John Ferriola | Chairman, President and CEO |
Jim Frias | Chief Financial Officer |
Joe Stratman | Chief Digital Officer |
Craig Feldman | Raw Materials |
Ladd Hall | Sheet and Tubular Products |
Ray Napolitan | Engineered Bar Products |
Dave Sumoski | Merchant Bar and Rebar Products |
Leon Topalian | Beam and Plate Products |
Chad Utermark | Fabricated Construction Products |
Matthew Korn | Goldman Sachs |
Martin Englert | Jefferies |
Chris Terry | Deutsche Bank |
Curt Woodworth | Credit Suisse |
Timna Tanners | Bank with America Merrill Lynch |
Phil Gibbs | KeyBanc Capital Markets |
Good day everyone and welcome to the Nucor Corporation First Quarter of 2019 Earnings Call.
As a reminder, today's call is being recorded. Later, we'll conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions will come at that time. Certain statements made during this conference call will be forward-looking statements that involve risk and uncertainties. The words 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.