10/23/2025

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Okay, good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to this investor call with Mildef this lovely morning with a special focus on Mildef's reporting on the third quarter of 2025. This quarterly call will be presented by CEO and President Dr. Ljunggren, as we traditionally do. We expect approximately 30 minutes to be sufficient for the presentation and Q&A, and please help me, we are very cost efficient at Mildef, so we do this over Teams, but please help me mute your mics until the Q&A. I see that many mics are open, and I try to close them as soon as I can, but please help me mute your mic until the Q&A, naturally, when we will open up for transparent questions. And also, as always in the MILDEF quarterly reporting, we record this meeting for your understanding. So now, Please take it away, Daniel Lundgren. And remember, Daniel, to help the audience listening in over telephone to state the number of each slide going forward. Take it away, Daniel.

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Daniel Ljunggren
CEO and President, Mildef Group

Thank you very much, Jorlof. I will try to do my best to update you on the slide numbers we are on at the current presentation. And welcome to all of you for this conference call around the middle of Q3 report. So let's start and then before we deep dive into the financial figures for Q3 isolated and also look at the long-term financial trend for Middle-Left and also the future outlook, I will just give you some short overfly of the basic facts around Middle-Left and the Middle-Left universe. We are a provider of tactical IT solution founded in 1997. So we have almost operated in this business for 30 years and history matters because this also means much of a trust business. We are a little bit more than four years into our journey as a public traded company. We did an IPO in June 2021 today, and we are very happy to see that we have 46,000 shareholders, which is quite much for a mid-cap company. So that is something that we are very happy about. Today we are around 460 employees and we operate in 10 different countries. So what is it that Millef are doing then? tactical IT provider in the defense domain. So we are delivering into this data-driven defense capacity that is now the European defense companies and forces are building up. So we are delivering the IT backbone where the stakes are the highest. So we delivering to all of the three domains within the military, the army, the navy and the air and space domain. With that said, I think it's time to look at the highlights for the third quarter here in 2025. First of all, the order intake is at all-time high. We're more than doubling the order intake. It's plus 119%, and that is really important for Millef to keep that fuel, and that is what's keeping the Millef engine running. We are doubling the net sales. That is plus 116%. We also have a strong underlying gross margin, excluding the M&A. We were expecting that gross margin in total. Miller from Rhoda together coming down, of course, because we know that Rhoda operates with a lower gross margin. But the underlying one, and this is something that we have talked about now for many years, quarters and also years back in time that we were aiming for reaching above 50% and now we have a couple of quarter in row where we are above 50% and that is something that we are super happy about and I will give some extra flavor on that coming up on the future slides here. Also, we see a strong order backlog for 2026. We see that if we compare that to exact same position previous year, we can see that we have an order backlog that is 142% better than it was for one year ago. So we are sitting in a much better position for the upcoming year here than we was one year ago. In Q2, we talked about some of these move deliveries and the most part of that has been delivered in Q3. There is some small parts in Q4 that will be delivered, but the lion part of those move deliveries was delivered here in the third quarter. We have a couple of several contracts, one that is really of a strategic importance. I will go through them when we look at the different business news and highlights from the Q3 announced orders. But there is some really interesting and strategic importance in the orders and contract that we have won. Capacity ramp up is also something that is really top of our mind, something that we are really working hard with here, that we are accelerating this capacity ramp up. It's about buildings, it's about people, it's about processes, and it's about in the long term increase our delivery capacity. And if we look into the order backlog, we can see that we will have a very intensive fourth quarter as normal at middle of a strong finish here in the year. We have a record strong order backlog in fourth quarter that we need to delivering up on. Now back to some of the important contracts and the business news that we saw in Q3. If we take it from your left side, you can see that FMV, the Swedish Procurement Agency, order a combination of middle of total offering. It's around the hardware as the base, but it's also on