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Dermapharm Holding SE - Q2 2026 Results

25th August, 2026 | 14:00 CEST

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Speakers

Britta Hamberger

Christof Dreibholz

Andreas Eberhorn

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Britta Hamberger Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Dermapharm's

H1 2026 Webcast and thank you for joining us today. With me is our Chief Financial Officer, Christof Dreibholz; and our Chief Marketing Officer, Andreas Eberhorn. Andreas and Christof will guide you through today's presentation and afterwards, we will be open for Q&A. Andreas, the floor is yours.

Andreas Eberhorn Thanks a lot, Britta. Also, welcome from my side. For the first half of 2026, I want to show you a few highlights which support the really favorable trend we see on the operational side, structured in a way as you know in branded pharmaceuticals, other healthcare products and parallel import segment.

If we look briefly at the branded piece, we see nice growth in our core business in Germany. Specifically, the brands where we focus on, where we put our investment in, really grow nicely and show both internally but also on the

German market, growth above the relevant market with brands like Myditin, Tromcardin, or Keltican and develop further nicely.

As you know, after the acquisition of Mucos business from

Nestlé, we had the task also to relaunch Wobenzym after a period of supply issues in the market, which is really nicely done in Germany. And end of H1, we already achieved a distribution rate in pharmacies above 60%, which means the brand is back and is nicely growing. So, this is a very favorable trend and as said, supports also the overall growth. And also the rest of the portfolio is showing a good trend in the German market.

If we look on another piece in the market, specifically the allergology portfolio, on the one hand, this is

Allergopharma, as you know. Here the trend continues since last year or last years. We see that we are the strongest growing brand in the injection market in

Germany. We have excellent internal numbers, both for

Allergovit and Novo-Helisen and outperforming the market as mentioned above the other brands.

This is done by very strong execution of our strategy during this tough process. We mentioned this in some calls where brands need to have new registrations for the

German market. Not everyone achieved this registration.

We have seen patient potential outside and we have been able to capture far more than our fair share of this potential. So, this helps us very much in the development of these brands.

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And the trend is the same if we look a little bit outside

Germany at the other international Allergopharma markets, specifically China, which is showing here strong development. Overall, we have seen strong growth in the

Allergopharma portfolio this year, with brands such as

Volon being used to treat allergies in Germany, where the season was quite strong.

Looking internationally, our Dermapharm affiliates continue to grow, fuelled by both the in-market portfolio as well as new product launches, we have specifically here of existing products of the Dermapharm group portfolio.

Moving on to the other healthcare segment, specifically looking at Arkopharma, Arkopharma is ahead of budget in in H1, and the new strategy, which is fully implemented at the beginning of the year, is producing consistently really good results. Spain and Italy are nicely ahead and growing above last year’s figures and plan.

France is on plan, and specifically in the French market, which is the biggest market, we see positive market signs.

For the last three months, our French business has grown above normal market levels, which is really great.

Looking at Euromed, we also have good numbers here, driven specifically by increased demand in Europe and

Asia for one of our extracts, Milk Thistle. This has also helped us to overperform our slightly lower US business, which is linked to the tariffs. So, there is some nice growth on the Euromed side.

These are not 100% there to compensate for the less favorable trend that we are seeing in two other businesses in the other healthcare market, such as Hübner.

Specifically in the German market, we are seeing a trend in the health food stores where consumers tend to opt for lower-priced channels, such as drugstores, rather than paying higher prices.

And for our medical cannabis business, Candoro ethics – specifically for Dronabinol, which is the biggest brand here

– there is increasing price pressure. This leads on the one hand to lower demand and on the other hand forces us to adjust our prices to remain competitive in the market.

In the last segment, parallel trade, this is mentioned, so we are continuously optimising our portfolio to identify further sweet spots. This limits the top line but maximises growth in profitability. This gives us a good overview of glance what happened in H1 and shows a very positive operational trend.

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And I would hand over to Christof Dreibholz.

