Sims Limited (SMSMY) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Thank you and welcome everyone to our call. Today we're here to present the Harkier results for FY25. Presenting with me is Warwick Ransom, our CFO. Also on the call are Rob Thompson, our North American Metal President, and John Blythe, our ANZ Metal Managing Director. First up, I will run through our strategy and strategic priorities, market dynamics, an overview of the results, and operational highlights. I'm also going to spend some time detailing the internal and external factors providing positive momentum for our business regions and divisions. Warwick will then take us through our recently formalized capital management framework, and then a decent review of the financial results. At the end, I will return to talk about the outlook, after which we will have Q&A. I will turn straight to slide five, which looks at our strategy and strategic priorities. At our FY24 results announcement, I presented a similar version of the graphic on the left-hand side of the slide. This is effectively our plan on a page. Our purpose has endured for several years now, and our core strategy is to repurpose and recycle. We deliver this to the five elements of our strategy as detailed in the graphic. However, you can't deliver everything at once. We've had to focus on the strategic priorities that give us the biggest bang for our buck. We've simplified SIMS by, amongst other things, reducing layers and increasing spans of control to speed up decision making. There's been an enormous focus on increasing margins and not being preoccupied, particularly in NAM, with marginal profit volumes. We've continued to focus on shortening the cash cycle to improve our cash generation. The UK sale has been the most significant contributor to optimising our portfolio. It has liberated management to ...