Sartorius AG reported earnings results for the first half of 2016. For the period, the company reported sales revenues are up by 16.8% in extra currencies. In constant currencies, the growth has been a bit more than 18.5%. An even stronger increase of earnings per share there, the increase is around 30% up to EUR 0.91 for the ordinaries and EUR 0.92 for the prefs. Order intake, again, is substantially higher than the sales revenue in absolute figures. And the underlying EBITDA has grown even stronger by 31%, so that the company was able to raise EBITDA margin up to 27.3%.

The company expects also strong double-digit growth for this year. The company expects now 19% to 22% sales revenue growth in constant currencies after the 13% to 17% that the company has expected before. And the company also expects that this should lead to a slightly stronger increase of EBITDA margins, so that the company now expects 28% of EBITDA margin for the full year. At this point, the company still expects CapEx ratio to be around 10%. And the CapEx ratio, the company expects still to be between 6% and 8% for the full year.