MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc. (NYSE:MSM) Q2 2023 Earnings Conference Call April 4, 2023 8:30 AM ET

Company Participants

John Chironna - Vice President of Investor Relations and Treasurer

Erik Gershwind - Chief Executive Officer

Kristen Actis-Grande - Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Tommy Moll - Stephens

David Manthey - Baird

Chris Dankert - Loop Capital

Steve Volkmann - Jefferies

Ryan Merkel - William Blair

Ken Newman - KeyBanc Capital Markets

Patrick Baumann - J.P. Morgan

Operator

Good day, and welcome to the MSC Industrial Supply Company's Second Quarter 2023 Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions] After today's presentation there will be an opportunity to ask questions. [Operator Instructions] Please note today's event is being recorded.

I would now like to turn the conference over to John Chironna, Vice President of Investor Relations and Treasurer. Please go ahead.

John Chironna

Thank you, and good morning, everyone. Erik Gershwind, our Chief Executive Officer and Kristen Actis-Grande, our Chief Financial Officer, are both on the call with me today.

During today's call, we will refer to various financial and management data in the presentation slides that accompany our comments, as well as our operational statistics, both of which can be found on our Investor Relations web page.

Let me reference our safe harbor statement, a summary of which is on Slide 2 of the accompanying presentation. Our comments on this call, as well as the supplemental information we are providing on the website contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. securities laws. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by these statements. Information about these risks is noted in our earnings press release and our other SEC filings.

In addition, during this call, we may refer to certain adjusted financial results, which are non-GAAP measures. Please refer to the GAAP versus non-GAAP reconciliations in our presentation or on our website, which contain the reconciliations of the adjusted financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures.

I'll now turn the call over to Erik.

Erik Gershwind

Thanks, John. Good morning, everybody, and thank you for joining us. On today's call, I'll begin with some perspective on our recent performance and our longer term outlook. I'll then provide color on the current environment. Kristen will provide more specifics on our fiscal second quarter Mission Critical accomplishments and our financial performance and then she'll share our expectations for the back half of our fiscal year. I'll wrap things up and then we'll open up the line for questions.