Good morning! The 2026 annual meeting of the shareholders of UGI Corporation will now come to order. In an effort to enable shareholder participation from any location around the world, and to provide cost savings to UGI and its shareholders, we are again holding this year's annual meeting through this virtual format. I am Mario Longhi, Chair of the Board of Directors, and I will be presiding over this meeting. I would like to welcome all of you here today, and thank you for your support and interest in UGI. Jessica Milner, who has joined virtually, is Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, and Secretary of the company. She will act as secretary of this meeting.
If you are a shareholder of UGI Corporation and logged in using your unique 16-digit control number, you will find a link to the grant of proxy authority, the proxy statement, the annual report on Form 10-K, and the rules of conduct under the Meeting Materials section. We intend to follow the meeting agenda and rules of conduct in carrying out the business of this meeting. Let me now introduce our director nominees, all of whom are also current directors and who have joined virtually. In addition to myself, Bob Flexon, UGI's President and Chief Executive Officer. David Bingenheimer, Shawn Bort, Ted Dosch, Tina Faraca, Alan Harris, Kelly Romano, Melanie Kirkwood Ruiz, and Santiago Seage. In addition, we also have members of our management team who have joined virtually, including Sean O'Brien, our Chief Financial Officer, and Kathleen Shea Ballay, our General Counsel, Chief Legal Officer, and Chief Compliance Officer.
Also joining us virtually are Steve Petras, Rob Wilson, and Jenna Cole, the representatives of KPMG, the company's independent registered public accounting firm. I would now like to address some housekeeping matters. The notice of the annual meeting and the availability of the company's proxy materials were mailed beginning on December 17, 2025, to shareholders of record as of December 1, 2025. The business portion of this meeting will be brief. There will be no management presentation as we will host our first quarter earnings call on February 5, 2026, at 9 A.M. Eastern Time. Broadridge Financial Solutions was appointed as the judge of election by the board of directors. Broadridge is represented today by Lewis Larson.
I have been informed by Broadridge that more than a majority of the issued and outstanding shares of UGI common stock entitled to vote at this meeting are present in person or by proxy, and accordingly, a quorum is present to conduct the business of the meeting. Therefore, I declare that this meeting is legally convened. As described in detail in our proxy statement, there are three matters before this meeting for action by the shareholders. To summarize, three proposals are as follows: First, electing the 10 director nominees named in the proxy statement. Second, an advisory vote approving the compensation of UGI's named executive officers. Third, ratifying the selection of KPMG as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for 2026. The board recommends that the shareholders vote in favor of all three proposals.
At this time, we will respond to questions submitted by shareholders through the web portal in advance of the meeting, relating to items of business being voted at this meeting. It appears no questions have been submitted that relate to the items of business before shareholders at this meeting. For any questions that were not submitted in advance or do not relate to the items of business for this meeting, we will do our best to answer as many questions as possible at the end of this meeting. If any shareholder has additional questions, please contact UGI's Investor Relations Department. We are now ready for voting on the matters presented by the board of directors to be acted on at this meeting, and I declare the polls open for balloting. Anyone who desires to vote at the meeting, please click on the Vote Here button on the annual meeting website.
If you have already voted via the internet, telephone, or by filling in a proxy card, it would simplify the count if you do not use the Vote Here option, unless you wish to change your vote. I declare that the polls are closed. The vote has been tabulated, and I will now ask the secretary to summarize the results of voting.
Mr. Chairman, on the basis of the report of the Judge of Election, I declare on the first item, the election of the Board of Directors, all 10 director nominees were elected. On the second item, the proposal to approve the compensation paid to the company's Named Executive Officers was approved. On the third item, the appointment of KPMG as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal 2026 was ratified.
Thank you, Jessica. These results are subject to review and verification. The final results will be reported in a Form 8-K. The following will be filed with the records of the meeting: the notice of the meeting, the proxy statement, the form of proxy, the annual report, the affidavits of mailing and notice of meeting, the ballots, and the certificate of inspector of election. Thank you for your attendance. There being no further business to come before the meeting, the annual meeting of shareholders is now adjourned. Now we would like to open things up for shareholder questions and comments that were submitted just prior to the meeting, as well as those that we received today on the web portal. Please note, we will do our best to answer as many questions as possible.
If a shareholder has any additional questions, please reach out to the UGI Investor Relations team following the meeting. Please allow a few minutes in order for us to collect these questions. I will now turn the call over to Bob Flexon to answer your question.
Thank you again for participating in today's meeting. As there are no questions at this time, we will conclude our discussion. We invite you to listen to our fiscal 2026 first quarter earnings call on February 5 at 9:00 A.M. Eastern. We appreciate your engagement and look forward to meeting with you all again next year. Thank you.
Ladies and gentlemen, that concludes today's presentation. We do thank you for joining.
Goodbye.
You may now, you may now, disconnect your lines.