AQ Group AB (publ) (AQ) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

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WEBVTT 00:00:00.031 -- 00:00:04.958 All right, welcome everybody to AQ Group's year-end report. 00:00:04.958 -- 00:00:10.024 On the picture we see a beautiful transformer and inductor in an enclosure 00:00:10.024 -- 00:00:14.270 that is produced by Emdex in Trutnov for 00:00:14.270 -- 00:00:19.617 a German railway customer. Beautiful products that we will produce going 00:00:19.617 -- 00:00:25.943 forward. Now let's go to some fancy numbers. 00:00:26.575 -- 00:00:29.600 First, we'd like to talk about why you should invest in Acre Group. 00:00:29.600 -- 00:00:33.227 So we have an earnings per share-taker of 14% over the past 10 years. 00:00:33.227 -- 00:00:36.212 We've made profit every quarter since the foundation in 1994. 00:00:36.212 -- 00:00:41.842 We have exposure to industrial market segments with underlying growth, meaning electrification, 00:00:41.842 -- 00:00:46.009 railway defense, medtech. And we also have a long history of acquisitions, two to four 00:00:46.009 -- 00:00:51.331 factories per year. And in 2024, we bought a lot more. 00:00:51.331 -- 00:00:56.757 We bought JITMEC, two factories, Rockford, three factories in the UK, Techroy with engineering 00:00:56.757 -- 00:00:59.440 and prototype office in the west coast of Sweden. 00:00:59.440 -- 00:01:05.026 We also signed an agreement in 2024 to buy Emdex and Mikael Riedel 00:01:05.026 -- 00:01:09.551 in Czech Republic and Germany who produced Transformers and Inductor for demanding industrial 00:01:09.551 -- 00:01:11.053 customers. 00:01:11.053 -- 00:01:15.658 We have an extremely strong balance sheet with the net cash position and we have a very 00:01:15.658 -- 00:01:20.407 nice track record of more than 30 years of profit. 00:01:20.407 -- 00:01:22.992 Some quick facts from AQ. We're 8,000 employees. 00...