Burlington Stores, Inc.

Good morning. My name is Julianne, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to Burlington Store's second quarter fiscal 2022 operating results conference call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. If you require operator assistance at any time, please press star zero. I would now like to introduce David Glick, Group Senior Vice President, Investor Relations and Treasurer. Please go ahead.

Thank you, Operator, and good morning, everyone. We appreciate everyone's participation in today's conference call to discuss Burlington's fiscal 2022 second quarter operating results. Our presenters today are Michael O'Sullivan, our Chief Executive Officer, and John Crimmins, Principal Financial Officer. Also on the call today is Kristen Wolfe, EVP and Chief Financial Officer. Before I turn the call over to Michael, I would like to inform listeners that this call may not be transcribed, recorded, or broadcast without our express permission. A replay of the call will be available until September 1st, 2022. We take no responsibility for inaccuracies that may appear in transcripts of this call by third parties. Our remarks and the Q&A that follows are copyrighted today by Burlington Stores. Remarks made on this call concerning future expectations, events, strategies, objectives, trends, or projected financial results are subject to certain risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those that are projected in such forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include those that are described in the company's 10-K for fiscal 2021 and in other filings with the SEC. all of which are expressly incorporated here in reference. Please note that the financial results and expectations we discussed today are on a continuing operations basis. Reconciliations of the non-GAAP measures we discussed today to GAAP measures are included in today's press release. Now, here's Michael.

Thank you, David. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us. I would like to cover three topics this morning. Firstly, I will discuss our second quarter results. Then, I will review our outlook for the rest of the year.