ALC - Alcon Inc. (ALC) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript
2024-05-14 10:48:08 ET
Alcon Inc. (ALC)
Q1 2024 Earnings Conference Call
May 14, 2024 8:00 AM ET
Company Participants
Dan Cravens - Vice President, Investor Relations
David Endicott - Chief Executive Officer
Tim Stonesifer - Chief Financial Officer
Conference Call Participants
Graham Doyle - UBS
Veronica Dubajova - Citi
Ryan Zimmerman - BTIG
Richard Felton - Goldman Sachs
Larry Biegelsen - Wells Fargo
Jack Reynolds-Clark - RBC Capital Markets
David Saxon - Needham & Co
Michael Sarcone - Jefferies
Brett Fishbin - KeyBanc Capital Markets
Anthony Petrone - Mizuho Group
Issie Kirby - Redburn Atlantic
Tom Stephan - Stifel
Presentation
Operator
Greetings, and welcome to the Alcon’s First Quarter 2024 Earnings Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A brief question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded.
It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Dan Cravens, Vice President of Investor Relations. Thank you, sir. You may begin.
Dan Cravens
Welcome to our Alcon’s first quarter 2024 earnings conference call. Today, we issued a press release and interim financial report and posted a supplemental slide presentation on our website to enhance today's call. You can find all these documents in the investor relations section of our website at investor.alcon.com.
Joining me on today's call are David Endicott, our Chief Executive Officer; and Tim Stonesifer, our Chief Financial Officer. Our press release, presentation, and discussion will include forward-looking statements. We expressly disclaim any obligation to update forward-looking statements as a result of new information or future developments, except as required by law. Our actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in our forward-looking statements. Accordingly, you should not place any undue reliance on any forward-looking statements.
Important factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those in our forward-looking statements are included in outcomes form 20-F and our earnings press release and interim financial report on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission and available on the SEC's website at sec.gov.
Non-IFRS financial measures used by the company may be calculated differently from and therefore may not be comparable to similar measures used at other companies. These non-IFRS financial measures should be considered along with, but not as alternatives to, the operating performance measures as prescribed per IFRS. Please see a reconciliation between our non-IFRS measures with directly comparable measures presented in accordance with IFRS and our public filings.
For discussion purposes, our comments on growth are expressed in constant currency. In a moment David will begin by recapping highlights from the first quarter. After his remarks, Tim will discuss our performance and outlook for 2024. Then David will wrap up and we will open the call for Q&A....
Alcon Inc. (ALC) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript