Hello, and welcome to the Hexagon Q2 Report 2022. Throughout the call, all participants will be in listen-only mode, and afterwards, there will be a question and answer session. Today, I am pleased to present Ola Rollén. Please go ahead with your meeting.
Thank you, and welcome everyone to this Interim Report Earnings Call for the Second Quarter of 2022. If we turn to slide four, overview of the second quarter, recorded sales increased by 20%. Organic growth was 6%, and we saw continued strong business momentum, all divisions recorded growth. We were still suffering from the strained component supply, which hampered growth by 6%. We're expecting a resolution of the supply chain pressures by the end of the year. In spite of that, we record a record gross margin at 65%, and our adjusted operating margin came in at 29.4%. Now, this is obviously a reminder, as always, on slide five, Q2 is a strong quarter.
Q4 is our strongest quarter, and there is no reason to not expect this seasonality in profit over the quarters for 2022 as well. If we move to slide six, this is an overview over the P&L statement, and invoice sales came in at EUR 1,289 million before revenue adjustments related to acquisitions in the quarter. I would like to skip slide seven, which really is year- to- date, and move to cash flow. There are really only two things to point out. It's very strong cash flow, but as you can see, taxes paid in the quarter were EUR 42 million higher than last year. We also had a release in working capital, but not as strong as this time last year. Cash conversion amounted to 88%. Slide nine, working capital to sales.
The working capital to sales is at 6.1% for this quarter, and we see a continuous positive trend in the long-term working capital release. Market development, if we go to slide 11, we see the sales mix per geographic region where we've seen some significant changes. North America is now our largest region with 34% of sales, and we also see the impact from the war in Ukraine on the rest of EMEA, which has shrunk from 8%- 7% of sales. Moving to slide 12, this is just an overview how the geographic regions fare, where we see strong growth in Asia, excluding China. South America also reporting strong double-digit growth. North America, Western Europe doing fine. China is reporting 1% organic growth. Then we see primarily the impact from the war in Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa.
This slide 13, the so-called arrow slide, is for your reference, and I am not gonna comment it in any detail today. I suggest we move to slide 14. EMEA. Western Europe recorded 7% organic growth. We saw strong double-digit growth in Nordics, Germany, and the U.K. We saw continued strong demand for surveying and reality capture solutions in Western Europe. Solid growth in aerospace, power, and energy. EMEA, excluding Western Europe, declined, and the primary reason for that is the war between Russia and Ukraine, where we have ceased sales to Russia. Eastern Europe and Middle East recorded strong organic growth in the quarter. We move to slide 15, Americas. North America saw 7% recorded organic growth. Solid growth across most industries. United States reported 10% organic growth, while Canada reported weak growth due to delays in the imagery program.
South America, solid double-digit organic growth. Strong growth in the Andean countries from mining, but we also saw agriculture, power, and energy growing. 35% organic growth from South America. Moving to Asia, slide 16, China recorded 1% organic growth. We saw good growth in general manufacturing and aerospace, but we also saw that the lockdown and availability issues in our infrastructure related business hampered the Chinese organic growth. South Korea, Japan, and India all recorded good growth in the quarter, and it's supported by solid demand for surveying and manufacturing solutions throughout the region. In Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, saw strong double-digit growth as well. Moving to reporting segments, slide 18, Geospatial Enterprise Solutions reports 7% organic growth, where Geosystems report 8% organic growth and safety, infrastructure, and geospatial 1% organic growth.
Autonomy and positioning came in at 6% organic growth. What's happening is that we see strong demand across all industries for Geosystems. We do see growth for our dispatch solutions in safety and infrastructure, but we see weak demand from defense. In autonomy and positioning, we see strong growth in both agriculture and the recovery in our marine business. Sales came in at EUR 650 million and EBIT at EUR 206 million, which corresponds to an EBIT margin of 31.6%. We saw positive impact from volume growth and currency movements in this segment, but we continuously invest in new product launches and marketing, and this is also where we have most of the impact from the component delays that had an adverse effect on margins. Moving to Industrial Enterprise Solutions, slide 19.
Organic growth 6%, where Manufacturing Intelligence reports 6% growth, mainly driven by strong demand in the Americas and solid business momentum in aerospace and general manufacturing across the world. Asset Lifecycle Intelligence, previously called PPM, report 5% organic growth, and we see growth in design software from EPCs in the quarter. Asset Information, Cybersecurity Solutions also grew. We report sales of EUR 638 million and an EBIT of EUR 178 million, and here we saw an improved EBIT margin of 1%. Slide 20, gross margin. Gross margin for the past 12 months is now at 65%, and if we move to slide 21, we see that EBIT margin is at 29%. M&A orders and product releases in the quarter, if we go to slide 23.