top of that we're adding the software. we're adding the integration services and we're also helping them with some solutions so that's a good story when we're talking about moving up in the value chain that we can sell the total offering a turnkey solution to the end customer If we move on, we also saw that Roda, our German acquisition, they won a contract with a German cybersecurity company that is called Seconet. Also a long-term relationship with that customer and a really important customer relationship. And we can expect to see some high volumes coming from that business in the future. Next one also very strategic, important contract with the NATO, the NSAPA. So that is also something that was our first hardware order from that, and that is something that is of strategic important character as well. And the final one that we released before we ended Q3 was Rhoda's biggest order ever from Bundeswehr, the German procurement agency, and that also proves the German's relevance and the RODA relevance on this German market. And we have also, in Q4, if we jump into that, we have, before we were releasing this report, announced just below 700 million Swedish kronor in order intake. And I think it's also a good differentiation in type of orders. We are talking about the US market, we are talking about NATO markets, we're talking about the German markets. So and high numbers on these orders as well. So there is a high demand on the market. The mill is really relevant in this digital arm race that is going on right now. And final and last press release here is around our new production facility that we have now open in Stockholm. It's four times more than we have in the current facilities, so we are really taking this ramping up of the capacity in the right direction by adding on this new production. And as I said, yesterday we released a road that received an order of 320 million Swedish kronor, really also contributing and building the order backlog for 2026. Let's move on to slide number six, and then we can see the key figures for Q3. If we start with the net sales, the positive trend for mill have continued during the third quarter, and the net sales reached an all-time high for a single quarter. Organic growth was in the third quarter 36%, and acquisition contributed by 80%. But in total, we grow 116% in net sales. And maybe the strongest KPI in the third quarter is the order intake. The order intake grew by 119% in total. Smaller organic, but mainly driven by the acquisition part from Rhoda. So we saw a really strong order intake from Rhoda in the third quarter. And totally, as I said, we are growing 119% in the order intake. And this is really important for us to have this fuel for the mildew engine, give us confidence to continue with the capacity ramp up, give us confidence around 2026 and continue to build a bigger and stronger mildew. If we now look at the operating profit, in this case, adjusted EBITDA that we are using our profitability targets, We saw that that was growing 172% if we compare with the same quarter last year. So that proves the scalability in the business model that just EBITDA margin here in this Q3 ended up on 15.7% compared to 12.5% in Q3 in 2024. I was talking about the gross margin, and that is, of course, a super important contributor to the underlying margin as well. And if we look at the gross margin excluding M&A, it was really high. It was 53.5%. And as I said, we have talked about this transformation to north of 50% in gross margin. Depends on the product mix, depends on the customer mix and things like that. But we have said what we... We have done what we said that we should do when transforming this company to a plus 50% gross margin company. In total, we ended up on 45% if we combine Milov and Rhoda together, and that's expected that the gross margin will come down due to the Rhoda character and that they are operating with a gross margin that is lower than Milov. Finally, the free cash flow was negative, 53.1 million on the negative side. And that despite the strong improvement of EBITDA, the free cash flow was negative in Q3. But I think there is a clear reason behind the negative free cash flow in the third quarter. We are having a really estimated, really high deliveries in Q4. So we have been building up the inventory for being able to meet that delivery that is of course impacting the free cash flow here in the third quarter. That is something that from this delivery in the fourth quarter that we will see estimated a strong free cash flow in Q1 in 2026 instead. With that said, I think it's time to more zoom out and look at the more long-term financial trends of Mildaf and see how we have performed at, let's say, a rolling 12-month basis. If we look at those numbers, just to set the scene here for the financial summary, And we say that Minelab is a fast growing defense tech company. We have now an order intake that is close to 3 billion Swedish krona. We have doubling the order intake the last 12 months. Our order backlog is 3.5 billion. That is also more than doubling that we had 12 years back in time. Our book-to-bill is still strong, we are almost at 1.8 and that is despite that