Burlington Stores, Inc.

Hello everyone and welcome to Burlington Stores Inc. First Quarter 2025 Earnings Call. Please note that this call is being recorded. After the speaker's prepared remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you'd like to ask a question during that time, please press star followed by 1 on your telephone keypad. Thank you. I'd now like to hand the call over to David Glick, Group Senior Vice President, Investor Relations and Treasurer. You may now begin, sir.

Thank you, Operator, and good morning, everyone.

We appreciate everyone's participation in today's conference call to discuss Burlington's fiscal 2025 first quarter operating results. 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 June 5th, 2025. We take no responsibility for inaccuracies that may appear in transcripts of this call by third parties. Our remarks in 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 and in our filings with the SEC, all of which are expressly incorporated herein by reference. Please note that the financial results and expectations we discuss today are in a continuing operations basis. Reconciliations of the non-GAAP measures we discuss today to GAAP measures are included in today's press release. As a reminder, as indicated in this morning's press release, all profitability metrics discussed in this call exclude costs associated with bankruptcy acquired leases. These pre-tax costs amounted to $6 million each during the fiscal first quarters of 2025 and 2024. Now, here's Michael.