Digia estimates that the growth of the quarter business will exceed the previous forecast. The company corrects its earlier estimate of the growth and profitability of the quarter business. In its financial statement release for 2015, published on 4 February 2016, the company stated that it 'expects to see Qt's net sales growth in 2016 to be at least in line with the software development tool market growth rate, but growth is likely to slow down from the extremely strong figures recorded last year. The company estimated that quarter would 'record a loss in 2016. The company estimates that substantial items will be recognized in net sales in the first half of 2016 from large sales made by the company, to which quarter's net sales in the early part of the year will be significantly higher than the company's earlier forecast. With regards to the full year, the company estimates that in 2016 quarter's net sales will see year-on-year growth of more than 10% and that its operating profit will be in the red due to investments into growth. Comparisons of the development of quarter's operating profit in 2016 with the previous year are significantly affected by the recognition of a total of EUR 1.4 million in net sales for the company in 2015 based on an exceptional licensing deal made with Nokia Corporation in 2012. In 2016, net sales will no longer be recognized from this deal. In addition, in 2015 Qt benefited substantially from the strengthening of the US dollar against the euro. In 2015, the effect of exchange rate changes on Qt's net sales growth amounted to a total of EUR 1.3 million, whereas in first quarter 2016 this only amounted to EUR 0.05 million.

As advance information on the quarter business, the company announced that net sales in first quarter 2016 amounted to EUR 7.1 million, compared to EUR 6.3 million a year ago, up 14.3%. Quarter's operating profit in the first quarter 2016 amounted to EUR 0.3 million compared to EUR 0.4 million a year ago and its profitability (EBIT) was 3.5% against 6.9% a year ago.