Peabody Energy Corporation (BTU) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Good day and welcome to the Peabody Q2 2005 earnings conference call. Today, all participants will be in a listen-only mode. Should you need assistance during today's call, please signal for a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star one on your telephone keypad. To withdraw your question, please press star then two. Please note that today's event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Vic Speck, Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir. Well, thank you, Operator, and good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining today to take part in Peabody's second quarter call. Remarks today will be from Peabody's President and CEO, Jim Grech, CFO, Mark Sperbeck, and our Chief Marketing Officer, Malcolm Roberts. Following remarks, of course, we'll open up the call to questions. Now, we do have some forward-looking observations today. You'll find our full statement on forward-looking information in the press release. We encourage you to consider the risk factors referenced there, along with our public filings with the SEC. And I'll now turn the call over to Jim. Thanks, Vic, and good morning, everyone. Peabody has had a great first half of the year. We've had record safety. solid volumes, strong cost containment. On the basis of both our performance and our prospects, I'm pleased to report that we're raising our full year guidance. To echo my first quarter theme, the Peabody team continued to do an excellent job of controlling the controllables in the first half, with second quarter costs coming in below our expectations. Our ability to manage costs is a key driver of success, at a time of cyclical market ...