EANS-News: Kapsch TrafficCom AG - Strong increase in revenues and profit for the period in the first nine months of the 2016/17 fiscal year

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quarterly report

Highlights

*28% increase in sales against Q1-Q3 of the previous year
*EBIT about the same as the comparable value of the previous year
*Profit for the period increased strongly
*Despite acquisitions and dividend payment: Net credit of EUR 17.6
million
*New projects won along with solid new business pipeline
*Focus on integration of the transportation business taken over by
Schneider Electric

"We are well on course to implementing our 2020 strategy. The Group
is growing both organically as well as through acquisitions. In doing
so, the company's profitability with toll solutions supports
expansion into the young business area of Intelligent Mobility
Solutions", says Georg Kapsch, CEO Kapsch TrafficCom.

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| Unless otherwise|___________________Q1-Q3||______________________Q3||______FY|
| stated, all| | | || | | || |
| values in EUR| | | || | | || |
|_____________Mio.|_2016/17|__+/-_|_2015/16||_2016/17|__+/-_|_2015/16||_2015/16|
| | | | || | | || |
|_________Revenues|___483.8|_27.6%|___379.2||___172.2|_28.2%|___134.3||___526.1|
| | | | || | | || |
|_____________EBIT|____43.0|_-0.7%|____43.3||____14.2|-10.3%|____15.9||____62.3|
| | | | || | | || |
|______EBIT_Margin|____8.9%|-2.5%p|___11.4%||____8.3%|-3.6%p|___11.8%||___11.9%|
| Profit| | | || | | || |
|___for_the_period|____29.4|_16.3%|____25.3||_____9.3|_53.0%|_____6.1||____36.5|
| Profit for the| | | || | | || |
| period| | | || | | || |
| attributable to| | | || | | || |
|___equity_holders|____30.1|_40.8%|____21.3||_____9.5|103.3%|_____4.7||____31.1|

Vienna, February 22, 2017 - Kapsch TrafficCom continues growth in the
first three quarters of the 2016/17 fiscal year. Turnover increased
against the comparison period in the previous year by EUR 104.6
million (+28%) to EUR 483.8 million, whereas the transportation
division acquired from Schneider Electric on April 1, 2016 (Kapsch
TrafficCom Transportation; KTT) contributed EUR 80.7 million to total
revenues. The business with toll solutions summarized in the segment
"Electronic Toll Collection" generated about three quarters of the
Group's turnover. The "Intelligent Mobility Solutions" segment
accounted for the remainder.

The operative result (EBIT) of the first nine months of the fiscal
year, at EUR 43.0 million, was at the same level as the previous
year. The EBIT margin dropped by 2.5 percentage points to 8.9%.
Important reasons for this are the still negative profit contribution
of Kapsch TrafficCom Transportation and the integration costs
associated with this acquisition. It is currently anticipated that
the integration process will largely be completed over the course of
this fiscal year. However, we will likely also experience a number of
follow-on effects next year. In any case, we should then start to see
the synergies resulting from the acquisition being reflected in our
results.

Due to lower foreign exchange losses the financial result in Q1-Q3
2016/17 was better than in the same period of the previous year,
which even comprised a positive one-off effect. It was therefore
possible to record strong growth (+16%) in the profit for the period
to EUR 29.4 million.

Through the acquisition of the remaining 48% share in the Czech
Kapsch Telematic Services (the operating company of the toll project
in the Czech Republic), the profit for the period attributable to
equity holders increased by 41%. To the same extent, the earnings per
share grew to EUR 2.31 (Q1-Q3 2015/16: EUR 1.64).

The capital resources of Kapsch TrafficCom continue to be extremely
sound. In spite of the dividend payment of a total of EUR 19.5
million as well as payments in connection with the different
acquisitions - most recently for a conditional adjustment of the
purchase price of Kapsch TrafficCom Transportation of EUR 5 million -
Kapsch TrafficCom had a net credit of EUR 17.6 million as of December
31, 2016.

On the sales side, Kapsch TrafficCom achieved a range of notable
successes in the first nine months of this fiscal year. In the Czech
Republic, the contract on the operation of the nationwide toll system
for road haulage was extended by up to three more years. In Austria,
Kapsch TrafficCom was awarded the contract for the installation and
technical operation of the nationwide toll system for vehicles over
3.5 tons. After acceptance of the new system, Kapsch TrafficCom will
perform the technical operation for a duration of ten years, whereby
there is the possibility to extend by up to five years.

Kapsch TrafficCom also achieved numerous successes outside Europe.
North America is certainly the most important growth market for the
Group. Besides some larger projects, an increasing number of smaller
orders are to be accounted for there. Kapsch TrafficCom has been
active in North America for many years and has developed the market
with acquisitions and organic initiatives. In this region, the
company employs about 700 employees and possesses its own production
site for components.

You can find the report for Q1-Q3 2016/17 at: http://kapsch.net/ktc/
investor_relations/reports The results for the 2016/17 fiscal year
are expected to be released on June 20, 2017.

Kapsch TrafficCom is a provider of intelligent transportation systems
(ITS) in the segments of toll collection, city access control and
parking space management, traffic management, traffic monitoring,
utility vehicle monitoring, electronic vehicle registration and V2X
cooperative systems. The end-to-end solutions of Kapsch TrafficCom
cover the entire value creation chain of its customers, from
components and design to the installation and operation of systems,
all from a single source. The core business comprises the
development, installation and operation of electronic toll collection
and traffic management systems. Kapsch TrafficCom is listed in the
prime market of the Vienna Stock Exchange (ISIN AT000KAPSCH9).

Reference projects in more than 50 countries on all continents have
made Kapsch TrafficCom a globally recognized ITS provider. As part of
the Kapsch Group, an Austrian family-owned technology group founded
in 1892, Kapsch TrafficCom is headquartered in Vienna, Austria, and
has subsidiaries and branches in 33 countries. It has also been
listed since 2007 on the Vienna Stock Exchange (KTCG) and earned
revenues of EUR 526 million in the 2015/16 fiscal year. The company
employs over 4,600 employees worldwide.

For further information: www.kapsch.net/ktc.
Followers on Twitter at twitter.com/kapschnet.

Further inquiry note:
Press contact:
Dr. Ingrid Lawicka
Company spokesperson
Kapsch AG
Am Europlatz 2, 1120 Vienna, Austria
Tel.: +43 50 811 1705
E-mail: ingrid.lawicka@kapsch.net

Contact for investors:
Mag. Hans Lang
Investor Relations Officer
Kapsch TrafficCom AG
Am Europlatz 2, 1120 Vienna, Austria
Tel.: +43 50 811 1122
E-mail: ir.kapschtraffic@kapsch.net

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company: Kapsch TrafficCom AG
Am Europlatz 2
A-1120 Wien
phone: +43 1 50811 1122
FAX: +43 1 50811 99 1122
mail: ir.kapschtraffic@kapsch.net
WWW: www.kapschtraffic.com
sector: Technology
ISIN: AT000KAPSCH9, AT0000A0KQ52
indexes: Prime Market
stockmarkets: official market: Wien
language: English

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