Shift4 Payments (NYSE:FOUR) Q1 2022 Results Conference Call May 5, 2022 8:30 AM ET

Company Participants

Thomas McCrohan - EVP, Strategy & IR

Jared Isaacman - CEO

Brad Herring - CFO

Taylor Lauber - President, CSO

Conference Call Participants

Andrew Jeffrey - Truist Securities

Chris Donat - Piper Sandler

Dan Perlin - RBC Capital Markets

Darrin Peller - Wolfe Research

David Togut - Evercore

Timothy Chiodo - Credit Suisse

Jamie Friedman - Susquehanna International Group

Operator

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Shift4 First Quarter 2022 Earnings Call. My name is Charlie and I will the coordinator for today's call. [Operator Instructions]

I'll now hand over to your host, Thomas McCrohan, EVP of Strategy and Investor Relations to begin. Thomas, please go ahead.

Thomas McCrohan

Hi, good morning, everyone. And thank you, operator. I'd like to welcome everyone to Shift4's earnings conference call for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022.

Before we begin, I'd like to remind everyone that this call will contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and -- all statements made on this call that do not relate to matters of historical fact should be considered forward-looking statements, including: Statements regarding management's plans, strategy, goals and objectives; the expected impact of COVID-19 on our business and industry, including with respect to economic recovery, increases in vaccination rates, the reopening of the country and any volume recovery by us; gateway penetration and spend seen by our gateway merchants expectations regarding new customers; acquisitions and other transactions including Finaro and The Giving Block and their anticipated financial performance, including our financial outlook for the year ended December 31, 2022; and the anticipated impact of each of the Finaro and The Giving Block acquisitions on our adjusted EBITDA and end-to-end payment volume for the year ended December 31, 2023.

These statements are neither promises nor guarantees, but involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results. Performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements factors discussed in the Risk Factors section of our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by the forward-looking statements made on this call. Any such forward-looking statements represent management's estimates as of the date of their of this call.