5/7/2025

speaker
Martin
Moderator

Hello and welcome to today's broadcast. We have with us Avencia and the CEO Robin Gustafsson who will present the Q1 report for 2025. If you want to ask questions via the form on the right of the broadcast, please do so during the Q&A session after the presentation. With that said, Robin, please go ahead.

speaker
Robin Gustafsson
CEO

Thank you very much, Martin, and welcome everyone to this presentation and the Q1 report for January to March 2025. I will talk about our financial report, of course. I will talk a little bit about a market update, how the situation looks for Avensia and Avensia's market. I will give an operational report, how the business is doing, and of course I will ask some questions at the end. If we look at the quarter as usual, it is a record quarter for Avensia. The fact is that it is the highest turnover we have ever had in a quarter and the highest turnover we have ever had in a quarter. Omställningstillväxten för kvartalet blev 15%. Segmentrapporterar vi numera våra två segment, Commerce och Information Management. Commerce, den största delen av verksamheten, växer med hela 18% till 99,6 miljoner från förra året 1984. Information Management däremot är oförändrat på 18,7 miljoner. If you look around the industry, we see that noted business colleagues lost 10-20% organically. I have seen someone who has dropped 5%. But in general, I would dare to claim that we are taking market shares. Gladly enough, this revenue growth has also been transferred to a turnover result that has increased from 6 million to 15 million for the quarter. And that means a turnover margin of 13% or 12.9%, which is more than a doubling from the previous year. Even here, it comes as a lot of burden to us with a 19% margin, which is more than a doubling from the previous year. Information management, there we have made a bigger investment in sales and support personnel, which has not yet begun to pay, but has shown a negative margin for the quarter at minus 8.4%. Men som sagt, det är en mindre del av verksamheten så totala resultatpåverkan är inte så stor. Och detta som vi kan se på i tabellen har ju konverterat rakt ner till kassaflöde så att resultat och kassaflöde råkar ju vara exakt samma för det här kvartalet. Men generellt sett så har vi en god kassakonvertering av våra resultat. Vi har ganska få icke-kassaflödes påverkande effekter. And if you look at the quarter in more detail, it's a record quarter. Strong growth, strong margin. If you look at the cost side, we have increased the staff costs by 9%, which is what stands out the most. We have 5% more employees, all of which are in commerce. And we also have a salary revision that has affected the staff costs. If you have a strong memory and remember our previous figures, we have actually changed a little bit how we present the number of employees. Earlier we talked about headcount at the end of the period. Now we are talking about the average number of employees during the period, so it means that a person who is on part-time work is counted with their part-time work in this figure. Not so much difference from previous reported figures, but if someone compares and discovers that there is a difference, then that is why there is a difference. De övriga kostnaderna ligger i princip i linje med vad de låg i förra kvartalet, så det mesta av resultatet har trillat rakt ner på rörelsresultat, eller omsättningen har trillat ner på rörelsresultat. Följer vi de här kurvorna för rullande 12 månader så har vi nu en omsättning på rullande 12 månader på 438 miljoner och ett rörelsresultat på 36 miljoner, vilket är rekord i båda fallen. Den finansiella ställningen är god i bolaget. Jag brukar kommentera de här immateriella tillgångarna som börjar krympa ner åt noll, men vi har snart bara Goodwill kvar på 1,8 miljoner. Våra materiella tillgångar har också minskat. Största delen av de här materiella tillgångarna är nyttjanderättstillgångar, det vill säga lokalhyror. 66 av de 69 miljonerna. Vi ser inga stora nya lokalbehov inom överskådlig tid, så den här siffran kommer fortsätta ticka ner och skrivas av över tid. Vi har minskande långfristiga skulder och alla dessa långfristiga skulderna hör ihop med nyttjärnarets tillgångar så att vi har inga räntebärande lån hos banken och liknande. So, as a team, we have strengthened our financial position very strongly. Our own capital has increased significantly. And because of this, the board has proposed a division that the day's vote, or the afternoon's vote, will decide on. And it's at 50 euro per share, a total of 18 million kronor. And given that the liquid funds are available, and it's our own capital, I think it's very easy to defend that division. If you