we are growing the net sales the last 12 months with 48 percent and we have also added employees of course to be able to take care of this growth so we are today roughly 50 percent more people than we were 12 months ago so Even if we look back in time and look at the order intake, for example, and go back to 2021, we can see that we are increasing order intake with a CAGR of more than 50% on a yearly basis. So this is the dynamic we're operating right now and the order backlog as well, if you will look at that. Also really strong development and having been increasing that with just less than 400% if we look at the order backlog. So this is the context and the market dynamics and the relevance of MILF, I would say. Geographically, if we split down our total revenue and take it into different geographic areas, we can see that the Nordic countries is still and the strongest one even if we expect that europe now when we're adding rhoda over 12 months will become bigger than the northern countries and that is also what we see here in these numbers that europe is showing that they're really starting to pick up they are growing 15 at this point if we compare to 12 months back in time so When we close 2025, I think that we will have been transformed, Mildov, to a strong Nordic company that we are seeing a bigger footprint in Europe. Central Europe will be the main market for Mildov. Back to the order intake, and I showed this picture before, but it's really important for us. As I said, the fuel for the Mildov engine, that is our future revenue, future net sales, future cash flow. And also give us confidence to continue with this capacity ramp up and adding more resources on top of everything. And book to build rate to almost 1.8. So continue with a strong order intake. Backlog duration, we have, as I said, a really strong backlog of 3.5 billion Swedish krona. If we look how this was compared to when we closed Q3 in 2024, we can see that all of the bars are much, much higher than it was 12 months ago. So that also builds on confidence. And I think that the 2026 order backlog now is starting to look really, really healthy. And that also gives us, as I said, confidence to continue to invest in this. For those of you who is doing your math correctly, you can see that there has been some orders that has been moved into 2026. The order pie chart for the duration for the rest of this year is not in total line what we have announced in Q2 when it was around the second half of 2025. But this is also due to that we have been move some of orders into 2026 and that is also around this historical ramp up where we're now trying to calibrate our resources to be able to delivering on a new higher level and that is also something that will so to say not be a spike just up in the sky something that will have some lumpiness in it so to say so that is what we're trying to solve and work really hard with at the moment Gross margin development expected to come down, of course. As I said, RODA is starting here to impact in the numbers. It's very important for us that the underlying gross margin is strong at least so we can keep that. And then we will try to work with RODA gross margin over time and come back again. But this is quite expected to see a drop from the high numbers that we are delivering in the middle of. EBITDA development we have seen that it back in 12 months basis we are growing the EBITDA with 50 percent so after now a couple of quarters we have standing still in the EBITDA development we're not taking a big jump up again and showing the trend that is going in the right direction and as I said we have a intensive four quarter with a expected high delivery so that will also hopefully continue to add on this EBITDA development before we close 2025 but we can see that the scalability is there. So when the top volume, top line volume is coming, we can see that it's rippling down nicely on the EBITDA row. Working capital and net debt EBITDA, if we look at the net working capital, we can see in percentage of net sales, we see that the net working capital is quite similar that we had in Q2. So we are just below 40% in the net working capital. Now, as I said, we are in this phase where the inventory ramp up to meet the high delivery demands in Q4. And we also have not really taken the full 12 months net sales of Rhoda into these numbers. So that is also something that will positively impact this net sales of the networking capital. And aiming to come down around 30% and maybe a little bit lower than that. Net debt through EBITDA we see expected coming down at 2.9 in Q2 and now 2.6. This is something where we're now growing the EBITDA when we also get the full picture of the RODAS EBITDA into the total consolidated EBITDA, we will see that this net debt will come down. So we expect this before we close 2025 to be below our long-term target of 2.5, but it's now showing that it's going in the right direction. Short update around the RODA situation here in Q3. I think that they're showing solid Q3 figures, especially strong order intake in the third quarter here. As I said before, they were announcing the biggest contract ever from Bundeswehr. That's