BEKAY - NV Bekaert SA (BEKSF) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript
2024-05-11 17:03:07 ET
NV Bekaert SA (BEKSF)
Q1 2024 Earnings Conference Call
May 8, 2024 03:00 AM ET
Company Participants
Guy Marks - Investor Relations
Yves Kerstens - Chief Executive Officer
Taoufiq Boussaid - Chief Financial Officer
Conference Call Participants
Frank Claassen - Degroof Petercam
Alexander Craeymeersch - Kepler
Presentation
Guy Marks
But good morning, everyone. Thank you so much for joining today's Q1 2024 trading update. I'll hand over very shortly to Yves and Taoufiq. But just before that, it's important to take you through the safe harbor statement.
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With that clear, I'd like to hand over to Yves. Thank you.
Yves Kerstens
So welcome on the trading day '24. So the year started solid for us with performance in line with our full year expectation. And today, myself and Taoufiq will give you some further color on this performance. So on the first quarter top line sales, we shipped €1.025 billion. This is compared to a very strong Q1 '23 down top line sales of 14%....
NV Bekaert SA (BEKSF) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript