AQ Group AB (publ) (AQ) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Okay. It's 09:30. I welcome you all to the AQ Group Investor Presentation after Q2. We start with the picture from a data center, because, I will talk a little bit about data centers today. What we deliver to data center, you can see on the left. I will try to show this queue because here, they are part of our delivery to our customer, and then this is part of their delivery to the data center. And it's a transformer and an inductor insight. I think it's a really beautiful product. I hope you agree. So normally, I start with this slide, why to invest in AQ Group as we see it on its per share CAGR, 40% over the past ten years. We made profit every quarter since the foundation in 'ninety four. We're exposed to Industrial Market segment with underlying growth in such as electrification, where we also include data centers, defense and medtech. We have a long history of acquisitions. We acquired two to four factories per year. We have acquired two factories this year. We have a strong balance sheet and a net cash position. A quick facts about AQ, we're 8,000 employees. We have roughly 9,000,000,000 turnover. We have 70 different business areas and more than 15 market segments where we deliver to. We are manufacturing in 17 countries with 4,000 customers globally. We made profit every quarter for the last thirty years. And then we talk about earnings per share, not something else. And then we have a 14% earnings per share CAGR for last ten years, and we make acquisitions. And then we are part of UN Global Compact since 2012, which is our sustainability initiative, which we think is really good. Now to some numbers. Second quarter, we increased net sales with 10%, which is shy of our target of increasing with 15 to 2,500,000,000 sales. Last quarter, we had 2,300,000,000 in ...