Burlington Stores, Inc.

Hello and welcome to Burlington Stores Incorporated second quarter 2024 earnings webcast and conference call. Please note that everyone is joined on mute to avoid any background noise. You will have the opportunity to ask questions to our presenters later on during the Q&A session. If you'd like to ask a question by that time, please press star 1 on your telephone keypad. Thank you. I'd now like to turn the call over to David Glick. Group Senior Vice President, Treasurer, and Investor Relations. 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 2024 second quarter operating results. Unless otherwise indicated, our discussion of results for the 2024 second quarter exclude the impact of certain expenses associated with the acquisition of Bed Bath & Beyond leases. Our presenters today are Michael O'Sullivan, our Chief Executive Officer, and Kristen Wolfe, our 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 5, 2024. 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 2023 and in other filings with the SEC, all of which are expressly incorporated herein by 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. On this morning's call, we would like to discuss our second quarter results and our guidance for the rest of the year. Then we will be happy to respond to your questions. Okay, let's talk about our Q2 results. I'm going to start with total sales growth.