Holley Schmidt
Assistant Controller
Replay available
Chemed Corp (NYSE: CHE) Q2 2026 earnings conference call, held 2026-07-29. Replay captured from the company's public earnings webcast.

Assistant Controller
President and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
President and Chief Executive Officer, ChemEd VITAS Healthcare Corporation
Analyst, RBC Capital Markets
Analyst, Bank of America
Thank you for standing by and welcome to ChemEd Corporation's second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. Currently, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star 1 1 on your telephone. To remove yourself from the queue, you may press star 11 again. I would now like to hand the call over to Holley Schmidt, Assistant Controller. Please go ahead. Good morning. Our conference call this morning will review the financial results for the second quarter of 2026 and June 30th, 2026. Before we begin, let me remind you that the safe harbor provisions of the Private Security Litigation Reform Act of 1995 applied to this conference call. During the course of this call, the company will make various remarks concerning management's expectations, predictions, plans, and prospects that constitute forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those projected by these forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of factors, including those identified in the company's news release of July 28 and in various other filings with the SEC. Your caution that any forward-looking statements reflect management's current view only and that the company undertakes no obligation to revise or update such statements in the future. In addition, management may also discuss non-GAAP operating performance results during today's call, including earnings before interest taxes, depreciation and amortization or EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA. A reconciliation of these non-GAAP results is provided in the company's release dated July 28th, which is available on the company's website at chemmed.com. I would now like to introduce our speakers f...