Securitas AB (publ) (OTCPK:SCTBY) Q3 2025 Earnings Name November 6, 2025 3:30 AM EST
Firm Contributors
Magnus Ahlqvist – President & CEO
Andreas Lindback – Chief Monetary Officer
Convention Name Contributors
Raymond Ke – Nordea Markets, Analysis Division
Allen Wells – Jefferies LLC, Analysis Division
Viktor Lindeberg – DNB Carnegie, Analysis Division
Simon Jönsson – ABG Sundal Collier Holding ASA, Analysis Division
Presentation
Magnus Ahlqvist
President & CEO
Good morning, everybody, and welcome to our Q3 report. We proceed to develop on a superb path, execute on our strategic focus areas and are glad to report a stable set of outcomes for the third quarter. The natural progress within the quarter was 3% and North America and Ibero-America each contributed with stable progress. And now to a spotlight. The working margin was 8.1% within the quarter. We had stable enhancements throughout all segments in addition to within the Companies and Expertise & Options enterprise strains. And as introduced final quarter, we’re closing down the federal government enterprise inside Important Infrastructure Companies. And adjusted for this enterprise, the natural gross sales progress was 4% and the working margin was 8.3%. EPS actual change was sturdy at 19%. And the working money movement is above 100% within the quarter, and we continued to enhance the leverage and the online debt-to-EBITDA ratio is now at 2.2.
The enterprise optimization program that we initiated originally of this 12 months is contributing and the overwhelming majority of the price financial savings have now been executed. So shifting then to the efficiency only for an summary within the enterprise strains and the segments. And as acknowledged, we’re recording vital margin enhancements in each enterprise strains. Continued sturdy Expertise & Options margin growth with 50 foundation factors to 11.7%. And the gross sales progress in Expertise & Options was 4% within the quarter. That is beneath our goal, however we now have a robust