Gea Group Ag Ord (GEAGF) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the GIA Group AG Q2 2026 conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star 1 and 1 on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star 1 and 1 again. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Oliver Luckenbach, Head of IR. Please go ahead. Yeah, thank you very much and good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for joining us today for our second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. With me on the call are Stefan Klebert, our CEO, and Alexander Kocherscheidt, our CFO. Stefan will begin today's call with the highlights of the second quarter and Alexander will then cover the business and financial review before Stefan takes over again for the outlook 2026. Afterwards, we open up the call for the Q&A session. Please be aware of the cautionary language that is included in our safe harbor statement as in the material that we have distributed today. And with that, hand over to Stefan. Thank you, Oliver, and good afternoon, everybody. It's my pleasure to welcome you to our conference call today. Before starting with the review of our second quarter results, let me share with you some important news, which we published last week. The executive board has resolved that we will start another share buyback program in the amount of up to 500 million euros. Keeping in mind that we have already bought back and canceled shares with an aggregated volume of 700 million Euro in the last five ...