Lagercrantz Group AB (publ) (LAGR_B) Q1 2027 Earnings Call

Investor webinar replay

Replay transcript excerpt

Welcome to Lagercrantz Group Q1 Report 202627. For the first part of the conference call, the participants will be in listen-only mode. During the questions and answers session, participants are able to ask questions by dialing pound key 5 on their telephone keypad. Now I will hand the conference over to President and CEO Jorgen Wigg and CFO Karen Meligard-Jarf. Please go ahead. Yes, thank you. Good morning everyone and welcome to our interim report for the Q1. As you know, we are starting our year 1st of April. So this is the quarter ending April through June then. Welcome everyone. A bit puzzled around to the reaction here this morning. We thought we posted a strong quarter, well in line where we have been before, or even a bit slightly stronger with some earnings per share growth of 20% and some six M&A deals over the last quarter, which is more than we've done before. But we will get into that as we move along here. Together with me here, I have Karin with us as well, our new CFO, since a few months ago. And we will go over the presentation in sort of three chapters or parts, where we will start with a short introduction to Lagerfrans Group for those that are new to us. And then we would jump right into the quarterly report. And then we will end up with some comments on where we are with the group going forward. So welcome everyone. I will start with an introduction to Lagerkrantz Group then. I mean, we are, you've seen this many times. We are a tech group building through M&A and development of the companies that we have, building leading positions in expansive niches. You can see over to the right where we have most of our companies. It's Northern Europe that we cover now. But we also have some really export-related businesses. So all the way to the right, you ...