Namal Nawana
Management
Good morning, everyone. And welcome to Smith & Nephew's Full Year Results Presentation. With me is Graham Baker, our Chief Financial Officer and Phil Cowdy, our Head of Business Development and Corporate Affairs. Really pleased to report 2018 results have delivered on our guidance. We had $4.9 billion of revenue, increasing by 140 million. We accelerated the business in the second half with two consecutive quarters of 3% underlying growth, taking us to 2% full year growth. Our trading profit was $1.1 billion, and the 22.9% trading margin was significantly above the 2017 level. Trading cash flow was $951 million, so a strong 85% trading cash conversion. Adjusted earnings per share of $1.01 was 7% improvement over the prior year. The second half of 2018 was a solid start towards our goal to accelerate our top line growth and deliver that growth sustainably with consistent margin expansion. After I take you through the highlights of Q4, I'll summarize the changes we've made and the new strategic imperatives for value creation that we announced last month at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. Then Graham will cover the details of our full year results and our 2019 financial outlook. Let me start with our Q4 performance by geography on Slide 5. We again had a solid quarter in the U.S. The U.S. represents about half of our business and grew by 3%, well above what we saw in the first half. Emerging Markets are now 17% of our sales and grew 8% in the quarter. China again stood out with growth in the teens across all 3 core franchises. And Latin America grew 8%. Other Established Markets improved to flat after negative growth in Q3. As you know, Europe has been an area of weakness for some time and was minus 1%…