Dr. Dominik Heger
Investor Relations Officer
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Fresenius Medical Care AG (NYSE: FMS) Q2 2026 earnings conference call, held 2026-08-04. Replay captured from the company's public earnings webcast.

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WEBVTT 00:00:00.091 -- 00:00:05.392 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the report on Second Quarter 2026 Earnings 00:00:05.392 -- 00:00:09.833 Release and Conference Call. I am Valentina De Coro, School Operator. 00:00:09.833 -- 00:00:13.334 I would like to remind you that all participants will be in listen-only mode and the 00:00:13.334 -- 00:00:18.235 conference is being recorded. Presentation will be followed by Q&A session. 00:00:18.235 -- 00:00:23.236 You can register for questions at any time by pressing star and 1 on your telephone. 00:00:23.236 -- 00:00:26.596 For operator assistance, please press star and 0. 00:00:26.596 -- 00:00:30.520 The conference must not be recorded for publication or broadcast. 00:00:30.520 -- 00:00:32.803 At this time, it's my pleasure to hand over to Dr. 00:00:32.803 -- 00:00:36.248 Dominik Heger. Please go ahead. 00:00:36.248 -- 00:00:40.994 Thank you, Valentina. I would like to welcome everyone to our earnings call for the second 00:00:40.994 -- 00:00:46.081 quarter of 2026. I appreciate your flexibility to join this 00:00:46.081 -- 00:00:51.166 earlier call. We felt it is more helpful to have the call earlier given that we had 00:00:51.166 -- 00:00:54.108 to publish earlier than originally planned. 00:00:54.108 -- 00:00:58.891 I do apologize for the inconvenience in particular for those of you who are located in 00:00:58.891 -- 00:01:04.675 a different time zone or those of you who cover another company hosting a call in parallel 00:01:04.675 -- 00:01:06.336 right now. 00:01:06.336 -- 00:01:10.458 As always, I start out the call by mentioning our cautionary language that is in our 00:01:10.458 -- 00:01:15.181 safe harbor statement as well as in our presentation and in all the materials that we 00:01:15.181 -- 00:01:20.389 have dist...