Q1 2019 Alcon AG Earnings Call Transcript
Good day and welcome to Alcon's First Quarter 2019 Trading Update Conference Call. (Operator Instructions) Please note, this event is being recorded.
I would like now to turn the conference over to Karen King, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations and Communications. Please go ahead.
Hello, everyone. We're very excited to be able to host our first conference call as an independent public company. For those of you that are new to Alcon, we were owned by Novartis during the first quarter of 2019. On April 9, we completed our spin-out under the ALC ticker with our stock trading on both the SIX Swiss Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange.
Today, we released select financial results for our first quarter 2019 trading update, which includes sales by business and core operating margins as well as quarterly financials for full year 2018 so you have a historical reference of Alcon's performance. As a foreign private issuer, or FPI, we will be providing a semiannual
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