Suss Microtec Se (SESMF) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and a warm welcome to today's earnings call of the SUS Microtech SE on the occasion of the publication of the half-year figures of 2025. I'm delighted to welcome the CEO Burkhard Frick, CFO Dr. Cornelia Balbisa, the COO Dr. Thomas Rohr, as well as Manager Investor Relations Florian Mangold. The Management Board will speak in a moment and guide us through the presentation and the numbers. After the presentation, we will move on to a Q&A session in which you will be allowed to place your questions directly to the management. We are looking forward to the results, and having said this, I hand over to Mr. Mangold. Please, the stage is yours. Thank you, and welcome to the conference call on our results for the second quarter and the first six months of 2025. which we have published in our half-yearly financial report this morning. As you probably know from earlier calls, this call is being recorded and considered as copyright material. It cannot be recorded or rebroadcasted without permission. Participating in this call implies your consent to this procedure. Please be aware that our safe harvest statement of page 2 on the slide deck. It applies throughout the conference call. And now I hand over to our CEO, Bogat. Please. Thank you, Florian. Also from my side, dear investors, analysts, and guests, a warm welcome. After moderate order intake in the first quarter, we now must realize that the order momentum is not as positive as expected. Order intake of 166.8 million marks a 13.2% decrease year-on-year. On the other hand, sales peaked in the second quarter. After only six months, we are already at record high 266.4 million, which is a growth of 38.2% compared to the previous year. Growth is driven by both segments. While EBIT is still at a ...