Evolution AB (publ) (EVVTY) Q1 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

2025-04-30 15:03:09 ET

Evolution AB (publ) (EVVTY)

Q1 2025 Results Conference Call

April 30, 2025 03:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Martin Carlesund - Chief Executive Officer

Joakim Andersson - Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Oscar Ronnkvist - ABG Sundal Collier

Raymond Ke - Nordea

Georg Attling - Pareto Securities

Pravin Gondhale - Barclays

Martin Arnell - DNB

Monique Pollard - Citi

Virendra Chauhan - AlphaValue

Ed Young - Morgan Stanley

Presentation

Martin Carlesund

Good morning. Welcome, everyone, to the presentation of Evolution's report for the first quarter 2025. My name is Martin Carlesund, and I'm the CEO of Evolution. With me are our new CFO, Joakim Andersson. Joakim joined Evolution in February, and it's great to have you here, Joakim.

I will start with some comments on our performance in the quarter and then hand over to you, Joakim, for a closer look at our financials. After that, I will conclude with an outlook and then we'll open up the call for questions.

Next slide, please. Let's start with the financial and operational highlights of the quarter. And first, let's focus on the operative side, operations side, as 2 activities have had certain impact on the financial result. The first one, which I highlighted already in the last earnings call, is that we started to add new technical measures that aim to more effectively ringfence the markets with a local regulation and ensure that our games are only available with locally licensed operators for markets where such license exists. Following the introduction of such ringfencing measures in the U.K., we have moved forward with other European markets in the quarter.

This is a proactive measure. It's a move from our side in markets with high -- sorry, from our side in markets with high channelization that the ringfencing has had limited impact. However, in markets with low channelization, we have had seen a drop in revenue. As you know, we believe that regulation is positive over time, and we see support the regulators in the ways we can. However, as a supplier, our impact is actually quite small as channelization is highly dependent on the regulatory framework and the parameters used such as tax rates, proactive measures.

If it is too expensive or to complicate to play, the players will disappear. That is the reality. And for regulator, it's about finding the right balance to keep the channelization on high level and to protect the most vulnerable players.

The second activity with an impact of the result is the continued work to stop the criminal cyber activity that we face in Asia. We are making constant progress, but the measures do impact the network in general and the revenue is in line with what we have seen in the last couple of quarters. Despite the ringfencing effects and the cyber challenges, I'm positive about 2025 as a whole, with a very strong product road map that we only just have started to execute on, together with a solid underlying demand....

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