Gartner, Inc.'s (IT) CEO Gene Hall On Q1 2022 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT) Q1 2022 Earnings Conference Call May 3, 2022 8:00 AM ET

Company Participants

David Cohen - Senior Vice President, Investor Relations

Gene Hall - Chief Executive Officer

Craig Safian - Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Jeff Meuler - Baird

Toni Kaplan - Morgan Stanley

George Tong - Goldman Sachs

Trevor Romeo - William Blair

Heather Balsky - Bank of America

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Operator

00:02 Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Gartner’s First Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions]

00:25 I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, David Cohen, Gartner's SVP of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

David Cohen

00:41 Good morning, everyone. We appreciate you joining us today for Gartner's first quarter 2022 earnings call and hope you are well. With me on the call today are Gene Hall, Chief Executive Officer; and Craig Safian, Chief Financial Officer. This call will include a discussion of first quarter 2022 financial results and Gartner's updated outlook for 2022 as disclosed in today's earnings release and earnings supplement, both posted to our website, investor.gartner.com.

01:07 Following comments by Gene and Craig, we will open up the call for your questions. We ask that you limit your questions to one and a follow-up. On the call, unless stated otherwise, all references to EBITDA are for adjusted EBITDA, but the adjustments is described in our earnings release and the supplement. All growth rates in Gene's comments are FX-neutral, unless stated otherwise.

01:27 Reconciliations for all non-GAAP numbers we use are available in the Investor Relations section of the gartner.com website. Finally, all contract values and associated growth rates we discuss are based on 2021 foreign exchange rates unless stated otherwise.

01:41 As set forth in more detail in today's earnings release, certain statements made on this call may constitute forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements can vary materially from actual results and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including those contained in the company's 2021 annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, as well as in other filings with the SEC. I encourage all of you to review the risk factors listed in these documents.