Annual Report 2024

Key Figures of ProSiebenSat.1 Group

 

2024

2023

Revenues

3,918

3,852

Total costs1

4,000

3,959

Programming expenses

992

1,276

Adjusted EBITDA2

557

578

EBITDA

512

140

Adjusted net income3

229

225

Adjusted earnings per share (in EUR)

1.01

0.99

Free cash flow

103

116

Adjusted operating free cash flow4

285

260

Audience share (in %)5

20.0

21.4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12/31/2024

12/31/2023

Employees6

7,041

7,188

Programming assets

828

864

Cash and cash equivalents

608

573

Net financial debt7

1,512

1,546

Leverage ratio8

2.7

2.7

P7S1 ROCE (in %)9

11.2

11.0

1

Total costs comprise cost of sales, selling expenses, administrative expenses and other operating expenses.

2

EBITDA before reconciling items.

3

Net income attributable to shareholders of ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE before the amortization, impairments and reversal of impairments of assets arising from purchase price allocations as well as impairments of goodwill, adjusted for the reconciling items. These include valuation effects recognized in other financial result, valuation effects of put option liabilities, valuation effects from interest rate hedging transactions as well as other material one-time items. Moreover, the tax effects resulting from such adjustments are also adjusted. See Combined Management Report, chapter "Planning and Management".

4

For a definition of the adjusted operating free cash flow, please refer to Combined Management Report, chapter "Planning and Management".

5

ProSiebenSat.1 Group; AGF Videoforschung; AGF SCOPE 1.7; January 1, 2023–June 30, 2024; market standard: TV; evaluation type TV time interval; product-related; Target group: 20–59 years. In the analysis of audience shares in Germany, ProSiebenSat.1 uses the advertising-relevant target group of viewers aged 20 to 59 since 2024; previously, the focus was on the 14- to 49-year-old target group.

6

Full-time equivalent positions as of reporting date.

7

The definition of ProSiebenSat.1 Group’s net financial debt as of December 31, 2024 did not include real estate liabilities of EUR 184 million (December 31, 2023: EUR 167 million) and accrued interest liabilities of EUR 10 million (December 31, 2023: EUR 13 million).

8

Ratio net financial debt to adjusted EBITDA in the last twelve months.

9

Ratio of adjusted EBIT of the last twelve months after corrections to capital employed (average). See Combined Management Report, chapter "Planning and Management".