Annual rank74
Sweden · Healthcare
Ambea publ
Provides elderly care, disability services, psychosocial support, welfare staffing and professional training.
FY2022–FY2025
FY2022–FY2025
FY2022–FY2025
current context only
Company profile
Care settings, specialist brands and a Nordic quality system
Ambea provides residential and community-based care across Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark. Its specialised brands cover elderly care, disability support, psychosocial services, schools, rehabilitation, personal assistance, clinical staffing and professional learning. Municipalities and Nordic wellbeing-service authorities buy places or contract Ambea to run units, while staff work close to residents through decentralised operations supported by shared quality, training and follow-up systems.
Elderly care
Vardaga turns daily routines into named care concepts
Vardaga runs Swedish nursing homes and selected home-care services. Its Food Like Home kitchens prepare meals within the unit; Pet Therapy, Young Care and activities managers add companionship; Good Night creates an individual sleep plan; and the Dementia Academy supports staff knowledge and certification.
- Explore Vardaga Nursing homes, home care and named quality-of-life concepts
- How elderly care is delivered Apartments, communal spaces, meals and round-the-clock staffing
- Capacity and care in 2025 New care places, resident feedback and the Nordic footprint
- Why Ambea calls itself competence-based Skills, language training and partnerships with municipalities
Disability and psychosocial support
Four national brands adapt support to different life stages
Nytida combines group homes, assisted living, schools and day activities in Sweden. Stendi adds Norwegian residential care, foster homes and personal assistance. Validia provides Finnish rehabilitation and enhanced care, including its MONA concept, while Altiden spans Danish nursing homes, disability services and support for children and families.
- Nytida in Sweden Residential care, schools, day activities and its pedagogical framework
- Stendi in Norway Supported living, activity centres, foster homes and personal assistance
- Validia in Finland Rehabilitation, enhanced care, personal assistance and the MONA concept
- Altiden in Denmark Elderly, disability, child, youth and family services
Skills and quality
Mobile clinical teams sit beside a Nordic learning hub
Klara supplies nurses, occupational therapists and physiotherapists through mobile teams and supports student health in Swedish schools. Lära trains and supervises around 13,000 people a year through classroom, online and tailored formats. Group quality is followed through unit inspections, monthly indices, resident surveys and external reviews.
- Klara clinical teams Round-the-clock nursing, rehabilitation and student-health services
- Lära learning Training, coaching, digital courses and recorded lectures
- Quality in every unit Inspections, the Quality Index, surveys and non-conformance reporting
- Quality governance Unit councils, the central department and board oversight
Nordic operating model
Local decisions connect to a four-country platform
Ambea combines own-management units on long leases, time-limited contract management for public clients, and separate staffing or training agreements. Operations remain decentralised close to residents, while the group shares skills and quality systems. Its timeline stretches from a 1903 Saltsjöbaden care institution to the 2025 Validia acquisition.
- How the services fit together Housing, support, education, staffing and contract forms
- All seven operating brands The country and service role of each specialised name
- How new units join the group Decentralised responsibility, shared learning and acquisition criteria
- Explore the care history From Saltsjöbaden in 1903 to a four-country Nordic group
- ▶ VideoWatch: Ambea in one minute The issuer's short introduction to people and care settings
Official profile sources: Our history - Ambea · About Ambea - Ambea
Current 2026 update
What is changing at Ambea publ in 2026?
Ambea is moving on three operating fronts: the Humana offer has entered acceptance and regulatory review, every country business is adding care places, and a new Nordic quality system is replacing four older tools. None of those processes is finished.
The change in one sentence
The 2026 test is to add scale without losing the local care model.
Humana could widen the platform, physical openings expand it regardless of the deal, and MiraQ is meant to connect quality data across more than 1,050 operations.
Four lenses on 2026
The same four-quadrant format used in the Company profile.
