Surgical Science Sweden AB (publ)

Welcome to this quarter one presentation for surgical science. My name is Tom Englund, I'm the CEO of the surgical science. And with me today I have Anna Aalberg, our company CFO. We will use our time together today to first present the report and then we will take questions from the audience. We can look back at an eventful and positive first quarter for surgical science and a good start for 2025. This was an eventful quarter for us. With strong growth and good underlying profitability. Sales increased to 251 million SEC up from 188 million last year with a growth of 30% in local currencies. During the quarter we also reached an all-time high for our important license revenue which grew more than 30% as the robotic surgery market continues to expand. I will now present the most important highlights and results of the business during the quarter. Starting with Intelligent Ultrasound. The company was welcomed into the surgical science family during the quarter. Intelligent Ultrasound is a prominent player within ultrasound simulation and the acquisition makes surgical science the world leader within this field which is a market with big growth potential. The integration process has progressed well during the quarter and it's gratifying to see that the synergies identified before the acquisitions are now actually becoming apparent in practice. We're working according to a plan to realize these synergies which are primarily found in distribution channels, strengthened sales presence in direct markets, cross-selling of products and in long-term product development. During the quarter we also officially opened up our direct sales office in the UK. The acquisition and integration resulted in some one-off costs related to transaction and restructuring that negatively impacted profit in quarter one. These one-off costs were totally in line with our plan. We also see that the estimated and predicted cost reductions from ongoing operations will be realized in the coming quarters. Sales for Intelligent Ultrasound during the quarter was 23 million SEC of which 18 million were included in our sales which was lower than we expected. Although the Americas and APAC regions developed well for us, the UK market was weak to a challenging budget situation within the NHS which distributes the funding for our type of equipment within the UK healthcare system. Moving over to educational products. The positive development of educational products continued and we saw a good increase in sales compared to the weak quarter one of 2024 with 55% growth and 32% growth if excluding Intelligent Ultrasound. And this sales was at the same level as quarter four of 2024. We saw significant sales increases in the EMEA and Asia regions and good growth in the Americas region. At the same time we have experienced continued pressure on purchasing budgets for customers in key markets such as the US where our quotes in a more challenging climate face tougher competition from other purchases that our customers must make. Our new sales organization was also established during the quarter and we have already started to see positive results from this in terms of sales, customer satisfaction and efficiency. During the beginning of the second quarter we have experienced reduced demand from our customers in education products in the US partly due to the above and partly due to the tariffs imposed between the US and other countries. Moving over to industry OEM. Industry OEM continued its strong development with a 17% increase in sales for the quarter. We expect continued positive development in the segment driven by the important role and value of simulation for robotic surgery and med device companies. License revenues grew to an all-time high by 33% to 84 million SEC and the market continued to develop at a very rapid pace. On January 15 it was announced that the letter of intent has been signed between the company's largest customer Intuitiv and us. This means that Certical Science moves to a fully subscription-based revenue model with Intuitiv and that all DaVinci 5 systems will be equipped with simulation software from Certical Science. And now all DaVinci 5 systems are equipped and shipped with simulation from Certical Science. Simulator sales to med device companies that is non-robotics was 31 million SEC with customer demand remaining quite high. We estimate that this segment will continue to develop positively driven by the fact that simulation is becoming a strategically important tool for our customers when they demonstrate their products for sales and training purposes and that the rapid technical development within the segment benefits Certical Science. Focusing a little bit more on robotics just to give some more context during the last nine months, nine robot companies have received sales approval for 13 different procedures. Intuitiv received FDA approval for DaVinci 5 in the US and South Korea. J&J received IDE approval in November for clinical trials on human patients within its OTAV platform. And then a number of companies such as