Auo Corp S/Adr New (AUOTY) Q3 2025 Earnings Call

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Welcome to AUO Corporation 2025 Third Quarter Financial Results Conference. Before the meeting starts, all lines are being placed on mute. After the presentations and remarks by the management team, there will be a questions and answers session. Now I would like to turn over to Ms. Julia Zhao, AUO's IR officer. Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. I'm Julia from AUO's IR department. On behalf of the company, I would like to welcome you to participate in our third quarter financial results conference. I'm joined by four executives. Paul Peng, Chairman and Group CEO. Frank Ke, President and Group COO. James Chen, Senior VP of Display Strategy Business Group. And CFO David Zhang. The format of today's meeting is this. First of all, CFO will go over our 2025 third quarter financial results and provide you with our guidance for Q4. Then Paul and Frank will each have an opening remark. then we will proceed with questions and answers. For the first part of the Q&A session, we will address the questions that we collected previously from analysts. Afterwards, if there's still more questions, we'll open the line for you to pose more questions. So that was the agenda for today. Now, before I turn over to David, please allow me to remind you that all forward-looking statements contain risks and uncertainties. Please also spend some time to read the safe upper notice on slide number two. David, please. Hello everyone, I'm David. I'd like to go over our Q3 results and the outlook for the fourth quarter. First hour. Net sales came in at $69.9 billion up by only 1% over the previous quarter, mainly due to the unfavorable impact of the new Taiwan dollar appreciation by about 4.9% against the U.S. dollar during the quarter. The displaced unit was affected by the appreciation of the N...