Byggmax Group AB (publ) (BMAX) Q3 2025 Earnings Call

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Good morning. Thank you for attending today's Speak Next 4.3 interim report. My name is Sarah, and I'll be your moderator today. All lines will be muted during the presentation portion of the call, but an opportunity for questions and answers at the end. If you'd like to ask a question, press star 1 on your telephone keypad. I'd like to pass the conference over to our host, Carl Sandler, CEO. Please go ahead. Thank you. Thank you very much. And again, welcome to this conference call where we will present Big Mac's report for the third quarter of 2025. I'm Carl Sandlund, CEO, and with me is Helena Nathos, our CFO. And as usual, you'll find the presentation that we are referring to on our website, and we will try to guide you to the relevant page during this call. After a short business update from my side, Helena will walk you through the Q3 financials. And once the presentations are finished, we open up for your questions. But let's begin. And please go to page number two in the presentation. And as I hope you already have seen, we continue to improve our profitability in this quarter. Even though we've been operating in a weak market, we deliver on our focus areas, and we adapt to the market conditions. The third quarter is part of our high season, and we have strong focus on operations, and performance has been robust throughout this season. Our sales in the quarter is 0.8% lower than last year. We have some negative currency effects on sales, which means that Like-for-like sales is 0.2 lower than 2024 in the quarter. So it's very similar to last year. But I will come back to different categories. But overall, positive development in guarder-related categories, while estate and consumer steelmen, weak in performance when it comes to larger renovations. And we also ...