Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE:WM) Q3 2023 Earnings Conference Call October 25, 2023 10:00 AM ET
Company Participants
Ed Egl - Senior Director, IR
Jim Fish - President and CEO
John Morris - EVP and COO
Devina Rankin - EVP and CFO
Tara Hemmer - SVP and Chief Sustainability Officer
Conference Call Participants
Bryan Burgmeier - Citi
Tyler Brown - Raymond James
Jasper Bibb - Truist Securities
Jerry Revich - Goldman Sachs
Noah Kaye - Oppenheimer
Hans Hoffman - Jefferies
Dave Manthey - Baird
Brian Butler - Stifel
Kevin Chiang - CIBC
Jim Schumm - TD Cowen
Stephanie Yee - JPMorgan
Toni Kaplan - Morgan Stanley
Operator
Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the WM Third Quarter 2023 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised, that today's conference is being recorded.
I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Ed Egl, Senior Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.
Ed Egl
Thank you, Victor. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us for our third quarter 2023 earnings conference call.
With me this morning are Jim Fish, President and Chief Executive Officer; John Morris, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer; and Devina Rankin, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. You will hear prepared comments from each of them today. Jim will cover high-level financials and provide a strategic update. John will cover an operating overview, and Devina will cover the details of the financials.
Before we get started, please note that we have filed a Form 8-K that includes the earnings press release and is available on our website at www.wm.com. The Form 8-K, the press release, and the schedules in the press release include important information.
During the call, you will hear forward-looking statements, which are based on current expectations, projections, or opinions about future periods. All forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Some of these risks and uncertainties are discussed in today’s press release and in our filings with the SEC, including our most recent Form 10-K.
John will discuss our results in the areas of yield and volume, which, unless stated otherwise, are more specifically references to internal revenue growth or IRG from yield or volume.
During the call, Jim, John and Devina will discuss operating EBITDA, which is income from operations before depreciation and amortization. Any comparisons, unless otherwise stated, will be with the third quarter of 2022.