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Kaldvik AS reported its Q2 2025 earnings, highlighting a challenging quarter marked by a reduction in harvest guidance and a negative operational EBIT. The company’s stock saw a decrease of 3.57% in pre-market trading following the announcement, continuing a broader downward trend that has seen the stock decline by 54.67% over the past year. According to InvestingPro data, the stock is currently trading near its 52-week low of $1.34, though analysis suggests potential upside based on Fair Value metrics. Despite these hurdles, Kaldvik remains optimistic about its strategic initiatives and growth potential.
Key Takeaways
- Kaldvik’s Q2 2025 operational EBIT was -€4.3 million.
- Total harvest guidance for 2025 reduced from 21,500 to 18,000 tonnes.
- Stock price decreased by 3.57% in pre-market trading.
- New grow-out facilities and improved operational routines are in place.
- Focus on expanding sales in new markets, including China.
Company Performance
Kaldvik AS faced a tough Q2 2025 with operational challenges impacting its performance. The company harvested 1,235 tonnes of salmon, and its operational EBIT stood at a negative €4.3 million. Despite these setbacks, Kaldvik’s strategic investments in new facilities and operational improvements signal a commitment to long-term growth. The company is looking to leverage its unique position as the only salmon farmer in East Iceland to expand its market presence.
Financial Highlights
- Revenue: Not specified in the call
- Group Operational EBIT: -€4.3 million
- Total assets increased by €27 million
- Equity ratio: 57%
- Total CapEx for 2025 estimated at €18.5 million
Market Reaction
Following the earnings announcement, Kaldvik’s stock price fell by 3.57% in pre-market trading. The stock’s decline reflects investor concerns over the reduced harvest guidance and negative earnings, with InvestingPro data showing a market capitalization of $220.12M. Despite the current challenges, analysts forecast 70% revenue growth for FY2025, and the company’s strategic initiatives and market expansion plans may offer long-term growth potential. InvestingPro analysis indicates the stock may be undervalued at current levels, presenting a potential opportunity for value investors.
Outlook & Guidance
Kaldvik has revised its 2025 harvest projection down to 18,000 tonnes. The company expects to harvest 2,300 tonnes in Q3 2025 and 8,100 tonnes in Q4 2025. Future production potential is estimated at up to 45,000 tonnes, with plans to utilize sterilizers from 2027. Kaldvik is also eyeing a 10,000-ton license in Seydisfjorden, which could further bolster its growth prospects.
Executive Commentary
Wieder Asperhoe, Interim CEO, stated, "Kalvik is uniquely positioned as the only salmon farmer on the East Of Iceland." He emphasized the company’s investment in reaching a 30,000-ton run rate and highlighted strong demand for premium salmon in the U.S. and Asian markets.
Risks and Challenges
- Reduced harvest guidance could impact revenue and profitability.
- Global salmon supply growth may increase competition.
- Environmental challenges such as algae impacts and low sea temperatures.
- Need for additional capital investments to support expansion.
Q&A
During the earnings call, analysts inquired about Kaldvik’s cost structure, future harvest guidance, and market expansion strategies. The company indicated that its cost structure is under constant evaluation and expressed confidence in improving its superior share in the coming quarters. Additionally, Kaldvik noted that 20-25% of Q3 and Q4 volumes are secured through contracts, providing some revenue stability.
Full transcript - Kaldvik AS (KLDVK) Q2 2025:
Wieder Asperhoe, Interim CEO, Kalvik: Good morning, everyone. I’m Wieder Asperhoe, new Interim CEO of Kalvik and I’m pleased to welcome you to the presentation of our second quarter results for 2025. Joining me today is our CFO, Robert Robertson and together we’ll walk you through the key highlights and developments for the past quarter. After the presentation, we’ll open the floor for questions. And as before, you’re welcome to submit them by email to robertkalvik.
Is. But first, a short introduction of myself. I’m, as I say, Wieder Asberhug, and I’ve been working with Kalvik since November 2021 and been in the executive management since August 2022. I’m a fish health biologist with a PhD in virology, specialized in handling the ISA fires. I co founded Patugen, the major diagnostic laboratory for the aquaculture industry in 2005 and was the CEO there for eight years until I moved into a position as Business Development Officer, focusing then on fish health challenges in Norway, Chile and Scotland.
And I worked with PatoGen until we sold the company in 2021. In Kalvik, I have had responsibility for fish health and quality and my focus has been on several improvement projects throughout the value chain, starting in our land facilities as well as working closely with every department on improvements, including sea and harvest. So to the presentation, you know this disclaimer. So let’s go to the agenda. We’ll begin with some highlights from the last quarter, covering operational performance, financial results and strategic updates.
