Sumco Corp Ord (SUMCF) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

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Thank you for your participation today. This is the results briefing for the fourth quarter of the fiscal year ending December 2024. Before starting the presentation, allow me to confirm today's materials which consist of two items. The brief statement on consolidated financial results for Q4 fiscal 2024 and the presentation deck entitled Results for Q4 fiscal 2024. In addition, separate to the materials on earnings, we have also posted a press release regarding the announcement on reorganization of small diameter silicon wafer production, which is also available on our website. Please refer to this as well. Next, a disclaimer. The estimates, expectations, forecasts and other future information discussed here and shown in today's materials were prepared based on the information available to the company as of today and on certain assumptions and qualifications, including our subjective judgment. Actual financial performance or results may differ substantially from the future information contained in this material due to risk factors including domestic and global economic conditions, trends in the semiconductor market, and foreign exchange rates. We will have presentations today from Representative Director Chairman and CEO Mayuki Hashimoto and Representative Director and Vice President CFO Shinichi Kubozoe. Chairman and CEO Hashimoto will discuss our forecasts and operating environment to be followed by an explanation of the financial results by CFO Kubozoe. We have set aside time for a Q&A session as well. I will now hand over to Chairman Hashimoto. I am Chairman Hashimoto. I will start with the overview on slide 5. This is a summary of the results for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2024. We were able to once again overshoot our fourth quarter forecast by around 2 bill...