NASDAQ:LE Lands' End Q2 2027 Earnings Report $10.26 -0.03 (-0.29%) Closing price 09/17/2026 04:00 PM EasternExtended Trading$10.47 +0.21 (+2.01%) As of 09/17/2026 07:30 PM Eastern Extended trading is trading that happens on electronic markets outside of regular trading hours. This is a fair market value extended hours price provided by Massive. Learn more. ProfileEarnings HistoryForecast Lands' End EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.09Consensus EPS $0.09Beat/MissMissed by -$0.00One Year Ago EPSN/ALands' End Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$302.04 millionExpected Revenue$300.67 millionBeat/MissBeat by +$1.36 millionYoY Revenue GrowthN/ALands' End Announcement DetailsQuarterQ2 2027Date9/3/2026TimeBefore Market OpensConference Call DateThursday, September 3, 2026Conference Call Time8:30AM ETConference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptPress Release (8-K)Quarterly Report (10-Q)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfilePowered by Lands' End Q2 2027 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrSeptember 3, 2026ShareShareShare This ReportLink copied to clipboard.Key Takeaways Positive Sentiment: Second-quarter revenue rose 3% to $302 million, with U.S. e-commerce up 9% and Lands’ End Outfitters up approximately 4%. Gross margin improved roughly 320 basis points to 52%, aided by an IEEPA tariff refund. Positive Sentiment: Management highlighted momentum in bags, swim, sleepwear and key apparel franchises, while new-to-file customers grew double digits, supported by totes and swim. Collaborations with Wawa, TNT and Nantucket also increased social-channel traffic more than 30% year over year. Negative Sentiment: The new warehouse management system continued to weigh on results, particularly by delaying value-added school-uniform shipments and increasing backlog; adjusted EBITDA fell $4 million year over year to $11 million. Management says core U.S. e-commerce operations are normalized, but Outfitters is still working through backlog. Neutral Sentiment: Third-party marketplace revenue declined approximately 20% as the company prioritized higher-margin, less-promotional sales, although comparable gross margin improved more than 500 basis points. Europe revenue was essentially flat, but profitability improved through a more franchise-focused assortment. Negative Sentiment: Fiscal 2026 guidance now calls for revenue of $1.3 billion-$1.35 billion, adjusted EBITDA of $62 million-$70 million and adjusted EPS of $0.44-$0.72, incorporating current tariff rates and approximately $40 million in capital expenditures. Inventory was up 13% year over year and ABL borrowings increased to $60 million, despite reduced term debt following the WHP Global transaction. AI Generated. May Contain Errors.Conference Call Audio Live Call not available Earnings Conference CallLands' End Q2 202700:00 / 00:00Speed:1x1.25x1.5x2xTranscript SectionsPresentationParticipantsPresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Hello and welcome everyone joining today's Lands' End second quarter fiscal 2026 earnings call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, you will have the opportunity to ask questions during the question-and-answer session. To register to ask questions at any time, please press star one on your telephone keypad. Please note this call is being recorded. We are standing by if you should need any assistance. It is now my pleasure to turn the meeting over to Tom Altholz. Please go ahead. Tom AltholzSenior Director of Financial Planning and Analysis at Lands' End00:00:37Good morning, and thank you for joining us for a discussion of our second quarter fiscal 2026 results, which were released this morning and can be found on our website, landsend.com. I'm Tom Altholz, Lands' End Senior Director of Financial Planning and Analysis, and I'm pleased to join you today with Charlie Cole, our Chief Executive Officer, and Bernie McCracken, our Chief Financial Officer. After prepared remarks, we will conduct a question and answer session. Please also note the information we're about to discuss includes forward-looking statements. Such statements involve risk and uncertainties. The company's actual results could differ materially from those discussed on this call. Factors that could contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those items noted and included in the company's SEC filings, including our annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Tom AltholzSenior Director of Financial Planning and Analysis at Lands' End00:01:34The forward-looking information that is provided by the company on this call represents the company's outlook as of today, and we do not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements made by us. Subsequent events and developments may cause the company's outlook to change. During this call, we will be referring to non-GAAP measures. These non-GAAP measures are not prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures can be found in our earnings release issued earlier today, a copy of which is posted in the investor relations section of our website at landsend.com. With that, I'll turn the call over to Charlie. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:02:16Thank you, Tom, and good morning, everyone. I'm honored to be joining you for my first earnings call as CEO of Lands' End. I've spent my career leading digital and e-commerce companies through customer engagement and brand transformations, and I'm excited to be utilizing that experience to help unlock the next phase of growth for this iconic American brand. As you know, I joined the company on July 13th, and I've spent the past several weeks getting to know the company. Since then, I've been meeting with teams across the company, reviewing the business, and listening to customers to ensure a strong foundation to evaluate and execute on the right opportunities ahead. What I've found reinforces my confidence in the strength of this brand, loyalty of our customer base, and a strong culture that remains a genuine competitive advantage. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:03:06It's clear to me that the opportunity is significant, and we have strong strategic direction. The work now is ensuring the infrastructure is in place to support it. Put simply, Lands' End is a great business with tremendous opportunity ahead. With that, let me take you through the highlights of the quarter. Across the business, our teams made deliberate decisions on marketing spend, on customer acquisition, and on inventory, which we believe position us well for the back half of the year. The product portfolio had clear bright spots this quarter, continuing to leverage product solutions through our key franchises. Women's and men's apparel, especially knits, had a good quarter overall. Bags performance, led by our iconic five-pocket tote, was a meaningful driver of growth and new customer acquisition. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:03:52Our swim business continued to execute on owning the weather with high single-digit revenue growth in the U.S. e-commerce business in the quarter. The areas generating real momentum are the ones I'm most energized about. For example, totes remain one of our strongest new-to-brand acquisition tools, and value-added services like embroidery and personalization make the economics even more attractive. Our U.S. new-to-file customer count grew double digits, largely driven by totes and swim, demonstrating our continued ability to use accessories to reach new demographics. Sleepwear is a category we're excited to develop year-round, and early indicators are positive. Initial reads on outerwear and Christmas stockings are also encouraging, give us good initial visibility into Q3 and Q4. Beyond the product, our marketing activity in Q2 generated some real highlights. