Our CEO, Daniele Misani, will present the 2025 preliminary results, focusing on revenues and EBITDA. During this call, Daniele will show and comment the fourth quarter of the year results together with an overview of the full year. There will be also a section dedicated to current and subsequent events, with a focus on the current AI trend and the positioning of TXT within this context. I would like to remind you two things. First of all, this call follows the publication of preliminary results and will mainly focus on these two main KPIs. While on the 12th of March, there will be the full disclosure following the board of directors approving the 2025 results. The full scope of the financial will be presented on the 12th.
On the 13th of March, there will be a conference call to provide more details and comments on the full year results, including the profit and loss and balance sheets and cash flow. At the end of the call or at the end of the presentation, there will be also a Q&A section. For any question you might have, please drop such question into the Q&A section, and we will answer at the end of the call. I will now let Daniele comment the results of the preliminary results of the year, and see you later for the Q&A section. Thank you for your attention.
Thank you very much, Andrea, and welcome everybody to this call, to disclose the results of 2025, top line and margins. The first, the results of the year are very positive. We record another re-record results with respect to the history of TXT Group. In particular, the results of the year were driven by a very strong Q4. For the seasonality of the our business, also in the past years, Q4 is the strongest quarter within the business of TXT Group, and in particular, 2025 was very strong in terms of growth. Revenues coming from fourth quarter is EUR 130 million +33% with respect to the same quarter of the previous year. A very strong results in terms of top line.
The organic growth, in particular, like-for-like basis, for this quarter is very strong, 20%, adjusted with respect to the release of one-off activity we did last year, with a + EUR 70 million like-for-like perimeter. It's very strong results in a period in which the pressure about activities like the activities we do is high also for competition. This show the strengthness of our, let's say, strategy, and also the result of Q4 contributed a lot in order to improve the overall year results. EBITDA, just for the first quarter, is almost EUR 20 million, so 19, with a growth of 70% on the like-for-like basis. This is good because, let's say, the EBITDA, the margins, increase better with respect to the turnover.
This means that our strategy to focus on high-value services and on our Smart Solutions portfolio, as an improvement overall for the mix of, let's say, margins contribution from the different division that drives the overall growth of the TXT Group. Looking to the full year, historical result of almost EUR 400 million in turnover, EUR 394, with a growth overall of 30% with respect of the last year on a reported basis. A solid organic growth, by the dismissal of one-off activities, the core business, the main activities of the TXT Group increase of a 12%, almost EUR 40 million more than the same perimeter of the last year.
It's a strong boost in terms of market positioning and, let's say, value of our complex solution towards a market that is appreciating our approach and our, let's say, value proposition. EBITDA also is a historical result, reaching EUR 60 million total EBITDA reported for 2025, with a 53% increase with respect to the past. As you see, also the EBITDA margin attested also at the same, at the level that we are planning in our 3 years industrial plan with a record of 15% EBITDA margin, due mainly to the different mix of activities with respect to the past year and the dismissal of low margins and not focused activities substituted by high-value projects and high-value solution for our customers.
The contribution of the growth, overall, let's say, is distributed among the different segments of our offering, and in particular is focused on the high value, let's say, services and high-value platforms that we convey to the market. If you look, Software Engineering is growing to 23%. Today is 60% of the overall business of TXT e-solutions. The important signals come from the Digital Advisory and especially from the Smart Solutions division that grow, 37% is Digital Advisory and 45% Smart Solutions division. With an increase of positioning of our solution into the market. If you look the growth on a pro forma perimeter, looking to the data we provided during the Capital Markets Day last year.
The pro forma total turnover was EUR 360, including the acquisition that we added at the end of the year. Overall, there is a growth on the pro forma basis of 10%, in line with the industrial plan. This 10% is on top of the recovery of the dismissed activity of the last year. If you look to the different segments, the Software Engineering part that did some activities of reselling is growing, but slower than the other division, as for the strategic plan. Instead, the Digital Advisory and the Smart Solutions are increases above 20% year-over-year, on the pro forma basis. This is a strong result in terms of positioning of our value proposition into the market.
