Darling Ingredients, Inc. (NYSE:DAR) Q4 2022 Earnings Conference Call February 28, 2023 9:00 AM ET
Company Participants
Suann Guthrie - SVP, IR & Sustainability and Global Communications
Randall Stuewe - Chairman & CEO
Brad Phillips - EVP & CFO
Sandra Dudley - EVP, Renewables & U.S. Specialty Operations
John Bullock - EVP & Chief Strategy Officer
Conference Call Participants
Derrick Whitfield - Stifel, Nicolaus & Company
Adam Samuelson - Goldman Sachs Group
Dushyant Ailani - Jefferies
Thomas Palmer - JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Matthew Blair - Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co.
Benjamin Bienvenu - Stephens Inc.
William Baldwin - Baldwin Anthony Securities
Manav Gupta - UBS
Operator
Good morning, and welcome to the Darling Ingredients Inc. conference call to discuss the company's fourth quarter and fiscal year 2022 results. [Operator Instructions]. Today's call is being recorded. I would now like to turn the call over to Ms. Suann Guthrie. Please go ahead.
Suann Guthrie
Good morning. Thank you for joining the Darling Ingredients Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2022 Earnings Call. Here with me today are Mr. Randall Stuewe, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; Mr. Brad Phillips, Chief Financial Officer; Mr. John Bullock, Chief Strategy Officer; and Ms. Sandra Dudley, Executive Vice President of Renewables and U.S. Specialty Operations. Our fourth quarter and fiscal year 2022 earnings news release and slide presentation are available on the Investor page under the Events and Presentations tab on our corporate website. And we will be -- and will be joined by a transcript of this call once it is available.
During this call, we will be making forward-looking statements, which are predictions, projections or other statements about future events. These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results can materially differ because of factors discussed in yesterday's press release and the comments made during this conference call and in the Risk Factors section of our Form 10-K, 10-Q and other reported filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We do not undertake any duty to update any forward-looking statements.
Now I will hand the call over to Randy.
Randall Stuewe
Hey, thanks, Suann. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining our fourth quarter and fiscal year 2022 earnings call.
On February 3, 2023, I celebrated with my team, my 20th anniversary as Chairman and CEO of Darling. Many of you have heard me tell the story of my early days here. At the time, we had 600 employees in 20 locations throughout the United States. Brad and I were paying utility bills out of a shoebox, prioritizing the ones that needed to be paid first to keep our operations running. Our stock was trading about $1 per share. We had to figure out how to move from surviving to thriving. We had a plan.