Thank you, operator. Good morning, everyone.

My name is Max Strandwitz. I am the CEO of MIPS, and with me today we also have our CFO, Karin Rosenthal, and we will take you through the interim report of the second quarter 2026.

If we start with the quarter, we did see strong developments with 72% growth in the quarter. Organic growth was 42%, we adjust for Forex, which was more or less flat, and then of course we also adjust for acquisition effects.

Very strong organic growth. Year-to-date growth is now at 53%, and organic growth level at 35%.

We do see strong momentum in all categories and all geographies. Continued strong performance in Europe.

US growth helped by the acquisition and softer comparators after the implementation of tariffs last year. If we start with Europe, we did see strong organic growth with 48% growth in the quarter.

If we look at the US market, we actually managed to deliver a 32% organic growth, very, very strong number in a challenging market. The Koroyd acquisition is developing well, good interest from existing and new customers to integrate new products.

We did reach a settlement agreement regarding the legal dispute in the US. It was actually not in the quarter, it was signed on 2nd of July, but a very important factor, good to put that behind us.

We did see good improvement also in profitability. Adjusted EBIT margin in the quarter was 47%, also very strong development in profitability, and is also a strong testimony of our scalable business model.

We remain confident in our long-term strategy and our financial targets. If we start with the biggest category and look at Sport, we saw good development.

It was a good quarter with 51% net sales growth in Sport. Adjusting for acquisition and Forex, organic growth was 40%.

We saw good development continuing in the European market, especially in bike, but also good performance in snow. Then, of course, positive development also in the soft US market.

Asia is actually start coming back after a softer period. We had a small growth number in Q1 with 6%, and then in Q2 we see 80% growth in the Asian market, although from quite small numbers, but still really good to see the development also in the Asian market.

The strong performance in bike continues with volume growth for the 11th quarter in a row, which is not a given in the bike industry. Good season in the snow subcategory, driven by European market.

Europe didn't have a fantastic snow season from a weather point of view, but the snow came very early, and especially in connection with the very important Christmas sales. We actually did see good sales growth also in the North American market in snow, but of course it was also helped by a bit of softer prior-year comparator relating to tariffs.

We see strong interest in both MIPS and Koroyd, and we are long-term positive about the outlook in the Sport category. In Moto, we saw continued growth.

We saw good performance with 80% growth in the quarter. If we adjust for acquisitions and Forex, net sales grew with 56%.

Year-to-date growth is now at 49%, and organic growth at 28%. Off-road and especially motocross are still the main drivers, but encouraging to see that the hard work that we have done on on-road is also showing a positive effect.

We continue to roll out new innovations and new launches in Moto and actually look forward to really exciting end of 2026. Also here, no change in the long-term outlook, good opportunity to continue to grow in the category.

In Safety, we see that the Koroyd acquisition accelerates the growth in Safety. Really big increase in momentum after the Koroyd acquisition.

Net sales growth was 604%, and if we adjust for acquisition effect, our organic growth number was 80%. We did also announce entry into firefighting helmets with the well-known brand Dräger, which is a very strong brand in fire and safety equipment, and it also feels great to, of course, being able to go into professional workforce that risk their lives every day.

We do see good interest from new and current customers in MIPS and Koroyd's portfolio, which now also includes body protection, gloves, and footwear. We remain excited about the opportunity in the category, and no change to the long-term outlook in this category, too.

If we look a bit more in detail about the developments in the different categories, if we start with Sport, we saw good performance in all the three subsegments, which is bike, snow, and equestrian: 51% growth in the quarter, 40% organic growth. If we look at Moto, like I said, very much driven by the strong performance in off-road, but happy also about the development also in road.

If we look at the growth, we did deliver 80% growth in the quarter, and organic growth was 56%. Then, of course, with Koroyd, our relevance and size of course in the Safety category changes quite a lot.

We did have 33 million in net sales in the quarter, which actually equates to 15% of the total sales of MIPS. If we look at the growth of the category as such in Q2, we did grow with 600%, and organic growth was 80%.

