Good morning, everybody, and thank you very much for those joining us in the room and for those joining us virtually as well. I'm Andy Thomis. I'm the Chief Executive at Cohort plc, and I'm here with Simon Walther, who's our Finance Director. Cohort provides advanced defense technologies and services to the U.K. and allied nations worldwide. Simon and I are here to present our latest financial results and to explain the innovation, geopolitics, market drivers that support our growth. There we are. Cohort's businesses share a common purpose, which is developing advanced technologies that contribute to our customers' national security and defense. Each of our businesses brings its own specialist expertise. Collectively, they deliver innovative solutions that help customers address increasingly complex operational challenges. Operating through our Communications and Intelligence and Sensors and Effectors divisions, we offer a broad range of capabilities, as you can see from this slide. We'll say more about demand patterns but I'd highlight counter-drone, anti-submarine systems, and seabed warfare as areas that are clearly relevant to the needs of defense customers today. As a background to the results, I thought it would be helpful to show you Cohort's total shareholder return since our IPO 20 years ago this year. It's benchmarked against both the FTSE AIM All-Share Index and our peer group of U.K.-listed defense firms. Over the period, as you can see, Cohort has significantly outperformed the broader AIM market and delivered returns ahead of our peer group. Now, while there has naturally been some share price volatility during the period, the overall trend is of sustained growth, underpinned by strong operational performance, increasing order intake, and, since 2022, a favorable defense spending environment. The sharp acceleration you can see from 2024 onwards reflects growing investor recognition of Cohort's market position and the opportunities arising from increased defense and security investment across the U.K. and allied nations. What this shows is that we've been able to create value consistently for shareholders over a long period through the successful execution of our strategy. This slide shows in more detail how we've delivered that shareholder return. The chart on the left shows the progression in adjusted operating profit since 2006. From a relatively modest base, we've steadily expanded the business through a combination of organic growth, underpinned by investment in both technology and capacity and strategic acquisitions. Despite periods of economic uncertainty and changing geopolitical conditions, the overall trajectory has remained strongly upwards, culminating in the record performance that we've seen this year. The chart on the right demonstrates our commitment to delivering value to shareholders through our progressive dividend policy. Since 2006, the dividend has increased every year, reflecting both the resilience of our business model and the confidence that we have in the group's long-term prospects. Together, these trends highlight the strength of Cohort's strategy, the quality of our businesses, and the growing demand for the specialist defense and security capabilities that we provide. This year's results represent the continuation of a long-established track record of profitable growth and increasing shareholder returns. This slide shows the financial highlights of our 2025/2026 financial year. It was another outstanding year for Cohort, delivering record revenue and record adjusted operating profit. That revenue has continued to increase, now over GBP 306 million, and our operating profit has grown this year by 32% to more than GBP 36 million. Demand for our products and services remained robust throughout the year. I'm pleased to report an order intake of GBP 314.2 million, exceeding our revenue and t hat brought us to a year-end order book of nearly GBP 620 million and t hat provides excellent visibility of future revenues, with contracted work extending out to 2037. As expected in the year as a whole, operating cash flow and net funds were lower than the exceptionally strong levels reported last year, primarily reflecting working capital movements and investments associated with the growth of the business, about which we'll have more to say. Nevertheless, the group remains in positive net funds and continues to maintain a strong balance sheet. We're pleased to recommend, again, a full-year dividend increase of 10% to GBP 0.179. That reflects the Board's continued confidence in the group's prospects. Now I'd like to invite Simon to share some more details of our financial performance. Simon? Thanks, Andy. Good morning to you all. I'll move on. This slide highlights the performance of our divisions, Communications and Intelligence, and Sensors and Effectors, both of which continue to benefit from strong and growing demand across their respective markets. Starting with Communications and Intelligence, revenue increased by 27% to GBP 158.9 million, while the adjusted operating profit rose by more than 50% to GBP 32.4 million. The operating margin improved significantly to 20.4%, reflecting strong program execution and a favorable mix of higher margin activity. During the year, the division secured several important contract awards, including integrated communication systems, networks, and satellite communication systems for the Portuguese Navy. We also continued to see strong demand for counter-drone capability, resulting in significant contract wins with the U.K. MOD. Turning to Sensors and Effectors, the revenue for this division was relatively flat at GBP 147.5 million. Profitability was below last year, mainly a result of the disposal of our high margin, non-core transport business earlier in the financial year. The order book and the pipeline for this division gives us confidence that it will grow in the coming year and improve its net margin with improved operational performance at Chess, the first deliveries of sonar systems for the Italian submarine project, and closure of low margin projects at SEA. The combined offerings of our Communications and Intelligence and Sensors and Effectors businesses remain a