Barbara Smith | Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer |
Mary Lindsey | Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |
Martin Englert | Jefferies & Company |
Christopher Terry | Deutsche Bank |
Matthew Korn | Goldman Sachs |
Timna Tanners | Bank of America Merrill Lynch |
Hello, and welcome, everyone, to the first quarter fiscal 2019 earnings call for Commercial Metals Company. Today's call is being recorded. After the company's remarks, we will have a question-and-answer session and we'll have a few 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, US steel import levels, US construction activity, demand for finished steel products, the company's future operations, the company's future results of operations, the ability to realize the anticipated benefits of our acquisition of certain rebar assets from Gerdau S.A., the investment in our new micro mill in Durant, Oklahoma, and capital spending. These and other similar statements are considered forward-looking and may involve speculation and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from these expectations.