Lifco AB (publ) (LIFCO_B) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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WEBVTT 00:00:00.031 -- 00:00:05.273 Welcome to LIFCO Q2 Report for 2026. For the first part of the conference call, 00:00:05.273 -- 00:00:07.914 the participants will be in listen-only mode. 00:00:07.914 -- 00:00:13.016 During the questions-and-answer session, participants are able to ask questions by dialing 00:00:13.016 -- 00:00:18.179 pound 5 on their telephone keypad. Now I will hand the conference over to CEO Per 00:00:18.179 -- 00:00:23.240 Waldemarsen and CFO Therese Hoffman. Please go ahead. 00:00:25.825 -- 00:00:29.748 Good morning and welcome to the LIFCO Q2 presentation. 00:00:29.748 -- 00:00:34.951 And we can start as always by going into page number two in our investor 00:00:34.951 -- 00:00:36.753 presentation. 00:00:36.753 -- 00:00:41.896 And if we look at the second quarter, we are presenting a 00:00:41.896 -- 00:00:46.478 solid quarter overall with a sales growth of 11%. 00:00:47.360 -- 00:00:52.023 And in this second quarter, we had organic growth of around 5%. 00:00:52.023 -- 00:00:55.458 Acquisition contributed with around 7%. 00:00:55.458 -- 00:01:00.220 and we had a slight negative minor effect from currencies. 00:01:00.220 -- 00:01:06.002 If we go further down, we grew the EBITDA with 14% and obviously margin 00:01:06.002 -- 00:01:12.123 increased them from 22.5% in last year's quarter to 23.1%, 00:01:12.244 -- 00:01:16.245 which is a combination of organic 00:01:16.245 -- 00:01:22.244 development and also some effect of higher modern acquisitions coming into the group. 00:01:22.244 -- 00:01:28.368 And also the profit for tax, net profit grew healthy with 18%. 00:01:28.550 -- 00:01:34.275 Operating cash flow with 14% and earnings per share also grew with 18%. 00:01:34.275 -- 00:01:39.100 If we look at the first six-month period, 00:01:39.100 -- ...