Medtronic, CMR, Certical, Medicaroid, J&J and Intuitiv are also in the process of obtaining further regulatory approvals in the coming quarters. All of this is driving the manipulation and will positively impact Certical Science's sales and license revenues. Another clear trend that we see is that medical device companies such as Medtronic and J&J are now being challenged by robot companies such as Intuitiv in their highly profitable instrument business. It will therefore be strategically important for these major players to quickly grow their installed base of robots in order to not lose further market share in their instrument business. And the key factor in a successful rapid rollout will be simulation and training which will have a positive impact on Certical Science. Operating profit during the quarter was 24 million SEC or 10% that was burdened by the above-mentioned one-off costs associated with the acquisition of Intelligent Ultrasound of 26 million. Adjusted for the one-off costs, the operating profit was 50 million or 20%. During the quarter, a strategic review was initiated which will result in a further developed strategy by fall 2025. The main reason for the strategic review is due to that the company now sees many more growth opportunities than previously and we want to have a solid strategy for how to capitalize on these growth opportunities in the best way. So that's a little bit about the quarter one highlights. I would like to now speak about our updated financial goals and first provide some background. At the end of 2021, following the acquisition of Symbionics, Certical Science built our strategic plan for the next five-year period up to and including 2026. We set our target for Certical Science to generate sales of 1.5 billion by 2026. And we also said that at the end of the period, adjusted EBIT should amount to 40%. And now we're almost halfway into 2025 and more than three years have passed since the formulation of the financial goals. And there have of course been some key developments that have had an impact on the financial performance versus the plan for the past three years and that act as a rationale to why we now revised the targets. I will just go through them very quickly here. First, educational products. Educational products had a good average growth of 22% in 2021 to 2023. The end of 2023 and 2024 were negatively impacted by high inflation, which put pressure on the hospital market and the budgets used for the purchase of Certical Science products. And this has led to a sales decrease by 15% in 2024 and lower average annual growth of 8%. We continue to have a positive view of educational products as a whole, although there is still inertia in certain markets. And we believe that average growth target of 10 to 15% per year in the period up to 2026 will be achieved. Regarding robotics, in industry OEM, the development has been positive in many ways during the period. Certical Science has secured several new customers and is today the dominant provider of medical simulation in this market. However, for some larger robotic companies, regulatory approvals have taken longer than expected or initial development has progressed more slowly than estimated when the financial targets were developed. This affects Certical Science's expected license revenues in the short term, but in the longer term, the company maintains our positive view of the development of the robotics market and the company's position within it. The effect of what is described above means that the license revenues are pushed forward in time. And thirdly, Certical Science acquired Intelligent Ultrasound in the beginning of 2025 and the addition of Intelligent Ultrasound, which had revenues of just over 600 million SEC in 2024, will contribute positively to Certical Science's revenue, but in the short term will affect the total margin negatively. So if you look at these factors together, Certical Science remains very positive about the company's growth opportunities with good profitability going forward, but at the same time feel it necessary to revise the financial target. The sales target then. As a result of the development, primarily in the robotics segment together with the current global trade uncertainties where direct and indirect effects are very difficult to forecast, we have together with the board of directors revised our sales target from previously 1.5 billion SEC down to 1.4 billion SEC for end of 2026. And looking at the margins, the result of primarily lower license revenues in relation to total revenues and increased investments in areas that also include hardware means that the target for adjusted EBIT for 2026 has been revised to between 25 and 30% down from previously stated 40%. As I mentioned previously, Certical Science is now conducting a strategic review to capture and realize all the growth opportunities that we now see in the market going forward. And we also plan to return in late autumn with the new strategy and with new financial targets for the period after 2026. That concludes my presentation and I would like to hand over to Anna.

