2/26/2025

speaker
Mattias Fridtjof
SVP Sustainability and Investor Relations

Good morning everyone and welcome to Canbis Q4 presentation. My name is Mattias Fridtjof. I am SVP Sustainability and Invest Relations. I'm here today with our CEO, Vanni Becher and CFO David Kenyon. We will start with the presentation and then we will have time for your questions. If you wish to ask a question, please press pound key five on your telephone or you can write them to me in the chat. So the agenda for today, we will start with some highlights with Werner and then David will speak about the financials and the outlook for next year. Then Werner will come back and speak about some commercial and strategic updates as well as the summary. Following that, we will have time for the Q&A. With that, I hand over to Werner. Thank

speaker
Vanni Becher
CEO

you, Mattias and good morning. In recent months, we have been continuing to build strong foundations for the future. We delivered a robust financial performance in Q4 in the face of various headwinds. Revenue of 44.5 million euros was supported by another quarter of strong operator trading margin. So today we increase our expected long term trading margin. It was great to see Brazilian market go live at the start of the year and we are live with a number of partners, including recent signings, Stake and KTO. Early in Q4, we signed an OZFIT Plus deal with Hard Rock Digital in the US, along with Rai do Pitaco in Brazil. And finally, just a couple of days ago, we entered an innovation agreement with Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation and FTJ Group, which pending some conditions will see us take over the long term contract from FTJ Group, presenting an exciting opportunity for us. Meanwhile, we continue to address our cost base by realizing further synergies and implementing efficiency measures in all areas of our business. 2024 was certainly an eventful year at Canby, during which we were able to lay the foundations for future success, which I'd like to summarize on this slide. There has been some change within leadership. At the AGM, Anders Ström was confirmed as chair, while Christian Nielsen took up a seat on the board. Having early indicated he would step down from his position as CEO. As the two co-founders of Canby and with huge knowledge of the industry, it's great to have their continued involvement in the business. We were also grateful to have industry veteran Banji Cernjak join the board. His experience in the sports betting space over many years has been invaluable. And of course, I succeeded Christian late July and I too made a few appointments as I looked to build a team capable of taking Canby to the next level. In September, we unveiled our new product portfolio, an important step on Canby's journey to becoming the home of premium sports betting solutions. The Turnkey Sportsbook is our flagship product and one which gives all our modular solutions a clear edge over the competition. The new models are already opening doors to operators that had been close to us as a pure turnkey supplier. While they will also play a strategic role in helping us retain relationships with operators who decide to move away from the turnkey. Ray Dupontaco being a recent example of it. As ever, we made some key new Turnkey Sportsbook signings with the likes of KTO and Stake in Brazil, along with US tribe Shocktornation. We signed some important partnership extensions as those with Rush Street Interactive and Pan Entertainment. In recent days, we also announced an extension with Bad City, part of Entain Group. And we signed various partnerships across our product portfolio, including those with Hard Rock Digital, Ray Dupontaco, Kindred and Svenska Spell. Of course, we've seen some movement in the opposite direction with Leo Vegas in the summer, informing us that they are set to transition of our turnkey over the next couple of years. But the foundations we are laying, the diverse customer base we are building will further reduce the reliance we have had on a small number of large partners. And finally, we focused even more on building out our unique AI capability at Canby. AI is not a buzzword for us. We are currently using AI to manage our largest sport, soccer, and over the next few quarters, we'll extend this step by step to additional sports. As a result, improving our product while also reducing costs. As I'll explain a little later, AI is transforming the way we price, trade and risk manage markets, particularly those that are more complex and almost impossible for humans to run effectively, such as bet builders and player props. AI today already drives approximately 30% of our operator GGR, and that's only going to increase over the next quarters. From an operational perspective, we are also increasingly embracing how AI can improve how we perform our day to day tasks, enabling us to be more efficient and productive. Handing over to you.

