AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ:AVAV) Q1 2023 Earnings Conference Call September 7, 2022 4:30 PM ET

Company Participants

Jonah Teeter-Balin – Senior Director-Corporate Development and Investor Relations

Wahid Nawabi – Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

Kevin McDonnell – Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Ken Herbert – RBC

Peter Arment – Baird

Austin Moeller – Canaccord Genuity

Louie DiPalma – William Blair

Brian Ruttenbur – Imperial Capital

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the AeroVironment Fiscal Year 2023 First Quarter Conference Call. At this time all participants' lines are in a listen-only mode. After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that today's conference call is being recorded for replay purposes.

I would now like to hand the conference over to Jonah Teeter-Balin. Thank you. Please go ahead, sir.

Jonah Teeter-Balin

Thanks, and good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to AeroVironment's fiscal year 2023 first quarter earnings call. This is Jonah Teeter-Balin, Senior Director of Corporate Development and Investor Relations for AeroVironment. Before we begin, please note that certain information presented on this call contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

Forward-looking statements include, without limitation, any statement that may predict, forecast, indicate or imply future results, performance or achievements and may contain words such as believe, anticipate, expect, estimate, intend, project, plan or words or phrases with similar meaning. Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, forecasts and assumptions, which involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, economic, competitive, governmental and technological factors outside of our control that may cause our business strategy or actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements.

For further information on these risks, we encourage you to review the risk factors discussed in AeroVironment's periodic reports on Form 10-K and other filings with the SEC, along with the associated earnings release and safe harbor statement contained therein. This afternoon, we also filed a slide presentation with our earnings release and posted the presentation on our website at avinc.com in the Events & Presentations section. The content of this conference call contains time-sensitive information that is accurate only as of today, September 07, 2022. The company undertakes no obligation to make any revision to any forward-looking statements contained in our remarks today or to update them to reflect the events or circumstances occurring after this conference call.