Badger Meter, Inc.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Badger Meter second quarter 2021 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's remarks, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star 1 on your telephone. If you would like to withdraw your question, press the pound key. As a reminder, today's conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to turn the conference over to Karen Bauer, Vice President of Investor Relations, Corporate Strategy and Treasurer. Please go ahead, Ms. Bauer.

Good morning, and thank you for joining the Badger Meter Second Quarter 2021 Earnings Conference Call. On the call with me today are Ken Bockhorst, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, and Bob Rockledge, Chief Financial Officer. The earnings release and related slide presentation are available on our website. Quickly, I will cover the safe harbor, reminding you that any forward-looking statements made during this call are subject to various risks and uncertainties, the most important of which are outlined in our press release and SEC filings. On today's call, we will refer to certain non-GAAP financial metrics. Our earnings slides provide a reconciliation of the GAAP to non-GAAP financial metrics used. Finally, during this call, we will refer to core results for various financial metrics, for example, core utility water sales. Core means a designated financial metric excluding the impact of the recent FCAN and ATI acquisitions. We believe this reference point is important for year-over-year comparability. With that, I'll turn the call over to Ken.

Thanks, Karen. And thank you for joining our second quarter earnings call. I couldn't be more pleased with the dedication and execution demonstrated by our team supporting our customers and delivering record sales in the face of widespread supply chain, inflation and logistics challenges. Our strong order momentum from the first quarter continued into the second. And even with that strong execution, our backlog reached another record high as we exited the second quarter. Our two water quality acquisitions, SCAN and ATI, delivered strong top-line performance above our expectations with solid EPS secretion. Overall, it was a great quarter, due in large part to the activity in the trenches day in and day out. I'll talk about the current environment and our outlook later in the call, but for now, let me turn the call over to Bob to go through the details of the quarter.