2025|26
financial year, operating profit before exceptional items and results of
equity-accounted joint ventures rose by 6.2% to € 81.2 million (previous
year: € 76.5 million).
Exceptional items amounted to a net expense of € 74.1 million (previous
year: net expense of € 36.4 million) and included a non-cash impairment
charge of € 46.0 million on non-current assets in the ACS – Sugar segment.
This write-down had a strong negative impact on Group operating profit
(EBIT), which fell to just € 3.2 million (previous year: € 40.5 million).
“We continue to operate in an environment characterised by political
uncertainty, an unstable economic situation, and volatile energy and
commodity markets. These challenges, which have recently been exacerbated
by the war in the Middle East, are shaping our current business
operations. In 2025|26, despite these difficult conditions, we were able
to generate a solid operating profit before exceptional items and results
of equity-accounted joint ventures. The Food & Beverage Solutions segment
performed very well and stabilised the Group’s results. The ACS – Sugar
business remained operationally weak, but began to improve compared with
the previous year thanks to restructuring measures. By contrast, the ACS –
Starch business saw an earnings reduction in 2025|26 due to market
conditions, and we are working intensively on our specialities strategy to
stabilise margins even in a persistently volatile environment,” emphasises
AGRANA CEO Stephan Büttner. “For the new financial year now underway, we
expect the earnings KPI “operating profit before exceptionals and joint
ventures” to remain at least stable, together with a projected very
significant improvement in EBIT. We have set the right course: Our
optimism is based on our operational performance, our diversified business
model and the structural transformation at the holding company and segment
levels under the AGRANA NEXT LEVEL Group strategy,” says Büttner.
AGRANA Group results
€ million, except as indicated FY 2025|26 FY 2024|25 Change
% or pp
Revenue 3,237.3 3,514.0 –7.9%
EBITDA[1][1] 194.8 190.9 2.1%
Operating profit before exceptional items
and results of equity-accounted joint 81.2 76.5 6.2%
ventures
Share of results of equity-accounted joint –3.9 0.5 –900.0%
ventures
Exceptional items –74.1 –36.4 –103.7%
Operating profit [EBIT] 3.2 40.5 –92.1%
EBIT margin 0.1% 1.2% –1.1 pp
Loss for the period –35.6 0.0
(Loss) per share (€) –0.64 –0.07 –814.3%
Investment[2][2] 102.9 113.7 –9.4%
Number of employees[3][3]^ 8,407 8,980 –6.4%
Net financial items represented an expense of € 37.6 million in the
2025|26 financial year (previous year: net expense of € 36.8 million),
with the change driven by markedly more-adverse currency translation
effects that outweighed a significant improvement in net interest expense.
The result before tax fell very significantly, from the previous year’s
profit of € 3.7 million to a loss of € 34.3 million. After an income tax
expense of € 1.2 million, representing a tax rate of –3.6% (previous year:
100.7%), the Group recorded a loss for the period of € 35.6 million
(previous year: € 0.0 million). The loss for the period attributable to
shareholders of AGRANA was € 40.1 million (previous year: loss of € 4.3
million); the loss per share increased to € 0.64 (previous year: loss of
€ 0.07). Free cash flow in 2025|26 was € 127.2 million (previous year:
€ 259.1 million).
Total assets as of 28 February 2026, at € 2,438.3 million, decreased
significantly from one year earlier (28 February 2025: € 2,710.9 million),
with an equity ratio of 44.1% (28 February 2025: 45.4%). Net debt as of
28 February 2026, at € 421.0 million, was € 15.4 million less than at the
2024|25 year-end. The gearing ratio rose to 39.2% as of the balance sheet
date (28 February 2025: 35.5%).
In line with the long-term orientation of AGRANA’s dividend policy of
continuity, the Management Board will propose to the Annual General
Meeting to pay a dividend of € 0.35 per share for the year (dividend for
2024|25: € 0.70 per share).
Food & Beverage Solutions (FBS) segment
€ million, except as indicated FY 2025|26 FY 2024|25 Change
% or pp
Revenue 1,647.8 1,630.4 1.1%
Operating profit [EBIT] 103.3 99.7 3.6%
EBIT margin 6.3% 6.1% 0.2 pp
Revenue in the FBS segment grew somewhat year-on-year. While revenue rose
slightly in the formulation activities for price reasons, it decreased
moderately in the beverage business amid lower volume. The FBS segment
generated 50.9% of the Group’s revenue (previous year: 46.4%).
