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

Investor webinar replay

Replay transcript excerpt

Welcome to LIFCO Q2 Report for 2026. For the first part of the conference call, the participants will be in listen-only mode. During the questions-and-answer session, participants are able to ask questions by dialing pound 5 on their telephone keypad. Now I will hand the conference over to CEO Per Waldemarsen and CFO Therese Hoffman. Please go ahead. Good morning and welcome to the LIFCO Q2 presentation. And we can start as always by going into page number two in our investor presentation. And if we look at the second quarter, we are presenting a solid quarter overall with a sales growth of 11%. And in this second quarter, we had organic growth of around 5%. Acquisition contributed with around 7%. and we had a slight negative minor effect from currencies. If we go further down, we grew the EBITDA with 14% and obviously margin increased them from 22.5% in last year's quarter to 23.1%, which is a combination of organic development and also some effect of higher modern acquisitions coming into the group. And also the profit for tax, net profit grew healthy with 18%. Operating cash flow with 14% and earnings per share also grew with 18%. If we look at the first six-month period, after a little bit weaker start to the year, we grow in the first six months now with a stronger second quarter with 7%. EBITDA in sales. EBITDA grow with 10%. I can also go back and just mention the 7% sales growth in the first six months. It's also a 3% organic development and 7% from acquisition and obviously a higher negative impact of 3% in the first six months. For the six months, we grow profit for tax and net profit with around 13%. With that, we can go into page number three, the following slide, and look into the different business areas. And just to remind everyone, this is now the fir...