Welcome to the Green Landscaping Group Q1 presentation 2026. For the first part of the presentation, participants will be in listen-only mode. During the questions- and- answers session, participants are able to ask questions by dialing pound key five on their telephone keypad. Now, I will hand the conference over to the CEO, Johan Nordström, and CFO Marcus Holmström. Please begin your meeting.
Thank you, and welcome to today's earnings call. As is mentioned, my name is Johan Nordström, and I'm also joined by our CFO, Marcus Holmström, who will manage the financial section of these presentations in a few minutes. As always, let me tell you about the most recent performance and put that into context. The first quarter of 2026 showed a strong organic growth of 11%, and we also saw an improved underlying EBITA compared to prior year with adjusted for capital gains, and we also had a stable cash flow in the quarter. If we adjusted for items for comparability, the EBITA amounted to SEK 27 million, and that is an increase of 29% compared to previous year. The performance across the group is a little bit of a mixed bag.
We saw in Sweden there we delivered clear earnings improvement, and that is driven by the actions we have implemented. Other Europe reported a season with stable profitability, and in Norway, we continue to see a weak performance in a challenging market. Of course, we are not satisfied with the overall outcome for the company, but we do remain fully focused on improving the profitability, in particular in Norway. Also, during the quarter, we have invested in one strong company through the acquisition of Finke Landschaft + Straße in Germany. I think that's the perspective, that it's a mixed bag, Sweden and Other Europe was performing, and we had some challenges in Norway, while we overall saw an organic growth of 11% in the first quarter. Let's move into the presentation.
Just a brief overview of the Green Landscaping Group, we are a leading company in the ground maintenance and landscaping industry in Europe. We operate in a very large and attractive market with structured growth in the marketplace. Also, we do have an entrepreneurial culture inside our company, and that is supported by a decentralized structure that works pretty well for us as we have local customers and we're active locally close to the customers on the ground. Then to top it off, we do see a value creation through a proven M&A strategy that we chose to invest in the best companies in the industry. Moving on to the long-term performance, I think it's wise to zoom out a little bit and look upon the performance of the company for the last few years.
We can clearly see that we have had a steady growth over time, while the year 2025 was to some extent, a challenging year for us in terms of growth and also in terms of profitability. Given the first quarter where we are back to 11% growth, I think that's a pretty strong sign we are sending that we are back on track. In terms of profitability, again, 2025 was a challenging year for us.
We have been focusing heavily for the last one and a half years and two years on improving the situation in Sweden, and we do see an improved performance in Sweden, and we do see a stable performance in the segment we call Europe, while we do have some challenging market conditions in Norway, and that's what we're focusing on going forward. Next slide. To sum up the first quarter, if we look upon the net sales, there we saw total growth of 14%, amounting to SEK 1.4 billion . As I did mention, we have an organic growth of 11% in the quarter. Profitability-wise or EBITA, there we saw a decrease of 25%. We will land at SEK 30 million versus SEK 40 million a year ago.
As I did mention, we see a stable improvement of margins in Sweden and Other Europe, while we do have some challenges in Norway. Also putting that in perspective, prior year's EBITA included a SEK 19 million capital gain on a property divestment we made in Lithuania. Really when I'm comparing the underlying performance, I am reducing the SEK 40 million by SEK 19 million, and that's where we see the improvement in the profitability. Cash flow was okay. We do have a heavy cash flow because we are not that. We see some room for improvement in terms of cash flow. The cash flow for the first quarter was stable but slightly below our own expectations. That also means that from the financial leverage perspective, we are at 3.1.