Looking to EBITDA, the overall growth brings us from EUR 39 million in 2024 to the EUR 60 million of 2025 with the growth in every segment. Especially the strongest one was the Smart Solutions contribution going from 12.4-20.9, so almost EUR 21 million during the year. The smart Software Engineering part, even if it's not growing so fast in terms of top line for the strategic decisions, has had a contribution stronger in terms of EBITDA. Not growing with a flat growth, we had a 53% increment of EBITDA margin. It's a strong results in terms of efficiency of delivery and the focus of strategic programs with respect to volume-based programs that doesn't contribute so strongly in terms of margins.
The Digital Advisory is growing from EUR 7 million- EUR 9 million, 28% of growth. We continue to invest. As you know, we expand all the R&D that we, let's say, invest in, especially for the Smart Solutions part. The total spending for investment in our proprietary platform is EUR 23 million, with a growth of 56% with respect to the same, let's say, perimeter of the last year. The contribution of the Smart Solutions is coming also of the strong investment, because we want to position ahead of the competition with innovative solution, including, let's say, the latest technology to give an edge with respect also to the competition. EUR 93 million are coming from Smart Solutions business with a growth of 45%.
This investment as a return also in the short term, but for us are very important to keep stability on the business and long-term engagement with our customer base. International revenue are EUR 65 million, 16% of the total revenues. We growth a lot, especially on the domestic market for the public sector. Still, the most international business, mainly aerospace and defense, is growing faster. In terms of, let's say, also incidents by industry, looking to the contribution of the different vertical in which we are present, according to the strategic plan, we are growing in the, let's say, more, let's say, strategic domain, because we are also shifting some activities or some workforce in order to capture opportunities in this domain, especially public sector aerospace and defense are recording a very strong growth.
17% for the aerospace, 22% for the public sector. Today, let's say the incidents in 2025 pro forma of these two vertical is almost half of the business of the overall TXT Group. In terms of, let's say, the other domain, everybody is growing. Also MarTech, that is the new one, also under pressure, we recorded a very good 10% growth year- by- year by keeping the same incidents in the industry in our, let's say, portfolio. Keeping the incidents is also the Fintech domain with a growth of 7%. Fintech is growing, let's say, a little bit slower because we did lot of investment, and the first results has been captured in the last quarter.
Still, there is a good, let's say, forecast for the next few years in order to continue to grow faster. The industrial with new investment, especially in IoT business, is growing faster also than the expectation with a +13%. In terms of, let's say, stability is the telco business that is recorded, reported -12%. Because this business was considering including the one-off activities that we decided not to push again, and excluding these activities flat with respect to the last year. The incidents is reducing to the total turnover of the group. Let's say the growth are also in line with the strategic goals we put in our industrial plan.
We are very proud to continue in line with our strategy and to make grow the more demanding and more strategic industries in which we can have a further positioning and a stronger positioning also for the next few years. Looking a little bit to the, let's say, overall business that we are addressing, also the guidance that we gave during the industrial plans is confirmed. So specifically for the next year, this year, so 2026, we are giving a guidance internally to our management to reach an EBITDA more than EUR 65 million for the 2026. That is, let's say, quite reachable because the backlog and the activities that are already ongoing over all the industry we are covering
in line with the industrial plan, so almost 10%. That means EUR 40 million more with respect to the total turnover of this year. We are continuing in our M&A plan. 2025 was a little bit slow down in terms of new acquisitions. We did an important strategic acquisition in North America at the end of the year. We moved our team dedicated to M&A in order to capture opportunity that will be closed during Q1 and Q2 of 2026. We expect to consolidate from the pipeline of M&A that we have in our portfolio, at least EUR 6 million in 2026
The targets that we are looking for as a contribution of EBITDA margin around 12% and 15%. There will be, let's say, a little change maybe in the mix of activities with respect to the results of 2025. Still, we are targeting to overcome to go farther than the EUR 70 million total EBITDA value for 2026. Still ambitious targets for us. We know that there is, let's say, uncertainty about the business. I will give you some, let's say, ideas and some, let's say, flavor of the business that we are doing in order to meet this ambitious goal.
