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Aquafil Group Q3 2025 Performance and Stonegate Capital Partners Coverage Update
TL;DR
Aquafil Group's focus on higher-margin ECONYL® regenerated products and U.S. restructuring provides competitive advantage through improved profitability and market differentiation.
Aquafil achieved 13.7% EBITDA margin through disciplined cost controls, lower raw material costs, and shifting 60% of fiber revenues to regenerated ECONYL® products.
Aquafil's ECONYL® regenerated fibers advance circular economy principles by recycling materials, reducing environmental impact while maintaining strong business performance for sustainable operations.
Aquafil transformed recycled materials into 60% of fiber revenues while expanding margins, demonstrating how sustainability and profitability can grow together in modern manufacturing.
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This coverage update analyzes Aquafil Group's Q3 2025 financial performance, highlighting resilient profitability despite revenue challenges, with specific focus on EBITDA margin improvement, regional performance, and the company's valuation.
In Q3 2025, Aquafil reported revenue of €120.9M (down 5.5% year-over-year) but achieved EBITDA of €16.6M (up 7.0% year-over-year), with an improved EBITDA margin of 13.7% compared to 12.1% in Q3 2024.
The improved profitability was driven by lower raw material costs, disciplined cost-containment actions, a richer mix of higher-margin regenerated products, and ongoing efficiency measures that offset the revenue softness.
ECONYL®-branded and other regenerated fibers represented 60.2% of fiber revenues in Q3 2025, serving as a key growth driver and important contributor to EBITDA growth and margin expansion through their higher-margin profile.
North America remained a key growth engine with solid volume gains in BCF business, EMEA was broadly in line with prior year performance, while Asia Pacific remained soft, particularly in textile applications.
Aquafil is reorganizing its U.S. carpet collection and recycling operations, taking one-off restructuring charges that are expected to position the business for structurally lower labor and logistics costs starting in FY26 and beyond.
Stonegate's valuation ranges from €4.68 to €5.07 using DCF analysis and €4.52 to €5.54 using EV/EBITDA analysis, with midpoints of €4.87 and €5.03 respectively.
Management remains cautious for Q4 2025, expecting margin performance to stay at the upper end of the industrial plan despite muted volume growth in certain regions, with continued benefits from cost controls and U.S. operations reorganization.
Leverage is trending lower with net financial position to EBITDA around the mid-3x range, and management is prioritizing cash generation and disciplined capital expenditure to support ongoing deleveraging efforts.
Curated from Reportable