Thank you, Tom. So the headline for the report is strong growth despite macroeconomic uncertainties. And for the quarter we had sales of 251 million up 33% whereas Tom mentioned 18 million came from intelligent ultrasound after the acquisition date on February 18th. For the quarter as a whole, our sales was 23 million. All sales are in educational products business area and the ultrasound product group. In local currency sales was up 30%. We have approximately 80% of our revenues in US dollars and even though the SEC appreciated a lot during the quarter, it is still the case that the average rate was higher than in Q1 2024. It was 10.7 versus 10.4. However, as we will see in the cash flow and on the balance sheet, the US dollar at balance sheet date was a whole crown lower than on December 31st, 10 versus 11 which caused very large revaluation effects. Starting this quarter, we have a new table in the report note 2 showing sales also divided by product group regardless of from which business area they originate. And there you can see for example that our ultrasound sales was up from 24 to 38 million for the quarter making up the 15% of our total revenues. And for 2024 as a whole ultrasound more than doubled with the acquisition of IU to a bit over 200 million or 20% of sales. Again, IU was only in our revenues for part of the quarter, part of Q1 after February 18th but it is still so and as Tom also mentioned that sales was slow for the first quarter primarily attributable to the UK market and NHS. The split between the business areas was 49% for EDU and 51% for INDU. EDU was up then 55% or 32 excluding IU. Q1 last year was weak and so we saw growth in all regions but specifically in Europe where many countries did well. The outlook then for the US market going forward is a bit uncertain with a lot of leads and discussions taking place but it remains to be seen at what pace these deals will be closed. INDU was up 17% and as Tom talked about we saw all time high regarding licence revenues and if we then move over to our revenue streams we see that licence revenues was 33% of total revenues. As mentioned many times before this is slumpy for new entrants where many of our customers are still in early phase but also as we heard Tom talk about there are a lot of exciting things now happening on the market new approvals etc. Simulator sales as a whole was up 47% compared to Q1 last year. This is then all due to EDU. INDU was down a bit but we continue to view the segment very positively. And development revenues up a bit while service revenue at a stable level. For the quarter there is no revenue from the order that we got in February to supply Trauma VR products and services to a Ministry of Defence in Southeast Asia. This project is for 18 months and 52 million. And we estimate approximately 0.7 million US to be recognised on this order in Q2. Moving from revenues to costs and EBITS margin for the quarter. Our gross margin was 69% versus 6% in Q1 2024. License revenues were slightly lower as a share of total sales however as we know sales for in particular Simulator was very weak in Q1 last year and so it was still a good share for all of 2024 it was 31%. We also saw that we had good average sales prices in comparison to last year this quarter while the consolidation of IU had a negative effect on the gross margin by just below 2% points. Sales costs, 21% of sales that included most of the restructuring costs for IU. They were in total 3.9 million and 3.8 were in sales costs and that's then primarily attributable to redundancies of sales personnel. Also Q1 is always very busy. Our largest Congress of the Year, IMSH, is taking place in the US in January each year and we also always host our distributor meeting in this quarter. When we acquired IU we said that we estimated rationalisations in savings of between 1.5 and 2 million pounds. We have now on annual basis reached approximately 1.5 million pounds. These savings did not have any effect on Q1 but we estimate that they will to a quite large extent come into effect in Q1. Administration costs, they were high due to the fact that we had all the acquisition costs in surgical science during this quarter. That was approximately 23 million, quite a lot and a large part of it was for legal advice related to the process of acquiring a listed company in the UK through a court process which was the procedure used and this amount was also something we have already announced in the Q4 report. Excluding these costs we were at 8% of sales. R&D was at 22% of sales and we activated 10 million SEC. Other items, they include our options programs and FX effects. For this quarter they also include income and costs in IU regarding a replacement program of older products. All in all our EBIT margin was at 20% if we exclude acquisition and restructuring costs. For IU less costs than revenues were consolidated if we take them as a portion of the respective item for the whole quarter. Excluding their acquisition costs which were approximately 16 million and the restructuring cost I talked about earlier. They had a quarterly loss of 12 million and we consolidated a loss of 3 million SEC in Q1. Before leaving this slide I just want to comment on the impact of US tariffs as well. For 2024 our sales of simulators to the US, if we include IU sale of simulators, they were approximately 250 million SEC. With a 10% tariff as it is today we estimate the extra cost being around 10 million per year. The ambition is to reflect this in the price of the products as much as possible and we do consider the possibility of doing so to be good. For the remaining part of the business there are indirect effects that are currently difficult to predict. Organization number of employees at the end of the period was 336 people. With the IU acquisition we added 48 people in the UK and in the US and then we have had redundancies of 6 people. We continue to employ above all software developers and you can see the split between our sites down to the right. Adjusted EBIT, the key ratio that we think best shows how the business is doing. That was 23% for the quarter then excluding acquisition and restructuring costs. We measured this as EBIT exclusive of amortizations and surplus values related to acquisitions. As you heard Tom talk about earlier we now said that we estimate this to be 25 to 30% for 2026. Finance Net in Texas was 22 million for the quarter. We had of course interest income on our bank balances. We also had a positive effect from our GBP hedge and for this quarter we also had interest costs related to the short-term loan of 17 million pounds that we took out in conjunction with the IU acquisition. This loan has been repaid during Q1. Tax expense was 13 million and net result 33 million. Cash flow from operating activities was a minus 5 million for the quarter. We paid the majority of the acquisition costs during the quarter and we also had large tax payments that were made in both Sweden and Israel. Then we had a negative of 34 million from changes in working capital where both inventories and accounts receivable have increased during the quarter while other current liabilities have decreased. These items are heavily influenced by changes in exchange rates and above all the US dollar as discussed before mainly due to the revaluation of internal receivables and liabilities. If we look at unchanged currencies both accounts receivable and inventory have increased only very marginally. When we look at accounts receivable as a percentage of rolling 12 month sales which is the grey line in the graph we see that this continues to be at a good level. Cash flow from investing activities that we mainly have the effect of the IU acquisition during the quarter and cash flow from financing activities that we mainly have the effect from this repayment of the short-term loan that I mentioned before 17 million pounds. Cash at the end of the quarter March 31st was 613 million SEK. With that we conclude our presentation and open up for questions.

