Orders increased by 18.8% on a comparable basis to €68.1 billion. Gas Services was the main driver, with orders up 45.9% to €32.8 billion. Grid Technologies grew orders by 14.5% to €24.0 billion and Transformation of Industry by 6.5% to €6.3 billion, while orders at Siemens Gamesa declined by 31.1% to €5.9 billion, compared with a strong prior-year period that included major orders in the Baltic Sea. Regionally, the United States stood out, with orders up 70.8% to €27.7 billion on group level. The book-to-bill ratio was 1.54, taking the order backlog to a new record of €164 billion.
Revenue grew by 15.5% on a comparable basis to €44.2 billion, with capacity expansions at existing Gas Services and Grid Technologies sites already contributing to higher output. Both businesses reported their highest quarterly revenue to date.
Profit before Special items more than doubled to €5.5 billion. The Profit margin before Special items reached 12.4%, compared with 6.0% in fiscal 2025. Siemens Gamesa was the single largest contributor to the improvement and reached break-even for the full year with Profit before Special items of €8 million, compared with negative €1.4 billion in fiscal 2025.
Free cash flow pre tax nearly doubled to €8.8 billion, clearly above our target of around €8 billion, driven in part by strong profit conversion. Customer advance payments, including reservation fees, also contributed. Gas Services doubled its free cash flow pre tax to €6.4 billion, and Grid Technologies generated €4.1 billion. Together, these two businesses more than offset Siemens Gamesa's negative free cash flow of €1.6 billion, which still improved year-over-year (+€174 million).
Siemens Energy’s Net income rose to just over €4.1 billion, compared with €1.7 billion in fiscal 2025. Further details and the figures for the fourth quarter can be found in the appendix.