Then hand over to Karin.

Good morning. I'm Karin Rosenthal, CFO of MIPS, and I will take you through the financial part of the presentation.

We saw good development in the second quarter, with an increase in net sales of 72%. The Koroyd acquisition contributed with 30% growth, and no FX impact in the quarter versus last year, net sales increased 42% organically.

Gross profit increased by 71% with a gross margin of 74.1% versus 74.2% last year. Good underlying improvement in profitability.

Adjusted EBIT increased by 98% with an adjusted EBIT margin of 46.7% versus 40.4% last year. OPEX was impacted by legal costs of 12 million versus 14 million last year, and 1 million in transaction costs, which was adjusted.

The legal settlement amount of 3.25 million US dollar will affect the third quarter. We also had good operating cash flow in the quarter of 62 million versus 80 million last year.

Looking at the financial KPIs: organic growth of 42%, adjusted EBIT margin of 47%, and operating cash flow of 62 million in the quarter. If we then look at the development for the first six months, good development with an increase in net sales of 53%.

Koroyd contributed with 24% growth, and adjusting for that and the negative FX effect of 7% due to stronger SEK versus US dollar, net sales increased 35% organically. Gross profit increased by 52%, and we had a gross margin of 72.9% versus 73.2% last year.

Good underlying improvement in profitability. Adjusted EBIT increased with 80% with an adjusted EBIT margin of 41.4% versus 35.1% last year.

In OPEX, we continue to invest in R&D and marketing. OPEX was impacted by legal costs of 19 million versus 23 million last year, which was adjusted.

Operating cash flow of 80 million for the first six months. Financial KPIs: organic growth 35%, 41% EBIT margin, and 80 million in operating cash flow.

If we then look at the balance sheet and cash flow, we had cash and cash equivalents of 187 million. We did a dividend payout of 66 million in April, corresponding to 2.5 SEK per share.

Since acquisition of Koroyd last year, we now have a revolving credit facility, and the utilization of that is 300 million end of June. Operating cash flow in the quarter amounted to 62 million.

Over to you, Max.

Thank you. If we then summarize the quarter, we did see good development with 72% net sales growth in the quarter, 42% organic, year-to-date now at 53% with 35% organic.

We did see good growth in all the categories and all regions. Strong performance in Europe continues, and we expect that to continue throughout the year.

North America has surprised us a little bit how strong it is. It continued to develop well.

Also good to see that Asia coming back after a softer period. We are happy about the integration of Koroyd, and that's developing well.

We see a lot of interest from our existing and new customers, of course, for the newly acquired portfolio. Good underlying improvement in profitability.

Adjusted EBIT margin in the quarter was 47%, we are closing in on our ambition of maintaining an EBIT margin of above 50%. Legal dispute in the US now closed through the settlement, favorable outcome for MIPS.

Important to notice that the costs relating to the settlement will be expected in Q3. We remain positive on our long-term outlook and the delivery of our financial targets.

With that, we open up for questions. Over to you, operator.

Good day, Max and Karin, and first of all, congratulations on a very strong report. Starting with the market environment and especially the US market, as you mentioned, could you give us a sense of where we are right now?

Are we seeing signs of growth returning in the market? Are there any particular price segments that are performing better than others, for example, premium versus lower-end products?

It's very difficult to say. If you look at the market data, it seems to have flattened out, we don't see a decline anymore.

More flattish numbers. Some markets or segments are actually growing because, of course, you have an element of price.

If we talk volume on the market, it seems to have flattened out, basically around zero. If we look at the different segments, we still see—and this is something that surprises us all the time—is how strong the premium segment is on the market.

If you can come with great innovations, there is a lot of consumers that are still prepared to buy. We also see a big opportunity in the lower price segment, especially also now when there has been some inflation on the market, we see that the lower price points are coming up, and of course that increases also our ability to get into helmets also at lower price points.

Of course, with inflation, also the possibility for MIPS to integrate MIPS solution into more helmets increases. I think the weakest segment is probably the mid-segment.

