Stepan Company (SCL) Q4 2025 Earnings Call

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Good morning and welcome to the Steppen Company fourth quarter and full year 2025 earnings conference call. During the presentation, all participants will be in the listen-only mode. Afterwards, we will conduct a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star 1 1 on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star 1 1 again. As a reminder, This call is being recorded on Monday, February 23rd, 2026. It is now my pleasure to turn the call over to Mr. Ruben Velazquez, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Stepan Company. Mr. Velazquez, please go ahead. Thanks, Didi. Good morning and thank you for joining Stepan Company's fourth quarter and full year 2025 financial review. Before we begin, please note that information in this conference call contains forward-looking statements, which are not historical facts. These statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially, including but not limited to prospect of our foreign operations, global and regional economic conditions, and factor details in our securities and exchange commission filings. In addition, this conference call will include discussions of adjusted net income, adjusted EBITDA, and free cash flow, which are non-GAAP measures. We provide reconciliations to the compatible GAAP measures in the earnings presentations and press release, which we have made available at www.stepan.com under the investor section of our website. Whether you are joining us online or over the phone, we encourage you to review the investor slide presentation. We make these slides available at approximately the same time as when the earnings release is issued. a...