K. Grassmyer
Thank you, Tom. As Tom mentioned, our teams have shown great discipline and resilience in responding to unprecedented uncertainty and challenges related to trade and tariff developments in the first half of the year. Despite these challenges, our teams were able to deliver top-line results within our previously issued guidance range and bottom-line results slightly above our previous issued guidance range for the second quarter. In the second quarter of fiscal 2025, consolidated net sales were $403 million compared to sales of $420 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2024 and near the midpoint of our guidance range of $395 million to $415 million. Sales in our full-price brick-and-mortar locations were down 6%, driven by a negative comp of 7%, partially offset by the addition of new store locations. Sales in our wholesale channel were down 6%, while e-commerce sales declined 2% and sales in our outlet locations decreased 4%. Sales in our food and beverage locations performed better than our other channels with modest sales growth year-over-year. Overall, we finished the second quarter of fiscal 2025 with a total company comp of negative 5%, which was in line with our guidance for the quarter. Notably, Lilly Pulitzer had another strong quarter. While total sales at Lilly Pulitzer were down modestly compared to the prior year, the decline was driven by lower sales in our wholesale channel, partially offset by a low single-digit positive comp. The positive comp sales at Lilly Pulitzer, along with positive comp sales and overall sales growth in our emerging brands businesses, helped offset the high single-digit negative comp at Tommy Bahama and low double-digit negative comp at Johnny Was that led to sales declines in both businesses. Adjusted gross margin contracted 160 basis points to 61.7%, driven by approximately $9 million of increased cost of goods sold from additional tariffs implemented in fiscal 2025, net of mitigation efforts, which was partially offset by improved gross margins during promotional events at Tommy Bahama, a change in sales mix with full-price retail and e-commerce sales representing a higher proportion of net sales at Lilly Pulitzer and Johnny Was and a change in sales mix with wholesale sales representing a lower portion of net sales. Without the impact of the incremental tariffs, our gross margins would have increased. Adjusted SG&A expenses increased 5% to $224 million compared to $213 million last year, with approximately $4 million or 40% of the increase due to increases in employment costs, occupancy costs and depreciation expense due to the opening of 26 net new brick-and-mortar retail locations, including 3 new Tommy Bahama Marlin Bars since the second quarter of fiscal 2024. This includes the 11 net new stores, including 2 Tommy Bahama Marlin Bars opened in the first half of fiscal 2025. We also incurred preopening expenses related to some planned new stores, including an additional Tommy Bahama Marlin Bars scheduled to open in the fourth quarter. The result of this yielded a $28 million adjusted operating profit or 7% operating margin compared to $57 million operating profit or 13.5% operating margin in the prior year. The decrease in adjusted operating income reflects the impact of our investments in a challenging consumer and macro environment. Moving beyond operating income. Our adjusted effective tax rate of 29.6% was higher than we anticipated due to certain discrete items, most notably from the unfavorable impact on tax expense related to the annual vesting of stock-based awards during the quarter, which occurs when the stock vests at a price lower than the price expensed for book purposes. Interest expense was $1 million higher compared to the second quarter of fiscal 2024, resulting from higher average debt levels. With all this, we ended with $1.26 of adjusted net earnings per share. I'll now move on to our balance sheet, beginning with inventory. During the second quarter of fiscal '25, inventory increased $27 million or 19% on a LIFO basis and $29 million or 13% on a FIFO basis as compared to the second quarter of 2024, with inventory increasing in all of our operating groups, except Johnny Was, primarily due to the impacts associated with the U.S. tariffs that were implemented in the first half of 2025, including accelerated purchases of inventory that were implemented to try to minimize the impact of potential pending tariff increases and $5 million of increased costs capitalized into inventory after the implementation of the tariffs. Notably, as the tariff situation has stabilized to a degree, at least compared to the beginning of the fiscal year, we expect our inventory levels to decrease during the remainder of the year, excluding any additional capitalized tariff cost as the need to accelerate inventory purchases subsides. We ended the quarter with long-term debt of $81 million compared to $118 million last quarter and $31 million at the end of fiscal 2024. Cash flow from operations provided $80 million in the first half of fiscal 2025 compared to $122 million in the first half of 2024, driven primarily by lower net earnings, changes in working capital needs, including accelerated inventory purchases and $15 million of expenditures related to implementation costs associated with cloud computing arrangements that are classified as operating cash outflows. We also had $55 million of share repurchases, capital expenditures of $55 million, primarily related to the Lyons, Georgia, distribution center project and the addition of new brick-and-mortar locations and $21 million of dividends that led to an increase in our long-term debt balance since the beginning of the year. I'll now spend some time on our updated outlook for 2025. Comp sales figures in the third quarter to date are positive in the low single-digit range, also consistent with our expectations. With comp sales figures in the second quarter and third quarter to date consistent with our previously provided guidance and several of the third quarter's most important events, including the Tommy Bahama Friends and Family sale behind us, we feel confident in affirming our previously issued guidance for the remainder of the year. Consistent with our previously issued guidance, we expect the trends of flat to modestly positive comp sales to continue for the remainder of the