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Q4 FY2025 · Earnings Call TranscriptFebruary 13, 2026

Operator

Welcome to Logistea Q4 report for 2025. For the first part of the conference call, the participants will be in listen-only mode.

During the questions and answers session, participants are able to ask questions by dialing *5 on their telephone keypad. Now I will hand the conference over to CEO Niklas Zuckerman and CFO Philip Löfgren.

Please go ahead.

Niklas Zuckerman

Presentation of Logistea's Q4 and full year-end report. As always, myself Niklas and Philip Löfgren, CFO of the company, will present today.

We have during the year continued to deliver on our strategy to build a portfolio of properties with long lease durations, stable cash flow, and profitable tenants. We currently hold 155 properties at a value of some 15.7 billion SEK.

The occupancy remains high and stable at almost 97%. The WAULT also remains high, and the NRV per share now stands at 16 kronor 60 öre.

The leasing market has improved, and we'll give you some examples of that later in the presentation. Looking at the highlights for 2025, and 2025 was a very active year for us at Logistea, we're reporting almost 1.1 billion SEK of income for the full year, an increase by 52% compared to last year.

The NOI is up 62% for the same period, and the income from property management is up even more, 142%, equals to some 511 million SEK for the full year. The income from property management, where we have purchased properties at a value of 2.2 billion SEK or an 15% increase compared to the beginning of the year.

We have in addition to that completed projects at a value of 364 million SEK, meaning that the portfolio has increased by more than 2.5 billion SEK in one year. The cash flow continues to improve, and we're reporting a 58% increase year-over-year.

Finally, looking at the strength of the balance sheet, we're reporting a very low 7.9 times net debt to EBITDA. As I said, we have continued to grow the portfolio over the year.

Yields, i.e., net income over property value, have remained fairly stable, whereas the average cost of debt has come down, while we are now reporting a yield gap that is 2.4%, as you can see to the right on this slide. Then moving on to the transaction market and transactions completed over the year, and here we're starting with the properties that we have acquired during the fourth quarter.

They total some 335 million SEK. The first one is the bus terminal that we presented on the Q3 call, located in Karlskrona and leased to Connect Bus, the company that operates all buses in that region, 10-year lease, and we bought this property at a yield of almost 10%.

The second one is a portfolio of two, leased to Svensk Cater and [Argunis?] , lease duration is six years, fully leased properties, and the initial yield here represents some three -- oh, sorry, 7.4%.

Finally, the third one is a small portfolio, also with lease durations of six years, modern and well-located properties in Karlstad, Kumla, and Lindesberg, and also here initial yield of 7.4%. Looking at the total for the year, we have completed nine transactions, and we have completed the two projects for NKT and Intersport.

As you can see from the pictures, well-located and modern properties, and we have during the year bought in Norway, Sweden, and Finland. Looking what these transactions then means for the company as a whole, we can see that we have bought properties in average at a yield of 8.2% to be compared to the average running yield of 6.8%.

Overall WAULT is 11 years, which is longer than our average WAULT in the company, and we have managed to increase the income from property management per share by 0.26 kronor, which equals some 25%, 26%. Adding the projects, the WAULT is 12 years, and the income from property management per share is 0.30 kronor.

This shows that the rights issue we did during the summer was creative, and we still have good dry powder to continue to take advantage of interesting deals that occur on the Nordic market. We're also proud that we have completed the development for Intersport in Nässjö, where Intersport now has taken possession of their premises.

The property was delivered in time, even a bit before, and the construction cost was also in line with budget. Yield on cost is 7 1/4%, and now Intersport has started to pay rent for the building.

The beginning of 2026 has started strong, and we have already signed two new deals. The first one are two logistics properties that we purchased from Majway.

Completion took place earlier this week. The largest of the two properties is located in Trollhättan and leased to GKN Aerospace, a company with turnover of more than 14 billion SEK.

The two properties combined have a WAULT of 11 years, and the purchase price is a bit more than 300 million SEK. Yield-wise on this one, we're talking roughly 7%.

The next one is a property located in Karlskrona. We bought this property also at beginning of this year, WAULT 5.5 years.

