Momentum Group AB (publ) (MMGR_B) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

Investor webinar replay

Watch the replay and follow the connected company analysis, news, and investor updates for Momentum Group Ab Class B.

Watch the replay

Replay transcript excerpt

WEBVTT 00:00:01.600 -- 00:00:05.805 Welcome to the presentation of Momentum Group's Q1 report for 2026. 00:00:05.805 -- 00:00:10.831 I'm Alfre Lyseau from Momentum Group and I'm here with my colleague Niklas Edmark, Vice 00:00:10.831 -- 00:00:15.634 President and CFO and we will guide you through our report today. 00:00:16.597 -- 00:00:21.063 The business climate continues to be hesitant where our customers have a strong focus 00:00:21.063 -- 00:00:24.567 on costs and where demand is generally sluggish. 00:00:24.567 -- 00:00:30.133 Adding to this, this last quarter brought an increased anxiety coupled to the geopolitical 00:00:30.133 -- 00:00:31.621 turmoil. 00:00:31.621 -- 00:00:36.749 This was especially apparent in the first half of March when the market was quiet. 00:00:36.749 -- 00:00:41.657 Later in the month, the situation bounced back, enabling us to somewhat compensate for 00:00:41.657 -- 00:00:43.620 the tough start. 00:00:43.620 -- 00:00:48.247 In this environment, our priority is to have a strong focus on costs as well as pricing 00:00:48.247 -- 00:00:53.636 and efficiency measures to mitigate the volatility in demand and volumes. 00:00:53.636 -- 00:00:58.419 At the same time, we urge our companies to maintain high customer activities in order 00:00:58.419 -- 00:01:04.305 to be well positioned to meet the gradually improving market demand as it materializes. 00:01:04.305 -- 00:01:09.030 We also continue to make selective acquisitions in line with our strategy. 00:01:09.030 -- 00:01:13.755 I'm pleased to see that despite that tough market condition that had a relatively large 00:01:13.755 -- 00:01:18.860 negative impact on our sales volumes, we have performed fairly well in all other 00:01:18.860 -- 00:01:23.933 categories. Our gross margin is improving an...