Fuchs SE (FUPBY) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Dear ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the half-year results 2026 analyst conference call of Fuchs SE. This conference call will be recorded. As a reminder, all participants will be in listen-only mode. After the presentation, there will be opportunity for the analysts of Fuchs to ask questions. May I now hand over to Andreas Schaller, Head of Investor Relations at Fuchs SE, who will start the meeting today. Please go ahead. Thank you, Nadia. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. This is Andreas Schaller speaking. On behalf of Fuchs SE, I wish you a very warm welcome to today's conference call on the results of the first half year 2026. We already pre-announced sales and EBIT and the change to guidance for EBIT on Wednesday last week. Today, we will run you through the full set of numbers. With me on the call today is our CEO, Stefan Fuchs, and our CFO, Esma Saglik, and the IR team. As always, Esma and Stefan will run you through the presentation, which is then followed by a Q&A session. All the documents for this call are available on our homepage, and we assume that you have them in front of you. Please be also aware of our disclaimer on page two of our presentation. And now, it's my pleasure to hand over the call to Esma. Please go ahead. Thank you very much, Andreas. Hello, and also a very warm welcome from myself. I will now walk you through our financial performance for the first half of 2026, starting with a key highlight. Overall, we had a very strong first half year. After a very good start into 2026, our business developed even stronger in the second quarter. Sales reached 2 billion euros. This is an increase of 11% year over year. The main driver was strong organic growth supported by high customer demand. As a consequence, the strong sales growth translate...