SKF Half-year report 2013


Tom Johnstone, President and CEO:
“SKF delivered a good performance and a strong cash flow. Demand was somewhat
better in the quarter than we expected in April and this combined with the steps
we are taking to reduce our costs enabled us to continue our journey to deliver
a sequentially improving operating margin. Our cost reduction programme remains
in focus and further steps were taken during the quarter.
The profitability in our automotive business is developing in the right way due
to strong execution and improving demand especially in our truck business and
vehicle service market. We continue to be successful in gaining new business
especially with new products which help reduce weight and friction and so
improve fuel consumption. We do not see any major improvement in demand in our
industrial markets around the world but despite this we have taken a number of
important orders particularly within aerospace and our service business. As you
would expect, the strong automotive business and weaker industrial business
negatively affected our mix.
While there continues to be uncertainty from a macro viewpoint we expect demand
in the third quarter to remain on the same level which means it will be slightly
higher compared to the same quarter last year. The manufacturing level was
increased during the second quarter and we will stay at that level in the third
quarter.”

Key figures           Q2 2013  Q2 2012  YTD 2013  YTD 2012
Net sales, SEKm       16,392   17,174   31,544    34,105
Operating profit,     1,837    2,049    3,317     4,185
SEKm
Operating margin, %   11.2     11.9     10.5      12.3
Operating margin      12.4     12.7     11.9      12.7
excluding one-off
costs, %
Profit before taxes,  1,627    1,774    2,864     3,730
SEKm
Net profit, SEKm      1,104    1,244    1,922     2,570
Basic earnings per    2.36     2.63     4.10      5.44
share, SEK

The operating profit was affected by one-off costs in the second quarter by
around SEK 190 million (140), and in the half year by around SEK 440 million
(140).

Net sales change y-o-y,  Volume  Price/  Structure  Currency  Total
in SEK,attributable to:          mix                effect
Q2 2013                  -1.6%   -0.6%   2.6%       -5.0%     -4.6%
Half year 2013           -5.1%   0.0%    2.0%       -4.4%     -7.5%

Sales in the second quarter in local currencies and excluding structure
decreased by 4% in Europe and Asia, it was relatively unchanged in North America
and decreased by 3% in Middle East and Africa. In Latin America they increased
by 14%.
Manufacturing in the second quarter was relatively unchanged compared to last
year.
Sales in the first half year in local currencies and excluding structure
decreased by 7% in Europe, by 6% in North America, by 5% in Asia and by 4% in
Middle East and Africa. In Latin America they increased by 11%.
Manufacturing in the first half year was slightly lower compared to last year.

Outlook for the third quarter of 2013

Demand compared to the third quarter 2012
The demand for SKF’s products and services is expected to be slightly higher for
the Group, Asia and North America as well as for all the business areas. It is
expected to be relatively unchanged for Europe and higher for Latin America.

Demand compared to the second quarter 2013
The demand for SKF’s products and services is expected to be relatively
unchanged for the Group, Europe, Asia and North America as well as for all the
business areas. It is expected to be slightly higher for Latin America.

Manufacturing
Manufacturing is expected to be slightly higher year over year and relatively
unchanged compared to the second quarter.

Gothenburg, 16 July 2013

Aktiebolaget SKF
      (publ)

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