EastGroup Properties, Inc. (NYSE:EGP) Q4 2023 Earnings Conference Call February 8, 2024 11:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Marshall Loeb - President & Chief Executive Officer

Keena Frazier - Director of Leasing Statistics

Brent Wood - Chief Financial Officer

Staci Tyler - Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer & Chief Administrative Officer

Conference Call Participants

Craig Mailman - Citibank

Jeff Spector - Bank of America

Alexander Goldfarb - Piper Sandler

Todd Thomas - KeyBanc Capital Markets

Bill Crow - Raymond James

Samir Khanal - Evercore

Vincent Tibone - Green Street

Ki Bin Kim - Truist

Michael Carroll - RBC Capital Markets

Jason Belcher - Wells Fargo

Ronald Kamdem - Morgan Stanley

Operator

Good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the EastGroup Properties' Fourth Quarter 2023 Earnings Conference Call and Webcast. At this time, all lines are in listen-only mode. Following the presentation, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] This call is being recorded.

I would now like to turn the conference over to Marshall Loeb, President and CEO. Please go ahead.

Marshall Loeb

Good morning and thanks for calling in for our fourth quarter 2023 conference call. As always, we appreciate your interest. Brent Wood, our CFO is also on the call. Since we'll make forward-looking statements, we ask that you listen to the following disclaimer.

Keena Frazier

Please note that our conference call today will contain financial measures such as PNOI and FFO that are non-GAAP measures as defined in Regulation G. Please refer to our most recent financial supplement and to our earnings press release, both available on the Investor page of our website and to our periodic reports furnished or filed with the SEC for definitions and further information regarding our use of these non-GAAP financial measures and a reconciliation of them to our GAAP results.

Please also note that some statements during this call are forward-looking statements as defined in and within the Safe Harbors under the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

Forward-looking statements in the earnings press release along with our remarks are made as of today and reflects our current views about the company's plans, intentions, expectations, strategies, and prospects based on the information currently available to the company and on assumptions it has made.

We undertake no duty to update such statements or mark whether as a result of new information, future, or actual events or otherwise. Such statements involve known and unknown risks uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to differ materially. Please see our SEC filings including our most recent annual report on Form 10-K for more detail about these risks.