MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc. (NYSE:MSM) Q3 2022 Earnings Conference Call June 29, 2022 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

Ryan Merkel - William Blair

David Manthey - Baird

Chris Dankert - Loop Capital

Hans Hoffman - Jefferies

Ken Newman - KeyBanc Capital Markets

Pat Baumann - JPMorgan

Operator

Good day, and welcome to the MSC Industrial Supply Fiscal 2022 Third Quarter 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, sir.

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 slide that accompany our comments as well as our operational statistics both of which can be found on our investor relations webpage.

Let me reference our Safe Harbor statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, 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, including statements about the high inflationary environment and globally economic conditions on our operations, results of operations and financial conditions, expected future results, expected benefits from our investment and strategic plans and other initiatives and expected future growth and profitability.

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 the risk factors and the MD&A sections of our latest Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC as well as in other SEC filings. These risk factors include our comments on the high inflationary environments and global economic conditions. These forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations and the company assumes no obligation to update these statements except as required by applicable law. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements.