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| Conagra Brands, Inc. (CAG) Q2 2026 Earnings Call December 19, 2025 9:30 AM EST Company Participants Matthew Neisius - Senior Director of Investor Relations Sean Connolly - President, CEO & Director David Marberger - Executive VP & CFO Conference Call Participants Andrew Lazar - Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division Thomas Palmer - JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division David Palmer - Evercore ISI Institutional Equities, Research Division Peter Galbo - BofA Securities, Research Division Max Andrew Gumport - BNP Paribas, Research Division Robert Moskow - TD Cowen, Research Division Alexia Howard - Sanford C. | # ์ฝ์๊ทธ๋ผ ๋ธ๋๋ (CAG) 2026๋
2๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค์ ๋ฐํ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ 2025๋
12์ 19์ผ ์ค์ 9์ 30๋ถ (๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋๋ถ ํ์ค์) ํ์ฌ ์ฐธ์์ ๋งคํ ๋์ด์์ฐ์ค - ํฌ์์ ๊ด๊ณ ๋ด๋น ์ ์ ์ด์ฌ ์ ์ฝ๋๋ฆฌ - ์ฌ์ฅ, CEO ๊ฒธ ์ด์ฌ ๋ฐ์ด๋น๋ ๋ง๋ฒ๊ฑฐ - ์ ๋ฌด์ด์ฌ ๊ฒธ CFO ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ ์ฐธ์ ์ ๋๋ฆฌ์คํธ ์ค๋๋ฅ ๋ผ์๋ฅด - ๋ฐํด๋ ์ด์ฆ ์ํ, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ ํ ๋ง์ค ํ๋จธ - JP๋ชจ๊ฑด ์ฒด์ด์ค, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ ๋ฐ์ด๋น๋ ํ๋จธ - ์๋ฒ์ฝ์ด ISI ๊ธฐ๊ดํฌ์๊ฐ ๋ถ๋ฌธ ํผํฐ ๊ฐ๋ณด - ๋ฑ ํฌ์ค๋ธ์๋ฉ๋ฆฌ์นด ์ฆ๊ถ, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ ๋งฅ์ค ์ค๋๋ฅ ๊ฒํฌํธ - BNP ํ๋ฆฌ๋ฐ, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ ๋ก๋ฒํธ ๋ชจ์ค์ฝ์ฐ - TD ์ฝ์ฌ, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ ์๋ ์์ ํ์๋ - ์ํฌ๋ C. |
| Bernstein & Co., LLC., Research Division Leah Jordan - Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division Megan Christine Alexander - Morgan Stanley, Research Division Christopher Carey - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division Scott Marks - Jefferies LLC, Research Division Presentation Operator Good day, and welcome to the Conagra Brands Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2026 Earnings Q&A Call. [Operator Instructions] Please note, this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Matt Neisius. Please go ahead. Matthew Neisius Senior Director of Investor Relations Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us. | # ์ปจ์ ๊ทธ๋ผ ๋ธ๋์ฆ 2026 ํ๊ณ์ฐ๋ 2๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค์ ์ง์์๋ต ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ ## ์ฐธ์์ **์ ๋๋ฆฌ์คํธ:** - ๋ฒ์คํ์ธ ์ค ์ปดํผ๋, LLC., ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ - ๋ฆฌ์ ์กฐ๋ - ๊ณจ๋๋ง์ญ์ค ๊ทธ๋ฃน, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ - ๋ฉ๊ฑด ํฌ๋ฆฌ์คํด ์๋ ์ฐ๋ - ๋ชจ๊ฑด์คํ ๋ฆฌ, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ - ํฌ๋ฆฌ์คํ ํผ ์บ๋ฆฌ - ์ฐ์คํ๊ณ ์ํ๋ฆฌํฐ์ฆ, LLC, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ - ์ค์ฝง ๋งํฌ์ค - ์ ํ๋ฆฌ์ค LLC, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ ## ๋ฐํ **๊ตํ์:** ์๋ ํ์ญ๋๊น. ์ปจ์ ๊ทธ๋ผ ๋ธ๋์ฆ 2026 ํ๊ณ์ฐ๋ 2๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค์ ์ง์์๋ต ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ์ ์ค์ ๊ฒ์ ํ์ํฉ๋๋ค. [๊ตํ์ ์๋ด์ฌํญ] ๋ณธ ํ์ฌ๋ ๋ น์๋๊ณ ์์์ ์๋ ค๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. ์ด์ ๋งคํธ ๋์ด์์ฐ์ค์๊ฒ ์งํ์ ๋๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์์ํ์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค. **๋งคํ ๋์ด์์ฐ์ค (ํฌ์์๊ด๊ณ ๋ด๋น ์ ์์ด์ฌ):** ์๋ ํ์ญ๋๊น, ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ. ์ฐธ์ํด ์ฃผ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Once again, I'm joined this morning by Sean Connolly, our CEO; and Dave Marberger, our CFO. We may be making some forward-looking statements and discussing non-GAAP financial measures during this Q&A session. Please see our earnings release, prepared remarks, presentation materials and filings with the SEC in the Investor Relations section of our website for descriptions of our risk factors, GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliations and information on our comparability items. I'll now ask the operator to introduce the first question. | ๋ค์ ํ๋ฒ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ์๋ฉด, ์ค๋ ์์นจ Sean Connolly CEO์ Dave Marberger CFO๊ฐ ํจ๊ป ์๋ฆฌํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ณธ Q&A ์ธ์ ์์ ์ผ๋ถ ๋ฏธ๋์ ๋ง์ง์ (forward-looking statements)์ ํ๊ณ ๋น-GAAP ์ฌ๋ฌด์งํ๋ฅผ ๋ ผ์ํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ํ์์ธ ์ค๋ช , GAAP ๋๋น ๋น-GAAP ์กฐ์ ๋ด์ญ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋น๊ต๊ฐ๋ฅ ํญ๋ชฉ์ ๋ํ ์ ๋ณด๋ ๋น์ฌ ์น์ฌ์ดํธ ํฌ์์๊ด๊ณ(IR) ์น์ ์ ์๋ ์ค์ ๋ฐํ์๋ฃ, ์ฌ์ ์ค๋น๋ฐ์ธ, ํ๋ ์ ํ ์ด์ ์๋ฃ ๋ฐ SEC ์ ์ถ์๋ฅ๋ฅผ ์ฐธ์กฐํด ์ฃผ์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค. ์ด์ ์คํผ๋ ์ดํฐ์๊ฒ ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ์๊ฐํด ๋ฌ๋ผ๊ณ ์์ฒญํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
# Conagra Brands (CAG) 2026๋
2๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค์ ๋ฐํ ์์ฝ
**์ฃผ์ ์ฌ๋ฌด ์งํ ๋ฐ ์ค์ :**
- 2026 ํ๊ณ์ฐ๋ 2๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค์ ๋ฐํ ์งํ (2025๋
12์ 19์ผ)
- ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์ฌ๋ฌด ์์น๋ ์ง์์๋ต ์ธ์
์ด์ ๋จ๊ณ๋ก, ๋ณธ transcript์๋ ๋ฏธํฌํจ
- ์ค์ ์๋ฃ ๋ฐ SEC ์ ์ถ ์๋ฅ๋ ํฌ์์ ๊ด๊ณ ์น์ฌ์ดํธ์์ ํ์ธ ๊ฐ๋ฅ
**๊ฒฝ์์ง ๊ตฌ์ฑ ๋ฐ ์ปค๋ฎค๋์ผ์ด์
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- CEO Sean Connolly, CFO David Marberger ์ฐธ์
- ์ฃผ์ ํฌ์์ํ ์ ๋๋ฆฌ์คํธ๋ค(Barclays, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley ๋ฑ) ๋ค์ ์ฐธ์ฌ
- ์ ๊ท ๋ฐํ ํ ์ง์์๋ต ํ์์ผ๋ก ์งํ
**ํน์ด์ฌํญ:**
- Forward-looking statements ๋ฐ Non-GAAP ์งํ ์ฌ์ฉ ๊ณต์ง
- ์ํ ์์ธ ๋ฐ ๋น๊ต ๊ฐ๋ฅ ํญ๋ชฉ์ ๋ํ ์์ธ ์ ๋ณด๋ ๋ณ๋ ๊ณต์ ์๋ฃ ์ฐธ์กฐ ํ์
- ๋ณธ transcript๋ ์ง์์๋ต ์ธ์
์์ ์ง์ ๋จ๊ณ๋ก, ์ค์ง์ ์ธ ์ฌ๋ฌด ๋
ผ์ ๋ด์ฉ์ ๋ถํฌํจ
*์ฐธ๊ณ : ์ ๊ณต๋ transcript๋ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค์ฝ ๋์
๋ถ๋ง ํฌํจํ๊ณ ์์ด, ์ค์ ์์น, ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค, ๊ฒฝ์์ง ํค ๋ฑ ํต์ฌ ์ ๋ณด ๋ถ์์ด ์ ํ์ ์
๋๋ค.*
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| Operator: Our first question is from Andrew Lazar with Barclays. | **Operator:** ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ ์ง๋ฌธ์ Barclays์ Andrew Lazar๋๊ป์ ์ฃผ์ จ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Andrew Lazar: Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division Happy holidays, everybody. Sean, maybe to start off, you've mentioned in the prepared remarks that you're seeing some of the delayed shipments materialize in December. On top of this, you've got easier comparisons starting in frozen, a return to full merchandising and a full innovation slate that you've talked about, and then some pricing in staples brands with so far expected elasticity. So I guess all in, would you be expecting positive year-over-year organic sales in fiscal 3Q? Or are there other things in the third quarter that we need to keep in mind? | **Andrew Lazar:** ๋ชจ๋๋ค ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์ด ์ฐํด ๋ณด๋ด์ธ์. Sean, ๋จผ์ ์ง๋ฌธ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌ์ ๋ฐ์ธ์์ ์ผ๋ถ ์ง์ฐ๋ ์ถํ๊ฐ 12์์ ์คํ๋๊ณ ์๋ค๊ณ ๋ง์ํ์ จ๋๋ฐ์. ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ๋ํด์ ๋๋์ํ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์์ ๋น๊ต ๊ธฐ์ ๊ฐ ์์ํด์ง๊ณ , ์ ์์ ์ธ ๋จธ์ฒ๋ค์ด์ง์ผ๋ก ๋ณต๊ทํ๊ณ , ๋ง์ํ์ ์ ์ฒด ํ์ ์ ํ ๋ผ์ธ์ ์ด ์๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์คํ ์ดํ ๋ธ๋๋์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์์ด ์ง๊ธ๊น์ง ์์๋ ํ๋ ฅ์ฑ ๋ฒ์ ๋ด์์ ์งํ๋๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ๋ค๋ฉด ์ด ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ข ํฉํ์ ๋, 3๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๋ ๋๋น ์ ๊ธฐ์ ๋งค์ถ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ณ ๊ณ์ ๊ฑด๊ฐ์? ์๋๋ฉด 3๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ผ๋์ ๋์ด์ผ ํ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์์ธ๋ค์ด ์์๊น์? |
| Sean Connolly: President, CEO & Director All right. Let me break that down for you. Yes, I like what I'm seeing so far in December, as we mentioned in the prepared remarks, and I like where we sit going into the second half here with some momentum. We don't provide formal quarterly guidance, but I will say that overall, we do expect organic net sales growth in the second half. And as for the quarterly flows, if you incorporate the information we're sharing today into your models, you will get a more accurate balance between Q3 and Q4. Dave, do you want to add any color to that? | **Sean Connolly:** ๋ค, ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ค๋น๋ ๋ฐ์ธ์์ ์ธ๊ธํ๋ฏ์ด 12์ ํ์ฌ๊น์ง ๋ณด์ด๋ ์ํฉ์ด ๋ง์์ ๋ญ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ด๋ ์ ๋ ๋ชจ๋ฉํ ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ํ๋ฐ๊ธฐ์ ์ง์ ํ๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์์น๋ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ณ ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค๋ฅผ ๊ณต์์ ์ผ๋ก ์ ๊ณตํ์ง๋ ์์ง๋ง, ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ํ๋ฐ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๊ธฐ์ ์๋งค์ถ ์ฑ์ฅ(organic net sales growth)์ ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ณ ์๋ค๋ ์ ์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆด ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ณ ํ๋ฆ๊ณผ ๊ด๋ จํด์๋, ์ค๋ ๊ณต์ ํ๋ ์ ๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋ชจ๋ธ์ ๋ฐ์ํ์๋ฉด 3๋ถ๊ธฐ์ 4๋ถ๊ธฐ ๊ฐ ๋ณด๋ค ์ ํํ ๊ท ํ์ ํ์ ํ์ค ์ ์์ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. Dave, ์ถ๊ฐ๋ก ๋ง์ํ์ค ๋ด์ฉ ์์ผ์ ๊ฐ์? |
| David Marberger: Executive VP & CFO Yes. I mean, Andrew, I think you hit it with the shift in the kind of the trade inventory from Q2 to Q3, wrapping the supply constraints from the prior year and then wrapping the unfavorable Q3 trade adjustment a year ago. They are the 3 big things. | **David Marberger:** ๋ค, ์ค๋๋ฅ๊ฐ ์ ํํ ์ง์ผ์ จ์ต๋๋ค. 2๋ถ๊ธฐ์์ 3๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ์ ํต์ฌ๊ณ ๋ณ๋, ์ ๋ ๋ ๊ณต๊ธ ์ ์ฝ ๋ฌธ์ ์ ํด์, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์๋ 3๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ๋ถ๋ฆฌํ๋ ์ ํต ์กฐ์ ํจ๊ณผ๊ฐ ์ฃผ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ์ง ์์ธ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Andrew Lazar: Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division Great. And then earlier this week, Sean, another food company mentioned a higher cost of volume as shoppers are increasingly sort of waiting to buy more of their needs on promotion. It's not that depth or frequency had changed much, it's just amount of product being sold on deal. And it's partially for them at least seems to be coming at the expense of base or sort of full price volume. I'm just curious if you're seeing the same thing at this point or expect to. You have some vagaries, obviously, because you're getting back to full merchandising in the back half that you didn't have last year. But just trying to get a sense of what you're seeing more broadly in the industry with regard to that sort of dynamic. | **Andrew Lazar:** ์ข์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ , ์ด๋ฒ ์ฃผ ์ด์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ํ ํ์ฌ๊ฐ ํ๋ก๋ชจ์ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ์ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ๋ ค๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋ ์๋น์๋ค์ด ์ฆ๊ฐํ๋ฉด์ ํ์ด ๋ฌผ๋ ๋น์ฉ์ด ๋์์ง๊ณ ์๋ค๊ณ ์ธ๊ธํ์ต๋๋ค. ํ๋ก๋ชจ์ ์ ๊น์ด๋ ๋น๋๊ฐ ํฌ๊ฒ ๋ณํ ๊ฒ์ ์๋์ง๋ง, ํ๋ก๋ชจ์ ์ผ๋ก ํ๋งค๋๋ ์ ํ์ ์์ด ๋์ด๋๊ณ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ์ด๋ ๊ทธ ํ์ฌ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ, ์ด๊ฒ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์ ์ผ๋ก๋ ์ ์๊ฐ ํ๋งค ๋ฌผ๋์ ํฌ์์ํค๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ณด์ ๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ๊ท์ฌ๋ ๊ฐ์ ํ์์ ๋ณด๊ณ ๊ณ์ ์ง, ๋๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ์์ํ๊ณ ๊ณ์ ์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ๊ท์ฌ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ ์๋ ์๋ ์์๋ ์ ๋ฉด์ ์ธ ๋จธ์ฒ๋ค์ด์ง์ ํ๋ฐ๊ธฐ์ ์ฌ๊ฐํ๊ณ ์์ด์ ์ํฉ์ด ๋ค์ ๋ณต์กํ๊ธด ํฉ๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ ๊ณ ์ ๋ฐ์์ ์ด๋ฌํ ์ญํ ๊ด๊ณ์ ๋ํด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ณด๊ณ ๊ณ์ ์ง ํ์ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Sean Connolly: President, CEO & Director Yes. Good question. I saw that. Regarding cost of volume, we have not seen what you just described. Recall, we built our plan to invest margin for continued upward volume inflection in frozen and snacks. And coming into the year, when we built the plan, we fully understood the cost of that inflection from last year when we strung together 6 straight quarters of consistent volume progress prior to running into those temporary supply constraints in frozen that we've talked about previously. So what we're seeing this year is unfolding very consistent with our expectations, which, of course, was based on last year's experience in terms of both costs and lifts. | **Sean Connolly:** ๋ค, ์ข์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. ์ ๋ ๊ทธ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ํ์ธํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ ๋๋น ๋น์ฉ๊ณผ ๊ด๋ จํด์๋ ๋ง์ํ์ ๊ฒ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ์ํฉ์ ๋ณด์ง ๋ชปํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋๋์ํ๊ณผ ์ค๋ต ๋ถ๋ฌธ์์ ์ง์์ ์ธ ๋ฌผ๋ ์ฆ๊ฐ ์ ํ์ ์ํด ๋ง์ง์ ํฌ์ํ๋ ๊ณํ์ ์๋ฆฝํ๋ค๋ ์ ์ ์๊ธฐํด ์ฃผ์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค. ์ฐ์ด์ ๊ณํ์ ์๋ฆฝํ ๋น์, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ด์ ์ ๋ง์๋๋ ธ๋ ๋๋์ํ์ ์ผ์์ ์ธ ๊ณต๊ธ ์ ์ฝ ๋ฌธ์ ์ ์ง๋ฉดํ๊ธฐ ์ ๊น์ง 6๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ฐ์ ์ผ๊ด๋ ๋ฌผ๋ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๋ฌ์ฑํ๋ ์๋ ์ ๊ฒฝํ์ ํตํด ์ด๋ฌํ ์ ํ์ ๋ฐ๋ฅด๋ ๋น์ฉ์ ์ถฉ๋ถํ ์ดํดํ๊ณ ์์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ฌํด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ณด๊ณ ์๋ ์ํฉ์ ๋น์ฉ๊ณผ ์ฑ๊ณผ ์ธก๋ฉด ๋ชจ๋์์ ์๋ ์ ๊ฒฝํ์ ๋ฐํ์ผ๋ก ํ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์์๊ณผ ๋งค์ฐ ์ผ์นํ๊ฒ ์ ๊ฐ๋๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from Tom Palmer with JPMorgan. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ JP๋ชจ๊ฑด์ Tom Palmer๋ก๋ถํฐ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Thomas Palmer: JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division First, I just wanted to, I guess, clarify on the annual outlook. You reiterated sales and operating margin. You did take down Ardent. I think the $30 million is around $0.05 to EPS, if I'm doing the math right. So I guess I'm just trying to bridge, I know there is a range here, but is there something that kind of helps to -- elsewhere in the P&L that helps to make up for Ardent? | **Thomas Palmer:** ๋จผ์ ์ฐ๊ฐ ์ ๋ง์ ๋ํด ํ์ธํ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ๋งค์ถ๊ณผ ์์ ์ด์ต๋ฅ ์ ์ฌํ์ธํ์ จ๋๋ฐ, Ardent๋ ํํฅ ์กฐ์ ํ์ จ์ต๋๋ค. ์ ๊ณ์ฐ์ด ๋ง๋ค๋ฉด 3์ฒ๋ง ๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ ์ฃผ๋น์์ด์ต(EPS) ๊ธฐ์ค์ผ๋ก ์ฝ 0.05๋ฌ๋ฌ ์ ๋์ธ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ฌ์ญค๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์ ๊ฒ์, ๋ฌผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค ๋ฒ์๊ฐ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ์๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค๋ง, Ardent ๊ฐ์๋ถ์ ์์ํ ์ ์๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์์ต๊ณ์ฐ์ ํญ๋ชฉ์ด ์๋์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. |