speaker
David Kenyon
CFO

Thank you, Werner. Good morning, everyone. Revenue for Q4 was 44.5 million, up from 44.3 million in Q4 last year. For the full year, revenue was 176.4 million, up from 173.3 million last year. With our OPEX in line with our guidance, this led to earnings before interest tax and amortization on acquisitions, which I'll call EBITAC from now on, of 7.1 million and 25.3 million for the full year in line with 2023. Our EPS was 0.515 euros, up from 0.488. Benefiting from the buybacks we carried out during the year. And our net cash position at the year end was 61.3 million euros, with our balance sheet remaining in a very healthy position. Here is the operator turnover index for the Turnkey Sportsbook, and it aggregates the performance of all the operators we work with. On a turnover, the turnover level was 7.78 on the index. This was up 13% from Q3, benefiting from the usual seasonality of the sporting calendar, with a full quarter of NFL, NBA and college basketball. The growth was mitigated from Q3 to some degree by Q3 having the final stages of the Euros and the Copa America, and also introduction of tighter regulatory conditions in the Netherlands from October. The operator trading margin across the network was 10.1%. Although there were player-friendly results in American football, they were favorable for us soccer results, and we also saw an increased use of higher margin products, for example, bet builders. Our cash at the start of the quarter was 60.5 million. We repurchased shares during the quarter to a value of 3.3 million, but nevertheless, driven by our operating profits, cash increased to 61.3 million by the end of the quarter. We announced a new buyback program for up to 12 million euros in November, which will run through to the AGM in May. This was in line with the capital allocation policy to return capital to our shareholders. By the time of the AGM, we will have returned an accumulated 38 million since we first started the buyback programs. Here I'll present the outlook for 2025. Firstly, you'll see that we're presenting for the first time an EBITDAQ metric as our outlook. This metric represents the underlying profits of the business. I think it's more relevant right now for the business, given the volatility in some of the revenue factors which I'll come to in terms of new signings, new products, operator migrations, the changing regulatory landscape, and new gaming and other taxes. Having this EBITDAQ metric allows us to manage our cost base to help achieve the numbers I'll set out here. EBITDAQ is calculated by excluding amortization on the acquired intangibles, which is a non-cash acquisition related expense. And this adds back around 5.2 million to our EBIT. So firstly, the factors affecting our revenue this year. In terms of organic growth, the first thing to mention is the impact of the increased operator trading margin we expect. Secondly, we see a general network growth in the operator turnover across the network, which contributes to this organic growth pile in the waterfall here. And lastly, there was a full year effect of the 2024 launches, including Svenskerspil and LiveScore, which both went live mid-2024. In terms of the revenue, the first thing to mention is the impact of the increased operator trading margin. In terms of the 2025 launches, there are various elements. Firstly, Brazil, where we see revenues starting from both KTO and stake. Then there's the Oddsfeed Plus product, where we also start in Q1 with revenues from HardRock and Ray Dobertacco. There are other smaller launches also included in this pile here. And finally, OLG, which we announced this week, which assumes a second half of the year go live. And finally, we also mentioned we'll actually see a non-recurring cost of 2 to 3 million in relation to this launch, which is needed for product and front-end development and some retail integration, and which will show as an item affecting comparability as it's a pure one-off. In terms of transition fees, we've talked about these in the past, but particularly Penn National Gaming, where we received seven months of fees in 2024, and Napoleon Gaming, where we received a full year of fees. Both of these are non-recurring headwinds. In terms of operator migrations, as Verna mentioned, we're expecting impacts from both Kindred and Leo Vegas. Here in 2025, the bigger impact is from Kindred, where we've already seen the exit of the dot-com and US markets. And we expect potentially certain more migrations in the second half of the year, although the timing is at this stage uncertain. In terms of Leo Vegas, we see a small impact in 2025, and there are some other small customer churn factors also accounted for here. This particular headwind can be expected to grow in 2026 as the Kindred contract comes to an end at the end of that year, and the Leo migration could accelerate in 2026. Gaming tax and other includes a variety of factors also. Firstly, Colombia, where there was a recently introduced 19% VAT on deposits. The impact that this will have on player behavior and the market all in all is uncertain, but we estimate a 3-5 million impact on our revenues in 2025. There have also been other gaming tax increases which will affect us, notably in Sweden, the Netherlands and Illinois, with also expected tax raises in Ohio and Indiana. And this pile also includes previously mentioned impact of commission rate changes upon renewal of certain key partners. Moving now to the costs. Firstly, there were some inflationary pressures on our cost base. We expect a 2 million increase in the data costs as we grow our client network. Each client comes with some fixed costs in the data, thus driving that increase. We also expect an increase in our infrastructure costs, particularly in terms of network cloud costs to service the level of operators, data and territories in our forecasts, including Brazil and OLG. But that said, as Rena mentioned, we've undergone quite a major cost saving initiative to realize synergies and efficiencies across the business. 65 roles have already left the business and we've made savings in a wide range of areas. We'll continue to seek more efficiencies, but this program enables us to anticipate a cost decrease despite the inflationary factors I mentioned. And we expect total expenses to fall from 156.3 million to the range of 150 to 155 million. So all in all, there are a number of revenue headwinds, some of which are temporary. But we have strong commercial momentum across the product portfolio. And with the cost saving initiative, we're taking an active step to maximize our efficiency. On this basis, we estimate EBITDAQ for 2025 in the range of 20 to 25 million. With that, I pass you back to Rena.

