Ridley Corporation Limited (RIC) Q4 2026 Earnings Call

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Thank you for standing by and welcome to the Ridley Corporation Limited full year 26 results presentation. All participants are in a listen-only mode. There will be a presentation followed by a question and answer session. If you wish to ask a question, you will need to press the start key followed by the number 1 on your telephone keypad. I would now like to hand the conference over to Mr. Quinton Hildebrand, Managing Director and CEO. Please go ahead. Thank you. Good morning to you all, and thanks for your attendance today. Chris Hofferman and I will be pleased to provide you with our financial performance for the 2026 financial year and the progress that we have made on the strategic front. We'll be talking to the slides that were uploaded on the ASX website this morning, starting at page two. FY26 was a year of growth for RIDNY. We purchased the Incitec for the fertilizers business successfully acquiring just the distribution business and getting it for a good price. Today, Ridley is a truly diversified agricultural business, providing more resilience and significant opportunity. Importantly, we operate at scale, with the number one position in the markets in which we operate. With the acquisition has come a step change in our earnings, almost doubling our earnings base, and we're achieving this with a purposely optimized capital structure of debt and equity. As we grow rigidly, the board is attuned to the need for us to have the people to make success of it, and we are deliberately enhancing our leadership capability and have established a PMO to execute on the integration and resetting of IPF. All this is with the purpose of delivering for you, our shareholders, through EPS growth, and the payment of a progressive dividend. And for this high earnings accretive ...