Outokumpu's Annual Accounts Bulletin 2010 - sta...

FINANCIAL STATEMENT BULLETIN
February 2, 2011 9.00 am EET


Year 2010 highlights

- Operating profit was EUR -83 million (2009: EUR -441 million), underlying
operational result some EUR -91 million (2009: some EUR -343 million).
- EBITDA EUR 172 million (2009: EUR -212 million), operative cash flow EUR -497
million.
- Deliveries increased by 28% to 1 315 000 tonnes.
- Major investment decisions totalling approximately EUR 550 million:
ferrochrome capacity to be doubled, position in quarto plate to be
strengthened.
- The Board of Directors is proposing a dividend of EUR 0.25 per share (2009:
EUR 0.35).

Fourth-quarter highlights

- Operating profit EUR -85 million (III/2010: EUR -49 million), underlying
operational result EUR -68 million (III/2010: EUR -10 million).
- EBITDA EUR -4 million (III/2010: EUR 12 million).
- Deliveries totalled 336 000 tonnes (III/2010: 307 000 tonnes).
- Inventories reduced, cash flow positive at EUR 18 million (III/2010: EUR -111
million).

Group key figures

                                        IV/10 III/10 IV/09  2010  2009
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Sales                       EUR million 1 162  1 014   736 4 229 2 641

Operating profit            EUR million   -85    -49   -31   -83  -441

EBITDA                      EUR million    -4     12    26   172  -212

Non-recurring items
in operating profit         EUR million   -17      -     -   -17   -20

Profit before taxes         EUR million   -86    -88   -38  -143  -479

Non-recurring items
in financial income
and expenses                EUR million     9      -     -     9     -

Net profit for the
period                      EUR million   -91    -56    -6  -124  -336

Earnings per share                  EUR -0.50  -0.31 -0.04 -0.68 -1.86

Return on capital
employed                              %  -8.0   -4.6  -3.5  -2.1 -11.7

Net cash generated
from operating
activities                  EUR million    18   -111  -111  -497   201

Capital expenditure         EUR million    48     40    83   161   248

Net interest-bearing
debt at end of
period                      EUR million 1 837  1 831 1 191 1 837 1 191

Debt-to-equity ratio
at end of period                      %  77.3   74.9  48.6  77.3  48.6

Stainless steel
deliveries                 1 000 tonnes   336    307   277 1 315 1 030

Stainless steel base
price 1)                      EUR/tonne 1 213  1 245 1 297 1 252 1 161

Personnel at the end
of period                               8 104  8 048 7 754 8 104 7 754
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1) Stainless steel: CRU - German base
price (2 mm cold rolled 304 sheet).






SHORT-TERM OUTLOOK

Following the softer market situation that characterised late 2010, demand for
standard grades of stainless steel began to pick-up in the new-year. The
increase in the nickel price supported buying by distributors and lead times for
standard grades are currently somewhat above the usual 6-8 weeks. Distributor
inventories in Europe are estimated to be approximately at normal level. Demand
from investment-driven end-use segments has not yet shown any major recovery.

Outokumpu's order intake has been encouraging from the beginning of 2011. After
the decline in base prices in late 2010, Outokumpu has been able to increase
prices, but this will only have an impact on average prices towards the end of
the first quarter.

Based on current order intake, Outokumpu estimates that delivery volumes in the
first quarter of 2011 will be some 10-20% higher than in the fourth quarter of
2010. Outokumpu's operating profit in the first quarter is expected to be around
break-even or slightly positive with some positive impact from raw material-
related timing gains (at current metal prices).

CEO Juha Rantanen:

"The market environment in 2010 continued to be difficult in our home market,
Europe. Demand for stainless was well below the pre-crisis levels, especially
for investment-driven applications. The resulting still rather low capacity
utilisation and deteriorated cost-efficiency were the main reasons for the
clearly loss-making result in 2010. Currently, the overall economic development
indicates better stainless markets for this year. Our focus stays on the
essentials; better profitability, stronger balance sheet and implementation of
our strategy. Last year we made good progress on many operational areas, like
safety, inventory levels and delivery performance. It gives me confidence to
expect significant progress on our financial performance this year."

Changes in disclosure procedure

Outokumpu Oyj is now adopting the new disclosure procedure enabled by the
Standard 5.2b published by the Finnish Financial Supervision Authority. This is
a summary of Outokumpu's Annual Accounts Bulletin 2010 and the complete report
with tables is available as an attachment to this stock exchange release and is
also available on the Outokumpu website at: www.outokumpu.com/investors.

The attachments present the Management analysis of the fourth quarter 2010
operating result and a summary of the Review by the Board of Directors for
January-December 2010 as well as extracts from the financial statements. The
report is based on restated financial information for the Group's brass
operations previously reported as discontinued operations. All full-year figures
have been audited.

For further information, please contact:

Päivi Lindqvist, SVP - Communications and IR
tel. [phone], mobile [phone]
[e-mail]

Ingela Ulfves, VP - Investor Relations and Financial Communications
tel. [phone], mobile [phone]
[e-mail]

Esa Lager, CFO
Tel. [phone]
[e-mail]


News conference and live webcast today at 1.00 pm

A combined news conference, conference call and live webcast concerning
Outokumpu's annual accounts 2010 will be held on 2 February 2011 at 1.00 pm EET
(6.00 am US EST, 11.00 am UK time, 12.00 pm CET) at Restaurant Bank, meeting
rooms 12-14, address Unioninkatu 20, 00130 Helsinki, Finland.

To participate via the conference call, please dial in 5-10 minutes before the
beginning of the event:

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The news conference can be viewed live via the Internet at www.outokumpu.com. A
stock exchange release and presentation material will be available before the
news conference at:
www.outokumpu.com/Investors.

An on-demand webcast of the news conference will be available at
www.outokumpu.com on February 3, 2011 from around 3.00 pm.


OUTOKUMPU OYJ
Corporate Management



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