speaker
Vanni Becher
CEO

Commercial momentum is a term overly used, but this certainly applies to Canby at this time. At the end of Q3, we launched our new product portfolio and we are already seeing great interest. We are very excited about the prospects for our odds feed plus products. As I explained in the previous quarter, there are various benefits to what we offer compared to alternative suppliers. Not least our 17 billion euro network turnkey liquidity and that our odds are traded on it. A volume of data points needed for AI only very few in the industry have. In Q4, we signed with Hard Rock Digital and Radio Bitaco two odds feed plus with both live in January. And the sales pipeline here looks promising. In continuing to build up on a strong relationship with tribes, we signed a turnkey sportsbook partnership agreement with Wind Creek in Illinois. And Shocktornation will add our native front end solution to their sportsbook and casino. Moving to Q1, it's been an incredible busy start of the year. I've already mentioned the launch in Brazil and in parallel we signed a turnkey sportsbook partnership with Stake. Stake is one of the largest operators in the world, ranked top 20 in the EGR power rankings. The operator is now focused on building out its regulated business and selected can be to be its partner in certain regulated markets, starting with Brazil. This partnership relates to licensed markets via real money payments only. But Stake certainly has the capital to invest in growing this regulated business over time. Esports is another modular product within our portfolio that's been gaining traction, illustrated by the recent agreement with Kindred Group. Kindred will integrate ABU's powered Esports to its in-house sportsbook. Part of the Esports package is Esports odds, which Kindred will take via our odds feed plus API, making it very easy for Kindred to take also odds from other sports from Camby. This Kindred deal comes shortly after Svenska Spell also added an Esports package to its turnkey sportsbook. And most recently in Q1, we signed a multi-year extension with Bat City, one of the largest sportsbooks in the Netherlands. Bat City was acquired by Intain in 2022. So that Bat City has decided to remain on the Camby platform for another period of time underscores the quality of our product and services. On Monday, we announced that we had entered into an innovation agreement with Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation and FTG Group to take over FTG sportsbook responsibilities to OLG pending certain conditions. In short, once we've satisfied these conditions, which we are very confident we will, we will become the new sportsbook partner of OLG, an operator of significant size and stature with a contract running until 2032. Up until 2022, OLG with its Proline brand held the sports betting monopoly in the Canadian province. It operates a large retail business through approximately 10,000 outlets, where the majority of its sportsbook revenues generated. Following the re-regulation of sports betting in Ontario, the online market has become much more competitive. I believe there is a great opportunity for OLG to strengthen its position also in the online space with Camby. As mentioned from David, there is an initial non-recurring cost implication of around 2 to 3 million euros, which is related to certain product adaption and integrating pool betting product integration into the lottery application, etc. All being well, we should launch in the second half of the year. We also recently gained the license required to enter the Nevada market after receiving approval from the state regulator. This brings to an end an extensive process, with the regulator leaving no stone unturned in its sorrow checks to ensure only the most compliant and transparent businesses can operate throughout Nevada. We are delighted to have cleared Nevada's high regulatory bar and look forward to commencing operations there, which we expect will begin with the field test as bellied Lake Tahoe territory in the coming quarters. In what's yet another example of our commitment to regulated market, in Q4 the percentage of Camby's revenues coming from licensed markets reached 98%. A number which will only be strengthened