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CombinedX AB (publ)
2/11/2026
Thank you Ludvig and welcome everyone to our presentation of the fourth quarter and the whole year 2025.
There we go. In the fourth quarter, we amounted to 273 million, which is our highest amount so far for a single quarter. It gives an increase of 6%, while the organic growth is minus 4.5%. The adjusted turnover result increased to 27.7 million, which gives a turnover of 10.1%. Under kvartalet så har vi omställningskostnader av engångskaraktär om totalt 6 miljoner kopplat till sammanslagningen av Toe och Appsfront för att bilda Encore samt kostnader av samma karaktär i Nintech efter övertagandet av Aspire. I akt att dessa kostnader så är rörelsemarginalen 12,3% och det är ett tydligt steg i rätt riktning. För hela året så landade vi på en omsättning på 948 miljoner vilket motsvarar en tillväxt på närmare 2%. Den organiska tillväxten uppgick dock till minus 5% och det beror ju borträknat då från förvärvade enheter att vi haft färre medarbetare under 2025 än 2024. Faktureringsgraden har i stort sett varit oförändrad under de här två åren, de här 25 och 24, vilket speglar en fortsatt utmanande marknad som vi haft under året. Det här växte delvis upp vårt fokus på specialisering som vi har i alla våra bolag samt att vi under året har gjort en strategisk förflyttning mot ERP-marknaden, mot större internationella kunder där vi kunnat ha haft en högre prisbild. Den här förflyttningen har vi delvis gjort genom årets förvärv av Align och ERP Consult. Tack vare det har vi kunnat fortsätta öka våra intäkter per FTE eller per medarbetare. We heard that this year's adjusted EBITDA margin was up to 9.5%, a small improvement. We still have a bit left to reach our financial goal of 12%. And then we need to increase the invoicing rate in several of our companies. Vi tycker att vi ser en liten ljusare marknad vid ingången av 2026 utan att lova för mycket och mycket kan ju fortfarande hända men vi tycker att vi ser sådana tendenser vilket förstås skulle kunna göra att vår fakturingsgrad vet vi får lite hjälp i ökad änd under 2026. Sen har vi också lagt in en bild av hur Proforma omsätter 2025, inklusive helårseffekten av förvärvade verksamheter. Det är Liner, ERP, Consult och exklusive avgiftade verksamheter. Om vi tittar på den del av Aspire som vi avgiftade i slutet på 2024, eller i början på 2025. Då uppgår den proformasjusterade helårsomsättningen till en miljard åtta miljoner kronor. Det här är ju faktiskt en kul milstolpe i CombinedX-historia. Det här miljardmålet formulerades redan 2018, då Elvinite blev en del av vår grupp. Det här är en tidningsklipp som jag har visat tidigare, tror jag, från en Värmlandstidning i mars 2018. Det är ju snart åtta år sedan. And it was also the case that when we listed the combined index in 2022, we also set a goal that we called Vision 2028. And then we said that at the beginning of 2025, we were going to speed up this turnover, so we set a time when we were going to reach this turnover. And there we are now, we have reached the milestone and I want to say a big thank you to all customers, employees and owners who have made this possible. I would have liked to have a little fanfare here, but I didn't have that. But according to Vision and according to Vision 2028 now, the next step on our journey is that we will have eight leading brands in 2028. And it is this vision that we have updated and that I have written quite a lot about in my keynote. So I'm going to take a moment to develop that. We have updated our vision to the vision that we call Leading Brands. And what is the difference between this, Vision 2028 and Vision Leading Brands? In short, I would say that the change is that in Vision 2028, we had a clear group goal. A goal for Combined X. We had a turnover goal, which we have now passed, and we had a goal for the number of companies. As you can see, we have organized our specialist companies, our leading brands. And now, in this vision update, we turn a little on the arrow. i Vision Leading Brands så har vi inget omsättningsmål eller mål om antal bolag i Combined X. Det är precis som namnet beskriver våra Leading Brands som är målet. Det är Elvenight, Align, Nettaus, Netting, Ninetech och vårt bidbildande Encore som är målet. Allt handlar om att ge dessa sex bolag bästa möjliga förutsättningar att få sin fulla potential. Jag skriver i vd-ordet om vad den här förändringen kan innebära i tre olika dimensioner. As far as our M&A work is concerned, we will focus on making additional acquisitions for our six existing companies. Of course, we will have less focus on having more companies in the group. We do not rule out that this can happen, that we will be the seventh or eighth, but we do not see anything more than a goal in itself. The focus is to build the companies that we now have as strong as possible. When it comes to cooperation and synergies between our countries, it is always a recurring question in a group like ours. Where does the right balance between integration, centralization and decentralization go? We usually talk about this picture externally, but internally we talk about this picture, this