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Materialise N.V. (MTLS)

Q3 2025 Earnings Call· Tue, Oct 28, 2025

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Operator

Operator

Good day, and welcome to the Q3 2025 Materialise Financial Results Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker, Ms. Harriet Fried with Alliance Advisors.

Harriet Fried

Analyst

Thank you, everyone, for joining us today for Materialise's quarterly conference call. With us on the call are Brigitte de Vet, Chief Executive Officer; and Koen Berges, Chief Financial Officer. Today's call and webcast are being accompanied by a slide presentation that reviews Materialise's strategic, financial and operational performance for the third quarter of 2025. To access the slides, if you have not done so already, please go to the Investor Relations section of the company's website at www.materialise.com. The earnings release that was issued earlier today can also be found on that page. Before we begin, I'd like to remind you that management may make forward-looking statements regarding the company's plans, expectations and growth prospects, among other things. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown uncertainties and risks that could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations expressed, including competitive dynamics and industry change. Any forward-looking statements, including those related to the company's future results and activities, represent management's estimates as of today and should not be relied upon as representing their estimates as of any subsequent date. Management disclaims any duty to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect future events or changes in expectations. A more detailed description of the risks and uncertainties and other factors that may impact the company's future business or financial results can be found in the company's most recent annual report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC. Finally, management will discuss certain non-IFRS measures on today's call. A reconciliation table is contained in the earnings release and at the end of the slide presentation. With that introduction, I'd like to turn the call over to Brigitte de Vet. Go ahead, please, Brigitte.

Brigitte de Vet-Veithen

Analyst

Good morning and good afternoon and thank you all for joining us today. You can find the agenda for our call on Slide 3. First, I will summarize the business highlights for the third quarter of 2025. Then I will pass the floor to Koen, who will take you through the third quarter financials. Finally, I will come back and explain what we expect for the remaining months of 2025. When we've completed our prepared remarks, we'll be happy to respond to questions. Moving to Slide 4 for the highlights of the third quarter 2025. While our overall revenue remained under pressure, I am very pleased with the continued strong growth of our medical unit, where we achieved double-digit growth again on the back of an exceptionally strong third quarter last year. Today, I would like to highlight the progress that we are making in the cardiac segment, one of our newer markets. In 2025, we acquired FEops, a company specializing in AI-driven simulation technology for structural heart interventions. FEops' predictive simulation technology complemented our Mimics Planner, adding advanced simulations to its anatomical measurements. We have now taken 2 important steps in this market. First, we recently released the next version of FEops' heart guide for transcatheter aortic valve replacement, adding important features to the planner. In addition to giving physicians insights into the right size and position of the device in the aortic route, this release helps them to manage the lifetime of the patient. Specifically, this new release includes a predictive simulation of the potential ways to treat the patient should he or she come back for reintervention a couple of years down the line. Secondly, we generated additional clinical evidence to underline the benefits of our cardiac planners. As an example, in a prospective study with 126…

Koen Berges

Analyst

Thank you, Brigitte. Good morning or good afternoon to all of you on this call. I'll begin with a brief overview of our key financial results, as shown on Slide 5. Our consolidated revenue grew by 2% compared to Q2 of this year, but ended with EUR 66.3 million, 3.5% lower than last year's strong third quarter. Our gross profit margin remained strong at 56.8% in the third quarter of this year, fully in line with the margin realized over the first 9 months of 2025. Adjusted EBIT for the third quarter of '25 amounted to EUR 2.9 million, representing an adjusted EBIT margin of 4.4% of revenue. Over the third quarter of this year, we generated a net profit of EUR 1.8 million. Driven by strong free cash flow in the third quarter of this year, we further increased our net cash position to EUR 67.7 million. In the following slides, I will elaborate further on these results. As a reminder, please note that unless stated otherwise, all comparisons are against our results for the third quarter of 2024. Turning now to Slide 6. You will see an overview of our consolidated revenue. In the third quarter of this year, Materialise Medical posted an all-time revenue record of EUR 33.3 million, growing by more than 10% compared to a particularly strong third quarter of last year. On the other hand, revenues from our Software and Manufacturing segments continue to be impacted by macroeconomic headwinds. As a result, revenue in both segments declined by 7% and 17%, respectively, leading to an overall decrease of 3.5% of our consolidated revenue compared to last year's period, while unfavorable ForEx effects, mainly due to a weaker U.S. dollar also impacted our top line this quarter. As you can see in the graph on…

Brigitte de Vet-Veithen

Analyst

Thank you, Koen. Let's now turn to Page 13. I'll conclude my remarks with a discussion of our full year 2025 guidance. As we approach the end [indiscernible] continue to impact the business environment in which we operate in our Manufacturing and Software segments. For fiscal year 2025, we therefore maintained our guidance as previously communicated with revenues in the range of EUR 265 million to EUR 280 million and adjusted EBIT in the range of EUR 6 million to EUR 10 million. We remain confident that our business is solid and resilient and that Materialise is strongly positioned to capture growth opportunities once market conditions improve. This concludes our prepared remarks. Operator, we're now ready to open the call for questions.

