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Posted on July 18, 2025
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Add as preferred source on GoogleAtlas Copco shares fell 7% after reporting a Q2 profit miss and an 8% decline in orders, mainly due to currency effects.
(Reuters) -Swedish industrial group Atlas Copco reported on Friday a second-quarter adjusted operating profit below market expectations and a decline in orders, sending its shares down 7%.
Operating profit, before items affecting comparability, fell to 8.41 billion Swedish crowns ($870.30 million) for the April-June period against a year-earlier 9.79 billion crowns. Analysts were expecting 8.66 billion on average, LSEG data showed.
"While the outlook for the global economy continues to be uncertain, Atlas Copco Group expects that the customer activity will remain at the current level," the maker of air treatment systems, construction gear and power tools said in a statement.
Shares in the company dropped 7.6% at 1130 GMT after they were down less than 1% ahead of the report.
Atlas Copco's order intake fell 8%, or 1% on an organic basis, to 40.1 billion Swedish crowns in the second quarter, mainly due to a negative currency effect, the group said in a statement.
In Europe, the orders fell by 2%, while in North America, which accounted for slightly more than a quarter of the group's revenue and order intake last year, they were unchanged.
(Reporting by Jagoda Darlak in Gdansk and Greta Rosen Fondahn in Stockholm, editing by Stine Jacobsen)
Operating profit is the profit a company makes from its core business operations, excluding any income derived from non-operational activities such as investments or sales of assets.
Order intake refers to the total value of new orders received by a company during a specific period, indicating demand for its products or services.
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