Asseco Poland S.A. ($ACP)

Good morning ladies and gentlemen. My name is Artur Wiza on behalf of the management team of Asseco Poland. I'm going to run today's meeting, which is about the results of GSF Group for Q1 2026. We're joined by the Vice President and CFO of the group, as a Marek Panek has a component during the first portion of the presentation, we present the operations and the financial results of our group for Q1 2026. In the second part of our meeting. As usual, we'll try to field your questions, which you're going to be able to send to us to a the chat function. that transmission itself, and we'll begin with the presentation of the operations, and I'd like to ask Marek Panek to kick off.

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I'd like to welcome you very cordially. I have to say that after our most recent conference receive some core -- we received some advice that we weren't smiling too much even though the results were outstanding. So I'm going to try to change that a little bit because we have a large number of reasons to be satisfied. -- we've kicked off this year very well. And the best proof of that are the results that we published yesterday. If you take a look at Slide #2. This is where we want to kick off today's presentation, you can see the fundamental parameters of our P&L. So you see our revenue, which is nearly PLN 4.4 billion which is up by 9% over last year in the corresponding period. Our EBIT operating profit is PLN 513 million, and our net profit is PLN 228 million. And as you will have noted, if you look at the pace of growth of EBITDA and net earnings, you can see why we're counting this quarter so highly, which we are now summing up. And so as a matter of our ordinary course of business. I would like to sum up our operations in individual segments as well as geographies where Asseco is active. And I'll give the floor to Carolina, and then she'll say more about the numbers themselves. So if we look at the split of the revenue by segments and geographies. You can see that across the board, we have decent growth starting on the left. You see SacoPoland growing very fast the fastest. All of the companies operating in Poland under the Seco brand, we have 12% top line growth. above. We've broken through the PLN 600 million watermark then we have a Seco International, which is PLN 1.19 million -- we have 7% top line growth. And then we have Formula Systems, which is the Israel portion of the company, and we have more than PLN 2.6 billion. So we have nearly 10% growth in the top line. Then I'll give you a short commentary. You would recall not too long ago, we had the company's opens that left the Formula Systems Group, and that changed the proportions in terms of the contribution to the top line and the individual geographic segments. Up until now, formula represented 66%, 67% of the overall growth. Today, it's around 60% and Asseco International is 26%, and the remaining 14% are the Polish company's contribution. Perhaps you would recall that this used to be around 11%, 12%. And -- so the contribution today is a little bit higher. Now we can look at the revenue by product groups. Let's begin with the bar graph, and you see basically the group of our products. And if we stop at the top, -- these are the most important core products -- this is our proprietary software. So solutions for the finance industry then solutions for public institutions as well as ERP solutions. So we have 8%, 18% and 13% growth -- so this means that we are very related with these results. The other segments or other IT solutions. I've mentioned several times what this means. This is for the telecom industry as well as solutions, cross-sector solutions, which is difficult to a single sector, and so they can be sold anywhere. And then we have infrastructure and other. And here, we have a flat result. And this is the lowest margin business. Of course, we're continuing that, but we're focusing on those aspects that are linked to our proprietary solutions. Then you have the solutions for public institutions, they have the biggest portion of our revenue because they represent some 26%, 22% is the financial sector. And very close to that, we have 23%. That's the infrastructure portion, which I discussed just a moment ago. We're very pleased with the fact that we have a high level of diversification in our business so in the current business environment, that's very important. So the 10% -- 10 top customers represent 13% and the biggest customer of the group represents 2% of the entirety of revenues. We don't have a situation in which we would be dependent on any individual or group of a small group of customers. So now succinctly, let me say a few words about what's happening in the most important product segments. We'll start with solutions for finance sector. Here, we have PLN 970-odd million in terms of revenue across the group. This is 8% growth with respect to last year. And you can see what the contribution of the individual geographic segments is what's the growth rate. And you can see that we have a leading the pack because this is nearly 20% more than last year. we're not surprised by that because this is a segment of a portion of our business, which we believe to be a very mature portion of our business. We have a recurring stream A large recurring stream have in terms of maintenance and the development being done by our customers, and we have new projects being added. Maybe they're not any spectacular large new banks involved that would join our portfolio of customers. But on that wide base of clients, we're able to generate revenue of the PLN 180 million. And we are, at the same time, able to generate dynamic growth. In this sector in Poland, we're talking about the banking sector because we here are the unchallenged, uncontested leader in the banking sector, we are -- we're running operations for the largest banking sector companies here in Poland as well as the cooperative sector. And we have been promoting cloud-based solutions, more and more banks are participating in our initiative in terms of having a joint IT platform where we're offering full outsourcing of solutions for banking. We're very pleased to see that the queue of banks is getting longer for that as we have a large number of projects. If we think about