Ericsson Q1 2025, Summary

Ericsson reported stable organic sales and strong growth in the Americas market area for Q1 2025. Gross margin came in at 48.5%, and the company delivered an EBITDA margin of 12.6%, reflecting broad-based improvements across all segments and market areas.

Key Highlights

  • Organic sales were stable with strong growth in the Americas market area

  • Gross margin of 48.5%

  • EBITDA margin of 12.6%

  • Cloud software and services reported its first positive first quarter ever

  • Continued progress on strategic priorities, strengthening leadership in mobile networks and announcing new partnerships for programmable networks

  • Expanded portfolio with plans to offer 130 radios supporting programmable networks in 2025

  • Announced the first programmable network in Asia Pacific with Telstra in Australia

  • Improved commercial traction in the enterprise segment, with customers moving from proof of concept to commercial deployment

  • Network API ecosystem scaling up, with top three US operators launching a fraud detection API in partnership with Aduna

Outlook

For Q2 2025, Ericsson expects both networks and cloud software and services segments to see broadly similar sales to average 3-year seasonality. The networks gross margin is expected to be in the range of 48% to 50%, including the positive benefit from retroactive IPR and an estimated negative 1 percentage point impact from tariffs.

The company remains confident in its strong competitive position in mobile networks and expects the enterprise segment to stabilize during the remainder of 2025. While the external environment adds uncertainty, Ericsson is prepared with actions taken over the past few years to control pricing, spending, and working capital management.