moving forward by our recent launches in Brazil. I'm delighted to say from day one, from 1st of January on, Camby is live in the licensed Brazilian market. At present, we are live with five partners in Brazil. Four with our Turnkey Sportsbook, Bad MGM, Bad Warrior, KTO and our new partner stake, along with Raido Pitaco with OZFIT+. With a large population and a love for sports, particularly soccer, Brazil is a country of great potential for Camby and we are very happy with the collection of partners we are supporting there. As we anticipated prior to launch, the market will take some time to reach its full potential. With operators currently contending with various compliance teasing issues, which tends to be the case in newly regulated markets. However, there are signs that the situation is improving, turnover have been steadily up on the rise. And please don't forget that Brazil in soccer is currently on summer break and the new season will only start end of March. Following a series of historically high operator trading margins, today we are raising our expected operator trading margin from 8 to 9% to 9.7 to 11%. There are two main reasons for this. First, a more structural change whereby players are increasingly betting on higher margin products like bet builders, meaning a higher theoretical margin. And second, our ability to not only offer all these complex products, but also to deliver an actual margin getting very close to that of the theoretical margin. So offering a financially secure and profitable, very profitable way for these products. One way to illustrate this is by showing you the increase in pre-match soccer bet builders in recent years, which was responsible for 16% of turnover in 2024 up from 10 last year. And fast approaching 30% of operator GGR up from 21 in the year before. All the related contingencies involved in bet builders and other cross sports multi-parly products make these very complex products to price, trade and risk manage effectively. Something we believe is fast becoming impossible to do by human driven trading systems and static algorithms. Through fully AI-powered automation, CAMB is able to offer a broader product while simultaneously managing the odds and liabilities to deliver healthy margins. We've seen the results of this for a number of months now, including the current quarter, giving us confidence to raise our long term expected operator trading margin. So to recap, we closed out the year with a robust financial performance, a strong cash position and we continue to turn capital to shareholders through our buyback program. We have initiated an efficiency program and will continue to reduce costs going forward. We're seeing great commercial momentum across our product portfolio with recent partner signings supporting long term revenue growth. These elements and more demonstrate how we are building strong foundations for the future.

speaker
Mattias Fridtjof
SVP Sustainability and Investor Relations

Thank you, Bernhard. And with that, we open up for questions. Please remember if you wish to ask a question, press pound key five on your telephone or continue to write in the chat. So the first question comes from Oscar Rehnquist at ABG. Please go ahead.

speaker
Oscar Rehnquist
Analyst, ABG

Perfect. Thank you very much. My first question would be on the guidance on the revenue side. So first, the bars on organic growth and 2025 launches. So just wanted a little bit about the assumptions. Have you sort of put out the figures that you feel, you know, very comfortable with delivering or is it more like a midpoint of your expectations? So, you know, you're just trying to get a sense of any potential conservative assumptions or not.

speaker
David Kenyon
CFO

I'd say this is pretty much the midpoint of our assumptions. There are, of course, some uncertainties in the numbers, which is why we have to end up with a range of but only five million on EBITDAQ for the full year. But yeah, this is the midpoint of our assumptions.

speaker
Oscar Rehnquist
Analyst, ABG

All right. Perfect. And also on the 2025 launches bar, just wondered if is that, you know, excluding any unannounced signings or do you need to put out more signings during 2025 and more launches to reach that number?

