Relevant GRI Indicators

Year in brief

Highlights

  • Strong development in all customer segments and geographical regions
  • Record-high adjusted operating profit
  • Strengthened balance sheet enables growth
  • Several strategic acquisitions completed, including the metrology software company Metrologic Group
  • Sandvik Hyperion and the wire operations (welding wire and stainless wire) were divested
  • Investment in manufacturing plant for titanium and nickel powder
  • Inclusion in the 2018 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations Index and the 2018 Dow Jones Sustainability Index
Key ratios, continuing operations

 

2017

2018

1)

Adjusted for items affecting comparability.

2)

Injuries resulting in lost time per million hours worked.

3)

Total number of injuries per million hours worked.

Order intake, MSEK

95,444

102,440

Revenues, MSEK

90,827

100,072

Operating profit, MSEK

18,073

18,689

Operating margin, %

19.9

18.7

Adjusted operating profit, MSEK1)

14,613

18,625

Adjusted operating margin, %1)

16.1

18.6

Free operating cash flow, MSEK

15,095

15,281

Return on capital employed, %

23.8

22.7

Earnings per share, SEK

10.54

10.57

Adjusted Earnings per share, SEK1)

8.04

10.41

Net debt/equity ratio

0.8

0.2

Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate, LTIFR2)

1.6

1.7

Total Recordable Injury Frequency Rate, TRIFR3)

4.6

4.0

Number of employees

42,858

41,670

Share of women, %

19.4

19.5


Revenues and order intake, MSEK

Revenues and Order Intake, MSEK (bar chart)


LTIFR and TRIFR

LTIFR and TRIFR (bar chart)

Operating profit, MSEK and
operating margin, %

Operating Profit, MSEK and Operating margin, % (bar chart)

Revenues by customer segment

Revenues by Customer Segment (pie chart)

Revenues by market area

Revenues by Market Area (pie chart)

Recognitions and memberships

Sandvik is included in several prestigious sustainability indices and a signatory of the UN Global Compact (UNGC).

Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, UN Global Compact, FTSE4Good, Ethibel, RobecoSAM, Global100 (logo)