Good morning. Welcome to, Keytron Capital Markets presentation update. I'm Peter Nielsen, President and CEO of Keytron. Together with my team, we're here to give you an update on the company's operations and progress towards our strategic ambitions and financial targets presented at last year's Capital Markets Day. Since we started planning this event, circumstances have changed.
The COVID nineteen virus has spread throughout the world, disrupting lives, plans, short term operations, and strategic initiatives. This presentation will therefore provide a shorter recap and update on strategy and focus more on the situation now before us before moving into a more extended q and a session. If you have registered beforehand, you can ask questions during the q and a. In any case, you can submit questions online during the presentation. Slide two, please.
As usual, there's a substantial disclaimer. I underline that this presentation contains forward looking statements. And as always, there are uncertainties and you should keep that in mind. Slide three, looking at the agenda. I'd like to introduce today's speakers.
First, I'll give an overview of Keytron and our strategy. Israel will cover our sales strategy and operations, followed by Catherine discussing M and A and presenting financials. Finally, I will close with a recap of the COVID-nineteen activities from Keytron and a summary. So slide four. Now let's get going.
I'll start with an overview of our strategy. Some of you know us well, but for those of you who don't, I'd like to spend a few short minutes describing who we are and what Keytron does, which takes us to slide five, the essence of Keytron. Keytron is an electronic manufacturing services company. You will see this abbreviated to EMS throughout the presentation. An EMS company is an outsourcing partner which provides various production processes and services involved in making products containing electronics.
This has grown to be the normal way to produce electronics. At the bottom of the slide, you will see what we typically do for customers. For some customers, we do it all. For others, we cover part of this chain. So moving to slide six and taking a look at strategic positioning.
In order to get a feel for our strategic position, we have made this illustration. Keytron is positioned towards the top of the chart, meaning we focus on complex, high margin products with special requirements. In terms of volume, we we would say we're in the medium volume business. Within the defense and aerospace and medical sectors, Keytron is recognized as a strategic and critical supplier. It's important to note that this figure is simplified.
For instance, we sometimes do low volume products. However, it gives you a general picture of typical position. Moving on to Slide seven, Keytron on three continents. To complete the brief introduction on what Keytron is, these are our units. Our corporate headquarters is in Bellingstad outside Oslo, Norway.
In Scandinavia, we have two production units with heavy focus on defense aerospace as well as medical devices, Oddindal in Norway and Gunsheping in Sweden. In Central Eastern Europe, we have two production sites, Kaunas in Lithuania and Grujons in Poland. A German sales office rounds out our European presence. In Asia, we have a factory in China located in Ningbo outside of Shanghai. And in Pennsylvania, we have a production unit in Jonestown, Pennsylvania.
So moving on to strategy, Slide eight, strategic horizon towards 2025. During 2015, we worked out a new strategy for Keytron. This was described at company's first Capital Markets Day in February 2016. We set a strategic agenda with three main points, organic growth for which we set a target of 10% per year, increase customer satisfaction by improving our operations resulting in increased profitability, and finally accelerating our growth with targeted M and A activities. Now we're closing in on 2020 and starting to look forward to 2025.
The period from 2020 to 2025 will be more about refining what we've done. We will continue on the path we're on. We'll expand our capacity. We'll tweak our operations further. We will keep investing in our people and technology to further improve efficiency and quality.
In terms of how we run our business, we've done some overall changes. Supported by a well thought out investment plan, we have gradually changed our workforce with a larger proportion in lower cost countries and higher education and general higher skill level overall. We have expanded our IT level, and we have moved group services to lower cost countries when appropriate. Slide nine. So what have we achieved so far?
Well, in 2015, we set our revenue target of 3,000,000,000 NOK and an EBIT target of 7% or 210,000,000 for 2020. In 2019, we achieved the revenue target and actually surpassed it at 3,300,000,000.0, and we reached 202,000,000 of EBIT. I think this demonstrates that we're on track. And on track for our financial ambitions, slide 10. Our overall strategic agenda supports financial ambitions of 7% EBIT margin and 25% return on operating capital.
For 2020, our revenue target is between NOK 3,300,000,000.0 and NOK 3,700,000,000.0. This calculates to about a growth of 6%, so very moderate. Our EBIT margin target is 6.4% to 7%. A new strategic ambition has been defined for 2025, where the revenue target is 5,000,000,000 achieved through organic growth and M and A should bring an upside. As always, our EBIT margin target is 7%.