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:04:44Our collaborations with T&T and Wawa and our presence in Nantucket each put Lands' End in front of new and younger audiences in ways that felt authentic to who we are, driving real engagement across social platforms and building the kind of brand equity that compounds over time, not just immediate conversion. We were especially pleased with our Wawa collaboration, where our iconic tote to over 2.6 billion impressions, and more importantly, sold out in hours. These types of activations are driving a step change in our social media following. Of note, traffic across our social channels, including Instagram, increased over 30% year-over-year. While it is early in my tenure, I already see a meaningful opportunity to strengthen how we reach, engage, and convert customers. We have a strong data foundation and a loyal core customer base. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:05:34The opportunity is to use that foundation more effectively, including through more personalized marketing, better customer targeting, and greater efficiency at acquisition. We will pursue that work deliberately with the core Lands' End customer at the center of our strategy. Turning to inventory. Our inventory levels in the second quarter were higher than the prior year due to tariff uncertainty last year. Current year inventory is more representative of pre-2025 levels and is within our planned parameters. Include increases due to continued tariff headwinds and challenges processing value-added service orders with our new warehouse management system. Our U.S. e-commerce business increased 9% compared to Q2 2025, reflecting the recovery with the rollout of our new warehouse management system across our distribution centers in the first quarter. That issue has been addressed in our core U.S. e-commerce business, and we caught up with shipments by the end of the quarter. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:06:32In our third-party marketplace business, the standout was Nordstrom. The anniversary sale was a strong moment for the brand and our franchise categories, outerwear and Wanderweight in particular, continue to resonate in that channel. Across our marketplaces, we continue to pursue a disciplined strategy that emphasizes quality and higher margin sales over volume. In our Europe business, we made several deliberate pivots and the early results are encouraging. Revenue finished essentially flat, but our product margin performance was strong, reflecting the strategic choice to leverage key franchises to build the business for long-term success. This, paired with our successful efforts to reach new customers at lower costs and through more deliberately differentiated storytelling in our markets, give us confidence in the path ahead for our Europe business. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:07:22In addition to the improvement in profitability this quarter, Amazon Germany went live in August, and we are excited to leverage our global experience on Amazon with an entirely new customer. Turning to Lands' End Outfitters, our B2B business. Underlying demand was solid in the quarter, though revenue performance does not fully reflect that. Challenges in our value-added services related to our new warehouse management system and concentrated in B2B customers carried into Q2, which was not anticipated, and are reflected in our results. Revenue increased approximately 4% year-over-year, with strength in national accounts partially offset by warehouse management system challenges that impacted the timing of school uniform shipments. Within national accounts, the story is positive, with the enterprise segment up year-to-date by more than 15% versus last year, led by growth in our airline accounts. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:08:14We entered a new multi-year partnership with Delta Air Lines in the second quarter of fiscal 2025, and employee reception to the program was overwhelmingly positive. Today, Delta is in the wear testing phase of its Distinctly Delta uniform collection, with more than 1,400 frontline employees participating across the system. Feedback and insights from the wear test will be incorporated into final product refinements ahead of the planned second half 2027 rollout. Our school uniform business was impacted by challenges within our new warehouse management system related to processing value-added service products. As a result, shipments were delayed and backlog levels were significantly higher than the prior year, reducing revenue recognition during the quarter. Improving operations at Lands' End Outfitters is a priority. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:09:04We have and will continue to take action, including working to increase output capacity, improve efficiency in our production process, and prioritize shipment of orders to get ahead of customer timing dynamics. We continue to be encouraged by the early progress of our intellectual property joint venture with WHP Global. As previously disclosed, the JV amended several significant licensing agreements that are expected to generate more than $150 million of long-term guaranteed royalty value, reinforcing our confidence in the long-term growth opportunities created by the partnership. I'll now turn it over to Bernie to discuss our second quarter financial performance in more detail. Bernie McCrackenCFO at Lands' End00:09:44Thank you, Charlie. For the second quarter of 2026, total revenue was $302 million, an increase of 3% compared to the second quarter of last year. Our U.S. e-commerce business saw a sales increase of 9% compared to the second quarter of 2025. As Charlie discussed, the order backlog from the new warehouse management system challenges in the first quarter benefited Q2 and positively impacted results. We are confident that the warehouse management system issue has been addressed in our core U.S. e-commerce business. Our third-party marketplace business decreased approximately 20% as we continue to prioritize profitable, high-quality sales and brand integrity over lower margin promotional volume. While we saw a decline in revenue, our like for like gross margin compared to last year improved by over 500 basis points year-over-year, reflecting the benefits of our disciplined strategy by individual marketplace. Bernie McCrackenCFO at Lands' End00:10:58Sales from Lands' End Outfitters increased 4% from the second quarter of 2025. The increase was driven by our enterprise accounts, which more than offset the impact of the warehouse management system challenges in our school uniform business processing value-added service products. Sales in Europe increased 1% year-over-year, primarily driven by a strategic shift to a franchise first assortment that simplified the business and drove improved product margins. Gross profit increased by $14 million, or 10% compared to last year. Gross margin in the second quarter was 52%, an approximately 320 basis point improvement from the second quarter of 2025. The gross margin increase was primarily driven by the IEEPA tariff refund, partially offset by the new royalty structure associated with the JV and increased costs associated with our new warehouse management system. SG&A expenses increased by $6 million year-over-year. Bernie McCrackenCFO at Lands' End00:12:16As a percentage of net revenue, SG&A increased by approximately 80 basis points, primarily driven by investment in digital marketing and operational inefficiencies from the temporary disruption of the new warehouse management system. For the second quarter, we reported adjusted net income of $2.7 million, or $0.09 per share. We delivered adjusted EBITDA of $11 million in the second quarter, representing a year-over-year decrease of $4 million. The receipt of IEEPA tariff refunds was offset by the new royalty structure associated with the JV and the challenges in our new warehouse management system, processing value-added service products for school uniforms. Moving to our balance sheet. Inventories at the end of the second quarter were $342 million, up 13% compared to last year. Inventory levels increased largely due to the intentionally lean inventory position we held a year ago amid tariff uncertainty. Bernie McCrackenCFO at Lands' End00:13:29Inventory is more aligned with typical norms and our planned levels, including the impact of continued tariff headwinds. We remain confident in our holiday assortment and expect