HARGREAVES SERVICES PLC (HSP) — Final Results

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the HARGREAVES SERVICES PLC final results investor presentation. For this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged, and they can be submitted at any time using the q and a tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Simply type as type in your questions and press send. Before we begin, I would like to submit the following poll. And I would now like to hand you over to CEO designate, Simon Hicks. Good afternoon to you. Good afternoon. Good afternoon all, and welcome to our results presentation for financial year twenty six. I'm joined here with Stephen Cregan, our Chief Financial Officer. And, Gordon may or may not join us later on, in in the presentation, just to make you all aware. So what have we achieved? And first of all, a real big thanks to to the teams. I know a number of our our own teams joined this presentation. So as I said on the on the on the video we recorded, yesterday, we'll be back to what's been a a really fantastic year, for HARGREAVES, continuing to grow and advance our strategy delivering value. The highlights for the year, we've returned 32,600,000 in total to shareholders. That included the £20,000,000, tender offer as promised, driven by the first and second sales of our renewables asset, first and second tranche sold. Services revenue as as as last year as its interim is going well. Volumes are up and margins are being maintained at that 6%, which is great news and testament to all the hard work that goes out there in the field. The delivery of those things delivered us a strong cash position despite returning 32,600,000. We've ended the year with a strong cash position of 21,600,000,000, and we've delivered a full year dividend, which is up 8% to 40 p. And...