StoneCo Ltd. (NASDAQ:STNE) Q4 2022 Earnings Conference Call March 14, 2023 5:00 PM ET

Company Participants

Rafael Martins - Vice President, Finance & Investor Relations Officer

Thiago Piau - Chief Executive Officer

Pedro Zinner - Upcoming Chief Executive Officer

Lia Matos - Chief Strategy Officer

Conference Call Participants

Sheriq Sumar - Evercore ISI

Will Carlson - Cantor Fitzgerald

Tito Labarta - Goldman Sachs

Jeff Cantwell - Wells Fargo

Kaio Da Prato - Banco UBS

William Barranjard - Itaú BBA

Neha Agarwala - HSBC

William Tang - Susquehanna

Natalia Corfield - JPMorgan

Operator

Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for standing by. Welcome to the StoneCo Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2022 Earnings Conference Call. By now, everyone should have access to our earnings release. The company also posted a presentation to go along with its call. All material can be found at www.stone.co on the Investor Relations section.

Throughout this conference call, the company will be presenting non-IFRS financial information including adjusted net income and adjusted net cash. These are important financial measures for the company, but are not financial measures as defined by IFRS. Reconciliations of the company's non-IFRS financial information to the IFRS financial information appear in today's press release.

Finally, before we begin our formal remarks, I would like to remind everyone that today's discussion might include forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and therefore, you should not put undue reliance on them.

These statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the company's expectations. Please refer to the forward-looking statements disclosure in the company's earnings press release.

In addition many of the risks regarding the business are disclosed in the company's Form 20-F filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission which is available at www.sec.gov.

I would now like to turn the conference over to your host Rafael Martins, VP of Finance and Investor Relations Officer at StoneCo. Please proceed.

Rafael Martins

Thank you operator and good evening everyone. Joining us today on the call we have our CEO and Board member, Thiago Piau and our Chief Strategy Officer, Lia Matos. Today, we will present our fourth quarter 2022 results, discuss some recent trends, and provide an updated outlook for our business.

I will now pass it over to Thiago, so he can share some highlights of our performance. Thiago?

Thiago Piau