Upbound Group, Inc. (UPBD) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Upbound Group Q1 2026 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there'll be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you'll need to press star 11 on your telephone. You'll then hear an automated message advising that your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star 11 again. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your first speaker today, Stephen Koss of Upbound Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Good morning, and thank you all for joining to discuss the company's performance for the first quarter of 2026. We issued our earnings release this morning before the market opened, and the release and all related materials, including a link to the live webcast are available on our website at investor.upbound.com. On the call today from UpBound Group, we have Sami Khatam, our Chief Executive Officer, and Hal Khoury, our Chief Financial Officer. As a reminder, some of the statements provided on this call are forward-looking and are subject to factors that could cause actual results to differ materially and adversely from our expectations. These factors are described in our earnings release as well as in the company's most recent Form 10-K, upcoming Form 10-Q, and other SEC filings. Upbound Group undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements except as required by law. This call will also include references to non-GAAP financial measures. Please refer to today's earnings release, which can be found on our website. for a description of the non-GAAP financial measures and the reconciliations to th...