We announced the ETQ acquisition, and we consolidated ETQ for the first time in Q2. ETQ is a leading provider of SaaS-based so-called QMS, Quality Management Software, and EHS, Environment, Health and Safety Software, and Compliance Management Software. It's gonna be consolidated into our Manufacturing Intelligence Division and was consolidated as of April 1st. Now, slide 24, we saw a lot of new products being launched at Hexagon LIVE in June. We unveiled the new BLK360, which is an ultra-fast 360 laser scanner, dramatically improving reality capture with its speed, portability and ease of use. We also launched Leica Pegasus, which is the mobile mapping solution, and also Chiroptera-5, which is the bathymetric LiDAR, which we, among other applications, use for our project in the Bahamas to save the sea seaweed beds. Slide 25.
We also announced the acquisition of Innovatia Accelerator Inc, which also is the SaaS-based digitalization solution that transform operations and modernize field work in manufacturing and process industries. Slide 26. We also realized the full potential of smart, sustainable manufacturing with the launch of our new platform, Nexus. Nexus is a new open platform for smart manufacturing solutions. It's designed to connect siloed engineering and unlock manufacturing innovation. We're gonna see a lot of development in Nexus in the years to come. Slide 27, JCB, the British manufacturer of construction and agriculture tractors. They have decided to integrate smart advanced precision agriculture technology featuring our GNSS smart antenna receiver and our TerraStar correction services. Slide 28 is an interesting project where we worked with Ford, and we created a Ford Transit by-wire R&D platform, which uses Hexagon's autonomous software stack to create a fully autonomous delivery system.
Race 3D, slide 29, is a Netherlands-based pioneer that is using our mobile mapping solutions to create 3D environments all across the country of Netherlands. Slide 30, we saw continued demand for Hexagon's OnCall suite. This quarter, we delivered OnCall to Panama, the city of San Miguelito, and also to the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. We also started a collaboration with Xona Space Systems. This is an aerospace startup developing precision navigation and timing systems in low Earth orbit, so-called LEO. They will use our PNT solutions. PNT stands for positioning, navigation, and timing in their new constellation. Slide 32, we also present a new solution for cloud processing of ground-penetrating radar data.
This is used for location of utilities, underground utilities, and it's a company called AiMaps that is creating a new SaaS-based solution to document underground utilities and basically raising productivity when you improve or maintain underground utilities. They are using our ground-penetrating radar and our HxDR software platform to create their service. Advances in measurement while harnessing the energy of the sun. TÜV Rheinland engineering companies in Spain specializing in solar energy. Now, they have improved their quality inspection effectiveness of their solar panels by using Hexagon's Absolute Tracker ATS600. On slide 34, we had several industrial design and workplace safety wins in East Asia. Toyo Engineering Corporation of China bought Smart 3D, and Hanwha TotalEnergies Petrochemical in Korea is standardizing on Hexagon's information management solutions to support workplace safety and operational sustainability.
Slide 35, digital transformation around the asset life cycle in the Americas. We got several orders in the quarter from the Americas in digital transformation of large industrial assets. With that, we've concluded orders and releases in the quarter, and let's talk a bit about our organization. We announced on the 27th of June that I will step down, and as of year-end, I will be replaced by Paolo Guglielmini to be appointed the new President and CEO of Hexagon. We'll see if it's the 31st of December or the 1st of January. MSAB, our principal shareholder, has together with the nomination committee, the intention to propose me as new chairman of the board at the AGM of 2023. Gun Nilsson will step down as CEO for Hexagon at the same time.
Furthermore, on slide 38, we also announced that Joshua Weiss will replace Paolo as President of our Manufacturing Intelligence Division, and also that Michael Ritter will assume a new senior role as President for off-road, our off-road autonomy portfolio, overseeing our autonomy and positioning divisions, our mining division, and our agriculture division. In connection to that, effective October 2022, Maria Luthström, currently head of sustainability and investor relations, will succeed Michael Ritter as President of Autonomy and Positioning. With that, I think we have reached our Q&A session. With that, I'd like to conclude this presentation, and if there are any questions, we are open for answering those. Thank you.
