Lifco AB (publ) (LFCBY) Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
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SA Transcripts159.44K FollowersFollow5ShareSaveCommentsFollow us on Google for the latest stock newsFollow Seeking Alpha on Google for the latest stock newsPlay Earnings CallPlay Earnings Call Lifco AB (publ) (LFCBY) Q1 2026 Earnings Call April 24, 2026 3:00 AM EDT Company Participants Per Waldemarson - CEO, President & Director Conference Call Participants Zino Engdalen Ricciuti - Handelsbanken Capital Markets AB, Research DivisionDan Johansson - SEB, Research DivisionGustav Berneblad - Nordea Markets, Research Division Presentation Operator 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. Per WaldemarsonCEO, President & Director Thank you, and good morning, and welcome to the Lifco Q1 conference call. We can start with moving in directly into slide or Page #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. And that has to be taken into consideration that we are having a decline in our sales in the Contract Manufacturing, which basically means that many companies in our industrial side had a better start to 2026 than the start we had in 2025. We will come back to that a little bit more later. And we can then move into Page #3 and look into the different areas. If we start with the Dental field, we had overall a stable development in