Suss Microtec Se (SESMF) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

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Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and a warm welcome to today's earnings call of the SysMicrotech SE on the occasion of the publication of the figures for the financial year 2024. I am delighted to welcome the CEO Burkhard Frick, CFO Dr. Cornelia Ballwieser, the COO Dr. Thomas Rohr, as well as Vice President Investor Relations Sven Köpsel. The management board will speak in a moment and guide us through the numbers. After the presentation, we will move on to a Q&A session in which you will be allowed to place your question directly to the management. We are looking forward to the results. And having said this, I hand over to Mr. Köpsel. Hello, and thanks. Welcome, everybody. We would like to welcome you to our conference call after publishing our annual report today in the morning. And as you probably know from earlier calls, this call is being recorded and considered as copyright material. It cannot be recorded or rebroadcast without permission, and participating in this call implies your consent to this procedure. Please be aware of our safe harbor statement in this slide deck. It applies throughout the conference call. And now I hand over to our CEO, Burkhard, please. Thank you, Sven. Also, warm welcome from my end. So here's what we are going to cover today. First, we touch the key achievements of the past year. Then Cornelia Valvisa provides more details on the financials. And finally, I will give an outlook for 2025. After that, we will be happy to answer your questions, as usual. Let's go through the highlights. First, we managed to execute our high order book, resulting in record sales of 446 million euros, an increase of 46.6% compared to 2023. Second important message, we have significantly grown profitability, and with that, reached a completely new level of...