If you wish to ask a question please dial pound key 5 on your telephone keypad to enter the queue. If you wish to withdraw your question please dial pound key 6 on your telephone keypad. The next question comes from Ulrich Trattner from Carnegie. Please go ahead.

Thank you very much. Hi Tom and Anna. I will try to keep it at two questions to begin with and we start with educational products. Tom you sounded a bit cautious on the short-term momentum stating that the early parts of Q2 have not shown the same type of strong momentum as Q1. I want to dig a little bit deeper into this and how does your visibility on procurement and tender activity look like as well as are you still confident in that activity and just believe that it's a matter of turning procurement into actual orders and revenue and installment or how should we view this statement?

Thank you for the question. It's quite a mixed picture when we look at educational products geographically. We mentioned the strong demand that we see in EMEA and in Asia for educational products and obviously America's result is a great step forward if you look at the comparison quarter. So in that sense it's positive right. We also in America specifically where we point out to be kind of the weak market we feel that there is a very strong underlying demand from the customers. There is a lot of customers engaging with us in quotes and wanting to have demos and so on and we also have a lot of proposals outstanding. The metric that is difficult to predict and that we feel that it's somewhat slower than what it has previously been is in the close rates of these contracts and the availability for budget and this competition that I mentioned between other purchases that the hospitals need to do. And that's a little bit difficult to estimate and it's also obviously affected every day by new things that are happening on how the funds are being allocated to these institutions and hospitals and that's the hence the cautionary remark. So it's a buffer or it's a negative in that sense but in general we don't see any major change in the underlying long term demand for educational products within the US but rather short term effects. Hope this answers your question. Great.

Yeah absolutely and if I can just have a follow up question on that as well. Of course turning into my second question. We've seen some comments on funding coming in and stimulus packages coming in to China. Are you also seeing these effects on your end given that China is a relatively big market on your end.

Now we are we are optimistic about the development in China and the sales trend in China is quite positive. And the market is opening up slowly and we also feel that we can do a lot internally to drive sales results even in a tougher market climate. So I would say positive outlook for China and in a combination of a slowly more positive macro together with very strong and positive sales efforts by the surrogate science safety. Great.

And then my second question relating to the industry and segments. Intuitives DV5 and just wanted to get a sense here. If you have seen any positive impacts on the current placements of DV5 systems as well as how you're expecting this to be developing here in the coming at least second half of the year once the intuitive suite is actually available on the DV5 machines which should be after the summer according to their latest comments.

