Financial Services segment

The Financial Services (FS) segment is the central financing partner for end-customer leasing and short-term rental fleet financing for the LMH and STILL brand segments. It continued to benefit from steadily growing internal and external demand for financing solutions. Revenue in the long-term leasing business with external end customers advanced to €92.9 million (Q1 2015: €85.0 million). Total revenue including the short-term rental business, which is managed by the LMH and STILL brand segments, was up by 10.3 per cent to €162.5 million (Q1 2015: €147.3 million). At €1.3 million, earnings before tax was at the level of the prior-year period (Q1 2015: €1.3 million). The return on equity (ROE) was 12.8 per cent (Q1 2015: 13.3 per cent).

At €1,628.5 million, the FS segment’s assets had increased slightly compared with the end of last year (31 December 2015: €1,603.4 million) and were up significantly year on year due to the increase in the volume of orders (31 March 2015: €1,412.2 million). As at 31 March 2016, the FS segment had intra-group lease receivables of €552.7 million from the LMH and STILL brand segments relating to the intra-group financing of the short-term rental fleet (31 December 2015: €549.2 million; 31 March 2015: €489.3 million). The funding of intra-group long-term leases (finance leases) with LMH and STILL resulted in lease liabilities of €395.3 million (31 December 2015: €400.6 million; 31 March 2015: €350.4 million). Net financial debt amounted to €198.5 million at the end of the first quarter (31 December 2015: €185.6 million; 31 March 2015: €169.7 million). > TABLE 10

Key figures − Financial Services −

 

 

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in € million

Q1 2016

Q1 2015

Change

1

Includes liabilities from financing of the short-term rental fleet reported as other financial liabilities

2

Earnings before taxes divided by average equity employed excluding net income (loss) for the current period

Revenue

162.5

147.3

10.3%

Adjusted EBITDA

23.7

21.7

9.0%

Adjusted EBIT

–1.1

–0.1

<–100%

Earnings before taxes (EBT)

1.3

1.3

–2.8%

 

 

 

 

Total segment assets

1,628.5

1,412.2

15.3%

 

 

 

 

Leased assets

329.5

277.5

18.8%

Lease receivables

1,186.4

1,032.5

14.9%

thereof lease receivables from long-term leases to third parties

633.7

543.3

16.6%

thereof lease receivables from LMH and STILL from funding of the short-term rental business

552.7

489.3

13.0%

Lease liabilities1

1,267.2

1,081.1

17.2%

thereof liabilities from funding of the long-term leases with third parties

871.9

730.7

19.3%

thereof liabilities from funding of the short-term rental business of LMH and STILL

395.3

350.4

12.8%

Net financial debt

198.5

169.7

17.0%

Equity

42.8

41.9

2.0%

 

 

 

 

Return on equity2

12.8%

13.3%