Rasmus Køjborg
Hi, and good afternoon. On behalf of H.C.
Andersen Capital, I would like to welcome you all to this presentation of the Q1 2026 report from SP Group that was published yesterday. My name is Rasmus Køjborg, and I have the pleasure of welcoming CEO Lars Bering and CFO Allan Jeppesen.
They promise to take us through the numbers and recent highlights, a warm welcome to the two of you. Before I hand over, I would also like to give a warm welcome to all of those of you who signed up for today's presentation.
As usual, you can ask questions during the presentation in the chat room on the lower right corner, and we are also recording this presentation and will publish it on different platforms afterwards. With that, I'll turn off my camera and be back for the Q&A, but for now I'll leave it to you, Lars and Allan.
Please go ahead.
Lars Bering
Thank you very much, Rasmus. Welcome, and thank you for joining SP Group's presentation of the interim report for Q1 2026.
My name is Lars Bering, and I'm CEO of SP Group.
Allan Jeppesen
I'm Allan Jeppesen, CFO of SP Group.
Lars Bering
Together with Søren Ulstrup, we make up SP Group's Executive Board. We will start today with a brief introduction of SP Group for you joining us for the first time, followed by a review of Q1 2026, where we have set nice records in several areas.
Allan and I will be sharing the presentation today, and we will be supplementing each other along the way. SP Group develops and produce and sell plastic solutions for a wide range of industries.
Our focus is technical components, typically single-use products for the healthcare sector, or plastic components that is integrated into our customers' products and used for many years. In Q1 2026, 76% of our revenue came from sub-supplier work and 24% came from our own products.
We have a global setup with 33 factories and almost 2,800 employees. Finally, we are focused on increasing the share of recycled plastic in our production.
We have reached 18% and have a target to reach 25% in the year 2030.
Allan Jeppesen
As you can see on the right side of the screen, our revenue is distributed across several product groups. 35% of the company revenue is generated within the product group healthcare.
Healthcare is including medical devices, medical packaging, as well as ergonomic products. The second-largest product group is cleantech, which covers products as renewable energy, energy reduction, and insulation.
The third is foodtech, which has a share of 14% of our revenue. Within this product group, you find livestock housing ventilation systems and different measuring equipment, or products to different measuring equipments.
The remaining products fall in under the category other, which covers 22% of our revenue. Within this products group, you find furniture, you find special vehicle products, and also products for the defense industry.
We will return later on regarding the performance of each of these segments.
Lars Bering
Yes. SP Group is organized into a number of independent units, each owning their customer relationship and their technology and their products.
The light green ones on the left-hand side is our proprietary products, which are niche products that are sold in our own brands. That includes the companies Ergomat, SP Medical, MedicoPack.
On the right side, you see the subcontracting companies where we have SP Moulding doing injection molding. We also have SP TPI doing composites.
With the acquisition of Idé-Pro, we have added new capabilities within EPP and EPS casting, light metal casting, and toolmaking. The decentralized structure enable us to be close to the customers, have fast decision-making, and agility in the day-to-day operations.
Then we are actively working on create synergies across the group, especially on procurement, knowledge sharing, and cross sales.
Allan Jeppesen
Here you see our global footprint. SP Group is presence in 13 countries, providing a strong global footprint where the international diversification creates a good foundation for growth and reduces the dependency on individual markets.
Of the 13 countries, we are currently having manufacturing operations in nine, with, as Lars mentioned before, 33 factories. As shown on the world map, Asia is representing 10% of the group revenue; North, South America, 16%; Europe, 47%; and Denmark, 27%.
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Lars Bering
let's look at the highlights for the quarter. It has been a very strong quarter.
Q1 was a record-breaking quarter with a revenue growth of 22.9%, of which organic growth accounted for 11.3%. We managed to reach an EBITDA margin of 20.4% and an EBIT margin of 13%.
Overall, the best quarter in our history.
Allan Jeppesen
At the same time, we are confirming our full-year '26 guidance. We still expect a revenue growth in the level of 15% to 23%, an EBITDA margin in the level of 19% to 21%, and EBIT margin of 11% to 13%.
Later today on this presentation, we will address the basis of our guidance, both in relation to the record result in Q1, but also the geopolitical challenges from the current situation in the Middle East.
Lars Bering
Yes, and beyond the financial highlights, there are a number of important operational milestones, I think that is worth to highlight. There's been a solid growth in both our own products and in our subcontracting work.
We are well underway with the expansion of the medical production in Poland, and the construction is progressing well. At the same time, the collaboration with the new team in Idé-Pro is came off with a good start.