As you can see, property value of 260 million SEK, and the largest tenant in the property is NKT, which is a company that we know extremely well from our properties in Alingsås and Falun. Yield-wise, we're talking 7 3/4.

Also very happy to say that we have seen a very strong start of the year when it comes to new lettings. We have signed a couple of new leases that shows that we have well-positioned properties that are attractive on the leasing market.

The first lease is with a large company within the defence industry. We've signed a new 10-year lease for 16,400 square meters of premises in Karlskoga.

Parts of the space is today leased to another tenant, we're replacing that and expanding with this tenant, we get a long lease with a very profitable tenant. The total lease amount for the 10 years exceeds 130 million SEK, and the net letting effect per annum is, as you can see, 6 million SEK.

In Borås, we have signed a couple of leases, and part of that is to replace a lease that was terminated in 2025, meaning that we will not have any vacancies, we signed the lease before that premises is being vacated. It's actually three tenants in total, and as you can see, leases of 5.5 years, and the net letting effect taking into account the terminated lease is 1.6 million per annum.

The third lease is an you could say extension or new lease with an existing tenant in Ljungby. Here, if you remember, we had a bankruptcy a year and a half ago, and this is property that we have been filling up over time.

Now we signed this new lease, 4-year lease, and the effect on the net letting per year is 2.2 million SEK. Moving on to the run rate, and following the completion of Intersport and the results of the Q4, we have an NOI of 1 billion 47 million SEK per year, and income from property management is now at 600 or 603 million SEK.

The main drivers are new acquisitions, a lower cost of capital, lower cost of debt. On the negative side, we have seen an effect from FX, and of course the rights issue we did in the summer of 2025.

If we take the Q4 run rate and add the properties acquired beginning of this year, the income from property management is 634 million SEK, which equals some 1 krona 24 per share. More on the earnings capacity, which is obviously one of our top priorities to deliver on, you can see that we have managed to deliver steady growth quarter-over-quarter.

As I said on the previous slide, we are now at 1 krona 24 per share, taking into account the most recent acquisitions. As we have said before, and we have delivered on, a long, stable income in all of our markets.

The leases in the non-Nordic countries are even longer, and Philip will talk more about recent financing in one of those markets. We've also discussed the Billerud share, started with 31% is now down to 25%, and obviously will continue to decrease in the pace we're buying other tenants.

Also what we have communicated in the past, this number should be taken down to below 20%, which is one of the criteria to become investment grade. As said, the occupancy remains high at almost 97%.

We're showing a small positive net letting for the fourth quarter, as you can see. As we said on the previous slides, the start of 2026 looks promising with a couple of new leases signed already.

With that, I'll hand over to Philip.

Philip Löfgren

Thank you, Niklas, and good morning. Let's take a look at the earnings and results when we sum up the eventful year of 2025.

The three key figures I want you all to take away from this chapter is the strong increases in profit from property management per share, the solid balance sheet, and the decreased cost of financing. Logistea's revenue for the quarter increased to 285 million compared to the same quarter last year of 247 million.

The increase is due to acquisitions during the year and also a smaller contribution from the like-for-like portfolio. The net operating income came out at 251 million, an increase from 215 million in the same quarter last year.

Contributors to the increase are acquisitions and increases in the like-for-like portfolio, where property costs have declined due to renegotiated leases and decreased rent losses. The net operating income is, as I've seen in previous winter periods, still affected by higher property costs when it's colder outside, which is the main explanation of the difference from the previous quarter.

Both revenues and the net operating income were affected by negative FX changes, 1 million in the quarter and 14 to 15 million for the whole year for the revenues and the net operating income. Operating margin has increased and was in the last 12-month period around 91%.

The adjusted operating margin, where we exclude the rent supplements from the revenues, came in at 97%, an increase from 93% at the beginning of the year. Triple net leases and an active asset management are two main drivers for the strong key ratios.

Profit from property management came out at 135 million, and in line with estimates. The decrease from last quarter is due to the lower net operating income.

Moving over to the profit from property management per share, if we exclude items affecting comparability, the increase in the quarter was 24%, and for the year the increase was 41%. The main drivers for the annual growth apart from acquisition is the lowered cost of borrowing.

