Harley-Davidson, Inc. (HOG) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Thank you for standing by and welcome to the Harley-Davidson 2025 second quarter investor and analyst conference call. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to Sean Collins. Thank you. Please go ahead. Thank you. Good morning. This is Sean Collins, the Director of Investor Relations at Harley-Davidson. You can access the slides supporting today's call on the internet at the Harley-Davidson investor relations website. As you might expect, our comments will include forward-looking statements that are subject to risks that could cause actual results to be materially different. Those risks include, among others, matters we have noted in today's earnings release and in our latest findings with the SEC. Joining me for this morning's call are Harley-Davidson Chief Executive Officer Yogan Veitz, also Chief Financial Officer Jonathan Root, and we have LiveWire's Chief Executive Officer Kareem Dines. With that, let me turn it over to our CEO, Yogan Veitz. Yogan? Thank you, Sean. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining today's call. This morning, we're going to start with details on our HDFS transaction that were announced earlier today before moving on to the Q2 results. We're very pleased to share that we've entered into strategic partnerships with both KKR and PIMCO for HDFS after completing a rigorous selection process with over a dozen parties bidding for the HDFS business over three rounds. We've consistently spoken about the strategic and financial value of the HDFS business, and we are very excited to announce this transaction that clearly reinforces our view. On our first quarter call, we laid out four key objectives that any transaction involving HDFS would need to achieve, and I'm pleased t...