S&W Seed Company (NASDAQ:SANW) Q2 2023 Earnings Conference Call February 13, 2023 11:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Robert Blum - IR, Lytham Partners

Mark Wong - President and Chief Executive Officer

Betsy Horton - Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Ben Klieve - Lake Street

Gerry Sweeney - Roth Capital

Operator

Good day, and welcome to the S&W Seed Company’s Second Quarter 2023 Financial Results Conference Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions] Please note this event is being recorded.

I would now like to turn the conference over to Robert Blum from Lytham Partners. Robert, please go ahead.

Robert Blum

All right. Thanks you so much and thank you all for joining us today to discuss S&W Seed Company's second quarter fiscal year 2023 financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2022. With us on the call representing the Company today are Mark Wong, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Betsy Horton, Chief Financial Officer. At the conclusion of today's prepared remarks, we'll open the call for a question-and-answer session.

Before we begin with prepared remarks, please note, that statements made by the management team of S&W Seed Company during the course of this conference call may contain forward-looking statements, within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as amended and such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

Forward-looking statements describe future expectations, plans, results or strategies and are generally preceded by words such as may, future, plan or planned, will or should, expected, anticipates, draft, eventually or projected. Such forward-looking statements on this call include but are not limited to our guidance on revenue and adjusted EBITDA for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, the expected timing of initial production by the JV, the anticipated impact of the JV on our business and future prospects including our positioning to be at the foremost of sustainable low carbon energy solutions as well as our financial outlook going forward, the ability of shell contribution to the JV to perform the JV's operations for a few years, our focus during the second half of fiscal 2023 on the JV and our four key centres of value and our plans for the advancement of our business strategy.

Listeners are cautioned that such statements are subject to a multitude of risks and uncertainties that could cause future circumstances, events, or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements, including the risks that actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors and other risks identified in the Company's 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022 and other filings subsequently made by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.