The Derichebourg DBG.PA share fell sharply on Wednesday on the Paris Stock Exchange and showed the biggest drop in the SBF 120 index, after having revised its objectives downward following a reassessment of the cyberattack suffered last November.
At 09:10 GMT, the share of the business and community services group lost 4.75% to 4.17 euros when the SBF 120 climbed by more than 1% at the same time.
The group announced on Tuesday that the financial impact of the cyberattack turned out to be greater than initially anticipated.
“It is currently unlikely that the Ebitda target of minimum 350 million euros for 2024, communicated when the 2023 results are published, will be achieved,” the group said in a press release.
Derichebourg said it now expects Ebitda of between 300 and 310 million euros for the year.
The group also added that it had faced a deteriorating economic situation during the half-year in the markets in which it operates, in particular steel production.
The fall in Ebitda comes “at an inopportune time since the deconsolidation of DMS (the multiservices division sold to Elior) has materially increased the group’s financial leverage”, says Midcap Partners, while adding that the warning was generally integrated in classes.
(Written by Federica Mileo, edited by Blandine Hénault)