Star Group L.P.

Good day and welcome to the STAR Group Fiscal 2026 Third Quarter Results Conference Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the STAR key followed by 0. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press STAR then 1 on your telephone keypad. To withdraw your question, please press STAR then 2. Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Chris Witty, Investor Relations Advisor. Please go ahead.

Thank you and good morning. With me on the call today are Jeff Woosnam, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Rich Ambury, Chief Financial Officer. I would now like to provide a brief safe harbor statement. This conference call may include forward-looking statements that represent the company's expectations and beliefs concerning future events that involve risks and uncertainties. It may cause the company's actual performance to be materially different Thank you very much. The company's annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2025, and the company's other filings with the SEC. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to the company or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements. Unless otherwise required by law, the company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, after the date of this conference call. And now I'd like to turn the call over to Jeff Woosnam. Jeff?

Thanks, Chris, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us to discuss our third quarter in fiscal year-to-date results. Our results this quarter in non-heating period largely reflected seasonal factors in net customer attrition, which was in line with prior year periods. While temperatures were moderately colder than last year, the volume of home heating oil and propane sold was actually lower given the more muted impact of additional degree days in the shoulder months of April and May. Operating costs were elevated in the period primarily due to higher insurance expense, which related to some adverse developments regarding certain claims. We continue to be encouraged by the ongoing improvement of our service and installation business, which delivered gross profit of $15.6 million in the quarter or $1.4 million higher than the prior year period. Our strategy of selling more value-added products and services to our existing clients while expanding our HVAC offering in select markets beyond our traditional customer base is beginning to take shape. It's exciting to see our employees, particularly our frontline service technicians and sales teams, truly embrace and become energized by these efforts. While we did not complete any acquisitions within the quarter, we recently closed in a small heating oil dealer after the end of the period. We are actively assessing several attractive businesses and remain very well positioned to take advantage of future opportunities as they are presented. As we've done in years past, we're utilizing the summer to strengthen our operations, streamline where appropriate, and prepare for the coming winter months. At the same time, we continue to invest in our service and installation business where we see further room for revenue growth and believe STAR remains in great shape and on track for strong financial performance in fiscal 2026. With that, I'll turn the call to Rich to provide additional comments on the quarter's results. Rich?