Christof Dreibholz Thank you, Andreas, and good afternoon from me. My name is Christof Dreibholz. I will guide you through the remaining slides of the presentation. Along with the operational trends that Andreas Eberhorn explained, Q2

2026 has been impacted by the following non-operational

events. There are three

The first one is that we acquired 4.3 million in shares or slightly below 8% of our share capital for a consideration or a purchase price for the shares of 181 million. These shares have been redeemed in the meantime, and the equity number has been reduced accordingly. The equity ratio declines mathematically to approximately 24%.

Part of the share buyback has been debt financed. The corresponding leverage ratio increases to 3x adjusted

EBITDA. The leverage ratio is still below the covenant agreed with the financing banks.

In line with the provisions of the SPA that we contracted with Nestlé, the review of the purchase price calculation by the parties regarding the Mucos acquisition with the

Wobenzym product portfolio is not finalized yet.

A current purchase price allocation has been based on our best estimate of the final purchase price and currently points at a badwill of approximately 24 million. The release of this badwill is shown as other non-cash income and is adjusted at normalized EBITDA level.

Thirdly, the German Financial Supervisory Authority,

BaFin, is currently examining the valuation of a financial receivable as of December '25 and the two prior years, as well as the appropriate disclosure of a related party transaction. I will not comment on the status of the ongoing investigation.

We still believe that our valuation and disclosure have been appropriate and were in line with the underlying accounting provisions. As of June '26, we have reviewed the information that has been made available since the preparation of the year-end '25 accounts and the finalization of the audit for '25.

Most importantly, the competition among growers increased beginning of '26, resulting in a notable market price decline of recreational cannabis in the Netherlands.

This new information led us to record an impairment of the financial receivable of 30 million. This impairment expense is disclosed in the separate line as part of the financial result below EBITDA.

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If we look at the Q2 figures of the group, summarized on this Slide 5, the strong branded product momentum drives revenue growth and adjusted EBITDA margin expansion.

None of the non-operational effects mentioned before have had an impact on revenue and adjusted EBITDA in Q2.

The income from the Mucos purchase price allocation has been eliminated in order to arrive at adjusted EBITDA. The impairment expense regarding the financial receivable is recorded below EBITDA in financial result and the share buyback has balance sheet implications only.

The operational trends explained by Andreas Eberhorn before resulted in an approximately 5% growth of revenues, driven by the high margin German and international businesses. This led to disproportionate increases of adjusted EBITDA plus approximately 14% and

EBITDA margin plus two percentage points.

At reported earnings after tax level, the release of the badwill to income and the expense from the impairment of the financial receivable largely net out. Earnings after tax result increases by approximately 11% to 23 million.

The half-year performance summarized on slide 6 mirrors the Q2 trend with solid revenue and disproportionate adjusted EBITDA and earnings after tax results. The favorable operating performance in the first half 2026 further leads to a remarkable growth of the operating cash flow by 35 million, representing a 17 %-points increase of the cash conversion ratio to 65% of EBITDA.

The operating cash flow is not impacted by the non-cash, non-operational income from the purchase price allocation, the before-mentioned impairment of the financial receivable, and the balance sheet related share buyback.

As in previous webcasts, we bridge on slide 7 key elements of the first half in 2026 performance, leading to a growth of approximately 14 million at earnings after tax level. All segments contribute to EBITDA growth as explained before.

At earnings after tax result level, the net impact from the impairment of the financial receivable and the adjustment to EBITDA is approximately 5 million. The major amount as part of the adjustment is obviously the release to income in connection with the Mucos purchase price allocation.

Interest cost mainly for the syndicated loan declined following the covenant improvement, leading to a lower margin on top of the Euribor compared to last year. The

5 interest rate hedging terminated end of '25. Impacts from the comparison to Q2 '25 or the first half of '25 are minor.

Corporate income and trade tax payments also decline in the first half 2026 as previous periods have been impacted by payments for prior years. Depreciation charges are approximately at prior year level.

Slide 8, please. Briefly regarding the normalization adjustments, which mainly comprise the reversal of the income from the release of the badwill as mentioned before. Other adjustments are 2.4 million resulting from restructuring and other exceptional cost.