inventory to remain within typical levels. Turning to our debt. We ended the second quarter with $60 million in ABL borrowings, compared to $35 million last year. As discussed previously, we used the majority of the $300 million in cash proceeds from the WHP Global transaction to fully repay our term loan, leaving us with enhanced liquidity and significantly reduced interest payments. The remainder of the transaction consideration was used for transaction-related corporate expenses and taxes. As a reminder, in conjunction with the April 1st closing of the WHP Global transaction, our board authorized the repurchase of up to $100 million of common stock through March 31st, 2029. Bernie McCrackenCFO at Lands' End00:14:35During the second quarter, we repurchased approximately 900,000 shares for approximately $11 million, bringing the remaining balance of the authorization to $89 million as of the end of the quarter. Moving to guidance. Our guidance reflects the impacts of tariffs at current implemented rates, and we are continuing to execute mitigation measures to manage tariff headwinds for the remainder of fiscal 2026. For the third quarter of 2026, we expect net revenue of $300 million-$330 million, adjusted net income of $2 million-$6 million, and adjusted diluted earnings per share of $0.07-$0.20. Adjusted EBITDA in the range of $14 million-$18 million. For fiscal 2026, we now expect net revenue of $1.3 billion-$1.35 billion, adjusted net income of $13 million-$21 million, and adjusted diluted earnings per share of $0.44-$0.72. Bernie McCrackenCFO at Lands' End00:15:52Adjusted EBITDA in the range of $62 million-$70 million. Full year guidance incorporates approximately $40 million in capital expenditures. With that, I'll turn the call back over to Charlie. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:16:09Thank you, Bernie. I want to close by saying how encouraged I am by what I am seeing across this business. The brand has tremendous strength, and we believe the opportunities to unlock its full potential are clear. I also want to take a moment to welcome Jimmy Ferolo, who recently joined us as Chief Digital and Technology Officer. Jimmy brings a proven track record of driving digital transformation and customer-centric innovation across leading consumer brands, most recently at Solairus Aviation, and prior to that, at Singer and Maui Jim. His deep expertise in scaling e-commerce capabilities and elevating the customer experience will be instrumental as we move into the next chapter of growth for Lands' End. Martin Christopher, our former Chief Technology Officer, now reports to Jimmy, bringing strong continuity to our technological transformation. Jimmy's arrival is well-timed. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:17:01The focus right now is on tactical excellence to ensure we have the right infrastructure, technology, and customer acquisition capabilities in place heading into the peak holiday selling season. That includes meeting customer expectations on shipping and fulfillment and deepening personalization across our offerings. That work connects to something underappreciated about this business. Through decades of catalog and e-commerce engagement, we have built a foundation of owned customer data that few retailers can match. As we apply AI-powered capabilities across merchandising, marketing, and customer retention, proprietary data combined with AI-enabled execution becomes a competitive advantage that grows more valuable over time. I look forward to meeting many of you in the months ahead. What I can tell you is that my conviction in Lands' End and in this team is only growing. With that, we look forward to your questions. Operator00:17:59Thank you. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your keypad. To leave the queue at any time, press star two. Once again, that is star and one to ask a question. We will take our first question from Dana Telsey with Telsey Group. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Dana TelseyAnalyst at Telsey Group00:18:20Hi, good morning, everyone, and welcome, Charlie. Charlie, in your purview, as you think about the opportunities for Lands' End going forward and given your background, how do you see the enhanced execution, the involvement in technology, what happens with e-commerce? How does it fit the different categories, whether it is the e-commerce, international, Outfitters, third party, and obviously the new relationship with WHP Global? What is your North Star going forward? Then I have a quick question on just the here and now. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:18:54Dana, thank you so much for the welcome. I really appreciate that, and thank you for the question. This question is so far reaching because it involves a lot of buzzwords, so I am going to try to decouple them. My long-term vision for Lands' End is we are a modern AI engine that drives almost our entire customer experience. I want to unpack that a little bit. A modern AI engine can simultaneously evaluate so many things. I will start with focusing on the e-commerce side of things, and I will get into Lands' End Outfitters in Europe as well. It can evaluate a customer's purchase history, their browsing behavior, the weather, the geography, the search patterns, inventory availability, full price sell-through targets, category affinity, and it can evaluate all these things at the same time. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:19:49If you think about that, just processing power and where you would want to put that, you would start with e-commerce front-end, CRM messaging, marketing targeting, including catalog segmentation and creative personalization. It is not an exaggeration, Dana, to say that I want an AI engine that sits at the center of our customer experience and enables an experience that our customers have really never seen before. If you wanted pragmatic examples, if somebody who has shopped at Lands' End has exclusively shopped outerwear, they should have a very different experience than someone who is exclusively shopped swim. That doesn't mean we don't show back and forth, but it does mean we give them a personalized experience to optimize not only conversion, but lifetime value and frankly, net promoter score as well. That is equally applicable to Europe. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:20:40With Europe, we have to be aware of the realities of sort of the different data regulations, so we'd be thoughtful of that as well. With Lands' End Outfitters, it's actually the same answer, it's just with a different process. Because you think about our school business. That is fairly rhythmic. So time becomes a very obvious kind of input where we have to reach out to customers at the right time with the right message based on their school schedule. So that's a slight personalization that would allow us to give a much better experience. But it's not an exaggeration, Dana, to say from a technology perspective, we are going to build an AI infrastructure that gives us an e-commerce platform that will rival the best in the industry, and that's the core goal. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:21:25I'm happy to answer your follow-up question as well. Dana TelseyAnalyst at Telsey Group00:21:29Great. Thank you. Warehouse management system, I think which the second quarter also had some impacts. Is that complete now? Is there anything on the shaping of third and fourth quarter and how you're seeing it, whether from a margin perspective or a top-line perspective, how it differs this year from last year? Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:21:50On the warehouse management system topic, we are now running at normal operations, so it's caught up. We are now caught up on throughput. We are still working through a backlog, but operations are proceeding as normal at the same or higher levels than before the warehouse management system issues. It is also worth noting that there is more efficiency to unlock where we can actually put other infrastructure in place, but that will not happen till next year. But there is more efficiencies that will be unlocked as we can support the WMS with other software solutions as well. As it pertains to Q3 and Q4, we don't anticipate any effect on our guidance for the WMS, with the exception of the catch-up that will come out of the Lands' End Outfitters division. Dana TelseyAnalyst at Telsey Group00:22:37Got it. Then just the third quarter guide, anything to unpack there on the margin side and fourth quarter and remainder of expectations for tariffs? Thank you. Bernie McCrackenCFO at Lands' End00:22:50Yeah, Dana. Our guidance reflects the current levels of tariffs that are in place. There isn't really any other year-on-year differences that we'll be dealing with. We feel very good about the guidance we gave and the expectations that we will hit that. Dana TelseyAnalyst at Telsey Group00:23:13Thank you. Operator00:23:17Thank you. Our next question comes from Eric Beder with SCC Research. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Eric BederAnalyst at SCC Research00:23:27Good morning. Just a few quick questions. Let's talk about international here. What should we be thinking about? I know prior people was a kind of a little bit more fashion-forward, a little more of a driver of trend. Is that still how you look at that, and how does that fit in terms of the JV and the other international opportunities? Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:23:54For international, Eric, our focus is predominantly on our European e-commerce business, and the focus there has been to really. Our Q2 focus was on margin above everything else, and so that's driving a less promotional business, which you could qualify as a bit more fashion-forward and a bit more trend focused. We actually feel really good about where our European business is, and there is some slight nuance to the trends, obviously, even within the continent between Germany, the U.K., etc. But the Lands' End value proposition is the same, frankly, internationally, where we were fortunate enough in June of 2026 to be awarded with the highest rating from Forbes and their best brand for value report. I directly think that spans borders, where we're going to deliver value and durability and kind of leverage our unique heritage in a way that will have international appeal. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:24:52There will be slight nuances from a merchandising perspective. Trends such as weather is going to affect what people buy depending on where they live, and so we're certainly not naive to that. But I believe that the Lands' End brand should have international appeal and ultimately have the same foundation, regardless of where it's distributed. That'd be true also by channel, whether it's direct e-commerce, whether it's with our JV, with WHP, whether it's with Amazon or other partners. So we're going to do everything we can to make sure the Lands' End brand is ubiquitous, regardless of where it is in the world. Bernie McCrackenCFO at Lands' End00:25:27Eric, just to add on a little bit is, and you'll notice this in our comments in the script. The Europe business, while we still consider it to be fashion-forward and to drive some trends, we have pulled it back a little and have got them to be more into our franchises, which is driving a higher profitability. Eric BederAnalyst at SCC Research00:25:48Okay. Let's talk about the WHP piece a little bit. Okay, so where are we in terms of adding new licenses, and when do you believe that those licenses will start to kick in and help drive the joint venture overall profitability, which you share in? Bernie McCrackenCFO at Lands' End00:26:11Yeah, Eric. Our guidance reflects the royalties and licensing royalties that we will receive for the remainder of this year. As you know, any kind of licensing agreement has a long tenure before it will benefit us going forward. There's product that needs to be made and outlets to be garnered. So right now, the basics of our guidance reflects the licenses that we had in place and a few of the new smaller licenses that we had signed prior to WHP and that they have taken on into the next level. Eric BederAnalyst at SCC Research00:26:53Okay. You mentioned here about the potential next year for new software and some of the potential rollouts and potential efficiencies when you get from that. How big should we think of that as an opportunity now in 2027 and going forward? Thank you. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:27:18Thanks, Eric, for all your questions. Predominantly, it's going to be infrastructure across the warehouse, and you would see the opportunity basically in service levels beyond anything else. So I wouldn't expect it to have any direct input to our guidance. But in a similar fashion to my answer to Dana on our technological infrastructure, really, it's around enabling a customer experience that will exceed expectations. So in a lot of ways, the benefits will be focused more from a lifetime value perspective, but as opposed to direct guidance. Operator00:28:04Thank you. Our next question comes from Michael Kupinski with Noble Capital Markets. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Michael KupinskiAnalyst at Noble Capital Markets00:28:14Thank you, and Charlie, welcome to Lands' End. The quarter indicated that you have some favorable underlying revenue trends, and I kind of want to drill down on that a little bit. The Outfitters grew 4.4% despite continued school uniform processing challenges. I was just wondering, can you give us some color on how the order book is trending now, and what growth rate do you believe the business can sustain once operations are fully normalized? Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:28:45Michael, thank you for the warm welcome. The Outfitters business also had a real bright spot with enterprise clients as well, which we mentioned. The growth rate is also already aligned in our guidance, but we are remarkably bullish on that business. I would also say, as I referenced when I responded to Dana, there is also increased opportunity by improving their customer experience through that same commerce focus. While we are very bullish on our guidance, we are equally bullish on to improve the customer experience from a front-end perspective, from a messaging perspective, and from a marketing perspective. I am actually visiting with some Outfitters clients next week, including Delta Air Lines and American Airlines. I am excited to kind of get deeper involved in that business. Michael KupinskiAnalyst at Noble Capital Markets00:29:30Got you. In Q2, the U.S. commerce revenue increased 9%, and I think part of that was a carryover from the Q1 distribution disruption. What would have been the underlying e-commerce growth excluding that catch-up benefit? Bernie McCrackenCFO at Lands' End00:29:46The U.S. business on a year-to-date basis, since the carryover was completed through the second quarter, is flat for the year or flattish. Michael KupinskiAnalyst at Noble Capital Markets00:29:57Okay. Inventory is up a little bit, and it seems like you are saying that it is a little bit more normalized. Can you talk about specific inventory that you are leaning into the quarter as you kind of go into the holiday season here? Bernie McCrackenCFO at Lands' End00:30:12Yeah, Michael. I think, one of the keys is comparing year on year, is that last year we were dealing with a lot of uncertainty around tariffs and where and what countries and what products were going to be tariffed at different rates. We were very conservative in the types of products that we brought in and where they were being produced. I think you will find, especially when we talk about owning the weather, that our outerwear is going to have a broader assortment than it did last year where that was the place we were probably most conservative, and that we really feel we will be able to leverage that in the back half of the year, especially as the weather gets colder. But as we have talked about over the last couple of years, it is about layering for us, too. Bernie McCrackenCFO at Lands' End00:30:59That owning the weather is not just for our heavy down coats. It is about having fleece and sweaters, and owning that transition period, too. We are very excited about this back half. Michael KupinskiAnalyst at Noble Capital Markets00:31:13Got you. That's all I have for now. Thank you. Bernie McCrackenCFO at Lands' End00:31:16Thank you, Michael. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:31:16Thanks, Michael. Operator00:31:18Thank you. This concludes our Q&A session as well as our conference call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesTom AltholzSenior Director of Financial Planning and AnalysisCharlie ColeCEOBernie McCrackenCFOAnalystsDana TelseyAnalyst at Telsey GroupEric BederAnalyst at SCC ResearchMichael KupinskiAnalyst at Noble Capital MarketsPowered by Earnings DocumentsPress Release(8-K)Quarterly report(10-Q) Lands' End Earnings HeadlinesLands’ End (LE) Expanded Gross Margin 320bps as Adjusted EBITDA Fell 25%. Can E-Commerce Deliver?September 11, 2026 | insidermonkey.comNoble Financial Decreases Earnings Estimates for Lands' EndSeptember 11, 2026 | americanbankingnews.comIran War: Why Is Trump Protecting THEM?A powerful Middle Eastern government is reportedly seeking US intelligence, targeting help, and military protection against Iran-backed forces. An anonymous source says that protection was only one side of an extraordinary bargain, with the other side potentially worth trillions of dollars to America. 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Email Address About Lands' EndLands' End (NASDAQ:LE) is an American lifestyle apparel and home-products company that designs and sells clothing, accessories, and selected home goods through e-commerce, catalogs, retail stores, and third-party distribution channels. Its offerings include casual apparel, outerwear, swimwear, activewear, sleepwear, luggage, and accessories for women, men, and children. The company also provides products and services for institutional and corporate customers through its school uniforms and business outfitting businesses. Its home assortment has included bedding, towels, décor, and other household products. Lands' End serves customers primarily in the United States and also reaches selected international markets through its digital and distribution operations. Founded in 1963 by Gary Comer as a mail-order sailing-equipment business, Lands' End later expanded into apparel and home merchandise. 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PresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Hello and welcome everyone joining today's Lands' End second quarter fiscal 2026 earnings call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, you will have the opportunity to ask questions during the question-and-answer session. To register to ask questions at any time, please press star one on your telephone keypad. Please note this call is being recorded. We are standing by if you should need any assistance. It is now my pleasure to turn the meeting over to Tom Altholz. Please go ahead. Tom AltholzSenior Director of Financial Planning and Analysis at Lands' End00:00:37Good morning, and thank you for joining us for a discussion of our second quarter fiscal 2026 results, which were released this morning and can be found on our website, landsend.com. I'm Tom Altholz, Lands' End Senior Director of Financial Planning and Analysis, and I'm pleased to join you today with Charlie Cole, our Chief Executive Officer, and Bernie McCracken, our Chief Financial Officer. After prepared remarks, we will conduct a question and answer session. Please also note the information we're about to discuss includes forward-looking statements. Such statements involve risk and uncertainties. The company's actual results could differ materially from those discussed on this call. Factors that could contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those items noted and included in the company's SEC filings, including our annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Tom AltholzSenior Director of Financial Planning and Analysis at Lands' End00:01:34The forward-looking information that is provided by the company on this call represents the company's outlook as of today, and we do not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements made by us. Subsequent events and developments may cause the company's outlook to change. During this call, we will be referring to non-GAAP measures. These non-GAAP measures are not prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures can be found in our earnings release issued earlier today, a copy of which is posted in the investor relations section of our website at landsend.com. With that, I'll turn the call over to Charlie. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:02:16Thank you, Tom, and good morning, everyone. I'm honored to be joining you for my first earnings call as CEO of Lands' End. I've spent my career leading digital and e-commerce companies through customer engagement and brand transformations, and I'm excited to be utilizing that experience to help unlock the next phase of growth for this iconic American brand. As you know, I joined the company on July 13th, and I've spent the past several weeks getting to know the company. Since then, I've been meeting with teams across the company, reviewing the business, and listening to customers to ensure a strong foundation to evaluate and execute on the right opportunities ahead. What I've found reinforces my confidence in the strength of this brand, loyalty of our customer base, and a strong culture that remains a genuine competitive advantage. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:03:06It's clear to me that the opportunity is significant, and we have strong strategic direction. The work now is ensuring the infrastructure is in place to support it. Put simply, Lands' End is a great business with tremendous opportunity ahead. With that, let me take you through the highlights of the quarter. Across the business, our teams made deliberate decisions on marketing spend, on customer acquisition, and on inventory, which we believe position us well for the back half of the year. The product portfolio had clear bright spots this quarter, continuing to leverage product solutions through our key franchises. Women's and men's apparel, especially knits, had a good quarter overall. Bags performance, led by our iconic five-pocket tote, was a meaningful driver of growth and new customer acquisition. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:03:52Our swim business continued to execute on owning the weather with high single-digit revenue growth in the U.S. e-commerce business in the quarter. The areas generating real momentum are the ones I'm most energized about. For example, totes remain one of our strongest new-to-brand acquisition tools, and value-added services like embroidery and personalization make the economics even more attractive. Our U.S. new-to-file customer count grew double digits, largely driven by totes and swim, demonstrating our continued ability to use accessories to reach new demographics. Sleepwear is a category we're excited to develop year-round, and early indicators are positive. Initial reads on outerwear and Christmas stockings are also encouraging, give us good initial visibility into Q3 and Q4. Beyond the product, our marketing activity in Q2 generated some real highlights. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:04:44Our collaborations with T&T and Wawa and our presence in Nantucket each put Lands' End in front of new and younger audiences in ways that felt authentic to who we are, driving real engagement across social platforms and building the kind of brand equity that compounds over time, not just immediate conversion. We were especially pleased with our Wawa collaboration, where our iconic tote to over 2.6 billion impressions, and more importantly, sold out in hours. These types of activations are driving a step change in our social media following. Of note, traffic across our social channels, including Instagram, increased over 30% year-over-year. While it is early in my tenure, I already see a meaningful opportunity to strengthen how we reach, engage, and convert customers. We have a strong data foundation and a loyal core customer base. