Year-end Report January - December 2010

Year-end Report January - December 2010

Fourth quarter 2010

  · Order intake increased by 20* per cent
  · Net sales increased by 24* per cent to 4,638 MSEK (3,076)
  · Operating earnings (EBIT 1) amounted to 969 MSEK (566)
  · Earnings before taxes, excluding non-recurring items** amounted to
841 MSEK (536). Including these items, earnings before taxes amounted to
-463 MSEK (527)
  · Net earnings, excluding non-recurring items** amounted to 690 MSEK
(470). Including these items, net earnings amounted to -438 MSEK (463)
  · Earnings per share amounted to -1.43 SEK (1.53). Earnings per share,
excluding non-recurring items** amounted to 2.21 SEK (1.55).
  ·  The Board of Directors proposes a dividend of 1.40 SEK per share
(1.05)

*Adjusted to fixed exchange rates and a comparable group structure, i.e.
organic growth.

**Non-recurring items totaling 1 ,304 MSEK related to the acquisition of
Intergraph and impairment in Other Operations.

The year-end report 2010 will be presented today at 10:00 CET at a
telephone conference. For participation, please see instructions at the
Hexagon website.

For further information please contact: Mattias Stenberg, IR Manager,
Hexagon AB, +46 8 601 26 27, ir@hexagon.se (ir@hexagon.se)