Slide 9: The strong operating performance lifts the interest cover to now nearly 8x, partially also of course impacted by the declining interest cost. As explained before, the share buyback leads to an increased debt number and a lower equity ratio following the cancellation in equity of the related shares.

Slide 10: The increase in assets, equity and liabilities is due to a combination of operational working capital related impacts and non-operational effects. Especially assets are impacted by the initial consolidation of Mucos.

Additionally, current assets increased from generally higher trade receivables, reflecting the disproportionate growth of the branded portfolio segment. Non-current assets also increased from the first-time consolidation of

Mucos. However, the impact is offset by the impairment of the long-term financial receivable.

The equity figure has been impacted by the cancellation of the shares that have been acquired as part of the share buyback, the reclassification of the dividend liability to current liabilities, and the earnings after tax result in the year-to-date June '26 period.

Non-current liabilities are higher following the contracted new financing in connection with the share buyback, and current liabilities have been impacted by several effects, including the reclassification of the dividend liability from equity, the preliminary remaining Mucos purchase price obligation, slightly higher trade liabilities, and additional financing.

Slide 11. Net working capital is approximately 9% higher than the level seen as of June '25, a reflection of the underlying growth in the business, especially in branded product segment. The increase in inventories and trade receivables is only partially offset by higher payables.

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The growth of the business, being the main driver of the net working capital, can be seen in the trend of the working capital days, especially the unchanged cash cycle of 76 days. Slightly higher DIO and DSO are offset by a cut-off driven increase in DPO. Please note that the average quarterly DPO since Q1 2025 was 75 days i.e. in between the DPO as of June ‘25 and June ‘26.

Slide 12. H1 2026 shows a remarkable increase in the cash flow from operating activities compared to prior year, and also this KPI underlines the very good operational performance of the business. As explained before, the non-operating Q2 events have had no cash impact i.e. the operating cash flow represents the underlying operational performance of the business.

Main contributors are the underlying EBITDA improvements across segments and sustainably lower tax payments. Recurring CapEx was approximately 22 million in in H1 ‘26, slightly above prior year level. Details of the improved operating cash flow are shown on the next slide

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Along with the improved cash EBITDA as mentioned before, operating cash flow is mainly impacted by the sustainably lower tax payments as prior year was burdened by tax payments related to historical financial years ‘22 and ‘23.

And finally, the outlook. Based on the H1 results and the scheduled agreed forecast, we confirm the outlook for

FY26. Growth is expected to continue driven by portfolio expansion, seasonal demand for anti-allergy products, international growth and improved product availability in the branded segment. No material impact from the German

Financial Stabilization Act is anticipated for the remaining year 2026.

Revenue growth in other healthcare products is expected to recover in H2, supported by continued momentum at

Cernelle and Euromed, and a strong second half at

Arkopharma. And in parallel import, the positive earnings trend is expected to continue further, supporting profitability. Thank you very much.

I hand over to Britta.

Britta Hamberger Thank you, Andreas and Christof. Now we can open the

Q&A session, please.

Operator Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question- and-answer session. Anyone who wishes to ask a question may press star and one on their touchtone telephone. You

7 will hear a tone to confirm that you have entered the queue. If you wish to remove yourself from the question queue, you may press star and two. Participants are requested to use only handsets while asking a question.

Anyone who has a question may press star and one at this time. One moment for the first question, please.

And the first question comes from Christian Ehmann from

Berenberg. Please go ahead.

Christian Ehmann Hello, everyone, and thanks for taking my questions. I have a couple. So, first of all, I would like to know more please about the impairment from the financial asset from the recreational cannabis company. Is there any more risk of further impairments from this kind of participation?

The second one would be, how do you plan to use the significant positive operating cash flow you have? Can we envision something of debt reduction in the future and then subsequently what can you do with the kind of reduced leverage originating from this?

And the third one would be in regard to the BaFin on-going investigation. I appreciate that you set a bond comment on the on-going investigation, but are there any further downside that you can envision at this point? Thank you very much.

