ABB Ltd (ABB) Q4 2025 Earnings Call

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WEBVTT 00:00:00.942 -- 00:00:06.781 Greetings and welcome to this presentation of ABB's full year and fourth quarter results. 00:00:06.781 -- 00:00:10.966 As usual, we have our CEO, Morten Wirod, here. 00:00:10.966 -- 00:00:16.332 And now also for the last time in this forum, our CFO, Timo Hyamotla. 00:00:16.332 -- 00:00:18.774 I'm Ansa Fynod, Head of Investor Relations. 00:00:18.774 -- 00:00:23.880 And as per tradition, Morten and Timo will talk through the results, after which 00:00:23.880 -- 00:00:29.326 we open up for Q&A. So now I'll leave it up to you, Morten, to kick off the presentation 00:00:29.326 -- 00:00:31.809 with some comments on 25 as a whole. 00:00:31.809 -- 00:00:37.283 Thanks, Ansi. Yeah, 2025 was our best year yet. 00:00:37.283 -- 00:00:42.718 We delivered an all-time high financial performance and we also continue to be recognized 00:00:42.718 -- 00:00:47.913 with good sustainability ratings. I want to thank and give credit to the team who worked 00:00:47.913 -- 00:00:53.637 hard to achieve this. Through the year, we saw demand for electrification and automation 00:00:53.637 -- 00:00:57.462 solutions continue its overall strong trend. 00:00:57.462 -- 00:01:03.008 From a top-line perspective, I would say that we have performed well in a strong market. 00:01:03.008 -- 00:01:07.093 Add to that our internal focus on continuous improvements. 00:01:07.093 -- 00:01:12.159 And putting it all together, we reached new record levels in orders and across most P&L 00:01:12.159 -- 00:01:18.043 metrics, including an operational EBITDA margin of 19%. 00:01:18.112 -- 00:01:23.681 The margin of 18.2% on income from operations or EBIT was only 80 00:01:23.681 -- 00:01:28.728 basis points lower, in line with our ambition to keep the gap at about 100 00:01:28.728 -- ...