Detection Technology - Good growth, some sales were postponed
DT’s Q1 result fell short of our expectations. All BUs grew, and total net sales experienced double-digit growth. The component shortage increasingly limited the growth, and part of the sales were postponed in all DT’s BUs.
- Group results: Q1 net sales grew by 10.9% y/y to EUR 20.3m (EUR 21.1m/21.7m Evli/cons.) driven by all DT’s business units. Operating profit improved and grew by 9% y/y to EUR 1.5m (EUR 1.9m/2.1m Evli/cons.), indicating an EBIT margin of 7.4%. Soft scalability was driven by increased material costs and stronger investments into R&D to tackle the component shortage. Operative cashflow was down 39% y/y, totaling EUR 0.7m. R&D costs were 14.5% of net sales (Q1’21: 13.1%).
- Medical (MBU): medical segment grew by 4.5% y/y to EUR 10.5m (Evli: EUR 10.9m). Growth was strong in CT applications both in developing and developed countries.
- Security (SBU): security experienced an increase of 7.5% y/y, net sales totaling EUR 6.3m (Evli: EUR 7.3m). Despite the demand for aviation solutions has increased significantly, Q1 growth was still driven by applications other than those used in the aviation sector.
- Industrial (IBU): net sales came in strong and grew by 45.2% y/y to 3.5m (Evli: EUR 2.9m). The demand was strong in all IBU’s main segments: imaging solutions for the food, pharmaceutical, and mining industries.
- The company had ongoing project to design product modifications to its entire product portfolio to mitigate the challenges in the availability of special materials and electronic components.
- FY’22 outlook: IBU and SBU to show double-digit growth in Q2 and MBU to decrease in Q2. Group net sales to grow by double-digit figures in Q2, H1 and H2.