FUCHS Concludes Financial Year 2025 With Solid Results

20.03.2026

“2025 was a challenging year from a geopolitical perspective. In addition to numerous wars, US customs policy was a particular challenge.

In our home market of Germany, high energy prices and a struggling automotive industry with declining sales had a negative impact.

In addition, many currencies relevant to us depreciated against the euro. Despite the difficult market environment, we generated sales revenues of EUR 3.6 billion and EBIT of EUR 435 million.

At EUR 249 million, FUCHS Value Added (FVA) was close to previous highs. The once again high free cash flow before acquisitions of EUR 316 million confirms our decision to propose the 24th consecutive dividend increase.

The decentralized organizational structure of FUCHS and the nationwide network of plants and national companies have proven to be a success factor.

We are active in all major markets according to the "local for local" principle. This put us in a position to again generate the previous year's highest consolidated net profit to date despite this challenging environment and underlines our company's robust business model.

Based on that foundation we are planning to generate sales of around EUR 3.7 billion and EBIT of around EUR 450 million in 2026. In this outlook, we have not assumed any significant improvement or deterioration in the economic market environment.”

Stefan Fuchs, Chairman of the Executive Board FUCHS SE

Business development in the regions

At EUR 2,048 million (2,029), sales in the Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) region were up slightly by 1% on the previous year.

The acquisitions of the LUBCON Group and STRUB AG in 2024 and the takeovers of BOSS and ASEOL in 2025 resulted in external growth of EUR 37 million.

EBIT in the EMEA region exceeded the previous year's very good level by 2% and reached EUR 232 million (227).

While the weak automotive industry put pressure on parts of Eastern Europe and Italy in particular, Germany and Northern Europe performed especially well.

At EUR 1,002 million, sales in the Asia-Pacific region were up 2% on the previous year (986), exceeding the EUR 1 billion mark for the first time.

Adjusted for negative exchange rate effects due to the devaluation of almost all local currencies against the euro, organic growth of 7% or EUR 65 million was achieved.

The main driver of this development was once again China, supported by strong growth impulses from Australia and India. EBIT increased overproportionally by EUR 14 million to EUR 132 million (118) and reached a new record level.

Despite a challenging environment, the North and South America region was able to improve sales by 2% from EUR 678 million to EUR 695 million.

Before negative currency effects, organic growth was as high as 7%.

Weaker industrial demand in the USA as a result of the uncertainties surrounding the tariff discussions was more than offset by the successful expansion of the Aftermarket business.

After challenging years, Argentina and the other South American countries also developed positively again.

External growth of EUR 8 million was generated by the long-standing trading partner in Peru acquired in January and the specialist for lubricant solutions in metal forming, IRMCO, acquired in April.

EBIT, on the other hand, fell by EUR 16 million to EUR 75 million. Start-up costs for new customer business, mix effects, negative one-time effects and currency headwinds had a negative impact on earnings, particularly in the North American subsidiaries.

South America, on the other hand, stabilized, thanks in particular to the positive development in Argentina.

24^th dividend increase in a row

For 2025, FUCHS will propose to the Annual General Meeting a further 5% increase in the dividend to EUR 1.23 (1.17) per preference share and EUR 1.22 (1.16) per ordinary share.

The solid sales revenues and earnings development and the once again high free cash flow before acquisitions in a challenging economic environment underpin FUCHS' successful business model.

Building on this, FUCHS is maintaining its long-standing dividend policy of an annually increasing dividend for 2025. This dividend promise is an important part of the corporate philosophy of allowing shareholders to participate in the company's success.

Further sales and earnings growth forecast for 2026

Global economic uncertainty due to trade conflicts, tariffs and geopolitical tensions continues to impact the market environment.

With its global and broadly diversified positioning, FUCHS believes it is well equipped to further increase sales revenues and earnings in 2026.

Specifically, sales revenues of around EUR 3.7 billion and EBIT of around EUR 450 million are expected for the current financial year.

This growth is based on the assumption that all regions will contribute through volume-driven organic growth. It also includes the acquisition of all shares in the OPET joint venture in Turkey, which was announced at the beginning of February.

The outlook for EBIT takes into account the expenses for the integration of OPET as well as the additional costs incurred for the Transform2Grow digitalization strategy. The improvement in earnings will be supported by the continued consistent implementation of cost management.

In terms of investments, we plan to return to the pre-2025 level of around EUR 80 million. For the FVA, we expect a value of around EUR 250 million.

The improvement in EBIT to around EUR 450 million will have a positive effect, offset by an expected increase in the cost of capital.

We expect free cash flow before acquisitions to be around EUR 270 million, which is slightly below the prior year. The main reason for this decline, despite the improved result, is the outflow of funds into net working capital, which is increasing due to growth.

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