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Earnings Call: Q1 2019
May 8, 2019
Welcome everybody to today's conference call on Q1 Numbers 2019. Thank you very much for joining us early. As we have our AGM today, we are glad to have a small or short presentation now and afterwards, we will answer your questions. We have we will start with Tom Blades and Kristina Johansson with the presentation, and then the line is open for you. Thank you very much.
Thank you, Bettina. Also for myself, good morning. As you can read on the headline on aggregate, a solid start. Most units performing well. We have 1 or 2 that need improving, but we'll go into that as we go through the details.
Headline numbers, stable demand in our markets. Our book to bill roughly at 1%. We're quite happy with that. Adjusted EBITDA improved. We had a good performance in what we now call E and M, Engineering and Maintenance.
In Technologies or T, the losses were mainly almost entirely due to one single underperforming entity. Net profit reported was positive. That was, of course, helped by the fact that we were able to sell back to after the owner the vendor claim note. And we also had a settlement in discontinued operations. Negative operating cash, I think not a surprise.
It was anticipated, the swing back from the year end push and an increase in DSO compared to Q4 at the end of last year. And I think with that, you see that we're quite confident in being able to reaffirm our 2019 outlook. A few words on the markets. We're asked a lot of questions. Do we see signs of uncertainty or weakening?
I think in the markets where we are present, certainly where we have our largest revenue base, these are still late cycle markets, they're strong markets, and we don't see any weakening as I think you can evidence from our order intake. So the North Sea, the customers there have strong cash flows. You saw the reporting of Equinor last week and others beating expectations, especially around cash flow. And of course, that cash goes into strengthening the balance sheet. It goes into strengthening the catch up of engineering maintenance.
And we're also seeing now, especially in the North Sea, plans to extend asset life. All of those things are good for us. We see greenfield projects. So I think you've been aware of them. You've read the announcements in Antwerp and in Belgium, both INEOS and Borealis looking at significant investments there.
Classic refinery expansions in the UK with Exxon and Forli in Germany with Total and Leuna and now also BP in Gelsenberg. So these are, again, good for us and good for our maintenance but also our construction business. Chemical parts, we note a general trend to go towards unit rate contracts. Unit rate contracts means that the efficiencies that we build into our operations are actually monetized. That's a lot better than, let's say, turnkey or hourly rates.
We like these unit contracts, And the trend, as I said, is moving in our direction. We also note that within this chemical part, there's a lot of push towards distributed power generation or autonomous power generation. I think that's a reflection on the cost of power in Germany, in particular, And a lot of these parks are looking at having their own power generation facilities. A mix typically of gas and also renewables, but they are trying to get off
the grid, so to speak.
The grid itself, the move towards gas is quite apparent, and I think the activity you see around gas pipelines, around LNG regas and anything around gas, that is a trend we're seeing as well and one that we think will continue for quite a while. Very pleased to see that our aluminum smelting customers, principally in Scandinavia, are doing well. They report good demand for aluminum, in particular, out of China. On the downside, a couple of our customers are into fertilizer production, and those are having difficulties. I'm not going to name the names, but I think also there you see the trends, which is interesting, which I'll come to the flip side in a sec when we talk to North America.
But as far as Europe is concerned, that is an industry that is currently under a little bit of pressure. Cement, also in the pressure, but pressure that's good for us because they are focusing very much on reducing emissions, in particular CO2, but also NOx and SOx, which is where our scrubber technology is used. And we are in conversations with a couple of the leading cement manufacturers around efficiency, driven predominantly by digitalization. So again, playing into our direction. Finally, I think biopharma continues very strong.
It has been doing so over the last 3 years ever since I've been around, that's for sure. And we're seeing no abatement in demand. That's a good business, and it's a business we serve from Europe but into the rest of the world. Turning the page. As I mentioned, the U.
S, also good activity. We're seeing good pickup in shale basin activity in the Permian, the Marcellus, the Utica and the Bakken. And that shale gas currently at $2.70 per 1,000,000 BTU, that's a low price. It's continuing to, I think, confirm the investment decisions that have been made. So downstream, we're seeing crackers.
We're also seeing projects towards ammonium fertilizers. And for us, it's also good because we're active in the midstream business, that's the cryo business, where we split out the wet phase and the dry phase in the gas. Again, that's good for our business. What we do see slowing down is polyolefins, and I think that's mainly because the markets is well not saturated. It is meeting the capacity demand.
As you'll see later, both North America and Middle East form our, let's say, growing regions. And we have good developments not only in North America but also in the Middle East. We're seeing the continued focus, I've mentioned it before, of the national oil companies, the NOC, on trying to capture the downstream value. So investing into refineries and into chemicals, kind of emulating what Saudi had done in Jabal. That is now being planned in Abu Dhabi, which is concurrent with announcements we've seen from ADNOC.
What we also see that does affect our business is in country value or ICV, and this is a general push towards indigenization, trying to further local content. And it's quite interesting because in Saudi Arabia and in the Emirates, in a tender, an open tender, you may have the lowest price. But if someone else has a higher ICV, a higher in country value, then they are given the option to take your price and win the contract. So we can build a capital IT position. We're very well positioned.
And although it's been tough, we think we're now in line to profit from that. The energy shift that I mentioned, Europe from coal to gas in the Middle East, there's a shift from oil to gas And even contributed to the rich in gas sorry, rich in oil, for example, Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi are looking at increasing their gas position. That will come mainly from trying to monetize difficult gas, that's gas with high sulfur content or high CO2 content. Finally, I think it's worthwhile noting that overall, the demand for power in the GCC, but also in Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, the Emirates, also Oman. In the last couple of years, that's been growing quite voraciously, and that is now plateauing.
So I think that summarizes where we see the markets. You take headlines for me. And then I would pass it to Christina to walk you through the details.
Thank you, Tom. Good morning, and welcome also from my side, Kristina Johansson, CFO of the FME Group. The Q1 in regard of the financials, sending to some extent a bit of a mixed picture. But I think overall, we have to say that we are very positive when it comes to the start of the year. Starting off with the orders received compared with the Q1 last year, we were organically 9% lower on the order intake.
I personally have to say I'm not concerned given the very, very solid order backlog that we took with us out of 2018 and also the fact that the orders, if I compare the 2 quarters last year and this year that we have less of would be the larger orders. And we know that this has got, to some extent, also a phasing issue for 1 quarter to another. So we have a reduction of organically of 9% that we are not concerned here. We see that we will continue to pick up here as we proceed this year. So in the book to bill, still at 1% and our order backlog in total being 2% above prior year's Q1.
So a very solid situation going forward into 2019. If we then proceed to the sales numbers, the revenue, here we have also a consequence of starting the year with a strong backlog. We have an increase organically of 11% in the Q1 versus the year before, so a very good start. And we have adjusted EBITDA, which is a loss of €4,000,000 and I will come back to that. The reported EBITDA being a loss of €3,000,000 Special items also listed in the presentation, we have a net effect of positive €1,000,000 So on one hand side, we have €7,000,000 coming out of the disposal of some of our entities.
And then we have a further EUR 6,000,000 spent on the implementation of IT systems. So net effect EUR 1,000,000. Looking at the EBITDA, we clearly have to say, and we will come back to that, that we have on the E and M side, the largest part of our business, we have a clear step forward, further improvements on the profitability. And the negative side is coming clearly from the segment T Technologies. And in this technology, we have one single entity that caused us quite a lot of downside in the Q1.
I will come back to that as we go through technology. So the issue is isolated to 1 single entity. If we then please proceed to the page on gross profit and SG and A. On the gross profit side, we see here that the Q1 last year, we had a ratio of 8.4%. The Q1 this year, we are at 8.1%.
So no step forward here. However, if I take out the effect coming from this single entity, we would have some progress here and the number would be 8.7% in the Q1. So it is coming back to 1 single entity and the issues around that. This area, the improvements on the gross profit continue to be very strongly in the focus. As we have communicated, this is an area where we want to see most of the improvement to bring us up to the sustainable 5% EBITDA adjusted as communicated for our strategy.
On the SG and A side, we computed the Q1 or closed the Q1 with a ratio of 8.8%. This is not a step forward. However, it is in line with our expectation. We have here already during the last 2 years made substantial gains and we will continue in this area to drive it. The target is to bring the 8.8 until the end of 2020 down to 7.5%.
We are presently on a run rate of around €89,000,000 €90,000,000 for a quarter, which is, as I said, presently in accordance with our plan. Then proceeding to our segments. We first of all have the segment technologies that caused the negative side on our results in 2019 Q1. So orders received also here lower than what we had in the Q1 last year. However, no concern as it would be the larger projects that we're missing and we still have a very solid pipeline and expect that we will catch up on this later on this year.