That is from our perspective on the high side, we will focus on that one going forward so we can get it down to a more from our perspective acceptable level. As I did mention, we are continuing our successful expansion in Germany, we completed one investment in Finke in the beginning of the year. Of course, the last bullet there, the divestment of Svensk Jordelit, that's a part of the program we set out one and a half year ago in order to improve the situation in Sweden. Now, Svensk Jordelit is a profitable company that we choose to divest because of the way the company has.[audio distortion]
That's why we choose to divest that company in the first quarter of this year. Looking into the Swedish market, we saw for the rolling 12 months, we see a decrease of 3% to SEK 2.5 billion, where we have an organic growth of a - 1%. Profitability-wise, we increase to 1% to SEK 150 million, there we have a margin of 4.6%. The first quarter performance, there we actually saw an increase of revenue of 5% to SEK 609 million, also we saw an increase in EBITA of 9% to SEK 39 million. That gives us a margin of 6.4% in the first quarter.
I think we should keep in mind that the Q1 is typically a low season for what we are doing, and having a 6.4% in the Swedish market from a historic perspective, that is actually quite a nice number. Moving on into Norway. As we clearly can see there, that the net sales have been decreasing by 6% to SEK 2.3 billion, where organically we are a - 5%. Of course, profitability-wise, we do see a significant decrease in profitability in Norway, which leaves us with a margin of 3.4%, and the decrease is 60%, so we have an SEK 80 million EBITA margin in Norway, and that is clearly below our expectations.
For the first quarter, we actually saw an increase in revenue in Norway of 5%, while we saw a decrease on EBITA with a negative margin of 3.2%. What's really going on in Norway is that we are having a difficult market situation, and we have two companies who are not performing, and we are working on improving the situation in Norway quite significantly. Looking upon Other Europe, for the rolling 12 months, we can see that we have a net sales increase by close to 40%, and right now that means they are up to SEK 1.5 billion , it's becoming substantial to us. We have an organic growth of 2%.
Of course, we saw an increase on EBITA by 26% to SEK 280 million, and that gives us with a very strong margin of 18.2% in the Other Europe segment. For the first quarter, equal to Sweden and Norway, that's the low season we have in the first quarter. Still, we see a significant increase in net sales by 60% in the quarter, while we saw a decrease of profitability to SEK 15 million, and that gives us a margin of 4.9%. I think here we should keep in mind that the prior year EBITA for the segment Other Europe included the sales of a capital, property capital gain of SEK 19 million. One should bear that in mind when you compare the numbers. Of course, we completed, as I did say, one investment in the first quarter.
That's pretty much for the Other Europe segment. Then just a short introduction to Finke that we closed in the beginning of the year. It's a company that was founded back in 2010. It's based in Borken, in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. They do provide classic groundwork, sewer construction, and landscaping services to a broad array of customers. Size-wise, they are, I would say, a sweet spot company for us with about EUR 12 million in annual revenue. We do welcome Finke into the group of companies we already have. By that, I think that concluded my part of it, then I hand over to Marcus, who will walk you through the financials. Marcus?
Perfect. Thank you, Johan, and I will cover the main financials. First quarter showed net sales growth of 14%, totaling at SEK 1.4 billion and bringing our rolling 12 months sales to SEK 6.4 billion. For the quarter, organic growth was, as Johan said, 11%. Structural effects contributed with 4%, and impact from exchange rates was - 2%. As Johan also mentioned, all segments delivered organic growth in the quarter, largely driven by higher demand of winter services in Sweden and Norway, while colder weather had negative impact on demand for landscaping services.
Reflecting on structural growth in the quarter as we usually, or for the first time, have divested company and it's not a strategy shift we have, looking at structural growth 4%, putting it down to, we had 7% contribution from acquired entities and the sales of Jordelit impacted - 3% in the quarter. Reported EBITA was SEK 30 million, a decrease primarily due to the comparison period included a capital gain of SEK 19 million. Adjusting for this one, we had underlying organic improvement in our EBITA numbers of 29%. EBITA margin came in at 2.2% and rolling 12 months, 6.8%.