key strength of Cohort, providing both resilience and exposure to a broad range of defense markets and security capability requirements across an international customer base. Moving to the net funds bridge. You'll see it's been quite a swing this year. We moved from opening net funds of GBP 5.3 million to net debt of GBP 32.5 million at the half year, primarily due to significant working capital outflows associated with the execution of major programs. As expected, the second half improvement was much improved, generating a GBP 18 million, or over GBP 18 million working capital inflow alongside strong profitability. Consequently, the group returned to a positive net funds position of GBP 2.2 million at the year-end. This demonstrates that the movements in cash were largely timing related, and that the underlying business remains strongly cash generative. We move to the next slide. This gives you the last five years of the group, and you can highlight the capital allocation. We've generated GBP 142 million of cash from operations, providing the flexibility to invest in future growth while continuing to deliver returns to shareholders. In those five years, we invested approximately GBP 60 million organically across the business, including the completion of our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Kiel, Germany, investment in KraitSense, and the development of our Enlightor and Erazor technologies in response to increasing demand for undersea infrastructure protection. These investments strengthen our position, sorry, strengthen our capabilities, support innovation, and position the group for future growth. Alongside organic investment, we deployed just over GBP 40 million on acquisitions, net of funds raised, completing the EM Solutions and Interactive Technical Solutions transactions. These acquisitions have expanded our technology portfolio into satellite communications and broadened our regional growth opportunities, particularly in Australia and Asia- Pacific markets. We are pleased to have maintained our commitment to shareholder returns, distributing GBP 30 million through dividends over the last five years. Overall, this allocation of capital reflects our strategy of investing for growth while maintaining a strong balance sheet and delivering growing returns to shareholders. Looking forward, we enter this financial year, 2026/2027, with a strong level of visibility, supported by an order book that already underpins 88% of our expected revenue for the year. Combined with an encouraging pipeline of opportunities across our markets, this gives us confidence in our growth outlook. As we look towards 2030, our strategic objectives remain unchanged. We continue to target a net margin in the mid-teens and expect to deliver double-digit percentage earnings growth per annum for the coming year and the two years after that through a combination of organic growth and operational leverage improving our net margins. The chart on the right illustrates our three-year capital allocation framework. We expect to generate approximately GBP 140 million of cash from operations. Of this, around GBP 60 million will be reinvested in the business support organic growth initiatives, including GBP 15 million on a new facility at Horsham for Chess, which should be completed in early 2028 and enable increased capacity to meet demand and improved efficiency to achieve those mid-teen margins. It also includes spend on innovation and future capability development. After this planned investment, we expect around GBP 80 million of cash generation to remain available. Assuming the continuation of our progressive dividend policy, we anticipate returning approximately GBP 30 million to shareholders through dividends over the coming three-year period. This leaves around GBP 50 million of available funds, on top of which we have a significant new bank facility. Together, these provide significant flexibility to pursue value-enhancing opportunities, including strategic acquisitions, whilst maintaining a strong balance sheet. Overall, our guidance reflects both confidence in the underlying performance of the business, a disciplined approach to capital allocation that balances investment, shareholder return, and future growth opportunities. With that, I'll hand back to Andy. Thank you very much indeed, Simon. Before we move on to the strategic context, I wanted to highlight some operational initiatives that we've taken in the last year. Earlier this year, we appointed Chris Axcell as the group's first Chief Operating Officer, and Chris is here in the room with us. If you have questions of an operational nature to ask later on, I shall throw them in his direction. Chris joins us from Leonardo UK, where he held multiple technical and leadership roles, including Vice President of Surveillance and Protection Technologies, Vice President of Sensors, and most recently, Senior Vice President Integrated Sensing and Protection, where he was responsible for two of Leonardo UK's major facilities. He brings extensive experience and expertise in managing business operations within the defense sector and adds deep industry knowledge and values to the group's headquarters team. As Chief Operating Officer, Chris will work alongside Simon and me to provide oversight and strengthen operational performance across the group. He'll also take over from me the day-to-day relationship with certain of our operating businesses and support me more widely across the range of my responsibilities, including, for instance, identifying acquisition targets. Chris's appointment has enabled us to take several initiatives with the aim of enhancing our operational performance. We've launched, under Chris's leadership, a group forum for engineering, operations, and supply chain teams, creating opportunities to share best practice, to solve common challenges, and to leverage the collective experience of our businesses. We now plan to create a project management forum, again, under Chris's leadership, further strengthening program delivery across the group. That will include the introduction of a group-wide project life cycle framework to provide a consistent approach to bidding, project execution, and