BRAEMAR PLC (BMS) — HY26 Results

Investor webinar replay

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the BRAEMAR PLC 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 set. 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 where 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, and thank you. Once again, thank you so much for joining us today. We really appreciate. Today, myself and Grant will talk you through the various slides and give you a full update on where we are in the first half of this year and about some of the shipping markets, etcetera, and basically talk to the strategic framework of the business we've been placed last last May, etcetera. So so thank you once again. Okay. Okay. Right. First of all, I'd like to say it's been a it's definitely been a a first half of some challenging markets, but at the same time, I think we can prove and show to you today that the resilience of the business and the diversification of where BRAEMAR is today, we've been able to come through that first half, and we'll be very optimistic for the second half of the business going forward. On top of that, we announced unchanged for our FY 2026 numbers. A strong forward order book is still actually improving. As you can see later in the slides, we're now up to strengthening from where we were at the end of August and with further increase in September against w...