Book to bill, almost at 1. The revenue increasing organically with as much as 14%, so very solid. We see here especially the area of scrubber moving forward and generating revenue. On the margin side, you see that we generated a loss of $10,000,000 to be compared with a loss of $5,000,000 last year in the Q3. And I can only say that with the exception of 1 entity, all technologies entity are improving.
They are either in line with the budget or even slightly above the budget. So it's one single entity that has caused problems here, partly related to organizational issues, partly related to project adjustments and we have a lot of action plans in place to try to recover. However, it will have implications as we come to the guidance for the year. The size of the issues in this entity, the technology segment itself will not be able to compensate in full, but the group will be able to do so. So the guidance for the group will remain the same, but technologies we will need to adjust down due to these issues.
So a
lot of work going on, on trying to mitigate what is happening in this legal entity. And then of course, also try to make the best out of these projects that are now in the spotlight. Proceeding then to E and M, Engineering and Maintenance Europe, very positive development during the Q1. We see an organic growth in sales of 4%, and we see also an improvement in the adjusted EBITDA moving from 1.5% in the Q1, which is always the weakest quarter for us, to 1.6% this year in the Q1. Here also a bit of a slow start on the orders received, but no concerns as we had a very, very strong order intake in the Q1 here last year and the pipeline is very solid.
So it's just a matter of time this year, we will also see the order intake improving. Then we have E and M International, including our North American business as well as Middle East. Very good quarter with growth both on the order intake side and also on the revenue, probably the biggest highlight in the Q1. So organically, a growth in orders received 35% and revenue organically grown with 20%. We see also here an improvement in the EBITDA adjusted margin from 2% last year to 2.1% this year.
Looking very promising for this year and a very good start, as I mentioned. So closing with €5,000,000 EBITDA adjusted versus €3,000,000 last year. Then coming to the cash generation. Clearly, a large disappointment for the Q1. We have to keep in mind that the last quarter in 2018, we had a strong improvement in the last quarter on the working capital side.
And in regard of the accounts payables, of course, holding back some of them in the last quarter, We now in the Q1 needed to settle them. So you clearly see that we have less accounts payable days versus what we had in December 2018, but we also have a lower number with 69 days than we had in the Q1 last year. In addition to that, on the DSO and here, especially on the work in progress side, we were not able to conclude on some of these work in progress, turn it into accounts receivable and getting paid in the Q1. Also here a lot of actions going on. And but we have to clearly say that the working capital in the Q1 was not achieving what we wanted and therefore the cash flow was also substantially lower than what we had expected and what we had targeted.
So when you look at the numbers, we have here an adjusted cash flow of minus €70,000,000 versus minus €45,000,000 in the Q1 last year. And we also disclosed that due to the changes in IFRS 16, we had on the 2019 numbers, we had a positive effect here of +12. So the situation is the difference between the Q1 last year and this year is even slightly higher. I can only stress that this area gets a lot of attention and focus right now. And we also expect that we will obviously, during this year, quarter by quarter, improve these numbers.
Positive is the catch up on the net profit. Last quarter Q1 last year was a loss of €24,000,000 and we are now moving that up in the first quarter to plus €9,000,000 So that's a highlight. That would be my presentation on the financial side. And then I would like to give the word back to Tom in regard of the guidance.
Thank you, Christina. I think you heard the details. Looking at technologies, that certainly will impact the upper end of our profit expectations. But we were careful with our prognosis. That's why we said significant increase to more than $100,000,000 We'll make that.
We're able to cover those shortfalls in other parts of the operation. So I think that's again an attest to our stability, let's say, we're a lot more robust than we were maybe 2 years ago. The revenue, mid single digit organic growth, I think you see that we're delivering that in Q1. We expect to continue to deliver along those lines throughout the year. And then finally, you recall that last year in 2018, our adjusted cash flow was positive.
The free cash flow was negative, I mean, slightly by $4,000,000 And we still, despite the, let's say, expected setback in Q1, we should expect to be reported positive on a free cash flow for the year. So I think with that, I would flip the page to our 3 phase strategy. It's been tempting to add a couple of, let's say, light green check marks. We haven't done that. So as we go forward, we're looking at growth in new areas.
