The shares of the Swedish group of telecommunications networks and equipment Ericsson have suffered this Thursday a sharp intraday correction of 12.6%, after releasing semi-annual accounts that show a year-on-year decrease of 43% in its net profit, weighed down by restructuring costs.
At the close of the market, the multinational's shares concluded the session at 98.54 Swedish kronor (8.93 euros), clearly below the 112.75 kronor (10.22 euros) with which trading ended on the previous day.
Between January and June 2026, Ericsson registered an attributable net profit of 4,933 million kronor (446 million euros), which represents a contraction of 43.4% compared to the result obtained in the same period of the previous year.
The company's performance up to June incorporates an extraordinary negative impact of 4,369 million kronor (395 million euros) linked to restructuring costs, well above the 937 million kronor (85 million euros) that the company accounted for under this same concept in the first half of 2025.
"In the second quarter, we took measures to mitigate the inflation of component costs," explained Börje Ekholm, president and CEO of Ericsson. "As the impact intensifies in the coming quarters, we will continue to implement internal measures and price adjustments to offset the effect," he added.
Likewise, the executive warned that Ericsson anticipates "some pressure" on the gross adjusted margin of the network business in the third quarter, as a consequence of the increase in the volume of network deployment projects.