Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE:WM) Q2 2024 Earnings Conference Call July 25, 2024 10:00 AM ET
Company Participants
Ed Egl - Senior Director, IR
Jim Fish - President and CEO
John Morris - EVP and COO
Devina Rankin - EVP and CFO
Tara Hemmer - SVP and CSO
Conference Call Participants
Tyler Brown - Raymond James
Hilary Leon - Morgan Stanley
Jerry Revich - Goldman Sachs
Noah Kaye - Oppenheimer
Bryan Burgmeier - Citi
Kevin Chen - CIBC
James Schumm - TD Cowen
Stephanie Moore - Jefferies
Brian Butler - Stifel
Sabahat Khan - RBC
Operator
Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to WM's Second Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are on a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions]. Please note that today's conference is being recorded.
I will now hand the conference over to speaker host, Ed Egl, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.
Ed Egl
Thank you, Livia. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us for our second quarter 2024 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 have filed a Form 8K that includes the earnings press release and is available on our website at www.wm.com. In addition, we have published a supplemental presentation with additional information elaborating on the strategic rationale for the company's planned acquisition of Stericycle. The supplemental presentation is