In terms of business evolution and mid long-term vision, I want to spend a few minutes speaking about, let's say, the AI wave that had an impact strongly on the capital markets, especially on the technology valuation that was corrected by, let's say, the new news coming from evolution of AI technology, especially, as you know, let's say, most of the stock price of the companies working into IT, especially the Software-as-a-Service business mainly, were, let's say, impacted in the last month, according to the new reports and, let's say, the scenario that is opening about AI.
Of course, the first to be addressed were company with a strong position as a software vendor for Software-as-a-Service solution that mainly are, the main concerns are related to the companies selling software to enterprises, to IT, especially the ones with CRM, ERP, or software solution related to enterprise functions that will be impacted by new agents, AI-based, that will probably substitute this kind of business. For sure, as an impact of the business model. The way this company will grow and will continue to deliver their own solutions to the market. Not only the software vendor were impacted, but also the service vendor related to this kind of business.
Also the reports open up new scenarios, also broader, in which, let's say, the risk is not related only on software companies, but is related to the overall service sector. Let's say, one of the scenarios is that this kind of software can substitute white collars in general. The impact, of course, will be possible disruption, not only to the software vendor market, but to the overall market, because number of layoffs are coming probably in order to reduce costs of big company and to meet also the expectation of, let's say, some companies that has to report margins.
People substituted by technology can open up a spiral in which more people will be out from the previous job they had, more technology will be added, and in this case, there will be a problem overall for the major economies that also business is main based on services. You know, this wave of changes in the stock exchange comes from a situation that was known also before. If you remember, probably, the CEO of Microsoft already announced in later 2024, so 1 year before the market, in terms of capital market, has this impact that the Software-as-a-Service business has Need to be changed because this change in technology related to agents and tech giants are already moving since a while.
It's not something that they discover today, but is years that they are looking for new business models and new activities in order to capture the new opportunities and to evolve according to the market scenario that is changing. Of course, high uncertainty remains especially regarding the AI because, you know, there is a potential to substitute some roles, but the main uncertainty is related to the window of timing of this kind of change because there are many barriers beside the technology. The technology is running very fast, but there are many barrier that are related to regulation, organizational transition times because, you know, adding new technology to big organization takes times.
Of course, there is, let's say a barrier related to the risk management because changing business model from people to technology, from outsourcing to in-house activities is something that takes times and takes also strong decisions in terms of risk management. There are some barriers that will slow down, let's say, the very fast technology changes that are coming. We move in high uncertainty. What is doing TXT as a group in this phase, of course? Like the big players, we are already moving in order to adapt and focus ourself to a possible change of scenario. The main point that I want to highlight is that TXT is moving, and the strategy is focused to be... to have a presence in highly regulated and complex markets.
As I said before, let's say half of the business is related to aerospace and defense and public sector, where we, in both, let's say, segments, we are involved in very complex and critical projects, of which, let's say, of course, this presence is a sort of de-risking in terms of business continuity because these kind of markets are highly regulated. There is still value for the knowledge, not only for the technology itself, and there's a long cycles in terms of change management. Our, let's say, role in this area is strong today. We want to maintain this position and to capture opportunity in order to continue to grow. Result of 2025 goes in these directions. These two segment growth more than more or less 20%.
Our focus is particular because we are a provider of proprietary technologies and service-based, knowledge-based activities to customer. Our focus is in the mission-critical and business-critical solution. We work for the core business of the main customers. We are, let's say, it's a very small part that is involved. We are not a company that is working IT for IT. We speak to the business, we do IT for business, and we contribute in the creation of the main products of our customer that are all large enterprises. Our business model has always been, since many years, focused not on ad counts, not providing people, but providing the complex solution. We want to continue on this path.
