California Water Service Group (NYSE:CWT) Q3 2024 Results Conference Call October 31, 2024 11:00 AM ET

Company Participants

James Lynch - Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Martin Kropelnicki - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Greg Milleman - Vice President of Rates and Regulatory Affairs

Conference Call Participants

Jonathan Reeder - Wells Fargo

Operator

Thank you for standing by. My name is Kathleen, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the California Water Service Group Third Quarter 2024 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions]. After the speaker's remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions].

And now I would like to turn the call over to Jim Lynch, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Please go ahead, sir.

James Lynch

Thank you, Kathleen. Welcome, everyone, to our third quarter 2024 results call for California Water Service Group. With me today is Marty Kropelnicki, our Chairman and CEO; and Greg Milleman, Vice President of Rates and Regulatory Affairs.

Replay dial-in information for this call can be found in our quarterly results earnings release. which was issued earlier today. The replay will be available until December 30, 2024. As a reminder, before we begin, the company has a slide deck to accompany today's earnings call. The slide deck was furnished with an 8-K and is also available at the company's website at www.calwatergroup.com.

Before looking at third quarter 2024 results, I'd like to take a few moments to address forward-looking statements. During the course of the call, the company may make certain forward-looking statements. Because these statements deal with future events, they are subject to various risks and uncertainties, and actual results could differ materially from the company's current expectations.

As a result, the company strongly advises all current shareholders as well as interested parties to carefully read and understand the company's disclosures on risks and uncertainties found in our Form 10-K, Form 10-Qs, press releases and other reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. And now I'll turn the call over to Marty.

Martin Kropelnicki

Thanks, Jim. Good morning, everyone, and happy Halloween. We're happy you can join us here today. I'm very pleased to share with you our results for the third quarter of 2024. There's really 5 main topics that we want to cover today.

The first one being our strong third quarter financial performance that continues to benefit from the regulatory release date of California. We want to give an update on the 2024 general rate case, where during the quarter, we had our initial preconference and we've been assigned an administrative law judge and a commissioner to oversee our case.