Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Schindler Q3 results 2026 conference call and live webcast. I am Valentina, the Chorus Call operator. I would like to remind you that all participants will be in listen-only mode and the conference is being recorded. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session. You can register for questions at any time by pressing star and one on your telephone.
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Thank you, Valentina. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to our Q3 2026 results conference call. My name is Lars Brorson. I am Head of Investor Relations at Schindler. I am here together with Paolo Compagna, our CEO, and Carla De Geyseleer, our CFO. As usual, Paolo will discuss the highlights of our Q3 results and our 2026 market outlook, and Carla will take us through the financials. After the presentation, we are happy to take your questions. We plan to close the call at 11:00 A.M. With that, I hand over to Paolo. Paolo, please go ahead.
Good morning, everyone. I am glad to be back to report on our Q3 results. I have to say, I am quite pleased with our performance this quarter. We saw organic growth returning to our top line, both order intake and revenue, and margins continuing to expand. In short, our strategy is working and is starting to translate into accelerating profitable growth.
Now let me walk you through the highlights. In Q3, we saw a very good growth in order intake at over 10% in local currencies, with a good contribution from most of our regions and businesses. New Installations grew fastest at over 15%, Modernization at 13%, and our service and repair business at mid to high single digit. All our regions grew high single or low double digit. So broad-based strength across our organization, even in China, despite a modest decline in New Installations orders.
Revenue growth also accelerated in the quarter to 5% in local currencies, and this is largely in line with our expectations and consistent with our full year 2026 revenue guidance of a low to mid single digit growth. Overall, we saw a good execution of our backlog across our businesses, not least in Modernization, where revenue growth in Q3 came in at 16.5%. Further, our margin performance saw another 100 basis points improvement over last year's Q3.
On an adjusted basis, margins were 50 basis points higher, but where is this improvement coming from? Our teams are doing a good job in offsetting the additional cost inflation, which we are facing with pricing and further mitigation actions. Business mix was also a modest tailwind, but less than in prior quarters as our Service business saw also a good growth in this quarter.
But it is first and foremost delivery on efficiencies which continue to support the margin improvement. This also drives our revised EBIT margin guidance for the year, which we now see coming in at 13.5% versus our earlier 13%. Carla will be very happy to provide you some more details shortly. The improved competitiveness in our New Installations and Modernization businesses also has favorable implication on growth and market shares.
We spoke in July on our half year result call about how our modular platforms were supporting our market share momentum in the New Installations markets that were early in our global rollout, notably Europe. I can now say that this trend of gradual market share gains is continuing in other regions as well, including Americas and Asia Pacific, well, outside of China. A word on the changing competitive landscape.
It is clear that the industry looks set to go into a phase of consolidation, and I believe Schindler entered this period from a position of strength, with sustained improvement in our operating performance, a very strong financial position, a business model resilience, and strategic clarity. We are committed to pursuing our profitable growth with discipline and determination. I believe we have a strong foundation to capture the commercial opportunities that this changing landscape will bring.
Not at least, we continue strengthening our product offering, especially for Modernization solutions. Here you see our new PORT terminal, one of the components we released in Q3 to support our PORT technology-based Modernization packages, allowing to upgrade with PORT destination control systems, not only Schindler, but also third-party elevator systems. Finally, a word on our organization.
I am proud that we have been recognized by Forbes again this year as being among the world's best employers. We have close to 70,000 employees, and attracting and retaining talents is more important than ever to our competitiveness and to the overall health of our company. So this recognition is important to us. Now, moving to our market outlook for 2026 on slide four, which we have kept unchanged in spite of the continued macro uncertainty.
Global geopolitical events directly and indirectly impact construction costs through material price volatility, energy costs, and lead times impacted by supply chain and logistics disruption. The constant upward pressure on cost and elevated interest rates are the primary reason why the green shoots that we saw in a number of key construction markets have yet to translate into a more convincing and broad-based activity recovery across Europe and North America.
Against this backdrop, Modernization markets remain a bright spot, with solid demand across all regions and particularly vibrant activity in markets where elevator upgrades and replacements are incentivized by government programs and subsidies, well, most notably in countries like Spain and China. In New Installations, the markets continue to develop positively overall outside of China, but with meaningful country variances within each of the regions.
In Europe, hopes are rising for a definitive end of the construction crisis in Germany, with multifamily building permits continuing to grow at double digits. France remains weaker, though, and overall order books across European construction markets remain subdued. Activity in Brazil remains solid, driven by social housing segment, and in the U.S., multifamily permits continue to rise.
