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๐Ÿ“„ Earnings Call Transcript ๋ฒˆ์—ญ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ

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Original Translation
Abercrombie & Fitch Co.์• ๋ฒ„ํฌ๋กฌ๋น„ ์•ค ํ”ผ์น˜ ์ฃผ์‹ํšŒ์‚ฌ
(ANF) Q4 2025 Earnings Call March 4, 2026 8:30 AM EST

Company Participants

Mohit Gupta - Vice President of Investor Relations
Fran Horowitz-Bonadies - CEO & Director
Robert Ball - CFO & Executive VP
Scott Lipesky - Executive VP & COO

Conference Call Participants

Dana Telsey - Telsey Advisory Group LLC
Corey Tarlowe - Jefferies LLC, Research Division
Matthew Boss - JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division
Paul Lejuez - Citigroup Inc., Research Division
Marni Shapiro - The Retail Tracker
Mauricio Serna Vega - UBS Investment Bank, Research Division
Jonathan Keypour - Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division
Rakesh Patel - Raymond James & Associates, Inc., Research Division
Janine Hoffman Stichter - BTIG, LLC, Research Division

Presentation

Operator

Good day, and welcome to the Abercrombie & Fitch Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2025 Earnings Call.
(ANF) 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ
2026๋…„ 3์›” 4์ผ ์˜ค์ „ 8์‹œ 30๋ถ„ (๋™๋ถ€ ํ‘œ์ค€์‹œ)

**ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์ฐธ์„์ž**

๋ชจํžˆํŠธ ๊ตฝํƒ€ - ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๋‹ด๋‹น ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ
ํ”„๋žœ ํ˜ธ๋กœ์œ„์ธ -๋ณด๋‚˜๋””์Šค - ์ตœ๊ณ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ž ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌ
๋กœ๋ฒ„ํŠธ ๋ณผ - ์ตœ๊ณ ์žฌ๋ฌด์ฑ…์ž„์ž ๊ฒธ ์ˆ˜์„ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ
์Šค์ฝง ๋ผ์ดํŽ˜์Šคํ‚ค - ์ˆ˜์„ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ตœ๊ณ ์šด์˜์ฑ…์ž„์ž

**์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ ์ฐธ์„์ž**

๋‹ค๋‚˜ ํ…”์‹œ - ํ…”์‹œ ์–ด๋“œ๋ฐ”์ด์ €๋ฆฌ ๊ทธ๋ฃน LLC
์ฝ”๋ฆฌ ํƒ€๋ฅผ๋กœ - ์ œํ”„๋ฆฌ์Šค LLC, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
๋งคํŠœ ๋ณด์Šค - JP๋ชจ๊ฑด ์ฒด์ด์Šค ์•ค ์ปดํผ๋‹ˆ, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
ํด ๋ ˆ์ฃผ์—์ฆˆ - ์”จํ‹ฐ๊ทธ๋ฃน Inc., ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
๋งˆ๋‹ˆ ์ƒคํ”ผ๋กœ - ๋” ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ ํŠธ๋ž˜์ปค
๋งˆ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์‹œ์˜ค ์„ธ๋ฅด๋‚˜ ๋ฒ ๊ฐ€ - UBS ์ธ๋ฒ ์ŠคํŠธ๋จผํŠธ ๋ฑ…ํฌ, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
์กฐ๋‚˜๋‹จ ํ‚คํ‘ธ์–ด - ๊ณจ๋“œ๋งŒ์‚ญ์Šค ๊ทธ๋ฃน Inc., ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
๋ผ์ผ€์‹œ ํŒŒํ…” - ๋ ˆ์ด๋ชฌ๋“œ ์ œ์ž„์Šค ์•ค ์–ด์†Œ์‹œ์—์ด์ธ  Inc., ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
์ž๋‹Œ ํ˜ธํ”„๋งŒ ์Šคํ‹ฐ์ฒ˜ - BTIG, LLC, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ

**๋ฐœํ‘œ**

**์‚ฌํšŒ์ž**
์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ. ์• ๋ฒ„ํฌ๋กฌ๋น„ ์•ค ํ”ผ์น˜์˜ 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์— ์˜ค์‹  ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ™˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Today's conference is being recorded. [Operator Instructions] I would like now to turn the conference over to Mo Gupta, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Mohit Gupta
Vice President of Investor Relations

Thank you. Good morning, and welcome to our fourth quarter 2025 earnings call. Joining me today on the call are Fran Horowitz, Chief Executive Officer; Scott Lipesky, Chief Operating Officer; and Robert Ball, Chief Financial Officer. Earlier this morning, we issued our fourth quarter earnings release, which is available on our website at corporate.abercrombie.com under the Investors section. Also available on our website is an investor presentation.
์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค๋Š” ๋…น์Œ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [์šด์˜์ž ์•ˆ๋‚ด ๋ง์”€]

์ด์ œ ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๋‹ด๋‹น ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ์ธ ๋ชจ ๊ตฝํƒ€๋‹˜๊ป˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ง์”€ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค.

**๋ชจํž› ๊ตฝํƒ€, ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๋‹ด๋‹น ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ**

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ข‹์€ ์•„์นจ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ์˜ 2025๋…„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์— ์˜ค์‹  ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ™˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์—๋Š” ์ตœ๊ณ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ž ํ”„๋žœ ํ˜ธ๋กœ์œ„์ธ , ์ตœ๊ณ ์šด์˜์ฑ…์ž„์ž ์Šค์บ‡ ๋ผ์ดํŽ˜์Šคํ‚ค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ตœ๊ณ ์žฌ๋ฌด์ฑ…์ž„์ž ๋กœ๋ฒ„ํŠธ ๋ณผ์ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์˜ค๋Š˜ ์•„์นจ ์ผ์ฐ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ž๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐํฌํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด ์ž๋ฃŒ๋Š” ์ €ํฌ ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ corporate.abercrombie.com์˜ 'ํˆฌ์ž์ž' ์„น์…˜์—์„œ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์ €ํฌ ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์—์„œ๋Š” ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ž๋ฃŒ๋„ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Please keep in mind that we will make certain forward-looking statements on the call. These statements are subject to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations and assumptions we mentioned today. These factors and uncertainties are discussed in our reports and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition, we'll be referring to certain non-GAAP financial measures during the call.์ด๋ฒˆ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์—์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํŠน์ • ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ์˜ˆ์ธก ์ง„์ˆ ์„ ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž„์„ ์œ ๋…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ง„์ˆ ๋“ค์€ 1995๋…„ ์ฆ๊ถŒ๋ฏผ์‚ฌ์†Œ์†ก๊ฐœํ˜๋ฒ•์˜ ๋ฉด์ฑ… ์กฐํ•ญ์— ํ•ด๋‹น๋˜๋ฉฐ, ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์น˜ ๋ฐ ๊ฐ€์ •๊ณผ ์‹ค์ œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์œ„ํ—˜๊ณผ ๋ถˆํ™•์‹ค์„ฑ์„ ๋‚ดํฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์š”์ธ๋“ค๊ณผ ๋ถˆํ™•์‹ค์„ฑ์€ ์ฆ๊ถŒ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์œ„์›ํšŒ(SEC)์— ์ œ์ถœ๋œ ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ ๋ฐ ์ œ์ถœ ์„œ๋ฅ˜์— ์ƒ์„ธํžˆ ์„ค๋ช…๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„์šธ๋Ÿฌ, ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์—์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ผ๋ถ€ ๋น„GAAP ์žฌ๋ฌด ์ง€ํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Additional details and reconciliations of GAAP to adjusted non-GAAP financial measures are included in the release and the investor presentation issued earlier this morning. With that, I will turn the call over to Fran. Fran Horowitz-Bonadies
CEO & Director

Thanks, Mo. Good morning, and thanks for joining us today. Before we begin, I do want to acknowledge the situation in the Middle East with associates and stores in the region, our focus continues to be on their safety and well-being. Returning to our results. I'm happy to report the fourth quarter finished on the higher end of the ranges provided in our early January update. Once again, we accomplished exactly what we set out to do.
๋„ค, ๋ฒˆ์—ญํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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GAAP ๊ธฐ์ค€ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์ธก์ •์น˜์™€ ์กฐ์ •๋œ ๋น„GAAP ์žฌ๋ฌด ์ธก์ •์น˜ ๊ฐ„์˜ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์„ธ๋ถ€ ์ •๋ณด ๋ฐ ์กฐ์ • ๋‚ด์—ญ์€ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์˜ค์ „์— ๋ฐฐํฌ๋œ ๋ณด๋„ ์ž๋ฃŒ์™€ ํˆฌ์ž์ž ํ”„๋ ˆ์  ํ…Œ์ด์…˜์—์„œ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ์ด์ œ ํ”„๋žœ์—๊ฒŒ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

**ํ”„๋žœ ํ˜ธ๋กœ์œ„์ธ -๋ณด๋‚˜๋””์Šค (Fran Horowitz-Bonadies)**
**์ตœ๊ณ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ž ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌ**

