Brian Duffy
Chief Executive Officer
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Watches of Switzerland Group plc (WOSG) Q4 2026 Earnings Call
Watches of Switzerland Group plc (LSE: WOSG) Q4 2026 earnings conference call, held 2026-05-13. Replay captured from the company's public earnings webcast.
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WEBVTT 00:00:00.051 -- 00:00:05.296 Good morning and welcome to the Watchers of Switzerland Group's FY26 Trading Update 00:00:05.296 -- 00:00:10.521 webcast. We're joined this morning by Brian Duffy, Chief Executive Officer, 00:00:10.521 -- 00:00:13.464 and Anders Romberg, Chief Financial Officer. 00:00:13.464 -- 00:00:17.828 If you would like to ask a question during today's call, please press star 1 on your 00:00:17.828 -- 00:00:22.672 telephone keypad. I'll now hand over to the Watchers of Switzerland Group management 00:00:22.672 -- 00:00:27.263 team, Brian Duffy. Please proceed. 00:00:27.263 -- 00:00:32.766 Thank you Dom and good morning everyone. Thanks for joining our full year fiscal 00:00:32.766 -- 00:00:37.908 26 trading update call. A few introductory comments from me and then we'll open 00:00:37.908 -- 00:00:41.610 the line for your questions for myself and Anders. 00:00:41.610 -- 00:00:46.632 Our group sales coming in at plus 13% in constant currency, plus 00:00:46.632 -- 00:00:50.474 11% in reported. A total of £1.83 billion. 00:00:50.474 -- 00:00:55.181 We're ahead of the high point of our guidance and of market consensus. 00:00:55.181 -- 00:01:00.746 H2 growth trends were marginally better than H1 despite being up against tougher comps. 00:01:00.746 -- 00:01:05.910 We expect a just EBIT of between 152 and 155 million 00:01:05.910 -- 00:01:09.052 also ahead of expectations. 00:01:09.052 -- 00:01:14.116 Our team delivered great results navigating through challenges including 00:01:14.116 -- 00:01:18.179 changing import tariffs, gold price inflation and some other challenges. 00:01:18.179 -- 00:01:20.383 They really did a great job. 00:01:20.383 -- 00:01:23.584 Sales in the U.S. are 1.24 billion. 00:01:23.584 -- 00:01:28.786 We're 24% up in prior year an...