It's already bringing results. We think that is a strong value in order to continue and to get also an edge with respect to the competition. We worked a lot in the last few years to diversify and to have a distinctive offering with respect to the market. In particular, we are engaged since many year in providing vertical solutions, so our software should be seen not like, let's say, a commodity in some way, but very specific and specialist software dedicated to the business of the customer. Our AI native and AI-enhanced platform Smart Solutions is one of the, let's say, main focus of our strategy.
We are expanding also, let's say, this kind of portfolio solution, having, let's say, the possibility to offer end-to-end solution to the customer, including also hardware in some cases, that is specialized hardware. In particular, the initiative that is making grow also our industrial positioning and also is focused on critical infrastructures, monitoring and prediction, in which we combine, let's say, proprietary hardware, so Smart Sensors with the intelligent software inside and digital platforms in order to collect, elaborate, and predict also data in order to provide value to customer itself. Also the investment we are doing for the Fintech division goes in this direction in which we provide a end-to-end solution made by hardware plus software.
We open up a joint venture with an hardware vendor in order to serve the market within one stop shop, one solution that includes hardware devices plus software devices. This positioning of value with the proprietary vertical, a high value intelligent solution, including AI agents inside, we think that is a leverage that we can use in order to keep our position on the market and continue to grow. Overall, let's say, there are risk, there is uncertainty. Of course, we are moving in terms of management team in order to capture the opportunities. So far in the last five years, we demonstrated to be able to adapt the offering and focus on very critical and strategic environment in order to continue to create value.
Of course, what we have done is not a guarantee that we will continue to do, but for sure, we have a team of people very focused on the market needs. We will continue not to serve commodities, but to continue to serve and provide value to customers. We see also this AI wave to have benefits in the short term because it's an instrument for us to improve margins and of course to offer more to customer with a strong solution. Our relationship with customer is a partnership relationship. TXT is seen as an enabler also of the new technology inside the change management process of customer itself.
We are, let's say, we are aware of the uncertainty, but we are very committed in order to leverage on these changes to capture market shares and grow our market positioning. For this reason, we confirm the guidance of 2025, 2027 industrial plan. We see after this plan also the possibility that TXT can be a major player for the future in the changes that will come. Looking to the different offering, in particular the Smart Solutions. For starts, I want to highlight that we are presence with this kind of solution in the aerospace and defense plan landscape. Of course, these solutions are complex one, including AI algorithm.
Let's say they contributed a lot in the growth in 2025, and we will continue for the next few years for the industrial plan. I want to highlight that we signed in the last 2 months, so after the 2025 results, two contracts with the two major U.S. airlines for our solution of, let's say, intelligent solution for sustainability of flights. This kind of business has been signed in Q1 and will generate an Annual Recurring Revenue above $10 million per year. That will be full ARR rate in 2027 because this project takes times in order to be integrated in all the fleet of the customer. We will grow up.
Some contribution will come this year, but is a long-term, very valuable, let's say, positioning that we obtain thanks to the vision of our management team in this field and the investment we did in these intelligent platforms that are part of the core business of the major airlines. Beside that, so we have long, let's say pipeline of activity, especially for the defense domain in which our technology will be part of the major programs that are under development. We provide the technology for training, for advanced advanced avionics systems. This positioning is a long-term positioning that make us confident to have, let's say, the risk, a very strong value proposition that can help us to navigate these uncertain times.
Industrial IoT is also growing, investment were made in 2025, developing an enhancing a proprietary platform for data collection and data analysis. We still plan to invest. We had a contribution of this part, more or less EUR 2.5 million in 2025 Q4, with the new long-term and strong project for public sector domain in which we provide our platform, with a contribution also not only from software part but from hardware. Because, as you know, we have a company in Germany developing Smart Sensor that has an integrated offering with the respect to the software part. We are an end-to-end provider of a full solution in order to do monitoring of complex infrastructure.
We have already signed and we have in contracts to cover EUR 50 million for 2026. Of course, these are already signed and will be delivered in 2026, but the pipeline is strong, and so we think that this part will be a strong contribution to the overall results of the group. Of course, this kind of business has a part that is related to Smart Solutions, so to our proprietary software platform and hardware, but there is a strong also service business around this solution.
