Evonik Industries AG (EVKIY) Q2 2026 Earnings Call August 4, 2026 5:00 AM EDT
Company Participants
Christian Kullmann – CEO & Chairman of the Executive Board
Michael Rauch – CFO & Member of Executive Board
Christoph Finke
Conference Call Participants
Anil Shenoy – Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division
Martin Roediger – Kepler Cheuvreux, Research Division
David Symonds – BNP Paribas, Research Division
Chetan Udeshi – JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division
Sebastian Bray – Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG, Research Division
Presentation
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Q2 2026 Earnings Conference Call. I am Shari, the Chorus Call operator. [Operator Instructions]
The conference is being recorded. The conference must not be recorded for publication or broadcast. At this time, it’s my pleasure to hand over to Christian Kullmann, CEO. Please go ahead.
Christian Kullmann
CEO & Chairman of the Executive Board
Thanks a lot, and a very warm welcome to our Q2 earnings conference call, and thanks to everybody for joining us this morning. And especially warm welcome goes again to our new CFO, Michael Rauch, who is sitting here next to me. Michael, I’m really glad that you had a good start with us in the last month and that you are taking an active role for the first time on this call today. As usual, I will start with select strategic highlights. Michael then will comment on our strong Q2 results before I will take over again to discuss our upgraded outlook. As you know, from our pre-release, we recorded a second quarter above expectations.
Actually, this was the best quarterly result in 4 years. But we are not resting on this short-term success. We know that structural challenges remain for the sector and for Evonik. What is in our hands, we are actively addressing with determination, and we can show really good progress in