Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (AFX)

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Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (AFX) Profile

Carl Zeiss Meditec AG is a medical technology company with operations in Germany, the European Union, the United States, Asia, and elsewhere. The company is divided into two segments: ophthalmology devices and microsurgery. The Ophthalmic Devices category includes services and solutions for diagnosing and treating eye problems, as well as equipment and consumables for cataract, retinal, and refractive surgery. It offers services to ophthalmologists and optometrists in private practice, as well as physicians and surgeons in hospitals and outpatient surgical clinics. Microsurgery provides visualization solutions for minimally invasive surgical procedures, as well as solutions for ear, nose, and throat, plastic and reconstructive, dental, and spinal operations. The company is headquartered in Jena, Germany. Carl Zeiss Meditec AG is a subsidiary of Carl Zeiss AG.

Latest stock price 142.25-4.95 (-3.36%) At close: January 18 05:35PM CET Full Time Employees:3,531. Market cap 12.60B EUR. Subsidiaries: Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc., Carl Zeiss Meditec SAS, Carl Zeiss Vision Hungary Optikai Korlatolt Felelossegu Tarsasag, Carl Zeiss Meditec Systems, and more.

Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (AFX.xetr)Analysis
Carl Zeiss Meditec generated sales of roughly €1,647 million in the fiscal year 2020/21 (previous year: €1,336 million), a 23.3 percent increase (adjusted for currency effects: 26.5 percent). Orders received climbed all the more dramatically to around €1,731 million (+29.1%, or +32.6 percent when currency impacts are taken into account). Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) climbed significantly to around €374 million (€178 million in the prior year. Margins on EBITDA were 22.7 percent (prior year: 13.3 percent.

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