The EBIT improvement was attributable mainly to a positive business
performance in the Europe region (which includes Ukraine) and in North and
South America.
ACS – Starch segment
€ million, except as indicated FY 2025|26 FY 2024|25 Change
% or pp
Revenue 982.4 1,014.0 –3.1%
Operating profit [EBIT] 23.5 31.9 –26.6%
EBIT margin 2.4% 3.2% –0.8 pp
Revenue in the ACS – Starch segment was down slightly from the previous
year, due in part to lower sales of saccharification products. There was
also a decline in sales prices for saccharification products, as well as
for starch products and ethanol. The ACS – Starch segment’s share of Group
revenue was 30.4% (previous year: 28.8%).
EBIT in the ACS – Starch segment was off significantly from the previous
year. The main reason for this was the margin decline in ethanol and in
saccharification products.
ACS – Sugar segment
€ million, except as indicated FY 2025|26 FY 2024|25 Change
% or pp
Revenue 570.6 839.1 –32.0%
Operating loss [EBIT] –106.5 –75.4 –41.2%
EBIT margin –18.7% –9.0% –9.7 pp
In the ACS – Sugar segment, sugar volumes sold to industrial customers
were relatively stable, while volumes in the reseller channel declined
very significantly. Another key cause of the revenue decline was a sharp
drop in sugar sales prices. The ACS – Sugar segment’s share of Group
revenue was 17.6% (previous year: 23.9%).
EBIT in the ACS – Sugar segment was again negatively impacted by
exceptional items and was off significantly from the previous year. The
segment’s net exceptional items expense of € 71.3 million primarily
included asset impairment losses of € 46.0 million as well as expenses of
€ 13.7 million related to the closures of the Leopoldsdorf site in Austria
and the Hrušovany site in the Czech Republic.
Since as early as the beginning of the 2025|26 financial year, the savings
and optimisation steps taken proved beneficial for the trend in the item
“operating loss before exceptional items and results of equity-accounted
joint ventures”, which at € 30.6 million therefore represented a
significant relative improvement from the previous year’s loss of € 48.9
million, despite the ongoing challenging operating environment.
Outlook
For the 2026|27 financial year, AGRANA’s operating profit (EBIT) is
expected to increase very significantly from last year, to a range of € 70
to 90 million. Group revenue is projected to show slight growth.
Total investment across the three business segments and the Holding Co. &
Other reporting area in this financial year, at approximately € 113
million, is expected to be moderately higher than the 2025|26 value, but
below the budgeted depreciation of about € 117 million.
About AGRANA
AGRANA converts agricultural raw materials into high-quality foods and
numerous industrial intermediate products. With about 8,400 employees, the
two business areas of Food & Beverage Solutions and Agricultural
Commodities & Specialities generate annual Group revenue of approximately
€ 3.2 billion at 50 production sites worldwide. Established in 1988, the
company is the global market leader in fruit preparations and the world’s
leading producer (and supplier) of apple juice concentrates and berry
juice concentrates. AGRANA is the leading sugar company in Central and
Eastern Europe and a major producer of customised potato, corn and wheat
starch products as well as of bioethanol.
For queries, please contact:
Markus Simak, Public Relations
+43 1 21137 12084, [4]markus.simak@agrana.com
Hannes Haider, Investor Relations
+43 1 21137 12905, [5]hannes.haider@agrana.com
This announcement is available at www.agrana.com.
[6]^[1] EBITDA represents operating profit before: exceptional items,
results of equity-accounted joint ventures, and operating depreciation and
amortisation.
[7]^[2] Investment represents purchases of property, plant and equipment
and intangible assets, excluding goodwill.
[8]^[3] Average number of full-time equivalents in the financial year.
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Language: English
Company: AGRANA Beteiligungs-Aktiengesellschaft
F.-W.-Raiffeisen-Platz 1
A-1020 Wien
Austria
Phone: +43-1-21137-0
Fax: +43-1-21137-12926
E-mail: investor.relations@agrana.com
Internet: www.agrana.com
ISIN: AT000AGRANA3
WKN: A2NB37
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Stuttgart, Tradegate BSX; Vienna Stock Exchange (Official
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