๋ชจ, ๊ณ ๋ง™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ข‹์€ ์•„์นจ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ €ํฌ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ณธ๋ก ์— ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๊ธฐ ์ „์—, ์ค‘๋™ ์ง€์—ญ์˜ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ด๋‹น ์ง€์—ญ์˜ ์ง์›๋“ค๊ณผ ๋งค์žฅ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์•ˆ์ „๊ณผ ์•ˆ๋…•์— ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด์ œ ์‹ค์ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์ด 1์›” ์ดˆ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ์—์„œ ์ œ์‹œ๋œ ๋ฒ”์œ„์˜ ์ƒ๋‹จ์—์„œ ๋งˆ๊ฐํ–ˆ์Œ์„ ๊ธฐ์˜๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๊ณ ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋ชฉํ‘œํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋ฐ”๋ฅผ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Holiday product acceptance drove record fourth quarter net sales with balanced growth across regions, brands and channels, along with growth in earnings per share. As a company, our goal is to set clear commitments and then deliver on them, leveraging our strong foundation and operating model. We achieved another year of consistent results for 2025 with record sales, growth across regions and channels and leading double-digit operating margins. Substantial operating cash flows also enabled strong returns of cash to shareholders via share repurchases. Looking forward to 2026, we expect to continue on the path of global growth and add to our track record of consistent, strong profitability.์—ฐ๋ง์—ฐ์‹œ ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ์‹œ์žฅ ์•ˆ์ฐฉ์— ํž˜์ž…์–ด ์‚ฌ์ƒ ์ตœ๊ณ  4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ง€์—ญ, ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ, ์ฑ„๋„ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๊ท ํ˜• ์žกํžŒ ์„ฑ์žฅ๊ณผ ๋”๋ถˆ์–ด ์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต(EPS) ์„ฑ์žฅ๋„ ๋™๋ฐ˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋Š” ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜๊ณผ ์šด์˜ ๋ชจ๋ธ์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•œ ์•ฝ์†์„ ์„ค์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ด๋ฅผ ์ดํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2025๋…„์—๋„ ๋ณ€ํ•จ์—†์ด ์ผ๊ด€๋œ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์‚ฌ์ƒ ์ตœ๊ณ  ๋งค์ถœ, ์ง€์—ญ ๋ฐ ์ฑ„๋„ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์นœ ์„ฑ์žฅ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์„ ๋„์ ์ธ ๋‘ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ์˜์—… ํ˜„๊ธˆ ํ๋ฆ„์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ์ฃผ์ฃผ ํ˜„๊ธˆ ํ™˜์›๋„ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026๋…„์„ ๋‚ด๋‹ค๋ณด๋ฉฐ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ธ๋ฅผ ์ด์–ด๋‚˜๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์ผ๊ด€๋˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋”์šฑ ๊ณต๊ณ ํžˆ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
For the fourth quarter, we delivered net sales growth of 5%, which was balanced across regions, brands and channels. It was particularly great to see both brands deliver record fourth quarter net sales. At Abercrombie Brands, we achieved our goal of returning the brand to growth with 4% net sales growth on top of a record last year. Hollister brand continues to deliver for the teen customer, producing an 11th consecutive quarter of net sales growth at up 6%. With balanced top line growth and continued financial discipline, we delivered an operating margin of 14.1%, including 360 basis points of tariff pressure.4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์ง€์—ญ, ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ, ์ฑ„๋„ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๊ท ํ˜• ์žกํžŒ 5%์˜ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ๋‘ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ๋ชจ๋‘ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‚ฌ์ƒ ์ตœ๊ณ  ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•œ ์ ์€ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์• ๋ฒ„ํฌ๋กฌ๋น„ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์ง€๋‚œํ•ด ์‚ฌ์ƒ ์ตœ๊ณ  ์‹ค์ ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•œ ๋ฐ ์ด์–ด 4%์˜ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ํšŒ๋ณตํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฃจ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ™€๋ฆฌ์Šคํ„ฐ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋Š” ์‹ญ๋Œ€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ธต์—์„œ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์ข‹์€ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋ฉฐ 6% ์„ฑ์žฅ์œผ๋กœ 11๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์—ฐ์† ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ท ํ˜• ์žกํžŒ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ๊ณผ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์žฌ๋ฌด ๊ทœ์œจ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด, 360bp(๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šค ํฌ์ธํŠธ)์˜ ๊ด€์„ธ ์••๋ฐ•์„ ํฌํ•จํ•˜์—ฌ 14.1%์˜ ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
I have to recognize the team's incredible efforts here to meaningfully reduce the impact of these costs. On the bottom line, earnings per share of $3.68 improved 3% on last year's record quarterly results, demonstrating our ability to create value through a balanced combination of global growth, operational excellence and disciplined capital allocation. Recapping the year, fiscal 2025 net sales were a record $5.3 billion, surpassing $5 billion for the first time in company history. We grew over 6%, exceeding our beginning of the year growth projections provided last March.์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋น„์šฉ์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์ค„์ด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ํŒ€์˜ ์—„์ฒญ๋‚œ ๋…ธ๊ณ ์— ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ตœ์ข…์ ์œผ๋กœ, ์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต์€ 3.68๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ, ์ž‘๋…„ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ์ธ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ๋Œ€๋น„ 3% ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์„ฑ์žฅ, ์šด์˜ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทœ์œจ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ž๋ณธ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„์˜ ๊ท ํ˜• ์žกํžŒ ์กฐํ•ฉ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์‹ค์ ์„ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•˜์ž๋ฉด, 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์€ 53์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์ƒ ์ตœ๊ณ ์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ƒ ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ 50์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๋ŒํŒŒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” 6% ์ด์ƒ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜์—ฌ, ์ง€๋‚œ 3์›”์— ์ œ์‹œํ–ˆ๋˜ ์—ฐ์ดˆ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ „๋ง์น˜๋ฅผ ์ดˆ๊ณผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
For the third consecutive year, our customers responded to the team's compelling product and engaging marketing, delivering net sales growth across regions, led by the Americas, up 7%. Sales also grew across channels for the third year in a row. We continue to see great traffic on digital and in-store. And importantly, we continue to see our highest value customers shopping across channels. We delivered an operating margin of 13.3% or 12.5% adjusting for a onetime litigation benefit, a double-digit result for the third straight year despite 170 basis points of tariff pressure.3๋…„ ์—ฐ์†์œผ๋กœ, ์ €ํฌ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์€ ํŒ€์˜ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ์ œํ’ˆ๊ณผ ์ฐธ์—ฌ๋ฅผ ์œ ๋„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…์— ํ˜ธ์‘ํ•ด ์ฃผ์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ์ฃผ ์ง€์—ญ์ด 7% ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ฃผ๋„ํ•œ ์ „ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ์˜ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ถœ์€ ๋˜ํ•œ 3๋…„ ์—ฐ์†์œผ๋กœ ์ „ ์ฑ„๋„์—์„œ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ๋ฐ ์˜คํ”„๋ผ์ธ ๋งค์žฅ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ๋†’์€ ํŠธ๋ž˜ํ”ฝ์„ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํŠนํžˆ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ์ „ ์ฑ„๋„์—์„œ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ•˜๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €ํฌ๋Š” 13.3%์˜ ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผํšŒ์„ฑ ์†Œ์†ก ์ด์ต์„ ์กฐ์ •ํ•˜๋ฉด 12.5%์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” 170bp(๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šค ํฌ์ธํŠธ)์˜ ๊ด€์„ธ ์••๋ฐ•์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  3๋…„ ์—ฐ์†์œผ๋กœ ๋‘ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
On the bottom line, we delivered full year earnings per share of $10.46, our second consecutive year of EPS over $10, by far the strongest back-to-back performance in our 30-year history as a public company. We also remain committed to shareholder return. With $619 million of operating cash flow after investing back into the business, we returned $450 million to shareholders via share repurchases totaling 11% of shares outstanding at the beginning of 2025. The team worked hard all year, staying fully committed to our customer and our playbooks, and I'm proud of the consistency of these results as a clear demonstration of our leading operating model and culture of financial discipline.์ตœ์ข…์ ์œผ๋กœ, ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต(EPS) 10.46๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต์ด 10๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๋„˜์–ด์„  ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์—ฐ์† ์—ฐ๋„์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ƒ์žฅ์‚ฌ๋กœ์„œ 30๋…„ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ƒ ๋‹จ์—ฐ์ฝ” ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ 2๋…„ ์—ฐ์† ์‹ค์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋˜ํ•œ ์ฃผ์ฃผ ํ™˜์›์—๋„ ๋ณ€ํ•จ์—†์ด ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์—… ์žฌํˆฌ์ž ํ›„ 6์–ต 1,900๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์˜์—… ํ˜„๊ธˆ ํ๋ฆ„์„ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด ์ค‘ 4์–ต 5,000๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์ฃผ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํ™˜์›ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” 2025๋…„ ์ดˆ ๊ธฐ์ค€ ๋ฐœํ–‰ ์ฃผ์‹ ์ด์ˆ˜์˜ 11%์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•˜๋Š” ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €ํฌ ํŒ€์€ ํ•œ ํ•ด ๋™์•ˆ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์šด์˜ ๋ฐฉ์•ˆ์— ์ „์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ—Œ์‹ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์‹ค์ ์˜ ์ผ๊ด€์„ฑ์ด ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์„ ๋„์ ์ธ ์šด์˜ ๋ชจ๋ธ๊ณผ ์žฌ๋ฌด ๊ทœ์œจ ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
From a regional perspective, 2025 was another year of progress. In the Americas, we grew net sales of 7% on strong cross-channel traffic, driven by compelling marketing across brands and continued store expansion. In EMEA, net sales growth of 6% was driven by double-digit growth in the U.K., along with good growth in the Middle East. APAC grew 5% this year, led by solid performance across our digital platforms. Moving on to brand performance. I'll start with Hollister Brands, where we set records across the business. I am so proud of what the team has achieved with the global teen consumer with 2 consecutive years of 15% growth, driven by increases in unit selling and AUR.์ง€์—ญ๋ณ„ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ๋ณผ ๋•Œ, 2025๋…„์€ ๋˜ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์˜ ์ง„์ „์„ ์ด๋ฃฌ ํ•œ ํ•ด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ์ฃผ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์— ๊ฑธ์นœ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…๊ณผ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๋งค์žฅ ํ™•์žฅ์— ํž˜์ž…์–ด ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์˜ด๋‹ˆ์ฑ„๋„ ํŠธ๋ž˜ํ”ฝ์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์ด 7% ์„ฑ์žฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. EMEA ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ๋Š” ์˜๊ตญ์—์„œ์˜ ๋‘ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ๊ณผ ์ค‘๋™ ์ง€์—ญ์˜ ๊ฒฌ์กฐํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ํž˜์ž…์–ด ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์ด 6% ์„ฑ์žฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. APAC ์ง€์—ญ์€ ์˜ฌํ•ด 5% ์„ฑ์žฅํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ ์ „๋ฐ˜์˜ ๊ฒฌ์กฐํ•œ ์‹ค์ ์— ํž˜์ž…์€ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‹ค์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์‹ค์ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ™€๋ฆฌ์Šคํ„ฐ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ™€๋ฆฌ์Šคํ„ฐ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์—… ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ์ธ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๋Š” ํŒ€์ด ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์‹ญ๋Œ€ ์†Œ๋น„์ž์ธต์—์„œ 2๋…„ ์—ฐ์† 15% ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ •๋ง ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฝ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์€ ๋‹จ์œ„ ํŒ๋งค๋Ÿ‰ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์™€ ํ‰๊ท  ๋‹จ์œ„ ํŒ๋งค ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ(AUR) ์ƒ์Šน์— ํž˜์ž…์€ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
On product, we delivered growth across genders and key categories, showing improved balance on both. We saw great response from a variety of exciting marketing campaigns supporting key product drops like our collegiate collection, the Grad Shop and engaging collaboration with Taco Bell. We added millions of new customers in 2025, and importantly, we also saw improved retention. Simply put, Hollister's growth and scale stand out in the teen space, and we are excited about what is ahead. At Abercrombie Brands, after a challenging start to 2025, up against a near perfect 2024, the team rallied and committed to getting back -- getting the brand back to growth by the end of the year.์ œํ’ˆ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ๋Š” ์„ฑ๋ณ„๊ณผ ์ฃผ์š” ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์–‘์ชฝ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋œ ๊ท ํ˜•์„ ๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ•™ ์ปฌ๋ ‰์…˜, ์กธ์—… ์‹œ์ฆŒ ํŠน๋ณ„ ๋งค์žฅ(Grad Shop), ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํƒ€์ฝ”๋ฒจ๊ณผ์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ํ˜‘์—…๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ฃผ์š” ์ œํ’ˆ ์ถœ์‹œ๋ฅผ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ์—์„œ ํฐ ํ˜ธ์‘์„ ์–ป์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2025๋…„์—๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ๋ช…์˜ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค๋„ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์œ ์ง€์œจ๋„ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ„๋‹จํžˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ํ™€๋ฆฌ์Šคํ„ฐ์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ๊ณผ ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋Š” 10๋Œ€ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ๋‹จ์—ฐ ๋‹๋ณด์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์•ž์œผ๋กœ์˜ ์ „๋ง์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ํฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์• ๋ฒ„ํฌ๋กฌ๋น„ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์™„๋ฒฝํ–ˆ๋˜ 2024๋…„ ์‹ค์ ๊ณผ ๋น„๊ตํ•˜์—ฌ 2025๋…„์˜ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์‹œ์ž‘์„ ๊ฒช์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ํŒ€์€ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํž˜์„ ๋ชจ์•„ ์—ฐ๋ง๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ถค๋„๋กœ ๋˜๋Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์•ฝ์†ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We did just that, achieving a return to net sales growth for the fourth quarter. As we have shared throughout the year, we believe Abercrombie remains a leader for our target customer. We continue to see strong traffic along with growth in customer counts and good retention trends. Reflecting our confidence, we invested across stores, digital and marketing to bring the brand to life in new ways throughout 2025. Most recently, the brand hosted several amazing activations leading up to the Super Bowl. As an official fashion partner of the NFL, the first of its kind, we had players and their families, several celebrities and league figures as well as our target customers at a series of events.๋„ค, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ•ด๋ƒˆ๊ณ , 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์—ฐ์ค‘ ๋‚ด๋‚ด ๊ณต์œ ํ•ด์™”๋“ฏ์ด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” Abercrombie๊ฐ€ ํƒ€๊ฒŸ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ธต์—๊ฒŒ ์„ ๋‘ ์ฃผ์ž๋กœ์„œ์˜ ์ž…์ง€๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ํŠธ๋ž˜ํ”ฝ๊ณผ ๋”๋ถˆ์–ด ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ˆ˜ ์ฆ๊ฐ€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์–‘ํ˜ธํ•œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์œ ์ง€์œจ ์ถ”์„ธ๋ฅผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜์—ฌ, 2025๋…„ ํ•œ ํ•ด ๋™์•ˆ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌํ˜„ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋งค์žฅ, ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ, ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ํˆฌ์žํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ตœ๊ทผ์—๋Š” ์Šˆํผ๋ณผ์„ ์•ž๋‘๊ณ  ๋ช‡๋ช‡ ๋ฉ‹์ง„ ํ™œ์„ฑํ™” ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. NFL์˜ ๊ณต์‹ ํŒจ์…˜ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋กœ์„œ, ์ตœ์ดˆ๋กœ, ์ผ๋ จ์˜ ํ–‰์‚ฌ์—์„œ ์„ ์ˆ˜๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ทธ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค, ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์œ ๋ช…์ธ์‚ฌ๋“ค, ๋ฆฌ๊ทธ ๊ด€๊ณ„์ž๋“ค๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ €ํฌ์˜ ํƒ€๊ฒŸ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค๋„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
I was there, and it was incredible to see Abercrombie at the intersection of fashion, sports and culture, a great finish to our 2025 season and the perfect kickoff to 2026. Our ongoing investments across channels continue to pay off in 2025. We saw growth in the stores and digital direct channels for a third consecutive year and both remain nicely profitable. In digital, we continue to see strong performance, finishing the year with that channel delivering 44% of total sales. We also surpassed 1 billion visits across our platforms for the first time, demonstrating the scale and direct reach we have with our customers.์ œ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ ์ž๋ฆฌ์— ์žˆ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์• ๋ฒ„ํฌ๋กฌ๋น„๊ฐ€ ํŒจ์…˜, ์Šคํฌ์ธ , ๋ฌธํ™”์˜ ๊ต์ฐจ์ ์— ์„œ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์€ ์ •๋ง ์ธ์ƒ ๊นŠ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” 2025๋…„ ์‹œ์ฆŒ์˜ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ์ด์ž 2026๋…„์˜ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•œ ์‹œ์ž‘์„ ์•Œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

2025๋…„์—๋„ ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ฑ„๋„์— ๊ฑธ์นœ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ํˆฌ์ž๋Š” ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ๊ฒฐ์‹ค์„ ๋งบ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋งค์žฅ ์ฑ„๋„๊ณผ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์ง์˜ ์ฑ„๋„์—์„œ 3๋…„ ์—ฐ์† ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ธ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋‘ ์ฑ„๋„ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์–‘ํ˜ธํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ๊ฒฌ์กฐํ•œ ์‹ค์ ์„ ์ด์–ด๊ฐ”์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ•ด๋‹น ์ฑ„๋„์ด ์ด ๋งค์ถœ์˜ 44%๋ฅผ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํ•œ ํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์—์„œ ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ 10์–ต ํšŒ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ์„ ๋ŒํŒŒํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ์˜ ์ง์ ‘์ ์ธ ์ ‘์ ๊ณผ ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ์ž…์ฆํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Stores matter to them, too, and we were net openers for a fourth consecutive year, leveraging our digital demand to help us determine where we can better serve Hollister and Abercrombie customers with a physical location. At the center of all these excellent brand, channel and regional accomplishments was our Read and React inventory model. For the third consecutive year, we chased millions of units to support product demand at healthy AURs, helping to drive top line growth. Inventories remain tightly controlled, and we finished the year with units up in the mid-single digits.๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋งค์žฅ ๋˜ํ•œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” 4๋…„ ์—ฐ์† ์ˆœ์ฆ ๋งค์žฅ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์ˆ˜์š”๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ Hollister ๋ฐ Abercrombie ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์  ๋งค์žฅ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ตœ์ ์˜ ์œ„์น˜๋ฅผ ํŒŒ์•…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ, ์ฑ„๋„ ๋ฐ ์ง€์—ญ๋ณ„ ์„ฑ๊ณผ์˜ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์—๋Š” ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ Read and React ์žฌ๊ณ  ๋ชจ๋ธ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 3๋…„ ์—ฐ์†์œผ๋กœ ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ฑด์ „ํ•œ ํ‰๊ท  ๋‹จ์œ„ ํŒ๋งค ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ(AUR)์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ œํ’ˆ ์ˆ˜์š”๋ฅผ ์ถฉ์กฑ์‹œํ‚ค๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ๊ฐœ์˜ ์ œํ’ˆ ๋‹จ์œ„๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ํ™•๋ณดํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฌ๊ณ ๋Š” ์—„๊ฒฉํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์—ฐ๋ง ์žฌ๊ณ  ๋‹จ์œ„๋Š” ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์ค‘๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
I can't overemphasize how hard our team works at this, coordinating product across functions, geographies, channels and partners, all while tariffs were changing the global supply chain landscape week-to-week. So looking forward, we are very excited for 2026. We entered the year with a strong foundation, which includes 2 globally relevant brands, a proven operating model and a strong balance sheet, all managed by a world-class team.์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํŒ€์ด ๋ถ€์„œ, ์ง€์—ญ, ์ฑ„๋„, ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ์กฐ์œจํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ด€์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๋งค์ฃผ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ์ง€ํ˜•์„ ๋ณ€ํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ์™€์ค‘์—๋„ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ํ—Œ์‹ ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์•„๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•ด๋„ ์ง€๋‚˜์น˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์•ž์œผ๋กœ์˜ ์ „๋ง์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 2026๋…„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ํฐ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๊ฑธ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ํ† ๋Œ€ ์œ„์—์„œ ํ•œ ํ•ด๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์€ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ˜ ๋‘ ๊ฐœ์˜ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ, ๊ฒ€์ฆ๋œ ์šด์˜ ๋ชจ๋ธ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํƒ„ํƒ„ํ•œ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์ƒํƒœ๋กœ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ ธ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์€ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ตœ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ํŒ€์ด ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
For the year, our goals for the company are as follows: First, to grow sales across brands with continued investments in owned and operated stores and digital businesses while adding growth from partnerships and new product categories like our recent launch of Baby and Toddler and Abercrombie Kids. Second, to stabilize gross margins as we progress through the year by mitigating as much of the tariff impact as possible. Third, to continue to invest in tools and technologies to improve our speed and efficiency across the product and customer journeys. A good example of this is the go-live of our new merchandising ERP system this month.๊ธˆ๋…„ ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋Š” ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ฒซ์งธ, ์ง์˜์  ๋ฐ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์‚ฌ์—…์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ „ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ด๋ฃจ๊ณ , ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ ๋ฐ ์ตœ๊ทผ ์ถœ์‹œํ•œ ๋ฒ ์ด๋น„ ์•ค ํ† ๋“ค๋Ÿฌ, ์• ๋ฒ„ํฌ๋กฌ๋น„ ํ‚ค์ฆˆ์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์‹ ๊ทœ ์ œํ’ˆ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋„๋ชจํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‘˜์งธ, ์—ฐ์ค‘ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ํ•œ ๊ด€์„ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ตœ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์™„ํ™”ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ์„ ์•ˆ์ •ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์…‹์งธ, ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์—ฌ์ • ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์†๋„์™€ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ํˆด๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์— ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํˆฌ์žํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ข‹์€ ์˜ˆ์‹œ๋กœ, ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋‹ฌ ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋จธ์ฒœ๋‹ค์ด์ง• ERP ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์ด ๊ฐ€๋™์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We're also moving quickly to leverage AI to benefit the customer, and we're modernizing systems to help us. And finally, to maintain our strong profitability by delivering another year of double-digit operating margins and expansion in earnings per share. We also expect to continue our track record of returning excess cash to shareholders through share repurchases. After closing another record year in 2025, we are off and running on these growth objectives for 2026. We have the team, the experience and the track record of delivering for our customers and our shareholders. Many thanks to the entire organization that makes this happen every single day. The work continues and always forward.๋˜ํ•œ, AI๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์—๊ฒŒ ํ˜œํƒ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ , ์ด๋ฅผ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ํ˜„๋Œ€ํ™”์—๋„ ์‹ ์†ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜์„œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ, ๋˜ ํ•œ ํ•ด ๋‘ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต(EPS)์„ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ฃผ์ฃผ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ดˆ๊ณผ ํ˜„๊ธˆ์„ ํ™˜์›ํ•ด ์˜จ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๊ณ„์† ์ด์–ด๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2025๋…„์— ๋˜ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ์ธ ํ•œ ํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋งˆ๊ฐํ•œ ํ›„, 2026๋…„์˜ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋“ค์„ ํ–ฅํ•ด ์ˆœ์กฐ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ์ฃผ์ฃผ๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•ด ์˜จ ํŒ€๊ณผ ๊ฒฝํ—˜, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋งค์ผ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ „์ฒด ์กฐ์ง์— ๊นŠ์ด ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—…๋ฌด๋Š” ๊ณ„์†๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ „์ง„ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
And with that, I'll hand it over to Robert. Robert Ball
CFO & Executive VP

Thanks, Fran, and good morning, everyone. I'd like to add my thanks to our associates around the world for staying agile and executing consistently throughout 2025. We're really proud of what we've achieved, and we have so much further to go. Starting with Q4 results. We delivered net sales of $1.67 billion, up 5% to last year on a reported basis. Comparable sales for the quarter were up 1% with approximately 100 basis points of benefit from foreign currency. By region, fourth quarter net sales increased 5% in the Americas, 8% in EMEA and 9% in APAC.
์ž, ์ด์ œ ๋กœ๋ฒ„ํŠธ์—๊ฒŒ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

**๋กœ๋ฒ„ํŠธ ๋ณผ (Robert Ball)**
**์ตœ๊ณ ์žฌ๋ฌด์ฑ…์ž„์ž ๊ฒธ ์ˆ˜์„ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ**

ํ”„๋žœ, ๊ณ ๋ง™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„, ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ.

