Watkin Jones Plc (WJPLF) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Operator

Good afternoon, and welcome to the Watkin Jones Plc Half Year Results Investor Presentation. [Operator Instructions] Before we begin, I would like to submit the following poll. And I would now like to hand you over to CEO, Alex Pease. Good afternoon.

Alex Pease
CEO, Board of Directors & Executive Director

Good afternoon, and thank you all for joining us this afternoon here to present our half year results for FY ’26. So I’m Alex Pease, the Chief Executive, and I’m joined today by Simon Jones, our CFO. So in terms — I’ll just turn to the agenda. So in terms of the agenda today, I’ll give you an overview of the business and the performance in the half year, what we’ve seen, the key themes that we’d like to sort of draw out in terms of our performance over that year and I guess, importantly, looking at the strategies that we’re adopting and how we’re addressing the current market conditions.

I’ll also then move into a bit of review of the wider investment markets that we operate and before handing over to Simon, who will take you through the sort of financial numbers and the outlook before we do a bit of a deeper dive into some of our key sort of operational divisions and some case studies, which I think help bring to life the business and some of the scale and complexity of projects that we’re delivering. We’ll then have a decent amount of time to do Q&A. And so we’ll try to answer as many of the questions as possible.