Ashland Inc. (ASH) Q1 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

Ashland Inc. (NYSE:ASH) Q1 2025 Earnings Conference Call January 29, 2025 9:00 AM ET

Company Participants

William Whitaker – VP, Finance and Director, IR
Guillermo Novo – Chair and CEO
Kevin Willis – CFO
Alessandra Faccin – SVP and GM, Life Sciences and Intermediates
Jim Minicucci – SVP and GM, Personal Care
Dago Caceres – SVP and GM, Specialty Additives

Conference Call Participants

Michael Sison – Wells Fargo
Chris Parkinson – Wolfe Research
John Roberts – Mizuho
David Begleiter – Deutsche Bank
Jeff Zekauskas – JPMorgan
Mike Harrison – Seaport Research Partners
Bhavesh Lodaya – BMO Capital Markets
Josh Spector – UBS

Operator

Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Ashland Inc. First Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that today’s conference is being recorded.

I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, William Whitaker. Please go ahead.

William Whitaker

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Ashland’s first quarter fiscal year 2025 earnings conference call and webcast. My name is William Whitaker, Ashland Investor Relations. Joining me on the call today are Guillermo Novo, Ashland Chair and CEO; Kevin Willis, Ashland CFO; and our business unit leaders, Alessandra Faccin; Jim Minicucci; and Dago Caceres.

Ashland released results for the quarter ended December 31, 2024 at approximately 5:00 PM Eastern Time yesterday, January 28. The news release issued last night was furnished to the SEC in a Form 8-K. During today’s call, we will reference slides that are currently being webcast on our website, ashland.com, under the Investor Relations section. We encourage you to follow along with the webcast during the call.

Please turn to Slide 2. As a reminder, during today’s call, we will be making forward-looking statements on several matters, including our financial outlook for full year fiscal 2025. These forward-looking statements