Half Year 2025 Kingspan Group PLC Earnings Call Transcript
Good morning, everybody, and welcome to our H1 results call. Lots to get through today. So we'll take you first of all to slide number 3, please, titled H1 '25 in Summary.
So just on that, our revenue came in 8% ahead of prior year, EUR4.5 billion; trading profit, up 5%; EPS of EUR1.72 is up 4% on a pure basis. And as always, on our greenhouse gas emissions, a tremendous progress, down 63% in real terms versus 2020.
In terms of just picking out some of the kind of key points of the first half, I think it's important to point out that it has been and continues to be a pretty unforgiving environment. And I think in the context of that, our catch-up in the second quarter really reflected quite a resilient performance versus what was a very slow start to the year.
Our reported margin is down slightly to 9.8%. But in fact, that masked what is an underlying increase in the margin by 20 bps. The dilution relates in the large part to Nordic Waterproofing, which is a heavily second half business. That
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