Kingspan Grp Ord (KGSPF) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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WEBVTT 00:00:01.137 -- 00:00:06.941 Good morning and welcome to today's Kingspan half-year results 2026 conference call. 00:00:06.941 -- 00:00:10.343 My name is Seb and I'll be the operator for your call today. 00:00:10.343 -- 00:00:15.106 If you would like to ask a question during the Q&A session, please press star 1 on your 00:00:15.106 -- 00:00:20.109 telephone keypad. If you would like to withdraw from the queue, please press star 2. 00:00:20.109 -- 00:00:24.391 In the interest of time and fairness, we ask that you limit yourself to two questions 00:00:24.391 -- 00:00:29.335 each. I will now hand the floor over to Jean Murtagh, CEO, to begin the call. 00:00:29.335 -- 00:00:31.273 Please go ahead. 00:00:31.273 -- 00:00:37.138 Thank you and good morning everybody. Welcome to the Half Year Results 2026 00:00:37.138 -- 00:00:39.439 here at Kingspan. 00:00:39.440 -- 00:00:44.805 We get straight into it on slide number three, which is titled H1 in Summary. 00:00:44.805 -- 00:00:50.270 Really quite a strong first half, bearing in mind that the first quarter 00:00:50.270 -- 00:00:54.354 was difficult worldwide and in our sector naturally. 00:00:54.354 -- 00:00:59.651 But for the first half, I think a very pleasing outcome with revenue just under 4.9 billion, 00:00:59.651 -- 00:01:05.733 which is 8% ahead of prior year. Our EBITDA was up 9% at 626, 00:01:05.733 -- 00:01:11.175 and our trading profits, our pure trading profit number, up 10% at 00:01:11.175 -- 00:01:13.295 487 million, 00:01:13.295 -- 00:01:18.517 all of which is, I think, reasonably positive in the environment that we're in. 00:01:18.517 -- 00:01:20.517 Importantly, 00:01:20.797 -- 00:01:23.958 by business segments, 00:01:23.958 -- 00:01:29.121 the envelope business was up 4% at a revenue level and advance...