OUKPY - Metso Oyj (OUKPF) Q4 2024 Earnings Call Transcript
2025-02-13 15:34:43 ET
Metso Oyj (OUKPF)
Q4 2024 Earnings Conference Call
February 13, 2025 06:00 AM ET
Company Participants
Juha Rouhiainen - Investor Relations
Sami Takaluoma - President & Chief Executive Officer
Eeva Sipilä - Chief Financial Officer
Conference Call Participants
Chitrita Sinha - JPMorgan
Michael Harlow - Morgan Stanley
Edward Hussey - UBS
Klas Bergelind - Citi
Christian Hinderaker - Goldman Sachs
Antti Kansanen - SEB
Benjamin Heelan - Bank of America
Nick Housden - RBC
Vlad Sergievskiy - Barclays
Panu Laitinmäki - Danske Bank
Mikael Doepel - Nordea
Anders Roslund - Pareto Securities
Presentation
Juha Rouhiainen
Good afternoon, good morning, everyone. This is Juha from Metso's Investor Relations, and I want to welcome you all to this conference call where we discuss our Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2024 Results which came out earlier this morning. The results will be presented by: our President and CEO, Sami Takaluoma; and CFO, Eeva Sipilä. And after the presentation, as usual we will have the Q&A session.
Before we get into it, I want to remind you about the forward-looking statements, we will be making in this call. And with these words I'll hand over to Sami. Please go ahead.
Sami Takaluoma
Thank you, Juha, and good afternoon, also from my behalf and welcome to this call where we look at the Q4 performance. Highlights for the quarter: Market activity was very much in line with our expectations, and we continued to have minerals equipment orders coming through from the funnel that we have. And for the quarter, we were having the healthy adjusted EBITDA margin of 16%. And also, we were delivering strong cash flow from our operations during the quarter.
Looking at that from the figures point of view, so orders received comparing to the 2023 last quarter, they grew by 13% and sales was then declining the 5% from the previous year last quarter mainly because of the order intake slowness in the past.
Adjusted EBITA was €203 million that was 10% below the last year number bringing that then to the relative €16.0 million; and operating profit €167 million; and earnings per share from the continuing operations in the quarter four 2024 was €0.13.
Cash flow from the operations that was growing 32% compared to the year before €286 million. That was in the nutshell of the Q4 key figures....
Metso Oyj (OUKPF) Q4 2024 Earnings Call Transcript