governance. In addition, we're introducing integrated project teams at Chess, bringing together the key disciplines required for successful delivery under a single structure. This approach is improving accountability, decision-making, and program execution, helping to drive on-time delivery and customer satisfaction. We're also, as Simon's mentioned, about to invest around GBP 15 million, moving Chess from its current 13 buildings in Horsham to a single new facility that will make a big contribution to its operational efficiency. Collectively, these initiatives are enabling us to enhance our operational capability right across the Cohort group. In this next section, I'd like to share with you some of the strategic highlights from the past 12 months, and to talk about the outlook for future years. The three components of our strategy are to grow organically, to accelerate that growth through targeted acquisitions, and to maintain sound, culturally-rooted governance to underpin that growth. In terms of capital allocation, that translates into two areas, internal investment in new products, technologies, and facilities, and external investment in acquisitions. This slide focuses on the first of those two areas, how Cohort continues to invest in technical innovation that provides solutions to the defense challenges facing our customers. Our KraitSense towed array sonar is a key anti-submarine warfare capability designed for both crewed and uncrewed platforms. The focus is on delivering a flexible, modular, and scalable system with a small footprint, lightweight, and low power requirements and t hat unique combination of features makes it particularly suitable for a wide range of naval customers and platform types. Demand is increasing, especially for cost-effective anti-submarine capabilities based on uncrewed vessels as navies seek to expand maritime surveillance and deterrence. Staying with the underwater battle space, we're developing two complementary products, Enlightor and Erazor, to protect underwater infrastructure. Enlightor is a passive underwater surveillance system designed to provide persistent monitoring of undersea infrastructure. Working alongside Enlightor, Erazor provides an active countermeasure, designed to enable threats to be intercepted and neutralized. And then as a third example, in satellite communications, we're progressing development of combined optical and radio frequency terminals. Now, this technology integrates traditional radio frequency communications with high-capacity lasers within a single antenna system. The approach has got the potential to deliver greater bandwidth, resilience, and operational flexibility, supporting future defense satellite networks. The laser communication system, although it's limited to use in suitable atmospheric conditions, is effectively unjammable, which is a vital capability in time of conflict. Together, these technologies address the evolving needs of defense customers as they respond to growing risks and the changing nature of conflict. The second area of strategic investment I wanted to highlight is acquisitions. Over the years since our IPO, we've executed seven major transactions. There is always risk associated with acquisitions, but our industry knowledge and our experienced team have enabled us to manage these with some success, as I think this slide demonstrates. I particularly highlight our very first acquisition, MASS, which last year generated operating profit of almost GBP 11 million, not far short of the GBP 13.5 million purchase price. Our most recent acquisition, EM Solutions, also showed a real material improvement in performance after just one year. Now, w e haven't executed any new acquisitions in the 2025/2026 financial year, although we do continue to see a steady flow of opportunities. We review those carefully against our criteria. We're looking for successful, profitable defense technology businesses of the right size and with a culture of innovation and agility. Beyond that, we're looking for exposure to growth opportunities within the overall defense market and some kind of sustainable competitive advantage based on technology, incumbency, or historic relationships. Over the last 20 years, our acquisition strategy has been a driving force in the growth of the group, and we expect that to continue into the future. Now, we continue to see a strong demand picture in response to the deteriorating security environment and ongoing conflicts that we see around the world, and none of us should welcome that. The risks that we now see coming from that are real. I'm sorry to say that they have the potential to affect us here in the United Kingdom. In regions where threats are perceived as being the most pressing, governments are under pressure to upgrade and modernize their defense capabilities at speed. This is where mid-tier businesses, like those within the Cohort group, have the agility and expertise to provide innovative solutions to those defense challenges. In 2025, global defense spending reached $2.63 trillion, and that growth reflects an increasingly uncertain geopolitical environment and a widespread reassessment of national security priorities by governments around the world. The chart shows the way that defense expenditure has grown since 2021. It excludes Russia and China. As is clear from that chart, you can see that the United States remains the largest single defense spender, but also that the fastest growth has come in Europe and in Asia. In Europe, the driver is clearly the continuing intense and bloody conflict in Ukraine. As well as driving increased defense spending, the conflict has highlighted the importance of sea, air, and land drones for a range of tasks, including reconnaissance, strike, and logistics. It's also highlighted the importance of air and missile defense systems. The U.K.'s recent Defence Investment Plan includes a strong focus on maritime capability to protect the North Atlantic region from Russian submarine incursions and interference with underwater infrastructure, and uncrewed vessels will play a major part in those plans. In Asia, Chinese investment in its armed forces, together with its increasingly aggressive use of