DISCOVERIE GROUP PLC (DSCV) — Half Year Results

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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Discovery Group PLC Half Year Results Investor Presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. 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 we'll publish our responses where it's appropriate to do so on the Investor Meet company platform. Before we begin, we would just like to submit the following poll. And if you could give that your kind attention, I'm sure the company would be most grateful. And I would now like to hand you over to the executive management team from DSCVRY Group PLC. Nick, good afternoon, sir. Hello, Jake. Thanks very much. Hi, everybody. Thanks for joining this afternoon. My name is Nick Jeffers, and I'm joined here with Simon giving Gibbons, our group finance director. Hi, guys. So, we're gonna take take you through just a quick couple of slides highlights on the results for six months to September, our first half f y twenty six, and then we'll go over to q and a. So, you know, the first thing to say is that we have achieved a record level of profitability in the first half. Operating profits are up, earnings per share are up, and we'll go into a little bit more detail come on into a little bit more detail of that. But, you know, we've been through a very sort of globally, the world has been through a very tricky cycle since COVID, culminating in a down cycle over the last twelve or eighteen months. But through that period of both up ...