Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. (LECO) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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Greetings and welcome to the Lincoln Electric 2026 First Quarter Financial Results Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute and this call is being recorded. It is my pleasure to introduce your host, Amanda Butler, Vice President of Investor Relations and Communications. Thank you. You may begin. Thank you, Kathleen, and good morning, everyone. Welcome to Lincoln Electric's first quarter 2026 conference call. We released our financial results earlier today, and you can find our release and this call's slide presentation at lincolnelectric.com in the investor relations section. Joining me on the call today is Steve Hedlund, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Gabe Bruno, our Chief Financial Officer. Following our prepared remarks, we're happy to take your questions. But before we start our discussion, please note that certain statements made during this call may be forward-looking and the actual results may differ materially from our expectations due to a number of risk factors and uncertainties which are provided both in our press release and in our SEC filings on Forms 10-K and 10-Q. And in addition, we do discuss financial measures that do not conform to U.S. GAAP. A reconciliation of non-GAAP measures to the most comparable GAAP measure is found in the financial tables in our earnings release, which again is available in the investor relations section of our website at lincolnelectric.com. And with that, I'll turn the call over to Steve Hedlund. Steve? Thank you, Amanda. Good morning, everyone. Turning to slide three, we achieved solid results led by record quarterly sales and adjusted EPS performance while also navigating heightened operating complexity from geopolitics and evolving trade negotiations. Teamwork exemplified our success this quarter...