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Hello everyone and welcome to the presentation of Ericsson's first quarter 2025 results. With me here in the studio today are Beria Ekholm, our President and CEO, and Lars Armstrom, our Chief Financial Officer. As usual, we'll have a short presentation followed by Q and A, and in order to ask a question, you'll need to join the conference by phone. Details can be found in today's earnings release and on the investor relations website. Please be advised that today's call is being recorded and that today's presentation may include forward looking statements. These statements are based on our current expectations and certain planning assumptions which are subject to risks and uncertainties. The actual results may differ materially due to factors mentioned in today's press release and discussed in this conference call. We encourage you to read about these risks and uncertainties in our earnings report as well as in our annual report. I'll hand the call now over to Burja and to Lars for their introductory comments. Great. Thanks, Daniel, and good morning everyone and thanks for joining us today. So we executed well in Q1 despite the challenging and fast changing macro backdrop. Organic sales were stable with strong growth in market area. Americas gross margin came in at 48.5% and we delivered an EBITDA margin of 12.6%. The improvement that we saw was broad based across all segments and market areas and it's really thanks to strong execution of our plans. Cloud software and services can call out a bit because it also had the first positive first quarter ever. We also continued to make good progress against our strategic priorities in the quarter by strengthening our leadership in mobile networks and announcing new partnerships that will accelerate the development of programmable networks with differentiated connectivity and open API architectures in mobile networks. We expanded our leading portfolio and we're on track to offer a portfolio of 130 radios this year that all support programmable networks. We also announced the first programmable network in Asia Pacific with Telstra in Australia. In enterprise, we're seeing improved commercial traction as customers are moving from proof of concept into commercial deployment. One example here is Jaguar Land Rover that's implementing a private 5G network to fully digitalize their manufacturing, again benefiting from the flexibility of a 5G network. Another is in network APIs where the top three US operators have announced they launch a fraud detection API this year in partnership with Aduna. As you may recall, Aduna is the joint venture we announced last year to aggregate and sell network APIs. So we now continue to see the network API ecosystem scaling up with additional partners joining Aduna and the first early revenues coming in. So we're seeing good momentum on our strategy built on programmable networks offering differentiated services, which will allow new ways for our operator customers to generate new revenue sources on their network investments. Of course, the current macroeconomic turmoil and tariffs are impacting our industry and we will not be immune. We have taken actions over the many years to actually build resilience into our supply chain, including how and where we develop and manufacture our products. So our focus remains on controlling what we actually can control, including of course, pricing and spending and the actions we've taken position Ericsson well, to succeed across varying market conditions. Let me now comment further on the market development we saw in Q1. As you know, in February we announced the consolidation of our regional structure. So this is the first quarter with two new market Market Area Americas and Market Area Europe, Middle east and Africa. In Market Area America, sales increased by 20% year over year, with good growth in North America, partly offset by lower sales in Latin America, where we of course face intense competition from the Chinese vendors. Networks grew strongly in North America, benefiting from our previous contract wins. But I would like to single out this also from the accelerated network investments by the other customers. And it's worthwhile to remember that historically North America is a front runner in the adoption of new technology and thereby often a leading indicator for other markets. Sales in Europe, Middle east and Africa declined by 7% year over year. And there you have of course, that Europe was stable and that was supported by market share gains and network modernization. In Southeast Asia, Oceania and India, sales decreased by 17% year over year as a result of more normalized operator investment levels in India. And here you remember we had a relatively high level in Q1 of last year. Lastly, sales in Northeast Asia slowed. This was due to reduced customer investments in some 5G frontrunner markets. With that, let me hand over to Lars to go through the financials in detail. Alright, let me start by giving you some additional points on the group before discussing the segments more in detail. Net sales in Q1amounted to 55 billion and organic sales were stable. Year on year, reported sales increased 3%, including a currency benefit of 1.8 billion. North America growth was strong for the fourth quarter in a row and sales in Europe were stable. Sales in the other markets declined, particularly in India, which had a relatively strong Q1 2024 and in the Middle east and Africa, IPR revenues slightly increased. The run rate exiting Q1 is approximately 13 billion. Adjusted gross margin was 48.5% in Q1, an increase from 42.7 last year. Margin improved benefiting from product and market mix as well as cost reduction actions. Operating expenses were 20.5 billion flat compared to the prior year. A negative currency impact of 0.5 billion was offset by lower amortization of intangible assets. Adjusted EBITDA increased by 1.8 billion to 6.9 billion. In Q1 2024 we had a one time gain of 1.9 billion this quarter. EBITDA was supported by increased gross income and the ebitda money was 12.6%. We also had a currency benefit of 0.4 billion. Cash flow was 2.7 billion, a slight decline compared to last year on the back of an exceptionally strong Q4 with early