MS Industrie AG acquires real estate property in Trossingen and reports key figures for fiscal year 2025, along with a current business update and outlook for 2026

MS Industrie AG acquires real estate property in Trossingen and reports key figures for fiscal year 2025, along with a current business update and outlook for 2026
Trossingen real estate property

The MS Industrie Group, through its subsidiary MS XTEC GmbH, is taking over its manufacturing facility in Trossingen ahead of schedule from a real estate leasing structure established and financed in 2015 in collaboration with CommerzReal AG, Commerzbank AG, and Kreissparkasse Tuttlingen. The property company was established at the time of the building’s construction, with total construction costs of approximately € 28 million and a current production area of approximately 22,600 square meters, and will now be fully consolidated into the MS Industrie AG Group as of March 31, 2026.

The impact on the consolidated income statement is as follows: With the elimination of lease expenses, EBITDA improves by approximately € +2.6 million per year, EBIT by approximately € +1.7 million per year, and EBT by approximately € +0.6 million per year. For the current fiscal year 2026, these effects will only apply pro rata for the three quarters from April to December; starting in fiscal year 2027, the positive effects will be fully realized.

The transaction will have the following impact on the consolidated balance sheet as of end of March 2026: On the assets side, fixed assets will increase by the book value of the property, amounting to approximately € +20 million, and on the liabilities side, long-term bank liabilities will increase by approximately € +17 million – with a corresponding effect on the balance sheet total.

“The early acquisition of the state-of-the-art industrial property in Trossingen demonstrates the economic strength of our industrial group,” says Dr. Andreas Aufschnaiter, member of the management board of MS Industrie AG.


Preliminary, unaudited key figures for 2025

As expected, the MS Industrie Group generated consolidated revenues of approximately € 145 million in fiscal year 2025, representing a slight increase of +3% compared to the adjusted prior-year figure from continuing operations (prior year: € 140 million). Operating EBITDA amounted to approximately € 6.2 million following a weaker fourth quarter (previous year: € 4.2 million, adjusted, from continuing operations). Total EBITDA, including start-up costs for the Charlotte/USA site (approximately € -1.7 million) and non-operating exchange rate effects related to a tax receivable in the USA (approximately € -0.5 million), amounted to approximately € 4.0 million.

The expected consolidated pre-tax profit (EBT), which, in addition to the afore mentioned effects, also includes year-end value adjustments to minority interests totalling € -1.3 million, unfortunately remains negative at approximately € -5.4 million (previous year: € -6.4 million).

The complete and audited 2025 consolidated financial statements will be published as scheduled by April 30, 2026, at the latest.


Current order backlog and revenue outlook for 2026

The order backlog of the operating company MS XTEC GmbH currently stands at just under € 80 million for the coming six months and supports the revenues of approximately € 155 million expected by the management board for the full fiscal year, which would correspond to organic growth of approximately +7% in 2026. This increase includes the expected ramp-up of revenues at the Charlotte/USA site – with components for power supply systems, particularly for large AI data centers – to approximately € 5 million by December 2026.

“We can look ahead to 2026 with healthy optimism. Nevertheless, as a precaution, the current outlook must be viewed in the context of the potential impact of the war in the Middle East on the global economy and its supply chains,” says Armin Distel, member of the management board of MS Industrie AG.


Corporate streamlining

The two non-operational group entities, “MS PowerTec GmbH” (formerly the Zittau site) and “MS Industrie Verwaltungs GmbH,” will be merged into MS XTEC GmbH, Trossingen, effective January 1, 2026, with retroactive effect. This will significantly reduce complexity within the MS Industrie Group, resulting in lower administrative costs for accounting, annual financial statements, etc.

The merger of MS PowerTec GmbH will result in a one-time gain of approximately € 3 million in the individual financial statements of MS XTEC GmbH. This has no impact on the consolidated balance sheet; however, it will ultimately have a positive effect on the 2026 individual financial statements of the parent company, MS Industrie AG, through the profit and loss transfer agreement with MS XTEC GmbH.

For illustration purposes, please refer to the updated corporate structure on the MS Industrie AG website at https://www.ms-industrie.de/en/legal-structure/.


Background:

MS Industrie AG (WKN 585518; ISIN DE0005855183), based in Munich, is the listed parent company of a focused technology group with core expertise in highly automated metalworking and assembly (“MS XTEC”: systems and components for heavy-duty combustion engines as well as hybrid and electric drive systems) and – since the beginning of July 2024 – a minority shareholding in ultrasonic technology (“MS Ultrasonic”: special machines, standard machines as well as ultrasonic systems and components). MS XTEC 's main customer sectors include the global commercial vehicle industry, followed by the construction machinery industry and other heavy-duty applications through to stationary power generation. The group generated a sales volume of around EUR 145 million in the year 2025 with around 400 employees and two production sites in Trossingen / Baden-Württemberg and Charlotte / North Carolina (USA).


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