BRAEMAR PLC (BMS) — Audited final results for the year ended 28 February 2025 ("FY25")

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the BRAEMAR PLC Final Results Investor Presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and they can be submitted at any time using the Q and A tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question received during the meeting itself. However, the company can review your questions submitted today and publish responses, but it is appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I would like to submit the following poll. And I would now like to hand you over to CEO, James Gandhi. Good afternoon to you. Good afternoon. Thank you. Welcome to BRAEMAR's FY twenty five results presentation. My name is James Gundy, CEO. I'm with Grant Foley, our CFO and CEO. So congratulations, Grant. Just an introduction about myself. I'm sure some of you don't know who I am. I just mentioned the fact that I've been in the shipbroking space for some forty years, starting my thirty years, first ten years at Clarksons and moving to a company called ACM. We successfully IPO ed that company in 2006 where I've been to become the CEO of that business. We merged in 2014 with BRAEMAR. I became the CEO of SHIP Broke and dropped off the board, put what you could say difficult mores together. Then in '21, I became the CEO of BRAEMAR PLC. We will go through the slides and sort of explain a little bit about what we've done in that period and where we are today and where we're going forward. So thank you. So just to start on the first slide, I think the most important factor for me was that coming into BRAEMAR as the CEO, which would make sure we built a business that was robust and financial performance. So as ...