Like I said, it seems to have flattened out. There is some early indications for the ones that are following reporting of other brands.

You saw that Giant in May reported growth of I think it was mid-single digits and then actually up 16% in June. They at least seems to have turned around and start growing again.

I think everyone that has been in bike for a couple of years has been very keen to say, 'Now it's over, now it's easy again.' I don't want to say that.

Our assumption is that if the market is flat, we will still be able to grow. We are betting on a flat market for the rest of this year.

If we are helped by the market, fantastic, but I don't want to take that into our assumption because we have been disappointed too many times when it comes to the bike market.

Perfect. Do I understand you correctly that also looking at the inventory levels that they are still on the low end in US especially?

If you look at the inventory level and you take the last 4 years, it's the lowest in those 4 years. If you take historic levels and then we go back to 20 20 2002, then they're actually the lowest that they ever have been.

Yes, it is low levels when it comes to our products, of course. When it comes to bicycles and others, then of course you still see some inventory at some segments, especially the ones that haven't done any innovations and so on.

They have difficulties to turn that products into sales and so on, but overall low inventory level.

I see. Several different ways for you to grow going forward then.

Also it was very encouraging to see the Safety bouncing back with strong organic sales. Could you elaborate a bit on what is driving the development?

You mentioned earlier the launch of the full-brim helmets models into the market. How important has that been, and are there potentially any other factors behind the strong improvement?

No, we see good development on the base assortment that we already have, but of course when we add the full-brim helmets, even though it's early days, of course we do that without any comparators because it's product expansion into new categories and so on. The main driver of the acceleration of growth is the rollout of the full-brim helmets, which seems to be very well accepted on the market.

Perfect. Then on Koroyd, that also seems to be developing nicely.

Which part of its business segments are currently standing out, you believe? Looking at the group gross margin, I think it appears that Koroyd as well is moving around 70% gross margin.

Is that the right way to think about it, and what do you think about the margin profile going forward on the gross margin?

Yeah. If we start with the segments, we see very good development in the Safety segment for Koroyd, and also we saw good development in the quarter for snow, within the snow market.

Really positive development there. When it comes to gross margin, of course Koroyd has a little bit lower gross margin than MIPS has.

Our ambition is, of course, to achieve a gross margin according to our financial model, which is to stay above 70%, and that's what I believe we can do.

Perfect. Looking ahead then, how should we think about the comparable base heading into Q3?

It may not be as easy as was in Q2, but would you still describe it as relatively manageable rather than particularly demanding going forward, given the tariff situation last year?

I think we had 18% or 19% growth comparator in prior year. There was some overhang effects from the tariffs and so on.

I would say decent comparators and so on. Our ambition, of course, has not changed.

We have said that our ambition, and also in line with our financial targets, is that we want to grow with a little bit more than 30%. We are a little bit ahead of that plan so far, but over 30% is what we really try to achieve.

Did you see any pick-up in sales demand during the quarter? Was it stronger in the beginning of the quarter, or was it even throughout the quarter?

No, it was quite even. We saw quite good momentum throughout the whole quarter.

Of course, Q2, it's important to note that it's a snow quarter historically, with main part of the Sport sales is in snow helmets, but we also saw very good development when it comes to bike helmets, both in the US, but also in the important European market.

Perfect. Finally on profitability then.

On a rolling 12-month basis, you are basically at 42% EBIT margin, which is more or less in line what the full-year expectations from consensus are at the moment. How close to 50% you think you could realistically get already this year?

I don't think we will get to 50% this year. Our ambition is, of course, to get there.

There is, of course, months where we go above 50%, and there is months where we are below. This quarter was a very strong quarter with 47%.

A lot of investors think that we have lost our scalability, and of course I think this is a clear testimony that we haven't. With growth comes our improvement in underlying profitability, that has not changed.