In terms of accounting of this revenues, 20% will be in Smart Solutions, the rest will be in Software Engineering. Fintech and MarTech also are giving good contribution thanks to the strategy to increase the international positioning of this kind of business, especially related to hardware and software solution for digital payments for the Fintech part and for the MarTech to export our, let's say, intelligent platforms towards other countries. First contribution comes in 2025 Q4, overall is EUR 2 million of new business coming from these initiatives, + EUR 1 million coming from the MarTech division, EUR 3 million overall.
It's a line of growth that we expect to give strong contribution and mitigate maybe risk on other industry that we have in order to continue to grow according to the goals we set for 2026. In terms of positioning for the Digital Advisory, let's say 70% of the business of our Digital Advisory is related to complex and critical programs related to the public sector, in which there is, let's say, national sovereignty. There is a strong, let's say, demand of adopting new technologies, including also AI, there are also many regulations and many, let's say, impact related to the adoption of new technologies that, let's say, are addressed by our offering, especially related to AI adoption, AI Act and so on.
The residual backlog of this division is still strong. We participated to different, let's say, new bids in the first part of the year that are under assignment from the public sector domain in Italy. We have still a backlog exceeding EUR 100 million for 2026 and 2027 and more. We are positioned in order to continue on this backbone that is, let's say, another risk in our overall offering because, let's say it's a long-term engagement into complex projects and our focus is also to be present on high value, let's say, programs in terms of critical offering and let's say complexity.
We are not looking for volumes in terms of let's say one-off volumes of activities, but on activities that has a long span across years for the new digital infrastructure of the overall public sector in Italy. This is another part that we want to continue to grow. Also this Digital Advisory capability for the remaining 30% is under focus in order to make it grow. We are addressing also an increasingly same market share in other domain like the banking and finance one, the industrial, especially for critical infrastructure, in terms of monitoring and analyzing data for let's say improving critical infrastructure.
We are also looking for new segments like the energy utilities in which we have still a small footprint, but is strategic for us to make grow during the future years. Software Engineering, that is 60% of the total business of the group. I want to focus that our Software Engineering activities are mainly project based, and the projects are critical and complex, mission critical, business critical projects for our customer base. This the presence of in the defense domain, especially with the primary, let's say, Italian player, but also across Europe and North America, position ourself in a, in a strong, let's say, perimeter and also resilient perimeter because investments are still strong. We had a contribution also during 2025, and we plan to continue to grow in the next few years.
Main player investing, so they are launching new programs and our, let's say, ability to provide high technology and a strong knowledge of the domain, allow ourself to have a strong competitive edge with respect to the competition. We have, let's say, already delivered across the last few years, several very important software solution for these customers. We are planning together with them in a partnership, let's say engagement, to support this growth by bringing talents and by bringing solutions that accelerate and bring value to the products that we used during the defense. As you know, main players are growing in this field, and we are, let's say, recognized as a strong partner in order to support their own growth.
Of course, Software Engineering is a part that is strong also with acquisition of Webgenesys for the public sector that contributed a lot in terms of overall reported growth in 2025. We have still a backlog also in this case for Software Engineering services in the public sector below EUR 100 million to be done in the next 3 to 5 years. We are bidding for critical let's say programs for public digital transformation that will represent a key driver for us for growth.
I want to remember you that, considering the overall Software Engineering business, almost 50% are coming from these strategic industries, so from the aerospace and defense and from the public sector. This mix of, let's say, new initiatives, a diversified offering, and positioning in very strong, growing markets allow us to be confident, nevertheless, the uncertainty of the period. Thank you very much for, let's say, listening to these highlights that we put. Now I call Andrea in order to look to the Q&A session in order to go deeper with some more detailed information for you. Andrea?
Thank you, Daniele. Yes, we collected a couple of questions during the call. I will start with the in chronological order, let's say. First came from Tommaso Nieddu from Kepler. The question which has just been published is the following, "With the full year 2025 EBITDA margin already at 15.2%, how should we interpret the 15% 2027 target? Is there room for further upsides? Can you give us more color on the initiatives that was going to ramp up in Q4, like payment and orders?" There is another question linked to the same question, which is related to airline contracts, asking if those contracts are already included in the guidance for 2026. If you want, Daniele, I can start commenting on some parts of it.
