Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE:KMB) Q2 2024 Earnings Conference Call July 23, 2024 8:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Chris Jakubik - Head-Investor Relations
Mike Hsu - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Nelson Urdaneta - Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Lauren Lieberman - Barclays
Dara Mohsenian - Morgan Stanley
Nik Modi - RBC Capital Markets
Javier Escalante - Evercore
Anna Lizzul - Bank of America
Andrea Teixeira - JPMorgan
Bonnie Herzog - Goldman Sachs

Operator

Good morning, and welcome to Kimberly-Clark's Second Quarter 2024 Earnings Question-and-Answer Session.

I'll now hand the conference over to Chris Jakubik, Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Chris Jakubik

Thank you, and hello, everyone. This is Chris Jakubik, Head of Global Investor Relations at Kimberly-Clark, and welcome to our Q&A session for our second quarter 2024 business update.

During our remarks today, we will make some forward-looking statements that are based on how we see things today. Actual results may differ due to risks and uncertainties, and these are discussed in our earnings release in our filings with the SEC. We will also make some non-GAAP financial measures today or discuss some non-GAAP financial measures today. And these non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered replacements for and should be read together with GAAP results. And you can find the GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliations within our earnings release and the supplemental materials posted at investor.kimberly-clark.com.

Before we begin, I'm going to hand it to our Chairman and CEO, Mike Hsu, to for a few quick opening comments.

Mike Hsu

Thank you, Chris. Before we jump into the Q&A, I would like to start by saying thank you to my colleagues at Kimberly-Clark, who are working diligently on the augmentation of our comprehensive innovation like growth strategy and delivered strong results for the first half. We're excited about the opportunity to accelerate investments to build our powerhouse categories and brands and our pipeline of innovation. We are effectively navigating external dynamics, while driving our consumer centric culture. We're making the company better, stronger and faster, and we are turbo charging our ability to provide better care to consumers around the globe.

I'm very proud of our progress to date. It bolsters our confidence in delivering our outlook for the year, and our ability to ramp-up our investments to further leverage our core strengths and achieve our potential. We are on an exciting path, and I'm -- and are well-positioned to deliver durable growth and sustainable shareholder returns.