Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) Q2 2024 Earnings Conference Call August 6, 2024 8:30 AM ET
Company Participants
Ryan Fiedler - Vice President of Investor Relations
James Umpleby - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Andrew Bonfield - Chief Financial Officer
Conference Call Participants
Chad Dillard - Bernstein
Jamie Cook - Truist Securities
Stephen Volkmann - Jefferies
Robert Wertheimer - Melius Research
David Raso - Evercore ISI
Michael Feniger - Bank of America
Jerry Revich - Goldman Sachs
Tami Zakaria - JP Morgan
Mircea Dobre - Baird
Kyle Menges - Citi
Steven Fisher - UBS
Angel Castillo - Morgan Stanley
Timothy Thein - Raymond James
Nicole DeBlase - Deutsche Bank
Operator
Welcome to the Second 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
Thank you, Audra, and good morning, everyone, and welcome to Caterpillar's second 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 US 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 2. 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 our 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 US GAAP numbers, please see the appendix of the earnings call slides.