Johnson Matthey Plc (JMAT) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

Investor webinar replay

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Good morning, everyone, and thank you for coming on today. I'm Martin Dunwoody, Director of Investor Relations at Johnson Matthey. As I say, thank you for everyone coming along in person today and those of you who are attending the webcast. Just before we start, can I ask that everyone turns their mobile devices to silent or turn them off? Very pleased today to welcome our CEO, Liam Condon, and our CFO, Stephen Oxley. We'll have a presentation on the results as usual, and then plenty of opportunity for Q&A from the room afterwards. And we will also take questions from the webcast. I point you to our cautionary statement ahead of the presentation. And with that, I will hand over to Liam. Thank you very much, Martin. And a warm welcome to everybody here in the London Stock Exchange. And of course, a warm welcome to everybody who's joining us online today. Now, I'm afraid I won't have as many surprises as Rishi Sunak had yesterday evening. But I think we can all be grateful that we have a roof over our heads. It's not raining. And I can promise you I'll have a lot more content to deliver together with Stephen today. Now we're going to go through our presentation. We're going to talk, I'm going to give an overview by way of introduction into what's happening at JM. There's a lot of moving parts. We put out the release. And you'll see there is a lot of content in there. I'm going to try and give you the key points up front to try and connect the dots from some of the many moving parts. Then Stephen is going to talk you through the financial details. And then I'm going to talk about the strategic priorities. I think the first thing to note in our results is if you look at the reported results and the underlying results, there's quite a difference. The reason is quite simpl...