Caterpillar, Inc. (CAT) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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Welcome to the First Quarter 2026 Caterpillar Earnings Conference Call. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Alex Capper. Thank you. Please go ahead. Thank you, Audra. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Caterpillar's First Quarter of 2026 Earnings Call. I'm Alex Capper, Vice President of Investor Relations. Joining me today are Joe Creed, Chairman and CEO, Andrew Bonfield, Chief Financial Officer Kyle Epley, Senior Vice President of the Global Finance Services Division and incoming CFO, and Rob Rangel, Senior Director of IR. During our call, we'll be discussing the first quarter earnings release we issued earlier today. You can find our slides, the news release, and a webcast recap at investors.caterpillar.com under Events and Presentation. The content of this call is protected by U.S. and international copyright law. Any rebroadcast, retransmission, reproduction, or distribution is Of all or part of this content without Caterpillar's prior written permission is prohibited. Moving to slide two, during our call today we'll make forward-looking statements which are subject to risks and uncertainties. We'll also make assumptions that could cause our actual results to be different than the information we're sharing with you on this call. Please refer to our recent SEC filings and the forward-looking statements reminder in the news release for details on factors that individually or in aggregate could cause our actual results to vary materially from our forecast. A detailed discussion of the many factors that we believe may have a material effect on our business on an ongoing basis is contained in our SEC filings. On today's call, we'll also refer to non-GAAP numbers. For recon...