its navy and air force, have catalyzed strong growth in defense spending, notably in Japan, Taiwan, Australia, and the ASEAN nations. Although China is increasing spend in all areas of its defense, its threat to its neighbors is significantly maritime in nature, both on and below the sea surface. The continued instability in the Middle East, including the conflict between U.S., Israel, and Iran, and the consequent regional security concerns, is also driving increased demand for defense technology, in particular for Communications and Intelligence solutions. These trends align closely with the capabilities that we have in the Cohort group in communications, intelligence, cyber, electronic warfare, sonar, maritime systems, and counter-drone technologies, and that provides us with a really supportive backdrop for long-term growth. Now, this slide highlights the strength and diversity of Cohort's geographic exposure and, importantly, the alignment of our business with regions where defense spending is expected to grow most strongly over the coming years, as I've shown you in the previous chart. What this shows is a comparison between 2024/2025 revenue, 2025/2026 revenue, and the revenue that is held in our order book, breaking it down by percentage regionally. The most striking features that you can see are the growing proportion of our output going to Europe and Asia-Pacific, with the proportion going to the U.K. and Australia reducing. Now the increases are in line with the international demand patterns that I've described, but in Australia, we're delivering our existing order book really quite rapidly, but we expect that to be supplemented by some large opportunities in the next few years. In the U.K., it's too early to say exactly what the consequences of the recent Defence Investment Plan are going to be, but there may be a less rapid fall-off in the proportion of our work going to the U.K. if the new prime minister follows through on promises to increase defense spending further. Looking at the order book revenue, the third column, what's particularly encouraging is that it's diverse, well-balanced across regions, and closely aligned with those markets where defense spending is increasing most rapidly. The U.K. remains an important source of revenue, but the trend illustrates our ability to tap those markets where spending is growing most rapidly. Now this chart shows a similar comparison between 2024/2025, 2025/2026, and order book revenue, but this time broken down by end-user domain. You can see from here that maritime remains our largest domain and has grown as a proportion of group revenue over the last year. The trend is even more evident in the order book, where maritime programs account for almost 80% of contracted future revenues and t hat reflects the long-term nature of maritime defense programs, which provide strong visibility and support sustainable growth over many years, in this case, out to 2037. Our land domain work is also very strong and long-term. Those proportions represent our technical strengths, but they also are a function of the demand patterns that I've described in Europe and Asia. Our cyber and information work is important, but the small proportion that's there in the order book represents the relatively short-term nature of contracts in that area. Air and space work remains substantial, but the other category, which you can see as a thin layer on top of 2024/2025 and 2025/2026, has almost disappeared following the sale of our transport business last year. Overall, we expect that future revenue will include a healthy balance of long-duration maritime and other contracts, supplemented by shorter duration orders in areas where agility is at a premium. That long-term base of on-order revenue is an excellent building block on which we can build our future growth. Now this slide, which many of you will be familiar with, gives more detail and a breakdown of that important order book. On the 30th of April, the value of the order book stood at over GBP 618 million, and as I mentioned, that includes contracted revenue that will be recognized out to 2037 and o f the total order book, approximately GBP 264 million is scheduled for delivery this year, providing us with very good revenue visibility. Importantly, that's balanced quite well across our two reporting segments, with Communications and Intelligence contributing GBP 128 million and Sensors and Effectors contributing GBP 136 million. Looking further forward, a substantial proportion of the order book extends into later years, reflecting the long-term nature of many of the programs that we work on and t hat includes around GBP 132 million that's scheduled for delivery beyond the 2028/2029 financial year. Overall, that run-off profile highlights both the quality and the longevity of our order book. It provides strong revenue visibility, supports confidence in our medium-term outlook, and gives us a solid platform from which to pursue further organic growth and new contract wins. Now, above and beyond the order book and across both divisions, demand remains strong and is being driven by those same geopolitical and defense spending trends that I've spoken about. Within Communications and Intelligence, we continue to see significant opportunities for electronic warfare and secure communications, particularly in Europe, where lessons from the conflict in Ukraine continue to shape procurement priorities. We're also pursuing major naval satellite communications opportunities in both the U.K. and Japan, while our electronic warfare and operational support capabilities are gaining increasing traction in export markets, including the Middle East. The Portuguese Navy program provides an excellent example of how multiple Cohort businesses can work together to deliver integrated solutions combining communications, networking, and SATCOM technologies. Within Sensors and Effectors, we see a substantial pipeline of opportunities for counter-drone systems through established partnerships. Demand is also growing for technologies that can detect, monitor, and protect critical underwater infrastructure, reflecting increased concern around maritime security and seabed protection. We