์ € ๋˜ํ•œ 2025๋…„ ํ•œ ํ•ด ๋™์•ˆ ๋ฏผ์ฒฉ์„ฑ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ผ๊ด€์„ฑ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹  ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ž„์ง์› ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ป˜ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์˜ ๋ง์”€์„ ์ „ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ฃฌ ์„ฑ๊ณผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐˆ ๊ธธ์ด ์•„์ง ๋งŽ์ด ๋‚จ์•„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์€ 16์–ต 7์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ธฐ์ค€(reported basis)์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 5% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ด๋‹น ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋น„๊ต ๋งค์ถœ(comparable sales)์€ 1% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์™ธํ™˜์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์•ฝ 100bp(basis points)์˜ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ง€์—ญ๋ณ„๋กœ๋Š” 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์ด ๋ฏธ์ฃผ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ 5%, EMEA ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ 8%, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  APAC ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ 9% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
On a comparable sales basis, Americas was up 2%, EMEA was down 3% and APAC was approximately flat. Within the brands, both Abercrombie and Hollister delivered record fourth quarter net sales. Abercrombie brands returned to net sales growth, up 4% over last year on a comparable sales decline of 1%. Hollister brands net sales grew 6% on comparable sales growth of 3%. Across the business, we saw mid-single-digit AUR growth and low single-digit unit growth on increased traffic. Across regions and brands, the spread from net sales to comparable sales was driven by net new store openings, third-party channel performance and favorable foreign currency.๋™์ ํฌ ๋งค์ถœ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏธ์ฃผ ์ง€์—ญ์€ 2% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๊ณ , EMEA๋Š” 3% ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์•„์‹œ์•„ ํƒœํ‰์–‘ ์ง€์—ญ์€ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋ณ€๋™์ด ์—†์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋ณ„๋กœ๋Š” ์• ๋ฒ„ํฌ๋กฌ๋น„์™€ ํ™€๋ฆฌ์Šคํ„ฐ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์‚ฌ์ƒ ์ตœ๊ณ  4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์• ๋ฒ„ํฌ๋กฌ๋น„ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋Š” ๋™์ ํฌ ๋งค์ถœ์ด 1% ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์Œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 4% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ํšŒ๋ณตํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ™€๋ฆฌ์Šคํ„ฐ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์€ ๋™์ ํฌ ๋งค์ถœ 3% ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ํž˜์ž…์–ด 6% ์„ฑ์žฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์‚ฌ์—… ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ํŠธ๋ž˜ํ”ฝ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์— ํž˜์ž…์–ด ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์ค‘๋ฐ˜๋Œ€์˜ ํ‰๊ท  ํŒ๋งค ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ(AUR) ์„ฑ์žฅ๊ณผ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์ดˆ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€์˜ ํŒ๋งค๋Ÿ‰ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ง€์—ญ ๋ฐ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ๊ณผ ๋™์ ํฌ ๋งค์ถœ ๊ฐ„์˜ ์ฐจ์ด๋Š” ์ˆœ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ ๊ฐœ์ , ์ œ3์ž ์ฑ„๋„ ์‹ค์ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์šฐํ˜ธ์ ์ธ ํ™˜์œจ์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operating margin was 14.1% of sales, coming in at the high end of the outlook we provided in early January, delivering operating income of $236 million compared to $256 million last year. Adjusted EBITDA margin for the quarter was 16.6% of sales on adjusted EBITDA of $276 million compared to $293 million last year. The 210 basis point year-over-year decline in operating margin was driven primarily by 360 basis points of tariff expense, which was partially offset in gross margin by 140 basis points of freight cost favorability, both included in cost of sales.์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ ์€ ๋งค์ถœ ๋Œ€๋น„ 14.1%๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๋ฉฐ, 1์›” ์ดˆ์— ์ œ์‹œํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ „๋ง์น˜์˜ ์ƒ๋‹จ์— ๋ถ€ํ•ฉํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜์—…์ด์ต์€ ์ž‘๋…„ 2์–ต 5,600๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ฐ์†Œํ•œ 2์–ต 3,600๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์กฐ์ • EBITDA ๋งˆ์ง„์€ ๋งค์ถœ ๋Œ€๋น„ 16.6%์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์กฐ์ • EBITDA๋Š” ์ž‘๋…„ 2์–ต 9,300๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ฐ์†Œํ•œ 2์–ต 7,600๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ ์˜ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 210 ๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šค ํฌ์ธํŠธ ํ•˜๋ฝ์€ ์ฃผ๋กœ 360 ๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šค ํฌ์ธํŠธ์˜ ๊ด€์„ธ ๋น„์šฉ์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ด ๋งˆ์ง„์—์„œ 140 ๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šค ํฌ์ธํŠธ์˜ ์šด์ž„ ๋น„์šฉ ์ ˆ๊ฐ ํšจ๊ณผ๋กœ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ์‡„๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์š”์ธ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋งค์ถœ์›๊ฐ€์— ํฌํ•จ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Total operating expenses were in line with last year as a percentage of sales with investments in stores offset by leverage in general and administrative expenses. Marketing was in line with last year as a percentage of sales. The tax rate for the fourth quarter was 28%. Net income per diluted share was above our outlook at $3.68 compared to $3.57 last year. We ended the quarter with inventory at cost up 5%, with approximately 3 points related to tariffs. Inventory units were also up 5%, including approximately 3 points related to strategically building receipts ahead of our planned ERP implementation this month. I'll cover the rest of our results on an adjusted non-GAAP basis.์ด ์˜์—… ๋น„์šฉ์€ ๋งค์ถœ์•ก ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ž‘๋…„๊ณผ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋งค์žฅ ํˆฌ์ž๊ฐ€ ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„์˜ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ์‡„๋˜์—ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ๋น„์šฉ ๋˜ํ•œ ๋งค์ถœ์•ก ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ž‘๋…„๊ณผ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์„ธ์œจ์€ 28%์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํฌ์„ ์ฃผ๋‹น ์ˆœ์ด์ต์€ ์ž‘๋…„ 3.57๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋Œ€๋น„ 3.68๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์ „๋ง์น˜๋ฅผ ์ƒํšŒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ง ๊ธฐ์ค€ ์›๊ฐ€ ์žฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ€ 5% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด ์ค‘ ์•ฝ 3%ํฌ์ธํŠธ๋Š” ๊ด€์„ธ์™€ ๊ด€๋ จ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฌ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜๋Ÿ‰ ๋˜ํ•œ 5% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด ์ค‘ ์•ฝ 3%ํฌ์ธํŠธ๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋‹ฌ ์˜ˆ์ •๋œ ERP ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๊ตฌํ˜„์— ์•ž์„œ ์ „๋žต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ž…๊ณ ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๋Š˜๋ฆฐ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€ ์‹ค์ ์€ ์กฐ์ •๋œ ๋น„์ผ๋ฐ˜ํšŒ๊ณ„๊ธฐ์ค€(Non-GAAP)์œผ๋กœ ์„ค๋ช…๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
For the year, we delivered net sales growth of 6%, reaching a record $5.27 billion. Growth was balanced across regions and channels, supported by mid-single-digit unit growth and low single-digit AUR growth on increased traffic. On a regional basis, net sales were up 7% in the Americas, 6% in EMEA and 5% in APAC. Across the business, we saw 70 basis points of favorable impact from foreign currency. Comparable sales for the year were up 3%, led by the Americas at 4%, with EMEA approximately flat and a 3% decline in APAC. For EMEA and APAC, the favorable spread between net sales and comparable sales was driven by net store openings and third-party channel performance.์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์€ 6% ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜์—ฌ ์‚ฌ์ƒ ์ตœ๊ณ ์น˜์ธ 52์–ต 7์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์€ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ง€์—ญ๊ณผ ์ฑ„๋„์—์„œ ๊ท ํ˜• ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์กŒ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํŠธ๋ž˜ํ”ฝ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์ค‘๋ฐ˜๋Œ€์˜ ํŒ๋งค๋Ÿ‰ ์„ฑ์žฅ๊ณผ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์ดˆ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€์˜ ํ‰๊ท  ํŒ๋งค ๋‹จ๊ฐ€(AUR) ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ํž˜์ž…์€ ๋ฐ” ํฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ง€์—ญ๋ณ„๋กœ๋Š” ๋ฏธ์ฃผ ์ง€์—ญ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์ด 7%, EMEA ์ง€์—ญ์ด 6%, APAC ์ง€์—ญ์ด 5% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์—… ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์™ธํ™˜ ๋ณ€๋™์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ 70bp(๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šค ํฌ์ธํŠธ)์˜ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์ผ ๋งค์žฅ ๋งค์ถœ์€ 3% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฏธ์ฃผ ์ง€์—ญ์ด 4% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ด๋ฅผ ์ฃผ๋„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. EMEA ์ง€์—ญ์€ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋ณ€๋™์ด ์—†์—ˆ๊ณ , APAC ์ง€์—ญ์€ 3% ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. EMEA ๋ฐ APAC ์ง€์—ญ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ๊ณผ ๋™์ผ ๋งค์žฅ ๋งค์ถœ ๊ฐ„์˜ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ์ฐจ์ด๋Š” ์ˆœ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ ๊ฐœ์ ๊ณผ ์ œ3์ž ์ฑ„๋„ ์‹ค์ ์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
EMEA also benefited from favorable foreign currency. By brand, Hollister Brands delivered net sales growth of 15% and comparable sales growth of 13%. At Abercrombie Brands, net sales declined 1% on comparable sales decline of 7%, with the 6-point favorable spread between net sales and comparable sales driven primarily by store openings and third-party channel volume. Operating income for the year was $661 million, an $80 million decline from 2024's record result, driven by approximately $90 million in tariff expense included in cost of sales.EMEA ์ง€์—ญ ๋˜ํ•œ ์šฐํ˜ธ์ ์ธ ํ™˜์œจ์˜ ํ˜œํƒ์„ ๋ณด์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋ณ„๋กœ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด๋ฉด, ํ™€๋ฆฌ์Šคํ„ฐ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋Š” ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ 15% ์„ฑ์žฅ๊ณผ ๋™์ผ ๋งค์žฅ ๋งค์ถœ 13% ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์• ๋ฒ„ํฌ๋กฌ๋น„ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ๋™์ผ ๋งค์žฅ ๋งค์ถœ์ด 7% ๊ฐ์†Œํ•œ ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์€ 1% ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ๊ณผ ๋™์ผ ๋งค์žฅ ๋งค์ถœ ๊ฐ„์˜ 6%p์˜ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ์ฐจ์ด๋Š” ์ฃผ๋กœ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ ๊ฐœ์  ๋ฐ ์ œ3์ž ์ฑ„๋„ ํŒ๋งค๋Ÿ‰ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์˜ฌํ•ด ์˜์—… ์ด์ต์€ 6์–ต 6,100๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” 2024๋…„์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ์ธ ์‹ค์  ๋Œ€๋น„ 8์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ์†Œํ•œ ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐ์†Œ๋Š” ์ฃผ๋กœ ๋งค์ถœ์›๊ฐ€์— ํฌํ•จ๋œ ์•ฝ 9์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ๊ด€์„ธ ๋น„์šฉ์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operating margin was 12.5% of sales, a 250 basis point decline from 2024, also driven by tariff expense, totaling around 170 basis points of sales with additional cost of sales increase driven by product mix. Operating expense as a percentage of sales leveraged slightly with investments in marketing and store occupancy more than offset by leverage on general and administrative expenses. Adjusted EBITDA margin for 2025 was 15.5% of sales on adjusted EBITDA of $816 million compared to $895 million last year. The effective tax rate for the year was 29%. Net income per diluted share was $9.86 compared to $10.69 in 2024. Moving to the balance sheet.์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ ์€ ๋งค์ถœ์˜ 12.5%๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” 2024๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 250bp(๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šค ํฌ์ธํŠธ) ํ•˜๋ฝํ•œ ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ•˜๋ฝ์€ ์ฃผ๋กœ ๊ด€์„ธ ๋น„์šฉ(๋งค์ถœ์˜ ์•ฝ 170bp ๊ทœ๋ชจ)๊ณผ ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ฏน์Šค ๋ณ€ํ™”๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ๋งค์ถœ์›๊ฐ€ ์ƒ์Šน์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ถœ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์˜์—… ๋น„์šฉ์€ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ๋ฐ ๋งค์žฅ ์šด์˜ ๊ด€๋ จ ํˆฌ์ž์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„์˜ ํšจ์œจํ™”๋กœ ์ƒ์‡„๋˜๊ณ ๋„ ๋‚จ์•„ ์†Œํญ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

2025๋…„ ์กฐ์ • EBITDA ๋งˆ์ง„์€ ๋งค์ถœ์˜ 15.5%๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์กฐ์ • EBITDA๋Š” 8์–ต 1,600๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ž‘๋…„์˜ 8์–ต 9,500๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์™€ ๋น„๊ต๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์‹คํšจ์„ธ์œจ์€ 29%์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํฌ์„ ์ฃผ๋‹น ์ˆœ์ด์ต์€ 9.86๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ, 2024๋…„์˜ 10.69๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์™€ ๋น„๊ต๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด์ œ ๋Œ€์ฐจ๋Œ€์กฐํ‘œ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We exited the year with cash and cash equivalents of $760 million and liquidity of approximately $1.2 billion. We also ended the year with current investments of $25 million. For the year, we drove operating cash flow of $619 million and free cash flow of $378 million. For the year, we used $450 million of cash to repurchase a total of 5.4 million shares of stock or 11% of shares outstanding at the beginning of the year. From a direct channel perspective, both stores and digital grew nicely for the third straight year. For the year, 44% of total sales were digital with Hollister around 31% and Abercrombie around 59%.์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์—ฐ๋ง ๊ธฐ์ค€ 7์–ต 6์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ํ˜„๊ธˆ ๋ฐ ํ˜„๊ธˆ ๋“ฑ๊ฐ€๋ฌผ๊ณผ ์•ฝ 12์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์œ ๋™์„ฑ์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์—ฐ๋ง ๊ธฐ์ค€ 2์ฒœ 5๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์œ ๋™ ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ๋ณด์œ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๊ธฐ์ค€, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 6์–ต 1์ฒœ 9๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์˜์—… ํ˜„๊ธˆ ํ๋ฆ„๊ณผ 3์–ต 7์ฒœ 8๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์ž‰์—ฌ ํ˜„๊ธˆ ํ๋ฆ„์„ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๊ฐ„, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 4์–ต 5์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ํ˜„๊ธˆ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์ด 540๋งŒ ์ฃผ์˜ ์ฃผ์‹์„ ๋งค์ž…ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์—ฐ์ดˆ ๋ฐœํ–‰ ์ฃผ์‹ ์ˆ˜์˜ 11%์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ง์ ‘ ์ฑ„๋„ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋งค์žฅ๊ณผ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์ฑ„๋„ ๋ชจ๋‘ 3๋…„ ์—ฐ์† ๊ฒฌ์กฐํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์ „์ฒด ๋งค์ถœ์˜ 44%๊ฐ€ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ๋งค์ถœ์ด์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, Hollister๋Š” ์•ฝ 31%, Abercrombie๋Š” ์•ฝ 59%๋ฅผ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
On the store fleet, we delivered 120 new store experiences, including 62 new stores, 11 rightsizes and 47 remodels. We also closed 22 stores, finishing as a net store opener for the fourth consecutive year. We ended the year with 829 stores, 523 Hollister and 306 A&F across 5.3 million gross square feet, growing square footage by 4% to last year. Both the stores and the digital business remain highly profitable with 4-wall store operating margins around 30% in aggregate. Shifting to our 2026 outlook. For the full year, we expect net sales growth in the range of 3% to 5% from $5.27 billion in 2025, with full year net sales growth expected across brands.๋งค์žฅ ์šด์˜๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ, ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ 62๊ฐœ, ๊ทœ๋ชจ ์ตœ์ ํ™”(rightsizes) 11๊ฐœ, ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง 47๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•˜์—ฌ ์ด 120๊ฐœ์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋งค์žฅ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ 22๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ์„ ํ์ ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, 4๋…„ ์—ฐ์† ์ˆœ๋งค์žฅ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๋ง ๊ธฐ์ค€ ์ด 829๊ฐœ ๋งค์žฅ(ํ™€๋ฆฌ์Šคํ„ฐ 523๊ฐœ, A&F 306๊ฐœ)์„ ์šด์˜ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด ๋ฉด์ ์€ 530๋งŒ ํ‰๋ฐฉํ”ผํŠธ๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 4% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์žฅ ์‚ฌ์—…๊ณผ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋†’์€ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ „์ฒด ๊ฐœ๋ณ„ ๋งค์žฅ ์šด์˜ ๋งˆ์ง„(4-wall store operating margins)์€ ์•ฝ 30%์— ๋‹ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‹ค์Œ์œผ๋กœ 2026๋…„ ์ „๋ง์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์€ 2025๋…„ 52์–ต 7์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋Œ€๋น„ 3%์—์„œ 5% ๋ฒ”์œ„์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์—์„œ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์ด ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We are investing for continued growth in the Americas and EMEA from both owned and operated stores and digital channels as well as from wholesale and licensing partnerships. In APAC, while our business has delivered sales growth in recent years, we do not believe returns have fully reflected the level of investment. Consistent with our commitment to financial discipline, we are undertaking a review of potential strategic alternatives for the region, including the evaluation of options such as partnerships, franchising and licensing with the goal of enhanced profitability, optimized capital deployment and a maintained focus on shareholder value creation.์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฏธ์ฃผ ๋ฐ EMEA ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ์ž์‚ฌ ์†Œ์œ  ๋ฐ ์šด์˜ ๋งค์žฅ๊ณผ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์ฑ„๋„, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋„๋งค ๋ฐ ๋ผ์ด์„ ์‹ฑ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ํˆฌ์žํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. APAC ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ตœ๊ทผ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„ ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์‚ฌ์—…์ด ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ํˆฌ์ž ์ˆ˜์ค€์— ๋น„ํ•ด ์ˆ˜์ต์ด ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ๋ฐ˜์˜๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ํŒ๋‹จํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฌ๋ฌด ๊ทœ์œจ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์•ฝ์†์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ, ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ํ–ฅ์ƒ, ์ž๋ณธ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„ ์ตœ์ ํ™” ๋ฐ ์ฃผ์ฃผ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ฐฝ์ถœ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์ง‘์ค‘์„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ, ํ”„๋žœ์ฐจ์ด์ง• ๋ฐ ๋ผ์ด์„ ์‹ฑ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์˜ต์…˜ ํ‰๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•˜์—ฌ ํ•ด๋‹น ์ง€์—ญ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ž ์žฌ์ ์ธ ์ „๋žต์  ๋Œ€์•ˆ์„ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We currently anticipate 40 basis points of favorable impact to net sales from foreign currency. We have assumed modest AUR improvement for the full year as we've taken some revised ticket pricing across brands, largely focused on fashion elements of the assortment. We expect full year operating margin in the range of 12% to 12.5%. At the midpoint, the year-over-year change reflects approximately 70 basis points of incremental tariff expense or around $40 million incrementally from 2025, net of product mitigation.์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ ํ™˜์œจ ๋ณ€๋™์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์— 40bp(๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šค ํฌ์ธํŠธ)์˜ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์ด ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ •์„ ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ˆ˜์ •ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ฃผ๋กœ ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์ƒ‰์˜ ํŒจ์…˜ ์š”์†Œ์— ์ค‘์ ์„ ๋‘์—ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์™„๋งŒํ•œ AUR(ํ‰๊ท  ํŒ๋งค ๋‹จ๊ฐ€) ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ๊ฐ€์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ ์€ 12%์—์„œ 12.5% ๋ฒ”์œ„๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ค‘๊ฐ„๊ฐ’์„ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๋ณผ ๋•Œ, ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ ์™„ํ™” ์กฐ์น˜ ์ˆœ์•ก ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์•ฝ 70bp์˜ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๊ด€์„ธ ๋น„์šฉ, ์ฆ‰ 2025๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์•ฝ 4์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Our outlook assumes the 15% global tariffs announced by the administration are effective beginning February 24 and are assumed to remain in effect throughout the end of the fiscal year. No tariff refunds or recoveries are assumed for fiscal 2026. We also expect the first half will be favorably impacted by lower year-over-year freight costs normalizing in the back half of the year. We're forecasting a tax rate of around 29%. For earnings per share, we expect diluted weighted average shares of around 45 million, which incorporates the impact of 2025 share repurchases as well as anticipated 2026 share repurchases.์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ „๋ง์—๋Š” ํ–‰์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•œ 15% ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๊ด€์„ธ๊ฐ€ 2์›” 24์ผ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐœํšจ๋˜์–ด ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ๋ง๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ณ„์† ์ ์šฉ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์ •์ด ํฌํ•จ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์—๋Š” ๊ด€์„ธ ํ™˜๊ธ‰์ด๋‚˜ ํšŒ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์—†์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ •ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋‚ฎ์€ ์šด์†ก ๋น„์šฉ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ›์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด ๋น„์šฉ์€ ํ•˜๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ์— ์ •์ƒํ™”๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ธ์œจ์€ ์•ฝ 29%๋กœ ์ „๋งํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผ๋‹น ์ˆœ์ด์ต(EPS)์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, 2025๋…„ ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…๊ณผ 2026๋…„์— ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋Š” ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜์—ฌ ํฌ์„ ๊ฐ€์ค‘ํ‰๊ท  ์ฃผ์‹์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ์•ฝ 4,500๋งŒ ์ฃผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Combined with the tax rate, we expect earnings per share in the range of $10.20 to $11. For capital allocation, we expect capital expenditures in the range of $200 million to $225 million. On stores, we expect to deliver around 125 new experiences, including 55 new stores and 70 rightsizes or remodels. We also expect to be net store openers with our 55 new stores outpacing around 25 anticipated closures. We do expect net store openings to be relatively balanced across brands, but tilted to the Americas. The company has a strong balance sheet and cash flows, and we continue to expect share repurchases will be the primary use of free cash flow.์„ธ์œจ์„ ๊ฐ์•ˆํ•  ๋•Œ, ์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต(EPS)์€ 10.20๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 11๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฒ”์œ„๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž๋ณธ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ๋Š”, ์ž๋ณธ์  ์ง€์ถœ(CapEx)์ด 2์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 2์–ต 2,500๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฒ”์œ„๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์žฅ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ๋Š”, 55๊ฐœ์˜ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ๊ณผ 70๊ฐœ์˜ ๋งค์žฅ ๊ทœ๋ชจ ์ตœ์ ํ™” ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง์„ ํฌํ•จํ•˜์—ฌ ์•ฝ 125๊ฐœ์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋งค์žฅ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, 55๊ฐœ์˜ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ์ด ์•ฝ 25๊ฐœ์˜ ์˜ˆ์ƒ ํ์  ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ์ดˆ๊ณผํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ˆœ๋งค์žฅ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆœ๋งค์žฅ ๊ฐœ์ ์€ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๋น„๊ต์  ๊ท ํ˜•์„ ์ด๋ฃฐ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ฏธ์ฃผ ์ง€์—ญ์— ๋น„์ค‘์ด ๋” ์‹ค๋ฆด ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์ƒํƒœ์™€ ํ˜„๊ธˆ ํ๋ฆ„์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…์ด ์ž‰์—ฌ ํ˜„๊ธˆ ํ๋ฆ„์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ฒ˜๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
For 2026, we are targeting share repurchases of around $450 million. Turning to the first quarter of 2026. We will go live with a new merchandising ERP this month, which will temporarily impact operations for approximately 2 weeks. During this time, we will limit inventory receipts and movement across the business, creating a temporary headwind of approximately 1 to 2 percentage points of growth for the quarter. We also have some incremental implementation costs in the quarter. So in aggregate, we expect the ERP project will have over 100 basis points of unfavorable operating margin impact, which is factored into our Q1 outlook.2026๋…„์—๋Š” ์•ฝ 4์–ต 5์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…์„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

2026๋…„ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋‹ฌ์— ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋จธ์ฒœ๋‹ค์ด์ง• ERP ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ๊ฐ€๋™ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์•ฝ 2์ฃผ ๋™์•ˆ ์ผ์‹œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์šด์˜์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ์‚ฌ์—… ์ „๋ฐ˜์˜ ์žฌ๊ณ  ์ž…๊ณ  ๋ฐ ์ด๋™์„ ์ œํ•œํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ํ•ด๋‹น ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ์•ฝ 1~2%ํฌ์ธํŠธ์˜ ์ผ์‹œ์ ์ธ ์—ญํ’์œผ๋กœ ์ž‘์šฉํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ํ•ด๋‹น ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ๊ตฌํ˜„ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ข…ํ•ฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณผ ๋•Œ, ERP ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋Š” 100bp(๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šค ํฌ์ธํŠธ) ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์˜์—… ๋งˆ์ง„์— ๋ถ€์ •์ ์ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์˜ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ „๋ง์— ๋ฐ˜์˜๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Including those impacts, we expect net sales growth in the range of 1% to 3% from the Q1 2025 level of $1.1 billion, with net sales growth expected across brands. We also expect slight AUR expansion for the quarter. On the evolving Middle East conflict, we currently anticipate a slight sales headwind, and we'll continue to actively monitor the situation alongside our in-market franchise and joint venture partner with safety as our highest priority. We expect operating margin to be around 7%. In addition to over 100 basis points of impact from the ERP implementation, we expect tariffs will drive approximately 290 basis points of decline or $30 million net of product mitigation.์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋“ค์„ ํฌํ•จํ•˜์—ฌ, 2025๋…„ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ 11์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ˆ˜์ค€ ๋Œ€๋น„ 1%์—์„œ 3% ๋ฒ”์œ„์˜ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์—์„œ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ํ•ด๋‹น ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์†Œํญ์˜ AUR(ํ‰๊ท  ํŒ๋งค ๋‹จ๊ฐ€) ์ƒ์Šน์„ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๊ฐœ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ค‘๋™ ๋ถ„์Ÿ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ, ํ˜„์žฌ ๋งค์ถœ์— ์•ฝ๊ฐ„์˜ ์—ญํ’์„ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ˜„์ง€ ํ”„๋žœ์ฐจ์ด์ฆˆ ๋ฐ ํ•ฉ์ž‘ ํˆฌ์ž ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์•ˆ์ „์„ ์ตœ์šฐ์„ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ผ์•„ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ๋งํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ ์€ ์•ฝ 7% ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ERP ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๊ตฌํ˜„์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ 100bp(๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šค ํฌ์ธํŠธ) ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ ์™ธ์—๋„, ๊ด€์„ธ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์•ฝ 290bp์˜ ํ•˜๋ฝ, ์ฆ‰ ์ œํ’ˆ ์™„ํ™” ์กฐ์น˜ ํ›„ ์ˆœ 3์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์ด ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
This will be partially offset by an expected freight tailwind of approximately 160 basis points for the quarter. Marketing investments will also be up around 50 basis points as a percentage of sales, with the remainder of expense in line with Q1 last year in total. We expect a Q1 tax rate around 26%. We expect earnings per share in the range of $1.20 to $1.30, with diluted weighted average shares expected to be around 46 million, including the anticipated impact of at least $100 million in share repurchases for the quarter.์ด๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์•ฝ 160bp(๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šค ํฌ์ธํŠธ)์˜ ์šด์ž„ ์ ˆ๊ฐ ํšจ๊ณผ๋กœ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ์‡„๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ํˆฌ์ž๋Š” ๋งค์ถœ์•ก ๋Œ€๋น„ ์•ฝ 50bp ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ์™ธ ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€ ์ด ๋น„์šฉ์€ ์ž‘๋…„ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์™€ ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ฒ•์ธ์„ธ์œจ์€ ์•ฝ 26%๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต(EPS)์€ 1.20๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 1.30๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฒ”์œ„๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํฌ์„ ๊ฐ€์ค‘ํ‰๊ท  ์ฃผ์‹์ˆ˜๋Š” ์•ฝ 4,600๋งŒ ์ฃผ๋กœ ์ „๋ง๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ˆ˜์น˜์—๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ตœ์†Œ 1์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…์ด ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ์ด ๋ฐ˜์˜๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
In closing, 2026 is underway, and we're excited -- we're executing from a position of strength, supported by a proven model, strong cash flows and disciplined capital allocation. Our outlook is informed by a multiyear track record of delivering on our commitments and reflects our confidence in executing in 2026 and continuing to build towards the long-term opportunities ahead. And with that, operator, we are ready for questions.๋์œผ๋กœ, 2026๋…„์ด ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ž…์ฆ๋œ ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ชจ๋ธ, ํƒ„ํƒ„ํ•œ ํ˜„๊ธˆ ํ๋ฆ„, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์›์น™์— ์ž…๊ฐํ•œ ์ž๋ณธ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„์— ํž˜์ž…์–ด ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์œ„์—์„œ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์‚ฌ์—… ์ „๋ง์€ ์ˆ˜๋…„๊ฐ„ ์•ฝ์†์„ ์ดํ–‰ํ•ด์˜จ ์‹ค์ ์„ ํ† ๋Œ€๋กœ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, 2026๋…„์—๋„ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ํ–ฅํ•ด ๊ณ„์† ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์˜ ํ™•์‹ ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ƒ์œผ๋กœ, ์˜คํผ๋ ˆ์ดํ„ฐ๋‹˜, ์ด์ œ ์งˆ์˜์‘๋‹ต ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฐ–๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ ์š”์•ฝ

Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (ANF) 2025๋…„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์š”์•ฝ:

* **๊ฒฌ์กฐํ•œ 2025๋…„ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค ์ƒํšŒ:** ANF๋Š” 2025๋…„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์ด ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ฅผ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ฒฌ์กฐํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ์ธ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ(5% ์ฆ๊ฐ€)๊ณผ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ๊ด€์„ธ ๋ถ€๋‹ด์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  14.1%์˜ ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์ƒ ์ตœ๋Œ€ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ 53์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ(6% ์ฆ๊ฐ€)์™€ ๋‘ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ  12.5%๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต(10.46๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ)๊ณผ 4์–ต 5์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ์ฃผ์ฃผ ํ™˜์›์„ ๋‹จํ–‰ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
* **2026๋…„ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ „๋ง๊ณผ ์ฃผ์š” ๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ:** 2026๋…„ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋Š” ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ 3~5% ์„ฑ์žฅ๊ณผ 12~12.5%์˜ ๋‘ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ  ์œ ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ œ์‹œํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ๊ด€์„ธ ๋น„์šฉ ์ฆ๊ฐ€


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Operator: [Operator Instructions] The first question comes from Dana Telsey with Telsey Advisory Group.**Operator:** ์ด์ œ ์งˆ์˜์‘๋‹ต ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฐ–๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ํ…”์‹œ ์–ด๋“œ๋ฐ”์ด์ €๋ฆฌ ๊ทธ๋ฃน(Telsey Advisory Group)์˜ ๋ฐ์ด๋‚˜ ํ…”์‹œ๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Dana Telsey: Telsey Advisory Group LLC Certainly nice to see the progress. Fran, after the building blocks that you put in place for '24, for '25, the collaborations that you did with the businesses and frankly, returning to growth in the Abercrombie brand and certainly saw what you saw with the Super Bowl and being the fashion partner, how do you think of the merchandising drivers of 2026 and what you're most excited about to drive growth? And then, Rob, as you think about the building blocks for margins in 2026, how do you think of AUR growth relative to price increases from tariffs and the impact of tariffs on margins going forward?**Dana Telsey:** ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์ •๋ง ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ”„๋žœ๋‹˜, 2024๋…„๊ณผ 2025๋…„์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋งˆ๋ จํ•˜์‹  ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜(building blocks)๊ณผ ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ถ€๋ฌธ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์• ๋ฒ„ํฌ๋กฌ๋น„(Abercrombie) ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ธ ํšŒ๋ณต, ์Šˆํผ๋ณผ(Super Bowl)์—์„œ ํŒจ์…˜ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ(fashion partner)๋กœ์„œ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ์‹  ๋ชจ์Šต ๋“ฑ์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•  ๋•Œ, 2026๋…„์˜ ๋จธ์ฒœ๋‹ค์ด์ง•(merchandising) ๋™๋ ฅ์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉฐ, ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ด๋Œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋˜๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋กญ๋‹˜, 2026๋…„ ๋งˆ์ง„(margin)์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์„ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์‹ค ๋•Œ, ๊ด€์„ธ(tariffs)๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ƒ๊ณผ ๋น„๊ตํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ํ‰๊ท  ํŒ๋งค ๋‹จ๊ฐ€(AUR: Average Unit Retail) ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š”์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ–ฅํ›„ ๋งˆ์ง„์— ๋ฏธ์น  ๊ด€์„ธ์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์€ ์–ด๋– ํ• ์ง€ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค.
CEO & Director: Dana, so excited about what we just delivered for both the fourth quarter as well as the year, most excited that, that was delivered with balance across regions, brands and channels. And what's driving our confidence as we head into 2026 is that it's the first time the company has ever done more than $5 billion in revenue. It's proof that our model is working. We delivered all of that, to your point, the last 3 years actually of double-digit margins, operating margins. So our playbook is working. Our model of chasing, we didn't start the year with an expectation of Hollister to drive 15%. But with that model, we were able to chase millions of units to hit another 15% for Hollister. So I'm excited about the opportunities ahead, and I'm really looking forward to 2026.**CEO & Director:** ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์‹ค์ ์—์„œ๋„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์ง€์—ญ, ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ, ์ฑ„๋„ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๊ท ํ˜• ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

2026๋…„์„ ํ–ฅํ•ด ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€๋ฉด์„œ ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์„ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€, ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ƒ ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ 50์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๋งค์ถœ(revenue)์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์˜ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๋ชจ๋ธ(business model)์ด ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๋Œ€๋กœ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์ง€๋‚œ 3๋…„๊ฐ„ ๋‘ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ (operating margin)์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฆ‰, ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ „๋žต(playbook)์ด ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ˆ˜์š” ์ถ”๊ฒฉ ๋ชจ๋ธ(chasing model)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์—ฐ์ดˆ์— ํ™€๋ฆฌ์Šคํ„ฐ(Hollister)๊ฐ€ 15% ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ด๋Œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ชจ๋ธ ๋•๋ถ„์— ์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ๊ฐœ์˜ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜์—ฌ ํ™€๋ฆฌ์Šคํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋‹ค์‹œ 15% ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ €๋Š” ์•ž์œผ๋กœ์˜ ๊ธฐํšŒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 2026๋…„์ด ์ •๋ง ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Robert Ball: CFO & Executive VP Yes, Dana, so on the tariff impact here, so our outlook does reflect that 15% being kind of held all the way throughout the balance of the year. Obviously, Section 122 here in the front half of the year, and then we're making the assumption of something pretty substantially similar to that carries us through the back half of the year. How that kind of cadences out? So Q1, we talked about this 290 basis point of impact on operating margins. That will be fully incremental year-over-year. We'll start to lap small amounts of tariffs in Q2, really towards the back end of Q2. We talked about $5 million of tariff impact in Q2 of 2025. So we'll start to lap a little bit of that, but again, largely incremental in Q2 before kind of neutralizing in Q3 and then flipping to a bit of a tailwind for us for Q4. So that's kind of the cadence throughout the year. Total impact, incremental impact of about $40 million here for tariffs on a year-over-year basis. So that's roughly 70 basis points. We feel good about the mitigation strategies that we put in place here as it relates to country of origin changes, supplier negotiations, product costing. And then to your last point around pricing, we did take that pricing on spring products starting kind of late Q4. That will ramp as we move through Q1. So really only expecting some slight AUR improvement here in Q1 and then kind of that will build throughout the balance of the year, so give us some modest AUR growth on the full year. So we feel good about the mitigation strategies we put in place. We're tracking to another year of double-digit profitability. So excited to take that into 2026.**Robert Ball:** ๋„ค, ๋‹ค๋‚˜๋‹˜, ๊ด€์„ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ ์ „๋ง์น˜์—๋Š” ์—ฐ๋ง๊นŒ์ง€ 15%์˜ ๊ด€์„ธ์œจ์ด ๊ณ„์† ์œ ์ง€๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์ •์ด ๋ฐ˜์˜๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ 122์กฐ(Section 122)๊ฐ€ ์ ์šฉ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ณ , ํ•˜๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ์—๋„ ์ด์™€ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด ์ด์–ด์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ „๊ฐœ๋ ์ง€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ (operating margins)์— 290bp(basis point)์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์ด ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„(year-over-year) ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ(incremental) ์˜ํ–ฅ์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

2๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์†Œ์•ก์˜ ๊ด€์„ธ๊ฐ€ ์†Œ๋ฉธ๋˜๊ธฐ(lap) ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ํ›„๋ฐ˜๋ถ€์— ์ง‘์ค‘๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2025๋…„ 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” 5๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ๊ด€์„ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์ด ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ๊ด€์„ธ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์˜ํ–ฅ(incremental impact)์ด ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ํด ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ๊ทธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์ด ์ƒ์‡„๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ด๋ฉฐ, 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ(tailwind)์œผ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์˜ฌํ•ด ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์นœ ๋ณ€ํ™”์˜ ํ๋ฆ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ด€์„ธ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์ด ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์˜ํ–ฅ์€ ์•ฝ 4์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์— ๋‹ฌํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋Œ€๋žต 70bp(๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šค ํฌ์ธํŠธ)์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์›์‚ฐ์ง€ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ(country of origin changes), ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด ํ˜‘์ƒ(supplier negotiations), ์ œํ’ˆ ์›๊ฐ€ ์‚ฐ์ •(product costing) ๋“ฑ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์‹œํ–‰ํ•œ ์™„ํ™” ์ „๋žต(mitigation strategies)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ธ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ •(pricing)์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๋‹ต๋ณ€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ํ›„๋ฐ˜๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ด„ ์‹œ์ฆŒ ์ œํ’ˆ(spring products)์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ธ์ƒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ƒ ํšจ๊ณผ๋Š” 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ ์ ์ง„์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•๋Œ€๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ํ‰๊ท  ํŒ๋งค ๋‹จ๊ฐ€ (Average Unit Revenue, AUR)๊ฐ€ ์†Œํญ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ถ”์„ธ๋Š” ์—ฐ๋ง๊นŒ์ง€ ์ ์ง„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ ธ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์™„๋งŒํ•œ AUR ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋งˆ๋ จํ•œ ๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ ์™„ํ™” ์ „๋žต(mitigation strategies)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ธ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ฌํ•ด๋„ ๋‘ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ(profitability)์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ 2026๋…„๊นŒ์ง€๋„ ์ด์–ด๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: And the next question is going to come from Corey Tarlowe with Jefferies.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ์ด์–ด์ง€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Corey Tarlowe: Jefferies LLC, Research Division I wanted to ask first on Hollister, how you think about the sort of the right growth algorithm, if you will, for that segment, areas of success from Q4 and then areas of opportunity in 2026? And then I have a follow-up.**Corey Tarlowe:** ํ™€๋ฆฌ์Šคํ„ฐ ์‚ฌ์—…๋ถ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋จผ์ € ์—ฌ์ญ™๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ด๋‹น ์‚ฌ์—…๋ถ€์˜ ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜(growth algorithm)์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๊ตฌ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€, 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์ด์—ˆ๋˜ ๋ถ€๋ถ„๋“ค์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  2026๋…„์— ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ๋  ๋งŒํ•œ ์˜์—ญ๋“ค์€ ์–ด๋””๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์–ด์„œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
CEO & Director: Corey, so yes, super excited, a big shout out to the Hollister team. I mean, congrats to them on the best year ever, the 11th consecutive quarter of growth. And what's driving that is really being dialed into that team consumer for holiday specifically, we saw winners in categories like fleece and graphics and outerwear. We've invested nicely into that business. We opened lots of new stores this year, refurbished a bunch of stores, spent money on marketing. Our Taco Bell collaboration on Cyber Monday was a terrific success. So I'm excited about the team staying dialed into that customer, staying close to that customer. Spring, we're already seeing some nice response from the consumer. So we're excited to see another year of growth.**CEO & Director:** ๋„ค, ์ •๋ง ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ™€๋ฆฌ์Šคํ„ฐ(Hollister) ํŒ€์— ํฐ ๋ฐ•์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ƒ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ญ๋Œ€ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ํ•œ ํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ƒˆ๊ณ , 11๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์—ฐ์† ์„ฑ์žฅ(consecutive quarter of growth)์„ ์ด๋ฃฌ ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์ถ•ํ•˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ด๋ˆ ์›๋™๋ ฅ์€ ํŠนํžˆ ์—ฐํœด ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ์ Š์€ ์ธต ์†Œ๋น„์ž(team consumer)์—๊ฒŒ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ”Œ๋ฆฌ์Šค(fleece), ๊ทธ๋ž˜ํ”ฝ(graphics), ์•„์šฐํ„ฐ์›จ์–ด(outerwear)์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ(category)์—์„œ ํฐ ์„ฑ๊ณต์„ ๊ฑฐ๋‘์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด ์‚ฌ์—…์— ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋งŽ์€ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋งค์žฅ์„ ์˜คํ”ˆํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋งค์žฅ์„ ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋งํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…(marketing)์—๋„ ๋งŽ์€ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ํˆฌ์žํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ๋จผ๋ฐ์ด(Cyber Monday)์— ์ง„ํ–‰๋œ ํƒ€์ฝ”๋ฒจ(Taco Bell)๊ณผ์˜ ํ˜‘์—…(collaboration)์€ ์—„์ฒญ๋‚œ ์„ฑ๊ณต์„ ๊ฑฐ๋‘์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํŒ€์ด ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ๊ทธ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ธต์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ธด๋ฐ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์†Œํ†ตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํฐ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ด„ ์‹œ์ฆŒ์—๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ข‹์€ ๋ฐ˜์‘์„ ์–ป๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๋˜ ํ•œ ํ•ด์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Corey Tarlowe: Jefferies LLC, Research Division That's great. And then just more for Scott and Robert. There have been periods throughout, I guess, the last 5-plus years where Abercrombie has invested in ERP systems and you haven't called out impacts. What's different about this implementation specifically? What does it allow you to do going forward? And then how should we be thinking about, again, that impact? Is it acute? Or will it be -- will there be any longer-lasting impacts from it?**Corey Tarlowe:** ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ 5๋…„ ์ด์ƒ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ Abercrombie๊ฐ€ ์ „์‚ฌ์  ์ž์› ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ(ERP systems)์— ํˆฌ์žํ–ˆ๋˜ ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๋•Œ๋Š” ํŠน๋ณ„ํžˆ ๊ทธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋ฒˆ ERP ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๊ตฌํ˜„(implementation)์€ ํŠนํžˆ ์–ด๋–ค ์ ์ด ๋‹ค๋ฅธ๊ฐ€์š”? ์ด ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์ด ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์–ด๋–ค ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ์—ด์–ด์ค„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜์‹œ๋‚˜์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์˜ํ–ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ดํ•ดํ•ด์•ผ ํ• ๊นŒ์š”? ๋‹จ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์— ๊ทธ์น ๊นŒ์š”, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์ด ์ง€์†๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์‹œ๋‚˜์š”?
Robert Ball: CFO & Executive VP Yes, great question, Corey. As you noted, this has been a multiyear undertaking for us, and it's great to have go-live in sight here. So the system that we -- that we're replacing was originally built and released about 15 years ago, and it was really architected for a very different business than what we're running today. This new ERP system allows us to support both the owned and operated omni business that we have as well as the expectations of growth that we have across channels and categories in a more efficient way. In terms of what you're seeing here in Q1 and the reason we haven't called out any sales impact in the past is really it's been building, right? This has been building the system, getting ready for this go-live. What you're seeing here in Q1, we've been running parallel with this nonproduction instance for quite a while now. We've completed all the testing, final development, and now we're ready to go live. And that's what's coming up here in the next days and weeks. We feel like we've done the right work to ensure that we've got the units in the stores to support the sales during this transition. But the risk that we're calling out here in the outlook is primarily related to some temporary interruptions in third party and some product interruptions in Chase over the next couple of weeks. In the end, it's all about making us faster as we think about new growth opportunities. So we're really excited to get this new system in place, and we feel like any sort of disruptions kind of contains to this couple of week period here middle of Q1, and we'll be in good shape as we head into Q2.**Robert Ball:** ๋„ค, ์ฝ”๋ฆฌ๋‹˜, ์•„์ฃผ ์ข‹์€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์…จ๋“ฏ์ด, ์ด ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์ˆ˜๋…„๊ฐ„์˜ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์ผ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๊ฐ€๋™(go-live)์ด ๋ˆˆ์•ž์— ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์™”๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ •๋ง ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ต์ฒดํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์€ ์•ฝ 15๋…„ ์ „์— ๊ตฌ์ถ•๋˜์–ด ์ถœ์‹œ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ, ํ˜„์žฌ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ์—…๊ณผ๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๋ชจ๋ธ์— ๋งž์ถฐ ์„ค๊ณ„๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ „์‚ฌ์  ์ž์› ๊ด€๋ฆฌ(ERP) ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์†Œ์œ  ๋ฐ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์˜ด๋‹ˆ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค(omni business)๋ฅผ ์ง€์›ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ๋ชจ๋“  ์ฑ„๋„๊ณผ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋ณด๋‹ค ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š” ๋‚ด์šฉ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์— ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋งค์ถœ ์˜ํ–ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋˜ ์ด์œ ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๊ตฌ์ถ• ๊ณผ์ •์ด์—ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ด๋ฒˆ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๊ฐ€๋™(go-live)์„ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด ๋น„์ƒ์‚ฐ ์ธ์Šคํ„ด์Šค(non-production instance)๋ฅผ ์ƒ๋‹น ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ๋ณ‘ํ–‰ํ•˜์—ฌ ์šด์˜ํ•ด ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋“  ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ์™€ ์ตœ์ข… ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์„ ์™„๋ฃŒํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด์ œ ๋ผ์ด๋ธŒ(go live)ํ•  ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์ˆ˜์ผ, ์ˆ˜์ฃผ ๋‚ด์— ์ง„ํ–‰๋  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ „ํ™˜ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ๋งค์ถœ์„ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋งค์žฅ์— ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•œ ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ์ž‘์—…์„ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ „๋ง(outlook)์—์„œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜๋Š” ์œ„ํ—˜์€ ์ฃผ๋กœ ํ–ฅํ›„ ๋ช‡ ์ฃผ ๋™์•ˆ ์ œ3์ž(third party) ์ธก์˜ ์ผ์‹œ์ ์ธ ์ค‘๋‹จ๊ณผ Chase์—์„œ์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ œํ’ˆ ์ค‘๋‹จ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ฒฐ๊ตญ, ์ด๋Š” ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋ชจ์ƒ‰ํ•  ๋•Œ ์ €ํฌ๋ฅผ ๋” ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๋ฐ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ๋„์ž…ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ์ •๋ง ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜น์‹œ๋ผ๋„ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ์ข…๋ฅ˜์˜ ์ฐจ์งˆ์€ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ(Q1) ์ค‘๋ฐ˜์˜ ์ด ๋ช‡ ์ฃผ๊ฐ„์— ํ•œ์ •๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ(Q2)๋กœ ์ ‘์–ด๋“ค๋ฉด์„œ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ˆœ์กฐ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: And our next question will come from Matthew Boss with JPMorgan.**Operator:** ์ด์ œ ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ JP๋ชจ๊ฑด(JPMorgan)์˜ ๋งคํŠœ ๋ณด์Šค๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Matthew Boss: JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division So Fran, on your target for sales growth at both brands this year, how are you managing the intersection between Abercrombie's return to growth and the moderation at Hollister relative to last year? What do you see as normalized growth for the 2 concepts?**Matthew Boss:** ํ”„๋žœ๋‹˜, ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋‘ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋ชฉํ‘œ(sales growth target)์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Abercrombie๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ธ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์„  ์ ๊ณผ ์ž‘๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ Hollister์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค์†Œ ๋‘”ํ™”๋œ ์  ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ๊ท ํ˜•์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด ๋‘ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ์ •์ƒํ™”๋œ ์„ฑ์žฅ(normalized growth) ์ˆ˜์ค€์€ ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜์‹œ๋‚˜์š”?
CEO & Director: Matt, I mean our goal is obviously to grow both brands each year. Mid-single digits would be a definition of success for us. We're excited to see our model working. I mean, you come out of fourth quarter where we grew the business again on top of a record and actually having another record year on top of 2024 is certainly proof that our operating model is working. I'm excited that you're already seeing confidence in the consumer about some of our -- the increases in prices that Robert talked about a little while ago. Those are ramping up in our assortment, but the acceptance to spring has been good so far. So excited. I think Q4, what it defines, honestly, Matt, is a balanced performance, which is growth across brands, regions and channels, and that is definitely our objective in 2026.**CEO & Director:** ์ €ํฌ์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋Š” ๋งค๋…„ ๋‘ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ๋ชจ๋‘๋ฅผ ์„ฑ์žฅ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์ค‘๋ฐ˜์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์€ ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ชจ๋ธ์ด ์ž˜ ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์„ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ์ธ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ ๋˜๋‹ค์‹œ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์„ฑ์žฅ์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  2024๋…„ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ์ธ ์‹ค์ ์— ๋”ํ•ด ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ์ธ ํ•œ ํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ƒˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์šด์˜ ๋ชจ๋ธ(operating model)์ด ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ํ™•์‹คํ•œ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋กœ๋ฒ„ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ ์ „ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ƒ(price increases)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์ด ์ด๋ฏธ ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ด ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ƒ ํ’ˆ๋ชฉ๋“ค์ด ์ €ํฌ ์ œํ’ˆ๊ตฐ(assortment)์—์„œ ์ ์ฐจ ํ™•๋Œ€๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ด„ ์‹œ์ฆŒ ์ œํ’ˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์†Œ๋น„์ž ์ˆ˜์šฉ๋„๋Š” ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋งค์šฐ ์ข‹์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์†”์งํžˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ(Q4) ์‹ค์ ์€ ๊ท ํ˜• ์žกํžŒ ์„ฑ๊ณผ(balanced performance)๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค€๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ, ์ง€์—ญ, ์ฑ„๋„ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์นœ ์„ฑ์žฅ(growth across brands, regions and channels)์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ 2026๋…„ ์ €ํฌ์˜ ํ™•์‹คํ•œ ๋ชฉํ‘œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Matthew Boss: JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division Great. And then maybe a follow-up for Robert. Could you just break apart the drivers by brand that supports the embedded revenue improvement in the back half of the year?**Matthew Boss:** ๋„ค, ์•Œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋กœ๋ฒ„ํŠธ๊ป˜ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ์— ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋Š” ๋‚ด์žฌ๋œ ๋งค์ถœ ๊ฐœ์„ (embedded revenue improvement)์„ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจํ•˜๋Š” ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋ณ„ ๋™์ธ(drivers)์„ ์ข€ ๋” ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜๋ˆ ์„œ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
Robert Ball: CFO & Executive VP In the back half of the year. In terms of sales, Matt, is that what you're looking at?**Robert Ball:** ๋งท, ํ•˜๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ(sales)์„ ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ€์š”?
Matthew Boss: JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division Yes. Yes, top line improvement [indiscernible] for the year.**Matthew Boss:** ๋„ค, ๋„ค, ์˜ฌํ•ด ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๋งค์ถœ์•ก ๊ฐœ์„ ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Robert Ball: CFO & Executive VP Yes. So again, if you think about where we came out of Q4 around that plus 5 and again, to Fran's point, really balanced across brands, regions, channels, that's kind of what we're carrying into 2026. The big difference in what you're seeing in kind of that step down from Q4 into Q1 with that 1% to 3% guide is really just that ERP impact that we're talking about. It's a couple of points here. But otherwise, it's a pretty consistent build as we kind of think about the full year 2026, and that's how we're running this business. We're setting these clear expectations. We're going to control what we can control, and we've got the operating model that allows us to chase into revenue as we see those trends develop. So feel like we're in a really good place, driving growth on growth and excited to continue that trend here into 2026 in Q1.**Robert Ball:** ๋„ค, ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ (Q4)์— ์•ฝ 5%์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ๊ณ , ํ”„๋žœ์ด ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋“ฏ์ด ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ, ์ง€์—ญ, ์ฑ„๋„ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ท ํ˜• ์žกํžŒ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ 2026๋…„์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง€๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