Thank you. If you do wish to ask a question, please press zero and one on your telephone keypad. If you wish to withdraw your question, you may do so by pressing zero and two to cancel. The first question we've received is from Kathinka De Kuyper, J.P. Morgan. Your line is now open. Please go ahead.
Hi, Ola. Thanks for taking my question. A few from me, please. First of all, can you comment on the visibility you have into the second half and 2023, given the challenging macro backdrop? Obviously, you've mentioned six points of headwind from supply chain challenges, both into Q1 and Q2, so that must provide some additional visibility, right?
No, we don't comment on the visibility because that would be giving a forecast.
Have you seen any changes in customer behavior during the quarter, for example, have sales cycles been getting longer, or have you seen demand accelerating, for example, for cloud as customers prefer OpEx over CapEx in an environment like this?
No, we haven't seen any changes in the second quarter. Second quarter is very similar to the first quarter. Your second question was on cloud versus on-prem or?
Would the macro backdrop kind of accelerate the demand for cloud?
No, I don't think so. I think you take a decision to have a cloud-based software based on the benefits of having a cloud-based software. I think that trend is continuing, that we see more and more cloud-based solutions regardless of the business backdrop.
Okay. A final question from my side. On margins, travel and events coming back in this quarter, would you say you're back to a more normalized level of expenses?
Yeah, we are. What happened in the second quarter is that we saw increased activity in traveling. We saw increased activity in trade shows and so on. For example, we hosted our big conference in Las Vegas, which is not free of charge. I think that is what we saw happening in the OpEx line.
Great. Thank you.
Thanks.
The next question is from Daniel Djurberg, Handelsbanken. Your line is now open. Please go ahead.
Thank you, operator, and good morning, Ola. Now to my questions here. First on the components hurdle that we saw in the first half, can you comment if it's in a new area, so if it's similar to what we saw in Q4, Q1, and also on your order backlog, you stated it was a record level Q4, I think Q1 as well, and if it's yeah holding up for the second half.
No, it's very much the same story as in Q1. We see most of the problems in Geospatial and primarily with Geosystems, but also a bit in A&P. We had some minor issues in other businesses, but those are contributing with the lion's share of the lack of components.
Thank you. On cost inflation, obviously, sales expenses was up quite much, but you had Hexagon LIVE, and so forth. But on the increase, how to think throughout the year? Do you have any, you know, stepwise increases, or and also if on the number that we saw, obviously have FX structure and part of it organic. But is it possible to give any view on the, you know, inflationary part of the organic growth of the cost on the sales expenses? Sorry.
Yeah. I think the way I analyze the quarter is that I am very impressed with our gross margin increase, which shows a healthy business development. Now, had we been able to supply the products we booked in the quarter, obviously, OpEx-to-sales would have been significantly lower. At this stage, we're not particularly concerned about the OpEx increase that we see because we know that we're staffed for higher volumes. Now, that might change if we enter into a recession next year, but right now we're actually quite happy with the cost development.
Perfect. My final question, if I may. I've heard sales performance in public safety, I think it's 3% of total revenue now. Can you comment on the structure? Would it be fair to assume that some parts of Hexagon could be performing better outside of the group, for example, ALI via, of course, you know, more focus on a certain part of the company? Or is that wrong way of thinking?
No, I think the utilities and public safety business is performing very, very well. We have a legacy business with contract work for the U.S. defense, which has been lagging for that division since we acquired Intergraph. Unfortunately right now, it's a drag on the numbers.
That's fair. A view on the structure, you do a lot of acquisitions, but could it be, yeah, is everything as you would like it to be going forward in terms of structure for the full company?
No, I think we've been open, and I think we've also flagged that externally that we have roughly SEK 100 million worth of business that we would consider selling if we find the right buyer.
Okay.
It's actually equally spread between Geospatial and Industrial.
Perfect. Thanks for the update.
The next question is from Alexander Virgo, Bank of America. Your line is now open. Please go ahead.
Thanks very much. Morning, Ola. Trust you're well. I wondered if you could just give us a little bit more color around dynamics on the ground in China, particularly, I guess, with respect to construction and residential property markets. Broadly speaking, can you just talk a little bit about how things have reopened and I guess maybe a quick comment on your bumblebees, given that the ability for you guys to deliver growth in China over the last couple of quarters has been pretty impressive. I wonder if you could do that for us. Second question would just be around the dynamics of demand in terms of oil and gas in what is now ALI.
I'm thinking also about the sort of status of integration with Infor and how that's progressing. Thank you.
