Dentsu Group Inc (DNTUF) Q3 2025 Earnings Call

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Welcome to Dentsu FA 2025 Third Quarter Earnings Call and thank you for joining us today. My name is Morishima from the Group II office and I will be your conference operator today. Please be reminded that today's call is being recorded. This call will be held in Japanese and English with simultaneous translation for those joining online. Please choose your preferred language from the bottom of the Zoom screen. For those joining on the telephone line, you will only be able to hear the original language spoken. Today's presentation material is available on our website. Joining me today are Global CEO Dentsu, Hiroshi Igarashi. Igarashi de gozaimasu. Yoroshiku onegai itashimasu. Global CEO Dentsu and Chairman and Acting CEO Dentsu Americas, Julio Malegri. Hi, everybody. It's Julio here. Hi. CEO of Dentsu Japan and Deputy Global CEO of Dentsu, Takeshi Sano. Sano desu. Yoroshiku onegai shimasu. And Global CFO of Dentsu, Shigeki Endo. Endo desu. Yoroshiku onegai tashimasu. They will be responding to your questions after the presentation. Today's agenda will begin with business and strategic update from Hiroshi Igarashi, followed by financial update from Shigeki Endo. We will invite you to ask questions after the presentations. Mr. Igarashi, please start your presentation. Thank you very much for joining the third quarter FI 2025 earnings call today. Let me start with the nine-month summary and outlook. The nine-month organic growth rate was 0.3%, in line with our expectations. while the operating margin reached 13.0%, exceeding both the previous corresponding period and our expectations. Based on these nine months' results and the outlook for the fourth quarter, we are upgrading our four-year profit guidance. As for the year-end dividend forecast, which is currently undete...