While in the non-residential segment, the focus is obviously on the massive AI and data center build-up rather than on the more elevator-relevant office, hospitality, and retail projects. There is no recovery in sight in China, with all indicators related to new construction remaining very weak. Asia Pacific, outside of China, continued to see healthy growth across India, Southeast Asia, and Australia. Turning now to slide five and our order intake in this third quarter.
Service, our maintenance units continued to grow, led by Asia, with the Americas portfolio now stabilizing, in line with our expectation, as indicated in our prior calls. That is in units, while in value, we continued to see in Americas Service growing at low single-digit levels. In Modernization, Q3 marked the seventh consecutive quarter of double-digit growth. We are very pleased with our consistently strong performance.
Our average growth rates over those seven quarters exceeded 16% and was well above the overall market growth, according to our estimates. Growth was well into the double-digit territory across all regions, excluding Americas, due to fewer large projects booking in the quarter year to date. However, our mod orders in Americas were stable in spite of the unfavorable quarterly comparison, and this considering the very strong growth of 2025.
EMEA was a standout, with growth exceeding 20% in all the largest mod markets of the region. In China, orders growth further accelerated from the already high rate recorded early in the year. New Installations, China saw only a modest decrease in order volumes, which can be seen as a slight improvement from prior quarters.
In the rest of the world, our NI orders grew by strong double digit, led by Asia Pacific, excluding China, and EMEA, coupled with a solid growth in Americas. We believe our growth was well above market across all those regions, and we are very pleased with the continued share gains driven by the traction of our products are enjoying in the market. With that, happy to turn over to Carla to walk us through our financial results in more details.
Thank you, Paolo. Good morning, everybody. Happy to talk you through the Q3 performance. Let us start with page seven. This is the usual summary slide of the quarter, comparing it to the prior four ones. Clearly, a very pleasing picture, as you can see, the green arrows at the left side. Good momentum at both the top line and the bottom lines.
Let me point out three highlights here. Firstly, a good uptake in order growth at over 10% this quarter, and as Paolo mentioned already, it is broad-based across our businesses. We did have slightly higher contribution from larger projects this quarter. Compared to the prior four quarters on average, the large projects added approximately 1.5 percentage points more to our order growth in Q3. Secondly, revenue growth accelerated to 5% in the quarter.
That was largely as expected and puts us well on track to deliver on our full year revenue guidance of low- to mid-single digit growth. Clearly, it was good to see the pickup in the execution of the backlog this quarter. Thirdly, we had another strong quarter in terms of our operating margins, up 100 basis points year on year on a reported basis, and 50 basis points on an adjusted basis.
We continue to make very good progress operationally, and that allows us to revise our full year margin guidance as I will discuss shortly. Moving to slide eight, our order and revenue bridges for Q3 . A good organic growth this quarter. Let us start with the order intake on the left-hand side of the slide. A strong acceleration in growth to over 10% in local currency in the quarter.
Now all our regions grew high single digits or low double digits. Even China grew high single digits led by exceptionally strong growth in the Modernization as well as good growth in Service. New Installations orders in China were down high single digit in Q3 in value and down low single digit in units. Clearly a marked improvement in China from prior quarters, and as Paolo mentioned it already.
Growth in New Installations orders was close to 16%, and excluding China, New Installations orders grew close to 20%. This quarter, New Installations grew faster than Modernizations, which grew 13%, and Service at mid to high single digits. It is also worth noting that the currency headwinds we have been facing in recent quarters reversed this quarter, with now an FX adding 120 basis points to our order growth in Q3 .
Now moving on to the revenue on the right-hand side of the slide with a growth of 5.1% in local currencies in Q3 . This is clearly a nice uptake from what we have seen in the first half, which was 1.4%. As I mentioned earlier, this was led by Modernization, where we had good backlog execution in the quarter, and it was also supported by a catch-up from Q2 on a couple of larger Modernization projects, which we closed out in the current quarter.
Revenue in New Installations was flat in Q3 as a steep decline in China down in the high 20s was offset by good growth elsewhere in the world. Finally, growth in our Service business was accretive to group overall, meaning mid single digit to high single digit. Finally, a little word on the order backlog.
Order backlog grew 4.5% year on year in local currencies in Q3 . We saw a backlog growth in all the businesses, and that compares to a 3% growth, which we reported with our Q2 results. Regionally, we saw good backlog growth outside China with EMEA growing mid single digit, Americas high single digit, and APAC ex China up double digits.
Our backlog margin was stable sequentially, but it improved year on year. Now moving to the next slide and taking a look at the operating profit. Our operating profit bridges for the quarter and year to date. You see a bit more cost inflation coming through in Q3 , but we made very good progress on the efficiencies. On a year on year basis, the efficiency improvements in procurement are starting to level out. SG&A, field, and supply chain efficiencies continue to materialize.
Now mix was slightly more favorable in the quarter than we had expected, partly driven by good growth in our Service business. That leads to quite an overall good progress on the operational bucket, which came in at +CHF 30 million in our Q3 EBIT bridge. You will also see the FX, it turned to a small positive in our bridge this quarter, which is, I think, a very welcome change from recent quarters of severe FX headwinds.
On a year-to-date basis, we saw good operational improvement of CHF 75 million, driven by pricing, driven by mix and efficiencies. Mix was a greater tailwind in H1 than it was in the current quarter. Moving on to the net profit on the next slide. As mentioned, a good development in the net profit this quarter, which was driven by operational improvement.
We also had a little bit of tailwind from lower financial cost below the operating line. That led to growth in net profit of 17% year-on-year in Q3 . The growth on a per share basis is slightly higher due to the lower share count following the cancellation of shares from the buyback program. On a year-to-date basis, growth in our net profit was 7% year-on-year, so lower than in the current quarter as we faced a decline in financial income in H1 as well as some FX headwinds. Moving on to the operating cash flow.
Operating cash flow in Q3 came in slightly higher than last year's level, driven by the uptick in our operating earnings and partly offset by a headwind from the timing of provision utilization and higher tax payments reflected in the other bucket, with net working capital neutral in the quarterly bridge. Looking at the bridge for a year to date, net working capital is a headwind, partly due to the decline in our Chinese New Installations business this year driving lower down payments.
We also had a slightly adverse impact on net working capital coming from the implementation of the ERP system in our U.S. operations, which is gradually reversing. Moving on to the guidance for 2026. Firstly, our full year revenue guidance of low to mid-single digit in local currencies remains unchanged.
The growth in our backlog and the improvement on the execution of that backlog in Q3 gives us confidence that we can deliver a good final quarter of the year. Secondly, we are revising our EBIT margin guidance to 13.5% versus our earlier 13%. Paolo and I touch now on some of the reasons for this. Including efficiency savings, including a good mitigation of cost inflation.
We also now expect a mix to be a slight tailwind in 2026. What does that mean for the final quarter of the year? Clearly we delivered a 13.5% margin year to date, and the implication of this guidance is that we expect a similar level in Q4 as we continue to work hard at mitigating the additional cost inflation we are seeing with pricing and efficiencies.
That also means a revised view on our adjustment items for 2026. Firstly, we now expect restructuring costs to be up to CHF 40 million in 2026. That compares to the up to CHF 60 million that we guided you before. As for BuildingMinds, we successfully completed the transaction with Lookthrough on September 30th. This will have no further financial impact on our P&L going forward beyond the CHF 10 million of expenses year to date.
As for the additional cost inflation in 2026 related to energy, logistics, and commodity prices, there is no change to the estimate that we provided you in July, which was circa CHF 35 million. Again, I repeat, we are working hard on mitigating actions to offset these inflationary impacts in terms of pricing and efficiency. Let me also say a little word about the tariffs.
Here our estimate remains unchanged from what we have communicated earlier, which is to say an exposed gross P&L impact in 2026 of approximately CHF 15 million. Before I close, a word on our share buyback program. As of yesterday, we had completed CHF 650 million of the total CHF 700 million, so covering Tranche 1 and Tranche 2 together. Our aim remains to complete the full CHF 700 million by the time that the program ends, and this is November 5th.
In conclusion, let me end by thanking, together with my colleagues in the executive committee, our close to 70,000 employees across the globe for their efforts. It was a strong quarter for Schindler, which we all can be proud of. Super grateful to all the colleagues around the world. With that, I hand back to Lars.
Thank you, Carla. Let me remind you briefly of our Capital Markets Day on November 19th at our headquarter here in Ebikon in Switzerland. Please note that you need to register on our investor relations website, and that registration closes on October 30th. We look forward, of course, to seeing as many of you there as possible here at our campus. With that, Paolo and Carla are now happy to take your questions. I would like to ask you to limit yourself to two questions only given the limited time we have available. With that, operator, please.
