SKILLCAST GROUP PLC (SKL) — Interim Results

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the SKILLCAST GROUP PLC H1 twenty twenty six Results Investor Presentation. Call Please Thank morning, morning, Thanks for the introduction, and good afternoon, everybody. And thank you for joining and expressing interest in SKILLCAST. I look forward to giving an introduction and update on on our business. So I'm I'm joined by our CEO, Vivek, who will be here to help and answer questions at the end, but I'm going to be running through a CFO of the major part of the presentation today. So here are financial highlights for the six months ending the 06/30/2026. We're pleased to show another period of double digit revenue growth. Our subscription revenues lifted 15% on the same period last year to 7,400,000. Total revenues were up to 8,200,000, and our total revenue growth was 10. Our ARR, annualized recurring revenue, was up 14% to 14,500,000. 90% of our revenues are now recurring revenue. Our gross margins lifted 1.6% to 77.7%, and our EBITDA grew 48% to $1,000,000 and a margin of 12% from 9% last year. We continue to build our cash reserves going up to 13,600,000 of net cash and no debt as of the 06/30/2026, 2,100,000 more than last year and increased our free cash flow by £700,000 in the period. We increased our dividend as per our policy in line with subscription growth by 15% to nought 0.232p per share. And our rule of 40, the SaaS metrics that looks at adding the ARR growth and the EBITDA margin together was 26% for the period, 6% below the h one last year due to lower ARR growth. Thank you. So I just gone. I'm sorry. I I can't actually see how I can move the slides at the moment. Thank you. That's fine. So in terms of our h one twenty six ARR breakdown, as I said just now, we grew that by 14... 40% to 14,500,000. Our total client nu...