euro adhoc: Salzgitter AG / Financial Figures/Balance Sheet / SALZGITTER AG: Outstanding start into the new financial year 2007

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3-month report/First Quarter 2007

15.05.2007

Thanks to the robust constitution of the global economy and the
sustained upswing in Germany and Europe, demand for steel and tubes
products continued to run at a high level, also in the first quarter
of 2007. Buoyed by these excellent general conditions, the Salzgitter
Group set new record figures in Group sales and operating profit for
a 3-month period in the first quarter of 2007.

Consolidated external sales increased by 20 % to EUR 2.38 billion
(first quarter of 2006: EUR 1.98 billion). Profit before tax stood at
EUR 325.4 million (EBT in the first quarter of 2006: EUR 50.2
million; comparable operating EBT: EUR 198.9 million). Profit after
tax came to EUR 196.6 million in the first quarter of 2007 (first
quarter of 2006: EUR 35.7 million); earnings per share are calculated
at EUR 3.41 (first quarter of 2006: EUR 0.62). Return on capital
employed (ROCE) stood at 30.8 % (first quarter of 2006: 8.8 %).

External sales by Division (EUR million):

Q1 2007 (Q1 2006)
Steel 723 (607)
Tubes 428 (398)
Trading 1,075 (866)
Services 131 (93)
Others/Consolidation 25 (20)
Group 2,381 (1,983)

Earnings before tax by Division (EUR million):

Q1 2007 (Q1 2006)
Steel 181.5 (104.3)
Tubes 65.5 (62.2)
Trading 64.8 (30.1)
Services 8.1 (5.7)
Others/Consolidation 5.6 (-152.3)
Group 325.4 (50.2)

All in all, on the basis of currently available information and in
view of expectations of the development of the procurement and sales
markets, as well as of the general conditions, and taking account of
the effects of the Profit Improvement Program, we expect the
Salzgitter Group to generate a pre-tax profit of around one billion
euro in the ongoing financial year.

Express reference is made to the fact that opportunities and risks
arising from currently unforeseeable trends in sales prices, input
materials and capacity level developments, as well as changes in the
currency parity, may considerably affect performance in the course of
the remaining financial year 2007. The resulting fluctuation in the
consolidated pre-tax result may, as experience has shown, be within a
considerable range.

For further details, please see the press release and the Interim
Report (www.salzgitter-ag.de) published today.

end of announcement euro adhoc 15.05.2007 06:43:04
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Further inquiry note:
Bernhard Kleinermann
Tel.: +49 (0) 5341-21-3783
E-Mail: kleinermann.b@salzgitter-ag.de

Branche: Iron & Steel
ISIN: DE0006202005
WKN: 620200
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