Vista Group International Limited (VGLIF) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us for Vista Group's 2026 Half Year Results Presentation. We'll give the last few participants a moment to join, and then we'll get underway shortly. Good morning again. I'm Matt Thompson, CFO of Vista Group, and I'm joined this morning by our CEO, Stuart Dickinson. Thank you for your time today as we take you through our performance for the first half of 2026, and our outlook for the remainder of the year. Before we begin, please note our standard disclaimer. Turning to today's agenda. Stuart will start with the highlights of the first half and the strategic progress we've made against the goals that we set out in February. I'll then take you through the financial results in detail. Stuart will then return to cover our industry outlook and our updated guidance for 2026, before we open the floor to your questions. This is an interim result, so we'll keep the formal presentation tight and leave plenty of time for Q&A. With that, I'll hand you over to Stu to get started. Thanks, Matt, and good morning, everybody. Hope everybody is well this morning. Just as we get into it, I wanted to go slightly off-script a little bit and just comment on the weekend that's still going on in the U.S. And so, for those