SkyCity Entertainment Group Limited (SKYZF) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

SA Transcripts158.48K FollowersFollow5ShareSaveCommentsPlay Earnings CallPlay Earnings Call SkyCity Entertainment Group Limited (SKYZF) Q2 2026 Earnings Call February 18, 2026 5:00 PM EST Company Participants Jason Walbridge - Chief Executive OfficerPeter Fredricson - Chief Financial OfficerCallum Mallett - Chief Operating Officer Conference Call Participants Kieran Carling - Craigs Investment Partners Limited, Research DivisionDavid Fabris - Macquarie ResearchAdrian Allbon - Jarden Limited, Research DivisionPaul Koraua - Forsyth Barr Group Ltd., Research DivisionMarcus Curley - UBS Investment Bank, Research Division Presentation Operator Good day, everyone, and welcome to SkyCity Entertainment First Half 2026 Results. [Operator Instructions] Please note, this conference is being recorded. Now it's my pleasure to turn the call over to Jason Walbridge, Chief Executive Officer for SkyCity Entertainment Group. Jason WalbridgeChief Executive Officer [Foreign Language], everyone. I'm Jason Walbridge, Chief Executive Officer of SkyCity Entertainment Group. Welcome to SkyCity's presentation of our interim results for the financial year 2026 we announced to the NZX and ASX this morning. Before I begin, I'd like to acknowledge the tangata whenua of our SkyCity sites, Ng?ti Wh?tua ?rakei, Waikato Tainui, and Ngai Tahu, and acknowledge the Kaurna people, the traditional custodians of the land in Adelaide. With me today in Auckland is Peter Fredrickson, our Chief Financial Officer; and Callum Mallett, our Chief Operating Officer. On the call today, we will be going through the first half 2026 financial results presentation, and there will be time for questions at the end of the presentation. Let's move to Slide 5 for an overview of our results. The result is consistent with the full year 2026 guidance we provided in August 2025, and which we reiterated at our AGM in October. I'd like to call out some specific numbers. Visitation remained steady across the group, with the small reduction due in part to changes in the way we measure visitation and the introduction of