Ericsson (ERIC) Q1 2025 Earnings Call

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Hello everyone and welcome to the presentation of Ericsson's first quarter 2025 results. With me here in the studio today are Buria Ekholm, our President and CEO, and Lars Sandström, our Chief Financial Officer. As usual we'll have a short presentation followed by Q&A and in order to ask a question you'll need to join the conference by phone. Details can be found in today's earnings release and on the Investor Relations website. Please be advised that today's call is being recorded and that today's presentation may include forward-looking statements. These statements are based on our current expectations and certain planning assumptions, which are subject to risk and uncertainties. The actual results may differ materially due to factors mentioned in today's press release and discussed in this conference call. We encourage you to read about these risks and uncertainties in our earnings report as well as in our annual report. I'll hand the call now over to Burya and to Lars for their introductory comments. Great. Thanks, Daniel. And good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining us today. So we executed well in Q1 despite the challenging and fast-changing macro backdrop. Organic sales were stable with strong growth in market area Americas. Gross margin came in at 48.5 and we delivered an EBITDA margin of 12.6%. The improvement that we saw was broad-based across all segments and market areas and it's really thanks to strong execution of our plans. Cloud software and services can call out a bit because it also had the first positive first quarter ever. We also continue to make good progress against our strategic priorities in the quarter by strengthening our leadership in mobile networks and announcing new partnerships that will accelerate the development of programmable...