Lifco AB (publ) (OTCPK:LFABF) Q4 2024 Earnings Conference Call January 31, 2025 3:00 AM ET
Company Participants
Per Waldemarson – CEO
Conference Call Participants
Carl Ragnerstam – Nordea
Karl Bokvist – ABG Sundal Collier
Zino Engdalen Ricciuti – Handelsbanken
Christian Binder – Redeye
Mats Liss – Kepler Cheuvreux
Operator
Welcome to Lifco Q4 Report for 2024. For the first part of the conference call, the participants will be in listen-only mode. (Operator Instructions)
Now I will hand the conference over to CEO, Per Waldemarson and CFO, Therese Hoffman. Please go ahead.
Per Waldemarson
Yes. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Lifco Q4 presentation. We can as usually go into page number two in our investor presentation and start with a quick review of the overall performance for Lifco as the group in the last quarter and also some comments on the full year.
And if we start by the quarter specifically, we end 2024 with a strong quarter where we have organic growth of nearly 4% in the group in sales and then we also have contribution from acquisition of 6.4% and some positive foreign exchange effect. In total, that leads to 11% growth in sales for the quarter.
We also grow EBITDA with around 9%. We come back to more details around that and profit before tax increases with 12.5%. Operating cash flow is on a high solid level. We also had strong cash flow in last quarter 2023. We also grow earnings per share with around 8%.
And then, if we look at the whole year, it’s been relatively more difficult year for Lifco, given the difficult or more difficult market conditions, especially in our Demolition and Tools division or business area where we have exposure to the construction market. So overall we grow sales 6.9% for the full-year and EBITDA grows with
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