We are, of course, not satisfied with this number, and we are strongly focused on executing on the actions we have implemented in Norway and continuing to deliver the positive trend we have in Sweden. I will go into more details on cash flow in next slide, but operating activities amounted to positively SEK 137.7, broadly in line with last year. Financial leverage sequentially increased to 3.1. Here we also heavily focused on delivering the cash home in order to be able to deleverage in the coming quarters. The order backlog amounted to SEK 7.7 billion, which is higher than last year. The increase is actually noted in all regions, but it's important to know that the order book fluctuates between quarters and should not be viewed as a short-term leading indicators.
Earnings per share in Q1 declined to SEK -0.36 compared to SEK -0.33 last year, mainly due to lower EBITDA in the period, while lower cost of funding had a positive effect. Looking at cash flow, in line with seasonality, operating cash flow contributed heavily positively in the quarter, at SEK 137 million. Following the negative development in 2025, we're not fully satisfied with this outcome and have a high focus on delivering on our action to tie less working capital. Progress have been remained, but it made in the forecast, but it remains a focus area for us. Rolling 12 months cash flow from operating activities amounted to SEK 340 million.
Looking at the cash flow bridge for total free cash flow in the quarter, operating activities contributes with SEK 137. We completed acquisition totaling cash consideration SEK 112 million in the investment on Finke Landschaft + Straße in Germany, which Johan also presented earlier. We also had a small portion of earn-out payment in the quarter included in that number. We also divested Svensk Jordelit, which was divested, and it had an annual revenue of SEK 117 million, and the divestment strengthens the group's focus on our core operation within maintenance and landscaping for public customers. That brought in SEK +37 million in our total cash flow. The net from acquisition and divestment was SEK -75 million.
We had the CapEx totaling including lease amortization, at SEK -18 million, and we did not repurchase any shares in the period, totaling the free cash flow from the period at SEK -15 million. As I mentioned earlier, working capital development and cash flow generation continue, as always, to be a focus area for us, and we're committed to deliver on our actions. Financial leverage increased sequentially in light of our net debt being at SEK 2.5 billion and leverage at SEK 3.1 billion, which is above our financial target, and our ambition remains to return to the target driven by improved operational cash flow and of course, improved earnings. However, I would like also to underline that we maintain good headroom to meet our financial commitments in the funding.
Our maturity profile for our financing, we did a lot of activities in this area during last year. We broaden our financing base with issuing a bond, and we also refinanced the bank debt to much more favorable terms and conditions compared to the previous ones, which helps us in lowering funding costs going forward. We're very pleased with how we were received in the capital market of the bond issue, and it signals the strong confidence the credit market has in us. Concluding my part of the presentation, looking at our financial target, leaving 2025 at the negative growth numbers, we're pleased to see that we're turning a shift here and having rolling 12 months now plus three.
On the EBITDA margin side, very positive with the development we see in all the past quarters in Sweden, and the stability in earnings in Other Europe, and we're focused and committed to turn the trend in Norway. Rolling 12 months EBITDA margin ended up at 6.8%, finally, the leverage at 3.1%. We also have a fourth financial target, which is dividends. In conjunction with the full Q4 report, the board proposes to the annual meeting that no dividends should be distributed for the fiscal year of 2025, which is in line with the recommendation and decisions from previous years. Our AGM will be held at 7th of May in next week.
With that, I will hand back to you, Johan, for a few closing remarks before we open up for questions.
Yes. Thank you very much, Marcus. As said, it was a mixed bag in terms of the performance. We are back on growth. That is very good to see. In terms of the local markets, look upon the performance of Sweden, Finland, Lithuania, Germany. I'm quite happy with the performance and the activities we had done there. We do have some challenges in Norway. We are addressing those in a diligent way, I would say, where we actually have a new management, new country structure in place. We have some new players there. Made some significant changes to the structure in Norway in order to improve going forward in the Norwegian market. By that, I think we open up for the Q&A.
Yes.
