Atos SE (AEXAF) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Atos Group H1 twenty twenty six Results Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press 11 on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Philippe Sal, Group Chairman and CEO. Please go ahead. Thank you. Good morning, everybody. So let's jump to the presentation. As you've seen, there are four different topics. I will take the first two, the business highlights and the operational performance. And Jacques Francois will talk about the financial results. And I will finish with the outlook. So let's start with the business highlights. So in a nutshell, first, it's a strong H1 performance with a full year of targets that I confirm, and I will come back to this at the end. Ongoing further delivery of cost structuring, so Genesis is well underway. I will also comment on this one. The commercial traction also is building further. It's a long run, this one. We know it takes some time to rebuild, I will say, confidence with customers. And last point, increasing momentum around our three year strategic pillars, and I will come back also on this one. So if we look at the key numbers, so on what we call the going forward perimeter, we saw a build, we saw a Latin America and also the smaller dealership that we have done in Northern Europe, The revenues were $1,661,000,000 which is roughly minus 6% versus last year. It was in line with what we have guided, in fact, at the end of Q1. So it's eas...