adesso SE (0N5I) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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So, once again, good morning, everybody. This is Matti Molina of adesso IR speaking. First of all, I'd like you to thank you for joining our q two and half year one earnings call regarding our half year report we have published today. Within our release this morning, you found adesso keeping up its fast organic growth pace with 30% in sales to €794,300,000. The operating result was improved by 21% to euro €45,800,000. This is 8,000,000 more than last year's EBITDA contribution. Since the second half of the year in Germany provides a significantly larger number of working days than the first half, a larger portion of EBITDA contribution is expected to be earned later in the year. And there is more good news. Utilization improved noticeably since May. I now like to welcome as well our CFO, Michael Knop, who will give us a deeper insight into the figures of the first half of the year and, of course, the outlook for the remainder of the current year. As always, I like you to mute yourself during the presentation. Feel free to open up the channel for the q and a session afterwards. Participants on phones may want to mute or unmute their microphones via the star key followed by the number six of their phones. Thank you, Thufur. And, Michael, please go ahead. Good morning, everybody. I will guide you now to our 2026 half year figures. And as always, I will start with our revenues. Revenues came in with DKK $794,000,000, which is an increase of 13%. And if we look a little bit more in detail into this, first quarter contributed DKK $398,000,000, which was a plus of 30%. And the second quarter contributed DKK $396,000,000, which is a plus of 12%. So in total consolidated for both quarters, it's plus 13%. Actually, we are very happy with this growth rate. It's in line with our...