Xaar plc (XAR) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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good afternoon and welcome to the zaar plc investor presentation throughout this recorded presentation investors will be in this lonely mode questions are encouraged and could be submitted at any time by the q a tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen simply type in your questions and press send the company may not be in a position to answer every question it receives during the meeting itself however the company can review all questions submitted today and publish responses where it's appropriate to do so before we begin i'd like to submit the following poll i'd now like to hand you to john mills ceo good afternoon sir hey good morning and good afternoon and welcome to everybody out here i'm john mills ceo exam john white paul james who's our cfo today i'd like to take you through the uh 2026 interim results presentation and then give you an overview of where we are and so i think so far this year has been a good year we've seen some disruptions in markets due to the war in iran we have seen that when when there's disruption and uncertainty in the world cash equipment purchases are affected and we sell prepared teams who will be in to build equipment and what happens is that they they sell less machines and we sell less as a result of that there are certain markets where we've actually seen some decline in the markets. However, we're pleased to report that Brent Head Revenue is actually up by 5.5% and the reason for that is actually because there's quite a lot of new business that's come through. So whilst we've seen some headwinds because of the global economic challenges, the growth has been there by these new applications that have come through. and we'll talk more about that later on in the uh the presentation and combined with that mega jet and eps...