4๋ถ„๊ธฐ (Q4)์—์„œ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ (Q1)๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค (guidance)๊ฐ€ 1%์—์„œ 3%๋กœ ํ•˜ํ–ฅ ์กฐ์ •๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ํฐ ์ฐจ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ „์‚ฌ์  ์ž์› ๊ด€๋ฆฌ (ERP) ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๋„์ž…์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋ช‡ ํผ์„ผํŠธ ํฌ์ธํŠธ์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ ์™ธ์—๋Š” 2026๋…„ ์ „์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋†“๊ณ  ๋ณผ ๋•Œ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์ผ๊ด€๋œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์ด ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์„ค์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ํ†ต์ œํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ํ†ต์ œํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์‹œ์žฅ ๋™ํ–ฅ์ด ์ „๊ฐœ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด์„œ ๋งค์ถœ (revenue)์„ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์šด์˜ ๋ชจ๋ธ (operating model)์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ”๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋งค์šฐ ์ข‹์€ ์œ„์น˜์— ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋“ญํ•˜๋ฉฐ 2026๋…„ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋„ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ถ”์„ธ๋ฅผ ๊ณ„์† ์ด์–ด๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Scott Lipesky: Executive VP & COO Yes, Matt, this is Scott. Just want to add towards the end there. As we think about store growth, as Robert noted, we're net store growers here for the fourth year in a row. We'll do that again in 2026. And that store growth really ramps up towards the [indiscernible]. So that's a nice fuel to the fire there as we get into the back half of the year.**Scott Lipesky:** ๋งท๋‹˜, ์Šค์บ‡์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ ๋ง๋ถ™์—ฌ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์ ํฌ ์„ฑ์žฅ(store growth)๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ๋กœ๋ฒ„ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋“ฏ์ด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 4๋…„ ์—ฐ์† ์ˆœ์ฆ(net growth)์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026๋…„์—๋„ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ˆœ์ฆ์„ธ๋ฅผ ์ด์–ด๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ์ ํฌ ์„ฑ์žฅ์€ ํ•˜๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฐˆ์ˆ˜๋ก ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ด๋Š” ํ•˜๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ์ ‘์–ด๋“ค๋ฉด์„œ ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์ข‹์€ ์ถ”์ง„๋ ฅ์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: And the next question will come from Paul Lejuez with Citi.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ์”จํ‹ฐ(Citi)์˜ ํด ๋ ˆ์ฃผ์ฆˆ๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Paul Lejuez: Citigroup Inc., Research Division Robert, just a clarification on the ERP system impact. Is that something that we are going to see throughout the entire quarter? Or is that still in front of us? And maybe if you can talk about what you're running quarter-to-date versus what you expect the next 2 months to be? Just want to understand the cadence of that impact. That's just the first question.**Paul Lejuez:** ERP ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ(Enterprise Resource Planning system) ์˜ํ–ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์˜ํ–ฅ์ด ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋‚ด๋‚ด ์ง€์†๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜์‹œ๋Š”์ง€, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์•„์ง ๊ทธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์ด ๋ณธ๊ฒฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๊ธฐ ์ „์ธ๊ฐ€์š”? ๋˜ํ•œ, ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ดˆ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํ˜„์žฌ๊นŒ์ง€์˜ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ƒํ™ฉ๊ณผ ํ–ฅํ›„ ๋‘ ๋‹ฌ ๋™์•ˆ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๊ทธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์˜ ์ถ”์ด(cadence)๋ฅผ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Robert Ball: CFO & Executive VP Yes. I'd say cadence is relatively consistent. Again, great end to fiscal '25 with Q4, carrying that into Q1. The ERP timing is really kind of a 2-week period. We're kind of right in the middle -- right at the start of it here with the go-live. So it's really contained to that couple of weeks. We've gotten the inventory to our stores to support the Easter peak and the spring break time line. So we feel good about providing and supporting our stores through there. It's really just a function of this third-party impact here over the course of the next 2 weeks.**Robert Ball:** ๋„ค, ํ๋ฆ„์€ ๋น„๊ต์  ์ผ๊ด€์ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ง€๋งŒ, 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„(fiscal year) 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ(Q4)๋ฅผ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๊ทธ ๊ธฐ์„ธ๋ฅผ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ(Q1)๋กœ ์ด์–ด๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ERP ๋„์ž… ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ 2์ฃผ ์ •๋„์˜ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์ด๋ฉฐ, ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๊ฐ€๋™(go-live)์ด ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ง€๊ธˆ ๊ทธ ์‹œ์ž‘์ ์— ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ด๋Š” ๊ทธ ๋ช‡ ์ฃผ๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ์ •๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋ถ€ํ™œ์ ˆ ์„ฑ์ˆ˜๊ธฐ(Easter peak)์™€ ๋ด„ ๋ฐฉํ•™ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„(spring break time line)์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋งค์žฅ์— ์žฌ๊ณ (inventory)๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๊ทธ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ๋งค์žฅ์— ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ๊ณต๊ธ‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ง€์›ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ™•์‹ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ํ–ฅํ›„ 2์ฃผ๊ฐ„ ์ด ์ œ3์ž(third-party)์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ์ผ์‹œ์ ์ธ ํ˜„์ƒ์ผ ๋ฟ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Paul Lejuez: Citigroup Inc., Research Division So is the right way to think about it that you're running up, let's say, 3% to 5% outside of that 2-week period and that 2-week period has got to be down significantly to have a 100 to 200 basis point impact on the whole quarter. Is that the right way to think about it?**Paul Lejuez:** ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๊ทธ 2์ฃผ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์„ ์ œ์™ธํ•œ ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์—๋Š” 3%์—์„œ 5% ์ •๋„ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ „์ฒด ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— 100์—์„œ 200 ๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šค ํฌ์ธํŠธ(basis point, bp)์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๋ ค๋ฉด ๊ทธ 2์ฃผ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ์—๋Š” ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ๊ฐ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋งž์„๊นŒ์š”?
Robert Ball: CFO & Executive VP Yes. I don't know that it's down significantly. It's really -- it actually is more of a -- because of the way the third-party flows through, it's really more of a comp to noncomp compression that you'll see here over the course of the next couple of weeks.**Robert Ball:** ๋„ค. ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ ๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์‹ค์€, ์ œ3์ž(third-party) ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๊ฐ€ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ํ–ฅํ›„ ๋ช‡ ์ฃผ์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๋ณด์ƒ(comp) ํ•ญ๋ชฉ๊ณผ ๋น„๋ณด์ƒ(noncomp) ํ•ญ๋ชฉ ๊ฐ„์˜ ์••์ถ•(compression) ํ˜„์ƒ์ด ๋” ๋‘๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์ง€๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Paul Lejuez: Citigroup Inc., Research Division Got it. And then can you just give us an update on your sourcing base, how you've made changes, where you sit as we look out to F '26, just so we can monitor if there are any changes in tariffs by country that we might be able to keep tabs on that.**Paul Lejuez:** ์•Œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ์‹ฑ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜(sourcing base)๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ์ตœ์‹  ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์ข€ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”? ํŠนํžˆ 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„(fiscal year)๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋‹ค๋ณผ ๋•Œ, ์–ด๋–ค ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์…จ๊ณ  ํ˜„์žฌ ์–ด๋–ค ์œ„์น˜์— ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์•ผ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋ณ„ ๊ด€์„ธ(tariffs) ๋ณ€๋™ ์‚ฌํ•ญ์ด ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ๋งํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์„œ์š”.
Robert Ball: CFO & Executive VP Yes. So obviously, we've talked a lot about our sourcing footprint over the course of the last year or so. Really proud of that diversified network that we have in place, and it's taken us years to build. We currently source from over 16 different countries. That's been obviously a core enabler for us in our Read and React model here. Approach isn't changing, Paul. We're always evolving this network to make sure that we can service our brands, help with speed, optimize costs. To your point, the tariffs have clearly introduced some complexity to the supply chain, but our position here has been pretty consistent and changes here take time, and you obviously want to get them right and maintain quality levels. So we're focused on building the right partnerships for the longer term. I think as it relates to some of the more near-term news in the Middle East, we do have some sourcing operations there in the region, haven't experienced any disruptions that would have any sort of meaningful impact to the receipt plans here that underpin our outlook. And so we'll keep monitoring that. We'll keep agile with our sourcing base in total.**Robert Ball:** ๋„ค, ์•„์‹œ๋‹ค์‹œํ”ผ ์ง€๋‚œ 1๋…„์—ฌ ๋™์•ˆ ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์†Œ์‹ฑ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ(sourcing network)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งŽ์ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•œ ๋‹ค๊ฐํ™”๋œ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ •๋ง ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ˆ˜๋…„์ด ๊ฑธ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ 16๊ฐœ๊ตญ ์ด์ƒ์—์„œ ์กฐ๋‹ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์˜ Read and React ๋ชจ๋ธ์—์„œ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ ์ธ ๋™๋ ฅ(enabler)์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์€ ๋ณ€ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์— ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ , ์†๋„๋ฅผ ๋†’์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ตœ์ ํ™”ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ด ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ๋ฅผ ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋ฐœ์ „์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๋Œ€๋กœ, ๊ด€์„ธ(tariffs)๋Š” ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง(supply chain)์— ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ์ผ๋ถ€ ๋ณต์žก์„ฑ์„ ์•ผ๊ธฐํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ž…์žฅ์€ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์ผ๊ด€๋˜์–ด ์™”์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ๋‹น์—ฐํžˆ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ํ’ˆ์งˆ ์ˆ˜์ค€์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ์˜ฌ๋ฐ”๋ฅธ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ(partnership)์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ค‘๋™ ์ง€์—ญ์˜ ์ตœ๊ทผ ์†Œ์‹๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ทธ ์ง€์—ญ์— ์ผ๋ถ€ ์†Œ์‹ฑ(sourcing) ์šด์˜์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ, ํ˜„์žฌ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ „๋ง์„ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจํ•˜๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋ น ๊ณ„ํš(receipt plans)์— ์ค‘๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น  ๋งŒํ•œ ์–ด๋– ํ•œ ์ฐจ์งˆ๋„ ๊ฒช์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์ฃผ์‹œํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „์ฒด ์†Œ์‹ฑ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜(sourcing base)์— ์žˆ์–ด์„œ๋Š” ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ๋ฏผ์ฒฉํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€์‘ํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Paul Lejuez: Citigroup Inc., Research Division Got it. And then last one, just on the APAC strategic review. What's -- just what prompted that? And when should we expect to hear something from you on the outcome of that review?**Paul Lejuez:** ๋„ค, ์•Œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ, APAC(์•„์‹œ์•„ ํƒœํ‰์–‘) ์ „๋žต์  ๊ฒ€ํ† ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์–ด๋–ค ๊ณ„๊ธฐ๋กœ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฒ€ํ† ๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์…จ๋Š”์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ๊ฒ€ํ†  ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์–ธ์ œ์ฏค ์†Œ์‹์„ ๋“ค์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
CEO & Director: I'll jump in on this one. So we have just finished our third year of growth in that region, and we really do believe in the long-term opportunity there. I'll tell you, it's just a matter of assessing our go-to-market strategy within that region. We currently go to market several different ways there. And it's our responsibility to make sure that we are doing that in the most profitable way for our shareholders. And so that's what the announcement was about.**CEO & Director:** ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ•ด๋‹น ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ 3๋…„์งธ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋งˆ์ณค์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๊ณณ์˜ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๊ธฐํšŒ(long-term opportunity)๋ฅผ ์ง„์ •์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†”์งํžˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์ด๋Š” ํ•ด๋‹น ์ง€์—ญ ๋‚ด์—์„œ ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ง„์ถœ ์ „๋žต(go-to-market strategy)์„ ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฌธ์ œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ทธ๊ณณ์—์„œ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ์žฅ์— ์ง„์ถœํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ €ํฌ ์ฃผ์ฃผ(shareholder)๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ฑ…์ž„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ทธ ๋‚ด์šฉ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Paul Lejuez: Citigroup Inc., Research Division Any timing on that, Fran?**Paul Lejuez:** ๊ทธ ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์–ธ์ œ์ฏค์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜์‹œ๋‚˜์š”?
Robert Ball: CFO & Executive VP Early days, I would say. The process is just getting started. So we'll provide updates as we can go forward here as appropriate.**Robert Ball:** ์•„์ง ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ๋ง‰ ์ ˆ์ฐจ๊ฐ€ ์‹œ์ž‘๋œ ์ฐธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ, ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ์‹œ์ ์— ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: And the next question will come from Marni Shapiro with The Retail Tracker.**Operator:** ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ The Retail Tracker์˜ Marni Shapiro๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
The Retail Tracker: I'm curious if you can give us a little bit of an update on some of your licensing efforts, particularly in kids and what that looks like. And then also just -- also on international, you've had some wholesale efforts. I know I think you're on ASOS, for example. I'm curious if your go-to-market in -- maybe in EMEA and APAC would include more wholesale opportunities like that to sort of build your brand regionally alongside your own efforts?**The Retail Tracker:** ์•„๋™ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ๋ผ์ด์„ ์‹ฑ(licensing) ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ์–ด๋–ค ์ƒํ™ฉ์ธ์ง€ ์„ค๋ช… ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ•ด์™ธ ์‚ฌ์—…๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ๋„ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋„๋งค(wholesale) ์ฑ„๋„ ํ™•๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•ด ์˜ค์‹  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด ASOS ๊ฐ™์€ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์—๋„ ์ž…์ ํ•ด ๊ณ„์‹œ์ฃ .