Now Israel will bring us up to date on sales strategy and operations. Go ahead, Israel.
Thank you, Peter. We are now on Slide 11. My name is Israel Lozada. And since I am both the Sales Director and the Chief Operating Officer, I will be talking to you first about how we plan to grow our sales and second about our operations. Slide 12 please.
So first, growth. Let's start off with a look at the market we operate in. As most of our businesses is in Europe, we focus here on the European EMS market. As you can see in this market, there are a few big players and a long tail of small local firms. The industry is undergoing consolidation and this is especially apparent in groups two and three where companies are seeking economies of scope and scale.
Keytron belongs to group two. Group four is characterized by smaller and weaker firms. Another trend observed in the past years is an increase of Chinese entrants in the European EMS arena. It is worth mentioning that the sectors we target have very high entry barriers driven by defense, aerospace, and medical. These barriers spread to other sectors.
Our customers and prospects focus on certified quality standards, cybersecurity, contingency plan, conflict minerals, and others. EMS companies wanting to operate in our sectors must comply with regulatory requirements like never before. Let's now talk about sectors and customers we work with. Slide 13, please. Having our revenue distributed over five different but very demanding sectors provide us with five legs to stand on.
This has helped us to remain profitable over the long history of the company. If we talk about energy and telecom, in this sector we focus on energy transmission as well as advanced power supplies. Within telecom, we build our expertise within optical transmission. For defense in aerospace, our main priority is to look further into the future. We have some truly large customers in these sectors and we want to leverage this even more.
Marine and offshore is our smallest market sector. Demand is project driven by its investment in offshore oil and gas. For medical devices, we focus on the Nordic region, and we want to take advantage of our application expertise. We have been working for years with ultrasound and cardiology systems, respiratory medical devices, and in vitro diagnostics equipment, making us an ideal industrial partner for any OEM working in these fields. And last, industry.
This is our largest segment. We expect it to remain so in 2025. Here, we focus on selling more services. This segment is heavily represented in our facilities in Central And Eastern Europe. Now let's talk about our growth opportunities moving forward.
Slide 14, please. What are the growth drivers moving forward? Well, we have three: outsourcing trends, move to electrification, and product connectivity. If we start with a long term outsourcing trend, we can say that a significant part of Keytron's growth in 2019 came from new customers outsourcing their operations to Keytron. This trend continues as existing customers are choosing to outsource more high level assembly and integration work.
The outsourcing growth is further supported by new companies choosing to partner with an EMS company from the very beginning. When it comes to the broad based move to electrification, we can say that several of our customers and prospects are moving from petrol and pneumatic platforms to electrified systems. For example, we are getting more and more involved with charging stations for equipment and tools. Lastly, Keytron will focus on the Internet of Things devices in industrial and professional settings. Many new customers that traditionally have not used electronics are now changing technology platforms and are contacting Keytron.
Slide 15, please. Now that you have heard about our growth strategy, let's talk a bit more about our operations. Slide 16, please. As you know, we completed major investment cycles in Norway, Sweden and Lithuania over the last few years. But 2019 has also been a rather busy year on that front.
In U. S, we established a credible presence through the acquisition of a plant in Pennsylvania. The integration of this factory is underway and we will reenter our refurbished facility in May. This plant has a substantial capacity for growth. In Poland, we built a new factory in Grushon, an hour from Gdansk.
We opened in October and we already have a staff of about 150 employees. This plant focused on higher volume and efficient production. The combination of Poland and Lithuania has capacity to handle revenues in excess of NOK2 billion. In China, we expanded our capacity by taking over the building beside ours, effectively doubling our show floor. So all in all, entering 2020, Keytron has a global footprint with six manufacturing facilities in three continents.
We have over 1,700 highly committed and competent employees ready to support our customers through the whole life cycle of their products from concept to scale. Keytron has invested in common systems, equipment, processes and culture. We have ensured that our customers will receive the same professional service anywhere in the world. On top of that, we will consider additional sites towards the end of the strategic period. So let's talk a little bit more about this.
Slide 17, please. When it comes to potential M and As, Keytron is actively evaluating opportunities. We look for companies with revenues ranging between 10,000,000 and €100,000,000 In closing, I would like to say that we have enough capacity to reach our 2025 ambition of €5,000,000,000 Norwegian kroner's revenue. So potential M and As would provide an upside. With that, I would like to hand over to my colleague, Kathrin Nylander, who will give you more details about our finances.
Kathrin?