Looking at our key metrics, the loan-to-value ratio has been stable around 48% during the whole year. We have a lot of headroom up to our financial limitation, and as I've said before, one should not be surprised to see the loan-to-value ratio exceed 50%, especially with current transaction pace we have.

With our interest cover ratio increasing and in combination with a solid net debt to EBITDA ratio, our balance sheet is prepared to be more levered. Looking at the credit maturities, we aim to shave the peaks and distribute maturities evenly over the period.

The 641 million maturing within the upcoming 12 months are in final discussion, mainly regarding terms. We still sense a banking market with large appetite for our types of assets, and in the end of the period, we have bank relations with 13 banks across Europe.

Here is an overview of our debt portfolio performance during 2025. We are proud to have decreased average interest rate down from 5.0 to 4.4% during the year, driven by both decreasing market interest rates, but mainly from margin decreases from bank loans.

In the fourth quarter, we've renegotiated 1.4 billion Swedish kronor, lowering the margin by an average of 16 basis points. The 1.4 billion includes loan where we have managed to decrease the margin for the second time in 2025.

Today, we are borrowing in the Swedish banking market at around 120 to 140 basis points, and looking at Norway and Finland, the margin is around 20 basis points higher. We have also during the quarter managed to finance unencumbered assets in the Netherlands with a long-term new financing of 21.7 million euros from a large European bank.

Looking back, we have closed the fiscal year of 2025. We managed to deliver on all our four financial targets and limitations.

Profit from property management per share increased by 41%, as I mentioned earlier. The NRV per share increased by around 8% for 2025, but looking at a 5-year average, the annual increase amounts to 22 1/2%.

The loan-to-value is still in the conservative zone, and interest cover ratio is continuing to increase, now at 2.6 compared to 2.1 times in the beginning of the year. 2025 was the first year that we had dividend, and now the board of directors have decided to propose to the AGM a dividend of .2 kronor per share, equal to around 102 million Swedish kronor.

The main reason behind the proposed dividend is that Logistea today has reached a level of earnings that allows a higher dividend that does not interfere with future growth. The proposed dividend is equal to around 20% of the profit from property management for 2025, and around 16% of the profit from property management in the earnings capacity on today's date.

The key takeaways from the finance side are the strong increases in the profit from property management per share, both historically, but also going forward. We have a good position to continue the growth journey with our solid balance sheet.

Improved margins in the bank on both new loans and in the current loan portfolio opens up for increased earnings. With that, I will hand over back to Niklas.

Niklas Zuckerman

Thank you, Philip. To summarize 2025 for us, it's been a very active year.

We're reporting, as you can see, strong financials, stable and strong financials. We have managed to grow the business by almost 2.5 billion SEK following acquisitions and development.

We still have dry powder, making sure that we could act if we find good investment opportunities. The banking market is good for companies like us, and we have a strong balance sheet with LTV below 50%.

Finally, the leasing market has improved, and we have already now in the beginning of the year signed new leases that will affect the net letting by roughly 10 million SEK. With that, we open up for any questions, please.

Operator

If you wish to ask a question, please dial #5 on your telephone keypad to enter the queue. If you wish to withdraw your question, please dial #6 on your telephone keypad.

The next question comes from Emil Ekholm from Pareto Securities. Please go ahead.

Emil Ekholm

Hi. Morning, Niklas and Philip.

A couple of questions from me. Starting off with the Karlskrona acquisition, it is planned to close now mid-March according to the press release.

Can you say anything about closing the Karlstad, Kumla, and Lindesberg assets? When in Q1 do you expect to close them?

Niklas Zuckerman

Yes. I'll take the ones maybe not in the right order as you had.

Uddevalla, Trollhättan was closed this week. The properties in Lindesberg, Kumla, Karlstad also closed.

Then finally, you had a question on the Karlskrona property. On that one, let us double-check with a colleague if that one is closed or not.

It might be not, but we'll double-check during the call on the Karlskrona one.

Emil Ekholm

Perfect. Then you had a quite strong start in '26 in terms of leasing activity.

No need to be specific here, but can you say whether net leasing at least is positive so far in '26?