We're looking at net profit breakeven, not on the back of one offs as we did in Q1, but consistently. And of course, you're aware that we're looking at refinancing. So those are the 3 check marks we're targeting as we go forward. I think Q2, Q3, we'll see a couple of those. And of course, the strategy remains intact, and I think you see that in the top line performance.
We will continue to drive that through to the bottom line. So with that, I would then hand back to Bettina, and I think we're ready to take your questions.
Yes. Thank you very much, Tom. And we'll start now the Q and A session.
We would now be happy to take any questions you may have. First question comes in from Norbert Creslop with Bank.
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Questions on the Technologies business, if I may. And maybe the most obvious first, this entity, which is underperforming, can you maybe give us some more details regarding what is the sales dimension we are talking about? If I interpret the comments regarding the gross margin effect, right, then the incremental loss in Q1 should have been around €6,000,000 that is roughly 60 basis points for the group. Can you confirm that?
How should we think about this dimension of loss contribution going forward in the next quarters? And what are the actions being taken in detail? And also regarding Technologies, I understand that still there are some over capacities in Piping. Maybe can you give us an update of what's going on here with regards to order intake expected for larger projects?
Okay. Mr. Whitlow, thank you for your questions. Not entirely unanticipated, I would say. I think when we presented our, let's say, modified 246 in February, one of the things we tried to ensure was better transparency on our numbers, on our operation.
And of course, in doing so,
And I think what it shows you
is that within T where we And I think what it shows you is that within T where we actually have 5 entities, We're not a V8 cylinder engine, but we're a 5 cylinder engine. And when one of those is limping, then of course, you see it immediately. And that's really, I think, what we have here. The dimensions you mentioned, the 0.6% margin uptake, so yes, that's in the range. And going forward, I think it's important to, let's say, share a few more details.
So it's not a top line issue. So in that entity, we have seen good growth over the last years. We have a good order book and we actually had good revenue development. Where the the issues lie is in execution, to be honest. And as we go deeper in, as we implement SAP and get into the numbers, we see that the cost to complete exceeds expectations.
And that forward looking basis is what has caused us to make provisions and to report within that entity the loss. As we progress through the year, we are of course all hands on deck. Our COO, Duncan Hall, who we met in February is spending a lot of time in that entity and with the management. We have got some of the headquarters people reassigned to work with the team. So right now, it's a question of making sure we go through all the projects, multiple projects, it's not a single project, but multiple projects that we do revise our costs complete and that we then get it under control.
Now once that has happened, there is a second phase and that is the claim phase. So it's not just recording higher costs than expected, but understanding why. And where these costs arise out of customer requests to make changes, there, of course, we have a good case to go and claim. And we need to front up those cases and then go make those claims. But we've not taken that claim into effect into Q1.
It is something we will pursue as we go through the year. So we think we know what's not working, we know what's working, and we think we have the right people on board to fix the situation. So I think that's why on our total year outlook, we're confident, and we're confident we'll get this entity in line again as we've done with others. So your second question on Piping, we don't see a lot of overcapacity. We've done a lot of downward adjustment over the last 3 years, to be honest, in our own capacities.
We overadjusted down intentionally so that when it picks up that we will be able to then add people and ramp up quite quickly. Why am I confident in it picking up piping? This is the MSSS, the nuclear services steam cycle order that we're expecting for Hinkley Point. That is still on the cards. We've got 1 or 2 smaller projects in Hinkley Point.
We're entrenched, embedded at the site with our customer, with EDF. And therefore, we think that we are correctly positioned for the capacity and for the expectations going forward in Piping.
That's good to know. Maybe as a follow-up regarding the losses in this one entity. So is it correct to understand you in a way to expect loss contributions to go down in the coming quarters alone from the fact that provisions taken in Q1 should rather, say, offer a material part of the losses that we see?
The calculation you made, we think it'll continue into Q2. It'll be a smaller number. And if we can get the entity towards breakeven on a single quarter, it would be Q4, it wouldn't be before that.
Great. Thanks.
Next question comes from Vincent Reutal, Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Good morning. Thank you for taking my question. Could you please update us a little bit on your refinancing strategy? I believe there is still a €500,000,000 bond due in December, and I believe you have issued a promissory note for about €100,000,000 So what is your preference right now in terms of perhaps some new bond issuance versus bond financing? And when would you expect to have the refinancing fully completed?
