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Siemens fully on track to achieve targets for fiscal 2009 in challenging market environment

Siemens continues to expect Total Sectors profit for fiscal 2009 to exceed the prior-year level of €6.6 billion. Growth in income from continuing operations in fiscal 2009 is expected to exceed growth in Total Sectors profit. For fiscal 2009, Siemens’ target is to achieve revenue growth of at least twice the rate of actual global GDP growth. If GDP growth is negative, the aim would be for the company’s percentage decline in revenue to be less than half the rate of decline in global GDP.
Order backlog stabilizes revenue developments
While Siemens’ strong order backlog had a significant stabilizing effect on revenue, demand declined in all Sectors due to the global macroeconomic and financing environment, including further postponements of potential new contracts. Adjusted for currency translation effects and portfolio transactions, new orders were down 27% to approximately €17.2 billion, and revenue fell 4% to approximately €18.3 billion, resulting in a book-to-bill ratio of 0.94. The Energy Sector delivered high revenue growth by executing projects in its substantial order backlog, while higher revenues in Healthcare benefited from positive currency translation effects. The Industry Sector saw a broad-based revenue decline, in particular at its shorter-cycle businesses.
Mixed picture of earnings development in the Sectors of Siemens
Total Sectors profit for the third quarter declined 21% year-over-year. The economic downturn substantially reduced revenue in Industry, taking the Sector’s profit down sharply. Energy achieved a 40% increase in profit year-over-year due to economies of scale, improved project execution and improved business mix. In an otherwise strong quarter, Healthcare reported lower profit due to an accrual for additional costs related to particle therapy contracts.
Income from continuing operations was approximately €1.2 billion, a 17% decrease compared to the prior-year period. Net income was approximately €1.3 billion, compared to approximately €1.4 billion a year earlier.
Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a global powerhouse in electronics and electrical engineering, operating in the industry, energy and healthcare sectors. The company has around 410,000 employees (in continuing operations) working to develop and manufacture products, design and install complex systems and projects, and tailor a wide range of solutions for individual requirements. For over 160 years, Siemens has stood for technical achievements, innovation, quality, reliability and internationality. In fiscal 2008, Siemens had revenue of €77.3 billion and a net income of €5.9 billion (IFRS). Further information is available on the Internet at: www.siemens.com.

New orders; adjusted or organic growth rates of revenue and new orders; the book-to-bill ratio; return on equity, or ROE; return on capital employed, or ROCE; free cash flow; cash conversion rate, or CCR; EBITDA (adjusted); EBIT (adjusted); net debt and adjusted industrial net debt are or may be non-GAAP financial measures. These supplemental financial measures should not be viewed in isolation as alternatives to measures of  Siemens’ financial condition, results of operations or cash flows as presented in accordance with IFRS in its Consolidated Financial Statements. A definition of these supplemental financial measures, a reconciliation to the most directly comparable IFRS financial measures and information regarding the usefulness and limitations of these supplemental financial measures can be found on Siemens’ Investor Relations website at www.siemens.com/nonGAAP.

This document contains forward-looking statements and information – that is, statements related to future, not past, events. These statements may be identified by words such as “expects,” “looks forward to,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “seeks,” “estimates,” “will,” “project” or words of similar meaning. Such statements are based on the current expectations and certain assumptions of Siemens’ management, and are, therefore, subject to certain risks and uncertainties. A variety of factors, many of which are beyond Siemens’ control, affect Siemens’ operations, performance, business strategy and results and could cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Siemens to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements that may be expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. For Siemens, particular uncertainties arise, among others, from: changes in general economic and business conditions (including margin developments in major business areas and recessionary trends); the possibility that customers may delay the conversion of booked orders into revenue or that prices will decline as a result of continued adverse market conditions to a greater extent than currently anticipated by Siemens’ management; developments in the financial markets, including fluctuations in interest and exchange rates, commodity and equity prices, debt prices (credit spreads) and financial assets generally; continued volatility and a further deterioration of the capital markets; a worsening in the conditions of the credit business and, in particular, additional uncertainties arising out of the subprime, financial market and liquidity crises; future financial performance of major industries that Siemens serves, including, without limitation, the Sectors Industry, Energy and Healthcare; the challenges of integrating major acquisitions and implementing joint ventures and other significant portfolio measures; the introduction of competing products or technologies by other companies; a lack of acceptance of new products or services by customers targeted by Siemens; changes in business strategy; the outcome of pending investigations and legal proceedings, including corruption investigations to which Siemens is currently subject and actions resulting from the findings of these investigations; the potential impact of such investigations and proceedings on Siemens’ ongoing business including its relationships with governments and other customers; the potential impact of such matters on Siemens’ financial statements; as well as various other factors. More detailed information about certain of the risk factors affecting Siemens is contained throughout this report and in Siemens’ other filings with the SEC, which are available on the Siemens website, www.siemens.com, and on the SEC’s website, www.sec.gov. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described in the relevant forward-looking statement as expected, anticipated, intended, planned, believed, sought, estimated or projected. Siemens does not intend or assume any obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements in light of developments which differ from those anticipated.
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