Well it's very positive that the DV5 is now being shipped with simulation that per their previous comment has already started. They've also mentioned this in this transcript in the quarterly earnings call of intuitive. So that's happening and it's a very positive that they mentioned that simulation is part of this digital package and it's of course very positive that intuitive is successful with their DV5 platform which will in turn drive the need for simulation. So we see this as a very positive sign and a good step in the right direction. And then regarding kind of the success of the DV5 I think it's it's it's a very very good reading to read up on what I say about that. But so far there is a very high demand for the product and they are revising up both their sales as well as their procedural growth targets upwards here in their latest quarterly report.

And just to follow up we have a question around that as well if it's also including the previous sold ones and there we have said that yes they will be retrofitted but that will be over the year and possibly a bit into into next year. So that that will also happen going forward. Yeah sorry go ahead. Great

that that would have been a nice. No no that was great. I was actually going to be a follow up question. So that's great but potentially I could just squeeze a follow up on top of that and that would be like in your communication with intuitive and in terms of the retrofitting of the DV5 with the simulation packages. Do you believe that that like you say will transition into 26. Do you believe that there will be always be a backlog of you installing the simulation or will the base are up and running at the normal pace where all equipment already sort of installed base as well as new sales equipped by sort of mid 26.

Yeah I think that that's the second second alternative is what's going to happen. There's a strong interest from intuitive to make sure that their customers get the absolutely latest and greatest and full product experience. So it's in their interest to do this retrofit as quick as they can can. But it's of course also some practicalities around this which makes it to Anna's point and that is going to take throughout this year to happen. But they they intend to to handle this backlog as soon as as quickly as they possibly can.

And just one follow up just to make sure that I have all the right information. Equipping a DV5 with simulation is just putting a hard drive essentially on it. No

that's the. This is technicalities then but for certain volume of the already shipped DV5 fleet it's just a matter of a software upgrade but it needs to be done by a technician it cannot be done remote so it's not a push of a button. And for certain parts of the ship volume it requires a hardware upgrade with you know new processing power onto the platform. So obviously there is certain parts of the ship volume that are going to be easier to retrofit and certain parts going to take longer depending on whether it's a software only upgrade or a combination of software and hardware.

Okay great thanks Tom and Anna for taking the question and I'll get back into the queue.

Thank you.

The next question comes from Victor Hogberg from Dansky Bank. Please go ahead.

Alright so first question is on the targets. Just could you help us with does the new targets include potential M&A as the previous ones or are they with the current structure and also could you walk us through the margin range. What is needed for the low end and what is needed for the high end. And then I have another question after that.

So first question regarding the whether we need an acquisitions or inorganic growth the answer is no. We believe that these targets can be met organically. And then regarding the margin range there is I would say two major factors playing into this. One factor is how quickly the robotics surgery market will develop and how many robots will be placed in the market that carries simulation with surgical science. It is a little bit difficult to predict. We have plans and we have external information and we have then also ambitions and wants from our customers. But then we also have the regulatory machinery that is also a little bit of an unknown variable. And how long these regulatory processes take and that will affect them. The volume of the install base at the end of the financial the end of the 2026 and that will in turn affect the kind of total sales of licenses. So that is one factor. And then the other factor is about how our gross margin development primarily on simulators will look like for the next 18 months and our efforts to improve the gross margin on that part of the business. So that's the second variable that kind of dictate the range of 25 to 30 percent.

OK, thank you. And the next question is the device simulator did the client year over year in Q1 had a very strong run in 2024. You seem very confident still. How do you explain this implied blitz then in Q1? Is it just timing or anything else? Just the basis for your confidence in the continued growth here?

