Good morning also on my behalf. We have had a exciting and a great intro to my presentation this morning from the consortium and our chairman, Mats Paulsson. I'm really honored and thrilled, and believe that with the support and resources from the consortium, we will be able to further accelerate our business and our strategy execution. In the meantime, we at Caverion will continue our daily work as usual, focused on serving our customers every day. I will share this morning's presentation with our new CFO, Mikko. Mikko started end of August this year. It's really great to have you on board, Mikko. The presentation will take approximately 30 minutes. On this slide, you can have a look at our agenda. We have three topics for today. First, I will start with the Q3 in brief. I will talk about the highlights, a description of our operating environment, a few words about a new contract we have signed with the Danske Bank, our offering to meet the rapidly increasing interest in the energy efficiency solutions in the current market, the effects of Corona and the related sickness, and then our continued execution of our growth strategy to expand our business platform. Mikko will then come on stage and cover the second topic, our financial performance in Q3. Finally, I will wrap up with our guidance for the full year. Here in one page, we have Caverion in a nutshell. We had a strong quarter with the double-digit organic growth, both in our service and in our project business. We ended with a total organic growth of 11.8% in Q3. The growth was particularly driven by the increased cost of materials and external services that we were successfully able to factor into our sales prices. We estimate the inflation impact to account for roughly one-third of the organic growth that we have now posted. We expect our solid order backlog to support our revenue growth also going forward. I'm also pleased to share that our profitability and cash flow also improved. Despite the cost inflation and higher sick leave levels, we were able to show resilience and improve our Q3 result and our Adjusted EBITA, which was up by 25% from the previous year, with a margin reaching 4.8% of the revenue. I'm also pleased that in the current operating environment, we could improve our operating cash flow before financials and tax items to EUR 7.7 million during the period of Q3. We continue to expand our business platform. We did four acquisitions in Q3 with a total revenue of EUR 53.2 million. Furthermore, we acquired two companies after the reporting period, and I'll come back to our acquisitions that we have done a little bit later with more details. This was a very high-level summary of our Q3. All this is in line with our sustainable and profitable growth strategy that we published in May this year. Let's have a look at our operating environment and development during the first nine months. Overall, the economy and the uncertainty has increased during the first nine months of 2022 due to the geopolitical tension related to the Ukraine conflict, resulting in subsequent energy crisis, mounting inflation, rising interest rates, and lowered economic growth prospects. Also, the Corona pandemic still continue to have some impacts on the operating environment through higher sick leaves, and I'll get back to that in a moment. In our service business, the market demand and general investment activity remained positive. We have continued to see a general increasing interest for our services and our services supporting the sustainability agenda, such as energy management, advisory services, in projects, et cetera, et cetera. The market was, of course, impacted by our increasing material prices and delays in decision-making, but also delays in the supply chain, as well as the uncertainty in the business environment. The economic environment that we are operating in haven't changed a lot during the last quarter. The sentiment weakened in EU during the first nine months, as you can see on the graph here, along with lower economic growth prospects. On the slide, you see the sentiment, and you also see the construction confidence indicator issued by European Commission in September 2022. As you see on the graph, after uplift for many months, in March it dropped. It's of course, very much due to the Ukraine crisis, and it has continued to drop until the end of September. Here we can see the Consumer Price Index have also increased rapidly towards the end of Q3. This is also visible in the cost inflation related to material prices, fuel costs that continue to impact the building technology market and our market, as we also highlighted in Q2. There has also been supply shortages and delays in some areas. We have proactively taken various measures to optimize the supply chain and to manage the pricing. The key measures for managing the cost inflation include pricing increase clauses in our tenders, in our agreements covering the material, labor, energy and the fuel cost to serve our customers. We are pleased to announce that we just launched a new bigger order with Danske Bank, where we have a five-country contract for a long-term partnership. It's in Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden, and we will cover almost 200 branches secured by us and ensure the people's well-being. This is showing our strength and capability to deliver consistently across the countries and the expertise we can provide to our customers with smart and digital solutions. We are very much looking forward to service Danske Bank. Right now, there is an increasing interest in the energy optimization and reduction of fossil fuel consumption in our market. With a reduced delivery of gas to many countries, the green transition is being accelerated further. We have already before the ongoing energy crisis, proactively strengthened our capabilities and competencies in the energy efficiency enhancing services, and we are supporting our customers in this area. We also see a pull from our customers and the end users to make their built environment more environmentally friendly, which also have a big impact on our activities. Our solutions provide sustainable long-term energy efficiency gains. We enable our customers to reduce their energy consumption, be more sustainable, and reduce their carbon footprint via energy optimization through, for example, energy advisory, energy savings projects and remote monitoring, among many other things. This will support the sustainable investment enabling smart buildings and cities. This is the area where we are having our strategic focus and expect to benefit from in the future. As you know, Caverion is a people company. It's our biggest asset, and year to date, we have added more than 700 new employees joining Caverion as a result of the acquisitions we have done. At the end of September, we employed slightly more than 15,000 employee. Last year's figures, when you have to compare, still include 400 former colleagues in the Russian business that we divested in Q4 last year. The effects of the Corona pandemic stabilized during the third quarter. However, the sickness level are still above normal, post the peak of the Corona pandemic. However, as I said in Q2, this is the new normal and that's what we are just acting according to. We have taken many extra actions to protect our employees due to the Corona situation. In Caverion, safety always comes first. Our accident frequency rate was 4.0 at the end of