Earnings Call Excerpt
StoneMor Partners, LP (STON)
Q3 2008 Earnings Call
November 10, 2008 10:00 am ET
Executives
Tim Yost - Vice President of Financial Reporting and Investor Relations
Lawrence Miller - Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer
Paul Waimberg - Vice President - Finance and Corporate Development
William R. Shane - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President, Director
Analysts
John Ransom - Raymond James & Associates
Napoleon Overton - Morgan, Keegan & Company, Inc.
[Tom Lim - Wapasa Research]
[Saul Lewis - Wapasa Research]
Melissa Jaffe - Merrill Lynch
Presentation
Operator
Welcome to the StoneMor Partners third quarter 2008 earnings call. During the presentation all participants will be in a listen-only mode. Afterwards we will conduct a question and answer session. (Operator Instructions) As a reminder, this conference is being recorded on November 10, 2008.
Your speakers for today are Tim Yost, Vice President of Financial Reporting and Investor Relations, Lawrence Miller, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Paul Waimberg, Vice President of Finance and Corporate Development. I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr. Yost.
Tim Yost
Statements made in this conference call and in our public filings, releases and websites which are not historical facts may be forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties and are subject to change at any time. We caution investors that any forward-looking statements made by us are not guarantees of future performance. We disclaim any obligation to update any such factors or to announce publicly as a result of any revisions to any of the forward-looking statements to reflect future events or other developments.
Furthermore, given the provisions of the SEC’s Regulation G which as you know limits our ability to provide non-GAAP financial information, we are only going to discuss non-GAAP financial information which is provided in the earnings release and is therefore reconciled with probably GAAP financial information. The full earnings release can be found on our website at www.stonemor.com.
I would now like to introduce Larry Miller, who will take over the call from here.
Lawrence Miller
Welcome to our third quarter 2008 conference call. As the operator mentioned, I’ll give some opening remarks and then Tim and Paul will give some more information and details. Bill Shane, our Chief Financial Officer, who’s usually our primary speaker is sitting here next to me but unfortunately is a little under the weather and is hoarse. So rather than have you suffer through trying to hear him talk at a whisper, we’ll handle the call and with Q&A if there’s anything that we can’t handle, Bill can write some notes and we can take care of that.
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