Schaeffler Ag Ord (SCAFF) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Schaeffler AGQ1-2026 earnings call. I am Sergan, the callers call operator. I would like to remind you that all participants will be in a listen-only mode at the conference being recorded. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session. You can register for questions at any time by pressing star and 1 on your telephone. For operator assistance, please press star and 0. The conference must not be recorded for publication or broadcast. At this time, it's my pleasure to hand over to Heiko Eber, Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir. Thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm very happy to welcome you to today's call on Scheffler's Financial Results Q1 2026. The press release, the following presentation, and our interim statement have been published today at 8 a.m. CET on our Investor Relations homepage. And as always, we will provide the recording and the transcript of this webcast after the call. I am sure that you have all taken notice of our by now well-known disclaimer. As always, Klaus Rosenfeld, our CEO, and Christoph Haneke, our CFO, have joined the conference call to guide you through the key information in our presentation. And afterwards, those gentlemen will be available for our Q&A session. And now let me hand over to our CEO, Christoph. Michael, thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our Q1 earnings call. You all received the presentation that Christoph and myself will share in the next minutes. Please follow me on page number three with the quick overview. I think you saw the numbers and from our point of view, a good summary to say we started well into the year in an environment that is certainly challenging and in some areas unpredictable. Sales growth, ethics adjusted 1% up. We'll sh...