Thank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. Anyone who wishes to ask a question may press star and one on their telephone. You will hear a tone to confirm that you have entered the queue. If you wish to remove yourself from the question queue, you may press star and two. Questioners on the phone are requested to disable the loudspeaker mode and eventually turn off the volume from the webcast while asking a question. Anyone who has a question may press star and one at this time. The first question comes from Andre Kukhnin from UBS. Please go ahead.
Yes, good morning. Thank you very much for taking my questions. Can I just start with a broader one with CMD upcoming and just thinking back to your ambition on profitability to achieve close to best in class, and given that now your guidance for this year exceeds the target that you had, is that ambition still there? And do you think the path to it can be at a similar pace to what you've been delivering so far?
Good morning, Andre. Paolo speaking here. You would see me smiling. It's a good question, and the only right answer is bear with us till the Capital Markets Day. Why? Obviously, we have some good plans for the future, which not only reflects on profitability but on many more things. We talk about profitable growth as you follow us now very closely. And in that regard, not to spoil too much too early, we would be very happy to have the opportunity discussing with you some details of what we aim to do in the coming few years, in the environment all of us we know, in more details.
Got it. I thought I'd try. If I can take the second question on pricing. We now got of the history of raising prices for U.S. tariffs and passing that through. We've had inflation that was unexpected from beginning of the year because of the Middle East situation, and you seem to be pricing up to pass that through as well. I just wanted to ask about that kind of capacity to implement price in the industry. Has that really changed now structurally compared to the past? And how customer reception has been to these actions that you had to take over the last couple of years?
Andre, that's a good question. Let me put it in a context of what we are doing since the last few years. Remember, this was one of the key pillars of our recovery plan, and then we translated it into our, I would say, more DNA way of working.
So, this put a bit in context. You can imagine when we talk about pricing, we talk less and less about a single action, sending out whatever letter, but it's more a broad-based approach we have now in our systems, how we guide, lead. We guide our teams in the different businesses and in the different countries. So what you see in our results is actually the mixed result of all those activities.
Therefore, to put it in perspective, there is no one single big reaction of specific customer segment in a country, but it is more a broad-based approach that we really implement as much as it is accepted by customers, by the way. They decide what is the level of pricing we can put in the market. It can be done. Therefore, if you ask what is the response? Very different. There are markets which are more receptive for translating even completely inflationary increases to the market prices and markets which are less receptive for it, and then you have to compensate more with efficiencies.
Great. Thank you very much.
Thank you, Andre. Next.
The next question comes from Vivek Midha from Citi. Please go ahead.
Thank you very much, everyone. Good morning. Hope you can hear me well. My first question is around the very good NI order growth in the quarter, just to fully understand the drivers. It looks from your chart that the NI order growth was around 5%-10% in unit terms, but as you said, it was 16% on the local currency value order growth. Could you maybe elaborate on the drivers of that gap? How much is mix, i.e. regional mix or product mix, and how much is underlying pricing? Thank you.
Yeah. Good morning, Vivek. I would go and then, Carla, if I miss some points you can complete. Let me also explain here that our NI New Installations growth, if you exclude China, was quite well distributed all over the regions, which is a pleasant feedback also to our modular platform.
You remember we were talking about our modular platform for a couple of years, and we've completed the rollout early 2025. So actually, throughout 2025, we could increase the portion of the modular platform products into our sales. So this put into the context, now what we see is also an increasing contribution of those products actually across all markets where we have introduced them. This is one contributor.
The second contributor is for sure in that specific quarter, here and there, some larger projects which we could book, and I think the combination was giving the result you have seen. But we can confirm it's not one specific country. It's really across all regions. I repeat it, to be very clear, we might have to exclude China in this broad-based discussion.
Understood. If I could quickly follow up on that, you've commented that you've been able to increase the percentage mix of the modular platform. Could you maybe give us an update what proportion of your NI orders are covered by that modular platform? Thank you.
Yeah. Maybe I can give you an insight. It is a bit different, let us say, region by region. You remember Europe, so in the European markets, we were starting first. In Europe, the most, I must say, the very most of the sold products are modular platform-related products. And if you go to Asia Pacific, where we last introduced it might be around the half or a bit above the half. So you can say, if you put a formula over it is quite high, very high in European zones, and increasing in AP and Americas. I hope this gives light.
Yeah.
Yeah. Thank you.
What you see is really the results of the progress in the product portfolio. And then a bit of strengthened with the uptake, as Paolo says, in the large project, but it is not only driven by that, and on top of it, we have the solid pricing.