continue to see strong opportunities for our sonar and sensor technologies as submarine and surface fleet modernization programs progress across a number of international markets. Programs such as the Royal Thai Navy's new frigate demonstrate the benefits of collaboration across the group, bringing together complementary technologies and expertise. We also expect to benefit from investment associated with the U.K.'s Atlantic Bastion initiative and wider NATO efforts to strengthen anti-submarine warfare and underwater infrastructure protection capabilities. Overall, that pipeline of opportunities is strong, reflecting the patterns of growing global expenditure and the market relevance of our products and technologies. As we come to the end of the presentation, I wanted, as a final point, to summarize how we aim to generate value for our shareholders. First, the business benefits from robust financials underpinned by strong cash generation and a healthy balance sheet. We remain focused on investing in areas that generate sustainable returns, prioritizing expenditure on research and development, and expanding our capacity. Across the group, we maintain and invest in innovations that address mission-critical customer requirements and reflect the security challenges they face in today's world, as I hope I've shown you this morning. We're also well-positioned through access to growth markets and have demonstrated our agility and responsiveness to geographical market trends. Our acquisition strategy has been an important contributor to shareholder value creation. We've got a proven track record of acquiring high-quality businesses and integrating them successfully, identifying opportunities to collaborate across the group where appropriate. Finally, we have a consistent dividend track record, having increased the dividend every year since our IPO 20 years ago. That reflects both the strength of the business and the Board's confidence in the group's long-term prospects. Before closing, I want to take the opportunity to mention the great contribution to our success made by our management teams and employees right across the group. I'm very grateful to all of them for the part that they've played in helping us achieve these good results. It has been a successful first 20 years, and we look forward to the future with confidence. Let me leave you with this extract from our preliminary statement, and we'd be delighted to take any questions that you might have. Thank you. We have had a number of questions pre-submitted and submitted live. Just as a reminder, if you'd like to ask a question, please type them into the Q&A box situated on the right-hand side of your screen. Our first question is: the order book remains incredibly strong. Can you give us a feel for how much of that is genuinely new work versus extensions of existing contracts? That's an interesting question. I don't have that precise breakdown, but I'm tempted to say that a large proportion of it is new work. For example, large components of the order book are things like our program to supply the new sonar suites for the new fleet of Italian submarines, the contract to supply missile defense systems to the Royal Navy and the U.K. Now, these contracts do tend to get extended and changed over time. They're long and complex. Indeed, the Italian submarine contract has already been extended on a few occasions, so perhaps I should have included that in my initial response. I think for the most part, it is new contracts. What I should also emphasize is that they are all legally- binding contracts, and that there is nothing speculative in there, nothing that would need a contractual change in order to be removed or extended or whatever. Simon, would you add anything to that? Is there any further color you can add? The only thing I'd add, Andy, is that I think a lot of what I would call the repeat work is the smaller orders that we get and often deliver within the period. They don't really get seen in the order book because they're sort of turned in the period. Small orders, spares, repairs, that type of work often come in, go out in the same year. Some will extend, but when you look at our order book and the longevity of it out to 2037, all of that mostly is work that these are lumps that we've won. There will, at some point, be extensions to them, there's no doubt about that. They will grow. The ancillary order, which is the longest, so I expect that will be extended once we get into full service support and things. That won't be for a few years. Yeah, just reflecting on it, actually. We have, as I've said, seen the original Italian submarine contract extended from originally two submarines, now to four. I would certainly expect to see the ancillary contract extended to further ships and our large contracts in Australia. Not yet clear whether that will be extended or whether there will be a new contract to cover further ships, but certainly we'll be doing more of the same work for the Australian Navy. Sorry we couldn't give you a precise numerical answer, but I hope that gives you a flavor. Thank you. The next question reads: the cash position still looks healthy. Is the priority more acquisitions, paying down debt, or continuing to grow the dividend? As Simon's slide shows, all of the above. Yes. We're driven by different things. In relation to investment internally, we do what's needed. Also when we see good opportunities, see a good return on internal investments, for example, through product development, those are things that we will certainly pursue. Acquisitions have to be more opportunistic because we can only acquire something if it's for sale. We didn't make any acquisitions in 2025, 2026, as I said in the presentation earlier. That's really because we're looking for very particular, special acquisition targets, and we don't see them all the time. We've done seven since we IPO-ed back in 2006. The growing dividend is something that we've always been committed to, but each year we reconsider carefully in terms of the cash available and future prospects. I'm happy to say that we've always seen it appropriate to continue increasing that dividend. Simon, is there anything else you would add to