Wow. Let's see if I got it all here. China is interesting. We have a super efficient organization, and we're very proud of our Chinese organization. They're indeed bumblebees. You see that primarily on the industrial side, where they manage to land order after order in a very tough environment where, for example, the city of Shanghai has been closed for most of the quarter. If we move to the construction sector, we took the deliberate decision to deprioritize mid-range total stations in China in favor of other regions because we simply couldn't produce enough. That has obviously been hampering our construction sales in China.
Now we gradually see a reopening and hopefully the second half will be a little easier on the Chinese market and that's what we hope for. If we move to your oil and gas question, we do see a much more positive environment in discussions with EPCs in the oil and gas industry, where it's a combination of the war in Ukraine, which is putting pressure on supplies of oil and gas products, which will spur investments in that sector. It's a general recovery in the market. We are cautiously optimistic on oil and gas. When it comes to Infor EAM, we had our first orders where we combined Hexagon products and EAM products in the quarter. We're basically following plan in that integration.
Great. That's super helpful. Thank you very much.
Thank you.
The next question is from Johan Gunell, DNB Markets. Your line is now open. Please go ahead.
Thank you very much. Good morning. We touched upon Infor EAM here. With regards to ETQ then, can you provide a bit more color here on how that integration is going and perhaps the underlying growth rates organically of both the Infor and ETQ? Thank you.
Yeah, no, SaaS revenue, they're both SaaS companies, was growing strong double-digit for both in the quarter. Integration of ETQ has gone remarkably well, even though it's only three months. We already have synergy projects between Hexagon and ETQ. As I just mentioned, EAM is also booking its first synergy projects in the quarter. I would say they both helped Hexagon overall to deliver the results we deliver today.
Great. From a broader perspective in terms of the whole Hexagon group, can you comment a bit on any, say, timing or plans for say a more
A more comprehensive, say, source transformation that replacing
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Okay. I'll just jump back in the queue. Thanks.
A bit of a structure.
We go to the next question. It is from Erik Golrang, SEB. Your line is open. Please go ahead.
Thank you. I have three questions. The first one on the drag on growth from the supply chain being as constrained as it is. Should we think of the accumulated impact? I mean, I think it was two percentage points back in Q3, and then it's been six the last couple of quarters. Is that the rate? Do you put them all together and say there's the equivalent of 20% of sales that you haven't delivered over the course of this period? What you said there about regarding your comments on the situation expected to be resolved by year-end. I mean, it's on paper that sums up to a quite significant backlog relief.
Yeah. I mean, you can't add quarters together, because what happens is that you delay, let's say, Q1 deliveries that are late, that were supposed to be delivered in Q1, they are delivered in Q2. Then you miss deliveries for Q2 that is pushed into Q3. You should really look upon it as an accumulated number that we have to work our way through. The problem is that these businesses that are now building backlogs typically don't have backlogs. They can deliver it overnight if needed. It's a unique situation to have a backlog in this business. I don't know if that answers your question.
Yeah, I guess it does to some extent. That means that the sort of net impact, I mean, if it rolls over, it's delayed one quarter, then rolls over to the next, but then there's additional delays. The net impact isn't necessarily six percentage points then.
No, the net impact is.
Okay.
No, no. The net impact is 6%.
Next question. In the industrial division, I mean, we don't know the split of effects between the divisions. We can do some estimates on the earnings contribution from acquisitions. When I do that, the organic earnings development in industrial looks quite weak. Is that related to what you talked about the sort of selling expenses coming back and so on, or is there a particular negative mix? Could you say something about the organic margin progression or incremental margins in industrial? Also down quarter-over-quarter, which is a bit surprising given ETQ should have been margin accretive.
No, industrial is up, margin-wise.
Okay. Now I've gotten all this wrong. Sorry about that.
Yeah.
Book-to-bill in MI, third question.
Is up.
Up or positive?
In the-
Up or above one?
It's above one and it's up. We built backlog. You're absolutely right that we do see an underlying trend in both businesses where we've spent more on primarily sales in the quarter.
Okay. Thank you. Final question. Is there anything? I mean, you said you've seen continued strong demand overall. Anything that makes you concerned, I guess, outside of the situation, the macro situation, anything in your own business that makes you concerned about the second half or runway into 2023 at all?
No, I'm super happy with our performance in the company. Of course, like everybody else, you should be concerned about the macro environment because it's a quite challenging environment we're entering into.
Okay. Thank you.
Thanks.
