Six Flags Entertainment Corporation Common Stock New (FUN) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Hello and welcome to Six Flags Entertainment Corporation 2026 Second Quarter Earnings Call. Please note that this call is being recorded. After the speaker's prepared remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you'd like to ask a question during that time, please press star and then one on your telephone keypad. Thank you. I would now like to turn the call over to the Six Flags management for opening remarks. Please go ahead. Good morning. Welcome to Six Flags Entertainment Corporation's second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. I'm Michael Russell, Six Flags Head of Investor Relations. On the call today with me are John Reilly, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Ash Walia, Chief Financial Officer. Before we begin, I would like to remind everyone that certain statements made during this call may be forward-looking statements. These are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described. Please refer to our earnings release and SEC filings for a discussion of these risks. With that, I'll turn the call over to John. Thank you, Michael, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. In the second quarter, we made meaningful progress against the strategic priorities we established at the beginning of the year. improving our operating performance through the first half. Before reviewing those results, I want to clarify the basis of comparison we will use today. As defined in our earnings release, same park basis refers to the parks we operated during the full second quarter of 2026. Unless otherwise noted, our year over year comparisons measure those parks against the same parks in the second quarter of 2025. We believe this provides the clearest view of the business we manage today...