that? I'd only add on the final point, the dividend, that we, as you can see, we've been increasing it pretty much at 10% per annum, which is what our targeted earnings growth is. Our policy is to look for around about three times earnings to dividend cover each year. Actually, we've been running slightly higher than that in the last few years. No, that's certainly the case. I think on the investment, as you said, Andy, it's more driven by That's more of a bottom-up than a top-down approach. It's what our businesses need, and we assess it each year as part of a three-year strategic plan. It's well thought out, and sometimes it's higher and sometimes it's lower, depending on what the demands are. Yeah. With the new bank facility in place, we've certainly got plenty of flexibility to invest where we need to. Yeah. Thank you. Which markets or business segments offer the greatest growth opportunities over the next three to five years? Well, I think in terms of geographical markets, the answer is Europe and Asia. In Europe, we're in a period of transition, really, from a sort of post-Cold War period of low defense spending and the peace dividend to a realization. Well, I think in the words of the last defense secretary now recently appointed as the chancellor, we're moving into a pre-war period rather than a post-war period. People are once again looking at defense spending as a very, very important form of insurance with the aim of deterrence, hopefully, rather than having to activate defensive measures. We're in a progression from maybe sort of 1% or 2% of GDP on defense for most European countries, up to 3.5% or above. Some countries are in front of others on that. Germany's moving very fast. Poland's moving very fast. The Nordic countries, the Baltic countries are moving very fast. The U.K. so far has moved a little slower. Indications from the new prime minister, and particularly the installation of Mr. Healey as the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, suggests that we may be prepared to go further than the original Defence Investment Plan proposed. We see a similar situation in Asia, a very wide region, of course, where China is investing a huge amount in its defense forces, both army, navy, and air force, but where its main effort to exert its influence is maritime, and that affects its neighbors in the ASEAN region around South China Sea. It affects Japan, Korea, all the way down to India and Australia. Across that wide region, countries are looking to build their defensive capabilities so as not to be intimidated by this kind of behavior and make sure that China doesn't feel that it can exert its influence without consequence. Both of those regions are growing very significantly, and those are augmented by the policies of current administration in the U.S., which is firstly pushing the non-U.S. NATO members to spend more on defense. Secondly perhaps some of its behavior in relation to allies and, for example, talking about annexing Greenland or invading Canada and this sort of thing, is encouraging these countries to think, "Should we rely solely on the U.S. as a means of support and provision of defense equipment, too?" I hope that answers the question. Thank you. How is the company managing supply chain risks, inflation, and labor costs? Well, supply chain risks, I mentioned in the presentation that we have brought in, for the first time, a Chief Operating Officer into our headquarters team, Chris Axcell, who is a very experienced guy, has spent 26 years in Leonardo and its predecessor organizations in the U.K., and a lot of that time in managing production operations in defense, so t hat adds to our team a new capability to enable us to support our businesses. Several of them are undergoing that transition from engineering-led businesses, where the main value is created by designing clever solutions, into more production-led organizations, where we create value by producing, in a regular, repeatable way, significant numbers of the equipments that we've designed. He has instituted cross-group forums on several important operations-related matters, and one of those is supply chains, identifying potential supply chain pinches, particularly those that affect more than one company across the group, and enabling us to put in place policies for dual sourcing or increasing stock holdings and so on so that we can manage those matters. So far, I think the only sort of cross-group supply chain issue that we've noted is the supply of permanent magnet motors, which has been limited by the availability of rare earth elements which are needed for the permanent magnets and so that's an issue that we're dealing with. As far as the other matters are concerned, those are primarily dealt with through commercial terms. Simon, do you want to say a word or two about inflation and labor costs? Yes. Let's deal with inflation first. Obviously, that comes from both our own costs, our labor costs primarily, and our supply chain. In contracts, really, where anything more than normally two years in duration, certainly three years and above, we will look to put in inflation clauses into each contract term. Effectively, they are price indexed to deal, and they'll be linked to industrial indices, often of a national nature, and literally will be adjusted. Good examples are the large Australian contracts, the Italian contract, and SILVIA all have in them variation of price clauses to do with inflation. In other contracts where we may not be able to get inflation clauses, we build in contingency to deal with potential inflation risk so e ffectively, we put the price up to cater for future costs. Obviously, with our own labor inflation, well, mostly that's about remaining, sort of trying to keep our costs to what we think enables us to be competitive whilst ensuring that we attract and retain the best people. If we go too low, we'll lose the good people and end up delivering a bad service so t hat way we don't make money and the customer doesn't get very happy, is not very happy with the service. The main protection for us is obviously ensuring that our pricing is correct and the variation on contracts on pricing is very important on long contracts. Very