If you wish to ask a question, please dial pound key five on your telephone keypad to enter the queue. If you wish to withdraw your question, please dial pound key six on your telephone keypad. The next question comes from Jonny Jin from SEB. Please go ahead.
Yes, good afternoon, Johan and Marcus. I have a couple of questions. I think I will start with Norway profitability, where, yeah, EBITDA is even more negative this year despite they have this record low snow level last year, and organic growth is 7% this year. Elaborate even more what is really happening in Norway, what is driving this, and how we should think about the Norwegian margin going forward ahead.
Yeah. Thank you. Johan here. In terms of the revenue, it's quite simple because we had not a perfect winter, but we did have a decent winter this year, so we can't complain about that one. However, that being that it's one of the companies who is one of the big players we have in Norway taking care of the winter services in Oslo region. We did have the revenue, but they weren't able to turn that into profitability. That's kind of the simple answer on it. We had the revenue, we had the winter, but they failed in terms of making money out of that revenue that came.
Is it.
That goes back to management change we had in that company. We had a fairly new management who weren't capable of turning the revenue into profit margins that we are expecting and should be expecting them to do.
Is it an execution problem down from your side, or is it more of a market pricing pressure, or what is driving down the-?
No, these are. Good question. Those are long-term contracts we have with the municipality of Oslo. The prices are determined in the contract. There is nothing wrong with the contract. This is down to execution on how you execute on the contract per se and turn the revenue into profit, and that's where we failed.
Okay. Were there any extra costs in this quarter reflecting those, restructuring or such charge in the quarter here?
Not really, no. We had the revenue in Norway, but this company specific because it was more or less one company we are referring to that typically should have had a good first quarter, and unfortunately, they did not turn that revenue into profitability, and that affected the whole segment of Norway.
Looking forward then, I mean, on a rolling 12-month basis, you earn around 3.4% EBITDA margin here in Norway.
Yes.
My question is, where are you heading now? I mean, is it fair to assume that you could maybe reach a mid-single digit EBITDA margin in Norway? If so, how quick could this things you're implementing now, how fast can they take before they are showing in numbers?
The first quarter is always a bit tricky for us because to begin with, it's a low season. In Norway, we do have some winter services. If you look upon Sweden, for instance, and the profit margins we're having there, they have been working actively in order to minimize the impact of the winter. If you look upon last year where we didn't have any great winter in Sweden, we were still able to. I don't remember the numbers exactly. I think it was around 6% or something. This year we have, like, 6.4%, and that means we have been successful in minimizing the dependency on winter. Of course, Norway is a different animal in terms of the winter services. Again, when the high season second quarter begins, then you have all the landscaping companies.
It's different type of services we are providing. I would be careful on comparing the first quarter activities to what we do for the reminder three quarters of the year. There you have different type of services done by the companies who done winter services. Of course, all the landscaping companies who have a low season in Q1 are fully up and running in the following three quarters.
Yeah, okay.
So-
I mean, the actions you are implementing now.
It's hard to compare the activities we are doing in the low season in Norway versus what we are doing in the second, third, and fourth quarter in Norway. It's a little bit like comparing apples and pears.
Yeah, yeah. Okay, I understand. On a rolling basis, I think, you should have all of those quarters in it. I mean, 3.4% EBITDA margin now. Where are you heading? I mean, can we assume that these actions are implementing now and you are improving margin from Q2 onwards? Where are you heading? Is a mid-single digit margin fair to assume in Norway for the full year or?
Yeah.
Jonny, looking at how those rolling 12 months look leaving Q1 now, basically is that we started to have challenges in more with the significant extent during Q3 last year when we had one company delivering product breakdowns and so on. The market has also turned negative during that time. On a rolling 12 months, we still have quite tough comparables looking at Q2 last year. Of course, we're committed to bottom out in the next few quarters and delivering the result of the actions we're actually driving out in the business. We don't guide for the future.
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Tough to say.
It's kinda tough to answer the question as we typically don't guide into the future.
