Addus HomeCare Corporation (NASDAQ:ADUS) Q2 2024 Earnings Conference Call August 6, 2024 9:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Dru Anderson – Senior Partner-FINN Partners
Dirk Allison – Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Brian Poff – Chief Financial Officer
Brad Bickham – President and Chief Operating Officer

Conference Call Participants

Tao Qiu – Macquarie
Scott Fidel – Stephens
Brian Tanquilut – Jefferies
Jared Haase – William Blair
Joanna Gajuk – Bank of America
John Ransom – Raymond James
Andrew Mok – Barclays
Ben Hendrix – RBC Capital Markets
Ryan Langston – Cowen

Operator

Good day, and welcome to the Addus HomeCare's Second Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in a listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions] After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. [Operator Instructions] Please note, this event is being recorded.

I would now like to turn the conference over to Dru Anderson. Please go ahead.

Dru Anderson

Thank you. Good morning, and welcome to the Addus HomeCare Corporation second quarter 2024 earnings conference call Today's call is being recorded. To the extent, any non-GAAP financial measure is discussed in today's call, you will also find a reconciliation of that measure to the most directly comparable financial measure calculated according to GAAP by going to the company's website and reviewing yesterday's news release.

This conference call may also contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 including statements, among others, regarding Addus expected quarterly and annual financial performance for 2024 or beyond.

For this purpose, any statements made during this call that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Without limiting the foregoing, discussions of forecasts, estimates, targets, plans, beliefs, expectations and the like are intended to identify forward-looking statements.

You are hereby cautioned that these statements may be affected by important factors, among others, set forth in Addus filings with the SEC and in its second quarter 2024 news release. Consequently, actual operations and results may differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. The company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

I would now like to turn the call over to the company's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Dirk Allison. Please go ahead, sir.

Dirk Allison

Thank you, Dru. Good morning, and welcome to our 2024 second quarter earnings call. With me today are Brian Poff, our Chief Financial Officer; Brad Bickham, our President and Chief Operating Officer. As we do on each of our quarterly calls, I'll begin with a few overall comments and then Brian will discuss the second quarter results in more detail. Following our comments, the three of us would be happy to respond to any questions.