Cementos Argos S.A. (CMTOY) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Good morning, everyone. Thank you for being here with us today to discuss our second quarter results. My name is Carolina Velasquez. I am Cemento Zargo's Investor Relations Officer, and I will be hosting today's call. On the call today are Juan Esteban Calle, our CEO, Felipe Aristizabal, our CFO, Marisabel Echeverry, the VP of Legal Affairs, Carlos Yusti, the VP of the Columbia Division, and Gustavo Uribe, the leader of Central America. First, I would like to ask you to carefully read the legal disclaimer that is currently being projected on the screen, which is also available on the presentation that is posted on our website. Please consider that all the discussions of the financial and operational results held during the call will be based on the adjusted figures, excluding non-recurring and non-core operations. For a detailed reconciliation of the adjustments, please refer to the annexes of our presentation. Today, after the initial remarks, there will be a Q&A session. If you have a question, please raise your hand by pressing the icon at the bottom of your screen at any time during the conference. We will record this session and upload it to our webpage. It is now my pleasure to turn the call over to Juan Esteban. Thank you, Carolina, and welcome to everyone joining us today. Since our last conference call, we achieved three key milestones, and I would like to start by highlighting them. First, we completed the spin-off of Cementos Argos' portfolio in Grupo Sura. With this strategic decision, Cementos Argos becomes a pure player in the heavy business materials industry, concentrating all its investments and resources on it. Furthermore, as we have mentioned before, this distribution of 1.4 trillion pesos added to the 1 trillion pesos in cash dividends that are b...