Bergman & Beving AB (publ) (BERG_B) Q3 2024 Earnings Call

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Thank you very much. Welcome everyone to the Bergman & Beving interim report for our Q3 quarter. My name is Magnus Söderlin, I'm the CEO and on my side here I have Peter Schön, our CFO. So just to start off with some highlights from the Q3 quarter. We have another quarter with increased earnings profitability and we also now have an increased EPS. and if you have followed us we have now 20 consecutive quarters with increased profits and this quarter the turnover increased six percent but that was mainly due to acquisition and we'll come back to them about the organic uh top line growth but we had an ebta increase of 10 and and that was mainly driven by the acquisitions contribution we had during the quarter And we continue also to improve the EBTA margins. So we're now at 9.6 this quarter compared with 9.3, the comparable quarter. And we also continue to improve our profitability. So our profitability measure has profit of working capital, and we now have an increase of 6% units. And this is measured rolling 12. So there's a kind of lag of the improvements we have made. So the rolling three figures is even higher than the rolling 12 figures. So all the activities we have been running for the last quarters is now showing results in the improvement in this ratio. And we also have, as earlier stated, an increase in earnings per share, rolling 12 to 7.55 compared with previous year 7.15. And we have achieved this despite that continuous sluggish market. We have said earlier that the best KPI on an aggregated level for the group is number of employees within the construction industrial sector in the Nordic. And the Q3 calendar figure for that show and the group decrease, if you kind of weighted the countries and the different segments, industry and construction, a decline...