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FOR Q1 2022/23
* Baboudjian, M., et al: “Life Cycle Assessment of Reusable and Disposable Cystoscopes:
A Path to Greener Urological Procedures”, European Urology Focus, 8 December 2022
Q1 Q1 FY Q1 Q1 FY
DKKm 2022/23 2021/22 2021/22 DKKm 2022/23 2021/22 2021/22
In November 2022, Ambu launched its new company Endoscopy Solutions posted organic revenue growth of Similarly, in line with the new strategy, Ambu continues
strategy, ZOOM IN. This strategy aims to advance the 3% (-2%), while Anaesthesia and Patient Monitoring to apply a targeted and customer-centric approach to the
company’s position and return to strong, profitable (formerly Patient Monitoring & Diagnostics) grew by 4% launch of the Ambu® aScope™ Gastro. The company is
growth. Through a customer-centric approach to (-6%) and 6% (7%), respectively. Within Endoscopy zooming in on endoscopy segments with the greatest
innovation, excelling in execution, taking leaps in Solutions, the main growth drivers were urology and ENT need for workflow improvements – a valuable approach.
sustainability and bringing together the people of Ambu, (ear, nose and throat). For both endoscopy segments, For the Ambu® aScope™ Duodeno solution, Ambu
the company will deliver strong and sustainable growth. Ambu saw an increased uptake of orders and entry of continues to see limited adoption of the Duodeno 1.5
new customers, especially in the U.S. The continued product, driven by clinical complexity and continued
The 2022/23 financial year is expected to be a transition double-digit growth rates reflect a strong resonance with opportunity for further product feature enhancement. The
year for Ambu. In the first quarter of 2022/23, the com- customers concerning the benefits of single-use endo- company remains committed to the potential of the
pany has taken important steps on its transformation scopy, specifically patient safety, workflow and efficiency. single-use duodenoscope market and is continuing the
journey. The strategy has been rolled out globally, and development of Ambu® aScope™ Duodeno 2.0.
the transformation program – which includes dedicated In line with expectations, Ambu’s pulmonology business
projects to drive efficiency, accelerate long-term revenue declined by 17%, mainly due to high comparables in CONTRIBUTING TO A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
growth and increase profitability – is progressing as Europe related to the Covid-19 variant, Omicron. Taking leaps towards a sustainable future is one of the
planned. Ambu is committed to sustaining the positive Additionally, higher levels of competition in the U.S and four zoom areas in Ambu’s strategy. The company is
momentum of the strategy launch, and at the centre of all the voluntary recall of Ambu® VivaSight™ 2 DLT committed to driving a strong sustainability agenda, with
activities lies the company’s strategic aspiration of being impacted performance. However, Ambu saw a positive increased customer focus being the focal point. To
the most customer-centric in the field. driver in the flu season driving sales, in particular in North accommodate this focus, Ambu has dedicated additional
America. From the second half of 2022/23, the pulmono- resources to map out how sustainability issues affect the
As Ambu transforms, it will evolve its ways of working logy business is expected to deliver year-on-year growth, needs of customers and other stakeholders. This inclu-
and its ways of serving customers. It will zoom in on the and going forward, the company will strengthen its des feedback from key opinion leaders and medical
key value drivers across solutions, geographies and position with the launches of smaller sizes of the Ambu® associations in key markets. Also, Ambu continues to
customer segments. And although the company is aScope™ 5 Broncho HD, as well as its upcoming video advance its sustainability agenda, including a commit-
looking to the 2022/23 financial year with expectations of laryngoscope 2.0 and the re-launch of Ambu® ment to circular products and packaging and additional
a continued volatile global economic landscape, inclu- VivaSight™ 2 DLT. steps taken towards recycling and use of bioplastics.
ding high inflation and interest rates, staff shortages at
hospitals and strikes among healthcare workers, the TARGETED CUSTOMER APPROACH A pioneering French study published in December 2022
ZOOM IN strategy is developed to secure the flexibility For Ambu’s newly launched single-use endoscopes – added valuable perspectives to the topic of single-use
needed to be successful in the current macroeconomic Ambu® aScope™ Gastro in GI and Ambu® aScope™ 5 endoscopy and sustainability. The study, titled “Life Cycle
environment. Re-arranging resources in line with Broncho in pulmonology – the global launches are pro- Assessment of Reusable and Disposable Cystoscopes”,
customer needs and market opportunities is key in the gressing well. During the first months of the launches, highlighted reusable cystoscopes as having “a signi-
company’s plan of action to create strong value for feedback from customers continued to be positive. ficantly larger environmental footprint and impact” than
customers and shareholders. Ambu’s single-use cystoscope. Specifically, the study
For Ambu’s fifth-generation bronchoscope solution, showed that the environmental footprint of a flexible
Q1 FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE which is developed to meet the needs of the highly com- cystoscopy procedure can be reduced by 33% by using
Ambu had a good start to the 2022/23 financial year. plex procedures in the bronchoscopy suite, customers the Ambu® aScope™ 4 Cysto instead of a reusable
Organic revenue growth for the first quarter reached 4% are emphasising the quality and capabilities of the solu- cystoscope. This is primarily due to the amount of disin-
(-1%), driven by solid performance across all three tion. While the launch is still in the early stages, the fection reprocessing resources needed within reusable
business areas. solution has demonstrated ‘on par’ and even superior endoscopy.
performance to reusable bronchoscopes.
