Ridley Corporation Limited (RIDYF) Q4 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

SA Transcripts 161.94K Followers Follow Ridley Corporation Limited ( RIDYF ) Q4 2026 Earnings Call August 19, 2026 8:01 PM EDT Company Participants Quinton Hildebrand - CEO, MD & Director Chris Opperman - Chief Financial Officer Conference Call Participants James Ferrier - Canaccord Genuity Corp., Research Division Apoorv Sehgal - Jarden Limited, Research Division Richard Barwick - CLSA Limited, Research Division Belinda Moore - Morgans Financial Limited, Research Division Paul Jensz - PAC Partners Securities Pty Limited, Research Division Presentation Operator Thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Ridley Corporation Limited Full Year '26 Results Presentation. [Operator Instructions] I would now like to hand the conference over to Mr. Quinton Hildebrand, Managing Director and CEO. Please go ahead. Quinton Hildebrand CEO, MD & Director Thank you. Good morning to you all, and thanks for your attendance today. Chris Opperman and I will be pleased to provide you with our financial performance for the 2026 financial year and the progress that we have made on the strategic front. We'll be talking to the slides that were uploaded on the ASX website this morning, starting at Page 2. FY '26 was a year of growth for Ridley. We purchased the Incitec Pivot Fertilisers business, successfully acquiring just the distribution business and getting it for a good price. Today, Ridley is a truly diversified agricultural business, providing more resilience and significant opportunity. Importantly, we operate at scale with the #1 position in the markets in which we operate. With the acquisition has come a step change in our earnings, almost doubling our earnings base, and we're achieving this with a purposely optimized capital structure of debt and equity. As we grow Ridley, the Board is attuned to the need for us to have the people to make a success of it, and we are deliberately enhancing our leadership capability and have established a PMO to execute