H&R Block, Inc.

in our block's first quarter fiscal year 2026 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star 11 on your telephone. To remove yourself from the queue, you may press star 11 again. I would now like to hand the call over to Jessica Hazel, Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Thank you. Good afternoon and welcome to H&R Block's Fiscal 2026 First Quarter Financial Results Conference Call. Joining me today are Jeff Jones, our President and Chief Executive Officer, Tiffany Mason, our Chief Financial Officer, and Curtis Campbell, our CEO-elect and current President of Global Consumer Tax and Chief Product Officer. Earlier today, we issued a press release and presentation which can be downloaded or viewed live on our website at investors.hrblock.com. Our call is being broadcast and webcast live, and a replay of the webcast will be available for 90 days. Before we begin, I'd like to remind listeners that comments made by management may include forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities laws. These statements involve material risk and uncertainties, and actual results could differ from those projected in any forward-looking statement due to numerous factors. For a description of these risks and uncertainties, please see H&R Block's annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q as updated periodically with our other SEC filings. Please note some metrics we'll discuss today are presented on a non-GAAP basis. We've reconciled the comparable GAAP and non-GAAP figures in the appendix of our presentation. Finally, the content of this call contains time-sensitive information, accurate only as of today, November 6, 2025, H&R Block undertakes no obligation to revise or otherwise update any statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this call. I will now turn it over to Jeff.

Thank you, Jessica. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us. I'm going to kick us off with a few opening comments and highlight some of our plans for the upcoming tax season. Tiffany will then provide details on our Q1 performance and outlook for fiscal year 2026. Curtis will share some observations on the business, and then I'll come back to wrap the call before Q&A. We are off to a strong start to fiscal 26, and I'm pleased to see the early results in several areas of our business, assisted consumer tax, small business tax, and WAVE. At this time of year, teams are putting finishing touches on our tax season plans considering the successes and key learnings from last year. At the top of the list continues to be the work of the marketing team to strengthen how we communicate our consumer and small business value propositions, our approach to personalization and management of the funnel. The retail and DIY teams are focused on capturing the demand created by marketing by eliminating customer experience friction and managing more clients through to conversion. SecondLook, AI TaxAssist, TaxProReview, and Spruce are key products that deliver great value to clients and help distinguish block, and will all play important roles in our tax season plans. With this context, I'll turn it over to Tiffany to provide detail on our first quarter performance, capital allocation priorities, and her fiscal 2026 outlook.