payments. Let's move on to the financial trends. While the market conditions have clearly been challenging, we have seen a stabilization of sales. Rolling 12 month sales bottomed in Q3 2024. The gross margin trend was driven by by product and market mix, supply chain efficiency and cost actions. IPR growth also have contributed and we again saw a favorable EBITDA development although partly offset by lower sales and somewhat higher operating expenses. Let's move to the segments then. In Networks, sales increased by 6% year on year to 35.6 billion including a currency benefit of 1.1 billion. So organic sales increased by 3 percentage points. In sales in the market area America sales grew 38% and here we benefit from contract wins and accelerated network investments in North America which reflected in part some tariff uncertainty. Other market areas declined with the largest decline in India where investment levels have now normalized. Networks adjusted gross margin was 51% benefiting from product and market miss as well as the cost reduction actions in the past years coming through networks adjusted EBITDA was 7.5 billion and the EBITDA margin increased significantly year on year to 21%. The EBITDA improvement was driven by improved gross income partly offset by increased R and D expenses. In segment cloud, software and services sales were stable with growth in core networks and software sales offset by lower sales in managed services, organic sales decreased 3%. Sales growth in market area Southeast Asia, Oceania and India was offset by declining sales elsewhere. Adjusted gross margin increased year on year to 39.9% benefiting from a higher software share, commercial discipline and delivery performance. Improvement in gross margin and lower operating expenses resulted in a positive Q1. EBITDA in enterprise sales decreased 1% and organic sales were down 7% here. Global communications platform declined by 9% impacted by the decision to focus on more profitable market segments and to reduce activities in some countries and here we expect stabilization. During 2025 enterprise wireless solutions grew by 20% driven by higher subscriber and product sales in enterprise networking. Gross income increased by 0.5 billion and was up year on year across all the business in the segment. Global communications platform increased despite the sales decline. Adjusted EBITDA was minus 0.5 billion. Then turning to free cash flow which was 2.7 billion before MA in the quarter. The step down from Q4 reflected the unusual seasonality of lower Q1 share of profit and annual cash bonus payments as well as the unusually high level of early payments in Q4. The cash flow was the result of the improved result and was partly offset by somewhat increased operating working capital as well as the seasonal payments of incentives and the inflow from IPR payments received from our licensees. Net cash remained at similar levels to last quarter, impacted by the revaluation, exchange or exchange rates. Next I will cover the outlook. The global turmoil we have seen in Q1 and that has continued in recent weeks is already having significant impacts, including currency rates and global trade flows. This can of course affect customer behaviours and investment decisions over time, but so far we have seen limited impacts. So there is increased uncertainty of our forecast in a number of different areas and the future is quite difficult to predict. With that in mind, turning first to sales, we expect both networks and cloud software and services to be broadly similar to average 3 year seasonality in Q2. This includes the partial resolution of the Lenovo patent litigation and assumes current exchange rates. The current volatility of currencies makes predictions more difficult. As an example, if the rates at the end of March had been used for Q1, reported net sales would have been approximately 4% lower. Next Networks gross margin. Here prediction is also more difficult. Tariffs could of course change at any time and the broader macroeconomic environment and investment climate remains very uncertain, so difficult to judge. But from what we see today, we expect network gross margin to be in the range of 48 to 50% for Q2. This includes the positive benefit from retroactive IPR as Well as a negative 1 percentage point Estimated impact from margins from tariffs. We still benefit from some earlier tariff mitigation actions in Q2 and if current tariff proposals stay the same, the Q2 impact could be a little bit higher. With that I hand back to you Bea. Thanks Lars. So looking ahead, we remain confident of our strong competitive position in mobile networks and expect enterprise to stabilize during the remainder of 2025. There is a growing customer interest in our programmable networks and many service providers need to invest in their networks to keep the competitive to keep them competitive at current data traffic levels. North America, as I said before, is often a front runner market. So the recovery in investments gives cause for optimism for our markets. This is of course encouraging, but ultimately the exact timing of investments is in the hands of our customers. Of course, the external environment is also adding uncertainty, but we're prepared with the actions we've taken over the past few years. We continue to be laser focused on controlling what we can control and respond with actions that position Ericsson to succeed across varying market conditions. This includes pricing, reflecting our leadership position, working on our cost base, as you have seen we've done over the past year and a half and how we manage working capital, which we also have done quite successfully over the past few years, while at the same time maintain focus on the long term strategy execution. This way we ensure Ericsson can manage short term market swings, but also that we're well positioned for the long term. So in closing, our strategy is working, our momentum is gaining traction. High performing programmable networks that enable differentiated connectivity or the future. This will allow our customers to increase monetization of network investments and actually create new growth areas for us. So before going into Q and A, I would like to thank all my colleagues for their really hard work in making these results possible. It's truly an outstanding team we have here at Ericsson. With that, let's open up for Q and A. Daniel. Thanks Beria. So we'll now move to the Q and A part of the call. As a reminder, to ask a question, you'll need to press Star one and one on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. And if you're streaming the webcast, please could you mute the webcast audio while asking a question so we can avoid any feedback. And as usual, if I can request one question per participant please, so we have time to hear from as many of you as possible. Okay, operator, we're ready to take the first question, please. So the first question this morning will come from Francois Bonvignier at ubs. Francois, your line is now open. Please go ahead. Thank you very much. So my question will be on the topical topic of tariff. So you mentioned this uncertainty and this 1 percentage point impact on tariff. Could you elaborate? You know how the tariff are impacting your business? It's 100 basis points. A bit more details as to the building blocks of this impact. And importantly, with the tariff in mind, do you see any inventory build happening as we speak? Ahead of this tariff, that is, could we expect more negative impact in the second half of the year? That would be my question. Thank you very much. If you look at the building blocks, I think it's very much connected to the material flow that we have both direct components, but also site material, etc. That we have in the complete delivery to our customers. And as you know, we have production today well diversified in different parts, with production in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, etc. So that is the resilience we have built up over time here. So that is why some parts of this impact is coming on these flows that we see based on the current decisions then that we had last Friday. I think when it comes to your question there on inventory buildup, we had some inventory buildup already here in Q1 in our own sites to make sure that we have material in place and could handle a bit of the situation. But going forward we don't see big impacts from that. Also from a customer perspective, we don't expect too big impacts from this part. Thank you. I would only say one thing that's part of Laura's answer is the ecosystem of component suppliers. Right. That's where we actually invested quite a lot over the years to broaden that. But that's probably where we need to be a bit more active also to build a western ecosystem in those components. Thank you. Super. Thanks, Francois. So we're now ready to move on to the next question, please. The next question is going to come from the line of Andreas Yolsson at Carnegie. Andreas, your line should now be open. Thank you and good morning. And maybe a little bit broader question. You mentioned that there is a need for investing in both programmable networks and in the sort of capacity. But when you discuss this with customers, how do they balance that with all the uncertainty that we have all around the world? And that not only not just looking for base stations, but also for 5G standalone, for instance, and the APIs. How do you see that progressing throughout the year, not just for the next quarter? Thank you. That's a good question. Andreas, the uncertainty. I think this is more of a general question where investment climates tend to benefit from certainty and we're almost in the opposite end of that spectrum. So you have kind of concerns around that. What I would say though is historically, when you look at uncertain periods, the data traffic actually continues to grow. So I think the need for the service providers to make sure that they have cost effective, high performance networks are going to continue to increase. I have no doubt about that. Because that's what we've seen in these periods before. What we're seeing is actually great progress on the network APIs. Of course it's, it's driven by the early markets. Like we said, the launch of fraud APIs that we're doing jointly with three operators in the US is actually critical in shaping this ecosystem. So I do believe we're here. It's so early in the development that actually the general uncertainty doesn't impact so much. Call it that because we shouldn't really say it's driven by the general economy. So I think there it concerns me less where we see on standalone. That's the major shift the industry have to do. You know, I think we're only at 1 in 4 networks or so, maybe 1 in 3, maybe it's 1 in 5, but it's that range converted into 5G standalone and ultimately to get the capabilities of 5G we need to convert solid mid band build out combined with going to 5G standalone. And if you look, for example in Europe we're only at less than half of sites prepared for mid band. And very few operators having launched really standalone services. We're starting to see some big operators having launched standalone. For example, T Mobile in the US have, but we see other operators as well, Geo, Singtel, etc. So I do think that that is a next step because your ability as an operator to offer new services increases with the standalone. But I would also say the performance of the network increases again, so benefiting your customer experience at the end of the day. So I think we're, you know, we can speculate. I can't tell you that this is the way it's going to pan out, but I think there are a bit puts or gives and takes in this. So I'm rather comfortable that the world is going to migrate towards more, build out more capacity and more SA as we move along in the year. Perfect. Thank you. Thanks for the question. Andreas, we'll move to the next question, please. Next question is coming for the line of Andrew Gardner at City. Andrew, please go ahead. Do you hear us? Andrew? Hello, Andrew, we're cutting out. Okay, Andrew, if we don't hear you, I think we'll move to the next, but we'll try and bring you back a bit later. Can you hear me now? Daniel? We do now hear you. Yes, go ahead. So I had another one on the tariff side of things, if I could and in particular the reference you make to the slight pull forward in demand for one. Q I'm just wondering about or if you can help me with some of the moving pieces as we look