Edgewell Personal Care Company (EPC) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Good morning and welcome to Edgewell's second quarter fiscal year 2026 earnings call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key on your telephone keypad. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star, then 1 on your telephone keypad. To withdraw your question, please press star and then 2. Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Chris Goff, Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us this morning for Edgewell's second quarter fiscal year 2026 earnings call. With me this morning are Rod Little, our President and Chief Executive Officer, and Fran Weissman, our Chief Financial Officer. Rod will kick off the call and then hand it over to Fran to discuss our second quarter 2026 results. and full year fiscal 2026 outlook. We will then transition to Q&A. This call is being recorded and will be available via replay on our website, www.edgewell.com. During this call, we may make statements about our expectations for future plans and performance. This might include future sales, earnings, advertising and promotional spending, product launches, brand investment, organizational and operational structures and models, cost mitigation, and productivity efficiency efforts, savings and costs related to restructuring and repositioning actions, acquisitions, dispositions and integrations, impacts from tariffs and other recent developments, such as the conflict in the Middle East, changes to our working capital metrics, currency fluctuations, commodity costs, energy and transportation costs, inflation, category value,...