important. Okay. Thank you. Export revenue to other Europe nearly doubled. To what extent is this growth contingent on urgent short cycle procurement related to the Ukraine conflict versus multi-year sovereign programs? Right. To what extent is it related to urgent operational requirements for Ukraine? A very limited extent is a short and easy answer to that. Most of what we're doing is serious long-term stuff, and for the reasons that I outlined before. People are not embarking on a sort of wild shopping spree of things that they need in short order. European countries are considering very carefully how they need to build up their armed forces over a number of years and embarking on some really pretty major programs, and that's what we're seeing coming through into our order book. Andy, I would add that the revenue that was linked to effectively the conflict in Ukraine directly was around 1% for the group last year. Thank you. The next question is there any customer that accounts for a bigger proportion of the revenues than you'd ideally like, or is the business now well-diversified? Well, I hope you'll have seen from the charts that we've presented that the revenue streams now are really very well diversified. In particular, we're a U.K.-centered group. Four of our seven businesses are based in the U.K. b ut for the first time, our revenue derived from the U.K., and that includes directly from the government and also from suppliers who supply into the U.K. government, fell down to well below half, down to about 40%. So our dependence on the U.K. is reducing and t hat's a factor of two things, really. One is that we're doing more outside the U.K. We acquired a business in Australia, which is delivering significant revenue and profit, EM Solutions. Also because compared to several of the other European markets that we're in, the U.K.'s defense spending is growing relatively slowly. Now we've got a new Defence Investment Plan, which is good. We expect and hope that that will result in a better process of defense procurement in the U.K. We found over the last year, in the absence of that plan, that things have been quite slow. Projects have stopped and started. Even very small levels of expenditure have needed ministerial approval so we hope that that will come to an end. As I mentioned a moment or two ago, perhaps with the new Government in place, certainly with the indications that Mr. Burnham has given, then we may see an uplift to that Defence Investment Plan, that would be very good news as well. No, I think we do have quite a diverse revenue base, and I would expect to see that continue. Thank you. You've guided for roughly GBP 140 million in operating cash flow over FY 2027/2029. How much of this is predicated on a permanent reduction in the working capital intensity of the naval SATCOM programs versus simply the timing of milestone payments? Simon, I think that's one for you. Actually, it's pretty much what we expect to generate from operations. There is a bit of working capital unwind, particularly on the Italy project, which should come back to an overall cash positive position around about March 2028. Really what it is, the reason we've done it over three years is to deal with the issue of the working capital moving up and down over the periods. There will be projects coming in and there will be projects going out over that period. There's nothing in there that sort of assumes that suddenly I'm going to be able to reduce our debtors by sort of half or something over that period. In fact, I expect over that period, because of the growth we expect in the group, but the working capital actually will grow over the three years. That, in effect, is assumed. The GBP 140 million actually has potentially got an upside. I would suggest that the final figure in that slide, which shows a GBP 50 million cash sort of coming out of it pre any M&A, probably is more likely to be in the range of probably GBP 30 million-GBP 80 million, depending on the working capital timings. Thank you. Management has acknowledged a mini boom in defense tech multiple. What specific ceiling is being applied to IRR hurdles or EBITDA multiples for the GBP 50 million allocated to M&A over the next three years to ensure you don't overpay in competitive mid-market auctions? Right. I'm not sure we did acknowledge a mini boom in defense multiples, and I'm not quite sure what a mini boom would be. We also have not allocated GBP 50 million for acquisitions over the next three years. The premise of the question, I think, has put words in our mouths slightly. What I'd say about multiples is that they're very different in the part of the market that we're most interested in, which is small or mid-size defense businesses coming up with innovative solutions that are trading profitably and have got good products, but are small enough and fast enough to be agile to deal with the sort of changing world of defense that is at the moment. Perhaps with a region of GBP 5 million-GBP 15 million of annual EBIT, something like that and t hat's really, really different to the sort of Rheinmetalls and Saabs of the world. The multiples that we've paid over our history have varied between sort of seven-ish and the biggest one, the highest one, was our very first acquisition of MASS, which we paid 13.5x. Although, as I mentioned, given that it's making nearly GBP 11 million a year in EBIT now, that's turned out to have been quite a good acquisition. We paid about 10x EBIT for our most recent acquisition, which was EM Solutions. A little bit higher than the average we paid over the years in the run-up to that but t hat's reflecting the fact that it had a very strong order book and a very strong set of opportunities. One feature of the new situation that we see since 2022 is that demand is stronger, so businesses are coming to us with larger order books and stronger sets of opportunities. In those circumstances, we are prepared to pay a slightly higher multiple of EBIT because the business is simply a higher quality and worth more but I hope that gives you an idea of the kind of range that we're paying at the moment. Thank you. Moving the S&E division from 7.1% today to the mid-teens by 2030 is