Toro Company (The)

Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Toro Company's first quarter earnings conference call. My name is Jonathan, and I will be your coordinator for today. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. We will be facilitating a question and answer session towards the end of today's conference. If at any time you would like to queue up for a question, simply press star 11 on your telephone. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded for replay purposes. I would now like to turn the presentation over to your host for today's conference, Julie Kirkus, Treasurer and Senior Managing Director of Global Tax and Investor Relations.

Please proceed, Ms. Kirkus. Thank you and good morning, everyone.

Our earnings release was issued this morning, and a copy can be found in the investor information section of our corporate website, thetoralcompany.com. We have also posted a first quarter earnings presentation to supplement our earnings release and general investor presentation. On our call today are Rick Olson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Renee Peterson, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Angie Drake, Vice President, Finance, and Jeremy Steffen, Director, Investor Relations. We begin with our customary forward-looking statement policy. During this call, we will make forward-looking statements regarding our plans and projections for the future. This includes estimates and assumptions regarding financial and operating results, as well as economic, technological, weather, market acceptance, acquisition related, and other factors that may impact our business and customers. You are all aware of the inherent difficulties risks and uncertainties in making predictive statements. Our earnings release, as well as our SEC filings, detail some of the important risk factors that may cause our actual results to differ materially from those in our predictions. Please note that we do not have a duty to update our forward-looking statements. In addition, during this call, we will reference certain non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations of historical non-GAAP financial measures to reported GAAP financial measures can be found in our earnings release and on our website in our investor presentations, as well as in our applicable SEC filings. We believe these measures may be useful in performing meaningful comparisons of past and present operating results and cash flows to understand the performance of our ongoing operations and how management views the business. Non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered superior to or a substitute for the GAAP financial measures presented in our earnings release and this call. With that, I will now turn the call over to Rick.