Badger Meter, Inc.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Q4 2024 BadgerMeter earnings conference call. After the prepared remarks, there'll be an opportunity to ask questions. If you'd like to participate in the Q&A, you can do so by pressing star followed by one on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, today's conference is being recorded. It's 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 fourth quarter and full year 2024 earnings conference call. On the call with me today are Ken Bockhorst, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Bob Rockledge, Chief Financial Officer, and Barb Noverini, Senior Director of Investor Relations. Please note that the earnings release and related slide presentation are available on our website. Quickly, I'll 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. With that, I'll turn the call over to Ken.

Thanks, Karen, and thank you all for joining our call. We capped off another record year with strong fourth quarter results across sales, operating profit, earnings per share, and cash flow metrics. We also announced today the acquisition of Smart Cover. We're excited about incorporating their sewer and lift station monitoring offerings into our blue edge suite of tailorable solutions. I'll talk more about the acquisition, provide a recap of the year, and discuss our outlook later in the call. For now, I'll turn it over to Bob to go through the details of the quarter.