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:05:34The opportunity is to use that foundation more effectively, including through more personalized marketing, better customer targeting, and greater efficiency at acquisition. We will pursue that work deliberately with the core Lands' End customer at the center of our strategy. Turning to inventory. Our inventory levels in the second quarter were higher than the prior year due to tariff uncertainty last year. Current year inventory is more representative of pre-2025 levels and is within our planned parameters. Include increases due to continued tariff headwinds and challenges processing value-added service orders with our new warehouse management system. Our U.S. e-commerce business increased 9% compared to Q2 2025, reflecting the recovery with the rollout of our new warehouse management system across our distribution centers in the first quarter. That issue has been addressed in our core U.S. e-commerce business, and we caught up with shipments by the end of the quarter. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:06:32In our third-party marketplace business, the standout was Nordstrom. The anniversary sale was a strong moment for the brand and our franchise categories, outerwear and Wanderweight in particular, continue to resonate in that channel. Across our marketplaces, we continue to pursue a disciplined strategy that emphasizes quality and higher margin sales over volume. In our Europe business, we made several deliberate pivots and the early results are encouraging. Revenue finished essentially flat, but our product margin performance was strong, reflecting the strategic choice to leverage key franchises to build the business for long-term success. This, paired with our successful efforts to reach new customers at lower costs and through more deliberately differentiated storytelling in our markets, give us confidence in the path ahead for our Europe business. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:07:22In addition to the improvement in profitability this quarter, Amazon Germany went live in August, and we are excited to leverage our global experience on Amazon with an entirely new customer. Turning to Lands' End Outfitters, our B2B business. Underlying demand was solid in the quarter, though revenue performance does not fully reflect that. Challenges in our value-added services related to our new warehouse management system and concentrated in B2B customers carried into Q2, which was not anticipated, and are reflected in our results. Revenue increased approximately 4% year-over-year, with strength in national accounts partially offset by warehouse management system challenges that impacted the timing of school uniform shipments. Within national accounts, the story is positive, with the enterprise segment up year-to-date by more than 15% versus last year, led by growth in our airline accounts. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:08:14We entered a new multi-year partnership with Delta Air Lines in the second quarter of fiscal 2025, and employee reception to the program was overwhelmingly positive. Today, Delta is in the wear testing phase of its Distinctly Delta uniform collection, with more than 1,400 frontline employees participating across the system. Feedback and insights from the wear test will be incorporated into final product refinements ahead of the planned second half 2027 rollout. Our school uniform business was impacted by challenges within our new warehouse management system related to processing value-added service products. As a result, shipments were delayed and backlog levels were significantly higher than the prior year, reducing revenue recognition during the quarter. Improving operations at Lands' End Outfitters is a priority. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:09:04We have and will continue to take action, including working to increase output capacity, improve efficiency in our production process, and prioritize shipment of orders to get ahead of customer timing dynamics. We continue to be encouraged by the early progress of our intellectual property joint venture with WHP Global. As previously disclosed, the JV amended several significant licensing agreements that are expected to generate more than $150 million of long-term guaranteed royalty value, reinforcing our confidence in the long-term growth opportunities created by the partnership. I'll now turn it over to Bernie to discuss our second quarter financial performance in more detail. Bernie McCrackenCFO at Lands' End00:09:44Thank you, Charlie. For the second quarter of 2026, total revenue was $302 million, an increase of 3% compared to the second quarter of last year. Our U.S. e-commerce business saw a sales increase of 9% compared to the second quarter of 2025. As Charlie discussed, the order backlog from the new warehouse management system challenges in the first quarter benefited Q2 and positively impacted results. We are confident that the warehouse management system issue has been addressed in our core U.S. e-commerce business. Our third-party marketplace business decreased approximately 20% as we continue to prioritize profitable, high-quality sales and brand integrity over lower margin promotional volume. While we saw a decline in revenue, our like for like gross margin compared to last year improved by over 500 basis points year-over-year, reflecting the benefits of our disciplined strategy by individual marketplace. Bernie McCrackenCFO at Lands' End00:10:58Sales from Lands' End Outfitters increased 4% from the second quarter of 2025. The increase was driven by our enterprise accounts, which more than offset the impact of the warehouse management system challenges in our school uniform business processing value-added service products. Sales in Europe increased 1% year-over-year, primarily driven by a strategic shift to a franchise first assortment that simplified the business and drove improved product margins. Gross profit increased by $14 million, or 10% compared to last year. Gross margin in the second quarter was 52%, an approximately 320 basis point improvement from the second quarter of 2025. The gross margin increase was primarily driven by the IEEPA tariff refund, partially offset by the new royalty structure associated with the JV and increased costs associated with our new warehouse management system. SG&A expenses increased by $6 million year-over-year. Bernie McCrackenCFO at Lands' End00:12:16As a percentage of net revenue, SG&A increased by approximately 80 basis points, primarily driven by investment in digital marketing and operational inefficiencies from the temporary disruption of the new warehouse management system. For the second quarter, we reported adjusted net income of $2.7 million, or $0.09 per share. We delivered adjusted EBITDA of $11 million in the second quarter, representing a year-over-year decrease of $4 million. The receipt of IEEPA tariff refunds was offset by the new royalty structure associated with the JV and the challenges in our new warehouse management system, processing value-added service products for school uniforms. Moving to our balance sheet. Inventories at the end of the second quarter were $342 million, up 13% compared to last year. Inventory levels increased largely due to the intentionally lean inventory position we held a year ago amid tariff uncertainty. Bernie McCrackenCFO at Lands' End00:13:29Inventory is more aligned with typical norms and our planned levels, including the impact of continued tariff headwinds. We remain confident in our holiday assortment and expect inventory to remain within typical levels. Turning to our debt. We ended the second quarter with $60 million in ABL borrowings, compared to $35 million last year. As discussed previously, we used the majority of the $300 million in cash proceeds from the WHP Global transaction to fully repay our term loan, leaving us with enhanced liquidity and significantly reduced interest payments. The remainder of the transaction consideration was used for transaction-related corporate expenses and taxes. As a reminder, in conjunction with the April 1st closing of the WHP Global transaction, our board authorized the repurchase of up to $100 million of common stock through March 31st, 2029. Bernie McCrackenCFO at Lands' End00:14:35During the second quarter, we repurchased approximately 900,000 shares for approximately $11 million, bringing the remaining balance of the authorization to $89 million as of the end of the quarter. Moving to guidance. Our guidance reflects the impacts of tariffs at current implemented rates, and we are continuing to execute mitigation measures to manage tariff headwinds for the remainder of fiscal 2026. For the third quarter of 2026, we expect net revenue of $300 million-$330 million, adjusted net income of $2 million-$6 million, and adjusted diluted earnings per share of $0.07-$0.20. Adjusted EBITDA in the range of $14 million-$18 million. For fiscal 2026, we now expect net revenue of $1.3 billion-$1.35 billion, adjusted net income of $13 million-$21 million, and adjusted diluted earnings per share of $0.44-$0.72. Bernie McCrackenCFO at Lands' End00:15:52Adjusted EBITDA in the range of $62 million-$70 million. Full year guidance incorporates approximately $40 million in capital expenditures. With that, I'll turn the call back over to Charlie. