Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (NYSE:AWI) Q4 2023 Earnings Conference Call February 20, 2024 10:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Theresa Womble - Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications

Vic Grizzle - President and Chief Executive Officer

Chris Calzaretta - Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Garik Shmois - Loop Capital Markets

Philip Ng - Jefferies

John Lovallo - UBS

Susan Maklari - Goldman Sachs

Keith Hughes - Truist

Rafe Jadrosich - Bank of America

Stephen Kim - Evercore ISI

Kathryn Thompson - Thompson Research Group

Adam Baumgarten - Zelman & Associates

Operator

Thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Q4 and Full Year 2023 Armstrong World Industries Earnings Conference Call.

I would now like to welcome Theresa Womble, VP of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications to begin the call. Theresa, over to you.

Theresa Womble

Thank you, and good morning to everyone on our call. On today's call, Vic Grizzle, our CEO and Chris Calzaretta, our CFO, will discuss Armstrong World Industries' fourth quarter and full year 2023 results and 2024 outlook.

To accompany these remarks, we have provided a presentation that is available on the Investors section of the Armstrong World Industries website. Our discussion of operating and financial performance will include non-GAAP financial measures within the meaning of SEC Regulation G. A reconciliation of these measures with the most directly comparable GAAP measures is included in the earnings press release and in the appendix of the presentation issued this morning. Both are available on the Investors section of the website.

During this call, we will be making forward-looking statements that represent the view we have of our financial and operating performance as of today's date, February 20, 2024. These statements involve risks and uncertainties that may differ materially from those expected or implied. We provide a detailed discussion of the risks and uncertainties in our SEC filings, which include the 10-K filed earlier this morning. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement beyond what is required by applicable securities law.

I will now turn the call to, Vic.

Vic Grizzle

Thank you, Theresa, and welcome everyone to our call today. I'm delighted to have this opportunity to discuss our 2023 results and our expectations for 2024. For those of you who've been following us for a while, I'm sure you'll appreciate the sentiment of what a difference a year makes. We began 2023 with a rather cautious view as many did, with expectations of a negative market backdrop with high-levels of uncertainty, and in particular in the back half of the year.