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Viaplay Group AB (publ) (NENTY) Q1 2026 Earnings Call April 23, 2026 3:00 AM EDT
Company Participants
Matthew Hooper
Jorgen Lindemann – President, CEO and Interim CEO of Swedish & Finnish Operations
Johan Johansson – Executive VP, Group CFO & Co-CEO of the Group’s Swedish operations
Conference Call Participants
Kristoffer Carleskär – Kepler Cheuvreux, Research Division
Presentation
Matthew Hooper
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to today’s Q1 2026 results conference call. [Operator Instructions] My name is Matthew Hooper, and I will be your host today. Joining me here on the call are our CEO, Jorgen Lindemann; and our CFO, Johan Johansson. Welcome, gentlemen. Our presentation will be followed by a Q&A session on the telephone dial-in line, and you can find our results materials, including the presentation deck and detailed fact sheet, on the Investor Relations section of our website. Please be advised that today’s conference is being recorded.
I will now hand the call over to Jorgen to walk you through the Q1 results. Over to you, Jorgen.
Jorgen Lindemann
President, CEO and Interim CEO of Swedish & Finnish Operations
Thank you, Matthew, and good morning, everyone. So, this is our first set of results to include a full-quarter contribution from Allente Group, which we consolidated 100% in November last year by buying the remaining 50% of the company that we know so well as a long-term owner, partner, and operator. The combination of Viaplay Group and Allente Group has created a much larger group with more customer contact points and even stronger offerings for our partners, more content monetization potential, and more cash-flow-generating capacity to deliver our strategic transformation and goals.
To put this in context, the sales for our core operations are almost SEK 1.1 billion, or more than 25% higher in Q1 this year than last year. Our EBITDA before