Then we’ll look ahead with a brief outlook and summary before wrapping up with a Q and A session. And if you have questions, please send them to robertkahlwicke. Is. So some highlights from this quarter. In the second quarter, we harvested twelve thirty five tonnes with a group operational EBIT of minus EUR4.3 million.
An important reason is naturally high cost due to the low utilization of our company capacity, a particularly challenging 2023 generation that I will comment on further a bit later and the challenging market situation. Concluding Q2, we’ve harvested a total of 7,618 tons so far this year. And looking ahead in 2025, we’ll be lowering our full year harvest guidance from 21,500 tons to 18,000 tons. And I’ll give more details on this later in the presentation. We expect to harvest around 2,300 tons in Q3 and we remain on track to meet our 2025 target of releasing 7,500,000 smolt to support our future growth.
Also, the smolt transfer has been going very well with the best survival we’ve had so far in Carlig, reflecting the improved robustness of the smolt resulting from our strategic investments in our land sites the last few years. Also, smolt output will be finalized now in Q3 reducing risk further. Strategically, the refinancing process was completed in Q2 and we’re expecting the new licenses in Cedars Fjord to finally be granted this year. Robert will come back to this and the financial updates later. So as mentioned, the 2023 generation has been challenging and is also the primary cause for adjusting the harvest forecast for 2025.
It has also resulted in a low superior share this quarter. This is the last generation that did not benefit from the new winter wound vaccine or from the improvements that we’ve done in the landsites the last three years. So starting up with the suboptimal smolt quality on top of the unusually low sea temperatures at the 2024. This fish was struggling from the start and was hit more than usual by algae during the summer, resulting in higher mortality, reduced growth and downgrading compared to the production plan. Consequently, the harvesting in Q2 twenty twenty five largely involves early harvest of smaller fish than anticipated.
And we’re now planning to finalize the harvest of the 23 generation this year. To our farming operations in land, we as I say, remain on track to meet our 25 targets or releasing 7,500,000 smolts and 70% is already at sea showing very good performance and the best survival we’ve seen so far. We will finish the output in Q3, minimizing risk of any challenges. So we believe that the investments that we’ve done in our land sites the last three years are now paying off. The improvements include increased production capacity, including our new grow out facility in Land North in Rifos that became operational earlier this year and is now showing good performance.
Also, we have improved water quality at all sites, improved operational routines, implemented a proactive health and biosecurity management, including the new vaccination strategy. And we’ve improved operational efficiency through additional wellboat capacity. Overall, production performance in Land remains strong with the year over year mortality rates reduced by more than thirty percent recent years, reflecting the improvements in fish health and operational efficiency. So looking at the graph on the left hand side demonstrates the challenging marketing situation during this quarter, which stems mainly from significant production increase both in Norway and Chile. The global supply growth is projected to reach 8.5% this year and 1% in ’26.
In Q2, we harvested twelve twenty five tons. And as mentioned earlier, the superior rate was low, mainly caused by the poor performing ’23 generation. Despite the low superior share of 40%, 25% of our sales were secured through fixed price contracts, helping on the overall price achievement. Our newly formed sales and trading organization has been actively focusing on developing new markets and are currently in China marketing our premium salmon there. So with the limited volumes harvested this quarter, we have naturally had high cost unit cost per kilo harvest.
But we have used the opportunity to make upgrades at the harvest station and have also started planning for further upgrades and expansion to support a growing biomass. So that concludes the operational update. Now I’ll pass the word to Robert, who will walk you through the financial performance.
Robert Robertson, CFO, Kalvik: Thank you, Edar. Good morning, everyone. I’ve prepared a few slides to walk you through the financial update for the second quarter. First off, you have the highlights from the quarter which was marked by limited harvest volumes of optimal utilization of our harvesting capacity and difficult market situation. The limited harvest volume led to partial utilization of our harvesting facility and wellboats.
Consequently, we experienced increased operational costs. The average price achieved was approximately €6 per kilo. This outcome was driven by a lower share of superior quality fish and weaker market prices during the quarter. And as we have mentioned, the fixed price contracts with our customers in The U. S.
Helped to improve the overall price achievements providing some stability in an otherwise challenging market. And over to the financial summary, total assets increased by EUR27 million during the quarter. This was primarily driven by investments in biological assets and higher cash balance, resulting from the successful private placement which improved the equity ratio that amounted to 57% at the end of the quarter. Total liabilities decreased by EUR16 million, mainly reflecting the final payment for strategic investments on the East Coast in the new box factory and harvesting station, Bolesentri. And here you can see high level analysis of net instrument debt, which decreased by EUR4 million during the quarter.
