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Earnings Release: Strong Performance in Challenging Markets

Financial highlights:
  • Orders of €22.220 billion came in 8% below the record high level of the prior-year quarter. The order backlog included no major cancellations.
  • Revenue rose 7% to €19.634 billion, supported by strong order growth in recent years.
  • Total Sectors profit climbed 20%, to €2.005 billion, led by broad-based profit growth in Energy.
  • Income from continuing operations rose 17%, to €1.260 billion, on higher Total Sectors profit.
  • Net income was €1.230 billion in the first quarter. A year earlier, net income of €6.475 billion for the quarter included approximately €5.4 billion in income from discontinued operations related to Siemens VDO Automotive.
  • Free cash flow was a negative €1.574 billion compared to a negative €217 million in the prior-year period. The current period includes payments totaling €1.230 billion associated with legal proceedings, SG&A reduction and transformation programs initiated in fiscal 2008.
Please read the complete Earnings Release in the attached PDF:
Earnings Release
All figures are preliminary and unaudited. This Earnings Release should be read in conjunction with information Siemens published today regarding legal proceedings. More detailed disclosure, particularly regarding legal proceedings, is provided in the annual report.

Earnings before interest and taxes, or EBIT (adjusted); Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or EBITDA (adjusted); Return on capital employed (ROCE); Return on equity (ROE); Free cash flow; Cash conversion rate; and adjusted or organic growth rates of revenue and new orders are or may be non-GAAP financial measures. These non-GAAP financial measures should not be viewed in isolation as alternatives to measures of our financial condition, results of operations or cash flows as presented in accordance with IFRS in our Consolidated Financial Statements. Information for a reconciliation of these amounts to the most directly comparable IFRS financial measures is available on our Investor Relations website under www.siemens.com/investors -> Financial Publications & Events. “Profit Total Sectors” is reconciled to “Income from continuing operations before income taxes” in the table “Segment Information.”

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