Tractor Supply Company (TSCO) CEO Hal Lawton on Q2 2022 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Tractor Supply Company (NASDAQ:TSCO) Q2 2022 Earnings Conference Call July 21, 2022 10:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Mary Winn Pilkington - Senior Vice President, Investor and Public Relations

Hal Lawton - Chief Executive Officer

Kurt Barton - Chief Financial Officer

Seth Estep - Executive Vice President and Chief Merchandising Officer

Conference Call Participants

Elizabeth Suzuki - Bank of America

Steven Forbes - Guggenheim

Kate McShane - Goldman Sachs

Scot Ciccarelli - Truist

Chuck Cerankosky - Northcoast Research

Peter Keith - Piper Sandler

Zach Fadem - Wells Fargo

Jonathan Matuszewski - Jefferies

Chuck Grom - Gordon Haskett

Michael Lasser - UBS

Peter Benedict - Baird

Scott Mushkin - R5 Capital

Operator

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Tractor Supply Company’s Conference Call to Discuss Second Quarter 2022 Results. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that reproduction of this call in whole or in part is not permitted without written authorization of Tractor Supply Company. And as a reminder, this call is being recorded.

I would now like to introduce your host for today’s call, Mrs. Mary Winn Pilkington, Senior Vice President of Investor and Public Relations for Tractor Supply Company. Mary Winn, please go ahead.

Mary Winn Pilkington

Thank you, operator. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for taking the time to join us today and I hope everyone is having a great summer. On the call today are Hal Lawton, our CEO; Kurt Barton, our CFO. And after our prepared remarks, we will open the call up for your questions. Seth Estep, our EVP and Chief Merchandising Officer, will join us for the Q&A session. Please note that we have made supplemental slide presentation available on our website to accompany today’s earnings release.

Now, let me reference the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. This call may contain certain forward-looking statements that are subject to significant risks and uncertainties, including the future operating and financial performance of the company. In many cases, these risks and uncertainties are beyond our control. Although the company believes the expectations reflected in its forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations or any of its forward-looking statements will prove to be correct and actual results may differ materially from expectations. Important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in the forward-looking statements are included at the end of the press release issued today and in the company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The information contained in this call is accurate only as of the date discussed. Investors should not assume that statements will remain operative at a later time. Tractor Supply undertakes no obligation to update any information discussed in this call.