Basf Se S/Adr (BASFY) Q4 2025 Earnings Call

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Ladies and gentlemen, good morning and a warm welcome to BASF in Ludwigshafen. We are very pleased that you have accepted the invitation to our annual press conference. Some of you could not be present here in Ludwigshafen and will be connected with us live on the internet. So warm welcome to you too. You will be talking today to Markus Komit, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors, and Dirk Elbermann, the CFO of BASF. The conference, as mentioned, will be broadcast live on the internet, on our homepage and also on LinkedIn. The conference language is German with a simultaneous interpretation into English. During the discussion later, English questions will be answered in English. So if you're using a headset for the simultaneous interpretation or want to use, then you find the English channel on channel 1 and the German channel on channel 2. For the photographers here in the room during the first five minutes, you can take photos during the presentation. But afterwards or during these photos, please switch off the flashlight and afterwards, please take your seats. All accredited guests should have received an electronic press folder with all the important documents via email. And that's all on housekeeping. And I give the floor to you, Markus. Thank you, Andreas. Good morning and welcome to Ludwigshafen and also to those in front of the monitors. First of all, thank you, Andreas, for you for having taken over this job. You are doing this for the first time or have been doing this for the first time for a long time because Nina Schwab-Hautzinger left to join Roche, but you probably... heard yesterday that we will welcome Thomas Biege as successor of Nina Schwab-Hautzinger soon and I think in future he will take this job but well you will have to agree with him....