The executive board and the supervisory board propose to the shareholders’ meeting that the net profit for 2025 of 1,573,187.94 euros be added to the profit carried forward as of 1.1.2025 of 10,221,427.37 euros to form the balance sheet profit of 11,794,615.31 euros and carried forward to the next accounting period.

In addition to its core business, dpa operates a large number of business units and new business areas in independent subsidiaries. Due to the chosen structure, dpa’s results are highly dependent on the economic development and the associated earnings contributions of its subsidiaries, which are generally affiliated via profit and loss transfer agreements, as well as other shareholdings. In 2025, they once again generated a high net income for the year and made a total earnings contribution of 18.6 million euros.

Under the existing profit and loss transfer agreement, news aktuell GmbH made the largest single contribution to the dpa group’s success with 9.6 million euros, a slightly lower level than the previous year. The decline in the annual result was impacted by the difficult market situation in a highly competitive environment and associated stagnating sales, as well as one-off expenses in the form of a provision for potential losses related to office space at the Hamburg location that is no longer in use.

In 2025, dpa Picture-Alliance GmbH once again succeed in increasing revenue and even achieved an exceptionally significant expansion of revenue in the area of rights enforcement. Combined with consistent cost management, this contributed to the consolidated result, which at 4.6 million euros was almost one and half times as high as in the previous year.

The operations of the subsidiary dpa-infograpfik GmbH were merged with those of dpa-infocom GmbH in 2025 and, as part of the merger, transferred to dpa-infocom GmbH retroactively to 1.1.2025. The independent business operations of dpa-Infografik thus ceased at the turn of the year 2024/25.

The financial year at dpa-infocom GmbH was marked by the relocation of the digital editorial department that had already taken place in mid 2024 and had its first full-year affect in 2025, and the associated transfer of the WebLines product group to dpa GmbH, as well as the above-mentioned integration of the operations of dpa-Infografik GmbH. dpa-infocom GmbH closed the year with earnings of 0.2 million euros, which was mainly attributable to the fact-checking and data products and projects units.

The service provider dpa-IT Services GmbH closed the fiscal year slightly below target due to positions not being filled or only being filled after several months of delay, but nevertheless at a slightly higher level than the previous year. Similarly, Rufa Rundfunk-Agenturdienste GmbH and dpa English Services GmbH are also slightly above the previous year’s results.

dpa-AFX Wirtschaftsnachrichten GmbH, in which dpa GmbH holds a 76% stake, managed to slightly increase its revenue to 5.2 million euros despite a challenging market environment, and thus also increase its profit slightly.

mecom Medien-Communikations-Gesellschaft mbH (dpa holds a 50% direct stake and a 10% indirect stake) was unable to maintain the overall revenue levels of previous years, which had been characterised by significant project business in the secure networks segment. Fortunately, however, the commissioning of central product components and additional fixed stations made it possible to increase the more sustainable MoWaS (modular warning system) by over 1 million euros compared with 2024. mecom thus achieved a net profit for the year of 1.2 million euros, only slightly below the previous year’s figure of 1.3 million euros.

awp Finanznachrichten AG (50% stake held by dpa) once again performed very well in 2025. Although the changes in the Swiss financial sector were noticeable, the company once again managed to close the year with a barely changed revenue and profit of 1.8 million Swiss francs, on a par with the previous year.

On the other hand, news aktuell (Schweiz) AG saw a decline in revenue, but thanks to temporarily unfilled positions combined with further cost reductions, was able to almost match the previous year’s profit of 0.3 million Swiss francs.