Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (WBA) CEO Stefano Pessina on Q4 2020 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (NASDAQ:WBA) Q4 2020 Earnings Conference Call October 15, 2020 8:30 AM ET

Company Participants

Gerald Gradwell - SVP, IR
Stefano Pessina - Executive Vice Chairman and CEO
James Kehoe - CFO
Alex Gourlay - Co-COO and President

Conference Call Participants

Justin Lake - Wolfe Research
Michael Cherny - Bank of America
George Hill - Deutsche Bank
Elizabeth Anderson - Evercore
Ricky Goldwasser - Morgan Stanley
Robert Jones - Goldman Sachs
Lisa Gill - JPMorgan

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. Fourth Quarter Earnings 2020 Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions]

I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Gerald Gradwell, Senior Vice President of Special Projects and Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.

Gerald Gradwell

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to our fourth quarter and fiscal year 2020 earnings call. On the call with me today are Stefano Pessina, our Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Walgreens Boots Alliance; James Kehoe, our Global Chief Financial Officer; and Alex Gourlay, Co-Chief Operating Officer of Walgreens Boots Alliance.

Before I hand you over to Stefano to make some opening comments, I will as usual take you through the legal Safe Harbor and cautionary declarations. Certain statements and projections of future results made in this presentation constitute forward-looking statements that are based on our current market, competitive, and regulatory expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to vary materially.

We undertake no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statement after this presentation, whether as a result of new information, future events, changes in assumptions, or otherwise.