Wintrust Financial Corporation (WTFC) CEO Edward Wehmer on Q4 2019 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Wintrust Financial Corporation (NASDAQ:WTFC) Q4 2019 Results Conference Call January 22, 2020 11:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Edward Wehmer - Chief Executive Officer and President
David Dykstra - Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Dave Stoehr - Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Jon Arfstrom - RBC Capital Markets
Terry McEvoy - Stephens
Chris McGratty - KBW
Brock Vandervliet - UBS
David Chiaverini - Wedbush Securities
Michael Young - SunTrust

Operator

Welcome to Wintrust Financial Corporation's Fourth Quarter and Year-to-Date 2019 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions]

Following a review of the results by Edward Wehmer, Chief Executive Officer and President and David Dykstra, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, there will be a formal question-and-answer session.

During the course of today's call, Wintrust's management may make statements that constitute projections, expectations, beliefs or similar forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from the results anticipated or projected in any forward-looking statements. The company's forward-looking assumptions that could cause the actual results to differ materially from the information discussed during this call are detailed in our earnings press release and in the company's most recent Form 10-K and in the subsequent filings on file with the SEC.

Also, our remarks may reference certain non-GAAP financial measures. Our earnings press release and slide presentation include a reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measure to the nearest comparable GAAP financial measure. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded.

I will now turn the conference call over to Mr. Edward Wehmer.

Edward Wehmer

Thanks very much. Happy New Year, everybody. And welcome to our fourth quarter earnings call. With me, as always, are Dave Dykstra, our Chief Operating Officer; Kate Boege, our General Counsel; and Dave Stoehr, our CFO. We will go through the same format as usual, I'm going to give