speaker
David Kenyon
CFO

Yeah, there is there is a little bit built in there for more signings and as yet unlaunched. But the vast majority of that, I'm pleased to say, is under contract now, potentially also include with the OLG signing. So the vast majority, I'd say, is relatively relatively secure. But there are, yeah, we still, of course, hope to sign some more during the year and get them launched during the year.

speaker
Oscar Rehnquist
Analyst, ABG

Got it. Perfect. And then just on if you could repeat a little bit on on the migration. So you expect Leo was that, you know, the decline was supposed to accelerate in 2026, but already start in late 2025. Was that the?

speaker
David Kenyon
CFO

Yes, in our working series, quite a small impact in 2025, but anticipated that probably will accelerate in 26. And these numbers here is actually the majority is more from the kindred migration.

speaker
Oscar Rehnquist
Analyst, ABG

OK, so the majority of the migrations is kindred related and that would be more towards the latter part of 2025 as well.

speaker
David Kenyon
CFO

Well, you have there you have the markets they've already exited, which impacts on the 2025 numbers. So both US and the dot com markets. And then we have some expectation there may be more migrations. We're not sure exactly when, but likely second half of the year. So we've made an estimate there.

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Oscar Rehnquist
Analyst, ABG

Yeah, got it. And know that you may not be able to answer this, but can you say anything on the 55 million euro minimum guarantees? Is that, you know, a very low assumption for the 24 to 26 accumulated revenue now that it feels like the big sort of migration is happening maybe a little bit later than than they initially expected?

speaker
David Kenyon
CFO

Hard to comment on that, really. We don't know the exact timings and whether it will all be done by the end of 26 at this stage. But in terms of the 55 million, it's certainly front loaded to some degree. You know, as the migration happens later in that period. So that's why we talked about that headwind as being the one that could potentially increase in 26.

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Oscar Rehnquist
Analyst, ABG

Yeah, perfect. Just also a little bit data. One with the Columbia VAT. And I mean, you also interpreted to be, you know, only impacting 2025 and then you can get sort of a relief maybe into into 2026. That's correct. And also that that's not a cost for you, right? It's just that it could be some some lower channelization due to that. Is that the three to five million impact that you expect?

speaker
David Kenyon
CFO

Correct. Yeah, that's exactly as we say it.

speaker
Oscar Rehnquist
Analyst, ABG

Yeah. Got it. Thank you. That was all for me. Thank you.

speaker
Mattias Fridtjof
SVP Sustainability and Investor Relations

Thank you. Thank you, Oscar. And then we move to George from Pareto, please.

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George
Analyst, Pareto

Good morning and thanks for taking my question. So just to clarify that contribution from the Leo and Kindred in in twenty five. How much was that in absolute terms in the in the waterfall?

speaker
David Kenyon
CFO

We haven't put specific numbers on it, but I mean, the graph is to scale and obviously it does end up at a range. So none of those numbers are meant to be kind of exact numbers. But I think it's in the region of you get your ruler out in the region of 10 million, I think, for the total migration impact.

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George
Analyst, Pareto

Yeah, and most of that related to kindred and in Q4, could you comment anything on the growth excluding kindred?

speaker
David Kenyon
CFO

For you on your versus Q3, are you interested in?

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George
Analyst, Pareto

Yeah, yeah, yeah,

speaker
David Kenyon
CFO

yeah. Yeah, I mean, all in all, obviously, it was kind of flat year on year in total, but there was some impact. Yeah, probably one of the single biggest impacts versus Q4 was kindred, both both in terms of the markets they left and and the impact of the new regulatory conditions in the Netherlands, which came in in October. So that probably was the big single biggest kind of headwind we faced on the operator turnover.

speaker
George
Analyst, Pareto

Okay, but it was flat, excluding kindred also. I assume you have lower revenues from kindred in Q4 this year compared to last year.

speaker
David Kenyon
CFO

There's flat, I'm saying flat in total. But within that, there was a headwind from the kindred turnover.

speaker
George
Analyst, Pareto

Okay, and on the sports betting margin guidance, what's your sort of comfort in these new numbers? Because you're obviously not the only player in the industry that's seen quite high margins in Q4. If you could just talk about how comfortable you are in putting out that new guidance.

speaker
Vanni Becher
CEO

We feel very confident about this new margin guidance. So having followed rising margin already over some quarters now, especially now seeing the performance of our Tesseract powered, fully automated solutions, we're even more confident that the broader product we can supply to customers and the very healthy margin with AI powered tools we will be able to deliver will even further increase the margin going forward.