Asseco International, you can see this is the biggest contributor to revenue. It's more than PLN 400 million, so a 5% top line growth. Here, we would emphasize that core banking systems. And so in the Balkans, is moving forward very nicely. And then we have Central Europe, we have Slovakia in Czech Republic, where we've been capable, able to attract new customers in this segment. And then we have a formula, which is nearly 400 minutes. So after Sapiens Swiss sold and it had always been the leader. But after the SalosAppiens, it's no longer the leader. It has always been the biggest contributor of revenue. Now it's nearly PLN 390 million in revenue. And so we have a similar pace of growth Asseco international at 5%. And the major player in terms of formula in the financial sector is Matrix. We should remember that it's a combined merged company of Matrix and Magic. And then we have solutions for public institutions. As I mentioned previously, this is our largest area of activity nearly PLN 1.15 billion in revenue, we have very dynamic growth some 18% growth across the group. And this is something that exceptionally pleases us. In Poland, we have PLN 330 million. And so we have a 16% growth. You should remember that here, we're, again, the uncontested leader in terms of projects for the public sector. We have a large group of large-scale customers, including Zu, social security and institution, the National Health and a few other customers. I could mentioned, we're very pleased to see that more and more projects we're doing for relatively new customers like the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Finance. We're cooperating with them for several years now. And we have proven ourselves as a reliable partner. We're getting more and more projects. And so this is something that we related with. Let's not forget that in the public sector, -- we also have which healthcare where we're very active. And today, you can say that we're being inundated with projects from the national recovery plan -- and so we're at the phase of being dynamically signing contracts. We're signing contracts dynamically because the pace is a world win pace. If we talk about hospitals alone we can say the beneficiaries of this program -- and this is more than 150 hospitals. We're signing contracts with them in a relatively short period of time. And now we have to deliver and implement solutions for them. You cannot yet see that in the figures for Q1. I think we'll see that in Q2, partially in Q3 of this year. But today, that is something that is actually making our colleagues somewhat make them lose sleep. And so we have international, you can see that PLN 140 million in revenue. And this is a very dynamic growth, pace of growth at 29%. What do we owe this to. This is because of the Slovakian and Czech markets where we've been observing the rebuilding of public projects. You should remember that for a certain period of time, we had talked about stagnation in some of these countries linked to certain perturbances or disturbances of a geopolitical nature, everything has stabilized. We have new projects. We are running projects that we had started. We were maintaining them. We had implemented them, and this is all being brought together with very robust results in this sector. And at the end of the day, we have formula systems. And here, this is the major contributor with more than PLN 680 million in top line with a very strong and robust pace of growth at 18%. And then the last sector that I want to speak to, these are ERP solutions. You can see that we have more than PLN 450 million in revenue. The pace of growth is 13% across the group. As you've noted, we don't have a second in this list for the reasons that I mentioned at the most recent conference, we had practically one company operating in that at -- and this is a company that's operating in the Polish market, but in the most recent quarter of the last year, it was put into Enterprise Solutions, a second, which is consolidated through the Asseco International segment. And as a result, we can say that in Poland, we no longer have any ERP solutions. And that's why we don't have that line here. Hence, we have Asseco International segment with more than PLN 285 million with 13% pace of growth, and we have Formula Systems with more than PLN 173 million revenue with the pace of growth in excess of 15%. So we have the enterprise solutions as the main player in this segment. this is a sec business solutions from Poland, along with the entire group of Asseco Solutions, which is operating in Slovakia, Germany, Czech Republic. And we're also pleased that despite the difficult situation in some of the stagnation in Germany. We've been capable of delivering a rapid pace of top line growth and we're the leader here is Asseco Business Solutions, where we've had an increase of nearly 20% in top line for ERP solutions. And here, we owe our success to a project called the large-scale , which is a new invoicing system for the government. And so that was in Q1 of this year. And so formula, we have our own solutions and Matrix. Maybe it's a small system, but it's a proprietary solution. We have some solutions with third parties. And then we have the HR systems and the. So HR systems, which we treat as ERP solutions, and we're pleased that, that branch is also developing quite nicely. And now in terms of our acquisitions, in the first quarter of this year, we had 4 companies that were added to our model. This is -- they weren't large spectacular acquisitions. But step by step, this is how we're working. We're adding newer and newer companies that are delivering what we believe to be interesting products or competencies that we're able to supplement our capabilities. And so the formula did this. And then a second did 1 of them. And on the right side, you can see 2 acquisitions, which were completed in Q2 after the balance sheet, but we mentioned them in our report, and that's why you can see them here on the slide. And we do not cease these type of operations. So we are doing screening. We're talking with new candidates, new companies. And so I believe that as a matter of traditional business will have over the year, we should have a number of companies in excess of 10 that would join the company. So I'll give the floor now to Carolina.

