Q4 2019 Earnings Call

Call as Mr., Simon Moore, Vice President of Investor Relations.

Thank you Leann and good morning, everyone.

Welcome to air products fourth quarter 2019 earnings results teleconference. This assignment Moore, Vice President of Investor Relations I'm pleased to be joined today by safety, a semi our chairman president and CEO .

Scott Crocco, our executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and Sean Major our executive Vice President General Counsel and Secretary.

After our comments, we'll be pleased to take your questions.

Our earnings release and the slides for this call are available on our website at air products Dotcom.

This discussion contains forward looking statements. Please refer to the forward looking statement disclosure that can be found in our earnings release and on slide number two.

In addition throughout todays discussion, we will refer to various financial measures unless we specifically state otherwise we are referring to adjusted non-GAAP measures, including adjusted earnings per share.

Adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA margin on both a companywide and segment basis and our CE reconciliations can be found on our website in the relevant earnings release section.

Now Im pleased to turn the call over to safety.

Thank you Simon and good morning, everyone.

Thank you for taking time from your busiest schedule.

To be on our call today.

Beyond very pleased that our record fiscal year earnings per share of $8.21.

Please.

Since our fifth consecutive years of debt.

Digit earnings growth.

And our earning per share.

There are $2.27 for the quarter.