Q1 2026 Lifco AB (publ) Earnings Call Transcript
Key Points
- Lifco AB (LFABF) reported a stable quarter with 4% growth in sales, 6% growth in EBITA, and 8% growth in net profit.
- Acquisitions contributed significantly to sales growth, adding around 8% to the overall increase.
- The Dental segment experienced a positive product mix effect, leading to improved margins, with EBITA margin reaching 23%.
- Systems Solutions saw strong growth of 9% in sales due to acquisitions and organic growth, particularly in Transportation and Environmental Products.
- The company's financial position remains strong, with interest-bearing net debt to EBITA at 1.1 times, allowing room for further acquisitions.
- The company faced a negative effect from exchange rates, impacting sales by approximately 5%.
- Organic growth was limited to 1%, partly due to high sales comparisons from the previous year.
- The Demolition & Tools segment experienced weaker market conditions, particularly in the demolition robot segment, affecting product mix and margins.
- Contract Manufacturing showed a decline in sales, with limited visibility and a cautious outlook for the rest of the year.
- Quarterly margin variations were noted, particularly in Environmental Technology and Transportation Products, due to delivery timing and market conditions.
Welcome to Lifco Q1 report for 2026. (Operator Instructions) Now I will hand the conference over to CEO, Per Waldemarson; and CFO, Therese Hoffman. Please go ahead.
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Thank you, and good morning, and welcome to the Lifco Q1 conference call. We can start with moving in directly into slide or page number 2 in our investor presentation and take a look at the overall performance in the quarter. And if we look at Lifco overall, we are presenting a stable quarter with 4% growth in sales, 6% growth in EBITA and 8% growth in net profit.
In the quarter, acquisition contributed with around 8% to our sales growth. We had a negative effect from exchange rates of around 5%. And organically, we grew with around 1% in the quarter. I think here talking about organic growth, we should also take into consideration the record high sales we had in quarter 1 2025 that we now had to meet, and we could not meet those numbers.
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