EBITDA of the quarter was negative and increased the net in spring debt by EUR 1,300,000.0. Net investments in working capital amounted to EUR 29,500,000.0, primarily due to Bemos buildup during the quarter and decreased trade payables. Total CapEx for 2025 is estimated at EUR18.5 million. In second quarter CapEx investment totaled at EUR3.7 million, making the total CapEx investment for the 2025 approximately EUR8.3 million. Financial items amounted to EUR4.9 million with finance cost being the main contributor.
And as previously mentioned, Caltwick strengthened its equity base by issuing 44,200,000.0 new shares during the quarter. This was firstly through acquisition related share issue in April and secondly through significant private placement related to the refinancing in June. And furthermore, during the quarter the Board announced plans for potential subsequent offering of up to 4,300,000.0 new shares at 14 per share pending shareholder and regulatory approvals. The offering is expected to be completed before end of third quarter this year. On July 4, an extraordinary general meeting was held to consider proposal from a group of minority shareholders holding more than 10% of the shares in the company to initiate an investigation into agreements between Kaltic, Hempster and Oswald related to the acquisition of the newly or recently acquired box factory and the 33% share in our harvesting facility Boulashind.
Subsequently on August 3, a group of minority shareholders submitted a formal request to a district court in Norway to open an investigation. This matter is expected to be resolved during the autumn of this year. And the brief status on strategic updates. The new license in Seijsfjord is expected to be issued during this year. The license include total capacity of 10,000 tonnes MAB or maximum allowed biomass.
This is divided into 6,500 tonnes fertile license and 3,500 tonnes sterilizers. This new production area presents a significant strategic opportunity for increasing our overall capacity, allowing us to meet growing demand and provides us with increased flexibility in our operations. More importantly, the new area will help reduce biological risk at sea contributing to the sustainability and health of our operations. Thank you. I’ll now hand it back over to our CEO, Wieder Rasberg.
Wieder Asperhoe, Interim CEO, Kalvik: Thank you, Robert. So a bit about what to expect going forward. For Q3 twenty twenty five, we expect to harvest approximately 2,300 tonnes continuing with the fall twenty twenty three generation and the spring twenty twenty four generation. For 2024, we will be harvesting 8,000 sorry, for Q4, we’ll be harvesting 8,100 tonnes, hopefully at more favorable prices and will thus be utilizing the best growth period here in Iceland to the full. As previously said, we’re guiding a total harvest of 18,000 tonnes for 2025.
We are on track with our goal to release 7,500,000 smolt for the year, of which about 70% is already at sea, showing very promising performance, and we will finalize the transfer by the end of Q3. Thus, with the reduced mortality rate that we are seeing at transfer, we expect that our investments will continue to pay off now that we can start off with a small of improved robustness supporting our future production and long term growth. It’s also worth noting that we are presently seeing beneficial sea temperatures improving wound healing and growth, which is also a positive sign for biological conditions going forward. And talking about future potential. During my time with Kalvik, I have been part of ups and downs, but I also see the great potential that lies in Kalvik.
Kalvik is uniquely positioned as the only salmon farmer on the East Of Iceland, giving significant biosecurity advantages with a license volume of 44,000 tons, soon 54,000 tons. Even though we still have a way to go, we do not face the same challenges that the other salmon producing countries are facing. For example, we have no problems with sea lice, no PD, no AGD. But we’ve been through very educational ISA situation a few years back, improving all operational processes and biosecurity. I’m confident that we’ve already resolved most the most pressing matters in our production and identified further improvements opportunities.
Now that we’re about to reach some of our key strategic goals, including 7,500,000 smolt, record low output mortality and the most robust smolt that we have ever had, I believe that we will keep seeing significant improvements in performance going forward. So I feel confident that salmon farming in the East Fjords Of Iceland will succeed, and I feel confident stepping into the CEO role of the most exciting salmon company in the fastest growing salmon region in the world. But apart from a good performing fish, volume is key to fully utilize our production capacity and to reach economy of scale. So in recent years, our strategy has been focused on investments in our land sites to support our rapid building of biomass, and we are now one united salmon producer in The East after the consolidation a few years ago, laying the foundation for further scaling and growth. Today, we see significant potential triggered by reaching milestone one.