Endoscopy Solutions
9% -4% Anaesthesia
organic growth organic growth
Rest of World
52% of revenue 39% of revenue
14%
organic growth
9% of revenue
Q1 Q1 Organic Reported
DKKm Fx
2022/23 2021/22 growth growth
Europe 61 56 7% 2% 9%
Rest of World 30 29 0% 3% 3%
Q1 Q1 Organic Reported
DKKm Fx
2022/23 2021/22 growth growth
Organic growth in Patient Monitoring was 6% (7%) in Q1, DRIVERS OF THE QUARTER
with reported growth of 10% (9%). With revenue of DKK As in the case of Anaesthesia, revenue growth in Patient
242m, Patient Monitoring accounted for 21% (21%) of Monitoring across all regions was driven by a positive
Ambu’s total revenue in the quarter. post-Covid-19 recovery as well as a reduction of backlog
orders, compared to Q1 last year.
Patient Monitoring sales in Q1 increased by 2% (68%) in
North America, by 6% (2%) in Europe and by 21% (-3%) For Europe specifically, the growth contribution was 3
in Rest of World. percentage points due to a higher-than-normal level of
delayed orders in Q1 last year.
MANAGEMENT AND
ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS
Management and administrative costs for Q1 were DKK
DEPRECIATION, AMORTISATION
139m (DKK 124m), corresponding to 12% (12%) of AND IMPAIRMENT
revenue. The increase was 9% in local currency, driven Depreciation, amortisation and impairment (DA) for Q1
by higher IT expenses, depreciations and an overall represented an expense of DKK 77m (DKK 62m),
modest increase in general expenses. corresponding to 7% (6%) of revenue.
Cash flow in % of
revenue: FREE CASH FLOW BEFORE ACQUISITIONS (DKKM)
AND CFFO AND CFFI RELATIVE TO REVENUE (%)
Cash flow from
operating activities -9 -3 - 200 20%
(CFFO) 150 15%
100 10%
Investments (CFFI) -6 -13 - 50 7 5%
0 0%
Free cash flow -50 -5%
-100 -10%
before acquisitions -15 -16 - -150 -15%
(FCF) -200 -136 -20%
-162 -167 -174
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1
21/22 21/22 21/22 21/22 22/23
CFFO, % of revenue CFFI, % of revenue
NIBD
EBITDA b.s.i.
NIBD/EBITDA b.s.i.
As the table to the right reflects, Ambu saw an increased Renewable energy share (%) 14.80 19.51 -24%
environmental impact in Q1 2022/23 compared to Q1
2021/22. This increase is naturally driven by the early
production stage of the company’s newest and largest CO2 per product (tonne CO2e/tonne of finished goods) 1.87 1.65 13%
production plant, located in Juárez, Mexico. The plant
officially opened in October 2022 and has a higher level
of energy use compared to the production output of Waste per product (metric tonne/tonne of finished goods) 0.27 0.29 -5%
finished goods, as expected at this early stage. For
instance, clean rooms and ventilations must run,
regardless of how many finished goods are produced. Water per product (m3/tonne of finished goods) 12.27 12.72 -4%
The outlook for the 2022/23 financial year as announced in the Annual Report on 15 FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
November 2022 is maintained as of 7 February 2023. The outlook for organic revenue Forward-looking statements, in particular relating to future sales, operating income and
growth is 5-8%, and the outlook for EBIT margin before special items is 3-5%. other key financials, are subject to risks and uncertainties. Various factors, many of which
lie outside of Ambu’s control, may cause the realised results to differ materially from the
expectations presented in this earnings release. Such factors include, but are not confined
to, changes in market conditions and the competitive situation, changes in demand and
purchasing patterns, fluctuations in foreign exchange and interest rates, as well as general
LOCAL CURRENCIES economic, political and commercial conditions.
DANISH KRONER
FINANCIAL CALENDAR
7 Feb 2023 15 Nov 2022
2022/23
EBIT margin 3-5% 3-5%
21 March Capital Markets Day
3 May Earnings release Q2 2022/23
31 August Earnings release Q3 2022/23
Deadline for the inclusion of specific items on the
31 October
EXCHANGE RATE ASSUMPTIONS FOR 2021/22 agenda for the Annual General Meeting 2023
The Board of Directors and the Executive Management have today considered and
approved the interim report of Ambu A/S for the period from 1 October 2022 to 31 EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT
December 2022. The interim report has not been audited or reviewed by the company’s
independent auditors.
