Spire Inc.

Good day and welcome to Aspire's first quarter fiscal 2026 earnings conference call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star then one on your telephone keypad. To withdraw your question, please press star then two. Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Megan McPhail, Managing Director, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Good morning and welcome to SPIRE's fiscal 2026 first quarter earnings call. We issued an earnings news release this morning and you may access it on our website at spireenergy.com under newsroom. There's a slide presentation that accompanies our webcast which can be downloaded from our website. Before we begin, let me cover our safe harbor statement and use of non-GAAP earnings measures. Today's call, including responses to questions, may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Although our forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, there are various uncertainties and risk factors that may cause future performance or results to be different from those anticipated. These risks and uncertainties are outlined in our quarterly and annual filings with the SEC.

In our comments, We will be discussing non-GAAP measures used by management when evaluating our performance and results of operations. And in both our news release and slide presentation.