Gea Group Ag Ord (GEAGF) Q1 2025 Earnings Call

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Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Gear Group AG Q1 2025 conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star 1 and 1 on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star 1 and 1 again. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Oliver Luckenbach, Head of IR. Please go ahead. Thank you, Sarah, and good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for joining us today for our first quarter 2025 earnings conference call. With me on the call are Stefan Klebert, our CEO, and Bernd Brinker, our CFO. Stefan will begin today's call with our first quarter highlights. Bernd will then cover the business and financial review before Stefan takes over again for the outlook 2025. Afterwards, we open up the call for the Q&A session. Please be aware of the cautionary language that is included in our safe harbor statement as in the material that we have distributed today. And with that, I hand over to Stefan. Thank you very much, Oliver, and good afternoon, everybody. It's my pleasure to welcome you to our conference call today. Here I had a good start into the new fiscal year with a strong first quarter. We improved all major financial KPIs and continued our profitable growth trajectory. As indicated with our fourth quarter release, the 1.6 billion euro order intake, which we booked in the fourth quarter of 2024, was extraordinarily strong and shouldn't be considered as a new normal. We benefited from seven large orders which cannot ...