KRUK Spólka Akcyjna (KRKKF) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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Good afternoon. My name is Michał Zasempa. I'm CFO at Krug. Welcome to the results presentation for the first quarter of 2026. You will have, as always, an opportunity to ask questions via chat. So please use this function. Let me now go through the presentation. The presentation is also available on our website. So let's start. In the first quarter of 2026, Krook had 262 million zloty of net profit. This is roughly what we expected for this quarter. However, the structure of the results was somewhat different than we budgeted. If you look at the top line, it was somewhat lower. than we planned. On the other hand, we also saw lower goals. But overall, we believe this was a decent result. And with this result, we, of course, need to concentrate more on recoveries in the following quarters to improve the revenues, possibly also continue to extract some cost efficiencies. but our target for this year profit is not changed. We don't give forecasts, but we do know that we have a target of at least 12% growth on the profit before tax in order to receive the allocation for the warrant program, and we would like to see it happen. This was a good quarter for deployment of money into new portfolios, 530 million zlotys, especially good in Italy, and it's double what we invested, more than double what we invested in the previous, in the quarter, first quarter of the previous year. The company continues to be well capitalized and with good access to the funding and moderate leverage level. If you If you look deeper, you can see that we exceeded on the total level by 4%. The accounting forecast, which is roughly what we expected, those differences will continue likely to be single-digit numbers. Most of the expenditures, as you see here, in the first quarter came from Italy, which...