Shares in Valeo SE
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traded lower on Friday after the auto supplier warned that its margins would shrink this year before improving in 2025.
At 0901 GMT, shares in Valeo were down 5% at EUR22.44.
For 2022, Valeo guided for earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization to slip to 11.8%-12.3% of sales.
The French company guided for Ebitda to rise to about 14.5% of sales in 2025. For 2021, Valeo’s Ebitda stood at 13.4% of sales, the company said, confirming preliminary figures released in January.
Valeo’s 2022 Ebitda guidance is below a Vara consensus, partly because it includes the effect from its takeover of a joint venture with Siemens AG whereas analysts’ estimates didn’t, Jefferies analysts said. “However, guidance looks still a bit light,” they said.
As part of a set of targets through 2025 laid out Friday, Valeo said it expects sales to rise to about 27.5 billion euros ($30.78 billion) in 2025 on expectations that the automotive market will recover strongly and that it will be able to outperform it.
Write to Cristina Roca at cristina.roca@wsj.com
