Edgewell Personal Care Company (NYSE:EPC) Q2 2023 Earnings Conference Call May 9, 2023 8:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Chris Gough – Vice President-Investor Relations

Rod Little – President and Chief Executive Officer

Dan Sullivan – Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Chris Carey – Wells Fargo Securities

Susan Anderson – Canaccord Genuity

Peter Grom – UBS

Bill Chappell – Truist Securities

Kevin Grandy – Jefferies

Jason English – Goldman Sachs

Devin Weinstein – Raymond James

Operator

Good morning everyone and welcome to the Edgewell Personal Care Q2 2023 Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in the listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions] After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. [Operator Instructions] Please note this event is being recorded.

I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr. Chris Gough, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Chris Gough

Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us this morning for Edgewell's second quarter fiscal year 2023 earnings call. With me this morning are Rod Little, our President and Chief Executive Officer; and Dan Sullivan, our Chief Financial Officer. Rod will kick off the call then hand it over to Dan to discuss our results and update to the full year 2023 outlook before we transition to Q&A. This call is being recorded and will be available for replay via our website, www.edgewell.com.

During the call, we may make statements about our expectations for future plans and performance. This might include future sales, earnings, advertising and promotional spending, product launches, savings and costs related to restructurings, acquisitions and integrations, changes to our working capital metrics, currency fluctuations, commodity costs, category value, future plans for return of capital to shareholders, and more. Any such statements are forward-looking statements for the purposes of the safe harbor provisions under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which reflect our current views with respect to future events, plans or prospects.

These statements are based on assumptions and are subject to various risks and uncertainties, including those described under the caption Risk Factors in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2022, as may be amended in our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, which is on file with the SEC. These risks may cause our actual results to be materially different from those expressed or implied by our forward-looking statements. We do not assume any obligation to update or revise any of these forward-looking statements to reflect new events or circumstances except as required by law.