Britt Meelby Jensen Thomas Frederik Schmidt
The interim report is presented in accordance with IAS 34 – Interim Financial Reporting as Chief Executive Officer Chief Financial Officer
adopted by the EU and additional Danish disclosure requirements for the interim reporting
of listed companies.
We consider the accounting policies applied to be expedient, the Group’s internal controls
relevant to preparing and presenting the interim report to be adequate and the interim
report to give a true and fair view of the Group’s assets, liabilities, results and financial BOARD OF DIRECTORS
position at 31 December 2022 and of the results of the Group’s operations and cash flows
for the period from 1 October 2022 to 31 December 2022.
Jørgen Jensen Christian Sagild
We furthermore consider that the management’s review gives a true and fair view of the Chairman Vice Chairman
development in the Group’s activities and financial affairs, the profit for the period and the
Group’s financial position as a whole as well as a description of the most significant risks
and uncertainties to which the Group is subject.
Henrik Ehlers Wulff Susanne Larsson
Member Member
CONTENTS
Page 21 Income statement and statement of comprehensive income
Page 22 Cash flow statement
Page 23 Balance sheet
Page 24 Statement of changes in equity
Page 25 Notes to the interim report
Q1 Q1 FY
2022/23 2021/22 2021/22
Net profit 22 20 93
Adjustment for non-cash items:
Income taxes in the Income statement 6 5 16
Depreciation, amortisation and impairment losses 77 62 351
Financial items and share-based payment 44 18 -123
Change in working capital -213 -120 -134
Interest paid -13 -3 -29
Income tax paid -21 -10 -79
Cash flow from operating activities -98 -28 95
Acquisition of technology 0 0 -5
Cash flow from acquisitions 0 0 -5
Assets Note 31.12.22 31.12.21 30.09.22 Equity and liabilities 31.12.22 31.12.21 30.09.22
Other reserves are made up of reserve for foreign currency translation adjustment, retained
earnings and proposed dividend and total DKK 3,993m (31.12.2021: DKK 3,817m).
Note 1 – Basis of preparation of the interim report Note 2 – Changes in balance sheet classification
The interim report for the period 1 October 2022 to 31 December 2022 is presented in In connection with the preparation of the interim report, the management has decided to
accordance with IAS 34 – Interim Financial Reporting as adopted by the EU and additional present 'Right-of-use assets' separately from 'Property, plant and equipment'. This effect of
Danish disclosure requirements for the interim reporting of listed companies. The accounting change in presentation of the Company's non-current assets does not affect any key ratios.
principles applied are consistent with the principles applied in the annual report for 2021/22 with
the exception of separating 'Right-of-use assets' from 'Property, plant and equipment' as
described in note 2.
DKKm
30.09.22 30.09.22
Reported Restated
31.12.21 31.12.21
Reported Restated
Ambu is a supplier of medtech products for the global market. Except for the sales of the For a description of Ambu’s risks, see the ‘Risk management’ section in the annual report for
various products, no structural or organisational aspects allow for a division of earnings from 2021/22, pages 60-64.
individual products, as sales channels, customer types and sales organisations are identical for
all important markets. Furthermore, production processes and internal controls and reporting
are identical, which means that, with the exception of revenue, everything else is unsegmented.
Ambu has thus identified one segment.
Note 6 – Contingent liabilities
Ambu’s ongoing operations and the use of Ambu’s products in hospitals and clinics etc. involve
the general risk of claims for damages and sanctions against Ambu. The risk is deemed to be
Note 4 – Revenue customary.
DKKm
Q1 Q1 FY Ambu is involved from time to time in disputes with customers and patients about Ambu’s
2022/23 2021/22 2021/22 products. Appropriate provisions are made on an ongoing basis, and product liability insurance
has been taken out. The management believes that the likely outcomes of these disputes can
Endoscopy solutions 617 565 2,324 be covered by the provisions made and recognised in the balance sheet as at 31 December
Anaesthesia 273 245 1,126 2022.
Patient Monitoring 242 221 994
Total revenue by activities 1,132 1,031 4,444
Headquartered near Copenhagen in Denmark, Ambu employs around 4,500 people in Europe, North
America, Latin America and Asia Pacific.
CONTACT
Investors
Thomas Frederik Schmidt
Chief Financial Officer
tfsc@ambu.com | +45 2084 0500
Nicolai Thomsen
Director, Investor Relations & Strategic Finance
nith@ambu.com | +45 2620 8047
Media
Tine Bjørn Schmidt
Head of Corporate Communications
tisc@ambu.com | +45 2264 0697
Ambu A/S
Baltorpbakken 13
DK-2750 Ballerup, Denmark
Tel.: +45 7225 2000
CVR no.: 63 64 49 19
Ambu.com