SDI Group plc (SDI) Q4 2026 Earnings Call

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Good afternoon and welcome to the STI Group plc final 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&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 Stephen Brown. Good afternoon. Good afternoon and a warm welcome to today's final results for the year ended 30th of April 2026. I'm Stephen Brown, CEO of SDI Group and joining me is our CFO Amit Sharma and Group Head of Corporate Development James Dimitriou. Today we'll walk you through our group summary, provide an operational overview, present the financial results for FY26 and discuss the outlook for next year. At the end we will answer any questions you may have. First let me introduce you to the SDI Group. We are a buy and build group with at the year end 18 established businesses with over 550 employees operating from 19 locations worldwide. We operate a decentralized model that fosters autonomy, independence and agility, with our focus being on high growth scientific niche markets. We have a proven strategy of combining organic growth with earnings enhancing acquisitions, having made 21 since 2014. In FY26, we achieved a total group revenue of circa £75 million, and this came from growth from all three of our divisions. This is in fact the highest level in STI's history. Also, with our operations being geographically diverse, we export more than 70% of our highly specialised products to international markets. Our buy and build model relies on a compounding cycle of growth. This cycle focuses on two key pillars, organic and in...