EMEA(์œ ๋Ÿฝ, ์ค‘๋™, ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด) ๋ฐ APAC(์•„์‹œ์•„ ํƒœํ‰์–‘) ์ง€์—ญ์˜ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ง„์ถœ ์ „๋žต์— ์ž์ฒด์ ์ธ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ๋”๋ถˆ์–ด ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋„๋งค ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋” ๋งŽ์ด ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์ง€์—ญ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ(brand)๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์ด ์žˆ์œผ์‹ ์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
CEO & Director: Marni, I'll kick that one off. So yes, to your point, we launched a global licensing opportunity this year with our kids brand, and we are very pleased with the results. In fact, we think it's actually created a halo for many people who didn't even know, many consumers that didn't know, we carry a kids brand. So we saw some nice growth in both our owned and operated as well as for our licensed partner. We recently launched Baby and Toddler, which is also very exciting, so we can now capture that customer from age 0 and carry them all the way through there -- for lifetime value. Regarding your second question, I would say we are entertaining all concepts, licensing, wholesaling, franchising. It's what we're doing as we keep talking about diversifying our operating model. So all of those are opportunities.**CEO & Director:** ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋จผ์ € ๋‹ต๋ณ€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋„ค, ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๋Œ€๋กœ ์˜ฌํ•ด ์ €ํฌ ํ‚ค์ฆˆ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋กœ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๋ผ์ด์„ ์‹ฑ (licensing) ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์— ๋งค์šฐ ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์‹ค, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ํ‚ค์ฆˆ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์กฐ์ฐจ ๋ชฐ๋ž๋˜ ๋งŽ์€ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํ›„๊ด‘ ํšจ๊ณผ (halo effect)๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ง์˜ (owned and operated) ์‚ฌ์—…๊ณผ ๋ผ์ด์„ ์Šค (license) ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋ณด์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ตœ๊ทผ ๋ฒ ์ด๋น„ ๋ฐ ํ† ๋“ค๋Ÿฌ (Baby and Toddler) ๋ผ์ธ์„ ์ถœ์‹œํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋˜ํ•œ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์ธ ์ผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ด์ œ 0์„ธ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜์—ฌ ํ‰์ƒ ๊ฐ€์น˜ (lifetime value)๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋ผ์ด์„ ์‹ฑ (licensing), ๋„๋งค (wholesaling), ํ”„๋žœ์ฐจ์ด์ง• (franchising) ๋“ฑ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ์—ด์–ด๋‘๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์šด์˜ ๋ชจ๋ธ (operating model)์„ ๋‹ค๊ฐํ™” (diversify)ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ณ„์† ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ, ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์ด ๊ธฐํšŒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Scott Lipesky: Executive VP & COO Yes, Marni, as you know, the Europe business is -- Europe retail business, very different than here in the United States. So all of those different opportunities are available to us. We have done a few of them in the past, mainly the digital players that you called out. But there are opportunities in the future in each country to be in department stores, run wholesale businesses, potential concessions way down the line. So we're looking at all of that as we think about how we go to market in Europe.**Scott Lipesky:** ๋„ค, ๋งˆ๋‹ˆ๋‹˜, ์•„์‹œ๋‹ค์‹œํ”ผ ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ์‚ฌ์—…, ํŠนํžˆ ์†Œ๋งค ์‚ฌ์—…์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ๋Š” ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ๋‹ค๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋“ค์ด ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์—ด๋ ค ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์— ๊ทธ ์ค‘ ์ผ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผ๋กœ ๋งˆ๋‹ˆ๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์–ด(digital player)๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜์š”. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํ–ฅํ›„ ๊ฐ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์—์„œ ๋ฐฑํ™”์ ์— ์ž…์ ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ๋„๋งค ์‚ฌ์—…(wholesale business)์„ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๊ณ , ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์ปจ์„ธ์…˜(concession) ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ํ•  ์ž ์žฌ๋ ฅ๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์œ ๋Ÿฝ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ง„์ถœ ์ „๋žต(go-to-market strategy)์„ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
CEO & Director: Yes. If you think about it, it's actually a very exciting time for us. We're getting lots of reach outs, the health and strength of both of our brands. There's a lot of interest out there. So more to come.**CEO & Director:** ๋„ค. ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ณด๋ฉด, ์‚ฌ์‹ค ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ์•„์ฃผ ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์ธ ์‹œ๊ธฐ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ ๋‘ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๊ฐ€ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ฑด์žฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋งŽ์€ ๋ฌธ์˜๊ฐ€ ๋“ค์–ด์˜ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์žฅ์— ์ €ํฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์ด ๋งค์šฐ ๋†’์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์†Œ์‹์ด ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
The Retail Tracker: Fantastic. And can I just ask you one follow-up on the tariffs. Once we get to sort of the back half of the year and we anniversary all the noise from '25, and I guess we're more in a steady state as you think forward into, say, '27, even after '28, should you be able to rebuild March product margins? Or is this kind of the new normal for you guys and for the world?**The Retail Tracker:** ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ด€์„ธ(tariffs)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋“œ๋ ค๋„ ๋ ๊นŒ์š”? ์˜ฌํ•ด ํ•˜๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ์ฏค ๋˜๋ฉด 2025๋…„์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถˆํ™•์‹ค์„ฑ(noise)์ด ํ•ด์†Œ๋˜๊ณ  ์ข€ ๋” ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ ์ƒํƒœ(steady state)์— ์ ‘์–ด๋“ค ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ, 2027๋…„, ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด 2028๋…„ ์ดํ›„๊นŒ์ง€ ๋‚ด๋‹ค๋ณด์‹ค ๋•Œ, 3์›” ์ œํ’ˆ ๋งˆ์ง„(product margins)์„ ํšŒ๋ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ํšŒ์‚ฌ์™€ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์— ์žˆ์–ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ‘œ์ค€(new normal)์ด ๋ ๊นŒ์š”?
Robert Ball: CFO & Executive VP Yes. I mean, I think we'll see. We have a fantastic sourcing network. We've got a great sourcing team. We've been able to maintain these double-digit operating margins despite all of these different headwinds that we have -- we faced, whether that be supply chain disruptions, input cost inflation, inflation across all of operating expenses and now tariffs. So we're working hard. We feel like as long we put great product out there, connect with our customers, continue to give them a great experience, we've got an opportunity to grow AURs and continue to grow this business and provide a really healthy operating margin. So the goal would be, obviously, to try and offset as much of it as possible longer term, but that's a process, and that's what we're kind of working towards here in 2026 with some modest AUR growth, and we'll see how all that goes.**Robert Ball:** ๋„ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ์ž˜ ํ•ด๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ์†Œ์‹ฑ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ์™€ ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚œ ์†Œ์‹ฑ ํŒ€์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง(supply chain) ์ฐจ์งˆ, ์›๊ฐ€(input cost) ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜(inflation), ๋ชจ๋“  ์šด์˜ ๋น„์šฉ(operating expenses)์— ๊ฑธ์นœ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ตœ๊ทผ์˜ ๊ด€์„ธ(tariffs)๊นŒ์ง€, ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ์—ญํ’(headwinds)์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‘ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ (operating margins)์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ์„ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ , ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค๊ณผ ์†Œํ†ตํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ํ•œ, ํ‰๊ท  ํŒ๋งค ๋‹จ๊ฐ€(AURs)๋ฅผ ๋†’์ด๊ณ  ์ด ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ๊ณ„์† ์„ฑ์žฅ์‹œํ‚ค๋ฉฐ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฑด์ „ํ•œ ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋Š” ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ํ•œ ๋งŽ์€ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์ƒ์‡„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 2026๋…„์— ์™„๋งŒํ•œ ํ‰๊ท  ๋‹จ์œ„ ๋งค์ถœ(AUR) ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์ง€์ผœ๋ณผ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: And the next question will come from Mauricio Serna with UBS.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ UBS์˜ Mauricio Serna๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Mauricio Serna Vega: UBS Investment Bank, Research Division First, I just wanted to ask, I mean, what have you seen so far in terms of consumers' reaction to your ticket increases? And I just wanted also to make sure I understood like I guess by quarter-to-date, it sounds that the growth has continued to be consistent versus what you were seeing in Q4. I just wanted to get that clarification.**Mauricio Serna Vega:** ๋จผ์ €, ํ‹ฐ์ผ“ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ƒ(ticket price increases)์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์˜ ๋ฐ˜์‘์ด ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ์–ด๋– ํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ดํ•ดํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€๋ฐ์š”, ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ดˆ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํ˜„์žฌ๊นŒ์ง€(quarter-to-date)์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ธ๊ฐ€ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์™€ ๋น„๊ตํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์ผ๊ด€๋˜๊ฒŒ ์œ ์ง€๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
CEO & Director: Mauricio, so first on the ticket prices. So we mentioned during our last call that our strategy was to start to see some of these ticket increases for our spring product. So as a reminder, we deliver spring around December week 4, January, week 1, and it was going to be very judicious in things in categories like fashion, for example, and we're holding our commitment to our consumer. We did not raise prices in key categories like Denim and opening price point T-shirts. So we are ramping up. It's a portion of our inventory today. The initial response has been good, and we're going to continue with the strategy, and we're going to continue to test and learn as we head through 2026.**CEO & Director:** ๋จผ์ €, ํ‹ฐ์ผ“ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ(ticket prices)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ(conference call)์—์„œ ์ €ํฌ ์ „๋žต์€ ๋ด„ ์‹ ์ œํ’ˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ‹ฐ์ผ“ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 12์›” ๋„ท์งธ ์ฃผ์™€ 1์›” ์ฒซ์งธ ์ฃผ๊ฒฝ์— ๋ด„ ์ƒํ’ˆ์„ ์ถœ์‹œํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํŒจ์…˜๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ฑ…์ •ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์†Œ๋น„์ž์™€์˜ ์•ฝ์†์„ ์ง€ํ‚ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ๋‹˜์ด๋‚˜ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ๋Œ€(opening price point) ํ‹ฐ์…”์ธ ์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ฃผ์š” ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์ธ์ƒํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๋ฅผ ์ ์ง„์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ˜„์žฌ ์ €ํฌ ์žฌ๊ณ (inventory)์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ˜์‘์€ ์ข‹์•˜์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด ์ „๋žต์„ ๊ณ„์† ์ด์–ด๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ 2026๋…„๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋ฉด์„œ ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Robert Ball: CFO & Executive VP Yes. And on your quarter-to-date trends here, Mauricio, so obviously, very encouraged here coming off of a record fourth quarter with balanced performance across brands and regions, off to a good start here across both brands and regions for the first quarter. End of January, the start of February was a little bit choppy with the winter storms that we saw in the U.S. but as we've seen things pick up here once we've kind of gotten out of that disruption period. Most of the volume for the quarter is still ahead of us, and we're expecting growth in Q1 across brands. And again, the only other piece of disruption would be this ERP implementation that we've got going live here in the next couple of weeks. So that will provide a little bit of a onetime headwind for us. But by and large, happy with where we are and excited about how the quarter started.**Robert Ball:** ๋„ค, ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ํ˜„์žฌ๊นŒ์ง€์˜ ์ถ”์ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ์ธ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์ณค๊ณ  ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์™€ ์ง€์—ญ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๊ท ํ˜• ์žกํžŒ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์˜€๊ธฐ์— ๋งค์šฐ ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋„ ์–‘์ชฝ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์™€ ์ง€์—ญ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ์ข‹์€ ์ถœ๋ฐœ์„ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