Christof Dreibholz Thank you for the questions. The impairment of the receivable and the BaFin investigation are the same. So I would answer that together. This financial receivable resulted from the unwinding of a contract to acquire a participation in a Dutch cannabis grower called FYTA.

The payment for approximately 20% of the participation in this business years ago was EUR60 million and this represents the purchase price we paid um for the participation. The receivable now um is in total EUR65 million resulting from this purchase price payment less a payment of EUR10 million received from the sellers since the unwinding of the contract plus interest cost.

FYTA itself, so this grower, exceeded to the contract and

FYTA is a leading grower among a number of grower who are engaged in a Dutch governmental program to legalize the sourcing of cannabis by Dutch coffee shops, i.e., or in as a result, economically, the financial receivable that we disclosed will most likely be settled by payments from

FYTA.

In 2026, competition among growers increased, resulting in a notable market price decline of recreational cannabis in the Netherlands. And based on this information and this

8 trend that we perceived in 2026, we have um calculated the impairment of the receivable of currently EUR30 million.

We will, of course, review the valuation of the receivable at every balance sheet date going forward. Depending on all the influencing factors, we will decide whether the current impairment is appropriate, whether we need additional impairment or whether we can release part of the historical impairment.

Unfortunately, I can't provide any further information at this time, as this is a forward-looking assessment and we currently lack the necessary data to evaluate Q3, Q4 or later dates. We generate approximately EUR 180–190 million of free cash flow per year.

We reduce our debt by EUR 60 million based on the contracts that we have agreed. We pay EUR 40 million in interest per year, so debt servicing costs and repayment of debt cover around 50% of the free cash flow.

In addition, as you know, we have historically paid a dividend of between EUR 40 million and EUR 50 million, and the remaining amount has been used for M&A, which is one of our key growth drivers.

And this is something that we will generally continue to do.

Of course, if there is excess debt, we will always aim to reduce our debt number and thereby improve our leverage, which has historically been very successful in reducing our related interest cost.

Regarding the BaFin investigation, maybe to round this up,

I cannot say more as this is ongoing. And I said earlier, we believe that the valuation of the receivables at the end of

'25 and earlier was correct, based on the information available at the time the accounts were drawn up and audited.

Christian Ehmann Thank you very much for that very helpful answer.

Operator Then the next question comes from Fabian Piasta from

Jefferies. Please go ahead.

Fabian Piasta Hi Christof, Britta, can you hear me all right?

Britta Hamberger Yes.

Christof Dreibholz Yes.

Fabian Piasta Okay, great. Just maybe two residual questions from my side. So in branded, would you be able to break growth down into organic and M&A plus maybe some granularity

9 on how the organic growth rate was for the domestic as well as for the international business.

And the second question would concern Arkopharma.

What gives you confidence into the second half? Is this more finally your measures coming through? Do you have any positive indications from, let's say, first month of the third quarter or has this something to do with the more economic situation? Maybe you can give us some granularity here as well. Thank you.

Christof Dreibholz Andreas, do you want to start with the Arkopharma question?

Andreas Eberhorn Yes, I can do it. Thanks for your question. It's not and the one or the other, I would say it's the sum of the parts. As I mentioned, with implementation of the strategy, we have some new launches in growing market categories where we perform quite nicely. For example, we have collagen and slimming products. The trend is favorable for us, so to speak, and the consumers or customers we acquire will not stop in H2.

Being closer to the pharmacist was one part of the strategy designed to sell out rather sell in, and to activate consumers. And this trend is backed up by the fact, as I mentioned at the beginning, for example in France (the biggest market), we have grown above the comparable markets for three consecutive months, which gives us confidence that the trend will continue. This is also supported by the positive development in the second biggest market, Spain, as well as in Italy, and further launches to come in H2.

So, I would say this is a combination of all the factors that make us very confident about further acceleration in the second half of the year.

Fabian Piasta Thank you.

Andreas Eberhorn To Arkopharma.

Christof Dreibholz Thank you, Andreas. Regarding the organic growth, it was between 4% and 5% at the net sales level in the branded pharmaceuticals segment, with approximately half of this growth coming from international markets and half from domestic markets.

