Aquaporin lowers financial guidance for 2024
Company announcement
No. 18/2024
Inside information
Aquaporin A/S
Nymøllevej 78
DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby
aquaporin.com
Company registration no.: DK28315694
Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, October 8, 2024 – Aquaporin A/S (ticker: AQP) (“Aquaporin” or the “Company”), an innovative water technology company dedicated to rethinking water filtration with biotechnology, today announces that the Company is decreasing its guidance for the financial year ending December 31, 2024.
The revised revenue guidance is the consequence of a significant and unexpected change in demand from Aquaporin’s largest key account for orders that the Company had considered confirmed for 2024. In addition, the Company also witnessed a slower conversion of membrane customers from testing to commercial and the delay of a key Forward Osmosis project, both of which shifted revenue to 2025. As a result, the Company’s updated revenue guidance is adjusted to DKK 40-45 million, down from the previous guidance of DKK 90-110 million. Cost control measures, recent organizational adjustments, and efficiencies implemented in 2024 have, however, significantly softened the impact on EBIT (before special items) where the Company’s new guidance for 2024 is a loss of approximately DKK (90) million, compared to the loss of DKK (75)-(85) million previously communicated. Guidance for gross profit margin remains unchanged at 30-35%.
Despite this setback, the Company has achieved several significant milestones in 2024, which pave the road for growth in the coming years. More specifically, the Company has increased the number of Industrial Water customers, achieved all development milestones in Forward Osmosis, advanced the development of Aquaporin Inside ® Generation 2, and opened an office in China.
“While this development is extremely disappointing, I believe that Aquaporin has made strong progress in 2024 and, despite this setback, we are poised for growth for the years to come,” says Matt Boczkowski, Chief Executive Officer at Aquaporin.
The Company will publish the Q3 2024 Trading Statement on November 14, 2024, where further information on the outlook for 2025 will be communicated.
For further information, please contact:
Matt Boczkowski, Chief Executive Officer
Klaus Juhl Wulff, Chief Financial Officer
+45 53 55 55 19, investorrelations@aquaporin.com
About Aquaporin
Aquaporin is an innovative water technology company with operations in Denmark (HQ), Singapore, Turkey, the United States, and China. We are committed to rethinking water filtration with biotechnology to solve global water challenges. By combining three disciplines from the world of natural sciences: biology, chemistry, and physics, we have created the unique, nature-inspired Aquaporin Inside® technology which we embed into all our membranes and solutions. Our technology is based on Nobel Prize-winning research and is used to clean and reuse water in industries, in our homes, and even by NASA in space. We work with customers and partners around the globe to responsibly treat industrial wastewater, concentrate food and beverage products in a natural way, and enhance drinking water quality and accessibility.
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