Financial information, molecule through revenues look at the program and billion, almost revenues from our services PLN 3.4 million, EBITDA PLN 712 million, and PLN 575 million, the most presented a [indiscernible] and net profit amount to PLN 224 million. you can see that the dynamics of net profit is much higher quarter-quarter reconcile last year, the revenues amounted to slightly over PLN 4 billion and PLN 252 million at companies, organization the most previously, this was organic growth and PLN 45 million was from acquisitoins, [indiscernible] PLN 92 million was organic contribution of PLN 14 million came from acquisitions and PLN 5 million from exchange rates. Please note that the acquisitions which we had in the recent 12 months had a very decent profitability. As for net profit, we show you the quarter-to-quarter bridge, but also the breakdown will show exactly the delta origin from which get the change comes. Asseco Poland contributes the most. That is the holding company or other companies that we have in Poland. Negative delta on formula stems from the fact that we show here the notation on IFRS and this shortage of contribution from Sapiens. hence, this negative data and Asseco International comes on top of that plus PLN 3 million adjustments between segments. We are particularly happy about the fact that at all levels of profit, we saw an improvement in profitability. We saw a 10% growth in software and own services quarter-to-quarter and 1.5 percentage points improvement on EBITDA and on IFRS and 1.7% on a bid on non-IFRS. We did not have any particular impact of one-off events. So we can say that these were basically our operating results. When discussing companies, I will tell more about sources of those numbers. It is also worth noting that at least 2 groups in 2 segments in our group had significant amounts of cash in the first quarter. This cash was efficiently allocated. And in fact, it was the delta on interest almost PLN 36 million contributed among others to such a good net profit, both in Asseco Poland and in formula, those surpluses were recorded. Therefore, we had a significant income from interest, which offset debt servicing costs. Situation was reversed on currency trend -- we see on net profit for shareholders of the holding company. It is also worth noting that we managed to reduce the efficient tax rate. This effective tax rate came mainly from Asseco Poland. And it resulted from a battle that we fought with regard to gaining the possibility to recognizing some -- for a long time, we had negative interpretations of tax authorities that regard now after quite a while the interpretation changed, which allows us to make adjustments in retrospect. And this situation is going to stay with us on a regular basis. So we can see that there will be a slight decrease of the effect tax rate for a loss in associated units that came from one-off transactions. And on the level of cooperation that was the only one-off that we see in those results. That was the effect of a revaluation of TSG stake they had their IPO and the effect amounted to about PLN 16 million in contribution. That is actually the only one-off, which offsets the effect of the shortage coming from Sapiens in first quarter 2026. The fact that we had spectacularly good dynamics on net profit is linked to the fact that the greatest contribution to growth came from Polish segment, we consumed that almost 100%. There was only a very small leakage to foreign shareholders. From this Polish segment, we had a very good operating results plus this positive result that translated fully into our net profit. We illustrate here what I have just talked about. A second holding company improvement of profitability. Operating profit almost PLN 170 million compared to PLN 86 million for the same period last year and doubling on net profit contribution. As for other companies in Poland, a very good quarter was recorded by Asseco systems. And this good quarter to a large extent, came from services in connection with this invoicing systems reforms, we managed to increase the sales of our products in connection with electronic seal, hence or among others, while we had such good results. Also on Formula Systems, again, an excellent quarter and matrix. Let me remind you that we had a merger in the first quarter and it was completed. Now the companies are being transformed. And I think the effects of the merger will be visible in the upcoming quarters. As for Asseco International, we are particularly happy about the fact that the Central European market rebounded. And the main drivers were ERPs in Asseco Business Solutions, which is being consolidated in this line and also very good results of ERP company in Germany. Also, as Marek said, public in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, here, we managed to improve profitability or change the conditions of providing certain services and the contracts where we recorded losses, all those contracts expired and now they entered the maintenance stage. That is why we saw an improvement in the results in Central Europe. In South Eastern Europe, we have our ace here and particularly good results in core banking and payment. Cash developed in the last 12 months, that is 112%, which is satisfactory in a circle over 119 then 118 and formula 104. If we look at cash in the first quarter, the indicators are worse. And I talked about it during our annual conference, when I said that we had a spectacularly good fourth quarter in cash result. The fact that the first quarter was worse is linked to those prepayments being made in the fourth quarter last year. So they pushed up the cash flow in the fourth quarter. So we see the same missing in the first one. Obviously, you cannot have a conversion of the result exceeding 100% all the time. I noticed there was also a question about cash flow I think I owe you an explanation on that. Formula Systems had the worst cash flow in the first quarter, but it is nothing to worry about because operating cash flow was worse since Matrix IT had a major factoring transaction on its receivables. Hence, the cash flow was worse there is no reason for concern here. Also, there were questions about negative operating cash flow overall at the group level. This operating cash flow is negative because we presented in our operating results. Tax that was paid for Sapiens transaction. This tax was paid in the first quarter. And that means that as regards to P&L, the transaction of Sapien sale was fully disclosed -- discontinued activity and the annual results for 2025. However, we should bear in mind that certain payables will have to be paid this year. So for example, tax was paid previously, and we still have to pay bonuses linked to this transaction. So in cash flow, we will consistently throughout this year, present the development. I think in the second quarter, maybe in the third quarter, we will continue show expenditures related to this transaction, and we will consistently present this in the line of discontinued business. As for balance sheet, we have very stable liquidity situation. At the end of the first quarter, net cash, PLN 2.9 billion essentially in all segments, relatively high values. And that translated into the result on interest. Now let me remind you that the formula segment, we obtained money from sales of Sapiens holding hands, the certain excessive liquidity. Now dividend is to be paid out. On the third of June, we should receive in Asseco Poland, the money coming from this first tranche of dividend payment related to Sapiens sales. And then Asseco Poland, at the end of Q1, -- we also had cash obtained from sale of own shares and that was distributed as dividend that has already been paid out. As for proportionate presentation, we have 2 slides showing organic results. proportionately, delta plus PLN 128 million, acquisitions plus PLN 19 million on operating profit, PLN 63 million and PLN 6 million from acquisitions, respectively. And we see the same thing that I discussed earlier, namely, when the major contributor to improvement of profitability Asseco Poland, in proportionate presentation, you can see that even more clearly greater dynamics quarter-to-quarter in growth even a greater improvement in profitability, 2.6 percentage points EBITDA non-IFRS, almost 3 percentage points on operating profit. And proportionately cash, very similar 117% on the group level, 119% from Asseco Poland, basically the same number in Asseco International, 99%; and in Formula Systems 91%. There was also a question about it, PLN 1.4 billion is the cash situation at the end of this quarter in this proportionate presentation. Out of that PLN 160 million from Asseco Poland, PLN 450 million from international and slightly over [indiscernible] coverage for formula. Portfolio orders here, I also have good news, 14% growth in backlog compared to the same period last year. The most dynamic growth of backlog in Asseco Poland -- and that dynamic comes from public segment, first of all, then secondly, from banking and finance and slightly negative dynamics in corporate segment in Asseco Poland, 7% of Asseco International and 15% Formula Systems. And the same proportionate presentation of backlog on your request, 13% at the group level, 20% in Poland, 17% in Formula and 6% in Asseco International. That's all for me. Thank you very much.

