COSTAIN GROUP PLC (COST) — Half Year Results

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the COSTIN GROUP PLC Half Year Results Q and A session. Questions are encouraged. They can be submitted at any time via the Q and A tab that's just situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Please just simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question it receives during the meeting itself. However, the company can review all questions submitted today and will publish your responses where it's appropriate to do so on the Investor Meet company platform. Before we begin, we would decide to submit And I'd now like to hand you over to the team from COST AIN GROUP PLC, Matt. Good morning, sir. Good morning, Jay. Thank you very much, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us this morning for our investor meet Q and A session following the announcement of our half year results for 2026 last Thursday. Hopefully, you will have all seen the presentation that is on the website and may have listened to the recording of the webcast from Thursday's analyst presentation. So this morning, we are just gonna limit this to questions and answers. You can add your questions onto the platform, whilst we're speaking now. I'm joined by Alex Bourne, chief executive officer, and Helen Willis, chief financial officer. Alex is gonna make some introductory comments, and take you through the sort of highlights from last week, and then we'll get into Q and A straight away. So over to you, Alex. Thank you, Matt, and good morning, everyone. Thanks very much for taking the time to join us this morning. Just gonna give you a very brief sort of overview of the half year results. So it's been widely appreciated. There's another strong performance in the first half of twenty twen...