a DLBO contract, digitalised land-based operation, a big digitalisation project going in within the German army that RODA plays an important role in. So that was our largest order. So strong order intake. also, as I said, proves Rhoda's strong position on the German market and that Rhoda has a good end-user reputation and that is something that we can continue to build on in the future. Germany has also announced this defense ramp-up of 500 billion euro over the next 12 years, so I think there will be a lot of business opportunities and a lot of a great need for building their IT solutions going forward. With all of this combined, I think that the acquisition of Rhoda will be a very important part of Mille's growth journey going forward. The German market and Rhoda together will be a strong contributor to Mille's continued growth. Future outlook, and now I am on slide number 17, growth priorities. This is something that we will focus strongly on within Mille in the upcoming two to three years number one that is really on top of our mind is the scaling up thing that we really need to ramp up of our capacity we're only seeing a couple of quarters in row where we are meeting high new record levels in order intake and that is something that will impact the business and will impact how we build up our capacity so we need to do that in a cost efficient way but we need to increase our capacity in total. It's around the facilities, the people and the processes. The next one is also climbing the value chain where we can take a position on the market as a prime contractor within the tactical IT solution area where we have today an offering and a competence and a capacity to delivering turnkey solution to the customer. And they are more and more asking for this kind of turnkey solution because they have no time, but they have a lot of money. So they want the industry to really help them out to make sure that they get the capacity they want out there. And I also think that this climbing in the value chain will increase the barrier strength. We will create a position and take a position on the market that will be really strong and will be hard for the competitors to come in and attack this position that we can take on the market. Improved margins, of course, is one of the big players there as well. Focus expansion, I think, is really important in this dynamic, in this high demand landscape that we are in, that we are laser sharp in our focus around the defense domain. And we really prioritize our key customers, the big customers. We really prioritize the selected MODs and the government customers, making sure that we are super focused on finding the right solutions for them and delivering with the best quality that we can. final piece in this one is the resilience resilience is really important for our future growth because that if you want to be a relevant supplier and trusted partner within the defense industry you also need to make sure that you are a resilient company so you need to have your supply chain really in good order and have a resilient supply chain you need to have cyber security really on top of that you need to have an organization ready to to take on higher volumes And all of these kind of things will build a more resilient middle of in the future. And if you see in the bottom row, I can see that something that we always will be working with is our sustainable business and responsible business due to the industry we are and we will keep that as a really strong. areas to focus on and also the M&A. We have been on an M&A journey and we still want to find good M&A that fits really good into what Mieleff are doing into our core business that can help us continue with this growth journey like we did with the road acquisition. So that is something that will continue to be on our priorities for growth going forward. Now we will come to slide number 18 and then we can see the strong outlook for the future. I will go through what we see from our view about the future. First of all, something that really creates the dynamic on the market that there is a high demand landscape. We are seeing more and more defense spending. We also see that they are transforming into more of a data driven defense capacity, which also creates this digital arm race. where digitalization will be probably the most important thing how we can build this threshold so we can be strong enough to build peace. And that is our second strong outlook for the future is the digitalization and connectivity. Some people are talking about this defense tech super cycle and it's here to stay. So what we are doing at middle of building the IT backbone is really a relevant thing into this European defence ramp up. And finally, also that is really important in this defence domain, Mielef has decades of trust in this one, we have been operating in this domain for almost 30 years and we have a field program portfolio and we are already today a well trusted supplier and a partner in this domain and there's something really important where we now see all of these new opportunities coming up here in the future. And with that said, I think it's time for the Q&A session.