to second quarter, you've had pull forward to an extent in North America in the first quarter. Lars, you also highlighted the headwind that would be present in the second quarter. On my math, based on your rule of thumb, that's already 4% headwind quarter on quarter. Yet despite those headwinds of pull forward and effects, you're guiding to normal seasonality. So that's implying much stronger organic growth quarter on quarter than we would normally see. Where is that coming from? From a regional perspective, Is it still strength in North America? Are you starting to see things bottoming elsewhere and you're expecting other regions to grow above seasonally? Just some of those moving parts would be very helpful. Thank you. I think when it comes to poolings, I think it's more. The correct term is rather the product mix impact it had. So it's not so much a question about pooling, it's more a question that the product mix was a. Where we had a bit more of call it more high margin product mix supporting in Q1. So that's on that question. And when it comes to as you said on the Q2. Yes. On the FX side there. And that implies a slight growth. And we also have a bit of ipr, of course in the retroactive part. And when it comes to the markets there, we have still, as you might remember, during last year we saw the impact from ramping up in North America really starting to come into the numbers in Q2 and then we're more fully into the numbers for the second half of last year. So that is still an impact that we can see coming into Q2 and also India coming down to more normalized levels in, in Q2. So that is a little bit the details I can give to you on that. And it's based on what we see today coming into Q2 with the product and market mix. That is what our estimate is based on. Okay, and just a quick follow up, how should we then think of that into the second half of the year? You flagged now a stable market as opposed to prior expectations of growth based on the industry analyst forecast. And with above seasonal organic trends in the first part of the year, does that not leave you at risk in the second half? What's your visibility into the customer demand at that point? When it comes to outlook, as you know, we guide on the next quarter and when it comes to full year, we don't guide on that. What I can say is that if you look at the full year and the flat raw market. We maintain that view that we had also coming out of Q4. So that is a slight growth if you exclude China then in the Rand market and coming down from the high growth rates that we had during the second half last year, coming down to more call it normalized levels and then there is potential for growth. We see investment needs in markets like India and other parts of Asia. But then at the end of the day it's the customer who decide when to invest. Of course. But that could be some of the moving parts for the second half. Thanks for the question Andrew. We will move on to the next question please. Next question is coming from the line of Joakim Ganal at dnb. Please go ahead Joakim. Thank you very much Daniel. So very impressive gross margins here. Anyway we look at it and on the strength in North America, coming just back to what we just discussed but can you help us dissect how much of the Q1 strength is a factor of pre buy effects with strong hardware sales and there could be actually some potentially delayed services rollout here since the services percentage of networks revenue actually declined quarter over quarter. So will we see a change in the product mix at for instance at&t where you will become more Service heavy in H2 20, 25 and that could actually be a drag on gross margins. We don't comment on specific customers as you know but as we have talked about before is that we will see a gradual shift when it comes to the product mix for the second half with the rollout programs that we see today in the margin. But I think it's also worth mentioning that in Q1, yes North America is a high proportion of the total sales that helps the margin but what is really driving the underlying margin improvement is it is broad based. We see margin improvements in all market areas and all segments here in the quarter. So that is supporting and that is coming from the cost activities and productivity activities we have done for quite some years now and supporting the margin. So that is kind of the building blocks. I don't know if you want to add more. No, I think that you said it's the broad based recovery or improvement that that is actually what matters. And I would say when you look at the globe over the past few years we've actually taken a lot of effort to try to make us less sensitive to call it the geographic mix. So from a margin perspective it's much more important that we have been able to deliver the improvement in the underlying business than anything. So then we flag A bit about the call it pre buying, but more in the product mix. But I would say the key driver is all the work my colleagues have put into improving the operations and that's really what matters. That sounds encouraging. Thank you. Thanks for the question, Joachim, moving to the next question, please. Next question is coming from Sandeep Deshtpandy at JP Morgan. Sandeep, please go ahead. Hi, thanks for letting me on. I have questions on margin. The two short questions I have on margin are firstly, you know you're seeing this very strong margin. How much of that margin that you see, the gross margin that you're seeing is coming from the mix and how much, particularly in terms of the guided margin into the next quarter where you're guiding, I think 49% at the midpoint gross margin in the networks business is coming from this new deal that you've signed. And how much of that is one off because there will be back payments on that deal. Thank you. When it comes, we don't split up the different margin impacts, but the three areas that we highlight is product mix, underlying improvements and to some extent the market mix. So those are the three components that we try to bring forward. And when it comes to Q2, we don't disclose how much is retroactive payments, etc. But of course it has an impact and that's part of the outlook that we give. And on the other end you have somewhat negative impact on the IPRs also coming in with around the percentage point. So that those are the building blocks and then there is somewhat of an underlying organic growth then in the quarter as well. So that is the building blocks that we see going into Q2. And on the IPR I think it's also negative. IPR you talked about. What was the negative IPR you talked about? No, to clarify, the negative. Negative is the tariff port tariff. Okay, sorry. So it's worthwhile also to remember that the IPR is actually a partial agreement as well. Yes, it's not a full agreement, it's a partial agreement that will come. Thank you. Thanks, Sandeep. Moving to the next question, please. Next question is going to come from the line of Sebastian Stabovitz at Kepler Shavra. Your line is now open. Sebastian. Yes, hello everyone. Thanks for taking my question on the cost cutting actions. Where are you standing right now? Where are you putting, I would say the focus those days and how should we model the OPEX for the full year? Are you still targeting a broadly flattish OPEX for 2025 when it comes to OPEX, if you look at what we are doing. We have continuously made decisions, we'll continue to make decisions. We live in a flat raw market and together with an inflationary market that of course will require cost reductions to offset this part. That is what we are working against. How it will exactly pan out is of course I cannot give you that full guidance, but that is what we are working towards. Then there can be some investments within R and D, specific areas within networks that we address. But on the other hand, we have made decisions in cloud software and services with reductions. So those are kind of the big moving parts that we have. Okay, thank you. Thanks, Sebastian. Moving on to the next question, please. Next question is coming from Frederick Lithell at hanoldsbanken. Frederic, please go ahead. Thank you very much for taking my questions as well. And congrats to strong results. Can I please come back to the margin guidance for the second quarter? If you printed 51% for networks in Q1 and you guide excluding the tariffs of 49 to 51% in Q2, which sort of based on that you expect normal seasonal growth of around 8%. So I mean if we take out the Lenovo part, are you expecting the margins to come down for the sort of the product side excluding the IPRs or how should we view that? I'm a little bit confused on this. Thank you. When it comes to the organic growth, I think as I mentioned there, the currency impact in Q1, if we recalculate that to the rates coming out, it was around 4 percentage points. So I think that can be worth keeping in mind going forward as well. And when it comes to margin, we said 48 to 50. And then if you exclude the tariff impact, this is based on what we see in the product and market mix going into the quarter. So I think. And then of course there is a bit of support from the IPR in that as well. But so those are the moving parts that are there and I will not go in and and give exact details on everything, but those are our market estimations that we see when it comes to the product deliveries and service deliveries for the quarter. Yeah, I think you said at some point that you also in Q1 you saw maybe not so much pre buying in sort of before tariffs, but rather than that you had a positive product mix with sort of higher margin products supporting the Q1 gross margin in networks, is that correct that you had that type of effect in the GROSS Money in Q1? Yes, I think we can say that we had a somewhat favorable product mix both on the hardware and software side here in Q1. But as you know we are also in the project business. So there can be big deliveries late in a quarter with quite an impact on the margin. So therefore we try to. This is what we see now and that is what we are trying to communicate. And I think it's also fair to say that, you know, the product mix is driven by the traffic development in networks. So how much of it is driven by what is very hard to dissect. So we're only saying that we saw a bit of shift of product mix in the end of the quarter. As Lars said, how much of that is? I wouldn't label it necessarily pre buying more. As a matter of fact the needs shifting in the network we'll see. But the best visibility is what Laura said. Perfect. Very, very clear. Thank you. Thanks Frederic. Next question please. Next question is coming for the line of Richard Kramer at Arete. Richard, please go ahead. Thanks very much. Guys, just a question that hasn't been asked yet. Services within networks has now declined for eight straight quarters and four over the last five quarters in Cloud SoftW. Is this supply led or demand led? My question is really are you making a deliberate change to try to push Ericsson towards structurally higher margin products business or is this a function of customers having less demand for services or you wanting to do less services for them? Thanks. It's a good question, Richard. I would say it actually varies a bit. So if you look at the network rollout have historically been a very difficult business for Ericsson. So we have tried to very proactively reduce that. So that's what you see coming through in the numbers. It's still an important part of the offering. So that's why it's not going to go away. But I think it's important to get into higher margin business longer term on the managed services there. As you know we have had dating back to 2017, re scoping of contracts where we have tried to get out of not attractive contracts. So that's an element of proactively pruning the portfolio. But you've also seen the last, I would say the last two, three years a little bit more push on customers for insourcing. So we have had a couple of contracts being insourced. I will say what we see now in customer discussions is actually a bit more positive. You know the complexity networks are increasing quite substantially when you roll out 5G. So we're starting to see now customers coming back and actually we see an increasing sales of managed service and we had one fairly Big win this quarter and I'm getting a bit more excited about the opportunity here driven by the demand for resilience reliability in the networks and combined with the complexity. So I think the