John Ferriola | Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer |
James Frias | Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer |
Martin Englert | Jefferies LLC |
Timna Tanners | Bank of America Merrill Lynch |
Christopher Terry | Deutsche Bank AG |
Matthew Korn | Goldman Sachs & Co., LLC |
Philip Gibbs | KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc. |
David Gagliano | BMO Capital Markets |
Good day, everyone, and welcome to the Nucor Corporation Second Quarter of 2019 Earnings Call.
As a reminder, today's call is being recorded. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions will be given at that time.
Certain statements made during this conference call will be forward-looking statements that involve risks 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.