Howmet Aerospace Inc. (HWM) Q4 2021 Earnings Call

Investor webinar replay

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the HowMed Aerospace Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2021 Results Conference Call. My name is Natalia, and I will be your operator for today. As a reminder, today's conference is being recorded for replay purposes. I would now like to turn the conference over to your host for today, Paul Luther, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please proceed. Thank you. Thank you, Natalia. Good morning and welcome to the HowMed Aerospace fourth quarter and full year 2021 results conference call. I'm joined by John Plant, Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Ken Giacobi, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. After comments by John and Ken, we will have a question and answer session. I would like to remind you that today's discussion will contain forward-looking statements relating to future events and expectations. You can find factors that could cause the company's actual results to differ materially from these projections listed in today's presentation and earnings press release and in our most recent SEC filings. In addition, we've included some non-GAAP financial measures in our discussion. Reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures can be found in today's press release and in the appendix in today's presentation. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to John. Thanks, PT, and good morning, everyone. Let's move to slide four. First, let me frame the quarter for you. The environment was challenging with the new variant of Omicron emerging today after Thanksgiving. Fortunately, once we take time to understanding the changing nature of the pandemic, we find that the virus appears to be weakening, albeit it's quite transmissible. Boeing also continued to test us with re...