Carriage Services, Inc.

Thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Care of Services Second Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. Please, the advice for today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Steve Mesker, President. Please go ahead,

sir. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us to discuss our

second quarter results. In addition to myself, on the call this morning for management are Carlos Quesada, Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, and John Enright, Chief Financial Officer. On the Care of Services website, you can find our earnings press release, which was issued yesterday after the market closed. Our press release is intended to supplement our remarks this morning and includes supplemental financial information, including the reconciliation of differences between GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures. Today's call will begin with formal remarks from Carlos and John and will be followed by a question and answer period. Before we begin, I'd like to remind everyone that during this call we'll make some forward-looking statements, including comments about our business, projections, and plans. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties and only reflect our views as of today. These risks and uncertainties include, that are not limited to, factors identified in our earnings release as well as in our SEC filings, all of which can be found on our website. Thank you all for joining us this morning, and now I'd like to turn the