Mm.
Okay. Yeah, we'll see.
Mm.
On the cash flow here a little bit.
Yes, please.
Yeah, sorry.
Go ahead.
Moving on.
Mm.
Moving on to cash flow here. While the free cash flow is positive here in the quarter, I think working capital tie-up is still negative on a rolling basis. I think it's SEK -170 million on a rolling 12 months basis here. How should we think about this going forward? Can we expect a further working capital release ahead the coming quarters, or what is fair?
Yeah, we have a clear seasonal pattern in our working capital build up. Going into the high season then we traditionally tie more capital what we had. What we faced during the last couple of quarters, we haven't released the amount of working capital that the business should have delivered, and therefore we addressed it with actions and are expecting us to have a catch-up effect during this year in light of the actions we have done. Looking at our portfolio, we have in total 60 companies, many of these are delivering solid cash flow. In a few entities, not in a specific area, we are addressing those specifically and making sure that the cash flow comes.
So it is down to house- traditional housekeeping on a company level, and that's where we are addressing it currently together with the local MDs. For the full year we're driving action in order to release working capital on rolling 12 months basis.
Okay. Good. Just a follow-up quick there to understand the cash flow better because it looks like, on a rolling 12-month basis, at least, it looks like that the change in receivables is the main drag.
Yeah
Explaining the most of the drag here in working capital. Can you maybe elaborate, what is driving that and, then the dynamics going forward?
Yeah. We don't see that it should be represented that there's a shift in our model or market, but of course the tough market itself contributes that it takes a bit longer to get paid than in a good market conditions. From a structural point of view, we are on top of those companies and we see a bit of a timing effect during quarters, but the actions we're now putting in place is to reduce those type of timing differences also going forward. Yeah, that's my short answer.
Okay. Just a final one from my side, and that's on the outlook. Could you maybe say something about how we should think about the outlook here in Norway and, Sweden? Also, can you say something about how April has started for you?
That's a tough question as we.
Mm
Typically give, or a detailed forecast. As I did mention, given that we talked about the performance we have done in or the improvements we've done in Sweden over the last, it's almost two years now, we have been working in improving the profit margins in Sweden, so we are at the positive trend there. I don't have any further information so to say than we are, that trend will continue. That's my expectations given what we have done during the course of 2026. Finland, we're down, I think it was two years ago. We have made a significant improvement in profit margins in Finland over the last 24 months. I do expect that one to remain solid. You look upon Germany, for instance.
I think there on that level there's a couple of companies who are performing, couple of companies we are dealing with. Overall, the performance in Germany is kind of solid as well and becoming a very important market to us. Then we are back to Norway with the discussions we have had there, that now we are going into the landscaping services and the high season in Norway. As I did mention, we have had several actions in place in Norway in order to improve that situation. When that will take into effect, I think that's a bit too early to say, but we are working diligently, as I said, on improve the situation in Norway.
From my perspective, I think we are doing the right things in Norway, and eventually we're gonna see the improvement in Norway, but I can't guide actually at what pace and at what magnitude those improvements will come. Of course, we are at like 3%-4% EBITA margin in Norway, and that is significantly below our expectations for the Norwegian market.
Okay. Understood. That was all from me. Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
The next question comes from Thomas Blikstad from Pareto Securities. Please go ahead.
Yes. Hi. Sorry to be asking about this again, but to clarify on Norway, you say that there are no contract specific pricing issues and it's just on the execution. Could you please elaborate sort of what kind of execution challenges it is then and what sort of immediate action you have taken to improve this considering the average snow level, average activity levels, so forth, and 7% organic growth?
Yeah.
Thank you.