The next question is from Sven Merkt, Barclays. The line is open. Please go ahead.
Great. Good morning. Thank you for taking my questions. Maybe we can stay on the topic. I was wondering if you could speak a little bit about what room you see to slow down OpEx growth if it would enter recession. You obviously had two cost savings programs over the last couple of years, and I was wondering if you still see some scope for another meaningful one, if needed. Related to that, can you comment on hiring? Have you made any changes on your hiring plan?
Hiring hasn't been an issue up to now. With the attrition everyone has seen in labor market, hiring is the least of our problems, that we hire too many people. The problem up till now has been to find good talent in the labor market. But when it comes to cost, there, obviously, there is always room for cost improvements if demand isn't there. I think we proved that over and over again when we'd hit recessions.
Okay. That's clear. Can you also comment on the gross margin? It was obviously very strong. To what extent?
Mm.
Was this driven by your prices rising faster than your cost? To what extent was it driven by mix? Could you then also kind of comment on which business units drove the margin improvement?
I think it's a combination of price increases and mix because the fact of the matter is that we see the delays in our hardware-based business which has slightly lower gross margins than our pure software businesses. Mix wise, we had a favorable mix, but also prices are starting to trickle through the P&L statement and definitely gave us a positive, even though small impact in the second quarter.
On the business unit, any specific business unit that drove it? Was it then just the software-heavy business unit would essentially drove it?
Sorry, I couldn't hear you there. Can you repeat that?
Just around which business units have driven the kind of margin improvement? I guess, just related to your comment, just it was probably then the software-heavy business units that drove the improvement. Is that right?
No. As a matter of fact, we saw gross profit improvements across the board, even in our hardware-based business in spite of lack of components. The small-
Okay
Mix product MI
Sorry, you cut off on me. Are you still there?
No, no. I said it's more product mix where new products are replacing old products and they have better gross margins than the products they replace.
Okay. That's clear. Thank you very much.
Thank you.
The next question is from Adam Wood, Morgan Stanley. Your line is now open. Please go ahead.
Hi. Thanks very much for taking the question. I wonder if I could just dig in on the cash flow a little bit. Cash flow conversion versus the EBIT and EBITDA deteriorated a little bit year-over-year. You flagged at the start of the call, you know, a lot of that was working capital. It looks at the balance sheet as if it's a little bit of receivable build and inventory build. Could you just talk a little bit about whether you're seeing anything different in the behavior of customers in terms of, you know, how quickly they're paying and just dig into that inventory build on the balance sheet side, please? Thank you.
No. I think what we saw in the quarter is, we were actually transferring receivables between Infor and Hexagon and that had a buildup which is a technicality really. We haven't seen customers dragging on payment conditions in the quarter.
Perfect. Thank you very much.
Thanks.
The next question is from Johannes Schaller, Deutsche Bank. Your line is now open. Please go ahead.
Yeah, thanks for taking my questions. Just want to get back to the supply chain issues. I mean, when we talk to semiconductor suppliers it looks like there is a lot more supply coming to the market in H2. You yourself also did quite a bit of redesign efforts already to improve the situation. Should we expect the six percent headwind that you had in the quarter to really largely go away now as we go into the second half? Or how do you assess the situation? Then as a second question, I mean, you're already doing 29% operating margin, strong gross margins. You had a quarter with a lot of OpEx and events with Hexagon LIVE.
Why are you not raising your guidance to more than 30% operating margin longer term? I mean, what is really keeping you back from doing that? Thank you.
Well, first of all, I think our target is more than 30% EBIT margin. We don't need to raise it. Secondly.
That's a fair way to look at it.
Secondly, I mean the best guess you can do sitting here in late July is to say that between now and New Year we're gonna see a much improved situation on supplies or components. As to when that exactly happens, that is outside my control but we do see the positive trend and we do believe that supplies are gonna be normalized within the next six months.
Certainly for next year you are not expecting any more headwinds from what you can see today, but in the second-
No
Half the exact trade is. It's not quite visible on Q3 yet. We should probably still model a headwind in Q3 then.
The one who lives will see.
Thank you.
Thanks.
The next question is from Nicholas Green, Bernstein. Your line is now open. Please go ahead.
Good morning, Ola. Thanks for taking our question. Just one question on the Nexus platform, please. Could you give us an update on how your thoughts as to rolling that out and developing that? You know, you announced it at Hexagon LIVE. I think at the time maybe it wasn't quite clear what the commercial model was, would be. Maybe you were seeking feedback from clients or you were deciding internally. Do you have any sort of more information you can share with us whether this is a paid-for service, whether it's sort of a way of maybe on selling different products? Maybe just an update because it was certainly very exciting when it was announced. I'm just keen to think about how we should be thinking about it helping the business grow.
