Barbara Rentler | Chief Executive Officer |
Travis Marquette | Group Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer |
Michael Hartshorn | Group President & Chief Operating Officer |
Lorraine Hutchinson | Bank of America |
Mark Altschwager | Baird |
Kate Fitzsimons | RBC Capital Markets |
Tracy Kogan | Citigroup |
Kimberly Greenberger | Morgan Stanley |
Adrienne Yih | Barclays |
Mike Baker | Nomura |
Matthew Boss | JPMorgan |
Charles Grom | Gordon Haskett |
Jay Sole | UBS |
Bob Drbul | Guggenheim |
Ike Boruchow | Wells Fargo |
Laura Champine | Loop Capital |
Alexandra Walvis | Goldman Sachs |
Michael Binetti | Credit Suisse |
Marni Shapiro | Retail Tracker |
Dana Telsey | Telsey Advisory Group |
John Kernan | Cowen |
Jamie Merriman | Bernstein |
Good afternoon, and welcome to the Ross Stores First 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, including store openings and reopenings and other matters that are based on the 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.