Fully understood. My last question is just a quick follow-up on your comment around restructuring costs coming in below your original expectations. Should we think that this is a timing effect and the shortfall gets pushed into 2027, or is it just that you see lower need? Thank you.
Well, when you make your plans for restructuring, you base it on certain assumptions and there are many initiatives. It is rather, I would say, different needs as the initiatives move. Do we see less? Well, no, because in the future, we will continue to work on efficiencies, and we still have some potential out there. But we are happy to brief you more on that when we give you more insight on the outlook for 2027. But it will be a constant one because otherwise, we would not be successful in working on the efficiencies.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Vivek. Next.
The next question comes from Ines Lefranc from Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead.
Hi. I will ask two questions. My first question, you mentioned Germany potentially recovering, and flagged it as one of the countries in Europe that might be potentially recovering. Can you give us a bit more color here, please?
Ines, good morning. Yes. I was mentioning Germany as one of the larger European markets where we were expecting, I can say, for a couple of years, a significant recovery in residential, especially, as the demand was very high. We have seen for a couple of years also leading indicators being very weak. Remember, we were reporting also on very weak building permits and so on.
Now, the situation in Germany, if I might summarize with my words, is the leading indicators are improving. We see permits increasing, demand exploding, one could say. However, the translation into real orders on the market is still, I must say, to materialize.
There is still a gap between what could be possible in the market and what we really see on executed demand, which I, without any speculation, I would put in the light of also geopolitical and economical situation in Germany, which put people in the position to wait a moment before investing in this venture. At the same time, we see a continuing business in infrastructure, in some commercial segments, but residential segments itself, we would see more potential to come whenever the environment would, how to say, unleash the brakes.
Very clear.
That's it.
Yeah, very clear. Thank you very much. On my second question, I wondered whether you could provide a bit more color on the market share gains. I know you credited modular solutions, but is there a reason why there's something specific about your modular solutions that are enabling these market share gains? Are there any other drivers? Thank you.
Yeah. Thank you . Without going to individual market shares, why we see a market share gain is with the modular platform, we have introduced a product range which allows to be on one hand side, on a very high quality customer perception level, while having also on the entire value chain, benefits coming from the modularity and simplicity of the products.
These two combination obviously give in many of the key markets, a good position when it comes to everything which is in low and mid-range. If you remember, we were introducing this year stepwise or in waves, also the modular platform in the U.S. for the mid-range. Especially there, one could see how market shares are moving as a consequence of the benefit of the modular platform.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Ines. Next.
The next question comes from Aron Ceccarelli from Bank of America. Please go ahead.
Hello. Hi. Good morning, everybody. Congratulations on a good quarter. My first question is on cost inflation. I guess you guys would like to probably provide more color for the CMD, but as you look into 2027, how would you frame the balance between pricing, wage inflation, and raw materials cost at this stage? That's the first one.
Carla, I leave it to you in a second.
Yes.
I would say, looking to 2027, someone would need, in today's times, a crystal ball to be able to predict what will happen. We learned this year what happens with energy cost, especially gasoline and all related to it. Now to lay out and say, "Oh, next year we plan for this and this," would be a very bold position. We have to stay awake.
We have to be very conscious that the inflationary environment might further increase. Now how we look differently in pricing as a mitigating action against expected wage inflation and inflationary impacts from energy, raw material, and so on. Here we have some structure in place to be closely watching up what happens and always adjusting both the pricing and the efficiency measures. Carla, I would leave it to you also to complete the picture.
Well, I think you said already the summary. In terms, I think of fuel and logistics cost, it is a bit of a crystal ball. That is number one. We know there is a bit of upward pressure for sure, the raw materials, because that is already clear in the areas of copper, aluminum, but also steel is on its way up. Look, we know that the task is to offset that with efficiencies and with pricing, and up to now and especially also in Q3 .
First of all, efficiencies, we have materialized now over a longer period, and we know we have still a task at hand, so we will continue doing our homework there. In pricing, so far solid pricing and reasonably successful in mitigating these cost pressures through pricing. So we also continue on that road. Yeah.
Thank you very much. My follow-up is on your new orders. The backlog margin is up year-over-year, if I got it correctly, and stable sequentially. Could you perhaps give us a little bit of color when it comes to the margins of new orders, please?
Well, the new orders are very much supporting what you have seen here in Q3 , and I repeat it is sequentially more or less a flat year-on-year an improvement. I have to make one exception, and that is China, because that is a bit a negative outlier, because also in China, when it comes to the volume, we see still a decline. We don't see as such an uptick in leading indicators in China, and that means also that in terms of margins, that this continue also to be very much under pressure. Yeah.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Aron. Next?
