Geoffrey Hugh Knox
Executive Chairman of the Board & Group CEO
So welcome to everybody to the FY ’26 HighCom Limited results announcement. You would have seen the data posted on the ASX this morning. And Sharon, if you’d just like to put up the slide deck at this point in time, we’ll start running everybody through that.
Okay. So on the call today, we’ve got myself, and most of you on the call will know me, and we’ve also got Martyn sitting in attendance as well. So FY ’26 year-end presentation. And it’s been quite a significant year for the enterprise. So we can go to the first slide, please, Sharon.
So just a couple of things to remind everybody about what the business is all about. We have 2 divisions. We have HighCom Armour. HighCom Armour has been in business for 30 years as a specialist designer manufacturer and supplier of advanced ballistic materials, and it continues in that position as a small player, but a niche player that’s well respected in the industry.
We also have HighCom Technology. And once again, that kind of flows back more to the XTEK roots where we’re focused on drones, counter drones, control systems, vertical high antennas. But once again, very specialized unit. And both units are specialized on the fact that they’re focused on technology as a differentiator.
The technology provides superior products and superior products gives you better pricing power in the marketplace. You’ll see a few snapshots there just about the shareholder base and the top 5 shareholders. Of significance there, obviously, is the number of shares on issue has gone up since this