Piedmont Lithium, Inc. (NASDAQ:PLL) Q3 2023 Earnings Conference Call November 7, 2023 8:30 AM ET

Company Participants

Erin Sanders - Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications and Investor Relations

Keith Phillips - President and Chief Executive Officer

Michael White - Chief Financial Officer

Patrick Brindle - Chief Operating Officer

Conference Call Participants

David Deckelbaum - TD Cowen

Joseph Reagor - ROTH MKM

Matt Summerville - DA Davidson

Austin Yun - Macquarie Bank

Greg Lewis - BTIG

Matthew Key - B. Riley Securities

Eric Boyes - Evercore ISI

Chris Kapsch - Loop Capital Markets

Noel Parks - Tuohy Brothers

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. My name is Abby, and I will be your conference call operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to Piedmont Lithium’s Third Quarter 2023 Earnings Call. Today’s call is being recorded, and all lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers’ remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Thank you.

And I will now turn the call over to Erin Sanders, Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations. You may begin.

Erin Sanders

Thank you, operator and good morning, everyone. Welcome to Piedmont Lithium’s third quarter 2023 earnings call. Joining us today from Piedmont Lithium are; Keith Phillips, President and Chief Executive Officer, who will provide the introductory remarks. Michael White, Chief Financial Officer, will then review our financial results, followed by Patrick Brindle, Chief Operating Officer, who will offer an update on our project. Keith will then provide closing commentary before we transition to a live Q&A session.

As a reminder, today’s discussion will contain forward-looking statements relating to future events and expectations that are subject to various assumptions and caveats. Factors that may cause the company’s actual results to differ materially from these statements are included in today’s presentation, earnings release and in our SEC filings.

In addition, we have included non-GAAP financial measures in this presentation. Reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures can be found in today’s earnings release and the appendix to today’s slide presentation. Please note, that references to shipments are lithium concentrate and metric tons are dry metric tons. Copies of our earnings release and presentation will be available on our website at piedmontlithium.com.

With that, I’ll turn the call over to Keith Phillips. Keith?

Keith Phillips

Thanks, Erin and thank you, all for joining us today for Piedmont Lithium’s very first earnings call. Q3 2023 has been transformational for Piedmont on many levels. First and foremost, seven years since our founding, we are transitioning from an explorer to a developer to become a lithium supplier and generated our first revenue, huge milestones. I’ll note that this is our first earnings call, we will take a little time throughout the discussion to provide some background for those who are newer to the Piedmont’s story.