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Absolutely. Thank you, Daniel Ljunggren, CEO and president of Mildef Group. I have raised hand from Tom and Daniel at Danske Bank. So we'll start with Tom and make sure that you unmute your mic, Tom, so we can hear your lovely voice. Tom with Pareto. Are you ready to fire away?

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Tom
Analyst, Pareto Securities

Yes, sir. Just a question on the delays here. It looks like you moved some 180 200 million in terms of organic backlog into 2026 how much of that is on you versus on the customer acceptance rate here and what sort of investments or initiatives are you taking to to enable higher delivery pace here into 26.

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Daniel Ljunggren
CEO and President, Mildef Group

Thank you very much, Tom. I just want to start with maybe giving some flavor on the bigger picture here. I mean, we are on a historical defense ramp up and we have talking about this beginning of beginning for many times. And now we really see a strong demand, strong order intake that is building up a need and a situation in the delivery that we need to be able to take care of. So I think we can expect maybe some turbulence in the in the upcoming quarter or two quarters going forward so we have the time to collab find a new delivery capacity and that is something that has been impacted as you say the move some of the moved orders into 2026 but it's really important that we are doing this on a daily basis we are adding on capacity we're adding on what we need as i say the building the people and the process to be able to delivering even more but it's not always that it's this kind of movements are it's um uh that is middle of the needs to ingress we also need to increase the supply chain that we are working with we also have the end user and the end customer sometimes is is telling us to move the orders into 2026 maybe our products are going into a bigger platform program and maybe there is a delayment of the platforms and things like that and they don't want our things they want to have a coordinated delivery of all things together And I also see that some peers in the industry is also talking about this growing pain that we are seeing right now. So I think it's a little bit naive to think that this was just going to go on a straight road to have. And I think we will see some bump in the roads going forward. But it takes some times to calibrate the new situation and find a new higher delivery capacity. Perfect. Thanks.

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We have another question from Tom.

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Tom
Analyst, Pareto Securities

Yeah, just a quick one on the sort of seasonality going into 26. Any specific high delivery quarters to expect here for the coming year? Or similar patterns as 25 and 24?

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Daniel Ljunggren
CEO and President, Mildef Group

Thank you, Tom. I think we can expect a little bit the same pattern that we have seen in the past year, so to say. Of course, now we're also moving a couple of things that will be expected to deliver in the first quarter. uh we had a little bit of what i'd say a week first half of 2025 so i expect us to be much stronger in the first half of 2026 but i also think that the biggest delivery quarter will be leaning towards the fourth quarter perfect thanks thank you tom uh we have a lineup of daniel hugo finn and some questions in the chat so i'll go to donnie lindqvist with the danske bank please open your mic

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Conference Call Moderator
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Okay, so if Daniel is not opening his mic, we go to Hugo Lihsjö with DMB Carnegie.

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Hugo Lihsjö
Analyst, DNB Carnegie

Hi, thank you for taking my questions. I've heard that the distribution agreement you have with the Middle East Crete ends at the beginning of 2026. Is this correct?

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Daniel Ljunggren
CEO and President, Mildef Group

That is not correct. Our current distribution agreement with Middle East Crete will actually now end in April 2031. I know that some have seen this 2026, but there is a dynamic in the agreement that will prolong that agreement with automatically five new years. And that really kicked in two years ago, actually. So we have a good situation on the distributor agreement with Mill of Crete. And just to add extra flavor on that, I mean, we have been a strong partner with Mill of Crete since back in the 90s. So agreement or not agreement, I think we have a really strong position together with Mill of Crete. So I'm not worried about that relationship or that partnership or that supplier. Thank you.

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More questions?

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Daniel Ljunggren
CEO and President, Mildef Group

This also holds true for Rhoda? Rhoda has even been having a stronger and longer relationship with Middle-Left Crete. They have, of course, an existing distributor agreement with Middle-Left Crete. I'm not going to go exactly into when that expires, but I have no worries. And also with the new orders, what we are seeing coming in from Rhoda is building the relationship even stronger with the mill of Crete. And they have been partners and friends for more than 30 years. So I'm not worried that something will change.

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Hugo Lihsjö
Analyst, DNB Carnegie

Okay. And regarding those production capacity restraints you had in 2025, how should we think about this? looking into 2026, how much production capacity do you add?

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Daniel Ljunggren
CEO and President, Mildef Group

We are of course trying to do this in the same pace that we are seeing order intake, et cetera, coming in, but I'm sure that we will in the upcoming one to two, three, three quarter here, adding a lot of new delivery capacity on top of what we already have today. So it's hard to give an exact number, how much we will increase our delivery capacity. It depends a little bit on the future order intake and things like that. But we will absolutely add on so we can meet our long-term financial target, growing 25%. So at least more than 25% of what we are doing today. Then, of course, there is a limitation of everything. So if we see continued really strong order intake, then maybe we will have that.

