NEXTEQ PLC (NXQ) — Interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2026

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Good morning, and welcome to the NEXTEQ PLC H1 twenty twenty six Results Investor Presentation. Throughout 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 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 Duncan Faithful. Good morning. Hi there. Thanks very much for the introduction, and welcome to NEXTEQ's h one twenty twenty six results. Through this presentation, we're going to be talking around a performance snapshot for h one, but also just to talk through the progress we made through h one, but also the headwinds that we faced that explain some of the numbers that we'll come on to through the presentation. We will be focusing on some of the strategic successes we've made through this period and also what we're planning on doing through the second half of twenty twenty six to ensure we position ourselves for the best growth through 2728 and '29. So I will start and go through the background of the business, and then we'll hand over to to Matt, who you can see on the slide here, who'll talk through the numbers a little bit later on. So as a reminder, who who is NEXTEQ? So, we're basically a technology enabler. So we allow our customers to really focus on what they do for a living, and we operate across a huge number of verticals, which you can see some of them in the left hand diagram there. And we trade in land based gaming through to medical, through to defense, through to transport, and numerous others. So we are a true multi vertical business focused on technology outsourcing. And NEXTEQ as a group sits in t...