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George
Analyst, Pareto

Okay, and just some more color on the OLG signing here, because you take over that contract from from SBJ. Is there any component of rev share or similar to that? Because I guess SBJ could have given it to some of your competitors also who probably would be willing to pay for it.

speaker
Vanni Becher
CEO

Yeah, so in 2022, OLG run a public tender and FDJ was the winner of this tender. But after FDJ decided to fully focus on B2C business, FDJ internally they run a process and we're very proud that the selected can be as being recommended to OLG as their successor. We entered now into this innovation agreement. So there are some more documents to be signed in the next few weeks and months and they are under certain conditions. But the commercial sensitive information, of course, I can't share here.

speaker
George
Analyst, Pareto

Okay, but you can't comment if there is any financial compensation to FDJ here.

speaker
Vanni Becher
CEO

From from Canby? No.

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George
Analyst, Pareto

Yeah, okay. And on that one time cost related to this signing, I don't really follow why that's a one off. I assume you have similar costs when we go live with other clients.

speaker
David Kenyon
CFO

Yeah, I'd say I think it's really it's outside the what we need to build to fulfill that contract outside the normal scope of what we do for our network. So it's a you know, it really is a one off to secure that contract, the work we need to carry out. And that cost will end every finite within the year and it will end.

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George
Analyst, Pareto

Yeah, but but surely you have upfront contracts upfront costs for other signings as well if they're if they're big and they want to they want to tailor to to their needs.

speaker
Vanni Becher
CEO

Yeah, but as you know, we run a multi-tenant solution and onboarding new customers doesn't normally come with a lot of effort for us. It's about integrating into the PEM. That's what is standard and what we're used to. But looking to a more complex landscape we are now facing with OLG, especially to provide a pool spedding product to them and also integrate fully into their lottery application and into their 10,000 retail shops is a little bit out of scope what we normally do.

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George
Analyst, Pareto

Okay, that's clear. Just a final question, more of a high level question, I guess, because we've seen the rise of the polymarket and all of these other crypto related spedding sites. Can you comment on your your views and takes on this sort of rise in a new competitor? Yeah,

speaker
Vanni Becher
CEO

so of course we follow these developments in the US very closely. I think it's very unclear for everyone if betting is now allowed in 50 states of the US. Yes or no. I think it's important to understand that prediction markets work in a very different way than let's say managed sports books are. Their offering is normally very small. It's yes, no. And the offering is also still very small. But of course, being allowed to offer in states where betting is not regulated already today could be a threat for the existing betting operators in the US if others take over market share very early in these unregulated states already. But it could be also an opportunity that drives regulation even faster in the US.

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George
Analyst, Pareto

Yeah, and you're not interested in expanding your offering to have something similar to that?

speaker
Vanni Becher
CEO

Yeah, for sure we

speaker
Mattias Fridtjof
SVP Sustainability and Investor Relations

are.

speaker
George
Analyst, Pareto

Okay,

speaker
Mattias Fridtjof
SVP Sustainability and Investor Relations

that's all I have. Thank you very much. Thank you, George. So there are no more questions on the telephone. So we will move over to the chat. First question is regarding the cash position and the future of buybacks. So we have previously indicated cash position of around 40 million is appropriate. So maybe David, if you can comment about the future of the cash position and potential additional buybacks.

