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Investing.com -- Atlas Copco held its Capital Markets Day (CMD) on Thursday in Stuttgart/Bretten, focusing on updates for its Industrial Technique and Vacuum Technique business areas and their growth opportunities.
The company’s management reaffirmed its financial targets and maintained its outlook for the fourth quarter, expecting "customer activity to remain on the Q3 level."
While equipment sales, representing 61% of total sales, are currently weak, the service business (39% of sales) continues to show reassuring growth rates with higher margins than equipment sales across all four business areas.
CEO Vagner Rego presented the company’s history of sustainable profitable growth and highlighted trends supporting future growth, including digitalization and AI. Despite current slow growth, Atlas Copco has maintained a long-term track record of 5% organic growth, which management believes will continue.
The company aims to complement this organic growth with mergers and acquisitions to achieve its overall growth target of 8%.
CFO Kinnart emphasized Atlas Copco’s strong financial position, noting a net debt to EBITDA ratio of 0.2 following the third quarter of 2025.
Atlas Copco shares rose 0.7% following the CMD.
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