Jeff Holy | Westlake Chemical Corp. |
Albert Yuan Chao | Westlake Chemical Corp. |
Mark Steven Bender | Westlake Chemical Corp. |
Stephen Byrne | Bank of America Merrill Lynch |
Bhavesh Lodaya | BMO Capital Markets (United States) |
Kevin W. McCarthy | Vertical Research Partners LLC |
Neel Kumar | Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC |
P.J. Juvekar | Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. (Broker) |
James Sheehan | SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc. |
Hassan I. Ahmed | Alembic Global Advisors LLC |
Arun Viswanathan | RBC Capital Markets LLC |
Dylan Campbell | Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC |
David I. Begleiter | Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. |
Aleksey Yefremov | Nomura Instinet |
Matthew Blair | Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Securities, Inc. |
John Roberts | UBS Securities LLC |
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Westlake Chemical Corporation's First Quarter 2018 Earnings Conference Call.
During the presentation, all participants will be in a listen-only mode. After the speakers' remarks, you will be invited to participate in a question-and-answer session.
As a reminder, ladies and gentlemen, this conference is being recorded today, May 3, 2018.