DNB Markets: Emboldening start to 2025
The Q1 results held important building blocks demonstrating resilience, despite slower design starts and robust SaaS offering pipeline commentary, with greater upselling potential. We expect IAR Systems’ defensive recurring revenues, strong balance sheet, and share buybacks to cushion share price volatility amid the SaaS transition, but have cut our 2025e EPS by 15% and reduced our fair value to SEK150–260 (160–265).Healthy Q1 beat: 1) 3% organic sales growth YOY despite deal slippage from Q1 to Q2e (4% net sales beat versus our forecast), with +46% organic growth in APAC (partly from a