As I did mention, overall in Norway, there is, f irst of all, the market is, it's a tough market at this point in time in Norway. They do have a high interest rate. They have fairly high cost increases or inflation, if you like, and that of course affects the situation while the, the supply for new work, so to say, is actually down. That means it's a heavy competition going on in Norway. That's kind of the basic we have in the Norwegian market, and then we have two companies who are clearly not performing. We do have the volume or the revenue to work with, but they are not able to turn that into profitability, and those are basically two company specific situations, if you like.
While we do have a good number of really good companies in Norway. I do expect Norway to start to perform while the two other companies I'm referring to, there we do have a new management in place, and we are working with those companies in order to improve the performance. It's not we. To the best of our understanding, when we look upon the contract per se, we are not sitting with long-term contracts who are unprofitable. It's much more on the execution. It's the same contract as we had before, where we were capable to making money under the old management. While we have the new management, we are not making money under the same contracts.
Okay. Do you have any sort of sense on the execution timeline and when you can sort of see a lift-off due to initiatives taken by the new management?
I think that's a very hard question to answer, but that also goes back to the discussion I had that in the Q1, we have winter specific services, and that's one type of services we are providing, and that's where they cut it short. Now we're going into the high season, and you have all the companies in Norway who will contribute to the performance of Norway. Those companies typically have a low season in the first quarter anyway. In terms of the mix, if you like, means that now we're going into landscaping and that then we should be expecting a more solid performance from our Norway, Norwegian colleagues.
Okay. Okay. I understand. Just lastly, fuel costs. Was there any impact from this, in this quarter, the lag between price crosses or similar?
Largely we get the cost over to customers, but of course, we, as everyone, are impacted by increased cost in short term. Since our project business is so short in time in terms of the average project is three months, we manage to compensate that in the new projects that we're now winning for the next coming quarter. Short term, yes, but we don't see a significant effect, and the explanation from the Q1 numbers from there.
Not like we had one or two years ago where we had a very sharp increase in inflation. That's not the situation. We do have indexation in most of our contracts in Norway. As Marcus said, we have a churn or a turnover of the product based business. No, we do not consider us being locked down into unprofitable contracts. That's not the case we are looking at in Norway.
Okay. That's very clear. Thank you. That's all from me.
Thank you.
Thank you, Thomas.
As a reminder, if you wish to ask a question please dial pound key five on your telephone keypad. The next question comes from Karl-Johan Bonnevier from DNB Carnegie. Please go ahead.
Yes. Good afternoon, Johan and Marcus. Some kind of follow-up from me as well, please, then, if possible. First, looking at snow removal in the quarter, how much of the 13% organic growth would you say was applicable to that normalizing, say, in the way talking and thinking about it as being an easy year-on-year comparison?
I think that's really a tough question because what happened this year, and I'm not making any excuses here, this is just a fact, and that is we had good snowfalls in the month of January, and then we had a very cold season in February and onwards. We did have snow in January, and then it was cold, and we are looking upon the specific companies, how they performed. We can clearly see that the landscaping companies were suffering, and that's pretty much by design. While the service company who does have snow removal, they had a good January, not so good, February.
That's kind of the situation, and going deeper into that analysis, we still have to dig into the data, but it's hard to make those how much the contribution was. Clearly, there was a contribution from the winter if you compare to 2025 numbers, where we basically didn't have any snow at all. Of course, we had an impact on the snow in the first quarter of 2026. To what extent the organic growth was contributing to that one, it's unfortunately hard to say.
Totally appreciate the challenges of Q1 when it comes to it. Looking at the order backlog, I know you don't want to have it as a predictor of the future, but I saw a nice move both Q-on-Q and year-on-year, and I know one of the things, particularly for the Swedish operation, was to improve and strengthen the order backlog or the type that you had in the order backlog. Could you give some sort of indication what is driving it for the moment and where the components come from?
On overall, you're absolutely right. One should be careful because if you win one big contract, then that will have a very big impact on the order book.
Mm.