01 · Humana process
The offer is live, but the combination has not happened
Ambea published the offer document and prospectus, which the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority had approved and registered, on 24 August. Humana shareholders can accept from 25 August to 30 September at 15:00 CEST; settlement is expected around 8 October only if the conditions are satisfied or Ambea otherwise resolves to complete. The original offer still requires more than 90% acceptance and necessary regulatory, competition and foreign-investment clearances. Finland's competition authority received its filing on 25 August, set a Phase-I deadline of 25 September and opened consultation through 3 September. The filing records overlaps in four Finnish service areas and, on the notifying party's account, treats institutional child welfare, disability supported housing and disability day activities as affected markets. That is a description within an open review, not a clearance finding. Ambea also plans to divest Humana's Swedish Personal Assistance business because it operates under a different model and regulation.
- Current signalAcceptance 25 August-30 September · >90% condition · Finnish Phase I due 25 September
- Why it mattersThe strategic combination is now an active shareholder and regulatory process, with the future service perimeter still conditional.
- Humana offer timetable Ambea · 24 August 2026
- Humana offer conditions Ambea · 29 June 2026
- Finnish competition filing Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority · 25 August 2026 · Finnish
02 · Care-place engine
Every country business signed or opened new care places
Q2 turned Ambea's capacity plan into a four-country set of concrete projects. In Sweden, Nytida opened 42 places and signed 82, while Vardaga signed an 80-place nursing home. Norway's Stendi opened 28 places and signed nine. Finland's Validia signed 21 and completed Ehot Oy on 1 June, its third children-and-youth care acquisition; Ehot brings two homes for young people with extensive support needs. Denmark's Altiden signed 125 places across elderly and social care. The report says more than 2,225 own-management places were under construction at quarter-end and that first-half contracts exceeded any previous full-year total. Ambea aims for this five-year expansion to create 3,500 Nordic care jobs, but that remains a company target rather than jobs already delivered. The places also sit at different stages, from open units to contracts for future buildings.
- Current signal70 places opened in Q2 · 317 signed across five brands · more than 2,225 under construction
- Why it mattersAmbea is expanding its existing platform independently of Humana, but signed places still require buildings, staff, occupancy and quality control.
- Q2 care places and MiraQ Ambea · 19 August 2026
03 · Quality system
MiraQ replaces four systems and introduces an AI direction
Ambea implemented MiraQ at Vardaga and Nytida in Sweden and planned rollout to the other Nordic countries during the second half. The company says one platform replaces four older systems, creates a consistent data structure, strengthens IT security and supports predictive analysis and AI within quality improvement at more than 1,050 care operations. Those are platform capabilities and plans, not demonstrated AI outcomes. The published Q2 measures provide a useful baseline: Ambea's overall Quality Index was 7.80 against a target above 7.50, while perceived care was 86% against above 87.5% and employee satisfaction 73 against above 75. The latest leadership score was 77 against above 80; no leadership survey ran in Q2. The report does not attribute any score to MiraQ. Its real test is therefore whether comparable data reduces administration and helps local teams improve human outcomes after the Nordic rollout.
- Current signalOne platform for 1,050+ operations · four legacy systems replaced · three human-facing measures below target
- Why it mattersA common data backbone could connect a decentralised group, but technology is useful only if local care and workforce measures improve.
- Q2 care places and MiraQ Ambea · 19 August 2026
04 · What to watch
Three questions for the next disclosures
The next disclosures should separate completed outcomes from timetables and platform ambitions.
- Humana conditionsDoes the offer cross 90% and receive the required competition and foreign-investment clearances?
- Places and peopleWhich signed places open, and can staffing, occupancy and quality keep pace with construction?
- MiraQ evidenceDoes the Nordic rollout produce documented workflow or care-quality improvements, and what AI use is actually deployed?
Annual record
Ranking history
Future editions add rows; they do not rewrite the 2026 record.
| Edition | Measurement period | Rank | Revenue growth | Net-income growth | Stock return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | FY2022–FY2025 | 74 | +31% | +87% | +246% |