H Lundbeck A/S B (HLBBF) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the financial statements for the first six months of 2026 conference call. I'm Moritz, your chorus call operator. I would like to remind you that all participants will be in a listen-only mode and the conference is being recorded. The presentation will be followed by a question and answer session. You can register for questions at any time by pressing star and 1 on your telephone. For operator assistance, please press star and 0. The conference must not be recorded for publication or broadcast. At this time, it's my pleasure to hand over to Charl van Zyl, President and CEO. Please go ahead, sir. So welcome, everybody. Thank you for joining our call today for our first half 2026 earnings call. I'm of course pleased to have my executive leadership team join me today, whom I'll be introducing very shortly. So just a few opening remarks before we get into the main presentation. So again, very pleased to see the strong momentum that we see in the first half of this year. As you recall, we upgraded in Q1 and we see now the full year guidance confirmed through this halfway point through 2026. I want to again emphasize also that these results are not by chance. They're really through strategic choice, through clear intent and disciplined execution of our focused innovative strategy, which is predicated around growth, building a compelling innovative pipeline, and being very disciplined around our capital allocation. Before we unpack these results, let me go to the next slide. So of course today contains forward-looking statements which are subject to change. So if you can go to the next slide, here I will just provide a very short overview of our performance as things stand at the halfway point 2026. First of all, as I mentioned, our strategy...