Barbara Rentler | CEO |
Travis Marquette | Group SVP and CFO |
Michael Hartshorn | Group President and COO |
Matthew Boss | JPMorgan |
Mark Altschwager | Baird |
Lorraine Hutchinson | Bank of America |
Kimberly Greenberger | Morgan Stanley |
Janine Stichter | Jefferies |
Kate Fitzsimons | RBC Capital Markets |
Paul Lejuez | Citigroup |
Simeon Siegel | BMO Capital Markets |
Marni Shapiro | Retail Tracker |
Alexandra Walvis | Goldman Sachs |
Bob Drbul | Guggenheim |
Michael Binetti | Credit Suisse |
John Kernan | Cowen |
Laura Champine | Loop Capital |
Roxanne Meyer | MKM Partners |
Dana Telsey | Telsey Advisory Group |
Jamie Merriman | Bernstein |
Jay Sole | UBS |
Ike Boruchow | Wells Fargo |
Chuck Grom | Gordon Haskett |
Adrienne Yih | Barclays |
Good afternoon, and welcome to the Ross Stores Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2020 Earnings Release Conference Call. The call will begin with prepared comments by management, followed by a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Before we get started, on behalf of Ross Stores, I would like to note that the comments made on this call may contain forward-looking statements regarding expectations about future operations and financial results, store openings and re-openings and other matters that are based on the company's current forecast of aspects of its future business. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those statements and from historical performance or current expectations.
Additional information about related risk factors is included in today's press release and in the company's fiscal 2019 Form 10-K and fiscal 2020 Form 10-Q and 8-Ks on file with the SEC.