Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on October 23, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
Atlas Copco's Q3 profit fell slightly less than expected, with steady short-term demand. Trade tariffs impacted margins, but shares remained stable.
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Swedish industrial group Atlas Copco reported on Thursday a fall in third-quarter profit that was slightly smaller than expected and predicted customer activity would remain at the current level in the short term.
Operating profit before items affecting comparability was 8.86 billion crowns ($941 million) against a year-earlier 9.44 billion on a 3% sales drop. Analysts polled by LSEG had on average forecast a profit of 8.68 billion crowns.
Order intake fell 4% to 40.5 billion crowns against a forecast 41.0 billion. Excluding acquisitions, the intake was however unchanged.
The company said in a statement demand for its products and services had been mixed in the quarter, but that overall order volumes remained relatively stable compared both to last year and the second quarter.
Atlas Copco, which last year generated roughly a quarter of group revenues in North America, said higher costs related to trade tariffs squeezed profit margins across its divisions.
Shares in the company, which makes a wide range of industrial products from air treatment systems to construction equipment and power tools, were roughly unchanged at 1038 GMT.
(Reporting by Jagoda Darlak in Gdansk and Greta Rosen Fondahn in Stockholm, editing by Anna Ringstrom)
Operating profit is the profit a company makes from its core business operations, excluding any income derived from non-operational activities like investments or sales of assets.
Order intake refers to the total value of orders received by a company during a specific period, indicating demand for its products or services.
Profit margin is a financial metric that shows the percentage of revenue that exceeds the costs of goods sold, indicating how efficiently a company is generating profit.
Market reaction refers to how investors respond to news or events that impact a company's performance, often reflected in stock price movements.
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