Alcon Inc. (ALC) Q4 2025 Earnings Call

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Welcome to Alcon's fourth quarter 2025 earnings conference call. Yesterday, we issued our press release, interim financial report, and earnings presentation. We also published our annual report on Form 20F. All these documents are available on our website at investor.alcon.com. Joining me on today's call are David Endicott, our Chief Executive Officer, and Tim Stonecipher, our Chief Financial Officer. Before we begin, please note that our press release, presentation, and remarks today will include forward-looking statements, including statements regarding our future outlook. We undertake no obligation to update these statements as a result of new information or future events except as required by law. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in these forward-looking statements. Please do not place undue reliance on them. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ are included in our Form 20F, Earnings Press Release, and Interim Financial Report, each of which is on file with the SEC and available on their website at sec.gov. We will also discuss certain non-IFRS financial measures. These measures may be calculated differently from and may not be comparable to similar measures used by other companies. they should be considered in addition to and not as a substitute for IFRS prescribed performance measures. Reconciliations between our non-IFRS measures and the most directly comparable IFRS measures can be found in our earnings press release. For discussion purposes, our comments on growth rates are expressed in constant currency. In a moment, David will begin with highlights from the fourth quarter. After his remarks, Tim will walk through our financial performance and outlook for 2026. David will then return with closing co...