Yes. I don't remember everything that you said, but I can-
Basically that the margins.
Okay
in 2025 were already at 15.2%. how we should.
Yes, as you know, the industrial plan was to reach the 15% overall margin by the end of the plan. Because the mix of the activity and the strong results, especially for the Smart Solutions, we reached the 15% already in the first year of the plan, so in 2025. Of course, in our plan, there are investments to be made. We will continue to do them. There was a stronger also than expected Q4 that, let's say, enabled us to reach this kind of margins. We expect, let's say, we keep the 15% at the end of the 2027, let's say, period. Of course, 2026 is a little bit uncertain also for all the changes that are coming.
We want to continue to invest. We don't want to stop our investment in terms of R&D, also on our commercial activities. We think that probably we will have some slowdown also in the percentage margins. As I said, the guidance was to reach EUR 65 million, and add also other millions of EBITDA coming from the M&A. The turnover is 10%. Our plan is a little bit lower in terms of EBITDA margin in 2026. Nevertheless, of course, if we capture good opportunities, we can keep the same margins as this year.
In terms of initiatives that was going to ramp up in Q4, I already explained something during the call, but, giving also some numbers, Fintech and MarTech international, let's say, exposure bring EUR 3 million overall the or EUR 2 million-EUR 3 million turnover overall the results of the year. We plan to have a contribution also stronger in 2026. I think that, let's say, all the numbers that we are planning includes also contracts that has been signed because, of course, in order to close the two contracts I announced before, we are working since two years, probably, in terms of sales cycle. It was already part of the planning. As always, we plan and we communicate, let's say, reachable results.
As I said during the Capital Markets Days, we want to plan good results and do better. It's complex because the situation is changing. Still we have a confidence that we can reach and also surpass the guidance that we are giving.
Daniele, I think if you can add also there were the initiative in the industrial field, which you commented before around Autostrade. Yes, the two contracts, let's say, in the guidance for 2026, I would say partially included. Of course, as we specified in the presentation, the real ramp up is expected in 2027 after the investment to make operational this complex system in a complex environment like aerospace and airlines in this specific case. I will move forward with the second question. It's a bit long, Daniele. It's coming from Andrea Randone from Intermonte. The first one, the first, let's say, sub-question, I think we already answered, and also Andrea specified that.
Can you help us in reaching a better understanding of how you reach this strong performance? Have you signed important contracts, Smart Solutions segments? I think here we already provide some color.
Yes, I gave already flavor during the call, so during the presentation. Of course, the contribution from Smart Solutions is stronger, so coming from the new initiative, but also from, let's say the regular ones. In particular, we recorded also a very good performance related to training software for pilots, both civilian and military ones, because there is a strong demand of technology in terms of improvement and efficiency of training processes. Training processes is a process that is core business for the main customer that are operating aircraft or flying objects in general. Of course, there is a strong demand because there is needs, structural needs of more pilots in general because there is a change of pilots and a need of a number of pilots that is increasing.
Technology is seen as a very strong point in order to improve the capability of our customers. Of course, this kind of market is also a market that is highly regulated. In order to train a pilot, you have to follow rules. The adoption of the technology is in some way linked to the improvement of regulation. Having an offering in this field, since many years position ourself in a strong way because we know the rules, we know the customer needs, and our solution are tailored in order to meet these constraints. This was a very strong contribution. For the other domains, there was a growth overall of the positioning of our Smart Solutions.
We think that this, kind of, positioning allow ourselves to continue in this direction also for the next year.
Thank you, Daniele. I will now read the second part. The second sub-question is, are you already able to provide us with a comment on a possible dividend payout on this year results?
