Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) Q1 2024 Earnings Conference Call April 25, 2024 8:30 AM ET

Company Participants

Jim Umpleby - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Andrew Bonfield - Chief Financial Officer
Kyle Epley - Senior Vice President of the Global Finance Services Division
Rob Rengel - Senior Director of IR
Ryan Fiedler - Vice President of Investor Relations

Conference Call Participants

Tami Zakaria - JP Morgan
Michael Feniger - Bank of America
Jamie Cook - Truist Securities
David Raso - Evercore ISI
Rob Wertheimer - Melius Research
Chad Dillard - Bernstein
Jerry Revich - Goldman Sachs
Stephen Volkmann - Jefferies
Mig Dobre - Baird
Angel Castillo - Morgan Stanley
Kristen Owen - Oppenheimer
Nicole DeBlase - Deutsche Bank

Operator

Welcome to the First Quarter 2024 Caterpillar Earnings Conference Call. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Ryan Fiedler. Thank you. Please go ahead.

Ryan Fiedler

Thanks, Audra. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Caterpillar's first quarter of 2024 earnings call. I'm Ryan Fiedler, Vice President of Investor Relations. Joining me today are Jim Umpleby, Chairman and CEO; Andrew Bonfield, Chief Financial Officer; Kyle Epley, Senior Vice President of the Global Finance Services Division; and Rob Rengel, Senior Director of IR.

During our call, we'll be discussing the first quarter earnings release we issued earlier today. You can find our slides, the news release, and a webcast recap at investors.caterpillar.com under Events and Presentations. The content of this call is protected by U.S. and international copyright law. Any rebroadcast, retransmission, reproduction, or distribution of all or part of this content without Caterpillar's prior written permission is prohibited.

Moving to slide two. During our call today, we'll make forward-looking statements which are subject to risks and uncertainties. We'll also make assumptions that could cause our actual results to be different than the information we're sharing with you on this call.

Please refer to the recent SEC filings and the forward-looking statements reminder in the news release for details on factors that, individually or in aggregate, could cause our actual results to vary materially from our forecast. A detailed discussion of the many factors that we believe may have a material effect on our business on an ongoing basis is contained in our SEC filings. On today's call, we'll also refer to non-GAAP numbers. For a reconciliation of any non-GAAP numbers to the appropriate U.S. GAAP numbers, please see the appendix of the earnings call slides.