KAI - Kadant Inc. (KAI) Q4 2023 Earnings Call Transcript
2024-02-15 21:07:09 ET
Kadant Inc. (KAI)
Q4 2023 Earnings Conference Call
February 15, 2024, 11:00 AM ET
Company Participants
Michael McKenney - EVP and CFO
Jeffrey Powell - President and CEO
Conference Call Participants
Gary Prestopino - Barrington Research
Kurt Yinger - D.A. Davidson
Lawrence De Maria - William Blair
Walter Liptak - Seaport Research
Presentation
Operator
Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Fourth Quarter 2023 Kadant Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Again, please be advised that today's conference is being recorded.
I will now turn the conference over to your first speaker today, Michael McKenney, Executive Vice President and CFO. Please go ahead.
Michael McKenney
Thank you, Victor. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Kadant's fourth quarter and full year 2023 earnings call. With me on the call today is Jeff Powell, our President and Chief Executive Officer.
Before we begin, let me read our safe harbor statement. Various remarks that we may make today about Kadant's future plans and expectations, financial and operating results and prospects are forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause our actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including those outlined at the beginning of our slide presentation and those discussed under the heading Risk Factors in our annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, and subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
In addition, any forward-looking statements we make during this webcast represent our views and estimates only as of today. While we may elect to update forward-looking statements at some point in the future, we specifically disclaim any obligation to do so even if our views or estimates change.
During this webcast, we will refer to some non-GAAP financial measures. These non-GAAP measures are not prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures is contained in our fourth quarter and full year earnings press release and the slides presented on the webcast and discussed in the conference call, which are available in the Investors section of our website at www.kadant.com.
Finally, I wanted to note that when we refer to GAAP earnings per share or EPS and adjusted EPS on this call, we are referring to each of these measures as calculated on a diluted basis....
Kadant Inc. (KAI) Q4 2023 Earnings Call Transcript