Thank you very much,Karolina. Thank you very much, Marek. And so the satisfaction and the positive assessment of our results is visible, of course, in the questions. We have a large number of questions. We'll move on to fielding or giving responses to those questions. Let me remind you that we have questions from investors in Poland as well as on the English language. And so we'll pull everything into a single bucket of questions and we'll try to field or respond to all of your questions. Question number one, congrats.

Data proportional basis, is it correct that you built and only the software products that run Poland's national pension platform, National Property Registry court case management for Banco is and architecture around utility billing. You won contracts this quarter in these areas. Can you give us a sense of how you want these contracts? And also conversely, or not it would be for these entities to take out your software and replace it with something else?

So we respond in Polish. So I'll kick off, and then Marek will add something. How we won these contracts? Well, in fact, in Q1 last year, we were able to sign several contracts primarily -- with respect to the public institutions, and in fact, maybe you can clarify. In most cases, these are tenders that are under the public procurement law, these are public tenders. And as a result, it seems to me that we have a lot of experience. We're highly seasoned in terms of how we should present price offers in these tenders. We are capable -- very capable of calculating risk, and this gives us a competitive edge experience we have and the understanding of customers' needs. But in every tender, there is competition, of course. And this is something that we should reckon with that the competition does exist. Most frequently, these tenders are organized every 4 years. And of course, there are some tenders that are held earlier because the supplier selection procedure takes some time. And it does occur. A portion of the tender is the subject matter of discussion before the National appeals chamber. And this is an entity which is somehow responsible for, let's say, educating on doubts about the tender procedures and final decisions in terms of what decisions were made by the customer. The bottom line is that nothing is given to us forever. And this is something we should remember, this is not our software. Usually, in these tenders, it's the case that at the end of the day, we turn over copyrights to the customer. And that also means that there is a field or there's some room for somebody else would end up providing maintenance services. It does occur that we have certain contracts where the coffee break is not, let's say, seeded or conveyed. But in the vast majority of cases, -- this is not a matter of licensing, but something we call modification services realistically, we improve, we better, we improve, we enhance. We augment software that's owned by the customer. And if you want me to add, I'll happily add something. Perhaps I could add something of a soft nature in respect to what Karolina said, please remember, if you look at the list of our largest customers in the public sector, usually, these are institutions that have been working with us for many, many years. And -- as Karolina mentioned, it's not the case that we have to be there because we have tenders. The source codes are owned or held by the customers, and they some -- in theory, some other company could continue the development process. But the fact of the matter is that we have not, of course, broken their trust. We've not -- we enjoy the trust, extensive trust to these customers, and they very much appreciate that. And we should admit that in many cases, we've heard very nice words from the customer side that we've done something well that better times that was impossible. The law wasn't catching up. There were new requirements legislated or enacted. And so we were able to deliver on a timely basis. And I think this is 1 of the reasons why we went because the customers want to stick with us because we haven't violated the trust or breached anything in the most time urgent cases. So sometimes the recognitions are exceptional and there might be a non, let's say, public procurement trip, public procurement long trip. And this was the procedure that was the case during the pandemic. So we were the supplier of first stores because of our reputation and the lengthy relationship we had with customers that meant the customer trusted us and those trying times that we are able to, let's say, deliver those contracts. Well, that's a very good response. That's going to the next question.

Flow from operations shows growth of 43% in a free cash flow from continuing activities and 33% growth in cash flow from operations from continuing business, yet consolidated free cash flow and cash flow from operations shows a decline. Why are the proportional cash flow growth so much better than consolidated? What is about the parts that you don't own that don't seem to be as good and does not and thus that matter to shareholders much or not?

Okay. is at the pro Well, this is what I was trying to address during the course of my presentation. If we talk about discontinued operations and the tax paid by formula as a result of the transaction with Sapiens in Q1. That means there was a negative cash flow in Formula Systems. So if we look at the consolidated data on a proportional basis, there's only a small fragment, let's say, 25% that was in the professional data. But in fact, if we look at the full consolidated point, it's negative cash flow. That's one reason. The second reason I mentioned that during the course of my presentation that the formula cash flow in the group -- Formula Group Well, the conversion was the lowest in terms of the operating segments within the group. And this was the result primarily of the fact that the Matrix IT company signed a contract -- a factoring contract for a portion of its receivables. We're talking about talking about PLN 200 million, and that money was credited in Q4 -- so this is not something that we should be worried about. This is something that happens on a regular basis. But basically, what was booked in Q4 means that it wasn't booked in Q1. That's the difference. Thank you very much.

The breakdown of the proportional data net cash position. It looks like debt of PLN 402.5 million and a cash of PLN 2.846 million is that right? So would be the net cash position, not included leases be about PLN 2.4 billion, taking out some PLN 1 billion for the recent dividends that you have paid -- does this then sounds correct, roughly PLN 1.4 billion in net cash also net of these dividends.

Boca, that's right. I would say that's right. That would be the simplest response. But let me draw your attention to 1 detail, 1 specific matter. If we look at the IFRS standards, if we have deposits in excess of 3 months, then the business are not treated as cash, but they're treated in our balance sheet. -- as other financial assets and roughly PLN 660 million. As of 31 March, of cash, which was in Asseco Poland, and that's shown in other financial assets. I just wanted to give you that additional detail. But generally speaking, would say that your hypothesis on this question was correct. So we're pleased that we have so many questions from abroad. This shows the interest and we can see how our international investors are asking questions quickly as they learn our results. Next question.

The data proportional EBITDA is having a problem. -- land intra-territernational other IT for MOLAInfra and Formula E. Meanwhile, runs 95% of the EBITDA looks very good. Could you give us a sense of challenges with those 6 segments that are having problems and maybe plans for those segments. They look very different than the rest of the business?

That is true. The hypothesis and the question is quite correct, is sound. It's a totally different business from the software business. So let me start by with the Polish segment, Realistically, we have technical allocations. These are small amounts. So I really wouldn't focus any intention there because we're talking about minor amounts of money. But if we look at the Asseco International segment, here, in the infrastructure. We have 2 large entities contributors where things were was the first 1 is the company, Asseco Spain. This is a company that has a typical operations for Asseco and basically their handling hardware. And we made -- we actually looked at the -- we wrote down a portion of the inventory some PLN 8 million. So realistically, this contributed to the fact that we have seemed a problem in the question. So the second cause is the Dedicated Solutions segment from the Asseco Group. Here, we had softer results year-on-year. Some of the projects were not recovered that took place in previous years. So there was an organic backtrack. Now the next question.