speaker
David Kenyon
CFO

Yeah, to start with, I mean, we have over 60 million on the balance sheets at the end. But we also have the board announced a 12 million buybacks program and we still have much of that to use. So 8.7 million of that is still to run from the year end through to the AGM. So we'll put that 60 million to good use for more buybacks and then we'll probably quite likely seek further mandate for next year at the AGM to be confirmed. That 40 million, I mean, that should grow with the business. So as the business gets more complex, more operators, more diverse, more products, that number can maybe increase. But, you know, I think we'll always try and set a sensible balance where that number is 40, 45 million, maybe 50 when we get bigger.

speaker
Mattias Fridtjof
SVP Sustainability and Investor Relations

And second question is about the relationship with the Kindred and FTJ. So you seem to have a good relationship with additional contracts. What does the future look like with this relationship and could you take over potentially other clients from FTJ as well?

speaker
Vanni Becher
CEO

Yeah, so first of all, I think everyone will understand working with these guys now for many years, they're probably already friends. Right. So for sure, we're very close to them and we are in continued talks with them about how to also support them long term going forward in future, which are modular products. So, yes, FTJ announced that they will fully focus on B2C and we are happy that FTJ selected us as their successor for OLG. There are a lot of other opportunities for us out there now, but I think it's too early to speculate about how many of them we will secure for Canby.

speaker
Mattias Fridtjof
SVP Sustainability and Investor Relations

Thanks. Next question for you, David. Could you maybe pan out a little bit how the year will play out on the on the guidance? Previously, you have provided the operating cost guidance per quarter. So could you maybe say like, is there more to come in the second half of the year or what does the sort of quarter by quarter look like a little bit?

speaker
David Kenyon
CFO

Yeah, that's a good question, because that that that outlook we gave 2025, I think it will be quite back loaded. And that's for two main reasons. One is the seasonality of the sporting calendar. We see every year Q4 is is when you really see the revenue growth because of that seasonality. And then also the those cost cost initiatives, which I mentioned, we're going to keep looking more efficiencies. So, you know, the benefit to those cost savings will become more apparent during the year. So those two factors mean it will look a little bit back loaded. So that's what we should expect.

speaker
Mattias Fridtjof
SVP Sustainability and Investor Relations

Thank you. Next question for you, Werner. You served as CEO since mid 2024. What what do you see as the greatest opportunities for both growth and improvement going forward?

speaker
Vanni Becher
CEO

I would say two things. So what I heard from so many customers in my first few months is that can be offers by far the best product out there. This is, of course, a very strong position we are in. I think offering now a broader portfolio of products, especially our products, getting a lot of traction on the market now is a very good opportunity for us. But as I mentioned earlier in this call, I think that can be started already three years ago to go full in in AI and to become a first company is also very, very important. We run the five biggest sports book on this planet. And for AI, it's so important to have big data. Without big data, you can't really use AI. And only a few companies, including Canby, are in a position and will be in a position in future to fully leverage the capabilities of AI, which will bring us even a stronger position.

speaker
Mattias Fridtjof
SVP Sustainability and Investor Relations

Thanks. Next question about is about the odds feed plus product. What sports have you already launched and will we see more?

speaker
Vanni Becher
CEO

Yeah, so we have we have launched all sports. But as explained in the last quarter earnings call, the odds feed model on the market is a very different one to the turnkey model. For the turnkey model, we normally sign multi-year deals and we are the exclusive partner of operators out there. When it comes to the odds feeds, we are in a daily competition with other odds feed providers and suppliers. So operators benchmark us every day against our competitors out there and they pick and choose and select which sports, which markets they want to have delivered from us. But as mentioned, our odds feed plus product is the only one being fully traded on this huge betting liquidity we have in our turnkey product. Makes us very, very confident that having tested the first few sports with our odds feed plus product, that operators will take more and more.

speaker
David Kenyon
CFO

And I can add maybe that if we're successful as we think we're going to be, that will also add to that backloading effect on EBITDAQ through the year.

