John Ferriola | Chairman, CEO, and President |
James Frias | CFO and EVP |
Chad Utermark | EVP, Fabricated Construction Products |
Martin Englert | Jefferies |
Curt Woodworth | Credit Suisse |
Timna Tanners | Bank of America Merrill Lynch |
Novid Rassouli | Cowen and Company |
Philip Gibbs | KeyBanc Capital Markets |
Good day everyone and welcome to the Nucor Corporation First Quarter of 2018 Earnings Call.
As a reminder, today's call is being recorded. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions will come at that time. Certain statements made during the conference call will be forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. The word we expect, believe, anticipate and variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify those forward-looking statements, which are based on management's current expectations and information that is currently available.