Your margin expanded, and now in some cases, margins are incredibly high. appearing as high as over 30%, congrats. Can you give us a sense of how you have been able to do this and whether this is a one-off or the sign of some kind of structural change?

These figures in the question. So anybody in excess 30%, this is an EBITDA non-IFRS B2 result. We -- we rarely use that for profitability as a proper metric. So we look at the profitability of individual projects, we think about the fourth margin, which is EBIT because we believe that this is the best metric of whether or not a contract is profitable, yes or no. So factually, in this quarter, in some places, if we think about profitability. We had some momentum. That's what I call it. As a group, we're highly diversified. But in Q1, -- this was a distinct period. If we look at infrastructure, which is small compared to the rest of the group, -- we can say that we had a very good moment in a business sense across the board with the exception of infrastructure. Here, we should point out that the improvement in profitability. To some extent, this is a matter of a structural improvement in profitability. Here, we've been talking about our view when we talk about the effectiveness of our work, so working productivity, utilization of resources. This is the outcome of work that's been done over many months and perhaps over the last 2 years, and so we have talked a lot about gaining or improving efficiency. The second factor is this momentum that I was talking about is also reflected on the top line side. So we have certain contracts which are nonrecurring to some extent. And I would even say they're above average, their profitability is above average. Evidently, we have a large number of contracts in our group, and it might happen. And of course, we're endeavoring to that to have as many of these contracts as possible. But as we look at what we have today in the backlog, I would say the following. What we've been able to improve fundamentally on the cost side, this is a result that can be done again. On the revenue side, this is not necessarily the case, especially if we're talking about contracts where the distribution of revenue largely depends on the customer decision. Let me give you an example. We have a contract where we have a fixed number of people rendering services under a framework agreement for the development of software. And the customer has valued the price, the services under that contract that we're doing in the first phase of the project. So analysis, feasibility studies and things of that nature, and the first stage of implementation have much better prices than at the final stage. So from our point of view, looking at this as a business, it's a secondary nature because the same people are working on very similar things. But that's how the customer has priced things. That's the valuation the customer has attached to that, and that's how it's reflected in the financial statements. And so this distribution of revenue is follows from that. And so we talked about some sort of regular happening that Q4 is the best quarter for us. And frequently, that is, in fact, true. But recently, we've seen some changes, some modifications in the first 2 quarters of the year. in our group, especially in Poland, especially in the public institution segment are exceptionally good.

And another question about the formula assistance.

Formula System, which implies that you control it. You are the largest shareholder. Although many formula systems have increasing EBITDA margins. Can you give us a sense of extent to which you are able to control formula and influence them in the ways to improve margins. which are much lower than the rest of your segments. Please give us the sense of the extent to which you are able to influence their core business to improve margins and whether they could get as high as your other businesses. If you aren't able to control these dynamics, it may be easier if you didn't consolidate the financial statement because it is quite confusing.

Yes indeed the case is that the average profitability of the formula system much lower than of the other 2 systems. And that follows from the fact that -- well, I will focus on Matrix IT because that's a large company. Matrix operates under completely different business models. This business model consists in matrix providing retirement material services in Poland. If we provide services to the public segment we try to avoid term and material contracts. And for sure, we do not participate in any procurement procedures for such solutions. And the specific nature of Matrix operations as such, they prefer to have time and material-based settlements. And if we talk about time and material segments, the risks for the contract are lower and the profitability of the contracts is automatically also much lower. If I were to answer this question, I would say that when we have influence on the strategic directions of development for formula, but we control formula by -- for our management Board members being directors on the Board of Formula assistants. However, we do not go down to the level of individual contracts nor do we analyze operations MatrixIT this way. Of course, we can try to talk about how profitability could be improved. And it seems that the time has come for us to talk about it, but as you know, the situation in Israel is changing quite dynamically and that is likely to continue for a while. We are talking about a huge company with an extensive infrastructure. So maybe, Marek, you would like to add something to this?

No, I think you have exhausted the topic and we have a long list of other questions. There was a question of AI assistant. Yes, another question results.

Could you please share information on the collaboration between Texas as a coolant so far. Could you share examples of influence and the best practices that you are currently working on the shortcomings identified in the businesses?

Collaboration between Asseco Poland and TSS is going on very well. In fact, we are getting to know each other. We are talking about 2 very large structures that has to be borne in mind. What we have done in Asseco Group was to take a certain sample of companies, entities where we thought there was a lot to do. And on the occasion of doing those things and using the opportunity of the transformation also linked to the succession. We wanted to discuss the possibilities for our businesses to improve our foundations of how we operate. So we looked at what constellation, we looked at what Constellation does and what CSL does with their entities. Of course, we do not blindly follow all solutions that are applied in TSS business. Please bear in mind that Asseco Group is a group that has its corporate culture. And secondly, even if you look at Q1 results, were spectacularly good results came from the holding company. In fact, that inspiration was not there yet. We know how to do this business. We do not want to say that we are the best in the world, but we do plan, we want to be the best in the world, and we are more than willing to accept an inspiration. At the same time, you want to be extremely cautious. So as not to spoil what today functions very well in the Asseco Group. And if we take the perspective of finance on all of that. I would say that there are places which are very well measured. Things that allow us to monitor a variety of indicators. Some are the indicators that TSS is looking at right now. I wouldn't like to get rid of what we have right now. I wouldn't like to spoil what is functional today. And at the same time, we can draw on an inspiration coming from TSS. And for so there are places where we still need to do some work. And the further we go from the holding company the more of such work must be done because these were companies acquired at a certain point with their pre-existing corporate cultures and all this transformation of the turning point in the history of our group, which is still to come on the occasion of succession, a perfect opportunity to rethink what we have, what is functioning well, what does not work so well. And any inspirations are more than welcome here. Marek, would you like to say something about M&As?

