Waste Management, Inc. (WM) CEO James Fish on Q3 2019 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE:WM) Q3 2019 Results Earnings Conference Call October 23, 2019 10:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Ed Egl - Senior Director, IR
James Fish - President & CEO
John Morris - EVP & COO
Devina Rankin - SVP & CFO

Conference Call Participants

Brian Maguire - Goldman Sachs
Sean Eastman - KeyBanc Capital
Noah Kaye - Oppenheimer
Michael Hoffman - Stifel
Mark Neville - Scotiabank
Derek Spronck - RBC
Jeff Silber - BMO Capital Markets
Tyler Brown - Raymond James
Michael Feniger - Bank of America

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Third Quarter 2019 Earnings Release Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]

I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, speaker Ed Egl, Senior Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.

Ed Egl

Thank you, Nora [Ph]. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us for our third quarter 2019 earnings conference call. With me this morning are Jim Fish, President and Chief Executive Officer; John Morris, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer; and Devina Rankin, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

You'll hear prepared comments from each of them today. Jim will cover high-level financials and provide a strategic update, John will cover an operating overview, and Devina will cover the details of the financials.

Before we get started, please note that we have filed a Form 8-K this morning that includes the earnings press release and is available on our website at www.wm.com. The Form 8-K, the press release and the schedules to the press release include important information.

During the call, you will hear forward-looking statements which are based on current expectations, projections or opinions about future periods. Such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