Waste Management, Inc. (WM) CEO James Fish on Q4 2021 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE:WM) Q4 2021 Earnings Conference Call February 2, 2022 10:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Edward Egl - Senior Director of IR
James Fish - President and Chief Executive Officer
John Morris - Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Devina Rankin - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Noah Kaye - Oppenheimer
Jerry Revich - Goldman Sachs
Tyler Brown - Raymond James
Kevin Chiang - CIBC Capital Markets
Michael Hoffman - Stifel
Kyle White - Deutsche Bank
Hamzah Mazari - Jefferies
Walter Spracklin - RBC Capital Markets
Sean Eastman - KeyBanc Capital Markets
David Manthey - Baird
Michael Feniger - Bank of America

Operator

Good day, and thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Waste Management, Inc. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions]. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. [Operator Instructions].

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

Edward Egl

Thank you, Faith. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us for our fourth quarter 2021 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, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. You will 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 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