When it comes to our financial model, the most important thing is, of course, the gross margin, then we have a very scalable business model, and of course when those two work well together, you get very high profitability. We have had the smallest quarter behind us, which is Q1, where we normally have a little bit less profitability, and then we have two bigger quarters ahead of us, but I think it's too much of a stretch to go for 50% for the full year.

Totally understand, but it's likely to expect improvements if you are continued to grow then. Thank you very much, Max and Karin, that was all for me for now.

Thank you.

Thank you, and congratulations Max and Karin from me as well. A couple of questions.

If I may start with a continuation on the profitability question asked before. I was under the impression that Koroyd would be margin-dilutive in the near term, but in Q2 you obviously show momentum with both gross margin and EBIT margin expansion.

Could you just maybe again explain or a bit further is this more or less driven by the legacy MIPS mix, or is there anything in Koroyd where you're already today starting to see the early signs of improvement? No,

I think important to point out that with MIPS, you have a very successful and profitable business. With Koroyd, you have a very successful and profitable business.

Of course, if you would isolate MIPS alone in the quarter, you would have an even higher EBIT margin. Of course, the 47% that you see in this quarter is a combination of the two, with MIPS having a higher EBIT margin and Koroyd having a little bit lower, but it is still two very profitable companies.

When we look at acquisition targets, there is a lot of different things that we are looking at. We always start with a superior product.

I believe that the one that has the best product will win. Then of course you look at other things like global reach, global brand, scalable business model, and so on.

Koroyd can of course tick a lot of those boxes and so on, it is a very profitable business, but not to the extent of MIPS.

That's good to hear. Then maybe if I'm not mistaken, Q3 tends to be a pretty heavy trade fairs quarter for you.

Is that correct? Should we expect that to burden your expense base to some extent?

Normally, it would be, I agree. This year there is only one trade fair in September, which is NSC, which is a fair within Safety.

Eurobike was a bit earlier, but it has become a very small fair, it was actually in end of June. No, I don't think you should be worried about trade fair expenses in Q3.

That's solid. I guess the level that you reached already in Q2, there's no reason to not expect this as long as you have at least 30% organic growth in Q3.

There's nothing that is stopping you from not being able to deliver that in the second half as well.

No. You will always have a little bit of swings between the different cost lines.

If you look at R&D expenses, of course we are investing heavily. That's a little bit higher than we have as a long-term ambition of 5%.

If you look at marketing expenses, we are a little bit lower than the long-term ambition of 7%. You will have swings of 1% or 2% between the quarter, but there is nothing extraordinary in Q2, and I don't see anything extraordinary in Q3.

Bear in mind that we will recognize the settlement of the legal dispute in the US in Q3, but adjusted, no, there is nothing that would stand out.

Okay. Then good traction in Safety.

You've previously guided for a doubling every 6 to 12 months. Does that still hold now with Koroyd in the mix?

No, it doesn't. We said that if we can achieve 100 million for the year, we will be very happy.

We are at 47 now, of course and we had the smallest quarter behind us, I think we are in a good trajectory of hitting the 100 million for the year. Which is, of course, also more than doubling, but it's a little bit skewed because of course you have an acquisition effect there, which is not fair.

Q1 was also the smallest quarter for Koroyd, right?

Yes, that's correct.

Okay. Then lastly, you mentioned acquisitions there before.

In the press release, when you announced your new CFO, you highlighted her background in M&A and integration. Does this suggest, and especially now also after Koroyd, that MIPS will lean more towards inorganic growth in the coming years?

Yes, probably. We need to find the right target, of course, but it's also that for me everything is a matter of timing because when you have the right timing, it's the right time to do certain things.

For me, MIPS has not been ready to take on board bigger acquisitions. It's always difficult to manage acquisitions, it takes a lot of time, but you also need to make sure that you are a better owner than the previous one.

Of course, that's not normally that easy where you have a very strong founder, he knows the business inside out, and so on. Of course you need to put a lot of attention to make sure that it continues to grow.

We have had a focus of derisking our business very much away from US. We have been very heavily dependent on the US market.

