Ashland Inc. (NYSE:ASH) Q4 2022 Earnings Conference Call November 8, 2022 9:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Seth Mrozek - Director, Investor Relations

Guillermo Novo - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

John Kevin Willis - Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Christopher Parkinson - Mizuho Securities

David Begleiter - Deutsche Bank

Lucas Beaumont - UBS

Mike Harrison - Seaport Research Partners

John McNulty - BMO Capital Markets

Laurence Alexander - Jefferies

Edlain Rodriguez - Credit Suisse

Operator

Good day. And thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Ashland Global Holdings Inc. Fourth Quarter 2022 Earnings Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded.

I'd now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Seth Mrozek, Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Seth Mrozek

Thank you, Bella. Hello, everyone, and welcome to Ashland's fourth quarter fiscal year 2022 earnings conference call and webcast. My name is Seth Mrozek, Director Ashland Investor Relations. Joining me on the call today are Guillermo Novo, Ashland Chair and Chief Executive Officer; and Kevin Willis, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

We released preliminary results for the quarter ended September 30, 2022, at approximately 05:00 PM Eastern Time yesterday, November 7. The news release issued last night was furnished to the SEC in a Form 8-K. During today's call, we will reference slides that are currently being webcast on our Web site, ashland.com, under the Investor Relations section. We encourage you to follow along with the webcast during the call.

Please turn to slide two. As a reminder, during today's call, we will be making forward-looking statements on several matters, including our outlook for fiscal year 2022. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause future results or events to differ materially from today's projections. We believe any such statements are based on reasonable assumptions, but cannot assure that such expectations will be achieved. Please refer to slide two of the presentation for a more complete explanation of those risks and uncertainties, and the limits applicable to forward-looking statements. You can also review our most recent Form 10-K under Item 1A for a comprehensive discussion of the risk factors impacting our business.

Please also note that we will be referring to certain actual and projected financial metrics on Ashland on an adjusted basis, which are non-GAAP financial measures. We will refer to these measures, as adjusted and present them to supplement your understanding and assessment of the financial performance of our ongoing business. Non-GAAP measures should not be considered a substitute for, or superior to financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP. The most directly comparable GAAP measures, as well as reconciliations of the non-GAAP measures to those GAAP measures are available on our Web site and in the appendix of today's slide presentation.