Yes, I will be willing to add some insights on M&A because here, we did a certain exercise. Namely, we had a very close look at how TSS goes about its M&A transactions, what mechanisms they rely on, what they pay attention to. And that was a valuable lesson. I think we took advantage of it to rebuild our own processes, and we paid particular attention to the things that we found very sensible there and what TSS does. However, we are very cautious in our approach to M&A topic. So we in this consideration model when we would like to have partners and we had 100% of shares bought we had majority stakes. And there are a few significant differences between us and TSS. Nevertheless, I'm happy because we were indeed able to learn some lessons from them. And whatever we found sensible we implemented in our model. And also, it is no secret that this area of M&A is the area where by definition, we wanted to collaborate. So representatives of TSS also on the investment committee at the Asseco Group level. And together, we consider potential M&A projects. There is 1 more topic that TSS brought and it comes up in the following question.

Could you please share the status on the resolution that was down voted in the first general meeting on the bonus scheme?

Yes, that is a topic on which we are still working. It is relevant to us. That is exactly what you asked about, the experience with -- and TS promoted that very heavily. It also came up with this topic in conversations with other shareholders. We wanted to propose a bonus program for our managers, it was rejected by minimum majority of votes, we prepare feedback. So we will present another proposal. We are now finalizing work on this. But for sure, we will first talk to shareholders to convince them, to bring them around to our way of thinking. And also, Adam Coral appealed to the shareholders for doing that before he left. And he stressed this was very important in the succession program. We are talking about not just bonuses, but the retention program for key managers, whom we would like to support in this difficult transition period. Succession is not just a change of a single individual. In fact, the company is undergoing a major change, which is to prepare us for further development under different circumstances also taking into account the experiences Marek and Karolina have just described. For sure, we'll return to you we will also ask our shareholders for assistance in obtaining acceptance of this program. Would you like to add anything? on this topic, not. So we move to the next one.

Congratulations on the spectacular results of Asseco Poland. You report you mentioned in a few places about -- you mentioned integration of for medical companies and ABS companies. What's the first quarter 2026, the strongest quarter of this year as a consequence of involvement in those projects. And to what extent this is a good reference point for the upcoming period?

That's a difficult question. Indeed, this quarter was spectacular. So -- and it is a certain momentum, but the nature of momentum is such that at a certain point, it comes to an end. However, I do hope very much that the diversification that we have in the group. Well, help us to make sure that the things that happened in the first quarter and will not happen later, like recurring revenues. A large part of what we have in ADS is an operational one-off different thing will occur in ABS. As a result of several invoicing system resulted in a new single product being built, which should generate recurring revenues. And in brief. Not everything is recurring. We won't be able to repeat the things that we had in Q1, but a large portion of that is there. And health, this element of recovery program, which is a major growth factor. This was not very well visible in Q1 results. Probably, it will be noticeable in Q2 results. Yet I wouldn't like to give you any forecast. We do have ambitions here, but we're sure that will be a major challenge to get spectacular results repeated.

Any idea what Asseco Poland considers as the realistic adjusted EBITDA margin target after implementing all TSS best practices?

We do not have such number. We will not have such target. And I think we do not intend to have one. Our business is very diversified. Without TSS practices, best practices of TSS are applicable, and they are interesting examples of how we can fundamentally structurally improve the business especially where we have product businesses. Please remember, however, that a large portion of our business is project business. And here, of course, without, of course, the best practices on how to cash receivables or how to organize work around professional services for sure that will come handy. Nevertheless, we cannot say keeping how complex complicated this product mechanics is, how dependent it is on the market in which we operate and so on and so forth. It would be irresponsible if I gave you any single number and said that this is what we are aiming at. We are striving to improve quarter-by-quarter. And -- now we are doing quite well, I think. There is a lot of inspiration coming from the resources, but let me reiterate. On the one hand, this inspiration comes. But on the other hand, we have our ambition to look at ourselves from a slightly new angle. And we want to improve the things that we believe is our expertise and such an advantage. So if we look at the results of last year, what is seen very clearly that the Asseco Group is able to very decently last year, that was 10% grow organically. So on the 1 hand, we want draw on those good practices, and we want to be inspired by them in the M&A process. But at the same time, we want to keep -- maintain our focus on organic growth. And something that is our know-how is another area on which we want to focus. We intend to operate our way within our corporate culture in order to come up with ways of improving the results. Another question.

Current plan for excess cash flow is deployed by the year-end. Specifically, would the company expect to return that cash to shareholders through the dividend or other capital returns retain it in the balance sheet for the future deployment? More broadly, how does TSS think about capital returns versus in reinvestments when access cannot be deployed within the current year?

I can say that, honestly, I don't really understand the question. I don't really understand this question is about TSS. Please remember that TSS is an important shareholder, it's a minority shareholder. When we talk about the dividend in this company, basically, all shareholders make the decision about the level of dividend, but the proposals of paying out dividends are to be given by the management team. And voting on dividend proposals to a large extent, is dependent upon how the largest shareholder is going to vote. And then, along with TSS is the largest shareholder. That's how, in fact, the shareholders' agreement was construed and that's something that we've reported. So if somebody wants to understand the viewpoints of TSS about what we're going to do with cash, I would ask TSS. Please ask TSS directly. But if this is a question to us, then, of course, we will consider a variety of options. Liquidity position is relatively good or comfortable. But once again, strategically speaking, we should think about how the Asseco Group should continue growing. We have always shared our results with the shareholders. we've had and run a stable policy -- and so we want to spend money on dividends. And so the first half we've allocated to dividends in terms of the tranche that was paid out a few days ago. And we promised that the second half would be paid out in the form of a dividend and the subsequent dividend. And this is something we're going to stick to. These are promises that were made to our shareholders, and we will fulfill those promises. But when it comes to the rest of the cash, that's, I think, pretty evident that we're also thinking about growing. And some of these funds will be invested in organic growth, some of it will be invested in M&A activity, and some of it will certainly be paid out in the form of dividends. So we're trying to be very fair, very transparent in everything we do, but I would be grateful if some of the corporate properties would be left to those entities and those persons who are entitled to exercise the progress.

