Fuchs SE (FUPBY) Q4 2025 Earnings Call

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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 annual results of 2025 and the outlook for 2026. With me on the call today is our CEO, Stefan Fuchs, and our CFO, Esma Zaglic. 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 the last page of our presentation. And now it's my pleasure to hand over the call to Stefan for some introductory remarks. Please go ahead, Stefan. Yes, hello. Also from my side, with the best regards from sunny Mannheim. So I don't know where you are, but we have a lovely day here. I think Esma and I will present you very solid figures for the year 2025, which are in line of the outlook from the end of July of last year. If you remember, 2024 was the all-time high, and I think we met that number. We even exceeded it a little bit. We had a strong cash flow, and I think we have an interesting dividend proposal, the 24th increase in a row. And furthermore, we want to call sales and earnings in the year 2026. And to learn more of that, I will hand over to my colleague, Esma. Thank you, Stefan. And hello, and also a very warm welcome from my side. Today, I will walk you through 2025 financial performance, starting with the key highlights. So for us, 2025 proved to be a very solid year, demonstrating financial strength operational resilience, and a well-balanced strategic position. After a challenging second quarter, we delivered a very strong third quarter, and this momentum continued into the fourth quarter as well, which allowed ...