Wacker Neuson Se Namen Ak (WKRCF) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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Good afternoon everybody and welcome to the Q1 2026 earnings call of the Wacker Neus. My name is Pär Schlinkmann, Head of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications. Thank you for joining today on the occasion of the release of our Q1 2026 results. As usual, we will first start with the operational and financial results of the first quarter of 2026 and give additional insights on the recent developments as well as our outlook for 2026. Following this, we are happy to answer your questions in a Q&A session. If you are not able to follow today's call by the webcast, the presentation slides are also available for download at bakanoisgroup.com slash investor minus relations. Please note that the entire call, including the Q&A session, will be recorded and the replay will be made available on our corporate website by the end of the day. And now I would like to hand over to our executives, Karl Drage and Christoph Burckhardt, who will, as usual, lead you through this call. Thank you, Peer. This is Christoph Burckhardt, CFO of the Wacker Neusen Group. Welcome everybody to our earnings call and thank you for joining. Dear all, a warm welcome from my side too. And thanks again for joining today's conference call. I am Karl Drage, CEO of the Wacker Neusen Group. I would like to start the presentation with a brief overview of our key financials for the first quarter of 2026. Six weeks ago, we presented our figures for the fiscal year 2025, including our guidance for 2026. And we gave the first feedback on our start into the new year. As expected, our first quarter of the year was much stronger than the first quarter in the previous year. Our revenue amounted to 591 million euros and therefore increased significantly, almost 20% compared to Q1 2025. Our order intake kept gr...