We have enough robust smolt to support our planned growth and we are fully invested to reach a 30,000 tons run rate going forward. The Carl V team will continue to improve the smolt quality and we’re aiming at producing a larger smolt, which will shorten the production time in sea and reduce biological risk. Though achieving a consistent two year cycle will require additional capital investment. Starting in 2027, we’re planning to start utilizing our sterilizes, which is expected to yield an annual production of 3,000 to 4,000 tons. We’re also progressing toward a 10,000 ton license in Seydisfjorden that we hope will be finalized this year.
In parallel, we’re working on optimizing our production areas to maximize the use of our maximum allowed biomass. And altogether, these efforts point to a total production potential of up to 45,000 tons. So looking ahead, we see strong global demand for premium salmon with particularly promising opportunities in The U. S. And Asian markets.
Planned harvest for 2025 is 18,000 tons with planned harvest for the next two quarters of 2,300 tons and 8,100 tons respectively. Our future growth is supported by our planned output spot output of SEK7.5 million in 2025, which is on track. We are currently going through a leadership change, but I feel confident to hit the ground running with my knowledge about the company and the Icelandic industry from my time with Kalvik and to keep the momentum and ensures a smooth transition period. Strategically, we’re expecting approval of the 10,000 tonne license in this year. In addition, the refinancing process was finalized in Q2 with a loan facility of EUR230 million and equity increase of EUR45 million.
All in all, future looks bright And we will conclude our presentation here and we’re now open for questions. And as mentioned initially, please send questions to the email robertkalvik. Is.
Robert Robertson, CFO, Kalvik: Yes, hello. We’ve had couple of questions. The first question here is regarding the cost levels and our ability to balance cost related to activity and if there will be any increased focus on reduced cost when it comes to reduced income. So cost levels this quarter increased quarter over quarter due to difficulties in the 23 generation and suboptimal utilization of our harvesting facility, like we mentioned in the presentation. And we are constantly evaluating the cost structure of the company.
And we will see the cost level go down again with better utilization of our harvesting capacity. But like I say, this is we are constantly evaluating the cost structure and coming up with cost saving initiatives. Another question came in regarding the harvesting estimates for 2026. Yes.
Wieder Asperhoe, Interim CEO, Kalvik: We do not guide any of the harvesting estimates for 2026 yet.
Robert Robertson, CFO, Kalvik: Then there’s a question regarding the Superior shares in the remaining quarters, Q3 and Q4. Do we have any expectations for the superior share in Q3 and Q4?
Wieder Asperhoe, Interim CEO, Kalvik: Of course, we’re not happy with the superior share that we had in Q2. That was related to challenges with the 2023 generation. We have good hope now with these good temperatures in the sea and seeing wound healing. So we are, of course, hoping for an improved superior share for the coming quarter. We will be harvesting the 2023 generation will be less than 50% of the harvesting for the rest of the year.
So we are hoping for a higher superior share.
Robert Robertson, CFO, Kalvik: Then a question regarding the contracts here for Q3 and Q4. We are estimating the contracts here for 2025 to be somewhere between 2025%. So around that percentage in Q3 and Q4 as well. Yes. Any other questions?
Let me see. You’re reducing the guidance from twenty one thousand five hundred to 18,000. Will this affect the volumes in 2026?
Wieder Asperhoe, Interim CEO, Kalvik: Okay. As mentioned, the reason for lowering the guiding is related to the losses from the 2023 generation. So not that we are moving volume.
Robert Robertson, CFO, Kalvik: Question here, you mentioned an additional need for further capital increase future production. How is that planned to be executed? So in the presentation, we mentioned that to take the production up from milestone one, thirty thousand tonnes, up to the future potential of 45,000 tonnes, we would need further investments in our infrastructure. This is something that we are evaluating. And but this is not something that will happen next year or the year after that.
So the plant execution is not clear as of now. So, yeah. Any other questions? Yes. You’re saying that you will finish the 23 generation this year.
How much of the harvest in the third quarter and fourth quarter will be from the 23 generation?
Wieder Asperhoe, Interim CEO, Kalvik: Yes. I think we mentioned that already, but we will be harvesting 2,300 tonnes in Q3 and 8,100 tonnes in Q4, so a total of 10,400. And 23 generation will be less than 50% of the total volume.
Robert Robertson, CFO, Kalvik: Yes. I think this is then all the questions that we’ve received. Please feel free to reach out to me after the presentation if there is any additional questions that we did not answer during this session. Yes, thank you.
Wieder Asperhoe, Interim CEO, Kalvik: Thank you very much.
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