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10/29/2025
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to Sprout's third quarter 2025 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you would need to press star 1 1 on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star 1 1 again. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Suzanne Livingston, Vice President, Investor Relations and Treasury. Please go ahead.
Thank you, and good afternoon, everyone. We are pleased you are joining Sprouts on our third quarter 2025 earnings call. Jack Sinclair, Chief Executive Officer, Curtis Valentine, Chief Financial Officer, and Nick Konat, President and Chief Operating Officer, are with me today. The earnings release announcing our third quarter 2025 results, the webcast of this call, and financial slides can be accessed through the investor relations section of our website at investors.sprouts.com. During this call, management may make certain forward-looking statements, including statements regarding our expectations for 2025 and beyond. These statements involve double risks and uncertainties that could cause results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. For more information, please refer to the risk factors discussed in our SEC filings and the commentary on forward-looking statements at the end of our earnings release. Our remarks today include references to non-GAAP financial measures. Please see the tables in our earnings release for a reconciliation of our non-GAAP financial measures to comparable GAAP figures. With that, let me hand it over to Jack.
Thanks, Susannah, and good afternoon, everyone. In the third quarter, we delivered strong earnings growth, up 34% year-on-year, with a 5.9% comp and strong new store performance. Our results continue to be driven by our execution on the key pillars of our strategy. We saw an increase in customer traffic as we effectively engaged with our target customers, while our most differentiated and attribute-based products continued to drive sales as we continued to expand our store presence from sea to shining sea. In addition, our ongoing inventory management improvements in supply chain contributed to the expansion of our EBIT margin. Together, these achievements demonstrate the strength of our teams and the durability of our strategy. While it was a solid third quarter, it fell short of our top-line expectations. As the quarter progressed, our comp sales moderated faster than expected as we came up against challenging year-on-year comparisons, as well as signs of a softening consumer. As we look ahead, the investments we have made provide us with levers to manage our business and deliver earnings growth. Today, we'll walk you through our performance highlights, update you on our strategic initiatives, and share how we're positioning Sprouts for the rest of 2025 and beyond. I want to thank the team for their ongoing commitment to supporting our customers on their health journey. For now, I'll hand it over to Curtis to review our third quarter financial results, as well as our updated 2025 outlook. Curtis?
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