Ryman Healthcare Limited (RYHTY) Q2 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

Ryman Healthcare Limited (OTCPK:RYHTY) Q2 2025 Earnings Conference Call November 27, 2024 4:00 PM ET

Company Participants

Dean Hamilton – Executive Chairman
Rob Woodgate – Chief Financial Officer
Naomi James – Chief Executive Officer

Conference Call Participants

Arie Dekker – Jarden
Bianca Fledderus – UBS
Aaron Ibbotson – Forsyth Barr
Stephen Ridgewell – Craigs Investment Partners
Nick Mar – Macquarie

Operator

Thank you for standing by and welcome to the Ryman Healthcare Half Year Results Briefing. All participants are in a listen-only mode. There will be a presentation followed by a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions]

I would now like to hand the conference over to Ryman Healthcare’s Chairman, Dean Hamilton. Please go ahead.

Dean Hamilton

Welcome, everybody. I’m Dean Hamilton, Executive Chair of Ryman. We appreciate you dialing in today. There’s a lot to cover today. But just before we get into the presentation, I’d like to take the opportunity to acknowledge the passing, sadly, this year of one of our two founders, Kevin Hickman.

Kevin, along with John Ryder, founded Ryman 40 years ago and essentially pioneered integrated retirement living and aged care as we know it today. It literally didn’t exist before both John and Kevin.

Along with others, I was fortunate to attend the service for Kevin at the Christchurch Town Hall. It was certainly humbling to hear of his contribution, not only to our sector, but also to athletics and to his other real passion, and that was horse racing. A great pioneer with an enormous legacy. Certainly, Kevin, a life well lived.

With me today in the room is our new CEO, Naomi James, and Rob Woodgate, our CFO. Naomi started with us on the 4th of November. We purposely, left Naomi free in November to travel around the business, to meet our team members, to meet residents, to meet with a number of