IHS Holding Limited (NYSE:IHS) Q2 2023 Earnings Conference Call August 15, 2023 8:30 AM ET

Company Participants

Colby Synesael - Executive Vice President, Communications

Sam Darwish - Chairman and CEO

Steve Howden - Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Bora Lee - RBC Capital Markets

Phil Cusick - JPMorgan

Greg Williams - TD Cowen

Eric Luebchow - Wells Fargo

Michael Rollins - Citi

Brett Feldman - Goldman Sachs

Stella Cridge - Barclays

Operator

Thank you for standing by. And welcome to the IHS Holding Limited Second Quarter 2023 Earnings Results. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker’s remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions]

And finally, I would like to advise all participants that this call is being recorded. I’d now like to welcome Colby Synesael, Executive Vice President of Communications to begin the conference. Colby, over to you.

Colby Synesael

Thank you, Operator. Thanks also to everyone for joining the call today. I am Colby Synesael, the EVP of Communications here at IHS. With me today are Sam Darwish, our Chairman and CEO; and Steve Howden, our CFO.

This morning, we published our unaudited financial statements for the three-month and six-month periods ended June 30, 2023 on the Investor Relations section of our website and issued a related earnings release and presentation. These are the consolidated results of IHS Holding Ltd, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol IHS, which comprises the entirety of the group’s operations.

Before we discuss the results, I would like to draw your attention to the disclaimers set out at the beginning of the presentation on slide two, which should be read in full, along with the cautionary statement regarding forward-looking statements set out in our earnings release and 6-K filed as well today.

In particular, the information to be discussed may contain forward-looking statements, which, by their nature, involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors, some of which are beyond our control that are difficult to predict and other factors which may cause actual results, performance or achievements or industry results to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements or industry results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements including those discussed in the Risk Factors section of our Form 20-F filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and other filings with the SEC.