The Sage Group plc (SGE) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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WEBVTT 00:00:00.622 -- 00:00:06.451 Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Q1 Trading Update call for the Sage Group. 00:00:06.451 -- 00:00:11.638 Your speakers today will be Steve Hare, Chief Executive Officer, and Jackie Carton, 00:00:11.638 -- 00:00:16.425 Chief Financial Officer. After a short presentation, there will be a question and answer 00:00:16.425 -- 00:00:21.252 session. To ask a question, you'll need to press star 1 and 1 in your telephone. 00:00:21.252 -- 00:00:24.557 I would now like to hand the conference over to Mr. 00:00:24.557 -- 00:00:27.378 Hare. Please go ahead. 00:00:27.689 -- 00:00:30.153 Thank you very much, and good morning to everyone. 00:00:30.153 -- 00:00:35.020 And as always, thank you for joining us. I'm really pleased to be joined this morning 00:00:35.020 -- 00:00:40.047 by Jackie Carton, who's a new CFO, as you know, started on the 1st of 00:00:40.047 -- 00:00:44.874 January. And without further ado, I'm going to hand over to Jackie, who's going to talk 00:00:44.874 -- 00:00:49.000 us through the Q1 performance, and then we'll open up for some questions. 00:00:49.000 -- 00:00:50.282 So over to you, Jackie. 00:00:50.282 -- 00:00:53.467 Thanks, Steve. Good morning, everyone. 00:00:53.467 -- 00:00:57.355 So I'm pleased to say that SAGE has made a strong start to the year. 00:00:57.355 -- 00:01:00.458 with growth strengthening across our key regions. 00:01:00.458 -- 00:01:06.764 As a result, total revenue for the group increased by 10% to 674 00:01:06.764 -- 00:01:08.386 million. 00:01:08.386 -- 00:01:14.530 In North America, revenue grew by 13% to 304 million. 00:01:14.652 -- 00:01:19.676 That was driven by strong performance from Sage Intact and was supported by continued 00:01:19.676 -- 00:01:24.081 growth in Sage 200 and Sage 50. 00...