On the picture on the right-hand side, you see our solar park that we are part owner of. Stourp Solar Park is now operational, is producing green, clean electricity for SP Group.
All of this we will explain more in details on the coming slides. Sales of our own products increased by 4.1% to 235 million kroner in Q1, which was a new record.
There's a strong growth in sale of components for livestock ventilation, while the development in ergonomical products were flat. On the same time, MedicoPack's packaging and the guidewire sales declined a little bit.
For MedicoPack, it was significant impacted by a customer's decision to phase out a product and leave this market entirely. On the guidewire sales, it reflected a focus on high-margin products so we make sure that the capacity is used in the best possibly way.
Moving to subcontracting orders, here we saw a very strong development in Q1. Revenue from subcontracting increased by 30.5% to 731 millions.
This was driven both by organic growth and contribution from Idé-Pro. The growth is reflects high activity on all customer segments that Allan will tell more about a little later, but particularly strong growth in both cleantech and foodtech.
We are pleased that many new customers has chosen SP Group to solve plastic task, which help to grow in the future as well.
Allan Jeppesen
The performance across our product groups is shown on this slide. At the top, you can find the share of the revenue on each of the product groups, and also with examples of what is included in each of the groups.
Below, you see the revenue development within the four groups. It's a comparison of Q1 2025 with Q1 2026.
As the figures show, all four product groups have delivered positive growth. It is worth mentioning that this growth actually comes on the top of a record back in Q1 2025.
The healthcare category is, in several respects, project-driven, and timing can impact individual quarters. We have seen a strong influx of new customers and projects in this segment, which we expect to materialize in the coming quarters.
The pipeline in this area is actually and remains very strong. The remaining product categories have grown between 33% and 64% in Q1, a growth driven by a strong combination of the acquisition of Idé-Pro back in December '25 and a very solid organic growth across individual product groups.
Yes, and
Lars Bering
the expansion of a new cleanroom in Poland is well underway. We are building this inside the house you can see on the picture here on the right-hand side.
We are converting an existing building of 7,000 square meters into a building for medical production, with a focus on capacity, efficiency, and better space utilization. A new 1,700 square meter cleanroom is expected to be ready by end of Q2 2026, and this investment is very important for us to be able to deliver on existing agreements and new agreements that will start to give work here in the coming months.
The integration of Idé-Pro is also on track. Idé-Pro became a part of SP Group just before New Year, and we are very busy introducing our teams to each other and to detail plan all actions in the integration.
Idé-Pro has production facilities in Skive and Glyngøre in Denmark, as well as in Bangalore in India. The company employs around 325 people.
Their capability spans injection molding, light metal casting, and molding in EPP and EPS. The focus is on prototypes and low-volume production.
Cross-selling is well underway. We are already seeing concrete examples of existing SP customers requesting Idé-Pro's capabilities and vice versa.
In addition, we are planning an expansion of the factory in India to support future growth. All in all, we are very pleased with the integration and how it's progressing.
Allan Jeppesen
Let's take a closer look on the financial results of Q1 2026, all of which have developed positively during the last three months. The four metrics you see on the screen illustrates the performance within revenue, within the operating result, EBITDA, EBIT, and EBT.
If we look at the revenue, you will see that we have a 966 million realized actual in the first three months of 2026, which actually is a growth of 22.9%, placing us in the upper end of our full-year revenue guidance. We touched briefly on the positive performance across the product segments earlier.
Growth that was both driven by organic and growth from acquisitions. We are very pleased to note that organic growth have accounted for approximately half of the total growth in Q1, to be more precise, actually 11.3%.
Measured in local currencies, the growth was in fact 13.6%. This also confirms that the Idé-Pro is on track and contributes with 11.6% of the growth, which was anticipated and budgeted.
Turning to the EBITDA, we again see a positive trend, where we are pleased to report a growth of 18.5% compared to Q1 last year. The EBITDA margin came in at 20.4%, which is within the guided range for the full year and actually 0.2 percentage point ahead of the full-year financial year 2025.
Earnings before tax for Q1 increased by 24.2% to 225 million, another record-high result. On this slide, you see development within the operating cash flows, the earnings per share, and below those, you see the interest-bearing debt and the development in equity.
The strong operating result is also reflected in the cash flow from operating activities, where we generated 159 million in Q1, an improvement of 28 million compared to Q1 last year. In '25, our interest-bearing debt increased as a natural consequence of the acquisition of Idé-Pro at the end of December '25.
In Q1, we, as expected, has reduced our net interest-bearing debt, which at the end of March was 1.388 billion. The leverage measured as net interest-bearing debt to EBITDA was at 2.2 times end of March 2026.
Lars Bering
Yes. SP Group has grown consistently since the financial crisis, both organically and through acquisitions.
The compound annual growth rate over the period is 8.9% based on the last 12 months. We have completed more than 20 major and minor acquisitions in the period and actually participated in the consolidation of the plastics industry.
We are convinced that this approach, a combination of organic growth and strategic acquisitions, will continue to be a part of our growth strategy. Over the past 10 years, we have improved our EBITDA margin from 14% in 2016 and now to 20%, an improvement of 6 percentage points.
The margin improvement has been achieved through a sustained focus on three drivers. First, an increased share of our own products.
These products are very important for us because it is niche plastic products that we are able to maintain a larger or higher margins on compared to our subcontracting work. Second, we have increased the production in Eastern Europe, which strengthens our competitiveness.
Third, we have increased automation in our production. We expect that all three drivers will continue to contribute positively to the margin development going forward.
The same picture applies to the EBIT margin, which has been lifted from 8% in 2016 to 11.8% in the most recent 12 months. EBIT growth in Q1 2026 was 24.2%, even stronger than our EBITDA growth.
Overall seen, the margin improvement has been driven over the years by the same three factors: increased share of own products, increased production in Eastern Europe, and automation. Our ambition is very, very clear.
We aim to be the best at producing plastics with a strong competitiveness and a healthy profitability. This requires a very good mix between the subcontracting orders, where we are continuously trying to improve our processes, and then on the other hand, having our own products, where we create innovation and we are able to have higher margins.
Allan Jeppesen
This slide provide an overview of the key financial figures, several of which we have already covered on the previous slides. We briefly touched on the cash flow from the operation, which has contributed positively to the change in our liquidity.
Actually, we have had a change of plus 27 million, which represent an improvement compared to last year of 61 million. On on equity, you can see that the end March was at 1 billion 865 million, which is equal to an equity ratio of 45.5%.
That ratio is in line with the most recent quarter we have seen. The remaining key figures on the slides, you are more than welcome to address any question to those on the Q&A later.
In addition to to to the strong financial performance and several positive highlights mentioned by Lars, we also held our Annual General Meeting, which took place yesterday. At the AGM, resolution were passed regarding the payment of dividend and a reduction of the share capital.
The approved dividend amounts to 4 Danish kroner per share, which is equal to an 8.7% of the net profit in '25. This is in line with the group capital allocation policy, which says between 15% to 25%.
A resolution was also passed to reduce the company's share capital by nominal 780,000 Danish kroner through the cancellation of a total of 900 3 900 300, sorry, 390,000 shares, shares which SP Group already holds in treasury. Following the reduction, the share capital would amount to a nominal of 24.2 million.
Historically, SP Group has conducted active share buyback programs on several occasions, and we have decided to continue this practice. We have initiated a new share buyback program, which will run from May 4th this year to end of December '26.
The total buyback program amounts to 40 million Danish kroner.
Lars Bering
We cannot ignore the current situation in the Middle East. The conflict is leading to increasing raw material prices and increasing energy prices in general.
We are in very close dialogue with both customers and suppliers to navigate through the situation in the best possible way. The majority of our energy consumption is green electricity, where prices are fixed.
On the raw materials side, we have been doing a big job trying to push back the increases, and where the price increases are documented and real, here we are passing them on to our customers. However, there's a certain delay on that because no one welcome a price increase and everyone tries to get rid of them initially.
There is also a geopolitical uncertainty, and that is the reason why we are maintaining our guidance for 2026.
Allan Jeppesen
As Lars mentioned, we are maintaining our '26 guidance, and it is important here to emphasize that we're doing so in light of the current geopolitical uncertainty, not in spite of it. Q1 was record strong and came in at the high end of our expectation, but we are taking a cautious approach as the conflict in the Middle East continues to have the potential to impact both demand, commodity prices, and supply chains.
We expect a revenue growth in the level of 15% to 23%, driven by new products, new customers, growth within existing customers, and also, of course, the contribution from the acquisition Idé-Pro. The EBITDA margin is expected in the range of 19% to 21%, and the EBIT margin in the range of 11% to 13%.
We have had a strong start to '26, and the underlying business remains strong. Yes.
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Lars Bering
let me sum it all up. Q1 was a record-breaking quarter with revenue growth of 22.9%, with strong organic growth of 11.3%.
We're seeing growth in both our own products and our subcontracting work. The integration with Idé-Pro is in full swing with cross-selling and planning of capacity expansion in India.
We are handling the rising of raw material prices resulting from the conflict in the Middle East. Increases are being passed on to customers on an ongoing base, and we maintain our guidance for 2026.
