Forecast

Economic and geopolitical conditions remain strained, while industry-specific challenges persist, particularly the sharp rise in prices for PCs, servers and storage solutions driven by high demand for memory chips. Nevertheless, Bechtle continues to navigate these challenging conditions successfully while seeing consistently high customer demand.

The exceptionally positive Q3 results, record order backlog and encouraging initial figures for October give the Executive Board confidence that Bechtle will continue to deliver robust growth in Q4, despite the very high prior-year base. The Bechtle AG Executive Board has therefore decided to raise the forecast again. The company now expects EBT to grow by more than 10%, up from the previous forecast of 5% to 10%. The forecasts for business volume and revenue remain unchanged at more than 10% and 5% to 10%, respectively. The EBT margin based on business volume is still expected to be slightly below the prior-year figure of 3.8%.