ChampionX (NASDAQ:CHX) Q4 2022 Earnings Conference Call February 2, 2023 9:00 AM ET
Company Participants
Byron Pope - Vice President, ESG and Investor Relations
Sivasankaran Somasundaram - President and Chief Executive Officer
Kenneth Fisher - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Conference Call Participants
David Anderson - Barclays
Alec Scheibelhoffer - Stifel
Saurabh Pant - Bank of America
Atidrip Modak - Goldman Sachs
Operator
Good morning. Welcome to ChampionX Corporation's Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Earnings Conference Call.
Your host for this morning's call is Byron Pope. I will turn the call over to Mr. Pope, you may begin.
Byron Pope
Thank you. Good morning everyone. With me today are Soma Somasundaran, President and CEO of ChampionX, and Ken Fisher, our Executive Vice President and CFO. During today’s call, Soma will share some our company’s highlights. Ken will then discuss our fourth quarter results and the first quarter outlook, before turning the call back to Soma for some summary thoughts. We will then open the call for Q&A.
During today’s call, we will be referring to the slides posted on our website. Let me remind all participants that some of the statements we will be making today are forward-looking. These matters involve risks and uncertainties that could cause material difference in our results from those projected in these statements. Therefore, I refer you to our latest 10-K filings and our other SEC filings for a discussion of some of the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially.
Our comments today may also include non-GAAP financial measures. Additional details on reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures can be found in our fourth quarter press release, which is available on our website.
I will now turn the call over to Soma.
Sivasankaran Somasundaram
Thank you, Byron. Good morning everyone. I would like to welcome our shareholders, employees and analysts to our fourth quarter 2022 earnings call. Thanks for joining us today. Let me start by saying that 2022 was a year of strong momentum for ChampionX as we delivered robust performance on each of our key metrics, including revenue growth, adjusted EBITDA margin expansion, free cash flow generation, and capital return to our shareholders. I am grateful to all our employees for their focus and tireless dedication for delivering value to our customers day in and day out.
Before I touch on our fourth quarter performance on Slide #4, we always begin our earnings call with our corporate purpose and operating philosophy, because we are passionate about improving the lives of our customers, our employees, our shareholders, and our community. At the heart of our operating philosophy is being relentless advocates for our customers.