Brambles Limited (BXB) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

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Good morning, everyone. I'd like to welcome you to Bramble's full year results presentation for FY24. I'll start this morning by presenting an overview of our performance for the year, provide further details on our newly announced capital management initiatives and our revised investor value proposition. Then I'll touch on the operating environment, update on our transformation programme and outlook for FY25 before handing over to Joaquin for a detailed review of our financials. Beginning on slide three and our highlights for the year, in FY24, our performance was strong across all aspects of the business. The financial results delivered on our investor value proposition were sales revenue growth of 7%, significant operating leverage, and a material improvement in free cash flow generation. Underlying profit growth of 17% and free cash flow before dividends of US$882.8 million were both ahead of our FY24 guidance. This reflected ongoing commercial discipline to recover the cost to serve and structural improvements in asset efficiency during the year. These results underpinned the 30% uplift in total dividends, which increased to 34 US cents per share in FY24 and resulted in a dividend yield of 3%. I'm equally proud of the improvements we've made to our business fundamentals through our transformation program. These achievements strengthen our competitive advantage and value creation potential into the future and include significant improvements to our customer experience in all regions, translating to increases in net promoter scores, the reinforcement of our leading sustainability credentials as we progress towards our FY25 sustainability targets, and a step change in the capital intensity of our business, which has led to the decision to undertake capital manageme...