Carnival Corporation Ltd. Common Shares (CCL) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Greetings, and welcome to the Carnival Corporation Q2 2026 earning results. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A brief question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Beth Roberts, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations. Thank you, Beth. Please go ahead. Thank you. Good morning, and welcome to our second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. I'm joined today by our CEO, Josh Weinstein, our CFO, David Bernstein, and our Chair, Mickey Arison. Before we begin, please note that some of our remarks on this call will be forward-looking. Therefore, I will refer you to today's press release and our filings with the SEC for additional information on factors and risks that could cause actual results to differ from our expectations. We will be referencing certain non-GAAP financial measures including yields, cruise costs without fuel, EBITDA, net income, and related statistics for all, which are on a net basis or adjusted as defined, unless otherwise stated. A reconciliation to U.S. GAAP is included in our earnings press release and our investor presentation. References to ticket prices, yields, and cruise costs without fuel are in constant currency unless we know otherwise. Please visit our corporate website where our earnings press release and investor presentation can be found. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Josh. Thanks, Beth. And good morning, everyone. Once again, we delivered another quarter of our performance, demonstrating the strong demand we have across our portfolio of world-class cruise lines, the...