1Home
2Company- 2.1Profile
- 2.2Management
- 2.3Key Figures
- 2.4Presentations
3Products- 3.1Payment
- 3.1.1Credit Card Processing
- 3.1.2EFT
- 3.1.3Worldwide Payouts
- 3.1.4Consumer Services
- 3.1.5Terminals
- 3.1.6Shop Integration
- 3.2Risk
- 3.2.1Transaction Check
- 3.2.2Consumer Check
- 3.2.3Decision Logic
- 3.2.4Fraud Prevention
- 3.3Banking Services
- 3.3.1Credit Card Acceptance
- 3.3.2Merchant Accounts
- 3.3.3Co-Branded Cards
- 3.3.4Payout Cards
- 3.4Consulting
- 3.5Call Center
- 3.1Payment
4Branches- 4.1Travel
- 4.2Consumer Goods
- 4.3Digital Goods
5Investor Relations- 5.1Wirecard stock
- 5.1.1STOCK CHART
- 5.1.2Share Capital
- 5.1.3Analysts
- 5.1.4Downloads
- 5.2Financial News
- 5.2.1Financial News
- 5.2.2Ad Hocs
- 5.2.3PRODUCT NEWS
- 5.3Financial Reports
- 5.4Financial Calendar
- 5.5Corporate Governance
- 5.5.1Documents
- 5.5.2Directors Dealings
- 5.5.3Annual Documents
- 5.6AGM
- 5.1Wirecard stock
6Press
7Career
Facts and Figures
In the first quarter of 2010, Wirecard AG succeeded in following up the good performance achieved last year, by continuing to record double-digit growth both in sales revenues and earnings.
Group sales revenues rose by 21 per cent compared to the first quarter of 2009, amounting to 59.3 million euros. Compared with the same quarter in 2009, earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) were up by 21 per cent, to 14.4 million euros. Consolidated earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) increased by 22 percent in the first three months of 2010, to EUR 15.6 million (Q1/2009: EUR 12.8 million). After-tax earnings increased by 29 percent, from EUR 9.2 million in the previous-year period to EUR 11.9 million.
The cash flow from current business activities, adjusted for transaction volumes of a transitory nature, increased by 16 percent, to EUR 12.6 million.
Sales revenues generated by risk management services and the processing of online payment transactions in the core segment of 'Payment Processing & Risk Management' increased by about 18.5 percent in the first quarter of 2010, from EUR 46.6 million to EUR 55.2 million.
The proportion of Group sales generated by the Acquiring & Issuing seg-ment and, therefore, by Wirecard Bank AG, grew by 82 percent, from EUR 13.9 million in the previous-year quarter to EUR 25.3 million, impressively reflecting the dynamic business development of bank-based services and products.
After the first three months of 2010, earnings per share came to EUR 0.12, up by 33 percent year-on-year (Q1/2009: EUR 0.09). The transaction volume processed via the Wirecard platform increased by 27 percent year-on-year, to EUR 2.8 billion. Constant growth rates were recorded in our new customer business.