key to the midterm plan. How much of this 800 basis points expansion is purely reliant on the completion of low-margin legacy SEA projects versus structural improvements in the new contract hurdle rates? Okay, let me pass this one over to Simon again to talk about. Thank you, Andy. The legacy projects at SEA will pretty much, one of them will close out this financial year, and the majority of the others will be pretty much done this financial year. In fact, I don't expect them to have an ongoing impact, particularly on our margins. That's quite a quick turn. The real driver of Sensors and Effectors getting to mid-teens is actually Chess returning from a sort of just above breakeven position to a decent trading position of somewhere around 10%, then moving up into the mid-teens in the next couple of years and t he investment in the new facility for Chess will help with that. Thank you. The order book increased only slightly from GBP 616.4 million to GBP 618.8 million, despite strong defense markets demand. What needs to happen for order intake to accelerate materially above the current book-to-bill ratio of just over one? Well, we're delighted to have a book-to-bill ratio of greater than one in a year when there were no sort of marquee orders. The largest order that was part of that order intake in 2025/2026 was about EUR 40 million, so not much more than 10% of the total. The fact is order intake, it's a lumpy business. We do get very large numbers of relatively small orders every year, and that's what made up the majority of the order intake in 2025/2026. We also do get larger orders, which on their own move the dial. By their very nature, those don't necessarily come along multiple times a year. Hence, if you look back at our order intake history and progress of our order book, you've seen it's been going up for many years, but not always by the same sort of amount. I think it's sort of natural result of the nature of defense spending and the way that we get orders. I would just say that we're hoping to continue that progress and perhaps accelerate that progress in the course of the year. Thank you. Our next question is, how will you measure the impact and success of the operational initiatives you are introducing at Chess and across the Sensors and Effectors division? By that margin improvement that Simon was talking about, I'm going to pass that over to him to talk about again. No, exactly right, Andy. What we're looking to do is for Chess to move from breakeven in 2025/2026 to somewhere around, I would say, 8%-10% net margin in 2026/2027 and to move on from there. Chess has got a very good order book. It's our most covered business for this coming year. It's well over 90% covered. It's not a business that needs to win work to hit its figures. It needs to deliver. The focus of Chris Axcell, our new COO, and the new MD at Chess, Andy Smith, is to do that and t hat is what they're very much focused on. Although I have to say, Chess continues to win good orders. Yeah, indeed. Thank you. We're now moving on to our final question for today. If you have any further questions, please email the team who will respond to any questions that weren't covered this afternoon. Which of the group's companies do you think has the biggest growth opportunities? Ooh. You're asking a mother which is her favorite child. Well, we see some really good growth opportunities across the group, actually. Simon's mentioned that Chess has already got a really strong order book. Chess is exposed to one of the best counter-drone capabilities anywhere in Europe in terms of providing a significant piece of value in all of the sales of Rheinmetall's mid-caliber counter-drone weapons and that I would certainly expect to lead to good growth in the coming years. If you look elsewhere, SEA is seeing very strong demand for its lightweight towed array sonars because they're especially effective on uncrewed vessels, which are very much the coming thing. That was a big part of the Defence Investment Plan in the U.K., the move to a hybrid navy, which includes uncrewed as well as crewed vessels. If you look at ELAC SONAR, we see a lot of submarine programs around the world, and we see one of the world's leading providers of digital sonar equipment. The sonars they're providing for us are amongst the most advanced in the world. We see very significant opportunities there, both for submarines and for surface vessels. At EM Solutions, we've got a great niche there where we've got really strong technical capability that's better than any competitor and t here are some very good growth programs around there at the moment. In Australia, in their domestic market, there's a lot more that they will get under contract there. We're very optimistic and t here are some big other opportunities, in the U.K., for one example, in Japan, for another. We see plenty of opportunity there as well. I haven't really mentioned all of them at all, but I think there are lots of opportunities, and I'm encouraging our MDs to try and show which can exploit those opportunities best and get into the lead. At the moment, our leading provider of profit to the group is EM Solutions. Will that continue? Well, we'll wait and see. I think there are plenty of opportunities out there. Thank you. We currently have no further questions so I'll hand back over to the management team for any closing remarks. Thank you very much indeed, Josh. It's been a pleasure to talk to you this afternoon. Thank you very much for all of these interesting questions. I hope that we've been able to answer them in a way that's satisfactory. If not, please feel free to add any supplementaries via email as Josh has invited. I'll just conclude by saying that it's been an exciting time for us. We've had, I think, another very good year. We're looking forward with optimism to 2026/2027 and beyond. As I hope we've demonstrated, the first 20 years we've had a degree of success and I'm optimistic that we will continue to do that in the years ahead. Thank you very much indeed for your attention. Thank you to the management team for joining us today. That concludes the Cohort plc investor presentation.
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