SIGMAROC PLC (SRC) — Interim Results

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the SIGMAROC PLC Investor Presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and can be submitted at any time via the Q and A tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Please just simply type in your questions and press send. Before we begin, I'd like to make the following poll. I'd like to hand you over to the management team, Max. Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon. I hope everybody can hear us well. Thank you very much for joining SIGMAROC's first half twenty twenty six results presentation. We've got slides for you on the screen. You can download those slides also on our website as well as more materials. Short presentation of half an hour with the four usuals chapter headings from the next page, an overview of the group's performance, finance review by Jan to my right, subsequently strategic delivery, and then outlook at the end, and we're happy to take any questions you, might have. If we go to the first part then, group performance for the first half. Fantastic first half of twenty twenty, six. Strong results. EBITDA up 11.3%. EPS up 12.2%. Margins, EBITDA margins at 25.1%, an evolution of 200 basis points. All of that pointing to a great first half in terms of trading, volumes, evolution of our business. It didn't start smooth. There were some headwinds at the start of the weather, but that was recovered very nicely in q two. Balance sheet strengthened further, 1.66 times leverage at the end of the first half, very nicely at the bottom end of our target range, and return on invested capital on a LTM basis at nearly 12%, again, half percent up, from last time. And therefore, confidence in the full year outlook. And strategic delivery was also solid. Op...