Clas Ohlson AB (publ) (CLAS_B) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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WEBVTT 00:00:00.031 -- 00:00:04.898 Good morning and welcome to the Klaus Olsson Q2 report presentation. 00:00:04.898 -- 00:00:10.527 My name is Kristoffer Tornström and I'm CEO and I'm here with Pernilla Walfridsson, CFO. 00:00:10.527 -- 00:00:15.855 So we'll today cover a business update, financial development 00:00:15.855 -- 00:00:20.161 for the quarter and then move into events after the reporting period. 00:00:20.161 -- 00:00:24.267 Then we'll summarize and then move into Q&A. 00:00:24.267 -- 00:00:27.672 So starting with highlighting the second quarter. 00:00:27.672 -- 00:00:32.838 Overall, we continue to moving forward with fast pace and have seen 00:00:32.838 -- 00:00:36.402 strong both profit and sales growth in the quarter. 00:00:36.402 -- 00:00:42.389 So the second quarter came in at 3 billion SEK, which was organic growth of 9%. 00:00:42.389 -- 00:00:47.235 And the operating profit for the quarter came in at 410 million, 00:00:47.235 -- 00:00:52.239 which then translates into an operating margin of 13.6%. 00:00:52.421 -- 00:00:57.440 And in absolute terms is up a bit more than 30% versus last year. 00:00:57.440 -- 00:01:00.163 When it comes to our online sales 00:01:00.163 -- 00:01:04.206 on the B2C side with the continued strong sales growth in the quarter, and I'll come 00:01:04.206 -- 00:01:10.192 back to that in a second. Also from a financial position point of view, we 00:01:10.192 -- 00:01:15.277 do have a solid financial position and also 00:01:15.277 -- 00:01:20.522 a cash flow that is up in the first half versus a year ago. 00:01:20.522 -- 00:01:25.927 Earnings per share amounted to 4.85 kronas versus 3.63 00:01:25.927 -- 00:01:30.982 last year. We've also reported the sales numbers for November today 00:01:30.982 -- 00:01:36.590 and we'll come b...