The next question comes from Martin Hüsler from Zürcher Kantonalbank. Please go ahead.
Thanks, and good morning, everyone. I have two questions. Maybe the first one, you mentioned that Service was kind of surprising for you also a bit in the third quarter and added positively, obviously, to the mix effect. What was the main driver behind a surprisingly good Service business, which I usually think you should have a high visibility?
Yeah. Martin, good morning. Let's look at the Service business in total. Here, again, without going into too many details, it might still be a bit different from zone to zone, to country to country. But overall, we are not surprised. We are pleased to see that what we were expecting in the beginning of the year is starting materializing. Let me put this please in context. We can say yes, we are pleased to see. You remember in Q1 and Q2, we were saying, well, we have a lot of activities under the Service business, and we would expect towards Q3 and Q4 to see certain pick up in recoveries of portfolios.
This we were talking about, and some of you were also asking in the half year closing, well, how much are we confident that towards end of the year we might see some recap or a gaining portfolio. This is what we now see coming in.
Therefore, when we say we are pleased or we are happy to see that what we were expecting over now a period of few quarters starting to materialize is actually a positive trend on the recoveries. In many countries, a good trend on the retention of our portfolio. Which we, I must say, with a big thank you to all our customers, recognize as a big sign of loyalty of our customers to us in many markets.
Okay, thanks a lot. The second question is on China, where obviously the third quarter NI Schindler performance was very strong, I would say, against the market. What do you think is the main driver to this, that you only were down something like 0%-5%?
Well, on NI, Martin, we're only down 4%-5%. I think it's more of a flattish development. I would not be too enthusiastic. I would not be too depressed on this one. It's more of a flattish development, which we say in today's environment is okay, something to build on and to take it from here.
But not a special large project that you won versus a year ago, where probably the mix was a bit different?
Thank you for clarifying. But no, nothing which we could now mention as the breakthrough project we booked. No. It is really a broad-based business. When I was starting to say, at the beginning of the call, that I am pleased with the result our teams are generating with our customers, I must say in almost all the countries, it is really a broad-based, ground solid business.
This makes us confident, not at least for what we plan for the future. Please, all of us, we should all be very humble, recognizing in which environment we all are acting. Therefore, when I was saying, hey, we are happy, it is less about single results, which you see in the numbers, Martin, it is much more that we see a broad-based, solid business and good feedback from customers, which makes us confident.
Okay. Thank you.
Thank you, Martin. Next.
The next question comes from Nick Housden from RBC Capital Markets. Please go ahead.
Yes. Hi, everyone. Thanks for taking my questions. The first one is on the mix tailwinds that you have been talking about. I think you were quite clear, as far back, I think, as about a year ago, that those tailwinds would kind of neutralize or even become slight headwinds. It seems like you are seeing those actually coming better than you were expected. I am just wondering why is that exactly? Is it just because the Service growth has been quite strong, or are there some other dynamics in there?
Yeah. Nick, Carla here. Thank you for the question. Yeah, that is indeed a major driver. As Paolo just explained, a very good development in the Service business, that is actually the main driver. As I said, we had then also good margins in the New Installations business. Of course, the two helped, but it is mainly the Service development.
Great. My second one is on the year-to-date development in Modernization margins, just looking for maybe some directional commentary here. As that business kind of gains scale quarter-over-quarter, are you seeing margins also expand, or are you kind of reinvesting some of those economies of scale and maybe winning market share?
Nick, that is a very good observation. We were mentioning the growth pace we see in Modernization. Estimations, right or wrong, we believe that in some markets we are growing Modernization business higher than the market growth. So we also there, we see a contribution to our increasing Service business. This being said, you are right, Modernization business has a high importance in Schindler.
I was also mentioning product developments going very strongly into that business line. So as a result, the margins, you could say, are slightly improving, but we also definitely invest margin gains into business as Modernization business growth is one of the key pillars of our midterm strategy. Therefore, your observation is spot on. Margins are slightly increasing, why we reinvest a portion of the gains into business.
That is very clear. Thank you very much.
Thank you, Nick.
Ladies and gentlemen, that was the last question. I would now like to turn the conference back over to Lars Brorson for any closing remarks.
Very good. Thank you, Valentina. Thank you very much for attending today's call. Please feel free to reach out to investor relations if you have any follow-ups. After our Capital Markets Day on November 19th, the next scheduled event is our full year results call on February 10th, 2027. With that, thank you very much. Goodbye.
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