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] And our first question will come from the line of Troy Jensen with Cantor Fitzgerald.

Troy Jensen

Analyst

Congrats on the nice results. So, I'd just like to just unpack a little bit in Medical. Could you kind of give us an update on -- I guess I'm trying to figure out like relative exposure. I think of you guys as probably CMF and HIPS as the 2 biggest sections. I just would be curious if you could kind of rank order. And then this cardiac and some of these other things, how big and important can they be for next year here?

Brigitte de Vet-Veithen

Analyst

Yes. So I think in general, Troy, I mean, obviously, a very good question. I think what we've repeatedly communicated is that we have our existing markets and some new markets. So CMF, orthopedics and our research and engineering segments are the existing markets where we've already been active for quite a long time and that those markets are a little more mature than the others. In our new markets, we address the cardiac and the respiratory space in particular is new markets. So of course, the majority of our revenue comes from our existing markets. The new markets are still small, but we expect them to grow faster than the existing markets in the future. That's kind of how you need to think about that. Now within the existing markets, all 3 markets remain very important for us.

Troy Jensen

Analyst

Okay. All right. And how about just manufacturing here? I get a bunch of questions. I'll just rattle them off quick and see if you can hit them all. But you just hopes on a recovery, and I'm just kind of curious how big is aerospace and defense as a percentage of revenue?

Brigitte de Vet-Veithen

Analyst

So aerospace remain -- it has been a focus segment for us for quite a while. We see in the aerospace segment in general, we have seen continuous growth in that segment and we do believe that that's going to continue. Now the defense industry is a newer industry for us, at least with the broad engagement that we have communicated about earlier this year. So, the defense area at this point in time is not a significant market for us yet. At the same time, with -- as I mentioned earlier in my remarks, I think with the interactions we had so far, I see potential in that defense segment as our capabilities that we have built for aerospace can particularly be leveraged in the defense industry going forward.

Troy Jensen

Analyst

On the defense side, Brigitte, is it more on the metals front or is it polymers also?

Brigitte de Vet-Veithen

Analyst

It's actually a combination of polymer and metal. I'll give you an example on the aerospace segment, where our polymer offering is really important. There's 2 different applications on the polymer side that you can think about. One is interiors for the aerospace segment at large, in particular, for commercial aircraft as an example. The second is tooling where our polymer capabilities are helpful for aerospace companies, and in particular, the larger OEMs driving this. As an example, we were the first qualified supplier for Airbus in the polymer segment and that's a couple of years back.

Troy Jensen

Analyst

Okay. If I could sneak one more in. Can you just talk about just the manufacturing profitability? I mean, obviously, it's been a drag on you guys, unfortunately, here at these revenue levels. Any thoughts on either a recovery in kind of European industrial markets to drive better profitability or are there other things you can do to kind of cut costs to try to prevent that from diluting kind of the profitability level?

Brigitte de Vet-Veithen

Analyst

Yes. So I'll give you a double answer. So the first part of the answer is that, as Koen highlighted in his review of the financials, we have taken measures to significantly reduce our cost end of last year, earlier this year. And we do see the impact on our financials in manufacturing already. They might not be super visible on the EBIT and EBITDA lines given the weakness -- the continued weakness we see on the revenue line, but they have been making a difference, as Koen highlighted. So that's the first one. The second element to the answer I would give is there is 2 things really we need to see recovery on the revenue line. As you mentioned, the European environment is a really important one for us. So recovery in the European markets will certainly be a driver to bring our revenues to a more usual level. The second element that is important to keep an eye on is the automotive sector as such, because admittedly, in manufacturing at large, we are still exposed to the automotive industry and that is in Europe and in the U.S. And the recovery of the automotive industry will help us to recover to a more normal level on the revenue side as well. So it's really those 2 drivers that we need to keep an eye on.

Operator

Operator

I'm showing no further questions in the queue at this time. I would now like to turn the call back over to Ms. Brigitte de Vet for any closing remarks.

Brigitte de Vet-Veithen

Analyst

Thanks again for joining us today. We obviously look forward to continuing our dialogue with you through investor conference or in one-on-one virtual meetings or calls. And we are also looking forward to meeting some of you in person at the upcoming Formnext event in November. In the meantime, please reach out if you have any questions. Thank you, and goodbye for now.

Operator

Operator

This concludes today's program. Thank you all for participating. You may now disconnect.