| David Marberger: Executive VP & CFO Yes, Tom, this is Dave. As you can see, through the first half, our operating profit and our operating margin performance is good. Now there's a lot of kind of puts and takes in terms of the performance both for this quarter and the first half, but we feel good about the momentum. We've had some favorability with the tariff timing that was more Q1. We've had some favorability in chicken inflation, although we're seeing some offsets with beef and pork. And importantly, our core productivity programs are really on track. So we feel good about that, and we feel good about the second half, and Sean just talked about we're forecasting positive organic sales growth for the second half. We do have some headwinds from absorption. We talked about that in the call, and that's just simply us being really diligent in managing our working capital and our inventories, because we're really tracking well on cash flow and we want to make sure that we deliver those numbers. So just given the momentum we have, Tom, and kind of how we plan the year, we think that we can cover the shortfall in Ardent and still stay in the EPS range. | **David Marberger:** ๋ค, ํฐ. ์ ๋ ๋ฐ์ด๋ธ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ณด์๋ค์ํผ ์๋ฐ๊ธฐ ์์ ์ด์ต๊ณผ ์์ ์ด์ต๋ฅ ์ค์ ์ ์ํธํฉ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฒ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ์๋ฐ๊ธฐ ์ค์ ์๋ ์ฌ๋ฌ ์์ธ๋ค์ด ๋ณตํฉ์ ์ผ๋ก ์์ฉํ์ง๋ง, ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ๋ชจ๋ฉํ ์ ๋ํด์๋ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ด์ธ ์ํ ์๊ธฐ์ ๊ด๋ จํด์๋ 1๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๋ฆฌํ ์ธก๋ฉด์ด ์์๊ณ , ๋ญ๊ณ ๊ธฐ ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ ๋ ์ฐํธ์ ์ด์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ชฝ๊ณ ๊ธฐ์ ๋ผ์ง๊ณ ๊ธฐ์์๋ ์ผ๋ถ ์์ ํจ๊ณผ๊ฐ ์๊ธด ํ์ง๋ง์. ์ค์ํ ๊ฒ์ ํต์ฌ ์์ฐ์ฑ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ๋ค์ด ๊ณํ๋๋ก ์ ์งํ๋๊ณ ์๋ค๋ ์ ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ํด ๋ง์กฑํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ํ๋ฐ๊ธฐ ์ ๋ง๋ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ ๋๋ค. ์ ์ด ๋ฐฉ๊ธ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ํ๋ฐ๊ธฐ ์ ๊ธฐ์ ๋งค์ถ ์ฑ์ฅ๋ฅ (organic sales growth)๋ ํ๋ฌ์ค๋ฅผ ์์ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ํก์์จ(absorption) ์ธก๋ฉด์์๋ ์ผ๋ถ ์ญํ์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ์์ ๋ง์๋๋ ธ๋ฏ์ด, ์ด๋ ๋จ์ํ ์ด์ ์๋ณธ(working capital)๊ณผ ์ฌ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋งค์ฐ ์ฒ ์ ํ๊ฒ ๊ด๋ฆฌํ๊ณ ์๋ค๋ ์๋ฏธ์ ๋๋ค. ํ๊ธํ๋ฆ(cash flow)์ด ์ ๋ง ์ ์งํ๋๊ณ ์๊ณ , ๊ทธ ์์น๋ค์ ํ์คํ ๋ฌ์ฑํ๊ณ ์ ํฉ๋๋ค. ํฐ, ํ์ฌ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ง ๋ชจ๋ฉํ ๊ณผ ์ฐ๊ฐ ๊ณํ์ ๊ณ ๋ คํ ๋, Ardent์ ๋ถ์กฑ๋ถ์ ์ถฉ๋นํ๋ฉด์๋ ์ฃผ๋น์์ด์ต(EPS) ๋ฒ์ ๋ด์์ ์ ์งํ ์ ์๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Sean Connolly: President, CEO & Director Tom, it's Sean. Just to remind everybody of one other factor. We guided to a wider range this year than we normally do, because we were very clear-eyed that it's a volatile environment and there can be things that unfold that are very difficult to predict. That's one of the reasons we put out a broader range this year, so that we could navigate things like what you've seen in Ardent and the trading piece of the business and still hit our guidance. So we like where we are. | **Sean Connolly:** ์ฌํด๋ ํ์๋ณด๋ค ๋ ๋์ ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค ๋ฒ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ํ๋ค๋ ์ ์ ๋ค์ ํ๋ฒ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ณ๋์ฑ์ด ํฐ ํ๊ฒฝ์ด๊ณ ์์ธกํ๊ธฐ ๋งค์ฐ ์ด๋ ค์ด ์ผ๋ค์ด ๋ฐ์ํ ์ ์๋ค๋ ์ ์ ๋ช ํํ ์ธ์ํ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฌํด ๋ ๋์ ๋ฒ์๋ฅผ ์ ์ํ ์ด์ ์ค ํ๋๊ฐ ๋ฐ๋ก ์ด๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. Ardent๋ ํธ๋ ์ด๋ฉ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์์ ๋ณด์ ๊ฒ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ์ํฉ๋ค์ ํค์ณ๋๊ฐ๋ฉด์๋ ์ฌ์ ํ ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค๋ฅผ ๋ฌ์ฑํ ์ ์๋๋ก ๋ง์ด์ฃ . ํ์ฌ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์์น๊ฐ ๋ง์์ ๋ญ๋๋ค. |
| Thomas Palmer: JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division Okay. And look, I appreciate more coming here in calendar '26, but I did want to just ask on Project Catalyst. As we think about its potential impact and implementation, should we be thinking about like in some past programs, you've had very clear cost savings targets? And then any sort of like stepped-up spending, be it CapEx related or other types of investments that we should start thinking about? | **Thomas Palmer:** ๋ค, ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. 2026๋ ์ ๋ ๋ง์ ๋ด์ฉ์ด ๋์ฌ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๋ ์ ์ดํดํ๊ณ ์, ํ๋ก์ ํธ ์บํธ๋ฆฌ์คํธ์ ๋ํด ์ฌ์ญค๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ์ ์ฌ์ ์ํฅ๊ณผ ์คํ ๋ฐฉ์์ ์๊ฐํด๋ณผ ๋, ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ๋ค์ฒ๋ผ ๋ช ํํ ๋น์ฉ ์ ๊ฐ ๋ชฉํ๊ฐ ์๋ ๊ฑด๊ฐ์? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ค๋นํฌ์(CapEx) ๊ด๋ จ์ด๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ ํ์ ํฌ์๋ ๊ฐ์, ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ์ผ๋์ ๋์ด์ผ ํ ์ถ๊ฐ ์ง์ถ ๊ณํ์ด ์์๊น์? |
| Sean Connolly: President, CEO & Director Sure. Let me give you just some more color on Catalyst. So in CPG, you've got big core business processes that for the better part of a century have been heavily manual in nature and therefore, not perfect, let's put it that way. Now with technology kind of being democratized for even industries with our margin structure, the access to technologies to automate a lot of these business processes is kind of in an unprecedented place. And that's a pathway to more effectiveness and more efficiency going forward. So we've got a fully dedicated team led by some of my most senior leaders to make sure that we implement this. And it's basically a reengineering of core business processes using especially AI for more effectiveness and more efficiency. There undoubtedly will be time to complete the project, there will be cost to complete the project, then there will be a return on the project. And based on what we're seeing after being at this for several months, we're very excited about the potential. And during calendar '26, we'll unpack this in more detail for our investors. | **Sean Connolly:** ๋ค, Catalyst์ ๋ํด ์ข ๋ ์์ธํ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. CPG ์ฐ์
์๋ ๊ฑฐ์ ํ ์ธ๊ธฐ ๋์ ์์์
์ ํฌ๊ฒ ์์กดํด์จ ํต์ฌ ๋น์ฆ๋์ค ํ๋ก์ธ์ค๋ค์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์๋ฒฝํ์ง ์์๋ค๊ณ ๋ง์๋๋ฆด ์ ์์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋ฐ๋ฐ ์ด์ ๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ์ ๋ง์ง ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง ์ฐ์
์์๋ ๊ธฐ์ ์ด ๋์คํ๋๋ฉด์, ์ด๋ฌํ ๋น์ฆ๋์ค ํ๋ก์ธ์ค๋ค์ ์๋ํํ ์ ์๋ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๋ํ ์ ๊ทผ์ฑ์ด ์ ๋ก ์๋ ์์ค์ ์ด๋ฅด๋ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๊ฒ์ด ์์ผ๋ก ๋ ๋์ ํจ๊ณผ์ฑ๊ณผ ํจ์จ์ฑ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ๊ธธ์
๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ ์ต๊ณ ์ ๋ฆฌ๋๋ค์ด ์ด๋๋ ์ ๋ด ํ์ ๊ตฌ์ฑํด์ ์ด๊ฒ์ ํ์คํ ์คํํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ผ๋ก ํนํ AI๋ฅผ ํ์ฉํด์ ํต์ฌ ๋น์ฆ๋์ค ํ๋ก์ธ์ค๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ค๊ณํ์ฌ ๋ ๋์ ํจ๊ณผ์ฑ๊ณผ ํจ์จ์ฑ์ ๋ฌ์ฑํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ฅผ ์๋ฃํ๋ ๋ฐ ์๊ฐ์ด ์์๋ ๊ฒ์ด๊ณ , ๋น์ฉ๋ ๋ค์ด๊ฐ ๊ฒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ์ ๋ฐ๋ฅธ ์์ต๋ ๋ฐ์ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ง๋ ๋ช ๊ฐ์๊ฐ ์งํํด์จ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ฐํ์ผ๋ก ๋ณผ ๋, ์ ํฌ๋ ์ด ํ๋ก์ ํธ์ ์ ์ฌ๋ ฅ์ ๋ํด ๋งค์ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. 2026๋ ์ค์ ํฌ์์ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ๊ป ์ด์ ๋ํ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ๋ด์ฉ์ ์์ธํ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from David Palmer with Evercore. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ์๋ฒ์ฝ์ด์ ๋ฐ์ด๋น๋ ํ๋จธ๋๊ป์ ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| David Palmer: Evercore ISI Institutional Equities, Research Division Great. Just one big picture question. Just looking across your big 2 retail segments, consumption trends on a 2-year basis would seem to imply a return to growth in the second half of this fiscal year, but then again, a modest decline in the first half of fiscal '27. And I only mentioned that because, obviously, I'm trying to sort through the noise of supply chain, not just for your shipments, but for your consumption trends as well. So I guess I'm interested in whether you think multiyear trends can improve, or just maybe point to the things that you're working on to improve that setup into fiscal '27, because I'm looking now and the Street is anticipating some organic sales growth in fiscal '27, but also some earnings growth in that year as well. And any thoughts there? | **David Palmer:** 2๋ ๊ธฐ์ค์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๋ฉด ๋ ๊ฐ์ ์ฃผ์ ๋ฆฌํ ์ผ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์์ ์๋น ํธ๋ ๋๊ฐ ๊ธ๋ ๋ ํ๋ฐ๊ธฐ์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ธ๋ก ๋์์ค ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์ด๋๋ฐ์, ๊ทธ๋ฐ๋ฐ ๋ค์ 27ํ๊ณ์ฐ๋ ์๋ฐ๊ธฐ์๋ ์ํญ ๊ฐ์ํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์๋ฉ๋๋ค. ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์ ์ธ๊ธํ๋ ์ด์ ๋, ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ์๋ฉด, ์ถํ๋๋ฟ๋ง ์๋๋ผ ์๋น ํธ๋ ๋์๋ ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์น๋ ๊ณต๊ธ๋ง ๊ด๋ จ ๋ณ์๋ค์ ์ ๋ฆฌํด๋ณด๋ ค๊ณ ํ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. ์ ์ฒด์ ์ธ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์์ ํ ๊ฐ์ง ์ง๋ฌธ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ ๊ฐ์ ์ถ์ธ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ ๋ ์ ์๋ค๊ณ ๋ณด์๋์ง, ์๋๋ฉด 27 ํ๊ณ์ฐ๋๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ์ํฉ์ ๊ฐ์ ํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์งํ ์ค์ธ ์์ ๋ค์ ๋ง์ํด ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์? ํ์ฌ ์์ฅ์์๋ 27 ํ๊ณ์ฐ๋์ ์ ๊ธฐ์ ๋งค์ถ ์ฑ์ฅ(organic sales growth)๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์์ต ์ฑ์ฅ๋ ์์ํ๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ, ์ด์ ๋ํ ๊ฒฌํด๊ฐ ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Sean Connolly: President, CEO & Director Sure. Well, David, the 2 growth domains for our company, as you know, are frozen and snacks. And so snacks is already, as you saw in the numbers today, growing very robustly and benefiting from things like the bounce back in C-store with gas prices. So we're already at extremely strong growth on snacks, and we've got a very strong snacks marketing plan in the back half of the year to continue the momentum we've got, especially on Slim Jim and FATTY. So that's already growing robustly. Frozen, I know you've had a write-up recently on frozen, and you could see in our prepared materials today, I wouldn't pay too much attention to Q2 year-on-year in frozen, because we had a blockbuster frozen quarter in Q2 last year. And our goal this quarter in frozen was to reclaim the market share that we basically loaned out to a competitor when we had supply constraints beginning last winter. And as you can see in the market share charts today, we've clawed back almost all of that. And our biggest business, frozen single-serve meals, we're almost up to 53%, which is pretty much the high watermark for us there. So on a 2-year basis, when you factor out the fact that we had a huge quarter last Q2, and we didn't repeat the same promotions this quarter, it's actually a very impressive quarter with good upward momentum. And as you look at the back half of the year on that business on frozen, you're going to have more high-quality promotional activity than we had last year, because we were basically out of business on promo last year. And the baseline is looking good as well. And we've got good advertising and innovation and things like that. So we've got good momentum in the underlying trends on our frozen business. Vegetable, I think, is back to a record share, and we've got really good program in the second half. So that all bodes -- obviously, it's too early to talk about '27 right now, but we're going to have very good momentum on frozen as we go into '27, and snacks is already, as I said, growing at near mid-single digits. | **Sean Connolly:** ๋ค, David. ์์๋ค์ํผ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ํ์ฌ์ ๋ ๊ฐ์ง ์ฑ์ฅ ์์ญ์ ๋๋์ํ๊ณผ ์ค๋ต์
๋๋ค. ์ค๋ต์ ์ค๋ ๋ฐํํ ์์น์์ ๋ณด์
จ๋ฏ์ด ์ด๋ฏธ ๋งค์ฐ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ๊ฒ ์ฑ์ฅํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ ๊ฐ ์์น์ ๋ฐ๋ฅธ ํธ์์ ๋งค์ถ ๋ฐ๋ฑ ๊ฐ์ ์์ธ๋ค์ ํํ์ ๋ฐ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ค๋ต์ ์ด๋ฏธ ๊ทน๋๋ก ๊ฐํ ์ฑ์ฅ์ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ ์๊ณ , ํ๋ฐ๊ธฐ์๋ ํนํ Slim Jim๊ณผ FATTY๋ฅผ ์ค์ฌ์ผ๋ก ํ์ฌ์ ๋ชจ๋ฉํ
์ ์ด์ด๊ฐ๊ธฐ ์ํ ๋งค์ฐ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ์ค๋ต ๋ง์ผํ
๊ณํ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ด ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ์ด๋ฏธ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ๊ฒ ์ฑ์ฅํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋๋์ํ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ, ์ต๊ทผ ์ด ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ๋ํ ๋ถ์ ์๋ฃ๋ฅผ ์์ฑํ์ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ์, ์ค๋ ์ค๋น ์๋ฃ์์ ๋ณด์ค ์ ์๋ฏ์ด 2๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋๋์ํ์ ์ ๋ ๋๋น ์ค์ ์๋ ๋๋ฌด ํฐ ์๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋์ง ์์ผ์ ๋ ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ์๋ 2๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ๋๋์ํ์ด ํญ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ์ค์ ์ ๊ธฐ๋กํ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฒ ๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋๋์ํ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ๋ชฉํ๋ ์ง๋ ๊ฒจ์ธ๋ถํฐ ๊ณต๊ธ ์ ์ฝ์ผ๋ก ์ธํด ๊ฒฝ์์ฌ์ ๋ด์คฌ๋ ์์ฅ ์ ์ ์จ์ ๋์ฐพ๋ ๊ฒ์ด์์ต๋๋ค. ์ค๋ ์์ฅ ์ ์ ์จ ์ฐจํธ์์ ๋ณด์๋ค์ํผ, ๊ฑฐ์ ์ ๋ถ๋ฅผ ํ๋ณตํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ต๋ ์ฌ์ ์ธ ๋๋ 1์ธ๋ถ ์์ฌ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์์๋ ๊ฑฐ์ 53%์ ๋ฌํ๋๋ฐ, ์ด๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ฌ์ฑํ ์ต๊ณ ์์ค์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ 2๊ฐ๋ ๊ธฐ์ค์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์๋ 2๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ์์ฒญ๋ ์ค์ ์ ๊ธฐ๋กํ๊ณ ์ด๋ฒ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์๋ ๋์ผํ ํ๋ก๋ชจ์ ์ ๋ฐ๋ณตํ์ง ์์๋ค๋ ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ํ ๋, ์ค์ ๋ก๋ ์๋นํ ์ธ์์ ์ธ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ์ข์ ์์น ๋ชจ๋ฉํ ์ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋๋์ํ ์ฌ์ ์ ํ๋ฐ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์๋ ๋ณด๋ค ๋ ๋ง์ ๊ณ ํ์ง ํ๋ก๋ชจ์ ํ๋์ ์งํํ ์์ ์ ๋๋ค. ์๋ ์๋ ์ฌ์ค์ ํ๋ก๋ชจ์ ์ ๊ฑฐ์ ํ์ง ๋ชปํ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ๋งค์ถ๋ ์ข์ ํ๋ฆ์ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ ์๊ณ ์. ๊ด๊ณ ์ ํ์ ๋ฑ๋ ์ ์งํ๋๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ๋๋์ํ ์ฌ์ ์ ๊ธฐ์ ํธ๋ ๋์์ ์ข์ ๋ชจ๋ฉํ ์ ํ๋ณดํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฑ์ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ์ธ ์์ฅ์ ์ ์จ์ ํ๋ณตํ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํ๋ฉฐ, ํ๋ฐ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๋ง ์ข์ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ์ ์ค๋นํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๊ธ์ ์ ์ธ ์ ํธ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ง๊ธ 27๋ ๋๋ฅผ ๋งํ๊ธฐ๋ ์ด๋ฅด์ง๋ง, 27๋ ๋๋ก ์ง์ ํ๋ฉด์ ๋๋์ํ์์ ๋งค์ฐ ์ข์ ๋ชจ๋ฉํ ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ฒ ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ค๋ต ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ์ค๊ฐ ํ ์๋ฆฟ์ ์ฑ์ฅ๋ฅ ์ ๊ทผ์ ํ ์ฑ์ฅ์ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from Peter Galbo with Bank of America. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ฑ ํฌ์ค๋ธ์๋ฉ๋ฆฌ์นด์ ํผํฐ ๊ฐ๋ณด๋๊ป์ ์ฃผ์ จ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Peter Galbo: BofA Securities, Research Division Sean, I just wanted to get your perspective. You've now had 2 of your largest peers not only talk about but start to enact price cuts. And just asking kind of for your crystal ball into the back half of fiscal '26 and even into early '27, just what that potential activity from some of your largest peers could mean for the group and how you think it translates to some of the actions you all may need to take, obviously, considering that you've announced some pricing in some of the staples portfolio. So would just love your perspective on that, please. | **Peter Galbo:** ๋ ๊ฐ์ ๋ํ ๊ฒฝ์์ฌ๋ค์ด ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธํ์ ๋ํด ์ธ๊ธํ ๋ฟ๋ง ์๋๋ผ ์ค์ ๋ก ์ํํ๊ธฐ ์์ํ ์ํฉ์์, 26 ํ๊ณ์ฐ๋ ํ๋ฐ๊ธฐ์ 27 ํ๊ณ์ฐ๋ ์ด๋ฐ์ ๋ํ ์ ๋ง์ ์ฌ์ญ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฃผ์ ๊ฒฝ์์ฌ๋ค์ ์ด๋ฌํ ์์ง์์ด ์ ๊ณ ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ด๋ค ์๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง ์ ์๋์ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ท์ฌ๊ฐ ์ทจํด์ผ ํ ๋์ ๋ฐฉ์์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ฐ์๋ ์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. ํนํ ๊ท์ฌ๊ฐ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ผ๋ถ ์ํํ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค์์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์กฐ์ ์ ๋ฐํํ์ ์ ์ ๊ณ ๋ คํ ๋, ์ด์ ๋ํ ๊ฒฌํด๋ฅผ ๋ฃ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Sean Connolly: President, CEO & Director Sure. I'll try to give you some color on that, Pete. We don't have a tremendous amount of overlap with some of the other big food companies that you've seen. And in frozen, we're far and away the market leader in our big business. And in our specific snacks categories like meat snacks and seeds, we really don't interact with a lot of the other big food companies. But the way to think about pricing with respect to Conagra is that we have not rolled back price in order to move volume. What we effectively have done on frozen and snacks is we did not take pricing, inflation justified pricing to protect margins, we kept pricing where it was so that we could then layer on a very reasonable and high-quality promotional business that's consistent with what we've done in years past and get those businesses to growth, and that's what we've seen. So we've seen the desired inflection and in some parts of the business, we're already back to growth without lowering list price. We just deferred taking inflation-justified pricing because we were focused on moving volume. So it's a little bit of a different nuance than lowering prices in order to move volume. And when you look at our percent volume sold on deal and you look at depth of discount, you do not see anything beyond what we've done historically. If anything, we're more conservative than what we've done historically. So I guess the net of that is, I would say the volume inflection we're seeing is very efficient. And that's good, and that makes me feel good about this cost of volume concept and how we feel about our guidance for the balance of the year. What part of your question did I miss, Pete? | **Sean Connolly:** ๋ค, ํผํธ, ๊ทธ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ํด ์ข ๋ ์์ธํ ์ค๋ช
ํด ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ํ ์ํ ๊ธฐ์
๋ค๊ณผ ํฌ๊ฒ ๊ฒน์น๋ ๋ถ๋ถ์ด ๋ง์ง ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋๋์ํ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์์๋ ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ์๋์ ์ธ ์์ฅ ์ ๋์ฃผ์์ด๊ณ ์. ์กํฌ๋ ์จ์๋ฅ ๊ฐ์ ํน์ ์ค๋ต ์นดํ
๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์์๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ํ ์ํ ๊ธฐ์
๋ค๊ณผ ์ง์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฒฝ์ํ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๊ฐ ๊ฑฐ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฝ๋๊ทธ๋ผ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ ์ฑ ์ ๋ํด ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ์๋ฉด, ์ ํฌ๋ ํ๋งค๋์ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์ํด ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ์ธํํ์ง ์์์ต๋๋ค. ๋๋์ํ๊ณผ ์ค๋ต ๋ถ๋ฌธ์์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ค์ ๋ก ์ทจํ ์กฐ์น๋ ๋ง์ง ๋ณดํธ๋ฅผ ์ํ ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ ๋ฐ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์์ ํ์ง ์์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ๊ทธ๋๋ก ์ ์งํจ์ผ๋ก์จ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์ ํด์๋ ๊ฒ๊ณผ ์ผ๊ด๋ ํฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ด๊ณ ํ์ง ๋์ ํ๋ก๋ชจ์ ํ๋์ ์ถ๊ฐํ ์ ์์๊ณ , ์ด๋ฅผ ํตํด ํด๋น ์ฌ์ ๋ค์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์ด๋์ด๋์ต๋๋ค. ์ค์ ๋ก ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ํ๋ ๋ณ๊ณก์ ์ ํ์ธํ๊ณ , ์ผ๋ถ ์ฌ์ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์์๋ ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฎ์ถ์ง ์๊ณ ๋ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ฑ์ฅ์ธ๋ก ๋์์ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋จ์ง ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ ์ ๋ฐ์ํ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์์ ๋ฏธ๋ค์ ๋ฟ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ ํ๋์ ์ง์คํ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด์ฃ . ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ด๋ ๋ฌผ๋์ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์ํด ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ๋ฎ์ถ๋ ๊ฒ๊ณผ๋ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋์์ค์ ๋๋ค. ๊ฑฐ๋ ์ ํ๋งค๋ ๋ฌผ๋ ๋น์จ๊ณผ ํ ์ธ ํญ์ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์ ํ๋ ๊ฒ ์ด์์ ์ด๋ค ๊ฒ๋ ๋ณด์ด์ง ์์ต๋๋ค. ์คํ๋ ค ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ๋ณด๋ค ๋ ๋ณด์์ ์ผ๋ก ์ ๊ทผํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ๊ฒฐ๋ก ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ณด๊ณ ์๋ ๋ฌผ๋ ์ฆ๊ฐ๋ ๋งค์ฐ ํจ์จ์ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ด๊ณ , ๋ฌผ๋ ํ๋ณด ๋น์ฉ ๊ฐ๋ ๊ณผ ์ฌํด ๋จ์ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ์ ๋ํ ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค์ ๋ํด ํ์ ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒ ํฉ๋๋ค. Pete, ์ ๊ฐ ์ง๋ฌธ ์ค ์ด๋ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋์ณค๋์? |