Let's say, as said by Andrea, this part is more related to turnover and EBITDA. In terms of dividend, what I can say is not yet been, let's say, approved and will be discussed on 12th in our, let's say, full result approval with the board of directors. As an history, we have an history to give, let's say, more or less in the last few years, we provided a percentage to the overall net profit. It's reasonable to continue on this, let's say, path. Of course, the only year we didn't provide, let's say, dividends was related to the COVID crisis. We are under uncertainty, but we think that we can continue like we did in the past.
Thank you, Daniele. You said that there are new M&A deals likely to be signed in first half of 2026. Are paying multiples that reflect in some way the recent derating of the sector?
In general, if you are following us since few years, we always pay less than what is expected to be paid in our, let's say, domain. Because our capability to engage entrepreneur in a bigger project, that was a strong point of our M&A campaign. The results that are coming today are due to our ability to find, let's say, motivation in an entrepreneur selling the company to join, let's say, a bigger project of our listed company. We will continue with that. I don't think to expect a lower multiple with respect to our historical results. We are speaking about acquiring company with a multiple or of 5x- 6x EBITDA.
Okay. Thank you, Daniele. Can you comment on net debt at year-end 2025? What do you expect will be the leverage at year-end 2026?
As I said before, we will speak detailed this topic on after the approval of full result on 13 call. What I can say is that also, let's say, our expectation since the Q4 was very strong in terms of EBITDA, so EUR 19 million EBITDA in Q4. Also, the cash generation was positive in terms of percentage and in terms also of volume. We are improving, let's say, the overall Net Financial Position. We are confident to bring good results also to the market on the call of 13. At the end of 2026, we, let's say, are planning according to the industrial plan guidance. Our guidance gave a maximum of debt with respect to EBITDA, not over 2.5, I think-
Yes
... 2.5x . We are more than confident to keep the level across the overall plan.
Thank you, Daniele. I think we have another question from Andrea Bonfà from Banca Akros. Actually two questions. I will start with the first one. Can you please elaborate a bit more on the 2026 expected pro forma EBITDA? If I understand correctly, you start from a EUR 65 million pro forma basis, but you mentioned over EUR 6 million from EBITDA this year. Starting from a reported EUR 60 million+ at least 6 million from M&A, you should start from at least EUR 66 million- EUR 67 million. I think there was a bit of a misunderstanding in the sense that the EUR 65 million are like-for-like on the 2025 perimeter. We expect to grow from EUR 60 million- EUR 65 million, let's say with the same perimeter, and to add additional.
It's more than EUR 65 million, let's say, on the same perimeter of 2025, and adding at least EUR 5 million to that coming from the EBITDA. To exceed EUR 70 million at the year-end of EBITDA, including both, let's say, the organic path, that we expect to be at least EUR 65 million, and a contribution from M&A. If you want to add something, Daniele, but I think it was.
No, no, it's okay.
Another from Andrea Bonfà from Banca Akros. More on the M&A EBITDA, the EUR 6 million, how much is carried over from 2025? It's a very small part. Maybe I can spend few words myself, Daniele, in the sense that from 2025, not consolidated, it's just a quarter of a small company, IT Values. It's not very relevant in terms of, let's say, inorganic M&A 2025 that will be consolidated into the EBITDA 2026. When we speak about the EUR 65 million, we can easily compare it with the EUR 60 million reported EBITDA for 2025.
Any other question, Andrea?
Not for now, but I think maybe there will come up more during the.
Okay
... presentation in, two weeks
Okay. We will meet. Thank you very much for our, let's say, for attending this conference. I hope I gave you some more flavor about the actions that we are implementing, the investment we are doing, and the vision that we have for the horizon of the industrial plan. We are more than aware that we live in uncertain period. We have a strong team, a very good offering, strong positioning in solid market segments. We are confident to keep, let's say, the expectation about the market itself, and especially of the customer that needs our support as a partner in order to deliver and have new solutions and new value proposition, powered by technology that we can support in providing.
Thank you very much for attending. We will meet again in two weeks, so with the full disclosure of the financials, including debt, including dividends and so on. Thank you very much for listening and we will work very strongly in order to meet the goals that we are setting. Thank you very much.
Thank you, everyone.