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Strong growth driven by AI, products and platforms
Netcompany Group A/S
Strandgade 3, 1401 Copenhagen
Company Registration no. 39 48 89 14
Company Announcement No. 28/2026
6 May 2026
Income taxes in Q1 2026 were DKK 55.7m
compared to DKK 48.3m in the same
quarter last year. The effective tax rate was
27.9% in the quarter, compared to 28.4%
in Q1 2025. Effective tax rate in the quarter
was affected by a one-off correction relat-
ed to prior years in Netcompany SEE & EUI
of DKK 13.6m. Adjusted for tax related to
prior years the effective tax rate was 21.1%
in Q1 2026.
Net profit amounted to DKK 143.7m in Q1
2026, compared to DKK 121.7m in Q1 2025.
Free cash flow was negative DKK 305m
in Q1 2026 compared to DKK 67.9m in Q1
2025. The negative free cash flow in Q1
2026 was driven by the development in
trade receivables and work in progress. The
increased trade receivables were impact-
ed by the timing of more than DKK 200m
in payments, which were due at the end
March but received on 2 April. Regarding
work in progress, some larger projects
under the Recovery and Resilience Facility
are building up over the year and expected
to be invoiced and collected in the second
half of the year.
percentage points compared to the same
quarter last year – all in constant curren-
cies. The decrease in adjusted EBITDA was
driven by the investments in agentic AI.
Reported adjusted EBITDA increased 10.8%
to DKK 340.3m in Q1 2026, yielding an ad-
justed EBITDA margin of 14.1%. NBS impact-
ed the margin negatively by 1.2 percentage
points in the quarter.
Depreciation and amortisation were DKK
99.7m in Q1 2026, compared to DKK 78.4m
in the same quarter last year. DKK 12.2m of
the increase was related to the addition of
NBS.
Operating profit (EBIT) was DKK 241.1m in
Q1 2026 compared to DKK 209.6m in Q1
2025. Of the 15% increase in EBIT, 13.1 per-
centage points were related to the addition
of NBS to the Group.
Net financials were negative DKK 36.6m in
Q1 2026, in line with the same quarter last
year.
Profit before tax was DKK 199.4m and
increased 17.3% compared to DKK 170.1m in
Q1 2025 – 15.1 percentage points were relat-
ed to the addition of NBS to the Group.
of 1 January 2026. During the first quarter
an additional 52 FTEs were transferred to
Product Development to accelerate the
adoption of agentic AI in all our models
and to build local AI models that are fully
vendor independent. At the end of Q1 the
total amount of resources working within
Product Development totalled 459 FTEs
compared to 302 FTEs in the first quarter
last year – an increase of 51.8%. Most of the
increase in FTEs are reallocated resources
from the Danish business segment.
Organic client facing FTEs grew 8.9% in Q1
2026 and with the inclusion of 877 client
facing FTEs in NBS, total client facing FTEs
increased 20.8%.
Reported gross profit increased 14% to DKK
587.2m in the quarter.
Organic gross profit margin was 26.5% in Q1
2026, compared to 29.5% in Q1 2025. The
decrease in gross profit margin was a result
of lower licence revenue in the quarter and
the transfer of 150 client facing FTEs to the
Product Development unit.
Organic adjusted EBITDA was DKK 298.7m
in Q1 2026, yielding an organic adjusted
EBITDA margin of 15.1% – a decrease of 2.4
In Q1 2026, organic revenue grew 12.8%
(constant currencies 13.1%) compared to Q1
2025. Organic growth was driven by 10.1%
growth in revenue from the public sector
and 19.5% growth in revenue from the pri-
vate sector. Revenue growth was driven by
a combination of new wins related to our
products and platforms and revenue gener-
ated from existing customers. All segments
contributed to the revenue growth, most
significant Netcompany UK and Netcompa-
ny SEE & EUI.
Reported revenue grew 38.4% in the
quarter, of which 25.6 percentage points
were non-organic related to Netcompany
Banking Services (NBS).
Average FTEs amounted to 9,845 of which
NBS accounted for 877 FTEs and the Prod-
uct Development unit accounted for 459
FTEs.
To enhance and streamline our product and
platform offerings and to further embed AI
capabilities into these, all efforts around
product and platform development as well
as AI initiatives, previously anchored within
the business segments in Denmark and
South East Europe, was moved into one
central unit – Product Development – as
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