Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE:WM) Q3 2024 Earnings Conference Call October 29, 2024 10:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Ed Egl - Vice President, IR
Jim Fish - President and Chief Executive Officer
John Morris - Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Devina Rankin - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Tara Hemmer - Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer

Conference Call Participants

Tyler Brown - Raymond James
Toni Kaplan - Morgan Stanley
Jerry Revich - Goldman Sachs
Noah Kaye - Oppenheimer
Kevin Chiang - CIBC
Trevor Romeo - William Blair
David Manthey - Baird
Konark Gupta - Scotiabank
James Schumm - TD Cowen
Tobey Sommer - Truist Securities
Sabahat Khan - RBC Capital
Stephanie Moore - Jefferies
Brian Butler - Stifel

Operator

Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to WM Third Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please note that today's conference is being recorded.

I will now hand the conference over to your speaker host, Ed Egl, Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Ed Egl

Thank you, Olivia. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us for our third quarter 2024 earnings conference call.

With me this morning are Jim Fish, President and Chief Executive Officer; John Morris, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer; and Devina Rankin, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. You will hear prepared comments from each of them today. Jim will cover high-level financials and provide a strategic update. John will cover an operating overview, and Devina will come into details of the financials.

Before we get started, please note that we have filed a Form 8-K that includes the earnings press release and is available on our website at www.wm.com. The Form 8-K, the press release and the schedules of the press release include important information.

During the call, you will hear forward-looking statements, which are based on current expectations, projections or opinions about future periods. We'll also be providing an updated outlook for 2024. This outlook does not include transaction and advisory costs incurred in connection with the acquisition of Stericycle nor post-closing financial contributions related to the planned acquisition of Stericycle.

All forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Some of these risks and uncertainties are discussed in today's press release and in our filings with the SEC including our most recent Form 10-K and Form 10-Qs. John will discuss our results in the areas of yield and volume, which unless stated otherwise, are more specifically references to internal revenue growth or IRG from yield or volume.