The AES Corporation (AES) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

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Hello everyone and a warm welcome to the AES Corporation fourth quarter and full year 2024 financial review call. My name is Emily and I'll be coordinating your call today. After the presentation, you will have the opportunity to ask any questions, which you can do so by pressing start followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. I will now hand over to Susan Harcourt, Vice President of Investor Relations to begin. Susan, you may begin. Thank you, Operator. Good morning and welcome to our fourth quarter and full year 2024 financial review call. Our press release, presentation, and related financial information are available on our website at aes.com. Today we will be making forward-looking statements. There are many factors that may cause future results to differ materially from these statements, which are disclosed in our most recent 10-K and 10-Q filed with the SEC. Reconciliations between GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures can be found on our website along with the presentation. Joining me this morning are Andres Gluski, our President and Chief Executive Officer, Steve Coughlin, our Chief Financial Officer, Ricardo Fallou, our Chief Operating Officer, and other senior members of our management team. With that, I will turn the call over to Andres. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining our fourth quarter and full year 2024 financial review call. Today I will cover our 2024 accomplishments, the resiliency of our business, and our 2025 guidance and longer-term outlook. Steve Coughlin, our CFO, will provide more details on our financial performance and expectation after my remarks. To say that we are extremely disappointed with our stock price performance is an understatement. Steve and I will address what we believe to be investors' concerns, inc...