Huber+Suhner AG (0QNH) Q4 2025 Earnings Call

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Hubert Sooner's conference on the 2025 year results. We will follow also this year the same agenda as last year. With me is Richard Hemmerle for the second time. He's our CFO since a year, and he will support me in doing a deep dive into the financial results. We have, in December, narrowed our guidance and in January, as usual, we have communicated on our top line, 25, so the novelty of this year's figures is probably limited. On this page you see the key figures 25 at a glance. Those are the numbers that we are going to look into in more details together in the next 45 minutes. I will not go into the details here as we will do the analysis during our presentation. This is now the full set of P&L figures with order intake certainly being a highlight and sticking out. Significant gains in order intake are due to a sharp increase in data center orders, but also the whole industry segment has contributed to the increase in order intake, which results in a billion and 32 million, a level which we haven't seen in Huberzuna's history. The increase represents a good 14% versus previous year. On net sales, we have to accept a 3% decline versus last year. Organically, we are flat. We have guided precisely a year ago at the same place for a flat development, and it proved to be that the Swiss franc created some headwind for Huber Sooner in the Range of 3%, Richard Hammerly will elaborate on the impact of the currency during the last year. With the 864 million sales, We are actually okay because we always stated clearly that in 24 we had a large Indian business at hand. So we had to compensate for about 100 million sales from 24 to 25, which we almost managed. And as we mentioned organically, we managed completely to replace t...