Careium AB (Publ) (CARE) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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Carium have released their report for the first quarter of 2026. And I welcome you to this live broadcasted presentation. Presenting is Interim CEO Peter Hojman and CFO David Granat. After the presentation, there will be a Q&A where you investors can ask your questions in the live chat. And I will raise them during the Q&A. And we are also in company of two equity analysts that will ask their questions. Welcome, Peter and David. Thank you. Thank you. And before the presentations presentation starts in brief, Peter, what have characterized the first quarter of twenty twenty six? But I would say that, as you can see in the report, I think we have an underlying strong growth in the first quarter of the year and then taking into consideration our earlier communicated initiatives that we are focused on some modernization internally. I think the combination of doing all these efforts as well as at the same time providing very decent underlying growth, I think that would be the main summary and characteristics of the quarter. Okay, thank you so much. And by that, please go ahead with your presentation. All right. Thank you. But then if we go to the next slide. Which should be the quarterly highlight slide, I guess. Here we go. Yeah, like I said, Carium provides for the first quarter of 2026 an underlying adjusted growth with over 10%, almost 11%. So we end up on almost 220 million SEC. I think that's a strong statement. You can see that we are growing both related to our services sales and to our product sales. As earlier communicated, we are running some initiatives internally to improve, maybe you can say a little bit of short-term pain for a long-term gain. But still doing that, I think we are delivering decent gross margins, being aware of this, also decent profitabilit...