The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (NYSE:SMG) Q4 2022 Earnings Conference Call November 2, 2022 9:00 AM ET
Company Participants
Kelly Berry - Vice President of Consumer Finance
Jim Hagedorn - Chairman & CEO
Dave Evans - CFO
Michael Lukemire - President & COO
Conference Call Participants
William Reuter - Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Jeffrey Zekauskas - JPMorgan
Carla Casella - JPMorgan
Eric Bosshard - Cleveland Research
Chris Carey - Wells Fargo Securities
Operator
Good day and welcome to the Q4, 2022 Scotts Miracle-Gro Company Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in a listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions] After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask a question. [Operator Instructions] Please note, this event is being recorded.
I would now like to turn the conference over to Kelly Berry. Please go ahead.
Kelly Berry
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to The Scotts Miracle-Gro fourth quarter earnings conference call. Today's comments from Jim and Dave have been prerecorded. After their comments, we'll take your questions.
I want to remind everyone that our comments today will include forward-looking statements. And so our actual results could differ materially from what we discussed. I'd refer you to our Form 10-K, which is filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission so that you may familiarize yourself with the full range of risk factors that could impact our results. This call is being recorded, and an archived version of the call will be stored on the Investor Relations portion of our corporate website scottsmiraclegro.com We have a lot of ground to cover, so I'll turn the call over to Jim Hagedorn to begin. Jim?
Jim Hagedorn
Thanks, Kelly. And good morning, everyone. I don't think I have to revisit everything we faced this past fiscal year or in the previous two, we're an unusual times. During the pandemic, we responded to the unprecedented challenges with winning strategies to manage all the craziness that came with it. We did so by delivering record results.
Now we're in the aftermath of the peak COVID years facing record inflation, supply chain disruption, war in Ukraine, and a steep downturn in the cannabis industry. It's a messy situation.
But here's what I know. We get it and the leadership team is on it. We have our organization headed in the right direction. My confidence stems from the work we did in the back half of fiscal '22 to improve our cost structure. It also is grounded in their plans for '23.