Shoe Carnival, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCVL) Q2 2025 Earnings Conference Call September 5, 2024 9:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Steve Alexander - Vice President, Investor Relations
Mark Worden - President and Chief Executive Officer
Carl Scibetta - Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Merchandising Officer
Patrick Edwards - Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary

Conference Call Participants

Mitchel Kummetz - Seaport Research
Jim Chartier - Monness & Crespi Hardt
Sam Poser - Williams Trading

Operator

Good morning, and welcome to Shoe Carnival's Second Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call. Today's conference call is being recorded and is also being broadcast via webcast. Any reproduction or rebroadcast of any portion of this call is expressly prohibited.

I would now like to turn or introduce Mr. Steve Alexander, with Shoe Carnival Investor Relations. Mr. Alexander, please go ahead.

Steve Alexander

Thank you, and good morning. Thanks for joining us today. Earlier this morning, we issued our earnings press release for the second quarter of 2024. If you need a copy of the release, it is available on our website in the Investors' section.

Joining me on today's call are Mark Worden, President and Chief Executive Officer of Shoe Carnival; Carl Scibetta, Chief Merchandising Officer; and Patrick Edwards, Chief Financial Officer.

Management's remarks today may contain forward-looking statements that involve a number of risk factors. These risk factors could cause the company's actual results to be materially different from those projected in such statements. Forward-looking statements should also be considered in conjunction with the discussion of risk factors included in the company's SEC filings and today's earnings press release.

Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of today's date. The company disclaims any obligation to update any of the risk factors or to publicly announce any revisions to the forward-looking statements, discussed on today's conference call or contained in today's press release to reflect future events or developments.

Today's call will reference non-GAAP measures. The non-GAAP measures or adjusted results reference exclude the purchase accounting, merger integration, and transaction costs related to the acquisition of Rogan's shoes. A reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results is included in this morning's release.

And with that, I'll hand the call over to Mark.

Mark Worden

Thank you, Steve, and good morning, everyone. I'd like to start today by congratulating our 6,000 team members on achieving a new sales record for the second quarter and on the comp sales growth delivered during our most important event of the year, the back-to-school season. Well done team. Based on these strong results, today we are raising our annual sales and EPS guidance ranges.