speaker
Mattias Fridtjof
SVP Sustainability and Investor Relations

Question, the second question about the FDJ a little bit and monopoly and lottery contracts. Do you have do we think that we have a bigger chance of winning these now than a few years back? Or has anything changed or is it just process as usual and you win some and you lose some?

speaker
Vanni Becher
CEO

No, I think so. So first of all, we want to diversify our customer structure. We do not want to be reliant on a few large customers anymore in future. So lotteries are very important target group for us with ATG, with Svenska Spell and also with Ontario Lottery. We have now some really nice post-appoint clients in this area. And we know that also a lot of other lottery operators are seeing more and more competition in their home markets. So to not only to have any betting product, but a premium product is getting so much more important for them. So, yes, I see lotteries for us as a very important target group going forward.

speaker
Mattias Fridtjof
SVP Sustainability and Investor Relations

Thank you. And then the question about the potential in Nevada and what we see the market there and potential clients and customers and development.

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Vanni Becher
CEO

So Nevada is a relevant fast and important fast for two reasons. One, Nevada licensing is the clear gold standard in our industry. So not too many B2B supplies in the betting space are licensed in Nevada because the regulatory bar is so high to get this license. So it's something like showing clearly that we have an outstanding compliance offering for customers and they can feel safe. They can feel safe that they're always compliant. And of course, the Nevada market seeing only very few B2B competitors there being licensed is also interesting market for us going forward. We'll start a field test most probably with Bellis Deho Resorts in the next few quarters. And then let's

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Mattias Fridtjof
SVP Sustainability and Investor Relations

see. Thanks. Next question is about Colombia and the three to five million headwind from the VAT. Others have communicated the more neutral impact is the three to five million extremely conservative in the EBITDAQ and should we assume something else?

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Vanni Becher
CEO

I don't think so. So a 19 percent VAT tax on deposit is heavy, is very heavy. So to not expect any influence on user behavior, deposits, revenues. I don't get it, to be honest. So, yes, we don't know today how big the impact will be. But I think Rush Street announced already a few days ago that they also expect a relevant impact and we expect also a relevant impact. How much bonus saying and features keeping sport fans active will help to balance this risk? We will see.

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Mattias Fridtjof
SVP Sustainability and Investor Relations

Thanks. So a lot of head we've had a lot of headwinds for the last couple of years and I guess also in 2025. Can you mention anything about coming into 26 and 27? What does the future hold?

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Vanni Becher
CEO

Yeah, I'm not sure if we talked so much about headwinds. Probably the image is a little bit wrong here. I think to accept some churn is not something we should be surprised about. That's part of every business out there. Looking to the new signings we did continuously over the last years, we lost DraftKings, we lost Penn. We now will lose Kindred, we'll lose BAT MGM, but we're still growing. Right shows how strong I think our sales pipeline always is. Also now we stake with Hard Rock, with Ontario. We have a very clear track record to bring in a lot of new business. So, yes, there is some short term challenge to be managed in the next, let's say, 18 months. But we are very optimistic about all the new business we are bringing in for Turnkey as well as for our new products.

speaker
Mattias Fridtjof
SVP Sustainability and Investor Relations

Thank you. And then the last question. The agreement from ABS to supply Kindred, does it give you any further confidence around your ability to continue to work with Kindred post-migration? Or more broadly, does it give you confidence that you can continue to serve customers via modules after migration? Absolutely.

speaker
Vanni Becher
CEO

So the clear goal is to first of all address with our OZFeed Plus product in-house sportsbooks where we were closed out in the past only offering a Turnkey solution. So this is one target group. But for sure to retain existing customers who decided to go in-house is the second angle of our attack here. And Kindred, Leo Vegas, I called them friends a minute ago, right? For sure, we are in close talks with all of them and they know the quality of our products, of our odds, of our trading very good. So I feel very comfortable that we will keep them as long term partners on board. But negotiations are ongoing. Thank you.

speaker
Mattias Fridtjof
SVP Sustainability and Investor Relations

That were all the questions that we had time for today. Thank you all for listening in. Thank you for presenting. And we look forward to see you in the next couple of days. Thank you very much for your

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