Align Know-how, Inc. (ALGN) Presents at Piper Sandler thirty seventh Annual Healthcare Convention Transcript

Operator

Good morning. Thanks all for coming. Clock simply ticked to eight a.m. So let me be the primary particular person to welcome you to Piper’s thirty seventh Annual Healthcare Convention. If you’re on this room, you’re a consumer of our agency. So clearly, they are not all right here. However I might wish to thanks very a lot for what you are promoting and your partnership. We clearly could not do it with out you.

It is my pleasure to introduce John Morici, the CFO, and Align Know-how and Jason Bednar as Senior Analyst and Managing Director at Piper Sandler. Gents?

Jason Bednar
Piper Sandler & Co., Analysis Division

Thanks, Jim. Sure, welcome everybody, and glad to have you ever all right here. I am actually completely happy to kick off the the convention right here with John. John, we had been simply speaking and we have had a whole lot of interactions right here simply within the final 24 hours on the dental convention yesterday and likewise dinner final evening. I feel I am going to begin in all probability the identical means I began every of these this time we talked with, I feel, what’s very pertinent for lots of buyers proper now, the U.S. shopper. It is in all probability a quite common query you get.

The latest shopper confidence numbers did not look nice. I feel we’re additionally going to have somewhat little bit of a vacuum simply with authorities information right here. However what are you seeing? I imply do you suppose that shopper proper now could be steady. Is the patron underneath stress? How are you seeing issues with respect to the U.S. macro setting and the patron you are promoting into?