Karen A. Fletcher | Illinois Tool Works, Inc. |
E. Scott Santi | Illinois Tool Works, Inc. |
Michael M. Larsen | Illinois Tool Works, Inc. |
Joe Ritchie | Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC |
Andrew Kaplowitz | Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. |
Ross Gilardi | Bank of America Merrill Lynch |
Ann P. Duignan | JPMorgan Securities LLC |
David Raso | Evercore ISI Group |
Nathan Hardie Jones | Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc. |
Andrew M. Casey | Wells Fargo Securities LLC |
Jamie L. Cook | Credit Suisse Securities (NYSE:USA) LLC |
Joel G. Tiss | BMO Capital Markets (United States) |
Steven Michael Fisher | UBS Securities LLC |
Walter Scott Liptak | Seaport Global Securities LLC |
Mircea Dobre | Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. |
Joseph John O'Dea | Vertical Research Partners LLC |
Welcome, and thank you for joining ITW's 2018 First Quarter Earnings Call. At this time all participants will be in a listen-only mode until the question-and-answer session of the call. Today's conference is being recorded. Any objections, you may disconnect at this time.
Now I'd like to turn over the meeting to Karen Fletcher, Vice President of Investor Relations.