Yes, happy to do that. We are still in the process of the refinancing. So you're absolutely right. The promissory note, we have now around EUR 1,000,000 or EUR 1,000,000 already received. We then have also, as we stated, we have the vendor claim note that we agreed with EQT that they would pay back.
So we have received also in regard of the funding, in regard of the funding, that amount, which was EUR 128,000,000 that's just been set. And we are then working on the promissory note 2, as we call it internally. So further financing and also considering if we would go beyond the EUR 300,000,000 in total that we had defined as a need. I'm saying EUR 300,000,000 is what we need to be able to repay the bond, the €500,000,000 bond in December. We then collect beyond the SEK 300,000,000 I think we are open for that depending on the market.
So we are close to being at the SEK 300,000,000 that we need we are still considering to go buy on that going forward, to also be prepared for a mid term perspective for the next coming years. But €300,000,000 is the need. And I would say around €230,000,000 of that has already been settled. The rest we are working on. And then we are also internally deciding if we also proceed with the bonding exercise.
Timing of the closing, the target would be that we would have it all solved until the mid of the year.
So just to confirm, did you say that the vendor claim note was actually collected by you? Was it in the Q2, I guess?
Or Well, The deal the settlement and the agreement was made in the Q1. The cash came in, in April. So we that's a part of the refinancing as well.
I see. Well, thank you very much.
Thank you. The next question comes from Jasco Tazic from Metzler.
Yes, good morning. My first question is also regarding the nuclear project. Could you give us an update when do you expect the order flow to pick up? If I remember correctly, I think you indicated Q2 would be a good guesstimate, so to say.
That's right. Good memory, Mr. Tezic. We actually do expect it last year, to be honest. So we had it in our own 2018 budget and forecast, and it didn't materialize.
And so we made our numbers, so we're very happy with that. As you go into 2019, we're still confident it will be this year. I'm probably less confident on Q2. In the meantime, I must say we've received additional orders. So although we're when we refer to this project and we focus on the NSSS, we've, in the meantime, received orders for a balance of plant, double digit million amount.
So the smaller orders keep coming in, which gives us the confidence that the larger one is imminent. It's just the fact that the precursor projects with some of our peers' arrivals, they're not quite on track. They're not quite defined to the point where the customer can tell us exactly what he wants and then award the contract. So if I'm guessing now, lower confidence on Q2, but still high confidence in 2019. And the longer it delays, quite frankly, the better it is for us.
Okay. And then you also were talking about expected pickup in orders due to a good pipeline. Was it only referring to the nuclear side? Or are also other areas picking up throughout the rest of the year?
No, other areas as well. So we keep building up our scrubber capability. So what we've done in the last quarter is we've actually now developed partnerships or outsourcing opportunity with manufacturers and assemblers in Vietnam and China. And that allows us to manufacture closer to the market, and of course, it allows us to ramp up what we now refer to as our production slots. That allows us to go back to the market and sell slots rather than selling just individual scrubbers with a to be determined delivery date.
So that's positive. Biopharma is going good. So that is a business that's been growing over the years. We have strong inquiries, even demand from the Far East. We've placed our first order in Russia, and that trend continues.
So we like that, And we're looking to see how we can grow that business further. Again, this is one of the reasons why we set up our office in Guangzhou. I think I mentioned that in February. So also there, we see continued demand. In terms of our base business, maintenance, you saw the revenue and the orders.
I think if you look at the order intake and you look at the orders below $5,000,000 that number is actually quite impressive. In Q1 last year, we had some, let's say, accounting type catch ups where we were trying to recognize the impact of long term service contracts. But as you look at the Q1 order intake this year versus the other quarters of last year, you see that, that is quite a good part of our business and the pipeline there is strong. Turnarounds, 2019 2020 will be the year of turnarounds. 2017 I think 2016 was a good year.
2017 2018 were a little bit down on what was a great 2016. 2019 2020 will be up again. So across the board, there's good reason for top line optimism.
Okay. And maybe give us also an indication regarding the loss making unit at Technology. What has really changed between the last conference call updates and today? And how quick do you think you can turn it around?
Yes. This entity was one that we acquired a while ago. It's been growing. And I think it's that typical switch where it grows from a previously family run business into a small, even midsize within our portfolio company. As it does so, they kind of outpace the demand for financial homicide controls, and that's really what happened.