We said that when we feel that we have established ourselves in Europe, then it's time to start looking for acquisitions and actually start integrating acquisitions. In 2025, 40% or actually a little bit more than 40% of the growth came from Europe, we felt on that derisking exercise or growing ourselves out of the problem has been achieved.

Then, of course, that was the right timing for Koroyd. Then would we like to add one or two additional targets over the years?

Yes, I think we are ready for that, but it will never be a forced decision. If we get the right opportunity with the right company, yes, I think we are ready for it.

Of course, organization-wise, we need to be ready and also build an organization that can continue to scale.

Very clear. Thank you, Max.

Thank you.

Thank you, operator. Good morning, Max and Karin, and thank you for taking my questions.

A first one on the organic growth. In Q1 you stated that the organic volume growth was roughly 45 33% versus reported, yeah, call it total organic growth of 25%, which of course imply a negative price/mix effect.

Could you give us the equivalent volume price/mix split for Q2, please?

It's very close to the 42%, not the same difference there, and of course we see also a lot of snow helmets in Q2, which is also normally quite stable in price.

Perfect, very clear. Thank you.

A follow-up question on Safety. Given the strong growth in Q2 and the sort of well-accepted launch of the full-brim helmet, how should we think about the trajectory for the segment in H2, given that you now sort of accelerating from the higher base that you are currently building?

Like I said, I think 100 million is a good number to go for, of course, and the next relevant number in Safety. I think we start there.

Then of course what is exciting for us in Safety and what we are preparing for, and that was also the key driver of the acquisition, that was of course to be able to advance into new product segments. Of course the big one is body protection.

Ergonomic body protection in Safety is a very big area, of course, there of you will see product launches coming out. Then of course you also have gloves.

Koroyd have unique technologies within gloves that makes them thinner, but you can offer the same protection, and of course a far better dexterity in gloves and an area which we see very interesting. Then we will also have the opportunity to go into protection within shoes with metatarsal technologies, which is basically protecting the front part of the foot, which is also a very interesting area for us.

Far, the growth that you will see will be focused very much and for this year on head protection, but of course as we go into 2027, you will see us also advancing into other areas and become even more relevant in Safety.

Thank you very much for the answer. A final one if I may.

In Q2 last year, you noted that customers were heavily focused on reallocation production from China to I believe you stated Vietnam as a region, which you then stated that it crowded out new product starts. Given that we saw a organic growth reacceleration here in Q2 and project revenues also appearing to have picked up, could you give us a sense of whether the ramp-up disruption is now largely behind us or is there still a tail of factory reallocations that could continue to dampen product activity into H2?

No, we don't see any deceleration of the amount of projects. We actually see a very high interest.

Anyone that follows us on LinkedIn also sees that there is a lot of new recruitments out, of course at the moment we can't do all the projects that we get in, and that's why we're hiring more people. No, we don't see that.

Very clear. That's all for all my questions.

Thank you.

Thank you, Johan.

Yes, thank you very much. Two questions.

First one on Koroyd: 40 million in sales in Q2. Seasonality-wise, is that also pretty good estimate for Q3 and Q4, or are there any movements between quarters like we've seen in MIPS over the years?

The second one, have you signed any new safety brands during Q2 that you expect to launch products in '27 already, or is near-term volume ramp more driven by historical wins?

When it comes to the projection, we have said that the Koroyd business we had a net sales in 2025 of 120 million. That our ambition is to continue to grow it at least in line with what they have been doing previous year, which means a CAGR of 15%, which we actually seem to be doing, actually a little bit more at the moment.

Calculating backwards, you get roughly to the numbers that you talk about, a little bit less, and we see that happening of course. When it comes to new brands, yes, of course we have signed more brands, but there is also, of course, a cross-contamination coming from that we see interest from a lot of MIPS customers also adding Koroyd to their portfolio.

The world is not getting cooler. We see the heat wave effect, of course, in a lot of areas, and there is a lot of brands that wants to add Koroyd because it's considered as being one if not the most ventilated technology out there.

We see good interest in that.

