ESCO Technologies Inc. (NYSE:ESE) Q1 2024 Earnings Conference Call February 8, 2024 5:00 PM ET

Company Participants

Kate Lowrey - Vice President of Investor Relations

Bryan Sayler - President & Chief Executive Officer

Chris Tucker - Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Tommy Moll - Stephens

John Franzreb - Sidoti & Company

Jonathan Tanwanteng - CJS Securities

Operator

Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the First Quarter 2024 ESCO Technologies Earnings Call. At this time all participants are in a listen only mode. After the speaker's presentation there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. On the call today we have Bryan Sayler, President and CEO; Chris Tucker, Senior Vice President and CFO.

And now, I would like to hand the conference over to our first speaker today, Kate Lowrey, Vice President of Invest Relations. Kate, you now have the floor.

Kate Lowrey

Thank you. Statements made during this call, which are not strictly historical, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Federal Securities Laws. These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions and actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements due to risks and uncertainties that exist in the company's operations and business environment, including, but not limited to, the risk factors referenced in the company's press release issued today, which will be included as an exhibit to the company's Form 8-K to be filed. We undertake no duty to update or revise any forward-looking statements except if may be required by applicable laws or regulations.

In addition, during this call, the company may discuss some non-GAAP financial measures in describing the company's operating results. A reconciliation of these measures to the most comparable GAAP measures can be found in the press release issued today and found on the company's website at www.escotechnologies.com under the link Investor Relations.

Now, I'm going to turn the call over to Bryan.

Bryan Sayler

Thanks, Kate, and thanks to everyone for joining today's call. We really appreciate you taking time to get an update from ESCO this afternoon. We had a good start to the year, but before I talk to you about that, I would like to take a moment to thank one of our Directors who has retired this week. We had meetings with our Board over the last few days, and that represented the last time that Jim Stolze will participate as one of our Directors. Jim served on our Board for 25 years, and he really had a tremendous impact at that time. Jim came to the Board with deep financial experience, and ESCO really benefited that from adamantly over the years. He has a great mind for business and most importantly always operating with a high-level of integrity. His contributions to ESCO are too numerous to recall here. But suffice it to say that we are all going to miss him. So we offer our sincere thanks to Jim for his many years of service and wish him all the best in retirement.