Barbara Smith | President, CEO & Director |
Mary Lindsey | SVP & CFO |
Christopher Terry | Deutsche Bank |
Seth Rosenfeld | Jefferies |
Philip Gibbs | KeyBanc Capital Markets |
Charles Bradford | Bradford Research |
Matthew Korn | Goldman Sachs |
David Lipschitz | Macquarie Research |
Aldo Mazzaferro | Mazzaferro Research |
Ralph Atwell | Ascendiant Capital Markets |
Sean Wondrack | Deutsche Bank |
Hello, and welcome, everyone, to today's Commercial Metals Company First Fiscal Quarter of 2018 Earnings Call. Today's call is being recorded. [Operator Instructions]. I would like to remind all participants that during the course of this conference call, the company will make statements that provide information other than historical information and will include expectations regarding key macro economic drivers that impact our business, our margins, refinancing plans, the exit from our International Marketing and Distribution segment, the company's future operations, the company's planned new steel mill in Oklahoma, capital spending and the company's planned acquisition of certain U.S. rebar assets of Gerdau S.A.