Belden, Inc. (BDC) CEO John Stroup on Q1 2019 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Belden, Inc. (NYSE:BDC) Q1 2019 Earnings Conference Call May 1, 2019 8:30 AM ET

Company Participants

Kevin Maczka - Vice President, Treasurer and Investor Relations
John Stroup - President, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman
Henk Derksen - Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Noelle Dilts - Stifel
Matt McCall - Seaport Global Securities
Shawn Harrison - Longbow Research
Timothy Sweetnam - Goldman Sachs
Paul Chung - JPMorgan

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to this morning's Belden Incorporated Conference Call. Just as a reminder, this call is being recorded. At this time, you are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions]

I would now like to turn the conference over to Kevin Maczka. Please go ahead sir.

Kevin Maczka

Thank you, Molly. Good morning everyone and thank you for joining us today for Belden's first quarter 2019 earnings conference call. My name is Kevin Maczka; I'm Belden's Vice President, Treasurer, and Investor Relations. With me this morning are John Stroup, President, CEO, and Chairman; and Henk Derksen Belden's CFO. John will provide a strategic overview of our business and then Henk will provide a detailed review of our financial and operating results followed by Q&A.

We issued our earnings release earlier this morning and we have prepared a slide presentation that we will reference on this call. The press release, presentation, and transcript of these prepared remarks are currently available online at investor.belden.com.

Turning to slide 2 in the presentation, during this call, management will make certain forward-looking statements in reliance upon the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. For more information, please review today's press release and our Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Additionally, during today's call, management will reference adjusted or non-GAAP financial information. In