But I think that we are confident because we can see kind of the end customer demand and we see the value that our products bring to our customers. And that and then of course the time is very big in this market. It is the sales can be lumpy of nature. We can have large projects one quarter and that are not realized in the next. And that goes both for development revenues as well as simulators. And thirdly, I mean, now the comparables are a little bit different and more difficult since since the comparables and the very high triple digit growth that we had was from relatively no numbers. Then yours a third aspect. And that is something that I've discussed in previous calls is that it also is a matter of how quickly we can ramp up our delivery capacity towards these players because many of them require bespoke products that require bespoke or specific teams internally. And that's why I've said that our kind of ability to scale our R&D and deliver multiple projects in parallel is going to dictate how quickly we can grow. So there is also an internal component here that we have to improve and we are working on.

Thank you. I'll get back in line.

The next question comes from Christian Laredo Securities. Please go ahead.

Thank you. Good morning. Thank you for taking my questions. My first one. It would be interesting to get your view on how many years the license revenue development has been pushed forward due to the regulatory delays compared with the trajectory you saw in the last year. 2022.

Yeah it's very it's a little bit difficult to answer a little bit like one number here and I think it depends on player to player. It's dictated by the new players primarily coming into the market and there you have a plethora of different players somewhere. Some people say that it's 100 robotic surgery companies and some analysts say 50 or 60 and the right answer is probably somewhere in between. Building a robotic surgery platform is quite complex and not only should you build it and get it through the regulatory process but you also need to train surgeons for how to use it efficiently. And there have been kind of breaks on these very enthusiastic goals that many of the new players have had. At the same time these players if you take for example J&J and Medtronic they consider their robotic platform, surgery platform developments to be extremely strategic. So they're putting a lot of effort internally to make sure that these products can come out on time. So it has been delayed perhaps a year perhaps two compared to the earlier estimates but it doesn't kind of change the underlying super strong traction that these companies have and the importance that they put on these very strategic product launches.

Thank you, that's very clear. My second question is given that you have more than 600 million in cash and no debts, suppose you could step up your M&A strategy to reach your previous sales target of 1.5 billion. Is that still an option to make acquisitions or do you see limited number of prospects out there?

It's a great question Christian and thank you and it's sort of is one of the reasons to why we speak so openly about the fact that we are now conducting a strategic review because when we had the financial goals and when we articulated them back three and a half years ago the market looked quite different now compared to what it does today. With the market has developed and we see many more growth opportunities, many more areas than we have done previously where it was more like a smaller educational products footprint and a smaller robotic license revenue. So what we're doing now is that we are in a strategic review process to make sure that we can capture all these growth opportunities and that the new market environment presents to us. And including in that new business plan and strategy that we will formulate for surgical science, obviously there will also be the opportunity for us to grow inorganically with a new strategy as a backbone. So it's all boils down to our strategic direction that we will formulate here in the next coming months and that we intend to also communicate here towards the fall together with a revised financial targets and then that will also dictate how we'll allocate our capital and what type of acquisition targets we want to pursue as a company.

Okay, perfect. Thank you very much.

Question comes from Victor Hogberg from Dansky Bank. Please go ahead.

Yes, hi. So on intelligent ultrasound has historically grown 14% CAGR. It was down here in Q1. Just given the ambitions for the full educational segment, do you expect the intelligent ultrasound to return to grow for the full year this year or are the comps tough or is the market adverse? Just some help on what you expect for intelligent ultrasound on the revenue side and then maybe a follow up on

the cost side. We definitely want to return to growth for the full year for intelligent ultrasound. So our quarter one result for intelligent ultrasound was, as we said, lower than expected. So this is definitely a focus area for us. It is a little bit or is quite a bit, I would say, affected by the NHS situation, the UK funding situation and intelligent ultrasound is particularly strong there. We believe that we can grow with the existing product portfolio just based on the stronger distributor network. Can you please mute your mic, please? We believe that we will be able to grow the ultrasound business due to those factors, but we also believe we will be able to come into new parts of new market segments, new product segments, I should say. We also believe that there is no EM opportunity. So we think that it will grow in the short term and we can grow even more in the medium to long term. So we remain very positive about ultrasound despite the weak quarter one.

And on the cost side, in addition to already announced cost savings, one and a half million pounds or up to two, as you previously said, I would assume it's reasonably expected you would be looking at the further operational cost synergies or are you done with the cost structure once you've reached this one and a half or up to two, which were previously communicated?

No, we are not done. We believe that we have an opportunity here to take advantage of our scale when it comes to R&D, when it comes to manufacturing, when it comes to sourcing. Some of these synergies will take longer to realize. Some of these synergies will actually also affect not only the intelligent ultrasound product line, but also the product line within, you know, surgical science or previous surgical science without intelligent ultrasound. So that's a strong focus for us to kind of improve our small simulators. This is, as I said, so it's not, it's not over yet.

And remember, we also talked about the avoidance of cost, which is also a factor, meaning that we would otherwise have to invest in, for example, a direct sales organization in the UK. Yes, as Tom said, we just started with our direct office there. And so those are also things that are affecting, of course, the overall cost structure

of the group. The question comes from Victor Hogberg from Danske Bank. Please go ahead.

Sorry, I didn't know. Maybe an error here. But maybe it's okay if I add another follow up on this? Sure, go ahead,

Victor.

Thanks. So license revenue, just want to make sure, given your comment, Anna, on the retroactive revenues for the 2024 deliveries. Q1 didn't include any of those, right? You still expect that towards the back half of the year, potentially into 2026. Just want to make sure that there were no one of revenues connected to the new deal here. We didn't do it in Q1 in terms of license revenues.

Correct. Meaning the first part of your, it did not include any retrofits.

And no, I don't know, upfront for something else, something included, given that the deal was

made

effective from 1st of January. So this is the run rate, so to say, to expect, or not to expect maybe, but to calculate from. Yeah,

we have license revenues from more customers. And as we said, always mentioned, they are a bit lumpy. So we do not speak about the run rate in terms of absolute numbers for the license revenues. But it's correct that there were no retrofits or nothing out of the ordinary regarding that agreement.

Would it be fair to assume, given the large step up, that there were some lumpiness from other customers in affecting Q1 positively?

We never comment on specific customers or the absolute amounts for them. So it's that general comment that we always have. And as I said, we do have revenues from more customers, definitely.

Fair enough. Thank you very much.

Thanks. The next question comes from Christian Binder from Red Eye. Please go ahead.

Hi, and thanks for taking my question. Just one follow-up regarding M&A. I'm sure that there are quite a number of companies that could potentially be attractive for you to buy. But what we've heard for quite a long time is that at least private market valuations have kind of remained stubbornly high. And I guess Intelligent UltraSUN was kind of a little bit of a special situation because it was listed. In general, do you think that there are enough M&A targets available at attractive valuations that kind of make financial sense for you, if you understand what I mean?

Yeah, thank you for your question. I believe that the most important part when looking at whether we add companies to surgical science is whether it makes strategic sense to do so, or whether we can find synergies, the one plus one equals three between the acquired company and surgical science. And we feel that we have done so with Intelligent UltraSUN, for example. We feel that their UltraSUN offering is highly synergistic with ours. And we also feel that we can develop this combined entity in a much better way together than what we could have done separately. So it's clearly synergistic, and we're very happy about that. We're less interested in the valuation aspect. It is important, but it's not kind of the determining factor to why we decide or not decide to do an acquisition. So once again, then it's extremely important that you as a company have a very clear strategy of what growth you want to pursue and what segments you want to develop. And based on that, you build your growth strategy that can be both organic as well as inorganic. So that is what we're looking at. And then, you know, valuations can be interesting to look at and can perhaps sometimes affect timing, but it cannot be the kind of underlying cause to why you do acquisitions. So that's how we think and reason about inorganic growth.

Okay, perfect. Thank you so much.

There are no more questions at this time. So I hand the conference back to the speakers for written questions and closing comments.

I think we answered the questions. We have one more written if the targets reflect a run rate at the end of 2026 or fully 2026 targets, and they are for the full year 2026. Other than that, we do not have any more written questions that we have not answered.

Unless there is any more questions, we would like to end the call. Thank you for listening and have a great day.

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