| Peter Galbo: BofA Securities, Research Division No, I think you hit it, Sean. Thank you. Very, very comprehensive. Dave, I was hoping to ask a follow-up around just the inflation guidance. I think you talked about maybe -- and apologies if I missed it, but you talked about some favorability in the quarter. You've mentioned things like chicken. Just where is inflation running? Like where did we run in the first half and maybe in the second quarter specifically? And then how we think about that in the context of the 7% for the year? | **Peter Galbo:** ์๋์, ์ ์ค๋ช ํด์ฃผ์ จ์ต๋๋ค, Sean. ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ๋งค์ฐ ํฌ๊ด์ ์ด์์ต๋๋ค. Dave, ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค์ ๋ํด ํ์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค ์ผ๋ถ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ธ ์์ธ๋ค์ ๋ํด ๋ง์ํ์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์๋ฐ์ - ์ ๊ฐ ๋์ณค๋ค๋ฉด ์ฃ์กํ์ง๋ง, ์นํจ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฒ๋ค์ ์ธ๊ธํ์ จ์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ ์ด ์ด๋ ์์ค์์ ์งํ๋๊ณ ์๋์? ์๋ฐ๊ธฐ์ ํนํ 2๋ถ๊ธฐ์๋ ์ด๋ ๋์ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฐ๊ฐ 7% ์ ๋ง๊ณผ ๊ด๋ จํด์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์๊ฐํ๋ฉด ๋ ๊น์? |
| David Marberger: Executive VP & CFO Yes. Sure, Peter. Just as a refresher, so we had talked about our core inflation, our guidance for the year, our core inflation a bit above 4% and then gross tariff inflation of approximately 3%. So 7% has been our total gross inflation guidance for the year. We're still on track with that, Peter. We have seen some kind of puts and takes. Like I said, we've seen favorability in chicken, but we're forecasting increased cost in beef and pork. And so we have some offsets there. We see some favorability in tariffs. But remember, more than 50% of our tariff exposure is on tin plate, and there's been no change to those tariff levels. And also the areas where we've seen some of the tariffs come down, our mitigation has come down as well. So it's not a significant impact on the overall year. So I would say our original kind of inflation guidance of 7% and net of 5.5% is still where we are. | **David Marberger:** ๋ค, ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ค์ ํ๋ฒ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ์ฌํด ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค์์ ํต์ฌ ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ (core inflation)์ 4%๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ฐ ์ํํ๊ณ , ์ด ๊ด์ธ ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ (gross tariff inflation)์ ์ฝ 3% ์์ค์ผ๋ก ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ฐ๊ฐ ์ด ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค๋ 7%์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ์ด ์ ๋ง์ ์ฌ์ ํ ์ ํจํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ช ๊ฐ์ง ์์ ์์ธ๋ค์ด ์๊ธด ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ญ๊ณ ๊ธฐ์์๋ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ธ ์์ง์์ ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ง๋ง, ์ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ์ ๋ผ์ง๊ณ ๊ธฐ ๋น์ฉ์ ์ฆ๊ฐํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์์ ์์ ํจ๊ณผ๊ฐ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ด์ธ ์ธก๋ฉด์์๋ ์ผ๋ถ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ธ ์์ธ์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ๊ธฐ์ตํ์ ์ผ ํ ์ ์, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ด์ธ ์ต์คํฌ์ (tariff exposure)์ 50% ์ด์์ด ์์ฒ ํ(tin plate)์ ์ง์ค๋์ด ์๊ณ , ์ด ๊ด์ธ์จ์๋ ์๋ฌด๋ฐ ๋ณํ๊ฐ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ํ ์ผ๋ถ ๊ด์ธ๊ฐ ์ธํ๋ ์์ญ์์๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ํ ์กฐ์น๋ ํจ๊ป ์ถ์๋์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๊ฐ ์ ์ฒด๋ก ๋ณด๋ฉด ํฐ ์ํฅ์ ์๋๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ๋น์ด ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค์ธ 7%, ์ ์ํฅ 5.5%๋ ์ฌ์ ํ ์ ํจํ๋ค๊ณ ๋ง์๋๋ฆด ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Peter Galbo: BofA Securities, Research Division And Dave, just -- sorry for clarification, you ran at about 5% gross inflation in the second quarter, if I look at Slide 24? | **Peter Galbo:** BofA Securities, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ Dave, ํ์ธ์ฐจ ์ฌ์ญค๋ณด๋ ๊ฑด๋ฐ์, ์ฌ๋ผ์ด๋ 24๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด 2๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ์ฝ 5%์ ์ด ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ (gross inflation)์ ๊ธฐ๋กํ์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์๋ฐ ๋ง๋์? |
| David Marberger: Executive VP & CFO Yes, it was closer to 7%, because that's the margin impact that you see on the bridge. So we were -- puts inflation around a little bit south of 7%. | **David Marberger:** ๋ค, 7%์ ๊ฐ๊น์ ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ธ๋ฆฌ์ง์์ ๋ณด์๋ ๋ง์ง ์ํฅ์ด ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ด๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ ์ 7% ์ฝ๊ฐ ์๋ ์์ค์ด์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from Max Gumport with BNP. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ BNP์ Max Gumport๋๊ป์ ์ฃผ์ จ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Max Andrew Gumport: BNP Paribas, Research Division Your prepared remarks mentioned that 3Q operating margins are expected to be below 2Q levels due to A&P and then also some absorption headwinds associated with reducing inventory. I realize you've framed A&P is going to over 3% of sales in 3Q. But is there any way to size the magnitude of the absorption headwind that you'll see in 3Q? | **Max Andrew Gumport:** BNP ํ๋ฆฌ๋ฐ, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ ์ค๋น๋ ๋ฐ์ธ์์ 3๋ถ๊ธฐ ์์ ์ด์ต๋ฅ ์ด 2๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋๋น ๋ฎ์ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์๋๋ค๊ณ ํ์ จ๋๋ฐ, ๊ด๊ณ ์ ์ ๋น(A&P) ์ฆ๊ฐ์ ์ฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ถ์ ๋ฐ๋ฅธ ํก์์จ ์ญํ ๋๋ฌธ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ง์ํ์ จ์ต๋๋ค. 3๋ถ๊ธฐ์ A&P๊ฐ ๋งค์ถ์ 3% ์ด์์ด ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ์ธ๊ธํ์ ๊ฑด ์๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค๋ง, 3๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ๋ํ๋ ํก์์จ ์ญํ์ ๊ท๋ชจ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ ์ ๋ ๊ฐ๋ ํ ์ ์์๊น์? |
| David Marberger: Executive VP & CFO Yes. What I would say is if you look at gross margin, Q3, it will be similar to where we landed in Q2, maybe a little bit better. But again, there's a lot of puts and takes with absorption and absorption timing. So we don't like to get too specific on the quarter. The big impacts, if you look at Q3 operating margin relative to Q2 is over 3% A&P and SG&A as a percentage of net sales will be higher than Q2 as well. So they're really the 2 drivers. Gross margin is going to be pretty much in line with what we delivered in Q2. | **David Marberger:** ๋ค, ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ์๋ฉด ๋งค์ถ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ (gross margin)์ ๋ณด์๋ฉด 3๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ 2๋ถ๊ธฐ ์์ค๊ณผ ๋น์ทํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์๋ฉ๋๋ค. ์๋ง ์กฐ๊ธ ๋์์ง ์๋ ์๊ณ ์. ๋ค๋ง ์๊ฐ ํก์(absorption)์ ๊ทธ ํ์ด๋ฐ ๊ด๋ จํด์ ๋ณ์๋ค์ด ๋ง๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ณ๋ก ๋๋ฌด ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์์น๋ฅผ ์ ์ํ๋ ๊ฑด ์ง์ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. 3๋ถ๊ธฐ ์์ ์ด์ต๋ฅ (operating margin)์ 2๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ๋น๊ตํ์ ๋ ๊ฐ์ฅ ํฐ ์ํฅ ์์ธ์ ๊ด๊ณ ์ ์ ๋น(A&P)๊ฐ 3% ์ด์ ์ฆ๊ฐํ๋ค๋ ์ ์ด๊ณ , ํ๋งค๊ด๋ฆฌ๋น(SG&A)๋ ๋งค์ถ ๋๋น ๋น์ค์ด 2๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ณด๋ค ๋์์ง ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด ๋ ๊ฐ์ง๊ฐ ์ค์ง์ ์ธ ์ฃผ์ ๋ณ์์ ๋๋ค. ๋งค์ถ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ์ 2๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ๋ฌ์ฑํ ์์ค๊ณผ ๊ฑฐ์ ๋์ผํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Max Andrew Gumport: BNP Paribas, Research Division Great. And then longer-term question, just looking back at your gross margin over time. Clearly, it was running in the high 20% pre-COVID. It looks set to end this year around the 24% level. So several hundred basis points below historical levels. And I recognize there's reasons for that. There's investments you've made this year that you're -- and there's also a meaningful inflation that you're not offsetting with price given the consumer environment. I'm just wondering, as we look out over the next several years, is there anything that you're seeing that would prevent you from getting back to a high 20% gross margin level? | **Max Andrew Gumport:** ๋ค, ์ข์ ์ง๋ฌธ์
