Ambea AB (publ) (AMBEA) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the AMBEA Interim Report Second Quarter 2025 conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star 1 1 on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To answer your question, please press star 1 1 again. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Mark Jensen, President and CEO. Please go ahead. Thank you and welcome everyone. Today we will review Ambea's performance for the second quarter of 2025. My name is Mark Jensen, CEO of Ambea, and I'm joined by our CFO, Benno Eliasson. Together we will walk you through our results and highlight the key developments during this period. After that, I will summarize the quarter and compare Ambea's performance to our financial targets before we open for questions. I would like to begin with a brief overview of Ambea. Ambea remains the leading care provider in the four largest Nordic countries. We offer high quality care and support across more than 1,000 care units for over 16,000 care receivers. We deliver the services to 450 municipalities in Scandinavia and 20 well-being services counties in Finland. Due to the acquisition of the Finnish business, we present Validia as a new business area for the first time this quarter. The financial data for Validia pertain to one quarter only in the rolling 12 numbers. All business areas contributed well to the group EBITDA, which resulted in an adjusted EBITDA margin of 9.6% on group level in line with our financial target. More about that later in th...