DISCOVERIE GROUP PLC (DSCV) — Full Year Results for the year ended 31 March 2026

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the DISCOVERIE GROUP PLC Preliminary Results Investor Presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged, and they can be submitted at any time using the Q and A tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Just simply type in your questions and press send. Before we begin, I would like to submit the following poll. And I would now like to hand you over to the executive management team from the DSCV Group PLC, Nick. Good afternoon to you, sir. Hello there. Thank you very much. Hello, everybody. Thank you for joining. I'm Nick Jeffries, and I'm with Simon Gibbons, our group CFO. Yes. So this is a summary presentation and talk through the preliminary results for the year end the end of March. It has been a solid year. We've delivered a good set of results with further growth in operating profit and adjusted earnings per share, continuing our long term ten year plus growth track record. We were able to deliver this with really driven by, in the second half, a strong a return to strong growth in orders and sales. Our organic orders increased by 14% in the fourth quarter, leading to a 5% growth for the year. Our organic sales grew by 5% in the fourth quarter, leading to a 2% for the full year. And that's really been the key theme of the of the performance through the year, the increasing momentum that really started at the summertime last year with a gradual tick up in orders accelerating through the year and that following sort of some months later into sales growth. So we've exited the year with both divisions in growth. We've delivered an order book that's up 5% on the first half, giving us good visibility into the new financial year, and indeed, that growth has co...