๋๋ค. ๋ง์ํ์ ๋๋ก ์ฝ๋ก๋ ์ด์ ์๋ ๋งค์ถ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ์ด 20%๋ ํ๋ฐ์์ ์ด์๋์๊ณ , ์ฌํด๋ ์ฝ 24% ์์ค์ผ๋ก ๋ง๊ฐํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์
๋๋ค. ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ์์ค ๋๋น ์๋ฐฑ ๋ฒ ์ด์์ค ํฌ์ธํธ ๋ฎ์ ๊ฒ์ด ์ฌ์ค์
๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ๊ทธ๋ด ๋งํ ์ด์ ๋ค์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌํด ์งํํ ํฌ์๋ค๋ ์๊ณ , ํ์ฌ ์๋น์ ํ๊ฒฝ์ ๊ณ ๋ คํด ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ๋ฐ์ํ์ง ๋ชปํ ์๋นํ ์ธํ๋ ์ด์
์ํฅ๋ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํฅํ ๋ช ๋ ์ ๋ด๋ค๋ดค์ ๋, 20%๋ ํ๋ฐ์ ๋งค์ถ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ๋ก ํ๊ทํ๋ ๋ฐ ์์ด ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ์ธ ์ฅ์ ์์ธ์ ๋ณด์ด์ง ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ์๊ฐ์ด ํ์ํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ด ๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ์ ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ ์๋ฐ์ด ์ํ๋๊ณ , ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์งํํ ํฌ์๋ค์ด ํจ์จ์ฑ์ผ๋ก ์ ํ๋๋ฉฐ, ์์ฅ ํ๊ฒฝ์ด ์ ์ํ๋๋ฉด์ ์ ์ง์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์กฐ์ ๋ ๊ฐ๋ฅํด์ง ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ค์ํ ๊ฒ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋จ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๋ง์ง ํ๋ณต์ ์ํด ์ฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๊ฒฝ์๋ ฅ์ ํฌ์ํ์ง ์๋๋ค๋ ์ ์ ๋๋ค. ์ง๊ธ ํ๊ณ ์๋ ํฌ์๋ค์ ํฅํ ์ง์ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ์์ต์ฑ ๊ฐ์ ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ด ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ํตํด ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ์์ค์ ๋งค์ถ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ํ๋ณต์ ์ถฉ๋ถํ ๋ฌ์ฑ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ๋ชฉํ๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Sean Connolly: President, CEO & Director Well, we plan on clawing our way north on gross margin. So we absolutely expect margin expansion going forward, particularly in frozen, and the building blocks have not changed. It starts with productivity. So our productivity is running now at about 5%, which is very strong. At some point, we're going to get inflation relief here, hopefully back to a typical 2% level. The third piece is the advancement of our supply chain resiliency investments, including our chicken plants. And over time, we're going to have the ability to repatriate the outsourced production, which will be another tailwind to margins. And we are taking pricing in certain categories, as you saw in our documents today. And then the last thing I'll point to is Project Catalyst. This reengineering of our core business processes using technology will be another meaningful contributor. So between those actions and the ongoing efforts to reshape the portfolio for faster growth and better margins, we do expect good margin expansion following F '26. | **Sean Connolly:** ๋งค์ถ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ์ ์ ์ง์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ ํด ๋๊ฐ ๊ณํ์
๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ํฅํ ๋ง์ง ํ๋๋ฅผ ํ์คํ ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ํนํ ๋๋ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์์ ๊ทธ๋ด ๊ฒ์
๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ์ํ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ์์๋ค์ ๋ณํจ์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ์ ์์ฐ์ฑ์์ ์์๋ฉ๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ์์ฐ์ฑ์ ์ฝ 5% ์์ค์ผ๋ก ๋งค์ฐ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ ์ํ์
๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ์์ ์๋ ์ธํ๋ ์ด์
๋ถ๋ด์ด ์ํ๋์ด ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ธ 2% ์์ค์ผ๋ก ๋์๊ฐ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๊ธฐ๋ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ธ ๋ฒ์งธ ์์๋ ์นํจ ๊ณต์ฅ์ ํฌํจํ ๊ณต๊ธ๋ง ๋ณต์๋ ฅ ํฌ์์ ์ง์ ์
๋๋ค. ์๊ฐ์ด ์ง๋๋ฉด์ ์์์์ฑํ๋ ์์ฐ์ ๋ค์ ๋ด์ฌํํ ์ ์๋ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ๊ฐ์ถ๊ฒ ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๊ฒ์ด ๋ง์ง์ ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ํ์ด ๋ ๊ฒ์
๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ค๋ ๊ณต์ ์๋ฃ์์ ๋ณด์
จ๋ฏ์ด ํน์ ์นดํ
๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์๋ ๋จํํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ง์ง๋ง์ผ๋ก ๋ง์๋๋ฆด ๊ฒ์ ํ๋ก์ ํธ ์บํธ๋ฆฌ์คํธ(Project Catalyst)์
๋๋ค. ๊ธฐ์ ์ ํ์ฉํ ํต์ฌ ๋น์ฆ๋์ค ํ๋ก์ธ์ค ์ฌ์ค๊ณ๊ฐ ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์๋ฏธ ์๋ ๊ธฐ์ฌ ์์ธ์ด ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ์กฐ์น๋ค๊ณผ ๋ ๋น ๋ฅธ ์ฑ์ฅ๊ณผ ๋ ๋์ ๋ง์ง์ ์ํ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค ์ฌํธ ๋ ธ๋ ฅ์ ํตํด, 2026 ํ๊ณ์ฐ๋ ์ดํ ์๋นํ ๋ง์ง ํ๋๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from Robert Moskow with TD Cowen. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ TD Cowen์ Robert Moskow๋๊ป์ ์ฃผ์ จ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Robert Moskow: TD Cowen, Research Division Dave, I wanted to ask about the assumption of a 100 basis point headwind in 2Q and the extent to which it can reverse in third quarter? Because some of it, it sounds like it's the thought that retailers are just not ordering as much in relation to consumption. Then they're going to do it in the third quarter because they don't have to worry about the SNAP issues or other issues. But retail inventories have been notoriously difficult to predict. Is there a risk here that retailers just decide to go forward with less inventory than normal for the rest of the year just because they want to be more efficient? And if so, is it maybe more so in the frozen area than the shelf stable? | **Robert Moskow:** ๋ฐ์ด๋ธ, 2๋ถ๊ธฐ 100bp ์ญํ ๊ฐ์ ๊ณผ 3๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ ๋ํด ์ง๋ฌธ๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ์ผ๋ถ๋ ์๋งค์ ์ฒด๋ค์ด ์๋น ๋๋น ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์ ์ ๊ฒ ํ๊ณ ์๋ค๊ฐ, SNAP ์ด์๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ค์ ๊ฑฑ์ ํ ํ์๊ฐ ์์ด์ง๋ฉด 3๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๋ ์ ๋ง์ผ๋ก ๋ค๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์๋งค ์ฌ๊ณ ๋ ์์ธก์ด ๋งค์ฐ ์ด๋ ค์ด ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์ ๋ช ๋์ต๋๋ค. ์๋งค์ ์ฒด๋ค์ด ํจ์จ์ฑ์ ๋์ด๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ฐ๋ง๊น์ง ์ ์๋ณด๋ค ์ ์ ์ฌ๊ณ ์์ค์ ์ ์งํ๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ฒฐ์ ํ ์ํ์ ์์๊น์? ๋ง์ฝ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ค๋ฉด, ์์จ ์ ํ๋ณด๋ค๋ ๋๋ ์ ํ ์ชฝ์์ ๊ทธ๋ด ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ด ๋ ๋์ง ์์๊น์? |
