Clas Ohlson AB (publ) (CLAS_B) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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WEBVTT 00:00:00.031 -- 00:00:03.753 Welcome to the Class Olson Q1 2025-2026 00:00:04.016 -- 00:00:08.282 report presentation. For the first part of the presentation, participants will be in 00:00:08.282 -- 00:00:12.908 listen-only mode. During the questions and answers session, participants are able to 00:00:12.908 -- 00:00:17.114 ask questions by dialing hash 5 on their telephone keypad. 00:00:17.114 -- 00:00:22.982 Now I will hand the conference over to CEO Christopher Tonstrom and CFO Pernilla Walfriedsen. 00:00:22.982 -- 00:00:25.423 Please go ahead. 00:00:25.968 -- 00:00:30.475 Good morning and welcome to the Claes Olsson Q1 report presentation. 00:00:30.475 -- 00:00:34.682 My name is Christoph Trondström. I'm the CEO and I'm here with Pernilla Walfridsson, 00:00:34.682 -- 00:00:39.330 CFO. So we'll go through a business update. 00:00:39.330 -- 00:00:44.038 Pernilla will take us through the financial development and then I'll cover the events 00:00:44.038 -- 00:00:49.427 after the reporting period and then the strategy update and summary 00:00:49.427 -- 00:00:54.821 before we move into Q&A. So overall, looking at the first quarter, 00:00:54.821 -- 00:00:58.566 we've had a strong start to the new year. And we have shown again that we can deliver 00:00:58.566 -- 00:01:03.774 both growth and profitability. Looking at some of the highlights, the first quarter sales 00:01:03.774 -- 00:01:09.182 came in at 10% organic growth. And the operating profit 00:01:09.182 -- 00:01:14.850 came in at 278 million, which is up 37% versus last year. 00:01:14.850 -- 00:01:18.483 And this results in an operating margin of 9.9%. 00:01:18.483 -- 00:01:22.748 Also cash flow was strong coming in at 468 00:01:22.748 -- 00:01:26.291 versus 413 last year. So 00:01:26.291 -- 00:01:31.537 the...