Thank you, Israel. Slide 18. My name is Katina Lander, and I am the CFO of Keytron. As we have made clear, this presentation was planned as an update on our progress toward ambitions for 2025 that we announced at last year's Capital Markets Day. And while we understand that the short term situation is highly unusual, our strategy is maintained, and so far, we have made good progress.
Slide 19. First, looking back. Four years ago, in February 2016, we announced an ambition to reach revenues of EUR 3,000,000,000 in 2020 through organic growth. This was achieved in 2019, and M and A added even more to the top line. Last year, we outlined a new ambition, 5,000,000,000 top line in 2025 through organic growth with M and A potentially adding upside.
The first goalpost in 2020, as we have given guidance for, is EUR 3,300,000,000.0 to EUR 3,700,000,000.0 for this year, a growth of 6%. Slide 20. Now moving on to the second key figure for us, EBIT and EBIT margin. Four years ago, we outlined an ambition to reach an EBIT margin of 7% in 2020. We are moving towards this target, and our outlook for 2020 is an EBIT margin between 6.47%.
While the ramp up of our new factory in Poland and the integration of the company we acquired in The U. S. Last year is boosting top line, they put a temporary drag on the EBIT margin. However, moving forward, we stick to our 7% ambition. And towards 2025, we believe there is an upside to this figure.
Moving forward, we should note that the company's required or new facilities may temporarily be below our margin ambition. But even though we work to increase our EBIT margin somewhat, the biggest contribution to increased EBIT in absolute numbers is expected to come from an increasing top line rather than margin expansion. Slide 21. A third area that we have continuously stressed is capital efficiency. A company like Keytron has a lot of parts moving through the logistics chain.
Making this as efficient as possible frees up capital and has enabled us to pay out competitive dividends over the past years. It is a clear ambition to reduce net working capital as a percentage of revenue, and we have started to move in that direction after material allocations in 2018 and 2019. Strategically, we will definitely continue to push down net working capital to a level above 20% of revenue. An accompanying measure is the cash conversion cycle. In other words, the time it takes to convert this cash payment for resources into cash payment from a sale.
We had a temporary setback here relating to the material allocation, but our ambition remains fifty days. Slide 22. Another basic measurement for us is return on operating capital. This metric too was affected on the material allocation. While we increased EBIT, the rock was pulled down by an increase in the balance sheet.
However, moving forward, we expect this key metric to improve through combination of higher EBIT and better capital efficiency, and our long term target remains the same. Slide 23. In general, our business has a strong operating cash generation, but there are fluctuations. In 2018, operating cash flow was temporarily pulled down by the increase in inventory due to the component situation. Moving on to CapEx.
We have, as you see, singled out two items in 2019, our new facility in Poland and our acquisition in The U. S, now Ketron Technologies. If you smooth out our major investments, we expect normal CapEx to be about 2% to 3% of revenue. But given the current situation, we will hold back as much as needed in 2020 until we see how the business situation develops. Slide '24.
Moving forward, Keytron stands on a solid financial platform. While the introduction of IFRS 16 made comparison with previous years decomplicated, we have a debt structure that we are comfortable with. We have targeted net interest bearing debt to be less than 2.5x EBITDA and adjusted for IFRS 16 effects its 2.4. Given the current situation and for ease of understanding, we have split up our net interest bearing debt in as of 2019. I should add that net interest bearing debt is reduced in 2020.
Slide '25. Over the past years, Keytron has turned around the business, making it grow while also generating better profits and maintaining better capital discipline. A while back, we also modified our dividend policy. This all points to very clear ambition and ability to pay competitive dividends. As you see, our dividend have been growing over the years and we're strongly committed to dividends.
On February 12, the Board proposed a dividend of femtiore. The company and the Board, of course, follows closely the development on business and its environment, and there is a need for the company and the Board prepared to act also with respect to the dividend proposal. The next Board meeting is March. Slide 26. Now this slide illustrates, in short, that we will come quite a long way over a five year period.
I will note that these figures are by December 31, and the market cap and enterprise value will look different today. So moving from the long term strategy to the situation here and now. Here is Peter back again to address the COVID-nineteen situation. Peter?
Thank you, Katrin. Slide 27. As I said in the very beginning of this presentation, since we started planning this event, circumstances have changed. Spread of COVID-nineteen disrupts short term plans and operations and it affects our strategic activities. Let me summarize what Keytron has been doing to mitigate the disruptions.
Slide 28, please. Keytrail's core business assets are our manufacturing facilities. It is extremely important to protect the employees that work directly in operations. Without them, no product is built. Our actions to protect our manufacturing assets are based on on following international and national advice from health organizations and authorities.
To date, we have no knowledge of any Keytron employees worldwide being infected. We're asking all of our employees to take appropriate preventative measures. This includes keeping safe distance between people, regular and consistent hand hygiene, and the use of hand sanitizer, disinfectant spray, and wipes, and increased cleaning and sanitizing for all of company facilities. In order to minimize exposure to employees that have to be at our factories, all employees that can do their work from home are doing so. Visitors will not be allowed to access key term facilities.
And finally, any employee who does not feel well is to stay at home, get well, and avoid interacting with other people. This work started towards the February. Slide 29, please. So what's the status of our capacity? All of our factories are up and running without any constraints to capacity.
We have been closely working with our suppliers to avoid any major disruption to our operations. All tier one suppliers in China have restarted operations and they're gradually increasing capacity. So far, no major disruption to supply chain outside of China. Heatron is preparing for some component allocations going forward. Customer demand remains strong and supports the current guiding.
Our demand analysis consists of all firm orders and the coming twelve months forecast from our suppliers and it was updated during the March. Slide 30, going forward. Demand fluctuations. Ypres sees no demand reductions currently compared to what we see many other industries where the effects have already materialized. So currently no demand reductions.
We continuously make capacity adjustments based on demand fluctuations, but now we're preparing contingency plans for significantly larger fluctuations if they should occur. In order to prioritize potential supply chain constraints correctly, customers are asked to convert forecasts to fixed and firm orders. We see a strengthening within the demand of the medical devices sector. In regards to our upstream supply chain, customers are again asked to place firm orders for immediate purchase of any allocated materials, and we continuously monitor our upward supply chain. Slide 31, summary.
So in summary, slide 32. We maintain our strategy and financial ambitions for 2025. We have identified several growth opportunities, and we're actively working them. Currently, all our facilities are operating as normal. Based on what we currently know, we seem to be on track for our moderate growth of 6% in our 2020 outlook.
However, uncertainty may give higher volatility in the months to come. So far, remains strong and stable and reinforced by stronger growth in medical devices. Slide 33. This concludes the presentation part of our capital markets presentation. We'll now open up for questions starting with any online submissions during the presentation.
Oreste Lautan, can you please lead us through?
Yes. We have a few questions that have already come in and one of them being, will you maintain the dividend?
I believe Catherine addressed this in her part of her presentation, and you're welcome to reiterate, your response, Catherine.
I will do so. The board decided and proposed the dividend of of February, early this year. The company and the board, of course, follows the close development of the business and its environment. And if there's a need for the company to act, they will do so. The next board meeting is at the March.
There is a question about the effect of the weak Norwegian currency. Is that positive or negative for Keytran?
Again, I'll let you address this, Cathene.
I would say, in general, the it's a positive effect on the growth for the group. Of course, we will have a growth on the top line, but also our material expense will grow accordingly. And that means that we will need to discuss prices with our customers going forward.
There
That's important, boss, to to that that we are our sales prices in many different currencies. So not just Norwegian kroner where we have we would have to do price adjustments. We we also sell in dollars and we sell in euros and so forth. So there's a there's a it's not quite as straightforward as translating that everything has to be has to be raised on prices. Go ahead, Arendt.
There's a question about the offshore segment. How do you see your offshore segment given the recent downturn in the oil price?
We have only a few offshore customers. The volume has been growing substantially over the past few years from an almost nonexistent level. And I believe currently in the current budget numbers, the marine offshore driven by oil and gas is maybe 6% of our entire top line for this year. So we we currently, we feel pretty stable on what we have in our budget on which we've based our forecast. Earlier on, we had some significant upsides.
I think we put them aside so far and come back to that later in the year and see if they're still there. So I feel pretty comfortable on where we are in that segment right now.
Then there is a question about the competitive landscape. Have you seen any significant changes in your competitive landscape during the 2020? If you have seen some, have these changes been driven by M and A activities or by organic operations?
I think I'll throw this question over to Israel and see what he has to say on it.
No. I I wouldn't say that we have seen a dramatic change over the last period of three to six months. We are still meeting the same players in the market. There's still or there's a consolidation in the market. There are some players that are being acquired, smaller ones, some mid sizes.
But for for the region where we compete and the sectors that that we are present in, there hasn't really been a a big difference so far.
I tend to agree.
Then moving back to the financial side, how is the liquidity position moving forward, and what about credit facilities?
Kathleen?
So we have a long standing bank agreement with DNB, I have to add in the beginning. And we have if you look into our our credit situation, you will find that we have long term loans that we have taken up most of them last year to acquire the the American units with about CHF 166,000,000. We have a lease liability in IFRS 16, about CHF 116,000,000. In total, with the short, it's slightly over CHF 135,000,000. And then we have long term debt, which is regular finance lease, which so we have a long term part of CHF $335,000,000 CHF 31,000,000.
Then on the short term part of our financing, so we have an overdraft, which is at currently CHF $323,000,000, and we have a factoring debt of CHF $249,000,000. So for the units in Norway and Sweden, we have a factoring agreement where we have a factoring for 85% of their invoicing basically. And then we have a short term part of long term debt and the lease liabilities. And currently, Keytron is running at a positive cash flow. As I said I mentioned that we have a positive cash flow going forward.
Of course, flow will be affected whether or not our customers will pay on time, etcetera, and how the demand situation will be monitored. So if everything goes to plan, we have a regular cash flow situation according to plan. However, if the market situation changes, the cash situation is obviously the the thing to to monitor because you can have a good top line and only good revenue, but you can lack cash based on, for instance, customers not paying. We have no reason to believe that they won't, but that might affect.
There is another question concerning the same topic. Please, could you give some color on discussions with your banks? Have they been in touch? Any concerns from them on your debt levels?
They have been in touch because, they are experiencing some other clients, increasing their inventory levels and hoarding inventory. And based on our recent experience with the material allocation, we have given them a clear message that we will only buy inventory which is necessary to produce. And if we need to buy something, which Peter explained earlier, the companies need to buy it themselves in our books and put it as consigned inventory. So we have no plans. So that was the major discussion apart from that, and they were comfortable with the situation.
Again, I have to say we have a long standing relationship with DNB. They have been our bank for the last twenty years. And those who remember know that Kitton has been in dire straits for many, many years ago, and DNB has stood by us all that time.
Moving on to a different topic, m and a. Question is, can you comment on how the COVID nineteen situation will impact your M and A agenda?
Well, that's pretty easy, right? As the form of yes. We continue looking presentations that are sent to us or opportunities that we identify. However, we do not proceed into any sort of due diligence, meeting, traveling to sites and so forth. So from that from that aspect, you know, there'll be low m and a activity going forward other than continuing to analyze and and and put interesting objects onto our prospect sheet.
When it comes to to publicly traded companies, you may well, why aren't you just now is a buying opportunity. Right? I think the evaluations now are extremely difficult based on any publicly traded valuation at this time. So we continue sort of at a lower level, but don't expect to see any big M and A announcement over the next three months.
All right. Then I suggest that we move on to the conference call. So conference call moderator, could you please take over?
Thank you. Questions. There appear to be no questions at this time, but once again, that's star one.
And you're welcome to pose your questions in either Norwegian or Swedish as well.
There appear to be no questions over the phone.
We can take a couple of more questions that have come in online. And one of them is concerning situation, have changed the supplier purchases composition, for instance, moving away from Asian suppliers to increasingly more American or European suppliers?
I I'd say it's a it's a longer process to change suppliers because you most of our products tend to be some pretty high restriction on. You know, we're talking about the defense, aerospace, or medical products. They are qualified with the entire supply chain being qualified. So the strategy from from in the past few months now has been let's qualify additional suppliers and have multiple sources in more regions. So if we're looking at Europe right now, Asia is up and running.
China is up and running. Pretty much every manufacturing facility we're in touch with, we're getting parts from as we should. So so Asia and and and and China specifically is currently not a problem. We're not seeing problems in Europe, but I would be surprised if that remained unchanged in regards to how virus is spreading in Europe how quickly things are changing on the market with potential shutdowns. So I think it's important, even though our strategy has been regional supply for the regional market, I think from a from a upstream supply chain perspective, we're changing our thinking and and discussing much more with our customers that we need to qualify multiple sources in different regions as a business contingency plan.
So that's where we are on that issue.
Okay. We'll do one more question. This concerns the cost side. You mentioned maybe needing to make some cost adjustments. Please could you give some color here?
What would you do?
I mean, it's not that difficult for us. We've been through multiple changes in demand over the past years from financial crisis on through a very low oil price in 2012, 2013 and really a disappearing market in Norway when it comes to manufacturing for the oil and gas market and so forth. So we continuously do adjustments to our to our manufacturing staff. In in Lithuania, we're used to doing this due to seasonality. Right?
