Interim Report January-September 2012

Highlights during the third quarter

• Net asset value amounted to SEK 163.4 bn. (SEK 215 per share) on September 30, 2012, an increase by SEK 8.5 bn., (SEK 11 per share) during the quarter.
  
• Additional shares were acquired in ABB and Wärtsilä.
  
• Net cash flow to Investor from EQT and Investor Growth Capital totaled SEK 0.9 bn. during the quarter.
  

Financial information

• Net asset value amounted to SEK 163,376 m. (SEK 215 per share) on September 30, 2012, compared to SEK 156,070 m. (SEK 205 per share) at year-end 2011, corresponding to a change, with dividend added back, of 8 percent (-13). The Stockholm Stock Exchange’s Total Return Index (SIXRX) was 12 percent during the same period (-20). Over the past 20 years, annual net asset value growth, with dividend added back, has been 13 percent.
  
• Consolidated net profit for the period, which includes unrealized change in value, was SEK 13,339 m. (SEK 17.60 per share), compared to SEK -21,555 m. (SEK -28.25 per share) for the same period 2011.
  
• Core Investments contributed SEK 12,010 m. to net asset value for the period (-28,687), of which Listed SEK 13,289 m. (-29,016).
  
• Financial Investments contributed SEK 454 m. to net asset value for the period (8,385).
  
• Leverage (net debt/total assets) was 12.3 percent as of September 30, 2012 (9.8).
  
• The total return on the Investor share was 18 percent during the period (-12), of which 10 percent during the third quarter (-16). The total annual return on the Investor share averaged 1 percent over the past 5-year period, 15 percent over the past 10-year period and 15 percent over the past 20-year period.

For further information:

Oscar Stege Unger, Head of Corporate Communications, Phone 46 8 614 2059, 46 70 624 2059
Magnus Dalhammar, Investor Relations Manager, Phone 46 8 614 2130, 46 73 524 2130

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