Bytes Technology Group plc (BYIT) Q4 2026 Earnings Call

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Good morning and welcome to Bytes Technology Group, our full year 2026 financial results. I'm Sam Mudd, the CEO, and I'm joined today by Andrew, our CFO. I'm going to begin with a quick introduction to the business for those of you that are new to us, and then I'll hand over to Andrew who'll provide the financial review, and then he'll be handing back to me for the full business review. Bytes Technology Group is one of the largest providers of software solutions in the world and we operate under two brands both of which have a rich heritage in their markets Bytes focuses on the private sector and Phoenix focuses on the public sector we have a huge diversified customer base and we have more than 200 vendors that we represent with Microsoft being one of our most strategic on the right you can see that we've been delivering strong growth over the last year or so and we have good cash conversion and consistent capital returns to shareholders over the last five years since IPO looking at today's highlights and starting on the left hand side firstly we've made good strategic progress and implemented intentional organisational change and improvements which were needed to expand our services and streamline our customer focus. We believe these enhancements will drive our growth and enable us to stay ahead of the wider transitions that we're seeing in our industry today and more on that later. Suffice to say we will continue to evolve as an organisation as the landscape changes. And secondly, we have delivered good cash conversion and consistent capital returns of 74 million to shareholders in the last year. We're confident that despite growth being temporarily impacted in H1, H2 has showed movement back to recovery, including strong growth with Microsoft as we annualize the i...