The Anima Education () released this Thursday (8) its quarterly balance with a adjusted net profit of R $ 115.3 million and improvement of EBITDA margin. Highlighting “Quality Revenue”, the company considers it to have entered the execution phase of what it calls “third growth cycle”.
Data point to net revenue of $ 1 billion, with a 5% growth compared to the first quarter of 2024 and pulled by all business verticals. “This third cycle of sustainable growth is already in its execution phase, highlighting the confidence we have in our strategy,” says Anima President Paula Harraca.
The company has made efforts to achieve what it calls “quality revenue”, in a formula that involves price, number of students and better default. According to Harraca, the idea is to raise profitability without giving up the services to the student, especially Capex – capital expenses, such as infrastructure investments – 5% of revenue.
In Core, the company increased by 9.1% the growth of undergraduate attraction in the annual comparison. Driving fell by 1.5%, while the monthly net ticket grew 7.9% and ended the first quarter of 2025 to R $ 873.
In comparison against the first quarter of 2024, the EBITDA margin – cash generation indicator – rose 1.5%to 41.5%. “This is the 13th consecutive quarter of uninterrupted margin growth. It is cash generation, breakdown. The main achievement of the quarter is the resumption of growth and capture,” says the CFO of Ânima, Átila Simões da Cunha.
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Compared to the same period last year, the company reduced its adjusted indebtedness of 2.98x net profit divided by EBITDA against 2.63x in the first quarter of 2025. “We reduced 70 points base in debt spread, from 2.4 to 1.7 above the CDI,” says Da Cunha.
According to Cunha, the reduction in spread was able to absorb part of the increase in Selic throughout the year. The company has still been able to improve its loan conditions after improving its credit rating by AA Fitch to AA.
