Barbara Smith | Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer |
Paul Lawrence | Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |
Emily Chieng | Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. |
Timna Tanners | Wolfe Research, LLC |
Tristan Gresser | BNP Paribas Exane |
Philip Gibbs | KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc. |
Lawson Winder | Bank of America Merrill Lynch |
Alex Hacking | Citigroup |
Hello and welcome everyone to the Second Quarter Fiscal 2023 Earnings Call for Commercial Metals Company. Today's materials, including the press release and supplemental slides that accompany this call, can be found on CMC's Investor Relations website. Today's call is being recorded. And after the company's prepared remarks, we will have a question-and-answer session and we'll have instructions at that time.
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 economic conditions, effects of legislation, U.S.