{"id":10372,"date":"2025-02-03T19:36:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T17:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smartphotogroup.com\/?p=10372"},"modified":"2025-02-03T19:36:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T17:36:40","slug":"smartphoto-group-trading-update-2024-smartphoto-group-further-invests-in-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smartphotogroup.com\/en\/smartphoto-group-trading-update-2024-smartphoto-group-further-invests-in-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartphoto group &#8211; Trading update 2024 &#8211; Smartphoto group further invests in growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>PRESS RELEASE <\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Wetteren, 3 February 2025 \u2013 06.00 p.m.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">smartphoto group &#8211; Euronext Brussels: SMAR<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 300;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Increase in revenue from 77.3 million euro in 2023 to 80.5 million euro<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">(1)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\"> (+4.0%) in 2024, driven by a strong second semester and an even stronger final quarter.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 300;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">EBITDA amounts to a solid 11.4 million euro<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">(1)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\"> in 2024, a decrease of 13.1% compared to 2023 (13.1 million euro). This decline reflects targeted investments in people and marketing, which already contributed to accelerated turnover growth and strong performance in the second half of the year.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Increase in net cash of 0.8 million euro (+4.3%) from 19.7 million euro in 2023 to 20.5 million euro<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">(1)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\"> in 2024, and this notwithstanding the increased dividend payment, the additional buyback of treasury shares, and the acquisition of TopFanZ at the end of May 2024.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/smartphoto-express-production-wp-smartphotogroup-com\/1\/2025\/02\/smartphoto-group_Trading-update-2024_EN.pdf\">here<\/a> to see the full press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESS RELEASE Wetteren, 3 February 2025 \u2013 06.00 p.m. smartphoto group &#8211; Euronext Brussels: SMAR Increase in revenue from 77.3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geen-categorie-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartphotogroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartphotogroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartphotogroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartphotogroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartphotogroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartphotogroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10373,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartphotogroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10372\/revisions\/10373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartphotogroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartphotogroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartphotogroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}