First quarter financial highlights
• Revenue of €264 million compared to €296 million last year
• US revenue increased 133% year on year to €85 million
• Other revenue increased 45% year on year to €25 million
• Portable navigation device (PND) volume of 2.0 million; up 50% year on year
• Gross margin of 35% compared to 40% last year
• Net profit of €7.3 million; fully diluted EPS of €0.06
First quarter operational highlights
• Continued strong PND market growth of over 40% in Europe and over 100% in North America
• HD Traffic™ service announced in Germany, France and Switzerland
• TomTom community grew to over 5 million registered users
• IQ Routes™ technology launched
• New TomTom GO range shipping in April
Outlook 2008
• Continued strong growth of the European and North American PND markets; combined markets expected to grow by more than 50% to 38 million units in 2008
• Revenue expectation for 2008 of between €1.8 billion and €2.0 billion
• PND unit forecast for 2008 of between 14 million and 15 million
• Targets for gross margin and operating margin for 2008 of close to 40% and 20% of revenue respectively
Key figures*
(in € millions) (unaudited)
Q1'08 Q4'07 Change Q1'07 Change
Revenue 264 634 -58% 296 -11%
Gross profit 92 268 -66% 118 -22%
Gross margin 35% 42% 40%
Operating profit 9 144 -94% 57 -85%
Operating margin 3% 23% 19%
Net profit 7 107 -93% 44 -83%
EPS - fully diluted (in €) 0.06 0.87 -93% 0.37 -85%
* percentages are based on non-rounded figures