I think you should regard it as the ultimate way of stitching together all the offerings we have in our manufacturing solutions. We are presenting through the Nexus platform, we could, for example, present a combination of CAM software, simulation software, coordinate measurement machines and so on, and stitch a solution together tailor-made for your need as the manufacturer. It's gonna obviously, it's gonna be an online sales platform, but it's much, much more than that. Eventually, it's gonna be a communication platform. It's gonna be everything around what Hexagon does for the manufacturing industry. I think you're absolutely right, you should be excited. It's a great product.
Do you expect you would sort of charge for access to it? Is it revenue generating in its own right, or is it more that it will facilitate revenue through the, you know, the different parts of the business that it opens up access to?
No, I think the access will be free. We will eventually make the money through selling, cross-selling more and more products through Nexus. The Nexus would be your meeting place, your iTunes, if you so wish.
Yeah. That's very clear. Thank you.
Thanks.
The next question is from Nay Soe Naing, Berenberg. Your line is now open. Please go ahead.
Hi. Good morning, Ola. Thank you for taking my questions. Firstly, on the impact that you have seen from the extended lockdown in China, I was wondering if you might be able to quantify it, impact on growth like you have done so with supply chain issues. Then I'll just go through the questions if that's all right. Secondly, you know, with the current general macro environment, how might you see slide 13 as an example on high level progress for the rest of the year? Then lastly, if you could give us an update on the percentages of software and recurring revenue levels, that would be great. Thank you.
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Hi, everyone.
Yeah.
Hi, Ola. Sorry, I don't know if you heard my question. If you didn't, I'm happy to repeat it.
No. We're having bad luck with the phone lines today, but please repeat it.
Oh, okay. No worries. Yeah. I was asking the impact on growth contribution from the lockdowns in China. I was wondering if you were able to quantify it, like you have done so with the supply chain impact.
Yeah. That there, I think I answered that one and said it's very hard to quantify the lockdowns in China. They have had an adverse impact, but I wouldn't dare to quantify it.
Right. Understood. Thank you. With regards to the general macro conditions that we are in, obviously, I think you mentioned that Hexagon won't be immune to it. At high level, I was wondering if you could share how slide 13, for example, might progress in the second half of the year.
What I think we all can agree on, which is not unique to Hexagon, is that consumer-related industries will suffer first. We believe that China is probably at the bottom if we take geographies, while Europe and North America is probably peaking. We also see manufacturing industry could come second after consumer industries. Then we believe that infrastructure, energy, and process, like mines and so on, will continue to see pretty good demand in the foreseeable future. If you model that on Hexagon, we do not have any direct consumer business, but we do have manufacturing. That's the best view I can give you right now.
That's really helpful. Thank you, Ola. Just one last question, hopefully a quick one. Can you give us an update on the percentage of software and recurring revenues in Hexagon? I think they were about both 40% at the end of 2021.
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Yeah. 60% software and service, 35% pure software, 40% recurring revenue. That's where we believe we're at after the second quarter.
Just to make sure I've got those numbers correct, 60% with software and services, of which 35% is pure software?
Yeah. 40% recurring.
40% recurring. Okay. Thank you very much.
Thank you. With that, I think we have time for one final question.
Okay. We now take the final question from Magnus Kruber, UBS. The line is now open. Please go ahead.
Hi. Thank you. Ola, it's Hamilton from UBS on behalf of Magnus Kruber. Last question, so hopefully I'll make it a good one. Just on supply chain, I know you mentioned you expect it to get better throughout 2022. I was just wondering if you could give any color on the phasing. Do you expect it to be a gradual process, or do you think it'll be more back-end loaded towards the end of the year?
Yeah, that's a tough one. Yeah, to play it safe, I would say it's back-end loaded. No one really knows how deliveries are gonna pan out, so that's the best guess. We will see a gradual improvement starting now, and hopefully we will have ample supply of components by year-end.
Just one quick follow-up if I can. You know, assuming that the online market activity holds up, could we see growth in Geosystems accelerate in H2?
That's a tough question. We'll see.
Great. Thank you, Ola.
Thank you. With that, I'd like to thank everyone for calling in today, and I wish you a good summer, all of you. Thank you.