New Hope Corporation Limited (NHPEF) Q4 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

New Hope Corporation Limited ( NHPEF ) Q4 2026 Earnings Call August 16, 2026 9:00 PM EDT

Robert Bishop Chief Executive Officer Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining our call today. I am Rob Bishop, Chief Executive Officer of New Hope Group. I am joined here by Rebecca Rinaldi, our CFO; and Dom O'Brien, our Executive General Manager and Company Secretary. This morning, we released our quarterly report for the fourth quarter of the 2026 financial year. Hopefully, you have had a chance to go through the report, but in any case, I will briefly step you through our key highlights before we open up the lines for Q&A.

The July quarter marks the end of the 2026 financial year for the New Hope Group. Operationally, it has been a great year for the group, and we are very pleased with our results today. During the quarter, our TRIFR decreased to 3.89, 12% lower than the previous quarter. However, our high potential event frequency moved up in an unfavorable direction from 1.21 in the previous quarter to 4.65. Critical and fatal risk management remains a continuing focus for the group. In response to the increase in high potential events and recent serious events across the broader industry, the group has doubled down in terms of focus of the effectiveness of controls for