Perfect. That's all.

Thank you. Two questions from my side.

Maybe some housekeeping going into Q3. I just wanted to understand what the sort of total impact will be from the settlement now.

You have stated that sort of figure for the settlement amount, but I guess you will have some incremental legal fees of top on that as well in Q3. Could you give any rough number what you believe will be the total amount now for this quarter?

Yeah. If you take the settlement agreement, that means $3.25 million US dollar.

Then you can also assume a few millions when it comes to concluding the whole settlement agreement and so on. Not at all to the same extent, but a few millions in the quarter relating to legal fees to concluding the whole agreement.

Sounds like around 35 million

SEK

ballpark? Yes,

I don't expect more than that.

Great. Secondly also, given the growth rate you've had in Europe now for a couple of quarters, could you give us an update what the approximate penetration is there now on the bike side, and maybe also what you believe is the accurate rate also in the US?

Now I know that there's been inventory drawdowns and so forth, but high level, what's your approximation now?

Yeah. When we start with Europe, we see that we are closing in on a penetration level of 30% in both bike and snow.

Of course, with the growth rate we have in Europe, that goes quite quickly. We have an ambition to first of all get to 50% of both of those categories, and of course we have the trajectory to do that.

When it comes to the US market and you take the snow helmet market, the total snow helmet market, there we don't differentiate between what's addressable or not, we take the whole market, there we manage to get to 85% penetration, which is, of course, a fantastic number. Then when it comes to the bike category, which is still very difficult to estimate, somewhere between 50% to 60%, closer to 60 than 50.

Great. Then maybe just finally on that topic as well.

The TAM you displayed a couple of years ago on the Capital Markets Day with the split, I think you said 50 million, 50 million Europe and the US on the bike side as a TAM. Is that a still representable number or has that shifted a little bit the same for Europe given how the cycle developed?

It has changed quite a bit on the total addressable market. In Safety, of course, we see a quite big conversion into more advanced helmet protection, which of course increases our opportunity.

When it comes to the Sport helmet market, we see, like I explained in the US, that the high inflation means that a lot of helmets has passed the $30 US dollar threshold, there of course you see that our opportunity to get into more helmets has increased and therefore also the TAM. Then what has happened in Europe, and of course that's also a key driver that you already see in our numbers, is two things.

One is in Europe there is a very big push for mobility and especially e-bikes. With e-bikes, you see that people tend to pay a lot more attention to which helmet they are buying, they are actually buying more premium product.

You will travel with higher velocity, and you normally go for more premium protection, which is of course benefiting us. We see the quite price-sensitive European market has changed quite a lot.

Then of course we also see another effect on the European market, and that is that Europe has been very price-sensitive, US has been a very strong premium market, everyone wants to have the helmet as their pro has and so on, and a very high attention to which gear you have. In Europe, you could only a couple of years ago see someone with a very expensive bike and a cheap helmet.

That has also changed a lot. The attention to gear has really come to Europe also, and you see that price points are moving quite a lot.

I will not speculate exactly how much the market has changed, but there is nothing that has happened on the helmet market that has decreased our opportunity. Helmet wearing in Europe is still somewhere around 40% among adults.

We see that it's increasing 1% or 2% every year, and so on. At our next Capital Markets Day, of course, we will update that number.

The part that we haven't covered correctly and that is of course Asia. We only had 5 million helmets in total for the total Asian market as addressable.

We had 1 million helmets addressable in China, and we are already selling more than that in China. Of course we are wrong in that number, but I will not put a huge number for Asia because still most of the helmets are cheaper than our addressable market.

Yes, there is things that has changed over the years, and of course we did the last update in 2022, and there is a lot of things that has happened since then.

Fantastic. Thank you very much.

Thank you.

When I look at the written questions, I think we actually managed to cover most of them. If no further question or you feel that we missed anything, you feel free to reach out to us of course either by email or phone.

I wish you all a great summer, and then speak to you again at the Q3 results announcement. Thank you, everyone, for listening in.