Andreas Koski
Analyst, BNP Paribas
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Alimak Group AB (publ) (STO: ALIG) Q1 2026 earnings conference call, held 2026-04-28. Replay captured from the company's public earnings webcast.

Analyst, BNP Paribas
Analyst, DNB Carnegie
You, and welcome to this quarter one twenty twenty six call. And, yeah, as always, I have with me Silva here. Turning page and a short recap of the group. First, global industrial company focusing on vertical access solution working safely at height, moving people and material. We have some fundamental drivers for our, success in the group and global trends like urbanization, health and safety, the regionalization trend that we are seeing, electrification trend, but also now robotization trend that we can facilitate, the usage of, of mobilization and automation at height. We do have a leading market position in the niches where we operate, a strong global footprint, which is giving us a fantastic base for our service business, which is a fundamental piece of each division, and also a capital light operation giving us a strong balance sheet and opportunity to invest. Turning page. Our strategy, the new Heights has been with us since 2020, and it's something that has served us very well. And we now, you know, made the step up to 2.0 end of last year. So this will continue to be with us as the foundation for the for the group activities. Turning page. We updated also last year some key financial metrics. And most important maybe to highlight, it's to have an average annual revenue growth of 8% to 12% and also an adjusted EBITA margin of 20% reached by 2028. Turning page. We dive into Q1. And yes, overall, it's a result that I we are not fully satisfied with, given our ambitions. As you can also understand, even though it's I would qualify it as a resilient performance in a continued challenging market. Organically, we went down 4% on order intake, but we were up 3% on revenue in the quarter and a good book to bill ratio of 108%, supporting also a good backlog growth. We...