1์›” ๋ง์—์„œ 2์›” ์ดˆ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•œ ๊ฒจ์šธ ํญํ’์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋‹ค์†Œ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์ •ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ ํ˜ผ๋ž€๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋‹ˆ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํšŒ๋ณต์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ์˜ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ์•„์ง ๋‚จ์•„์žˆ๊ณ , 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์—์„œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์œ ์ผํ•œ ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ˜ผ๋ž€ ์š”์ธ์€ ํ–ฅํ›„ ๋ช‡ ์ฃผ ๋‚ด์— ๊ฐ€๋™๋  ์˜ˆ์ •์ธ ERP (์ „์‚ฌ์  ์ž์› ๊ด€๋ฆฌ, Enterprise Resource Planning) ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๊ตฌํ˜„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์ผ์‹œ์ ์ธ ์—ญํ’(onetime headwind)์œผ๋กœ ์ž‘์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ(quarter)์˜ ์‹œ์ž‘์ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Mauricio Serna Vega: UBS Investment Bank, Research Division Got it. And just a couple of follow-ups on the Q1 guide. On the freight, you called out the tailwind for the quarter. Is that based on contracted rates? And does that remain a tailwind for the year? Or is that like Q1 peak? And then the other point on SG&A, excluding the marketing deleverage, should it be in line with last year in terms of like dollars or percentage of sales? Just trying to get that point of clarification.**Mauricio Serna Vega:** ๋„ค, ์•Œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค(guidance)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋จผ์ € ์šด์ž„(freight)๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ, ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์ˆœํ’(tailwind) ์š”์ธ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ณ„์•ฝ๋œ ์š”์œจ(contracted rates)์— ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ธ์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด ์ˆœํ’ ์š”์ธ์ด ์—ฐ๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ„์† ์œ ์ง€๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š”์ง€, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ •์ (peak)์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‹ค์Œ์œผ๋กœ ํŒ๋งค๋น„์™€๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„(SG&A)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ๋น„์šฉ์˜ ๋น„์ค‘ ํ™•๋Œ€(marketing deleverage)๋ฅผ ์ œ์™ธํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ดค์„ ๋•Œ, ์ž‘๋…„๊ณผ ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ์ ˆ๋Œ€ ๊ธˆ์•ก(dollars)์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ด์•ผ ํ• ์ง€, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ๋งค์ถœ์•ก ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋น„์œจ(percentage of sales)๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ด์•ผ ํ• ์ง€ ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Robert Ball: CFO & Executive VP Yes. So I'll give you some of the building blocks here for Q1. So, you called it out. So we've got this 290 basis points of tariff headwind. That's all incremental to last year. We do have offsetting tailwinds here. So we've got freight. That's about 160 basis points of tailwind. That has to do with how we've shipped product and our contract rates are in place. So that's a yes on that answer. We do have some slight AUR improvements as well that will help offset some of that tariff headwind. And then we've got this 100 basis points of headwind from the ERP go-live this month on the expense -- really kind of flowing through on the expense side. You called out marketing. It's about a 50 basis point headwind for us in Q1. That's really just timing on the year, marketing will be around flattish to last year as a percentage of sales. And then the rest of the expense base should be largely in line with last year's Q1 as a percentage of sales.**Robert Ball:** ๋„ค, 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ๊ตฌ์„ฑ ์š”์†Œ๋ฅผ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๋Œ€๋กœ, ๊ด€์„ธ(tariff)๋กœ ์ธํ•œ 290bp(๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šค ํฌ์ธํŠธ)์˜ ์—ญํ’(headwind)์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฌผ๋ก  ์ด๋ฅผ ์ƒ์‡„ํ•˜๋Š” ์ˆœํ’(tailwind)๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šด์†ก๋น„(freight)๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋ ‡์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ฝ 160bp์˜ ์ˆœํ’ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ œํ’ˆ ์šด์†ก ๋ฐฉ์‹๊ณผ ๊ณ„์•ฝ ์šด์ž„(contract rates)์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ํ‰๊ท  ๋‹จ์œ„ ํŒ๋งค ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ(AUR: Average Unit Retail)๋„ ์†Œํญ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜์–ด ๊ด€์„ธ ์—ญํ’์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ์ƒ์‡„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋‹ฌ ERP ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๊ฐ€๋™(go-live)์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋น„์šฉ(expense) ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ 100bp์˜ ์—ญํ’์ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ฃผ๋กœ ๋น„์šฉ ์ธก๋ฉด์— ๋ฐ˜์˜๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…(marketing) ๋น„์šฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ, 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์•ฝ 50bp์˜ ์—ญํ’์œผ๋กœ ์ž‘์šฉํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ฃผ๋กœ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์‹œ์ ์˜ ์ฐจ์ด์ผ ๋ฟ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ๋น„์šฉ์€ ๋งค์ถœ์•ก ๋Œ€๋น„(as a percentage of sales) ์ž‘๋…„๊ณผ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€ ๋น„์šฉ๋“ค์€ ๋งค์ถœ์•ก ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ž‘๋…„ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์™€ ๋Œ€์ฒด๋กœ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์„ ๋ณด์ผ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: And the next question comes from Jon Keypour with Goldman Sachs.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ๊ณจ๋“œ๋งŒ์‚ญ์Šค(Goldman Sachs)์˜ ์กด ํ‚คํผ๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Jonathan Keypour: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division Just one more thing on the Q1 gross margin. Last year, you guys were lapping carryover inventory drag. It sounds like you won't be -- there won't be any benefit from lapping that. Just wondering how that factors in. And then as a follow-on, what does that sort of imply about your promotional levels going into 1Q? And I guess if you could give a forward-looking statement about where you think promo may or may not be going for the rest of the year?**Jonathan Keypour:** 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ด๋งˆ์ง„(gross margin)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋งŒ ๋” ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž‘๋…„์—๋Š” ์ด์›” ์žฌ๊ณ (carryover inventory) ๋ถ€๋‹ด์ด ํ•ด์†Œ๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ์˜ฌํ•ด๋Š” ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์—†์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ด๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด ์ ์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ˜์˜๋ ์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด์™€ ์—ฐ๊ด€ํ•˜์—ฌ, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ํ”„๋กœ๋ชจ์…˜(promotional) ์ˆ˜์ค€์— ์–ด๋–ค ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜์‹œ๋Š”์ง€์š”? ๋˜ํ•œ, ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋‚จ์€ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ํ”„๋กœ๋ชจ์…˜์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰๋ ์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ „๋ง์„ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
Robert Ball: CFO & Executive VP Yes, Jon. So you're right, we've talked about this lapping of carryover. So that's really a 2024 Q1 dynamic. Q1 of 2025, it was kind of normal. That's the more normal base. So as you think about where we are coming into 2026, nothing that's like a major mover up or down related to carryover levels or anything like that. In terms of promos for Q1, we feel great about where our inventory sits coming into the quarter. Again, once you pull out the kind of front-loading of the inventory that we had to execute here for the ERP, we're up 2% on units. That's a great place to be for us. Both brands are really in chase position now, and that obviously gives us the best opportunity to kind of grow the AURs here. So from a promo standpoint, we feel good about it, all baked into that slight AUR improvement that we're expecting here for the first quarter. And we're in a good position to kind of eat that up and get units flowing and inch that AUR up as we move through the quarter.**Robert Ball:** ๋„ค, ๋งž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์›” ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰(carryover)์˜ ๋น„๊ต ๊ธฐ์ค€์ (lapping)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ ธ์—ˆ์ฃ . ์ด๋Š” 2024๋…„ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋งŒ ํ•ด๋‹น๋˜๋Š” ํŠน์ง•์ ์ธ ํ˜„์ƒ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2025๋…„ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ •์ƒ์ ์ธ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ด์ œ๋Š” ๋” ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ์ค€์ (normal base)์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ 2026๋…„์„ ๋‚ด๋‹ค๋ณผ ๋•Œ, ์ด์›” ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰ ์ˆ˜์ค€ ๋“ฑ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ ์‹ค์ ์— ํฐ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น  ๋งŒํ•œ ๋ณ€๋™ ์š”์ธ์€ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ํ”„๋กœ๋ชจ์…˜(promotion) ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ดˆ ์žฌ๊ณ (inventory) ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ธ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ง€๋งŒ, ERP ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๋„์ž…์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์„ ์ œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์žฌ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์ œ์™ธํ•˜๋ฉด, ๋‹จ์œ„(unit) ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ 2% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๋งค์šฐ ์ข‹์€ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‘ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ๋ชจ๋‘ ํ˜„์žฌ ์ˆ˜์š”๋ฅผ ๋”ฐ๋ผ๊ฐ€๋Š”(chase position) ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ํ‰๊ท  ํŒ๋งค ๋‹จ๊ฐ€(AUR: Average Unit Retail)๋ฅผ ๋†’์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ”„๋กœ๋ชจ์…˜(promotion) ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ธ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ์•ฝ๊ฐ„์˜ AUR(Average Unit Revenue) ๊ฐœ์„ ์— ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ฐ˜์˜๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๋ฅผ ์ž˜ ํ™œ์šฉํ•ด์„œ ํŒ๋งค๋Ÿ‰์„ ๋Š˜๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ง„ํ–‰๋จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ AUR์„ ์ ์ง„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์–ด์˜ฌ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Jonathan Keypour: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division Great. And then just one more follow-up, if I can. Can you guys bracket out what the -- I guess, the difference in your expectations between -- for the full year between the low end and the high end of the guide? So what has to happen to hit the low end? What are you guys baking in to hit the high end?**Jonathan Keypour:** ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค(guidance)์˜ ํ•˜๋‹จ(low end)๊ณผ ์ƒ๋‹จ(high end) ์‚ฌ์ด์— ์–ด๋–ค ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์น˜ ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์ข€ ๋” ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ์ฆ‰, ํ•˜๋‹จ์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ์–ด๋–ค ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ƒ๋‹จ์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์–ด๋–ค ์š”์ธ๋“ค์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Robert Ball: CFO & Executive VP I mean at the end of the day, John, it's all going to be about product execution, right? We got to put the right product out there, which we're off to a great start. We feel good about our assortments here in the first quarter. We got to keep doing it and keep executing as we move throughout the balance of the year. We've got to make sure that our marketing is resonating. We've consistently driven positive traffic to these brands. We've got millions of customers coming into these brands, and we got to keep that going here, and we'll do that with consistent marketing spend here. And then we've got to provide a great experience in our stores. And all of those things kind of that 3% to 5% range, it's all just ranges of outcomes in terms of how we're executing here as we move throughout the year.**Robert Ball:** ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ ์‹คํ–‰(product execution)์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์˜ฌ๋ฐ”๋ฅธ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ์‹œ์žฅ์— ๋‚ด๋†“์•„์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด ์ ์—์„œ๋Š” ์•„์ฃผ ์ˆœ์กฐ๋กœ์šด ์ถœ๋ฐœ์„ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์ƒ‰(assortment)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ๋งŒ์กฑ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋‚จ์€ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ์—๋„ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์ด๋ฅผ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €ํฌ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…์ด ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ž˜ ์ „๋‹ฌ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ํ™•์ธํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋“ค๋กœ ๊พธ์ค€ํžˆ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ํŠธ๋ž˜ํ”ฝ(traffic)์„ ์œ ๋„ํ•ด ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ๋ช…์˜ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ์ด ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋“ค์„ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ณ„์† ์œ ์ง€ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๋Š” ์ผ๊ด€๋œ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ์ง€์ถœ(marketing spend)์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ, ์ €ํฌ ๋งค์žฅ์—์„œ๋Š” ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 3%์—์„œ 5% ๋ฒ”์œ„๋กœ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ์ˆ˜์น˜๋“ค์€, ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์—ฐ์ค‘ ๋‚ด๋‚ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋Š”์ง€์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์ง€๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ƒ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์˜ ๋ฒ”์œ„๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
CEO & Director: The exciting thing, though, Jon, is the operating model that we've created and our ability to chase and stay very agile is key to winning for us. And the example with Hollister last year, we certainly didn't set out expecting to pick up 15%, but our ability to chase millions of units and respond to the customer in real time has enabled us to do that. So we're approaching this year the same way with the expectation for both brands, obviously, to grow in 2026.**CEO & Director:** ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์ •๋ง ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์ธ ์ ์€ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•œ ์šด์˜ ๋ชจ๋ธ(operating model)๊ณผ ๋งค์šฐ ๋ฏผ์ฒฉํ•˜๊ฒŒ(agile) ๋Œ€์‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ถ”๊ฒฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์ด ์ €ํฌ ์„ฑ๊ณต์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž‘๋…„ ํ™€๋ฆฌ์Šคํ„ฐ(Hollister) ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ฒ˜์Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 15% ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ถ„๋ช… ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ, ์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ๊ฐœ์˜ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๊ณต๊ธ‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ ๊ฐ์—๊ฒŒ ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ(real time) ๋Œ€์‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ์ €ํฌ์˜ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์ด ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์˜ฌํ•ด๋„ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์ ‘๊ทผํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฌผ๋ก  ๋‘ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ๋ชจ๋‘ 2026๋…„์—๋Š” ์„ฑ์žฅํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: And the next question comes from Rick Patel with Raymond James.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ๋ ˆ์ด๋ชฌ๋“œ ์ œ์ž„์Šค์˜ ๋ฆญ ํŒŒํ…”๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ํ•ด์ฃผ์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Rakesh Patel: Raymond James & Associates, Inc., Research Division Looking for more color on the building blocks of growth at A&F. Nice to see the expectation for growth. Do you anticipate growth in every quarter? And how do we think about the time line for a return to positive comps?**Rakesh Patel:** A&F์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋™๋ ฅ(building blocks of growth)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ข€ ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๊ฐ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์€ ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ๊ฐ€์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋™์ผ ๋งค์žฅ ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ (comps)์ด ๊ธ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜๋˜๋Š” ์‹œ์ ์€ ์–ธ์ œ์ฏค์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜์‹œ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
CEO & Director: Rick, so yes, excited. The team was hard at work last year. Excited to see that the commitment that we made to returning to growth for the fourth quarter came to be. As a reminder, being down on the full year top line was up against our best year ever in 2024. It's just proof that the brand is healthy. We're going to continue to invest in stores and in marketing. Some of the strength that we saw in the fourth quarter were key categories, fleece, outerwear, YPD, and we're seeing nice acceptance already for spring. So our expectation is to continue to grow throughout 2026.**CEO & Director:** ๋„ค, ์ •๋ง ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž‘๋…„์— ์ €ํฌ ํŒ€์ด ์ •๋ง ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ธ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์•ฝ์†์ด ์‹คํ˜„๋œ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ง€๋งŒ, ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๋งค์ถœ(top line)์ด ๊ฐ์†Œํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ 2024๋…„์ด ์ €ํฌ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ƒ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ๋˜ ํ•ด์˜€๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ฑด์žฌํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ๋งค์žฅ๊ณผ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…์— ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํˆฌ์žํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๊ฐ•์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์˜€๋˜ ๋ถ„์•ผ๋Š” ํ”Œ๋ฆฌ์Šค(fleece), ์•„์šฐํ„ฐ์›จ์–ด(outerwear), YPD ๋“ฑ ์ฃผ์š” ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ด„ ์‹ ์ œํ’ˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ์ข‹์€ ๋ฐ˜์‘์„ ์–ป๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 2026๋…„ ๋‚ด๋‚ด ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ด์–ด๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Rakesh Patel: Raymond James & Associates, Inc., Research Division And just a follow-up on inventory. I appreciate that you're in chase mode, but how do we think about how you're planning units as we think about the price changes that are happening and the potential for demand elasticity?**Rakesh Patel:** ์žฌ๊ณ ์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ์ˆ˜์š”๋ฅผ ์ซ“์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ(chase mode)์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์€ ์ž˜ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ, ํ˜„์žฌ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ธ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๋ณ€๋™๊ณผ ์ˆ˜์š” ํƒ„๋ ฅ์„ฑ(demand elasticity)์˜ ์ž ์žฌ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•  ๋•Œ, ๋‹จ์œ„(unit) ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์„ธ์šฐ๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
Robert Ball: CFO & Executive VP Yes. So thanks, Rick. Units in control, nice, clean, up 5% on the print, again, up 2% once you exclude that ERP. You know how we operate here. We'll keep units tight and aligned with our forward growth expectations for the brands. We're in good shape here leaving 2025 and heading into 2026. We'll continue to flex that muscle and make sure that we're ready to chase across both of the brands.**Robert Ball:** ๋„ค, ๋ฆญ, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ†ต์ œ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์žฌ๊ณ  ๋‹จ์œ„(units in control)๋Š” ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ์ƒ 5% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ERP(์ „์‚ฌ์  ์ž์› ๊ด€๋ฆฌ) ๊ด€๋ จ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์ œ์™ธํ•˜๋ฉด 2% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋“ฑ ๋งค์šฐ ์–‘ํ˜ธํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์„ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์ž˜ ์•„์‹ค ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ํ–ฅํ›„ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์น˜์— ๋งž์ถฐ ์žฌ๊ณ  ๋‹จ์œ„๋ฅผ ์—„๊ฒฉํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ธด๋ฐ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์กฐ์ •ํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2025๋…„์„ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  2026๋…„์œผ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๋Š” ์‹œ์ ์—์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ์ข‹์€ ์ƒํƒœ์— ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๊ณ„์† ๋ฐœํœ˜ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋‘ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ์ˆ˜์š”์— ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ€์‘ํ•  ์ค€๋น„๋ฅผ ๊ฐ–์ถœ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: And the next question will come from Janine Stichter with BTIG.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ ์ด์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Janine Hoffman Stichter: BTIG, LLC, Research Division So on the product execution, can you speak to what you've been seeing on conversion, particularly at the Abercrombie brand? I think it was down a bit in '25, but you did see some improvement as the year went on. What did you see in Q4 into Q1? And then maybe some comments on Hollister conversion as well.**Janine Hoffman Stichter:** ์ œํ’ˆ ์‹คํ–‰(product execution)๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ, ํŠนํžˆ Abercrombie ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ์ „ํ™˜์œจ(conversion rate)์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ณ€ํ™”ํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? 2025๋…„์—๋Š” ๋‹ค์†Œ ํ•˜๋ฝํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์—ฐ๋ง์ด ๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๋ณด์ธ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€๋Š” ์–ด๋–ค ์ถ”์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์˜€๋Š”์ง€ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  Hollister ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์˜ ์ „ํ™˜์œจ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ์ฝ”๋ฉ˜ํŠธ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Robert Ball: CFO & Executive VP Yes. I would say it's more of the same, Janine. We were making progress. The teams leaned in on the A&F side, stayed focused on that consumer, executed against key learnings all the way throughout the year. And at the same time, again, going back to kind of Rick's point here, we kept units in control all the way through, and that allowed us to kind of chase through. That drove improvements in conversion as we move throughout the year, and we kind of saw more of the same headed into Q4. And similar story there with Hollister, conversion has been a nice -- it's been something that's kind of built as we move throughout the year. So reflects the confidence that we have in the assortments that we're putting out there for our consumers, and we're kind of looking to do more of the same here as we move into '26.**Robert Ball:** ๋„ค, Janine, ์ด์ „๊ณผ ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ํ๋ฆ„์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊พธ์ค€ํžˆ ์ง„์ „์„ ์ด๋ฃจ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. A&F ์‚ฌ์—…๋ถ€ ํŒ€๋“ค์€ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ–ˆ๊ณ , ํ•ด๋‹น ์†Œ๋น„์ž์ธต์— ๊ณ„์† ์ง‘์ค‘ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ•œ ํ•ด ๋™์•ˆ ์ฃผ์š” ํ•™์Šต ๋‚ด์šฉ(key learnings)์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ์‹คํ–‰์— ์˜ฎ๊ฒผ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋™์‹œ์—, Rick์˜ ์ง€์ ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์—ฐ์ค‘ ๋‚ด๋‚ด ์žฌ๊ณ  ๋‹จ์œ„(units)๋ฅผ ์ฒ ์ €ํžˆ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋•๋ถ„์— ์ˆ˜์š”๋ฅผ ์ซ“์•„๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์ฃ . ์ด๋Š” ์—ฐ์ค‘ ๋‚ด๋‚ด ์ „ํ™˜์œจ(conversion) ๊ฐœ์„ ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์กŒ๊ณ , 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ(Q4)์—๋„ ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ์–‘์ƒ์ด ๊ณ„์†๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ™•์ธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Hollister๋„ ๋งˆ์ฐฌ๊ฐ€์ง€์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „ํ™˜์œจ์€ ์—ฐ์ค‘ ๋‚ด๋‚ด ๊พธ์ค€ํžˆ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜์–ด ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์„ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ์ƒํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์ƒ‰(assortments)์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ™•์‹ ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, 2026๋…„์—๋„ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ธฐ์กฐ๋ฅผ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์ด์–ด๊ฐˆ ๋ฐฉ์นจ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Janine Hoffman Stichter: BTIG, LLC, Research Division Okay. Great. And maybe just a follow-up to Marni's question. It's been a while since you issued a long-range margin target. A lot's changed, 12% to 12.5% this year. Is that kind of the right level for the business? And if we were to see upside to that, excluding changes to tariffs, where would that come from?**Janine Hoffman Stichter:** ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ๋‹ˆ๋‹˜์˜ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ์ด์–ด์„œ ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฅ๊ธฐ ๋งˆ์ง„(margin) ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•˜์‹  ์ง€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ข€ ์ง€๋‚ฌ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ ๋งŽ์€ ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์˜ฌํ•ด๋Š” 12%์—์„œ 12.5%๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ •๋„ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด ์‚ฌ์—…์— ์ ์ •ํ•œ ๋งˆ์ง„์œจ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š”์ง€์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋งŒ์•ฝ ์ด๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๋†’์€ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๊ด€์„ธ(tariffs) ๋ณ€๋™์„ ์ œ์™ธํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ทธ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ์ƒ์Šน ์š”์ธ์€ ์–ด๋””์—์„œ ์ฐพ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
Robert Ball: CFO & Executive VP Yes. Great question. Not going to provide guidance beyond '26 today, but I think we can talk through some of the underpinnings of the margin constructs that we're talking about, which I think addresses both yours and Marni's questions. I think it's important for us to anchor ourselves that over the past few years, this operating model has delivered double-digit operating margins across all different kinds of environments. The last 3 years, we've gone through freight changes. We've had inflation, input costs from a product standpoint have fluctuated all over the board and obviously, tariffs here for the last bit. And as you think about what underpins this business, it's highly cash generative. We've got highly profitable stores and digital businesses, and we're building capabilities in third party to really accelerate that growth in more of a capital-light way. Our balance sheet is in great shape and it allows us to kind of fund into all of these things and invest in these brands and still return hundreds of million dollars to our shareholders through share repurchases, which I think is kind of in our track record. We've delivered over $1.2 billion back to shareholders through cash since 2021 here through share repurchases, and we're looking to do more of the same here. So all of that really gives us a lot of confidence as it relates to the durability of this model. So while I'm not going to sit here and extend any sort of guidance beyond '26 today, we do think that the fundamentals of this business are incredibly strong, and they position us well to maintain these healthy earnings growth as we continue to build here into the long term.**Robert Ball:** ๋„ค, ์•„์ฃผ ์ข‹์€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ 2026๋…„ ์ดํ›„์˜ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค(guidance)๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋…ผ์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋งˆ์ง„ ๊ตฌ์กฐ(margin construct)์˜ ๊ทผ๊ฐ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž๋‹˜๊ณผ Marni ์”จ์˜ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์— ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋‹ต์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์ ์€ ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ด ์šด์˜ ๋ชจ๋ธ(operating model)์ด ์–ด๋–ค ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ๋“  ๋‘ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์˜์—… ๋งˆ์ง„(operating margin)์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•ด์™”๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ 3๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์šด์ž„ ๋ณ€๋™์„ ๊ฒช์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜(inflation)๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ์˜ ํˆฌ์ž… ๋น„์šฉ(input cost)์€ ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๋ณ€๋™ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฌผ๋ก  ์ตœ๊ทผ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ด€์„ธ(tariff) ๋ฌธ์ œ๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ๊ทผ๊ฐ„์„ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด, ๋งค์šฐ ๋†’์€ ํ˜„๊ธˆ ์ฐฝ์ถœ๋ ฅ(cash generative)์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ์ด ๋†’์€ ๋งค์žฅ๊ณผ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ž๋ณธ ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ(capital-light) ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ œ3์ž(third party) ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์ƒํƒœ๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฑด์ „ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ์‚ฌ์—…์— ์ž๊ธˆ์„ ํˆฌ์žํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์— ํˆฌ์žํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„, ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…(share repurchase)์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ˆ˜์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์ฃผ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํ™˜์›ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์‹ค์ (track record)์—์„œ๋„ ์ž˜ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2021๋…„ ์ดํ›„ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…์„ ํ†ตํ•ด 12์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ด์ƒ์„ ํ˜„๊ธˆ์œผ๋กœ ์ฃผ์ฃผ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํ™˜์›ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์ด์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ณ„์†ํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ์š”์†Œ๋“ค์ด ์ €ํฌ ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ชจ๋ธ์˜ ์ง€์† ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ(durability)์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํฐ ํ™•์‹ ์„ ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ด ์ž๋ฆฌ์—์„œ 2026๋…„ ์ดํ›„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์–ด๋–ค ์ข…๋ฅ˜์˜ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค(guidance)๋ฅผ ์ œ์‹œํ•˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ํŽ€๋”๋ฉ˜ํ„ธ(fundamental)์ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ™•์‹ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ํŽ€๋”๋ฉ˜ํ„ธ์€ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ๊ฑด์ „ํ•œ ์ด์ต ์„ฑ์žฅ(earnings growth)์„ ๊พธ์ค€ํžˆ ์œ ์ง€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์ข‹์€ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: I show no further questions in the queue at this time. I would now like to turn the call back over to Fran for closing remarks.**Operator:** ํ˜„์žฌ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๋ง์”€์„ ์œ„ํ•ด Fran๊ป˜ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
CEO & Director: I want to thank everyone for joining the call today, and we look forward to updating you all on our progress soon.**CEO & Director:** ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค์ฝœ์— ์ฐธ์„ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹  ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์กฐ๋งŒ๊ฐ„ ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋‹ค์‹œ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: This concludes today's conference call. Thank you for participating, and you may now disconnect.**Operator:** ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์€ ์ด๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฐธ์„ํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ํ†ตํ™”๋ฅผ ์ข…๋ฃŒํ•˜์…”๋„ ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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๋‹ค์Œ์€ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ ์š”์•ฝ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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