Bergman & Beving AB (publ) (BERG_B) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

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WEBVTT 00:00:00.031 -- 00:00:05.298 Good morning, everyone. This is Magnus Söderlind, and on my side here I have Peter 00:00:05.298 -- 00:00:10.504 Schoen. So welcome to our financial report for the 00:00:10.504 -- 00:00:15.929 last fiscal quarter up until March 2025. 00:00:16.912 -- 00:00:22.059 So we will have, as normal, a Q&A in the end, and it's also possible 00:00:22.059 -- 00:00:26.923 for you to post questions along the way that we will then answer 00:00:26.945 -- 00:00:29.782 when we have ended this session. 00:00:29.782 -- 00:00:34.582 So just starting with some highlights from the first quarter, 00:00:34.582 -- 00:00:38.523 we have experienced still a sluggish market. 00:00:38.523 -- 00:00:43.770 I previously said that the best KPI from an aggregated group level 00:00:43.770 -- 00:00:48.357 is number of employees in the construction and industry sector in the Nordics. 00:00:48.357 -- 00:00:53.364 And new figures indicate that there has been a 2% decrease in the 00:00:53.364 -- 00:00:54.926 Nordics. 00:00:54.926 -- 00:01:00.253 This is a mixture from Q1 calendar figures in Sweden and Finland and Q4 00:01:00.253 -- 00:01:04.139 figures for Norway. But overall, 00:01:04.139 -- 00:01:09.345 This is very representative for how we perceive the underlying market during 00:01:09.345 -- 00:01:11.567 the last quarter. 00:01:11.567 -- 00:01:16.954 Despite that, we have increased earnings and profitability and also 00:01:16.954 -- 00:01:21.158 the earnings per share. So we increased the turnover by 8%. 00:01:21.158 -- 00:01:25.283 The majority of this is acquisition 00:01:25.283 -- 00:01:27.646 driven turnover. 00:01:27.646 -- 00:01:32.219 We also increased the EBITDA with the same figure, 8%. 00:01:32.219 -- 00:01:37.310 and we were able to maintain the EBITDA margin...