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Hugo Lihsjö
Analyst, DNB Carnegie

even in 2026 um capacity capacity issues of growing that quick okay my last question that's uh regarding the gross profit margin organically it was strong in this quarter uh rhodes gross profit margin was a bit lower than previous quarters would you say that this quarter's level is more of a normal level level for both entities and for the group

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Daniel Ljunggren
CEO and President, Mildef Group

If you look at the Rhoda margin, for example, in Q3, it's very similar to what they have done in the past. They have been operating around 30%, something like that, and they are doing that in the Q3 as well. So that is probably something that we can expect going forward. Of course, we will try to see if we can find some opportunities to increase the Rhoda gross margin. But what they're doing in Q3 is very similar to what they have done in the past. If we look at the mill of margin, we have now seen a couple of quarters in row that we are improving we are above 50 percent and we have done this a little bit transformation to to our product mix we have more software we have more of the solutions and integrations and also improving the gross margin so i can expect that the the middle of the classic middle of course margin if we uh speak it like that will continue to be above 50 okay perfect thank you

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Conference Call Moderator
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Thank you, Hugo Liefer with DNB Carnegie. I think we go to Finn Kemperner with Cantor Fitzgerald. I hope that you are able to open your mic on your side, Finn. Thank you. I see you did that. Welcome with your question.

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Finn Kemperner
Analyst, Cantor Fitzgerald

Thanks for taking my question and congratulations to the great quarterly results. Really well done. So my question

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We've lost Finn there.

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Do you hear us still out there? We hear you. Yes.

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Finn Kemperner
Analyst, Cantor Fitzgerald

Sorry. Maybe I'll ask a question again. Sorry. You've significantly expanded the capacity in Rosensberg and stepped up also their recruitment. So maybe you could elaborate a bit on on the capacity runway and when you expect that to really reach saturation and maybe off that on the flip side how do you balance the current investment pace with the risk of uh potential over capacity of order con conversions slow in the in the following years thank you very much if we take the first question they are out in in stockholm our new facility here we are four

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Daniel Ljunggren
CEO and President, Mildef Group

We are four times increasing our capacity here, and that is a 10-year lease contract, so of course this will not be up and running on four times higher capacity already here in a couple of one, two, three years maybe. It will take some time to really come into that new delivery capacity and come into that new facility. But of course, we're trying to do whatever we can to fill that with a lot of new business and things like that and that give us the room to grow. Your second question there, of course, we are really listening to the market. We are looking at the order intake. We are doing our evaluation and see so we don't over invest in things but here and now we need to take this delivery capacity to the next level because we are seeing that the high demand is here and it's here to stay and as I said before this is probably 10 year out in time so that is why we are confident in continue to add on capacities and then we of course need to follow this carefully walking into 26 and 27 and beyond

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Finn Kemperner
Analyst, Cantor Fitzgerald

okay thank you and maybe a follow-up question i mean you mentioned that already during your presentation but um moving towards positive free cash flow maybe in early 2026 what are the key levers you're really pulling on on the working capital so maybe improve delivery planning supplier terms also customer prepayments and how sustainable is that improvement and what what is a comfortable working capital ratio maybe moving forward that you feel yeah comfortable with

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Daniel Ljunggren
CEO and President, Mildef Group

Thank you. First of all, I will say here in the Q3, of course, that that is a situation where we see a really intensive delivery quarter in fourth quarter. So for me, it's not anything unreal that we are really ramping up the inventory for making deliveries in the fourth quarter. We are working really hard with improving and optimizing the cash flow. And I think that we have seen some improvements in that area when we are talking about prepayment, we are talking about milestones payments. And we're talking about an end user that realized that they need to, in some kind of way, support the defense industry in this ramp up as well. We need to be able to share some risks and we need to be able also to get some fundings before deliveries. So I see some kind of change in the dynamic. Exactly what will happen here in the future is hard to say, but at least they are more open to have these kind of dialogues, how we can help each other from the government side and together with the industry.

