Costain Group PLC (CTNGY) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

SA Transcripts 161.94K Followers Follow Costain Group PLC ( CTNGY ) Q2 2026 Earnings Call August 17, 2026 5:00 AM EDT Company Participants Matt Jones - Investor Relations Director Alexander Vaughan - CEO, Member of Group Executive Board & Director Helen Willis - CFO, Member Executive Board & Executive Director Presentation Operator Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Costain Group PLC Half year results Q&A session. [Operator Instructions] And I'd now like to hand you over to the team from Costain Group PLC. Matt. Matt Jones Investor Relations Director Good morning, Zane. Thank you very much, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us this morning for our investor meet Q&A session following the announcement of our half year results for 2026 last Thursday. Hopefully, you would have all seen in the presentation that is on the website and may have listened to the recording of the webcast from Thursday analyst presentation. So this morning, we are just in the limited to questions and answers. You can answer your questions on to the platform whilst we're speaking now. I'm joined by Alex Vaughan, Chief Executive Officer; and Helen Willis, Chief Financial Officer. Alex is going to make some introductory comments and take you through the sort of highlights from the last week, and then we'll get into Q&A straight away. So over to you, Alex. Alexander Vaughan CEO, Member of Group Executive Board & Director Thank you, Matt, and good morning, everyone. Thanks very much for taking the time to join us this morning. Just going to give you a very brief sort of overview of the half year results. So it's been widely appreciated as another strong performance in the first half of 2026 for the business, which was great. Four things I would draw out. The first thing a good financial performance in the first half. So revenue was up. We've had growth in operating