WESCO International, Inc. (WCC) Q1 2025 Earnings Call

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Hello and welcome to West Coast 2025 First Quarter Earnings Call. I'd like to remind you that all lines are in a listen-only mode throughout the presentation. If you would like to ask a question, please press star followed by one on your telephone keypad. Please note that this event is being recorded. I will now hand the call over to Mr. Scott Gaffner, SVP, Investor Relations, to begin. Thank you and good morning, everyone. Before we get started, I want to remind you that certain statements made on this call contain forward-looking information. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of performance, and by their nature are subject to certainties. Actual results may differ materially. Please see our webcast slides and the company's SEC filing for additional risk factors and disclosures. Any forward-looking information speaks only as of this date, and the company undertakes no obligation to update the information to reflect changed circumstances. Additionally, today, we will use certain non-GAAP financial measures. Required information on these measures is available on our webcast slides and in our press release, both of which you can find posted on our website at Wesco.com. On the call this morning, we have John Engel, Wesco's Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, and Dave Schultz, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Now I'll turn the call over to John. Thank you, Scott. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining our call today. We're pleased that our positive sales momentum in the fourth quarter last year carried into 2025, and that's with hosting 6% organic sales growth in the first quarter. This was ahead of our expectations coming into the year. Our total data center business was, again, the strong driver of our growth and was u...