Bausch + Lomb Corporation (NYSE:BLCO) Q1 2022 Results Conference Call June 8, 2022 8:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Allison Ryan - Director, IR

Joe Papa - Chairman, CEO

Sam Eldessouky - CFO

Conference Call Participants

Cecilia Furlong - Morgan Stanley

Craig Bijou - Bank of America

Larry Biegelsen - Wells Fargo

Pito Chickering - Deutsche Bank

Robbie Marcus - JP Morgan

Yatin Suneja - Guggenheim Partners

Joanne Wuensch - Citi

Zach Weiner - Jefferies

Ken Cacciatore - Cowen

Operator

Good morning, and welcome to the Bausch + Lomb's First Quarter 2022 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] Please note, this event is being recorded.

I would now like to turn the conference over to Allison Ryan. Please go ahead.

Allison Ryan

Thank you. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to our first quarter 2022 financial results conference call. Participating on today's call are Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Joe Papa; and Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Sam Eldessouky. In addition to this live webcast, a copy of today's slide presentation and a replay of this conference call will be available on our website under the Investor Relations section.

Before we begin, we would like to remind you that our presentation today contains forward-looking information. We would ask that you take a moment to read the forward-looking statement legend at of our presentation as it contains important information. This presentation contains non-GAAP financial measures. For more information about these measures, please refer to Slide 2 of the presentation. Non-GAAP reconciliations can be found in the appendix to the presentation posted on our website.

Finally, the financial guidance in this presentation is effective as of today only. It is our policy to generally not update guidance until the following quarter and to not update or affirm guidance other than through broadly disseminated public disclosure.

With that, it is my pleasure to call over to Joe.

Joe Papa

Thank you, Allison, and thank you, everyone, for joining us today in the Bausch + Lomb's first earnings call as a publicly traded company. I will begin with some comments about our vision for Bausch + Lomb now that the IPO has been completed and briefly discuss the first quarter highlights. Sam Eldessouky, our CFO, will then review the first quarter financial results in detail and discuss our 2022 guidance. Finally, I will conclude by discussing our product pipeline and upcoming catalysts before opening the line for questions.