look at Aventia as a long-term investment, we have been rejuvenated in modern trade since 2015. The focus was growth over many years, from 2015 to 2023, but from 2024 we launched new financial goals and thus the margin became a much stronger focus for us. If you look at the growth we have actually had, it is 18% annually in revenue since 2015. And if you look at the stock market instead, you see that the total return was 10.6%, so it has not followed the revenue growth we have had. This is also the background to changing our financial goals. If you compare our total return of 10.6% with Avanza Zero, which is a very simple product to get hold of, we exceed it by about 2%. We see that the gap increases a little if you say so. During this period, we have also had an outflow of 9% in total. So with organic growth, we have had a very small outflow on the share side as well. We have these three goals. 10% growth over time and in the last 12 months it has been 8%. 10% turnover margin in the short term. We have fallen to 8.2% in the last 12 months. And 15% turnover margin in the long term. This quarter shows that there is a possibility and a reason in these figures that we can reach them. Then it is one thing to achieve them in one quarter, but we want to reach them over a whole year. If you look at the market, we had a swing. The diagram you see to the right is the whole year figures for 2024, where 2024 actually grew for the first time in three years with e-commerce in Sweden. If you look at the QE, according to Swedish trade, e-commerce has fallen 3% during the first quarter. So we see uncertainty in the market. We see an uncertain market. We see that we have trade tariffs that do not affect the customer base directly, but uncertainty. Den i dessa handelstullar leder till försiktighet kring investeringar hos våra kunder. Vi ser dock också en stärkt krona, vilket kan vara negativt för exporterande bolag, men för importerande och för handlande bolag så är det generellt sett en positiv effekt. Vi ser även naturligtvis diskussioner kring sänkta styrräntor och liknande som också kommer påverka konsumenterna och öka handeln. Now, Aventia is not 100% exposed to retail or trade in Sweden. We definitely have a significant share of B2B trade as well, but it has a tendency to follow up trade to a large extent. If we look a little further into the operational development, we have most of the piles upwards in our chart diagram here to the right. We have increased the amount of debitable hours both compared to the previous quarter and the quarter a year ago. Vi har ökat vår faktureringsgrad både jämfört med sekvensiellt mot föregående kvartal och mot samma kvartalföregående år. Vi har också ökat våra timtaxer något jämfört med föregående kvartal och kvartalet för ett år sedan. Det är en styrka naturligtvis att vi lyckas hålla våra priser i en tuff marknad. Vi ser att konkurrenterna som sagt tappar omsättning vilket naturligtvis innebär att varje affär vi är inblandade i så sitter det ett antal konkurrenter som är ganska hungriga som försöker It challenges us and also pushes the prices to some extent, but we have managed to maintain our timetaxes. The last one was the number of debiting staff. It has actually dropped somewhat since Q4, while it is comparable to the first quarter of 2024. Of course, you want to keep as high a number of debiting staff as possible. beror på att vi har lyft in en del centrala funktioner från konsultbasis till personalbasis när vi har kunnat hitta duktig personal till en rimlig kostnad och därmed spara lite pengar på centrala funktioner. Så det är paradoxalt nog positivt i det här avseendet. Så om man summerar det här kvartalet, ja rekordomsättning, det är den högsta omsättningen vi någonsin haft i ett enskilt kvartal. Rekordresultat, det är det bästa resultatet någonsin i ett enskilt kvartal. Vi har en osäker marknad, vi ser handelshinder, valuta, räntor, hur reagerar konsumenterna, det är de frågorna som kunderna ställer sig hela tiden. Och sen vill jag sätta ett litet extra utropstecken efter Commerce, vårt största segment som växer med 18% och levererar nästan 19% marginal under de här förutsättningarna, vilket är otroligt imponerande och glädjande. Så ett stort grattis till min kollega Henrik som är vd för det affärsområdet. And that's really what I was going to talk about, Martin. So now I'll take the questions.

speaker
Martin
Moderator

Yes, thank you Robin for that presentation. Then we jump into the question time here. And the first question sounds like this. What measures have you taken to improve profitability within information management? And when would you say that you expect to see a result here?

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