EVOTF - Evotec SE (EVO) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript
2024-05-22 15:23:03 ET
Evotec SE (EVO)
Q1 2024 Earnings Conference Call
May 22, 2024 8:00 AM ET
Company Participants
Volker Braun - EVP Head of Global IR and ESG
Mario Polywka - Interim CEO
Laetitia Rouxel - CFO
Matthias Evers - Chief Business Officer
Craig Johnston - COO
Cord Dohrmann - Chief Scientific Officer
Conference Call Participants
Charles Weston - RBC Capital Markets
Thibault Boutherin - Morgan Stanley
Michael Ryskin - Bank of America
Peter Verdult - Citigroup Inc.
Ben Jackson - Jefferies
Falko Friedrichs - Deutsche Bank
Joseph Hedden - Rx Securities
Christian Ehmann - Warburg Research
Presentation
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Evotec SE Quarterly Statement Q1 2024 Conference Call. I am Sandra, the chorus call operator. I would like to remind you that all participants have been listen-only mode and the conference has been recorded. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session. [Operator Instructions]
The conference must not be recorded for publication or broadcast. At this time, it's my pleasure to hand over to Volker Braun. Please go ahead, sir.
Volker Braun
Thank you, Sandra, and good day, good morning to all of you in the call, the Q1 2024 results call. I trust you have seen the press release this morning, and we are happy to share more details with you today. Before we do that, it's my obligation to familiarize you with the cautionary language as outlined on page two. And with that, I would like to hand over to Mario Polywka, our Interim CEO. Please Mario, go ahead.
Mario Polywka
Thank you, Volker, and a very warm welcome to everyone on the call. The entire management team is present in this call with me and they will do the main update on the development of the first quarter and on the program we have initiated in resetting and right-sizing Evotec for future profitable growth.
So welcome, Laetitia, Matthias, Craig and Cord. I will spend a few moments on recapping the developments in Q1 before handing over to Laetitia and Matthias for the majority of the presentation. On Slide 6, we give a brief summary of our Q1 developments. Our business, like many of our peers, continues to operate in a challenging market environment. It is clear that the more differentiated our offering is, the better positioned we will be to grow our business in the future....
Evotec SE (EVO) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript