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Vita 34 returns to growth path in 2023 - Seite 2

At EUR 5.6 million, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) improved significantly compared to the previous year (2022: EUR -3.6 million). At the same time, there were a number of extraordinary charges that the company had already reported in publications. These primarily include one-off charges for the reduction in the size of the Management Board, the costs of the capital increase, consulting costs in connection with internal investigations at a subsidiary and in connection with the legal dispute against the licensor of the CAR-T technology and an unexpected charges for the 2022 audit. In total, the extraordinary charges from the aforementioned items amounted to EUR 1.5 million. The EBITDA margin in the fourth quarter was therefore also slightly lower than in the third quarter. However, this development is due to the aforementioned one-off charges, while the purely operating margin remained at a similar level to the previous quarter.

The key figures for business development are as follows:

	IFRS, in EUR `000	Q4	Q4	FY	FY	FY
		2023	2022	2023	2022	∆
	Group revenue	20,380	18,177	77,062	68,940	10.4%
	Gross profit	6,884	-10,674	28,244	2,735	>100%
	EBITDA	1,980	-1,958	5,569	-3,564	>100%
	EBITDA margin [%]	9.7%	-10.8%	7.2%	-5.2%	>100%
	EBIT	-298	-19,307	-3,120	-27,283	>100%
	Result for the period	3,797	-19,326	-2,033	-27,384	>100%
	Earnings per share [in EUR]	0.24	-1.22	-0.12	-1.71	>100%
	Operating cash flow	4,320	-186	9,154	-4,486	>100%
	Cash & cash equivalents