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Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology AG: Annouoncement of Q1/2015 results - Seite 2

research and development improved by 4.3 percent to EUR 12.8 million
(Q1/2014: EUR 12.3 million) and sales in the coating market segment
contracted by 16.8 percent to EUR 10.2 million in the reported period
(Q1/2014: EUR 12.3 million).

In Europe, sales declined by 5.4 percent to EUR 44.1 million in the first
quarter 2015 (Q1/2014: EUR 46.6 million). Sales in Asia increased 14.7
percent in the reported period to EUR 36.4 million (Q1/2014: EUR 31.7
million). In the Americas an increase of 30.9 percent was realized, hence
taking the sales figure to EUR 26.2 million (Q1/2014: EUR 20.0 million).

Concerning product sales, the service business grew by 16.1 percent to EUR
23.7 million (Q1/2014: EUR 20.4 million). Sales with instruments and
components which amounted to EUR 24.8 million were 2.8 percent higher in
the reported period (Q1/2014: EUR 24.1 million). Backing pump sales
experienced an increase of 19.1 percent to EUR 25.0 million (Q1/2014: EUR
21.0 million). The increase in turbopump sales amounted to 5.4 percent and
took the figure to EUR 32.8 million (Q1/2014: EUR 31.1 million). With sales
of EUR 0.5 million (Q1/2014: EUR 1.9 million) the systems business plays a
limited role.

New orders in the first three months of 2015 totaled EUR 120.3 million and
were hence 19.5 percent higher versus the previous corresponding figure
(Q1/2014: EUR 100.7 million). The book-to-bill ratio, the ratio of order
intake to sales, was 1.13 for the period (Q1/2014: 1.02). The company's
order backlog of EUR 72.7 million on March 31, 2015, was 15.2 percent
higher than the corresponding figure one year earlier (March 31, 2014: EUR
63.1 million).

Pfeiffer Vacuum's gross profit margin in the first three months of 2015
increased by 0.5 percentage points to 37.0 percent (Q1/2014: 36.5 percent).
The period's operating profit of EUR 16.4 million was 61.1 percent above
the prior year's corresponding figure (Q1/2014: EUR 10.2 million). This
resulted in an EBIT margin of 15.4 percent (Q1/2014: 10.4 percent). Net
income amounted to EUR 11.4 million and thus was 66.6 percent higher than a
year earlier (Q1/2014: EUR 6.9 million). This translated to earnings per
share of EUR 1.16 for the reported first quarter of 2015 (Q1/2014: EUR
0.70).

Attachments: Income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement

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