Belden Inc. (BDC) CEO John Stroup on Q2 2019 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Belden Inc. (NYSE:BDC) Q2 2019 Results Conference Call July 31, 2019 8:30 AM ET

Company Participants

Kevin Maczka - Vice President, Treasurer and Investor Relations
John Stroup - President, CEO and Chairman
Henk Derksen - CFO
Roel Vestjens - Chief Operating Officer

Conference Call Participants

Noelle Dilts - Stifel
Matt McCall - Seaport Global Securities
Shawn Harrison - Longbow Research
Mark Delaney - Goldman Sachs
William Stein - SunTrust

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to this morning's Belden Incorporated Conference Call. Just 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, Ebony. Good morning, everyone. And thank you for joining us today for Belden's second 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 Belden's President, CEO and Chairman, John Stroup; CFO, Henk Derksen; and Chief Operating Officer, Roel Vestjens. 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