We have initiated a new share buyback program for 40 million, and 390,000 shares will be cancelled. The underlying business, as Allan said, is very strong.
SP Group is ready for continued growth. Thank you for your attention.
We are ready for questions.
Rasmus Køjborg
Thank you, Lars and Allan. I'll be joining here with the camera to do the Q&A session here.
I think we will move a little bit back on your slides to this overview slide, there's a few questions related to this one. There is one first here, 22.9% growth, as we can see here on the slide as well, and of those, 11.3% organic.
What gives you the confidence in your order book for the rest of the year, and could the upper end of the 15% to 23% range be in play?
Lars Bering
We think, as Allan said a minute ago, that there is a lot of uncertainty on how things will develop. We have had a very good Q1.
We are having a good order book as we speak. However, prices are increasing.
We are seeing some disturbance in supply, but not anything else that it is giving us trouble. The picture is also blurry.
It's difficult to guess what is going to happen in the second half of the year, and therefore we are cautious to say that things will keep on being as nice as they are right now.
Rasmus Køjborg
Good. A question on the EBITDA margin, it says here it slipped to 20.4% from 21.1% despite the record top line.
Is that Idé-Pro dilution? Is it raw materials, the US ramp-up, or a combination of the three?
Allan Jeppesen
This is a question of product mix when you compare Q1 to Q1 '25 to Q1 2026. If you make a comparison with the full year of '25 and not only Q1, as mentioned, we have actually had a growth of 0.2 percentage point to 20.4%.
Lars Bering
Exactly. Then a big part of it is that Idé-Pro is coming in with a lot of subcontracting work, diluting the share of our own products a little bit, and our own products has typically delivered higher margins, and therefore it has changed a little bit.
Rasmus Køjborg
Good. Also looking at sort of M&A, there's a question here, as we can also see on the slide here, that your leverage is already down from 2.5 end '25 to now 2.2 the end of the quarter.
You're only three, four months down the road with Idé-Pro, but is this level making you comfortable doing more M&A? How could you give a little brief on the M&A pipeline at the moment?
Lars Bering
We are always looking for interesting M&A opportunities, and we have a list of candidates that could join the SP family over time. This is continuously something that we work with.
For sure, we see that 2.2 is an okay area to be in to do more acquisitions. On the other hand, we also like the fact that we were able to do the Idé-Pro acquisition, and after the acquisition not being more at than 2.5.
Having said that, if the right opportunity arises, I'm sure we are going to find a way to make it succeed without jeopardizing anything in the business.
Rasmus Køjborg
Good. Also looking a bit on this slide, we can't see it directly, but if you look at the capital expenditures, you can see it from the report, and of course it's part of the investing activities here.
In Q1 last year, it was 58 million, and it's 48 million in the last quarter here. I was just wondering, you're both ramping up on Atlanta, on Poland, and is this 48 level a run rate from here, or do you think we should see CapEx go up in the coming quarters?
Allan Jeppesen
We actually believe that we are at a level we're going to see the coming quarters. We have had very little exposure on currency, but we have had a positive impact in Q1 compared to Q1 2025, where we had a small negative impact from currency.
Rasmus Køjborg
Good. Also looking at the US, Atlanta keeps ramping up with new machines on the way.
Are you seeing customers actually shift volumes to the US because of tariffs, and could you sort of give us a general update on the tariff situation?
Lars Bering
On the tariff situation, then here we are already in progress trying to get some of them back. On the production side in Atlanta, we are very busy.
Production is running 24/7 on the machines that we have, and we have a good plan for the rest of the year to put in many more machines in the plant where we already have made agreements. Yes.
Rasmus Køjborg
Good. The last question here, I'll just switch to this slide on the war in the Middle East.
You are flagging rising raw material prices and some delivery issues. Have you seen any effect on this in Q1 on your growth that sort of clients and your customers are pulling forward orders because they expect price hikes later on in the year?
Have you seen any effect on that?
Lars Bering
Overall seen, no, not in Q1. The flow from orders to raw material is typically some weeks, and with this happening in the Middle East in March, the impact here cannot, if any, have been very, very big.
We have had a very good dialogue in March and also in April with both suppliers and customers in order to secure raw material and keep production high for the coming months. Of course, this could also have an impact later on if the situation does not resolve.
Rasmus Køjborg
Very good. That will end today's presentation.
Thank you very much, Lars and Allan, for joining us here today.
Lars Bering
Thank you, and thank you to all of you who has been listening in.
Rasmus Køjborg
Thank you very much, and have a nice day.
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