Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (NYSE:APD) Q2 2024 Earnings Conference Call April 30, 2024 8:30 AM ET
Company Participants
Sidd Manjeshwar - Vice President of Investor Relations
Seifi Ghasemi - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer
Melissa Schaeffer - Chief Financial Officer
Samir Serhan - Chief Operating Officer
Conference Call Participants
John McNulty - BMO Capital Markets
Jeff Zekauskas - JPMorgan
Steve Byrne - Bank of America
David Begleiter - Deutsche Bank
Duffy Fischer - Goldman Sachs
Michael Leithead - Barclays
Marc Bianchi - TD Cowen
Vincent Andrews - Morgan Stanley
Kevin McCarthy - Vertical Research Partners
Patrick Cunningham - Citi
Chris Parkinson - Wolfe Research
Josh Spector - UBS
Laurence Alexander - Jefferies
Mike Sison - Wells Fargo
John Roberts - Mizuho
Operator
Good morning and welcome to Air Products' Second Quarter Earnings Release Conference Call. Today's call is being recorded at the request of Air Products. Please note that this presentation and the comments made on behalf of Air Products are subject to copyright by Air Products and all rights are reserved.
Beginning today's call is Mr. Sidd Manjeshwar, please go ahead.
Sidd Manjeshwar
Thank you, Katie. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Air Products' second quarter 2024 earnings results teleconference. This is Sidd Manjeshwar, Vice President of Investor Relations. I am pleased to be joined today by Seifi Ghasemi, our Chairman, President and CEO; Dr. Samir Serhan, our Chief Operating Officer; Melissa Schaeffer, our Chief Financial Officer; and Sean Major, our Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. After our comments, we will be pleased to take your questions. Our earnings release and the slides for this call are available on our website at airproducts.com.
Today's discussion contains forward-looking statements, including those about earnings and capital expenditure guidance, business outlook and investment opportunities. Please refer to the cautionary note regarding forward-looking statements that is provided in our earnings release and on Slide number 2. Additionally, throughout today's discussion, we will refer to various financial measures, including earnings per share, operating income, operating margin, EBITDA, EBITDA margin, the effective tax rate and ROCE both on a total company and segment basis. Unless we specifically state otherwise, statements regarding these measures are referring to our adjusted non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations of these measures to our most directly comparable GAAP financial measures can be found on our website in the relevant earnings release section.
Now with that, I'm pleased to turn the call over to Seifi.