September, one of the best in our sector and down from last year of 4.1. We are really pleased about that and we will continue to focus on the people's safety. As you can see here, we have been very active in the M&A front this year and expanded our capabilities and competencies in line with our strategic priorities to grow and support our customers. Year to date, we have closed nine acquisitions with a total annual revenue of EUR 92.3 million, of which four acquisitions were done in Q3 with a total annual revenue of EUR 53.2 million. Then we have done two after September this year. On this page, we have listed three companies that we have acquired during the third quarter. We acquired CS electric in Esbjerg in Denmark, a leading player in technical engineering, electrification and automation service. This acquisition support our sustainable growth strategy and expands our footprint, especially in the marine, energy and industrial customer segment, and also support the acquisition we did earlier this year with DI-Teknik. The company employs today approximately 70 people, and in 2021 it had a revenue amounting to EUR 13.4 million. In Finland, we acquired Visi, a Finnish industrial security service specialist. The company provides industrial video and access control services, as well as work and safety communication services. Visi has 22 employees, and its revenue was approximately EUR 4.6 million in the last financial period. Furthermore, Simex, one of Stavanger's region's leading suppliers in technical installation of indoor climate and cooling and heat pump systems for commercial business, was closed in the beginning of October. Furthermore, to mention in Austria, we acquired PORREAL Group, a company offering technical facility management services. We also acquired a smaller electricity company called Eskilstuna El-Tjänst in Sweden, and has signed an agreement to acquire TM Voima group substation and transmission line business in Finland and in Estonia. The acquisition strengthened our presence in the energy sector, and we are very happy to welcome our new colleagues with their expertise and seniority that they can bring to Caverion, and vice versa, that we from Caverion can bring a lot of things to their customers. We continue to execute on our strategy and invest in additional capabilities and competencies to fuel our ability to serve our customers and grow with them. We are continuously working with a healthy order pipeline in this area. I will now hand over to Mikko, who will go through our financials before I close with our market outlook and guidance. Thank you. Thank you, Jacob, and good morning also on my behalf. Now I will talk a little bit about the group's financial performance during the third quarter of 2022. Our revenue in the third quarter was EUR 564 million, up by 14% from the corresponding period in the previous year. 12% of this growth was organic. The increased prices of raw materials and external services impacted our revenue. We estimate this inflation impact to account for roughly one-third of the organic growth. For the first nine months, our revenue was EUR 1.7 billion. Now let's have a closer look on the composition of the year-to-date revenue. As you can see here, practically all our divisions have been growing, both in the third quarter and during the first nine months of the year because of increased underlying activity and partially also due to the inflation impact that I already mentioned. If we look at the year-to-date revenue split between services and projects, we can see that the share of services keeps on gradually increasing, nearing two-thirds of the group revenue. Let us then take a look at our profitability development in the third quarter. Our Adjusted EBITA in the quarter amounted to EUR 27 million, which is an improvement of 25% compared to the corresponding period last year. The respective margin was 4.8% of revenue and continued the pattern that we have had throughout this year of being more profitable than the corresponding quarter in 2021, excuse me. A key element behind this development in a high inflation environment is that we have successfully managed to cover our material cost increases in our pricing. Let us then turn to our cash flow development. There are three points that I would like to raise here. Firstly, we can see a clear seasonality pattern of operating cash flow and working capital in Caverion. In short, our cash flow typically weakens in the mid-year and improves again towards the end of the year. That being said, our operating cash flow performance during the first nine months of the year was nevertheless better than in 2021, largely thanks to the third quarter, where we saw clear improvement to 2021. Thirdly, our capital expenditure was over EUR 90 million during the first nine months, most of which was spent during the third quarter. This is, of course, a relatively high figure compared to 2021 or any other year during the history of Caverion Corporation. The reason for the high CapEx is that we have completed nine acquisitions during the reporting period, as explained by Jacob earlier. The seasonality pattern that I mentioned earlier when talking about quarterly cash flow is driven by seasonality in our working capital. Whereas our working capital continues to be negative, which is good, the growth in services business and the tightened situation in the financial markets in general has unfortunately been visible in the working capital development throughout this year. We expect, however, the working capital situation to improve towards the end of the year, as it did in 2021 and in earlier years as well. During 2022, the net debt of Caverion has increased compared to the year-end situation due to the high CapEx and increased working capital, as explained on the previous pages. Despite the increased re-leverage, our financing facilities at the end of the third quarter more than will cover our current needs. As a matter of fact, less than a year ago, however, before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Caverion rearranged all its senior financing, i.e., the EUR 100 million RCF and a EUR 50 million term loan and a EUR 75 million senior bond maturing in 2025 and 2027, as you can see on the graph on this page. Finally, let us have a look at the most important forward-looking KPI, i.e., the order backlog at the end of the quarter. As you can see, in addition to the increasing revenue in the third quarter as well as year to date, also our order backlog is increasing. This means that we have a healthy foundation for the final quarter of the year. This brings us to the guidance that Jacob now will present to you. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mikko. There has been a lot of uncertainty due to the Corona pandemic, the Ukraine war, and now the most significant factor creating uncertainty in our operating environment is the inflation and the interest rates going up. The expected impacts and risk of the crisis on our business have been described in more detail in our Q3 report. During this year, we have shown we are able to mitigate and work in these challenging times and still improve our business. Therefore, we stay confident that we can continue our positive development and our guidance published on the 10th of February, which remains valid. To conclude, for 2022, Caverion's group revenue and adjusted EBITA will grow compared to 2021.
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