11/12/2025

speaker
Jason Boyes
Chief Executive of Infratil

Welcome to Infratil's half-year results presentation for financial year 2026. I'm Jason Boyes, the chief executive of Infratil, and I'm here with my partner in crime, Andy Carroll, the CFO. Welcome, Andy.

speaker
Andy Carroll
Chief Financial Officer of Infratil

Good morning.

speaker
Jason Boyes
Chief Executive of Infratil

We're going to talk through the presentation that's been released to the NZX and ASX this morning, along with other material for our half. And then there'll be questions as usual, time for questions as usual at the end. So let's get into it. Excellent to be speaking to you today on the half just gone and how we feel about the half and further ahead. In short, we feel good with recent contract wins and progress on our strategic initiatives and strong demand for more data centres and power to run them. The portfolio is extremely well positioned for growth, including the big guns, CDC and Long Road. And also Gurren and potentially Kaio poised to join that acceleration. Those big guns have driven the half also with their strong contracted growth starting to come through in earnings with more to come. And One New Zealand has done a good job too in a challenging domestic environment. So with that introduction, let's go to the highlights, which will be on your screen now. Actually not too much new news in the announcements today, but one at the top here. Announcing signing to sell our stake in 40 South, our Towers business, and our old New Zealand bus property in Halsey Street there in Auckland. That's in line with our strategic objective to sell a billion of assets that we feel can't scale to be meaningful in the portfolio. Alongside the sale of Retire Australia that we announced earlier in the year, we're over halfway towards our target. with a strategic review of our investment in QSCAN, already announced that we'd finish the job and that we expect to progress in the next half. Secondly, on this slide I want to call out, Andy will talk to the numbers more shortly, some puts and takes as usual between different assets in the portfolio, but pleasing growth overall, that 7% increase in proportionate operational EBITDAF compared to the same half last year, in line with expectations, I think. When we look at the other key things that happen in the half, digital and renewable energy thematics are stronger than ever. As data and electricity demand continues to accelerate across multiple markets, you've got that 140 megawatts of contracting that CDC's announced in the half, actually since our investor down in September even, and Long Road has continued to push ahead. With an exceptional volatility in its market, commencing construction of further nearly gigawatt contracts, of capacity. We talk about our move on to energy that we've already announced and the strong sustainability results later. I might hand to Andy for some highlights on the financial side.

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