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:16:09Thank you, Bernie. I want to close by saying how encouraged I am by what I am seeing across this business. The brand has tremendous strength, and we believe the opportunities to unlock its full potential are clear. I also want to take a moment to welcome Jimmy Ferolo, who recently joined us as Chief Digital and Technology Officer. Jimmy brings a proven track record of driving digital transformation and customer-centric innovation across leading consumer brands, most recently at Solairus Aviation, and prior to that, at Singer and Maui Jim. His deep expertise in scaling e-commerce capabilities and elevating the customer experience will be instrumental as we move into the next chapter of growth for Lands' End. Martin Christopher, our former Chief Technology Officer, now reports to Jimmy, bringing strong continuity to our technological transformation. Jimmy's arrival is well-timed. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:17:01The focus right now is on tactical excellence to ensure we have the right infrastructure, technology, and customer acquisition capabilities in place heading into the peak holiday selling season. That includes meeting customer expectations on shipping and fulfillment and deepening personalization across our offerings. That work connects to something underappreciated about this business. Through decades of catalog and e-commerce engagement, we have built a foundation of owned customer data that few retailers can match. As we apply AI-powered capabilities across merchandising, marketing, and customer retention, proprietary data combined with AI-enabled execution becomes a competitive advantage that grows more valuable over time. I look forward to meeting many of you in the months ahead. What I can tell you is that my conviction in Lands' End and in this team is only growing. With that, we look forward to your questions. Operator00:17:59Thank you. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your keypad. To leave the queue at any time, press star two. Once again, that is star and one to ask a question. We will take our first question from Dana Telsey with Telsey Group. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Dana TelseyAnalyst at Telsey Group00:18:20Hi, good morning, everyone, and welcome, Charlie. Charlie, in your purview, as you think about the opportunities for Lands' End going forward and given your background, how do you see the enhanced execution, the involvement in technology, what happens with e-commerce? How does it fit the different categories, whether it is the e-commerce, international, Outfitters, third party, and obviously the new relationship with WHP Global? What is your North Star going forward? Then I have a quick question on just the here and now. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:18:54Dana, thank you so much for the welcome. I really appreciate that, and thank you for the question. This question is so far reaching because it involves a lot of buzzwords, so I am going to try to decouple them. My long-term vision for Lands' End is we are a modern AI engine that drives almost our entire customer experience. I want to unpack that a little bit. A modern AI engine can simultaneously evaluate so many things. I will start with focusing on the e-commerce side of things, and I will get into Lands' End Outfitters in Europe as well. It can evaluate a customer's purchase history, their browsing behavior, the weather, the geography, the search patterns, inventory availability, full price sell-through targets, category affinity, and it can evaluate all these things at the same time. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:19:49If you think about that, just processing power and where you would want to put that, you would start with e-commerce front-end, CRM messaging, marketing targeting, including catalog segmentation and creative personalization. It is not an exaggeration, Dana, to say that I want an AI engine that sits at the center of our customer experience and enables an experience that our customers have really never seen before. If you wanted pragmatic examples, if somebody who has shopped at Lands' End has exclusively shopped outerwear, they should have a very different experience than someone who is exclusively shopped swim. That doesn't mean we don't show back and forth, but it does mean we give them a personalized experience to optimize not only conversion, but lifetime value and frankly, net promoter score as well. That is equally applicable to Europe. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:20:40With Europe, we have to be aware of the realities of sort of the different data regulations, so we'd be thoughtful of that as well. With Lands' End Outfitters, it's actually the same answer, it's just with a different process. Because you think about our school business. That is fairly rhythmic. So time becomes a very obvious kind of input where we have to reach out to customers at the right time with the right message based on their school schedule. So that's a slight personalization that would allow us to give a much better experience. But it's not an exaggeration, Dana, to say from a technology perspective, we are going to build an AI infrastructure that gives us an e-commerce platform that will rival the best in the industry, and that's the core goal. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:21:25I'm happy to answer your follow-up question as well. Dana TelseyAnalyst at Telsey Group00:21:29Great. Thank you. Warehouse management system, I think which the second quarter also had some impacts. Is that complete now? Is there anything on the shaping of third and fourth quarter and how you're seeing it, whether from a margin perspective or a top-line perspective, how it differs this year from last year? Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:21:50On the warehouse management system topic, we are now running at normal operations, so it's caught up. We are now caught up on throughput. We are still working through a backlog, but operations are proceeding as normal at the same or higher levels than before the warehouse management system issues. It is also worth noting that there is more efficiency to unlock where we can actually put other infrastructure in place, but that will not happen till next year. But there is more efficiencies that will be unlocked as we can support the WMS with other software solutions as well. As it pertains to Q3 and Q4, we don't anticipate any effect on our guidance for the WMS, with the exception of the catch-up that will come out of the Lands' End Outfitters division. Dana TelseyAnalyst at Telsey Group00:22:37Got it. Then just the third quarter guide, anything to unpack there on the margin side and fourth quarter and remainder of expectations for tariffs? Thank you. Bernie McCrackenCFO at Lands' End00:22:50Yeah, Dana. Our guidance reflects the current levels of tariffs that are in place. There isn't really any other year-on-year differences that we'll be dealing with. We feel very good about the guidance we gave and the expectations that we will hit that. Dana TelseyAnalyst at Telsey Group00:23:13Thank you. Operator00:23:17Thank you. Our next question comes from Eric Beder with SCC Research. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Eric BederAnalyst at SCC Research00:23:27Good morning. Just a few quick questions. Let's talk about international here. What should we be thinking about? I know prior people was a kind of a little bit more fashion-forward, a little more of a driver of trend. Is that still how you look at that, and how does that fit in terms of the JV and the other international opportunities? Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:23:54For international, Eric, our focus is predominantly on our European e-commerce business, and the focus there has been to really. Our Q2 focus was on margin above everything else, and so that's driving a less promotional business, which you could qualify as a bit more fashion-forward and a bit more trend focused. We actually feel really good about where our European business is, and there is some slight nuance to the trends, obviously, even within the continent between Germany, the U.K., etc. But the Lands' End value proposition is the same, frankly, internationally, where we were fortunate enough in June of 2026 to be awarded with the highest rating from Forbes and their best brand for value report. I directly think that spans borders, where we're going to deliver value and durability and kind of leverage our unique heritage in a way that will have international appeal. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:24:52There will be slight nuances from a merchandising perspective. Trends such as weather is going to affect what people buy depending on where they live, and so we're certainly not naive to that. But I believe that the Lands' End brand should have international appeal and ultimately have the same foundation, regardless of where it's distributed. That'd be true also by channel, whether it's direct e-commerce, whether it's with our JV, with WHP, whether it's with Amazon or other partners. So we're going to do everything we can to make sure the Lands' End brand is ubiquitous, regardless of where it is in the world. Bernie McCrackenCFO at Lands' End00:25:27Eric, just to add on a little bit is, and you'll notice this in our comments in the script. The Europe business, while we still consider it to be fashion-forward and to drive some trends, we have pulled it back a little and have got them to be more into our franchises, which is driving a higher profitability. Eric BederAnalyst at SCC Research00:25:48Okay. Let's talk about the WHP piece a little bit. Okay, so where are we in terms of adding new licenses, and when do you believe that those licenses will start to kick in and help drive the joint venture overall profitability, which you share in? Bernie McCrackenCFO at Lands' End00:26:11Yeah, Eric. Our guidance reflects the royalties and licensing royalties that we will receive for the remainder of this year. As you know, any kind of licensing agreement has a long tenure before it will benefit us going forward. There's product that needs to be made and outlets to be garnered. So right now, the basics of our guidance reflects the licenses that we had in place and a few of the new smaller licenses that we had signed prior to WHP and that they have taken on into the next level. Eric BederAnalyst at SCC Research00:26:53Okay. You mentioned here about the potential next year for new software and some of the potential rollouts and potential efficiencies when you get from that. How big should we think of that as an opportunity now in 2027 and going forward? Thank you. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:27:18Thanks, Eric, for all your questions. Predominantly, it's going to be infrastructure across the warehouse, and you would see the opportunity basically in service levels beyond anything else. So I wouldn't expect it to have any direct input to our guidance. But in a similar fashion to my answer to Dana on our technological infrastructure, really, it's around enabling a customer experience that will exceed expectations. So in a lot of ways, the benefits will be focused more from a lifetime value perspective, but as opposed to direct guidance. Operator00:28:04Thank you. Our next question comes from Michael Kupinski with Noble Capital Markets. Please go ahead. Your line is open. Michael KupinskiAnalyst at Noble Capital Markets00:28:14Thank you, and Charlie, welcome to Lands' End. The quarter indicated that you have some favorable underlying revenue trends, and I kind of want to drill down on that a little bit. The Outfitters grew 4.4% despite continued school uniform processing challenges. I was just wondering, can you give us some color on how the order book is trending now, and what growth rate do you believe the business can sustain once operations are fully normalized? Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:28:45Michael, thank you for the warm welcome. The Outfitters business also had a real bright spot with enterprise clients as well, which we mentioned. The growth rate is also already aligned in our guidance, but we are remarkably bullish on that business. I would also say, as I referenced when I responded to Dana, there is also increased opportunity by improving their customer experience through that same commerce focus. While we are very bullish on our guidance, we are equally bullish on to improve the customer experience from a front-end perspective, from a messaging perspective, and from a marketing perspective. I am actually visiting with some Outfitters clients next week, including Delta Air Lines and American Airlines. I am excited to kind of get deeper involved in that business. Michael KupinskiAnalyst at Noble Capital Markets00:29:30Got you. In Q2, the U.S. commerce revenue increased 9%, and I think part of that was a carryover from the Q1 distribution disruption. What would have been the underlying e-commerce growth excluding that catch-up benefit? Bernie McCrackenCFO at Lands' End00:29:46The U.S. business on a year-to-date basis, since the carryover was completed through the second quarter, is flat for the year or flattish. Michael KupinskiAnalyst at Noble Capital Markets00:29:57Okay. Inventory is up a little bit, and it seems like you are saying that it is a little bit more normalized. Can you talk about specific inventory that you are leaning into the quarter as you kind of go into the holiday season here? Bernie McCrackenCFO at Lands' End00:30:12Yeah, Michael. I think, one of the keys is comparing year on year, is that last year we were dealing with a lot of uncertainty around tariffs and where and what countries and what products were going to be tariffed at different rates. We were very conservative in the types of products that we brought in and where they were being produced. I think you will find, especially when we talk about owning the weather, that our outerwear is going to have a broader assortment than it did last year where that was the place we were probably most conservative, and that we really feel we will be able to leverage that in the back half of the year, especially as the weather gets colder. But as we have talked about over the last couple of years, it is about layering for us, too. Bernie McCrackenCFO at Lands' End00:30:59That owning the weather is not just for our heavy down coats. It is about having fleece and sweaters, and owning that transition period, too. We are very excited about this back half. Michael KupinskiAnalyst at Noble Capital Markets00:31:13Got you. That's all I have for now. Thank you. Bernie McCrackenCFO at Lands' End00:31:16Thank you, Michael. Charlie ColeCEO at Lands' End00:31:16Thanks, Michael. Operator00:31:18Thank you. This concludes our Q&A session as well as our conference call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesTom AltholzSenior Director of Financial Planning and AnalysisCharlie ColeCEOBernie McCrackenCFOAnalystsDana TelseyAnalyst at Telsey GroupEric BederAnalyst at SCC ResearchMichael KupinskiAnalyst at Noble Capital MarketsPowered by