National Vision Holdings, Inc.

good day and thank you for standing by welcome to the q1 2026 national vision holdings earnings conference call at this time all participants are in a listen-only mode please be advised that today's conference is being recorded after the speaker's presentation there will be a question and answer session to ask a question please press star 1 1 on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced to withdraw your question please press star 1 1 again I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Tamara Gonzalez, Head of Investor Relations.

Tamara Gonzalez Thank you and good morning, everyone.

Welcome to National Vision's first quarter 2026 earnings call. Joining me on the call today are Alex Wilkes, CEO, and Chris Layden, CFO. Our earnings release issued this morning and the presentation accompanying our call are both available in the Investors section of our website. A replay of the audio webcast will be archived in the investor section after the call. Before we begin, let me remind you that our earnings materials in today's presentation include forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from our expectations and projections. These risks and insurgencies include, but are not limited to, the factors identified in the release and our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The release in today's presentation also includes certain non-GAAP measures. Reconciliation of these measures is included in our release and the supplemental presentation. We would like to draw your attention to slide two in today's presentation for additional information about forward-looking statements and non-GAAP measures. As a reminder, National Vision provides investor presentations and supplemental materials for investor reference in the investor section of our website. I will now turn the call over to Alex. Alex?