Johnson Matthey Plc (JMPLY) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Louise Curran
Head of Investor Relations

Good morning, everyone. I’m Louise Curran, Head of Investor Relations at Johnson Matthey, and a very warm welcome this morning to our half year results presentation. Thank you, everyone, for coming along to the Andaz today, and welcome to those joining on the webcast as well.

A little bit of admin before we start, if you could please turn your phones off or on to silent. And I’ll point your attention to the cautionary statement. I’m very pleased today to welcome Liam Condon, Chief Executive Officer; and Richard Pike, our CFO. In terms of agenda, we’ll follow the usual format.

Liam will run you through an overview. Richard will then take you through the financial results, and then Liam will cover our strategic progress in the half. And we’ll, of course, leave plenty of time at the end for Q&A, both in the room and then on the webcast.

And with that, I’ll hand over to Liam.

Liam Condon
CEO & Director

and big congratulations to you on your new role. And a big thanks also to your predecessor, Martin Dunwoodie, who’ve done great work for us. A warm welcome to everybody here in the Andaz Hotel. I’m really happy there’s so many people here, so we can get some heat into the room because it was a very