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Price: 8.918 EUR 1.36%
Market Cap: €49.2B
Financial profile · Q1 FY2026

A cash-generative telecom supplier facing quarterly earnings volatility

Ericsson’s multi-year history shows cyclical revenue, resilient operating cash generation, and moderate capital intensity. Profitability is more volatile than cash flow because restructuring, impairments, financing, and other non-operating items can materially separate net income from operating performance.

What is developing

The latest results preserve the cash-generative profile but show a sharper earnings squeeze: reported revenue declined despite disclosed organic growth, while restructuring charges substantially reduced quarterly operating and net income. This matters because the pressure is currently more visible below the operating-cash-flow line than in the underlying cash-generation pattern.

What matters next

Whether operating margin and net income recover as restructuring charges normalize while organic sales growth remains positive.

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68.7B 53.2B 74.1B 85.2B 94.4B 101B 113.5B 104.4B 111.4B 113.9B
(55.1B) (66.6B) (64.5B) (74.3B) (65B) (68.5B) (83.1B) (86.2B) (88.3B) (81B)
(27.5B) (31.7B) (27.2B) (25.3B) (26.4B) (26.9B) (35.6B) (38.2B) (38.5B) (33B)
R&D
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1.3B 668m 319m (10.5B) 739m 303m (249m) 300m 143m 262m
13.6B (13.5B) 9.7B 10.9B 29.5B 32.5B 30.4B 18.2B 23.1B 33B
(3B) (856m) (2.1B) 237m (135m) (2.1B) (1.1B) (2.1B) (919m) 944m
1.4B 1B 997m 1.9B 1.4B 951m 1.4B 2.7B 2.9B 2B
(7.6B) (21.2B) (8.4B) (1.7B) (1.4B) (682m) (4B) (38.4B) (18.4B) 5.3B
(153m) (454m) (654m) (690m) (762m) (469m) (666m) (1.1B) (1.2B) (936m)
2.9B (36B) (1.5B) 8.8B 27.2B 29.3B 24.6B (23.3B) 2.6B 38.3B
(1.9B) 3.5B (4.8B) (6.9B) (9.6B) (6.3B) (5.5B) (2.8B) (2.2B) (9.6B)
1B (32.4B) (6.3B) 1.8B 17.6B 23B 19.1B (26.1B) 374m 28.7B
(179m) (143m) (254m) 383m (140m) (286m) (388m) (342m) (354m) (286m)
833m (32.6B) (6.5B) 2.2B 17.5B 22.7B 18.7B (26.4B) 20m 28.4B
0.26 (9.94) (1.98) 0.67 5.26 6.82 5.62 (7.94) 0.01 8.51