Fabian Piasta That's great. Thank you.

Operator So it looks like there are no further questions at this time.

So in this case, I would like to turn the conference back over to Britta Hamberger for any closing remarks. I am

10 sorry, we got one follow-up question from Fabian Piasta from Jefferies. Please go ahead.

Fabian Piasta Yeah, if we still got a minute. So when you were talking basically around price deterioration on the recreational cannabis, is this a kind of structural issue also affecting other parts of your business or has this just been that kind of unwinding of contractual obligations? Maybe you can give some color here.

Christof Dreibholz No, the impact of recreational cannabis is only indirect here because we have this receivable from unwinding the contract. The entity from which the cash will most likely come to settle this receivable is the grower. Therefore, the cash flows are impacted by this entity's underlying business, but only in relation to this financial receivable and the potential settlement. We are not involved in the sale of recreational cannabis in Germany or any other jurisdiction.

Fabian Piasta Okay. Thanks for that clarification.

Operator Then we do have one more question from Miro Zuzak from

JMS Invest AG. Please go ahead.

Miro Zuzak Yes, hello. Can you hear me?

Christof Dreibholz Yes.

Britta Hamberger Yes, we can.

Christof Dreibholz We can.

Miro Zuzak Okay, thank you for taking my questions. I have a couple of them. The first one is on your guidance. So basically, the midpoint 1.2 billion, and then also the decline that we see in the parallel import business hints, still hints to a slow-down of growth in the branded pharmaceuticals business.

Now, I'm aware of the strong growth that you had in Q4 last year, right? So, maybe the base there is a bit more difficult. But in Q3, just given the strong growth that you've shown in Q1 and Q2, can you maybe give some color there?

Do you expect the slowdown for some reasons, or wasn't, basically, the growth magnitude too, just not strong enough to already, at this point, increase the guidance on the top- line?

Christof Dreibholz We base this guidance on a bottom-up review of the businesses performed twice a year with a reforecast one

11 and two and the latest re-forecast two points exactly what we outlined in our guidance.

As always, the individual entities are a mixed bag of positive and partially negative impacts. We do not currently anticipate exceeding the guidance.

Miro Zuzak Okay. Thank you. Then I have some kind of smaller questions. The one is on the at the capitalized own work,

Aktivierte Eigenleistungen, was higher this year, markedly higher compared to last year, and I ask myself, is there, was there like any special effect, or is it like a new run rate which is a little bit higher due to, I don't know, more software, internal software development or what not?

Christof Dreibholz Yes, if I look at the numbers, I'd say we're talking about roughly 2 million — specifically, 1.9 million. And this is rather phasing. We've seen differences in the past, but not to this extent. If I look at other quarters, I also see notable differences in the amounts. So, I would attribute this to phasing.

Miro Zuzak Okay. And the last one on the BaFin audit, is there is there some light that you can basically give regarding the timeline? Do you have any indication at what point in time this process will be over?

Christof Dreibholz I would be happy if I knew the answer. I think we are here dependent on BaFin. We are cooperating. We are answering in a very timely manner questions that are asked. I would assume that BaFin will maybe now look at the June report. But whether this takes two weeks, two months or half a year, I honestly cannot say, but we will do everything from our side to expedite the process.

Miro Zuzak Okay, so you don't even have an indication on the year?

So, you don't know if it's going to be this year, or next year, or 2028 or so? It's…

Christof Dreibholz Yes. No, these processes do not work in the way that the

BaFin outlines or gives itself a timeline. I hope that we will settle this within the next few weeks. But that's just my hope. BaFin is in control, and they will end the process once they feel comfortable with the information.

Miro Zuzak Okay, very clear. Thanks a lot.

Christof Dreibholz Pleasure.

Operator Ladies and gentlemen, this was the last question. I would now like to turn the conference back over to Britta

Hamberger for any closing remarks.

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Britta Hamberger Thank you for joining us today. If you have any further questions, please feel free to give me a call afterwards.

Thank you very much. Bye-bye.

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