Company: HBCYF
Filing Date: 2025-05-02
Form Type: 6-K
Source: 0001654954-25-005028
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Company: HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-05-02
Form: 6-K
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#### FORM 6-K

### SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

#### Washington, D.C. 20549

#### Report of Foreign Private Issuer

#### Pursuant to Rule 13a - 16 or 15d - 16 of

#### the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
<div align='center'>For the month of May</div>

#### HSBC Holdings plc
<div align='center'>42nd Floor, 8 Canada Square, London E14 5HQ, England

(Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F).

Form 20-F X Form 40-F</div>

2 May 2025

### HSBC HOLDINGS PLC - AGM STATEMENTS
**At the Annual General Meeting of HSBC Holdings plc, held at The InterContinental London O2, London, UK today, the following statements were issued by Group Chairman, Mark Tucker and Group Chief Executive, Georges Elhedery.

Group Chairman's Statement:

This year we celebrate a very important milestone anniversary for the HSBC Group.

160 years ago, on 3 March 1865, HSBC opened for business at 1 Queen's Road, Central, in Hong Kong.

We opened a branch in Shanghai one month later and an office in London three months after that.

HSBC's founders started out with a clear and simple objective, an objective that is as relevant and significant today, as it was then, to establish a bank that would facilitate local and international trade connecting East and West and the many, many places in-between.

We continue to build on this great legacy.

In 2024, the Group achieved record results.

I will expand on this by covering two points:

Firstly, the strong financial performance of the Group, andsecondly, how this enabled us to reward you, our loyal shareholders, with higher returns.

I will start with our 2024 financial performance.

We delivered record profit before tax of US$32.3bn - an increase of US$2bn compared with 2023.

Our reported return on tangible equity was 14.6%, in line with our 'mid-teens' target.

We also achieved broad-based profit generation through geographic and business diversification.

These results demonstrate that our international strategy is working very well.

Our first quarter results which were announced on Tuesday this week provided further evidence that our strategy is delivering.

Georges will speak about the first quarter results in