So running a family business is very different to running a triple digit million business, and we've been implementing SAP. We actually changed out the top two levels of management in the last 6 months. We brought in a new manager in the middle of January. And all that clarity was maybe a little bit overdue. And as of course, we bring focus to Ben, we're finding things that we didn't really want to find, but we face up to it.
And as I said, we're robust. We can take it on the chin and go forward.
So you think you will turn it around quickly so that the running fiscal year should turn out to be the case as you expected a quarter ago?
For the group, yes. No change. As Christina said, within T, we're looking at a breakeven for the year. It's going to be a loss for the year, and it will be a bearable loss, one that will not impact our group forecast.
Okay. Thank you.
Next question comes from Christian Cort, HSBC.
Thank you very much for taking my question. I would just like to ask if you could maybe update us on the progress of asset disposals with regards to the OOP or former OOP business. I mean, these businesses are apparently growing nicely at the moment. They are breakeven now. So do you still plan to sell these?
Are you possibly considering to maybe keep them, if they show continued progress? And then secondly, I just would like to ask if you could also give us an update on the progress of your scrubber business. Thank you very much.
Yes. On within OOP, as you recall, we had 13 loss makers all disposed. We had 4 that were accretive, of which 2 have been sold. We sold them for a good price, so we were happy in doing that. The remaining 2, one is let's say, one was in the early stage of the sales process, and that's actually a unit in South Africa.
I think no secret there. We've actually put that on hold, to be frank. The reason it's performing well is that Eskom, the public utility in South Africa, they're under serious pressure. And in the course of last year, because they had a cash squeeze, they were actually cutting back on service orders. They've now received some funding.
They've given us an extension or a new contract, if you like. It's a multi quarter contract, let me put it that way. It's not the multi year contract that we're expecting. But on the basis of that, we're back in making profits there. And we're waiting to see when the multiyear contract by multiyear, I mean the 5 year service contract comes in.
And that I think will be the impetus to add value to the business and to make it interesting to sell. Until then, we've seen there's a lukewarm response in the market. There are rivals or even people interested in buying it, but they're looking for a cheap deal, and we really have no pressure to do so. So I think we still want to sell them. So that's the very straight answer, but we're not in a hurry because they are accretive.
The other entity is the manufacturing entity in Austria. That's also come through a turnaround. It's doing reasonably well. It also has a lot of assets tied to it, which makes it interesting to certain operators in the area. But it's also one that we use internally to manufacture a part of the scrubber process.
So I think that entity, we're going to test the water. We've taken advisers. And if we get the right kind of offer, we'll sell. If not, we're quite happy to keep it and to run and grow the business. Update on scrubbers, still high demand.
So I think we're going to meet our own internal expectations. The challenge, of course, is less in how many you can sell. The challenge is more in how many can you deliver and install. And the failure of getting that second part wrong is substantial because these shifts are going to dry dock. And therefore, as we're conservative, we'd rather miss out on an order of 2, but deliver on time.
And as, of course, we get more confidence on the slot planning, on delivery and the commissioning, then, of course, we can push the numbers up a little bit.
Okay. And would you be ready to give us some kind of run rate on quarterly basis where you're kind of standing in terms of production?
Our capacity last year, I'd say, by the end of last year, was a little over 60 units, okay? So that's 5 a month. We think today we can push that to 15 a month. And we'd like to think that if everything goes right and the market holds, then for 2019 that an order book of 200 units is feasible. So you see still quite a steep ramp up curve, but we've got to get our homework right.
We'd rather, as I said, turn away in order than disappoint a customer by not having the scrubber in the dry dock when
the ship is there. Perfect. Much appreciated. Thank you very much.
There are no further questions the moment. Next question comes from Marc Gabriel van Coos Lambert.
Yes, good morning, gentlemen and Mrs. Schneider
and Mrs. Sorry, I forgot the name.
Very quick, the mix you have, you're seeing in the technology business, is that mainly compensated by the international business in E and M?
To be honest, most of our units are performing a little bit higher than our budget for the Q1. So it's not only the international business, E and M. It's also within Key. The other four entities have been doing a little better than we expected. So it's a broad based compensation.
Okay. Thank you.
Ladies and gentlemen, we will now conclude our conference call. If there are further questions, please contact the IR team today via e mail and also tomorrow back at the telephones. Thank you very much for joining, and have a good day. Bye bye.