circle. Where is the right balance between decentralization, centralization and integration? In this vision, we take a step to the left. We will not put so much time and focus on chasing general group synergies. The starting point is really for each company to stand on its own two feet. At the same time, we also care about the vision of a culture of openness and lack of prestige in our group, where all, both employees and companies, are expected to be very busy with each other, to share knowledge and experiences. We see this as a great strength and an important part of CombinedX's future. And this openness and lack of prestige, we also include in how we see ourselves as owners and what responsibility we have to, in an open and prestigious way, evaluate which owner structure that gives respective companies the best conditions to reach their full potential. In this vision, we can, as an example, evaluate whether a specialization of any of our companies or any part of our group would create more value for customers, employees and shareholders. We always return to these three main interests. And this example of specialization, it would have been very difficult to unite with the orientation in Vision 2028. There we had a turnover goal, a goal for the number of companies. And from that perspective, we are making a pretty big change. From another perspective, we are not making any change at all. We are just continuing to do what we have always done, build leading brands. And we are very proud of these six companies. Well, that was a little bit about Vision Leading Brands and the indirect or direct change in strategy that it means. Finally, I thought I would briefly show these diagrams that I usually show. När vi har våra kvartalsrapporter, frågor tar vi sen. Här ser vi intäktsutveckling kvartal för kvartal. Och då ser vi just att de här Q4 2025 är den högsta stapeln hittills. Vi tittar på resultatutvecklingen. Då ser vi att det här är bitresultatet som vi hade i 2025, Q4, 27,7 miljoner. Yes, it is only hit by the 29.3 million that we had in Q1 2023. There somewhere at the end of 2022-2023 we topped our supply level and with the wind in the market. And since then we have had a little against the wind in the market. But I still think that we have fought here in what we call the ox weeks that the last three years have been. Det ser vi också i vår justerade vita marginal och intäkter rullande 12 månader. Vi var uppe över de här 12 procenten i slutet på 2023 och sen har vi gått ner och nu tillbaka, närmar oss 10 procent. We can also note that Proforma now has an EBITDA marginal of 10.3%. So we can say that this is the pace we are entering in 2026 with our nice acquisitions in Align and ERP Consult. Here we can see the number of employees, which has been quite high since Q2 2024. Then we were almost up to 600 employees, but then we went down and then we went up. However, we have consistently seen that revenues per FTE, as I mentioned before, have increased. If we look at this from a slightly longer perspective, since 2021, we were at approximately 1.3 million in revenue per FTE and now we are at approximately 1.7 million. So it's a pretty strong change that we have made thanks to our specialization and the acquisitions we have made. So I think we have really managed to prove our value in our strategic shift towards specialization and a price picture that is a little higher. Självklart är det så också att den här typen av konsulter har högre löner, så att kostnaden per FTE har ju också ökat procentuellt, dock inte lika mycket om vi ser det här över en längre period sen 2021. Men just i Q4 så var personalkostnadsökningen lite högre än intäktsökningen. Dock var då, hade vi ganska höga personalkostnader i Q4 som belastades av de här engångsposterna i samband med de saker vi behövde göra i anslutning till bildandet av en kår. Vi går ut Q4 med 580 anställda, lite färre än vad vi gick in i 2025. Here we see costs adjusted in parts in relation to the net turnover every quarter. And yes, that explains, the one who is interested in this can talk more about it in the quarter report where all this also exists. And the cash flow has been strong in Q4. We have from the running business again 36.6 million. The capital exchange has also been positive with 28 million. So we go out with a cash flow of 104 million. Det är bra, och som vanligt så visar vi då, som vi kassar, som jag brukar berätta, det är ju en av de stora fördelarna med att bedriva en konsultverksamhet. Även i motvind så har vi ett kassaflöde för den löspående verksamheten som varje kvartal, förutom ett kvartal sedan 2019, har varit positivt. The net debt, including the IFRS, is 0.7 times more than the EMA. So that's pretty far up to our net debt ceiling, or what we say is max two times more than the EMA. Yes, and with that I'm not going to leave any questions.
Tack så mycket för presentationen Jörgen. Precis som du nämnde så går vi nu över till frågestunden. Den första frågan är antalet anställda är ner något jämfört med föregående kvartal trots att ERP-konsult konsolideras. Inom vilka områden har ni dragit ned och varför?
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