Nordson Corporation (NASDAQ:NDSN) Q4 2024 Earnings Conference Call December 12, 2024 8:30 AM ET

Company Participants

Lara Mahoney - Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications
Sundaram Nagarajan - President and Chief Executive Officer
Daniel Hopgood - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Mike Halloran - Baird
Saree Boroditsky - Jefferies
Christopher Glynn - Oppenheimer
Matt Summerville - D.A. Davidson
Jeff Hammond - KeyBanc Capital Markets
Andrew Buscaglia - BNP
Walt Liptak - Seaport

Operator

Thank you for standing by and welcome to the Nordson Corporation Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2024 Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions]

I'd now like to turn the call over to Lara Mahoney, Vice President of Investor Relations and Corporate Communication. You may begin.

Lara Mahoney

Thank you. Good morning. This is Lara Mahoney, Vice President of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications. We welcome you to our conference call today, Thursday, December 12, 2024, to report Nordson's fiscal year 2024 fourth quarter and full year results. I'm here with Sundaram Nagarajan, our President and CEO; and Dan Hopgood, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

You can find both our press release as well as our webcast slide presentation that we will refer to during today's call on our website at www.nordson.com/investors. This conference call is being broadcast live on our investor website and will be available there for 14 days. There will be a telephone replay of the conference call available until December 19, 2024.

During this conference call, references to non-GAAP financial metrics will be made. A complete reconciliation of these metrics to the most comparable GAAP metric has been provided in the press release issued yesterday.

Before we begin, please refer to Slide 2 of our presentation, where we note that certain statements regarding our future performance that are made during this call may be forward-looking based upon Nordson's current expectations. These statements may involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors as discussed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission that could cause actual results to differ.

Moving to today's agenda on Slide 3, Naga will discuss third quarter highlights. He will then turn the call over to Dan to review sales and earnings performance for the total company and the three business segments. Dan also will talk about the year-end balance sheet and cash flow. Naga will conclude with high level commentary about our enterprise performance, including an update on the Ascend strategy, as well as our fiscal 2025 full year and first quarter guidance. We will then be happy to take your questions.