Valmont Industries, Inc. (VMI) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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Greetings. Welcome to Valmont Industries' first quarter 2026 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. We ask that you please limit yourself to one question and one brief follow-up question and return to the queue. Should anyone require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. Please note this conference is being recorded. I will now turn the conference over to your host, Renee Campbell, Senior Vice President, Capital Markets and Risk. Ms. Campbell, you may begin. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us. With me today are Abner Applebaum, President and Chief Executive Officer, John Schweitz, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and Eric Johnson, Chief Accounting Officer. Earlier this morning, we issued a press release announcing our first quarter 2026 results. Both the release and the presentation for today's webcast are available on the Investors page of our website at valmont.com. A replay of the webcast will be available later this morning. To stay updated with Valmont's latest news releases and information, please sign up for email alerts on our Investors site. We'll begin today's call with prepared remarks and then open it up for questions. Please note that this call is subject to our disclosure on forward-looking statements, which is outlined on slide two of the presentation and will be read in full after Q&A. With that, I'd now like to turn the call over to Avner. Thank you, Renee. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us. Turning to slide four, I'll start with a few key messages for the quarter. First, we delivered a strong start to the year with sales growth, ...