And if you look at the backlog of Asseco Poland is growing faster than what you had communicated in March -- and so if we think about the backlog growth with the project for hospitals, is this year's accumulation of projects. Does that mean that the 2027 in Asseco Poland could be softer because of having a high base effect or some of the projects could they last longer. What's your view on that?

Well, it's very difficult for me to say when will hit the peak on this subject. I can reflect on individual businesses. And when I started to talk about when I mentioned health care, it's actually the fact that the national recovery plan is a major contributing factor to growing income or top line. But this is not something that you can see in the results entirely. I think it will be much more visible in Q2 -- or even in Q2, I know that this case. And so the backlog is quite strong. Please remember that the backlog that we report is the backlog for the specific year up until the end of 2026. And the backlog is construed, having in mind the contracts from the public sector, but it's also patted because after 4 years of working hard, doing a lot of sales work, we've been able to sign a contract, let's say, in Africa, the contract in Togo, which is co-financed by the BGK, the national development bucket. There's a little bit about in the press. So that bag color the growth rate in backlog, we have certain contracts where we could say well, this growth rate is being sustained. But -- we have another couple of quarters in the public sector. We have a pipeline that's quite sizable. And there are other projects where we're going to make some attempts. We're going to strive to perform there. So if we look at the potential upside, well, you can never be calm about what's happening best. And we are worried the least here today and the strong backlog that we hold. So I think -- this is a good -- something -- is a good harbinger for what's going, but this year could deliver. So with more information about results, the more questions we have. And so was Q1 results supported by nonrecurring events. So settlements of a contract or contracts? Or is it just a matter of reflection of the overall business environment with the support the second type offices. Generally speaking, the results of operating activity. And of course, of the overall group, the entire segment, but if I were to respond to this question, generally speaking, Yes, the fact that backlog looks the way it looks. There was no distinct one-offs. But if we were to come down to the individual specifics, I mentioned 2 contracts where they were building the results sort of 2 topics they are or not contracts, this is the government invention system. That's not something that will be a recurring factor because we're -- we built a product where we'll recognize the revenue all at once. And so the effect of PLN 8 million, PLN 9 million in terms of our revenue, that's a one-off, that's something we have booked. The second topic is the context where I said it's in the public sector and the customer values that in atypical fashion that the revenue is spread out in such a way that the first 2 quarters are the most strong. And so those are 2 things or 2 topics, which I could enumerate here, which we could put into a basket of, let's say, less recurring. But generally, the response is as well as in our results, we don't have anything that would be fully typical of a one-off nature. That doesn't alter the fact that when we speak generally about the results of Asseco Poland over the last 2 years. We've mentioned that there are certain legislative changes. And of course, the government invoicing system is a clear example of a legislative change. And so it's a booster, and that's why the results look toward this. And this is the national recovery plan changes of legislation, the into invoicing system and also what's happening in the energy sector I could mention a large number of things here, but the logic would suggest that if we had the sense that something else will show up in that industry as well and then also in banking. And then in the public institution sector. And so as long as we're prepped to do or handle those legislative changes in our software. These things will continue to act as boosters for our results. It's not only legislative changes I would add here to what Claire said, but there are new budgets or new areas where investments are being made, like safe or bigger spending on the defense sector in Poland. This is another area where if more spending is going to take place in the IT sector, we'll be able to benefit from that. And the same is true of European budgets. And maybe I would add whether or not there's a positive impact by the National cover plan only in this year? Will it be visible also in 2027? I think Karolina has more or less responded to that question.

And it seems like many people work from home. So the office base is not fully utilized. -- is there perhaps an opportunity to perform a sale and leaseback that would unlock some of the capital for shareholders while rental yields are low?

Well, we do have a portion of the real estate, which is own real estate in Poland. That's the office in Warsaw, the office in we analyze a variety of options here. Let me talk about the financing capabilities, no decision has been made to enter into a sale leaseback transaction. Let me say I can say that in the spread rate, this is not something that proves would generate or be accretive. And that's more a matter of the function of the purpose that we have by doing that calculation. If we look at the operating expense and the financial cost of such an operation, today, it does not seem to me that, that would be a viable option. But that option always does exist. And of course, we keep our finger on the pulse, and we make these type of calculations the fact that people are working from home, pets of course, true, but that doesn't alter the fact that our paradigm, operating priority means that we want to build a company that for many, many years to come, will deliver phenomenal results and will continue to develop. In our opinion, the opinion of Asseco Poland management team, people who are coming to work to offices -- there are certain things that aren't measurable, but we're able to achieve them because people come to the office and work in the office. And so -- we are highly attached to this idea that this work that we do should be of a hybrid nature. So it's not something that's entirely self-evident that we should -- let's say, dispatch or discard this space because this could be something that would be rather myopic or a femoral in nature. And so the fact of the matter is that most of our people today come to office in a 3 plus 2 model. Naturally, we could say that, well, in theory, we could put together a model where the same desk would be occupied by -- for 3 days by 1 person, 2 days by somebody else, we like a hot desk solution, but it seems to us that, that would be counter effective -- counterproductive. We want to encourage people to work in the offices because having in mind today what's happening with AI. The fact that people are sitting together, there's greater creativity. When they're sitting together, we're able to solve problems more quickly this builds genuine value in the Asseco Group. But in terms of the tools that we have, if we have a programmer who's working totally remotely -- and the enticement to the employer is rather limited. Well, we do want to bring people to a level of just being tools because then, in fact, it's very easy to replace those people if you were thinking only about them as tools. This is not where we're building the value of the Asseco group. So if we take just -- if we look at things on a point basis, I'm not saying that we don't calculate things. We do calculate that we do -- we do, of course, give consideration to various options, but it's very important not to lose from site the overall picture. We are not talking about the results. We're not fighting for the results of Q2 or just the results in 2026. We want for the Esseco Group to build value for the long term. And the biggest value in this group come from the people who work for this group. And people who are working together hand-in-hand, determine what this group is capable of. So it seems to us that we need those buildings in the model that we have. So it's a great response, Karolina. I would -- and so the journalist had why us? Why do we have such success and there are other IT companies that are generating such great successes in Poland. And I think this is what Karolina said a moment ago. We have more than just the fact that we're hiring people, we're building value and we're trying to care for our employees because it's our greatest asset. The next question is about the revenue from the government invoicing system, whether that's a one-off. Carolina already addressed that question in our previous response.