We we our our our headcount in Lithuania over the past five four, five years has varied seasonally from 500 employees to almost a thousand employees depending on on where we are in the season. So so we're used to working this way and doing this. We've also been through restructuring programs in Norway and Sweden, so we're pretty fairly acquainted on how to how to do that. What's what's different here though is right now things look pretty good even at some sites. We're actually bringing on more people because demand is high.
Now that could be short term. We don't know. We don't know how the world will change. So in order to prepare ourselves and our organizations to be able to handle any radical change or dramatic change in demand that may come, It's good to prepare and think through what we need to be doing. So that's why we have now a business contingency plan where we're looking at a site should be able to manage 30 to 40% reduction in demand and still provide a profit, still be able to run the business.
And that's the scenario each site has to prepare for. Now I would be extremely surprised if the overall demand for Keytron were to be reduced that much, especially since a significant portion of our demand is from defense aerospace and medical devices where we're actually seeing a strong trajectory on the demand for those.
We'll do a couple of more questions.
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think that's the color we were looking for.
Yes. We'll do a couple of more questions before we wrap up. And continuing on the demand side, but within the medical devices, there's a question. You see increased demand in medical devices. Can you be a bit more specific what sub sector you see increased demand from?
I think, you know, anyone who follows the news, sees that what many countries and governments and and and, are lacking is is is equipment to to aid in in respiratory illness. So anything that that manages, you know, the respiratory so ventilation equipment is what I was we call it respiration, I think, in in Swedish and Norwegian, and we call it ventilation type equipment in English. I hate to comment anymore specifically on what customers this is. And then also other supporting type equipment that monitors patients that helps diagnose other side conditions from contracting this virus. Though that type of equipment, diagnostic equipment, ultrasound equipment, things like that.
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And this concerns, Ketron compared to other, EMS suppliers. Is Keytron better set up to handle the COVID nineteen situation versus key competitors, and why?
Now I hate to comment on what key competitors are doing, and I really won't comment what activities they're doing because I'm not looking really at what they're doing. I'm focused on on on running Keytron and and securing our operations. However, in general, if if if you're if you're more geared towards consumer products or industry business to business within industry or or or yeah, you might be more vulnerable on the on the demand side. If you're more geared towards medical devices that are used in a situation like we are now, where there's a global demand increase for those types of products and where governments are going in with money to acquire those types of products, I think you're in a better position. Just from, you know, basically from from the get go deciding what market sectors you want to be active in and what type of products in those market sectors do you go after.
But I think that Kietr may have a leg up on some competitors there, but really I don't want to comment on what competitors are doing or not doing.
I think we'll end the questions there. Peter, do you want to say a couple of final words?
No. I'd like to thank everybody for listening in and participating on today's call. We we were initially obviously looking to give you a a deeper update on on on on our on our strategy. But, again, you know, what's going on now, you know, sort of halts some of our the the the activities that we do on towards our strategy. So it makes us rethink, not in a bad way.
You know, you always take an opportunity to make the best of every situation. And and and we've always within Keytron sort of have it have it had it in the back of our head to have strong business contingency planning and and training for those. This opportunity this is an opportunity that that allows us to expand that even further. So I feel pretty confident on where we are and where we're heading. Now, of course, anything, almost anything can happen in the market situation.
But, again, it's it's important to remember that whatever goes on will have an end, and it will tend to be shorter than longer term. So that's our thinking, and that's how we run our business. I see a quick question here. How much are you exposed to highly affected sectors such as airline, aviation, and automotive? Not very much at all.
I do I believe we deliver some subcomponents to to both Airbus and Boeing, but it's in in in the big picture, you know, I'm I'm not even sure that you can measure it as 1% or so. So that's the effect. We're not the big supplier. We hardly deliver anything, directly to any of the big automotive manufacturers. We're more into the second tier suppliers where we provide services and development and prototypes, which tend to be high margin and tend to continue on now, but not part of any volume reduction.
I mean, saw yesterday also that or this morning that one of the major suppliers and or manufacturers in Germany shut down temporarily. So no effect on ketone from that. So, again, thank you so much for for participating in our in our call. And please, if you have any follow on questions, you know how to get in touch with us, and, we'll be happy to, respond to any questions you may have. Thank you so much, and, talk to you soon on our on our q one presentation in late April.
Thank you so much. Bye.