Earnings Call Excerpt
Hickory Technology Corp. (HTCO)
Q4 2008 Earnings Call
March 4, 2009 10:00 am ET
Executives
John W. Finke – Chief Executive Officer, President
David A. Christensen – Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer
Jennifer Spaude – Director of Investor & Public Relations
Presentation
Operator
Welcome to the fourth quarter 2008 Hickory Tech earnings conference call. (Operator Instructions). I would now like to turn the presentation over to your host for today’s call Director of Investor and Public Relations, Jennifer Spaude.
Jennifer Spaude
Thank you for joining Hickory Tech’s fourth quarter earnings conference call. Our earnings release was issued yesterday afternoon and is available on our website at hickorytech.com. This conference call will cover the financial results of Hickory Tech for the fourth quarter and full year 2008. Please note that there is also a slide presentation that accompanies today’s call, which is posted on the investor relations section of our website. For those of you viewing the presentation, you will see our Safe Harbor statement on slide two.
Before we begin, I’d like to remind you as a Safe Harbor that this conference call and webcast may contain certain statements that are not historical facts but are forward-looking in nature. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about the industry in which Hickory Tech operates and management’s beliefs and assumptions as of the time of this call.
Such forward-looking statements are subject to uncertainties that could cause Hickory Tech’s future actual results to differ materially from such statements. You’re cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of they were made, which is Wednesday, March 04, 2009.
These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks, uncertainties and probabilities, which are difficult to predict. There are many such risks and uncertainties which could affect the company, our industry and our company, in particular some or all, which could affect future results. Therefore, actual outcomes and results might differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements, which whether as a result of new information future events or otherwise.
Before making any investment decision about our company, we encourage you to review the company’s most recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and Hickory Tech’s annual report or Form 10-K, which will be filed tomorrow, and includes descriptions of many of these uncertainties and risk factors. These reports are available on our website on the investor relations page.
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