picture is a bit mixed here where part is a proactive decision but part of it is actually a market that's now starting to come back. So I think we may have reason to revisit your question if we're successful on demand services in the next few years actually. Thanks very much. Thanks for the question, Richard. Next question please. Next question is coming from the line of Sami Sarkamides at Danske Bank. Please go ahead. Sami. Hi. Thanks. I wanted to ask about market outlook on regional basis. If you look at Q1 sales to other regions than North America still did not grow even though you continue to talk about pent up demand, do you have visibility on improvement during 25 with potentially black figures before the year end in other regions than North America? I think, I mean what is the case is North America is growing. That's normally a very good indicator what happens in the rest. So keep that in mind. The other is Europe has started to grow during second part of last year. Now we're not breaking out Europe so it's combined with other parts of the world but that indicates that there is actually that's happening that they need to invest in the networks starting to come through. And then we have which I would say Southeast Asia, Oceania and India where India has normalized and we had a fairly strong Q1 last year. So when you make comparables of course that impacts year over year. So I think the overall as we have said the external analyst talks about the flattish market for the year. That's of course recovery from the shrinking of the former years where we've seen a fairly big contraction over the last two, three years to be honest. So I think we're, we're starting to see that, you know, stabilization and possible improvement going forward again typically led by frontrunner markets. So I'm. It's always, I mean it's easy to have an opinion about the future. It's only hard to be right. So let's, let's think about what we can do here. But we're trying to give you the best visibility we have. Okay, thanks. Thanks Ami. Moving to the next question please. Next question is coming from the line of Ulrich Rather at Bernstein. Ulrich, please go ahead. Thanks very much. I wanted to come back to the tariffs in particular two aspects of that. The first one is this 1 percentage point impact for the second quarter. I think during your prepared remarks you said that was reflecting what the status of that was on Friday. Obviously over the weekend there were already additional news. I just wanted to make sure I fully understand what the 1 percentage point actually reflects in terms of the status of these tariffs. Does it essentially reflect only the removal of the excess tariffs or also this risk of reinstatement that came out over the weekend? And then the second thing is if you could just give a bit more color. I mean I'm not entirely sure where you would be willing to give more color, but obvious questions in this context are what percentage of the US sales is actually less production in terms of the value depth? How much capacity do you see in the US amongst third party contracts, manufacturers that you can tap or you have you already locked in significant capacities. And I mean there's any number of questions here. I don't want to list them all, but if you could just give a bit more color what that resilience that you're talking about actually comes from. Thank you so much. If I start, you can continue looking at the 1% that we gave. It's based on where we came out Friday and what we see there. That is our current view will come coming out today as well. And then as you know there will be new information coming and how they will impact we will have to follow. But we just wanted to make sure that at least to give our best estimate where we stand now given the last changes that has been coming. That is what we're trying to say with this number. And then when it comes to production, we don't give, we have a US production site where we can produce. We don't give exact numbers on how much is coming from where. And it is as I said, we have production in, in U.S. south America and Europe and part of Asia and we can shift volumes between sites but it's not a quick change of course, but we don't do any big changes now because we don't know actually where we're going to land. So we will see here in the coming months if we choose to ramp up or down between different sites. But it's very depending on where the tariffs actually land at the end of the day here. And I think it's also important to tie it back to actually the first question, what is it that gives rise to the tariffs actually components and really site material. So those are the flows that we need to work on and we need to create, I call it a western ecosystem in this. And that's going to take some time, but that is what really gives rise to the tariffs? Thank you very much. Thanks for the question. Ulrich, we have time for just one more question today, please, if we can move the next question up the queue. Thanks. So the last question for today is coming from Felix Hendrickson from Nordea. Felix, please go ahead. Hi, guys. Thanks for squeezing me in. Could you talk a bit about the competitive trends that you're seeing outside of the US and related to that, the negative organic growth figures that you delivered outside of the Americas? Are these sort of related to broader demand weakness or has the competitive environment also gotten tougher? Thank you. So if you look outside, I think we already last year said that the competition from Chinese vendors have increased. So that's really not the change. It's been the same for several quarters now. So I would say that we have some footprint losses and we have some footprint gains that's coming in the numbers. So I wouldn't say it's a change, but the market has been slower outside of North America. But really, when you focus on the wins or losses, we'll have to see where market shares come. But I don't see. I see some footprint gains and some footprint losses. So I think they are more or less evening out. But let's see when the final numbers come from the market. Thank you. Thanks for the question, Felix. So that concludes the call today. Thanks everyone for joining.

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