Acter Group Co., Ltd. (will be abbreviated “Acter” in the after, stock code: 5536) was invited to attend the performance presentation conference held by Taipei Exchange. Over the past forty years, Acter takes its own responsibility as "Creator of Quality Space”, continue optimizes engineering technology skill, and pursues engineering service quality. Observing the factors of the US-China trade war and COVID-19 pandemic, which push the global industry chain restructuring toward the regional, short, and localized develop trend. Multi-industries’ demand continue to increase, depending on Acter’s EPCM service from factory space to factory business and process equipment vertical and horizontal integration, well take order ability in Taiwan, China, and Southeast regions, which boost the signed and uncompleted project volumes remain high level, and it’s helpful to create the growth momentum for Acter’s mid-long term operation.

Acter indicates that on a consolidated basis, revenue for the first quarter of 2022 is NTD 5.36 billion, profit after tax attributable to parent company is NTD 0.35 billion, and Earning Per Share (EPS) is NTD 6.16, which are 50%, 98%, and 97% yearly increase, respectively. Benefit from Acer’s multi-industries, multi-regions, and multi-type of take order strategies, it would cause less effects from single region and single industry fluctuation. Along with the large amounts of projects coming from diverse industries, which push Acter’s cleanroom and electromechanical engineering service construction process and take orders present a flourish performance. The revenue and profit performance simultaneously renewed the historical high of the same period over the years. Although Acter’s overall operation still obstructed by the material cost increase, human resource cost increase, and the USD appreciation, Acter adapts the strategies of bulk purchase, strictly control various expenses, properly rolling adjust the project period and project quotation, and it’s helpful for Acter to remain good profit performance.

Acter further indicates that along with the global trends head to the high efficiency and net zero carbon emission, emerging markets of 5G communication, low orbit satellite, and new energy vehicles, and the third generation semiconductor qualified with advantages of high efficiency and high frequency has become a place contested by all strategists. Not only that, but the multi-countries invest huge amount capital expenditure to accelerate the third generation semiconductor development, China invests CNY ten trillion for the autonomy of the third generation semiconductor and development, and Taiwan also will start the third generation semiconductor localization plan and expect to complete the plan in 2024. The huge market demand in the future is expected. Acter devoted to strive for the third generation semiconductor market, already has a well outstanding performance, and it’s expected that along with future’s well market demand would boosts the momentum for Acter’s long term operation.

Looking forward to the second quarter of 2022, Acter takes a cautious and optimistic view for the year. Acter continues to observe the effects of the international high tension situation from Russo-Ukrainian War and overall material price and logistic stability cause of China pandemic lockdown. Depending on Acter’s multi-industries and multi-regions take order strategy, and global supply chain head to short chain trend, the sale of Taiwan and China regions are expected to become future operation’s bright point. The current volumes of signed and uncompleted projects are still stably staying at history new high level. Besides, Acter devoted to the arrangement of vertical and horizontal technology integration, effectively satisfy clients’ demand of cleanroom and electromechanical engineering service, continue expand the Third Generation Semiconductor field orders, and hold well service performance, along with Acter’s overall business orders continue enlarge and remain high level orders visibility, its’ hopeful for future’s operation to step forward.

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Acter Assistant Vice President  Miss Tsao  (04)2261-5288  IR@acter.com.tw