Whether revenue contribution from acquisition on Slide 12 is from those acquisitions made in Q1 2026 only? Or is the total revenue contribution from those acquisitions made over the period Q1 '25,Q1'26 many things.

Yes. when we show acquisitions, these are the results of companies that weren't in the consolidated version of Q1 2025. So they were purchased after 31 March 2025. So you can see them in the results of Q1 2026, but we didn't on a comparable basis in the corresponding period. The next question is basically the put option liabilities under the formulary systems. This has grown over the course of a single quarter by nearly PLN 100 million of PLN 439 million to PLN 530 million.

So based on the tax valuation or the valuation event is based on the companies and certain factors. It's such a major growth mean that the operating results of these acquired companies has improved so greatly -- or was there a revision of forecast for the upcoming years?

This is a very specific question. in formula, we have a large number of puts, there's a purchasing model -- in the Asseco group, in scopoland, usually, we sign contracts with put options, and they're usually on a symmetric basis, and of other calls on the other side, symmetric call and put options. And generally speaking, the increase that we've seen in formula is in part a result of the fact that we have, in fact, changed the valuation, the underlying valuation -- so we put a valuation on a put option. We try to determine a multiple against results against the earnings. So -- are we saying that the results have improved. Does that mean the annual liabilities? Well, in part, that's true. And that's part of the reason why the growth has taken place to a large extent. This result of the fact that in 2025, an acquisition was made. And there was also a put option. So basically, we have new liabilities that have appeared. As a result, of new acquisitions and that's that. And there are also some other financial things in terms of reversal of discount rates. And this could also have an impact on the valuation to be paid out or not dividends being paid and something else that's also quite important is the fact put options can be in different currencies. And so we have to translate everything into post wares. So these payables can change also as a result of FX rates. gains and losses. If somebody wants to have this broken down in great detail, that's something we could do, but I don't think we want to drill down into the details. And you can ask this question through IR, and I'll try to give the response.

Congrats on the results. Given the cash balance and somewhat depressed valuation of software business. Is there any plan to accelerate M&A operations in the coming quarters, Mara?

Well, as you know, M&A activity is something that we've been doing for many, many years. We are not sitting on our laurels. We're talking with new catalysts, new companies. This is something that we want to continue. But the fact of the matter is that this market has changed a bit, and this is something that we've been talking about for several quarters. And I extended this message to convey this Mrs. to you. And so we have potential investors from across the world in terms of private equity, venture capital, international players who are looking at our pouring over in our markets. So we haven't seen that competition. We're talking about smaller countries in the Balkans and Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, where a few years ago, the market to look totally different from what it looks like today. And this all of this taken together means that we do, in fact, see prices, which are unacceptable to us in terms of the expectations of the sellers. And of course, -- we don't want to do acquisitions at every expense. We want to have a good return on our acquisitions. We want to have suitable returns for us and our shareholders. And this is something that we take great pains to achieve -- and so in Poland or in some of our markets, we have fewer number of acquisitions -- but generally speaking, we continue to talk. We are doing some analog scrutinies. We have some letters of intent signed in Poland. This doesn't always mean that the transactions will transpire even over a list of intent or a lot of intents been signed sometimes we would retract from that for 1 reason or another. But responding to the question, we, of course, want to continue this activity. We're looking for interesting companies, competencies and products that would fill out our picture would contribute to us, but we're very selective because we want those valuations at a specific level. So the next question, Marek.

The 2026 similarly strong in terms of EBITDA and net profit expansion as first quarter 2020 -- do you see PLN 800 million net profit trouble to parent company in financial year 2026 as within your reach?

I would put it this way, a simple multiplication of Q1 results by far is unlikely to get spot number that we will actually deliver this year. But as I have said, our ambitions are high. Yet there are objective factors, which do not allow me to say today that this quarter is going to be repeated in the following 3 quarters we do not share our forecast. We do not provide information on that. But if I were to say whether that is within our limit or not I would say, yes, it seems however, we cannot promise that. So for sure, the ambitions we budgeted less, but which does not change the back at the situation we are facing today after efficiency improvement many areas drives this optimism and increases our appetite. However, not everything is under our control. So obviously we cannot promise anything, yet we can say that our action -- and the last question, I think an interesting one.

What was in fact of the highest historically speaking, Q1 for Asseco Poland .

Maybe I will help Karolina and Marek and will answer this. We have said so many things so you can guess what that was. But at the end of the day, that was the work of a huge number of our teams build various things. With the situation in the market with increasing key solutions in many segments and also new projects like this governmental invoicing system or new major changes in the system mean that our historical pets let us allows us to deliver those results. On this note, I would like to thank you for such a big number of questions. And of course, we invite you to the following presentations of the first 6 months of the year results and then investor presentation. Thank you very much, audience. Thank you very much, Marek and Karolina.