third quarter and for the fourth quarter. For the full year, net sales are expected to be between $1.475 billion and $1.515 billion, reflecting a decline of 3% to just slightly negative compared to sales of $1.52 billion in fiscal 2024. Our sales plan for the full year of 2025, consistent with our previously issued guidance, includes decreases in our Tommy Bahama and Johnny Was segments, driven primarily by negative comps. That decline is expected to be tempered by growth in our Lilly Pulitzer and Emerging Brands segments, driven by positive comps in new store locations. By distribution channel, the sales plan consists of low single-digit decrease in e-commerce and wholesale sales, partially offset by a low to mid-single-digit increase in our food and beverage channel that will benefit from the addition of 3 new Marlin Bar locations during the year. We expect flat sales in both full price retail and outlet channels with modest negative comps offset by the addition of approximately 15 net new locations during the year. For fiscal 2025, we continue to expect gross margin to contract by approximately 200 basis points, largely due to the impact of tariffs. With the recent tariff increases announced during the second quarter, including increased tariffs in countries like Vietnam and India that were included as part of our shift away from China, largely offset by the mitigation efforts we have undertaken, including accelerated inventory receipts and quickly shifting our sourcing network. Despite recent legal challenges, our current forecast is based on the assumption that these tariffs will remain in place for the remainder of the year. Based on current tariff policies and our historical 2024 sourcing patterns, we estimated a potential incremental tariff exposure of approximately $80 million in fiscal 2025 prior to any mitigation actions such as accelerated receipts, sourcing shifts, vendor concessions or price increases. By accelerating receipts and sourcing shifts, we were able to mitigate roughly half of this exposure. Through additional vendor concessions and select second-half price increases, our current annual guidance reflects a net tariff impact of approximately $25 million to $35 million or approximately $1.25 to $1.75 per share after tax. While tariffs represent the primary driver of margin contraction this year, we also expect continued promotional activity across our brands to weigh on margins as consumers remain highly responsive to value and deal-oriented shopping in the current environment. In addition to lower sales and gross margins, we expect SG&A to grow in the mid-single-digit range, primarily due to the impact of our recent and continued investments in our business, including the annualization of incremental SG&A from the 30 net new locations added during fiscal 2024 and incremental SG&A related to the addition of approximately 15 net new locations in fiscal 2025, including 3 new Tommy Bahama Marlin Bars, including the 2 opened in the first quarter and a third planned to open on the Big Island of Hawaii late this year. Also within operating income, we expect lower royalties and other income of approximately $1 million in fiscal 2025. Additionally, our fiscal 2025 guidance includes the unfavorable impact of nonoperating items, including $7 million of interest expense compared to $2 million in 2024 or an approximate $0.20 to $0.25 incremental EPS impact. Increased debt levels in fiscal 2025 are due to our continued capital expenditures on the Lyons, Georgia distribution center, technology investments and return of capital to shareholders exceeding cash flow from operations. We also expect a higher adjusted effective tax rate of approximately 25 -- excuse me, approximately 26% to 27% compared to 20.9% in 2024. The higher tax rate is primarily a result of a significant change in the impact that our annual stock vesting had on stock compensation expense in 2025 compared to 2024. We anticipate the higher tax rate will result in approximately $0.20 to $0.25 per share impact. Considering all these items, including the $1.25 to $1.75 impact from tariffs, higher interest expense and a higher tax rate, we still expect 2025 adjusted EPS to be between $2.80 and $3.20 versus adjusted EPS of $6.68 last year. In the third quarter, we expect sales of $295 million to $310 million compared to sales of $308 million in the third quarter of 2024. This primarily reflects a high single-digit decline in wholesale sales, offset by our flat to low single-digit positive comp assumption and the impact from noncomp stores. We also expect gross margin to contract approximately 300 basis points, primarily driven by increased tariffs and a higher proportion of net sales occurring during promotional and clearance events. SG&A to grow in the low to mid-single-digit range, primarily related to the new store locations, increased interest expense of $1 million, flat royalty and other income and an effective tax rate of approximately 25%. We expect this to result in third-quarter adjusted loss per share of between $1.05 and $0.85 compared to a loss of $0.11 in the third quarter of 2024. I will now discuss our CapEx outlook -- capital expenditure outlook for the remainder of the year, largely consistent with our prior guidance. We expect capital expenditures for the year to be approximately $121 million compared to a total of $134 million in fiscal 2024. The remaining capital expenditures relate to completing the new distribution center in Lyons, Georgia and the execution of our pipeline of new stores in Tommy Bahama Marlin Bars, including increases in store count across Tommy Bahama, Lilly Pulitzer, Southern Tide and the Beaufort Bonnet Company. We expect this elevated capital expenditure level to moderate significantly in 2026 and beyond after the completion of the Lyons, Georgia, project. Consistent with the seasonal nature of our business, we expect an increase in outstanding borrowings as we head into the third quarter, which is typically our smallest quarter of the year due to our lower net earnings during fiscal 2025, elevated levels of capital expenditures, share repurchases completed in the first half of 2025. Payment of our dividend and working capital needs, we expect to remain in a debt position for the remainder of the year. Thank you for your time today, and we will now turn the call over for questions. Julian?