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Finn Kemperner
Analyst, Cantor Fitzgerald

And in terms of the ratio, is it closer to 25% or are you comfortable with below 30% already?

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Daniel Ljunggren
CEO and President, Mildef Group

I think that we can, if we look at the history, we could be operating with 25%, but maybe we will aim in 430 in that area would be quite doable for us going forward. It's also always a balance act between the lead times. The lead times is really important for the end customer here and now. So we also need to have a basic inventory level to be able to meet these kind of shorter lead times. it's a balance act between a great cash flow but also be able to winning the the business uh because you have the right lead times okay all right thank you again congrats

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Conference Call Moderator
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Thank you, Ethan, from Counterfeits.js for tracking us. Before we go to Tom for final questions, before we have a hard close at 40 minutes past the hour, a question in the chat, you can have a look at it also, Daniel. How are the projected gross margins for the long-term order intake 26-27? Do we see expansion of margins as the backlog really starting to become filled? Are you taking winning orders on any margin just to fill the book? What can we expect in the future? Many questions in one.

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Daniel Ljunggren
CEO and President, Mildef Group

I think we have touched base a little bit around the gross margin here and we have seen and we have talked about where we are today and where we have been in the past and the journey we have done and it's always hard to predict in the future there but I expect that we can continue to improve our now total gross margin I expect that we can continue to improve the road across margin absolutely because they are on a little bit less level than that Are we taking orders just to win? No, we are not. We're always keeping our gross margin because we know the importance of the gross margin for the profitability going forward. So I would say we have a good pricing power in these market conditions here and now as well. There is a high demand and we are in the relevant position. We are a trusted supplier. So that is also why we can keep the price level at the same level that we have done before. So it's not about lower our gross margin and winning our intake. It's keeping our gross margin and continuing this high demand landscape.

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Conference Call Moderator
Moderator

Thank you for that question out there in the cyberspace. Very quickly, Tom, with Pareto, you have the final floor.

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Tom
Analyst, Pareto Securities

Thank you. Yeah, on the road, EBITDA margin, I know we spoke about gross margins, but what's happened to the OPEX development here in 2025, because EBITDA margins are down quite significantly for the first three quarters.

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Daniel Ljunggren
CEO and President, Mildef Group

are you expecting moving forward into 26 yeah that's a good question thomas i think it's a little bit on on the side that the the figures in the reports not really reflecting how rhoda looked before because you can see some integration costumes to rhoda you can see some of the depreciations around this uh around acquisitions related uh depreciations and amortizations so i don't think it's super fair to compare it because a little bit other dynamic into this the rhoda ebitda margin but for me operation wise i expect them to be at the same level that we have seen in 2024. all right so you should see a comeback already in 26 then we should do that and we should also see one exactly and then on the jackal program with the metal and knds what are your hopes there I mean, we have always good hopes to win some future business, and we know that there are some big programs going on around in Europe and big vehicle platform programs. But we are trying to put us in a good position, and we are having a strong relationship with many of the big platform providers. Rheinmetall is one of those, but we have an existing framework agreement through our RODA company there. So hopefully we can be a big part of that.

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Tom
Analyst, Pareto Securities

Perfect. Thank you.

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Conference Call Moderator
Moderator

Sorry for the little bit hard close here, but thank you so much, everyone. 45 souls, ladies and gentlemen, 47 altogether tracking this Q3 call. Thank you for taking part in the Mildev journey and thank you for contributing to the Mildev journey. We're very excited to be back on February 5 when we disclose the year end numbers for the full year of 2025. So, Daniel, final words from you?

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Daniel Ljunggren
CEO and President, Mildef Group

Thank you very much for following in the middle of journey and I hope to see all of you in February when we will talk about our Q4 report. Take care out there.

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Conference Call Moderator
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Thank you very much. Don't be a stranger. Stay in touch.

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