Niklas Zuckerman

It is. As I said, we have signed leases with a positive effect of roughly 10 million SEK beginning of the year on the net leasing.

Obviously, the quarter is not done yet, but we see clear signs that the leasing market as such has improved, but also we see proof that our properties are attractive on the leasing market. Without promising anything too much, we're quite confident that the first quarter of 2026 will show good positive net lettings.

Emil Ekholm

Sounds good. Then in the earnings capacity, since there is some rent uplift in the signed leases so far this year, is the effect from that included in the 13th February rental value figure?

Niklas Zuckerman

No, on that one, we have taken the 31st of December figure and only added the acquisitions announced. No other changes, such as the leases I just mentioned or CPI or anything like that.

It's just that we have added the announced transactions.

Emil Ekholm

Perfect. Thanks.

Then a little bit of specific question on the valuation yield. On page 11 in the Swedish report, you say that it's 7.3, but in the English version it's 7.1.

Then on page 21 under the valuation section, it's the opposite with 7.3 in English version and 7.1 in the Swedish version. Which one should be the correct valuation yield figure?

Niklas Zuckerman

It should be 7.1. We'll confirm that to you and others after the call as well.

Emil Ekholm

Thank you. Then just lastly, on other income, it's zero in this quarter, but 11 for the full year.

How should we look at this number going forward?

Philip Löfgren

Can you repeat that one?

Emil Ekholm

Other income is zero in this quarter, but it's 11 million for the full year. How should we sort of view this figure going forward?

Philip Löfgren

Yeah. In that other income of 11, you can see income that we have not estimated to gain, like previous bankruptcies that we now get rents from.

Going forward, I should put in maybe 1 or 2 million per quarter since we have income from batteries starting to come in now in the first quarter.

Emil Ekholm

That's very clear. Thank you.

That was all for me. Thanks.

Philip Löfgren

Thanks.

Operator

The next question comes from Fredrik Stensved from ABG Sundal Collier. Please go ahead.

Fredrik Stensved

Hi. Good morning.

Two questions. First, on the Bofors Industrial Area in Karlskoga lease.

When is the sort of switch between existing tenants and the new tenant happening, and is there a gap in between where you won't recognize any rent? That's the first one.

Thanks.

Niklas Zuckerman

Yeah. On the Karlskoga lease, there will not be a gap on the overall rental value, and you could say partly driven by the fact that the upcoming rent is higher than the existing one.

There is a tenant in place for parts of that building, and we have signed an agreement with them to move out. Then there will be some time for some TIs, making sure that premises is fit for the new tenant.

Overall, on a full-year basis, you should assume at least the rent in place for the existing tenant, and then obviously growing forward it will be the 6 million plus.

Philip Löfgren

The tenant will gradually move in to the new until December of '26.

Fredrik Stensved

Very good. Thank you.

Then second one, just to make sure, I think Niklas, you mentioned previously that in the earnings capacity figure as of today, the only change versus year-end is acquisitions. I just wanted to see where you are on FX.

Is that the same FX for both dates, and if so, is it the year-end figure?

Niklas Zuckerman

Exactly. It's the same FX used, no other changes, to say, between December 31st and today's date other than the transactions that we have signed.

Fredrik Stensved

Very good. Thank you.

That's it.

Operator

As a reminder, if you wish to ask a question, please dial #5 on your telephone keypad. There are no more questions at this time, I hand the conference back to the speakers for any written questions and closing comments.

Niklas Zuckerman

Let's see if we have any questions. No, we don't.

Philip Löfgren

We can say closing of the Karlskrona property is expected to be in March this year.

Niklas Zuckerman

The reason why there is no set date is that this one goes under the ISP permission that we need from the authorities. As Philip said, during the March is intended.

Just to clarify, we got two properties in Karlskrona in the presentation. The first one on page 5, the bus terminal, that one is completed.

Now we're talking about the second property on page 9 in the presentation, the one partly or mainly leased to NKT. That one will be completed in March.

Good. If there are any following-up questions, just let Philip or myself know, and we'll answer those as well, of course.

Philip Löfgren

Perfect. Have a good day.

Niklas Zuckerman

Thank you.

Philip Löfgren

Thank you.