AQ Group AB (publ) (AQ) Q3 2025 Earnings Call

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in Sweden and we'd like to wish you welcome to AQ Group's report for the third quarter. I will try to speak quickly and then we have questions in the end. So let's go. So we think you should, we like to invest in AQ Group because we have an earnings per share CAGR of 40% over the past 10 years. We made profit every quarter since the foundation in 1994. We have an exposure to industrial market segments with underlying growth, such as electrification, defense, and metric. We have a long history of acquisitions, and this year we bought two factories and a design office in Germany and Czech Republic. We have an extremely strong balance sheet with a net cash position. Some quick facts. So we are 8,000 employees in EQ. We had a turnover in 2015 before about 8.5 billion SEK. We have seven business areas. We cater 15 plus market segments and we are manufacturing in 17 countries. to 4,000 customers globally. And we made profit every quarter for the last 30 years. And then I made profit in the earnings line, the bottom, bottom line, not anything else. And we have a 14% earnings per share CAGR for the last 10 years. We make acquisitions, as I said, and our sustainability initiative is UN Global Compact that we have been part of since 2012. Okay, let's move to the third quarter. We increased net sales with 8% to 2.1 million. It is shy of our goal of growing net sales with 15%. Our operating profit increased with 2% to 191 million, and our profit after financial items increased with 5% to 187 million. Our profit margin before tax was 8.8%. And after tax, we had a profit of 154 million. And the cash flow from operating activities was, as usual, in quarter three, quite high, 322 million, but a little bit lower than last year. And earnings per share before dilution mounted to 1.67, ...