Protection firm Elbit Programs (TASE ESLT; Nasdaq: ESLT) launched robust 2024 outcomes as we speak, exhibiting document demand for its merchandise. The corporate has a market cap of $16.5 billion, after a 43% rise in its share value up to now this yr, to an all-time excessive.
Elbit Programs’ income grew by 14.3% final yr to $6.8 billion, of which $1.9 billion was recorded within the fourth quarter. GAAP-based web revenue attributable to shareholders rose 49.3%, to $322 million. On a non-GAAP foundation, the corporate posted web revenue of $392 million, 31% increased than in 2023. It generated money move from operations of $535 million in 2024, up from $114 million in 2023.
Elbit’s orders backlog rose by some $500 million within the fourth quarter to $22.6 billion on the finish of the yr, which compares with $17.8 billion on the finish of 2023. Since 2020, the corporate’s order ebook has doubled.
Israel’s share within the firm’s income rose from 19.5% in 2023 to 29.1% in 2024, and was price $1.99 billion, representing development of 70.3%, largely due to the Swords of Iron struggle. Income rose in most geographical areas.
At an investor convention held by Elbit Programs on the Tel Aviv Inventory Trade as we speak, CEO Bezhalel Machlis stated, “The worldwide protection atmosphere is being pushed by three conflicts which might be resulting in increased protection budgets. The primary is the Chinese language risk, which impacts all of the nations within the area – Japan, India, Thailand, the Philippines, Australia, Korea – and in all of them there was a really giant rise protection budgets to deal with the Chinese language problem.
“The second battle is in Europe. The Russian risk is inflicting huge rearmament in all European nations, and there’s a will in Europe to construct a neighborhood protection business. The third risk pertains to Iran and its satellites, and it impacts us and all of the Sunni nations, amongst them the Gulf states. We’re very lively within the area. The one place the place protection budgets have declined is Latin America. Basically, there’s a enormous alternative for Elbit Programs. We see a few of it within the 2024 stories, and you will note the continuation of this sooner or later as effectively.”
Amplifying his remarks on what is going on in Europe, Machlis stated, “US President Donald Trump, in his earlier time period, demanded that the nations of Europe ought to spend 2% of GDP on protection. At the moment they had been effectively under 2%, and as we speak they’re getting near 2%. Each 1% rise of their protection budgets is $280 billion in a yr. Now, Trump is demanding that the European nations ought to spend 5%, however even when they don’t attain 5%, however solely 3%, that’s nonetheless an enormous bounce in protection spending. Our potential in Europe is big.”
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Elbit’s income from Europe grew 2.5% in 2024, to $1.8 billion, 26.7% of complete gross sales.
Funding in AI
As for the corporate’s exercise in Israel, Machlis talked about its new manufacturing facility at Ramat Beka within the Negev, which he stated can be significantly expanded. To fulfill demand, the federal government has allowed Elbit to proceed working its Ramat Hasharon manufacturing facility for an extra two years.
The corporate has websites in Kiryat Shemona and Tel Hai within the north of Israel, and Machlis stated that it had resumed their operation and would proceed to broaden manufacturing there.
Machlis offered a video clip wherein Chief of Employees Eyal Zamir (in his earlier function as director basic of the Ministry of Protection) says that Israel’s protection business saved the nation by making certain routine provide. By the way, Machlis stated that Elbit Programs had set a purpose for itself for hiring injured IDF troopers, and had already taken on dozens of them. The corporate has some 22,000 staff, about 14,000 of them in Israel.
Machlis additionally commented on the influence of AI on the corporate. He stated that this was threefold: sooner and extra environment friendly growth; extra environment friendly operational administration; and within the firm’s techniques, wherein, he stated, “AI is embedded in all of them, in order that the system is not going to simply ship the information, however may also analyze it.”
Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on March 18, 2025.
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