Fuchs SE (FUPBY) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the First Quarter Results 2026 Analyst Conference Call for Fuchs SE. This conference will be recorded. As a reminder, all participants will be in a listen-only mode. After the presentation, there will be an opportunity for the analyst of Fuchs to ask questions. May I now hand over to Andreas Schaller? Head of Investor Relations at Fuchs SE, who will start the meeting today. Please go ahead. Thank you, Heidi. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. This is Andreas Schaller speaking. On behalf of Fuchs SE, I wish you a very warm welcome to today's conference call on the results of the first quarter 2026. With me on the call today is our CEO, Stefan Fuchs, and our CFO, Esmal Zaglik, and the IR team with Teresa Landau and Maximilian Seidel. Maximilian is the successor of Niklas and is with us since two weeks now. So also a warm welcome to the conference call, Maximilian. We are very happy to have you with us. Thank you very much. As always, Esma and Stefan will run you through the presentation, which is then followed by a Q&A session. All the documents for this call are available on our homepage, and we assume that you have them in front of you. Please be also aware of our disclaimer on page two of our presentation. And now it's my pleasure to hand over the call to Esma. Please go ahead. Thank you very much, Andreas. And hello and also a very warm welcome from my side. I will now walk you through our financial performance for the first quarter of 2026, starting with the key highlights. We can say we had a very good start into the year. Organic growth continued and even accelerated. In a volatile environment, we once again demonstrated operational resilience and financial strength. Sales reached $934 million, up by 1% year-on-year, which is ...