We have done an analysis on the order book per company level, on the average we are, I won't say happy, but we are. Typically, a company should have a minimum of three months. If they have a longer order book than nine months, then they're probably filling it up too much. When we did the analysis based on a company level from the order book, this includes Norway, we were actually not seeing any alarming numbers. For the horizon we can foresee, that is six months-nine months from today, the order book is in a good condition on a company specific level.
Sorry, my line is pretty poor here, so you're breaking up a little, but I'll look into the transcript on that. Continuing the questions then, looking at Sweden, obviously you have talked about phasing out some operation that hasn't really delivered historically and still seeing this kind of nice organic move in the Swedish operation in this quarter. Is that a sign of strength in the remaining operation, or is there something Is it also, say, a more of a normalizing effect that is happening there?
When it comes to Sweden, this dismantle of entity still impacts us negatively on a top line perspective, but it improves our profitability. There we, it's moving according to plan. Of course, when we refer to the top line, as you once said also on the organic growth in Sweden, obviously the winter services year-over-year has a impact. It's tough to break it down. Yes, the improvement actions are negatively impacting growth, but they're positively impacting profits.
Just to be clear that Sweden is a kind of, I won't say a special situation. The company was founded back a long time ago in Sweden and we had a totally different strategy from the beginning, and then we have incorporated and done a lot of stuff during the last 10 years in Sweden, and that means it's a kind of special situation. We don't foresee us closing or shutting down businesses on like a normal going concern for us. It's something we did in Sweden in order because we were not happy with the performance in Sweden.
Then we basically said that, Okay, we have to do something. I won't say dramatically, but we have to do something in Sweden to achieve a higher profit margin. That was a starting point for the program we launched almost two years ago. That included the dismantling of three companies and the divestment of one company. We are getting towards the end of that program. Then of course, we are looking upon improving the remaining companies, and they are improving in a very nice way. I'm kind of positive to the development we have in Sweden. I don't see us shutting down companies left or right. That's not part of our strategy. That's what we did in Sweden in order to...
They do have another historical background, so we need to keep that in mind. We are improving performance in Sweden. I'm kind of happy with that one. Now, as I said, we are working heavily on improve the situation in Norway. We're going forward. Of course, we will see a return to higher profit margins in both Sweden and in Norway.
Excellent. One final from me. Looking at the acquisition pipeline, is it still promising lots of potential transactions out there or during this period where you have been a little more, let's say, relaxed about closing transactions? Have you missed anything to any competition that has bridged the gap, so to say, and then nicked them from you?
Not really, no. I think we are working closely and I'm spending quite a bit on the M&A activities as well, so I'm deeply involved in that one. I think we have a solid pipeline in terms of companies. I don't see us missing any companies that we really would like to have invested in to any competitors or such. I think it's moving along in the way we want. Of course we are looking upon our gearing or a debt level and the financial performance of the company and at what pace we can acquire companies. Of course, given that we are at 3.1%, then we have to be prudent in terms of what we are doing in terms of investing in companies.
You have to watch what's going on there in order to not making any bad decisions. the pipeline is-
Thank you.
... from that perspective, we are in dialogue with great companies. The pipeline looks as it's supposed to be looking. It looks okay from that perspective. We have to manage the cash flow and the profitability and the debt level, making sure that we can carry on with what we are doing. The goal for this year.
Sounds very logical and very wise.
The goal, as we have communicated, that's to acquire SEK 80 million-SEK 100 million EBITA. We also have to look upon the 3.1. Of course, that's an analysis we have to do, what type of free cash flow we have available for acquisitions for the remainder of the year.
Excellent. Thank you very much for all the extra color and all the best out there.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you. Karl-Johan.
There are no more questions at this time, so I hand the conference back to the speakers for any closing comments.
Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you for listening in to this Q1 report for 2026. As I said, we are happy to be back on track in terms of organic growth. The underlying performance, EBITA performance of the company is actually improving. We do have some challenges in Norway. That's pretty much where we are. By that, I thank you for listening in.
Thank you for listening in. Take care.