| Sean Connolly: President, CEO & Director Rob, it's Sean. I'll give you my color on this. So the way to think about our company, our portfolio is we've got a baseline of volume that is pretty steady across all 12 months of the year. But we also then, on top of that baseline, starting usually in the fall, there is another line, which is the seasonal promotional build, because we have a lot of seasonal products in the Conagra portfolio, products that are huge traffic builders at our retailers. So the retailers have that promotional seasonal volume build in terms of what sells, what scans through in their base. And every year, they are determined to wrap that successfully, meaning at least achieve what they delivered a year ago, if not grow a year ago. And promotions are absolutely essential during the seasonal period to get to that level of absolute volume. So the promotional volume always comes. The seasonal inventory build always comes. It's usually just a dynamic of does that build fall into Q2 or does that build fall into Q3? And sometimes it's linked to Thanksgiving timing and whether or not Thanksgiving is in Q2 or Q3. Sometimes it's linked more to the promotional calendar and is the promotional calendar queued up so that it's earlier, like it was last year where we had our heavy promotions in frozen in Q2, those big promotions in frozen this year are disproportionately moved to Q3. So the way I think it's pretty simple to think about it is, retailers have to start the holiday seasonal kind of inventory build at some point. Whether or not they started earlier or later is a function of when is the promotion, and this year, uniquely, a function of the government shutdown and kind of the SNAP pause, because what I believe it happened with some retailers is anticipating a slowdown in consumer takeaway because of the SNAP pause, they manage their working capital, too, and there's no reason to build inventory if you've got a pause on the near-term horizon, you can build it later. And so we've already got most of December in the books here. And so we've had a chance to see how orders are shaping up, and it's unfolding in a manner very consistent with what I just described. | **Sean Connolly:** ๋กญ, ์ ์ ์ ๋๋ค. ์ ๊ฐ ์ค๋ช ์ ์ข ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ํ์ฌ์ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค๋ฅผ ์ดํดํ์๋ ค๋ฉด ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์๊ฐํ์๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ์ฐ์ ์ฐ์ค 12๊ฐ์ ๋ด๋ด ๊ฝค ์์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ ์ง๋๋ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ๋ฌผ๋(baseline volume)์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ทธ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ๋ฌผ๋ ์์, ๋ณดํต ๊ฐ์๋ถํฐ ์์ํด์ ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ผ์ธ์ด ์ถ๊ฐ๋๋๋ฐ, ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ณ์ ์ฑ ํ๋ก๋ชจ์ ๋ฌผ๋ ์ฆ๊ฐ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฝ๋๊ทธ๋ผ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค์๋ ๊ณ์ ์ฑ ์ ํ๋ค์ด ๋ง๊ฑฐ๋ ์. ์ด ์ ํ๋ค์ ์๋งค์ ์ฒด๋ค์๊ฒ ์์ฒญ๋ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ ์ ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ ธ๋ค์ฃผ๋ ์ ํ๋ค์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์๋งค์ ์ฒด๋ค์ ์ค์ ๋ก ํ๋งค๋๊ณ ์ค์บ๋๋ ๋ฌผ๋ ์ธก๋ฉด์์ ์ด๋ฌํ ํ๋ก๋ชจ์ ๊ณ์ ์ฑ ๋ฌผ๋ ์ฆ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฒฝํํ๊ฒ ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋งค๋ ์๋งค์ ์ฒด๋ค์ ์ด๋ฅผ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ๋ ค๊ณ ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ค์ ๋งํด, ์ต์ํ ์ ๋ ๋ ์์ค์ ๋ฌ์ฑํ๊ณ , ๊ฐ๋ฅํ๋ฉด ์ ๋ ๋๋น ์ฑ์ฅ๊น์ง ์ด๋ฃจ๋ ค๊ณ ํ์ฃ . ํ๋ก๋ชจ์ ์ ์ ๋์ ์ธ ๋ฌผ๋ ์์ค์ ๋๋ฌํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ฑ์๊ธฐ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋์ ํ์์ ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ํ๋ก๋ชจ์ ๋ฌผ๋์ ํญ์ ๋ฐ์ํ๊ณ , ์ฑ์๊ธฐ ์ฌ๊ณ ํ๋ณด๋ ํญ์ ์ด๋ฃจ์ด์ง๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ์ด๋ฌํ ์ฌ๊ณ ํ๋ณด๊ฐ 2๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ์ผ์ด๋๋๋, 3๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ์ผ์ด๋๋๋์ ์ฐจ์ด์ผ ๋ฟ์ ๋๋ค. ๋๋ก๋ ์ถ์๊ฐ์ฌ์ ์๊ธฐ์ ๊ด๋ จ์ด ์์ด์ ์ถ์๊ฐ์ฌ์ ์ด 2๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ์๋๋ 3๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ์๋๋์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๋ฌ๋ผ์ง๊ธฐ๋ ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋๋ก๋ ํ๋ก๋ชจ์ ์ผ์ ๊ณผ ๋ ๊ด๋ จ์ด ์๋๋ฐ, ์๋ ์ฒ๋ผ ํ๋ก๋ชจ์ ์ผ์ ์ด ๋ ์๋น๊ฒจ์ ธ์ ๋๋์ํ ๋๊ท๋ชจ ํ๋ก๋ชจ์ ์ด 2๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ์์๋ ๋ฐ๋ฉด, ์ฌํด๋ ๋๋์ํ ๋๊ท๋ชจ ํ๋ก๋ชจ์ ์ด 3๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ก ์๋น ๋ถ๋ถ ์ด๋ํ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ฐ๋จํ๊ฒ ์๊ฐํ๋ฉด, ์๋งค์ ์ฒด๋ค์ ์ด๋ ์์ ์์๋ ๋ช ์ ์ฑ์๊ธฐ ์ฌ๊ณ ํ๋ณด๋ฅผ ์์ํด์ผ ํ๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ํ๋ก๋ชจ์ ์์ ์์ ์ด ๋น ๋ฅด๋ ๋ฆ๋๋ ํ๋ก๋ชจ์ ์ผ์ ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๊ฒฐ์ ๋๋๋ฐ, ์ฌํด๋ ํน์ดํ๊ฒ๋ ์ ๋ถ ์ ง๋ค์ด๊ณผ SNAP(์ํ ์ง์ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ) ์ค๋จ์ด ๋ณ์๋ก ์์ฉํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ผ๋ถ ๋ฆฌํ ์ผ๋ฌ๋ค์ด SNAP ์ค๋จ์ผ๋ก ์ธํ ์๋น์ ์์ ๊ฐ์๋ฅผ ์์ํ๋ฉด์ ์ด์ ์๋ณธ๋ ํจ๊ป ๊ด๋ฆฌํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์ ๋๋ค. ๋จ๊ธฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ์์ ์ค๋จ์ด ์์๋๋ ์ํฉ์์ ๊ตณ์ด ์ฌ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ์์๋ ์ด์ ๊ฐ ์์ผ๋, ๋์ค์ ์์๋ ๋๋ ๊ฑฐ์ฃ . 12์ ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ด ์ด๋ฏธ ์ง๋๊ฐ๊ณ , ์ฃผ๋ฌธ ์ํฉ์ ํ์ธํ ์ ์์๋๋ฐ, ์ ๊ฐ ๋ฐฉ๊ธ ์ค๋ช ๋๋ฆฐ ๋ด์ฉ๊ณผ ๋งค์ฐ ์ผ์นํ๋ ๋ฐฉํฅ์ผ๋ก ์ ๊ฐ๋๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from Alexia Howard with Bernstein. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ฒ์คํ์ธ์ ์๋ ์์ ํ์๋๋๊ป์ ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Alexia Howard: Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC., Research Division Can I ask about innovation? Firstly, are there any numbers you can put around where you're at? And I assume that you're now significantly above where you were a few years ago during COVID. Are you now at a sort of level that you feel comfortable with maintaining? Or is there more increase to come? And then sticking with the innovation theme, I wanted to ask about how you're leaning into the health and wellness trends. It seems as though there's a lot of health and wellness themes going on out there. Walmart has said that they're going to eliminate 30 additives from the whole of their private label portfolio. We've got potential food labeling, front of pack legislation coming in, dietary guidelines coming up as well. I remember you talking about GLP-1 on-pack labels. How is that going? And what are the priorities from here? | **Alexia Howard:** ํ์ ์ ๋ํด ์ฌ์ญค๋ณด๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ์ , ํ์ฌ ์ด๋ ์ ๋ ์์ค์ธ์ง ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์์น๋ฅผ ๋ง์ํด ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์๋์? ์ฝ๋ก๋ ์๊ธฐ ๋ช ๋
์ ๊ณผ ๋น๊ตํ๋ฉด ์ง๊ธ์ ์๋นํ ๋์์ง ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์ด๋๋ฐ์. ํ์ฌ ์์ค์ด ์ ์งํ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์ ํ๋ค๊ณ ๋ณด์๋์ง, ์๋๋ฉด ์์ผ๋ก ๋ ์ฆ๊ฐ์ํฌ ๊ณํ์ด์ ๊ฐ์? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํ์ ์ฃผ์ ์ ๊ด๋ จํด์, ๊ฑด๊ฐ ๋ฐ ์ฐ๋น ํธ๋ ๋๋ฅผ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ํ์ฉํ๊ณ ๊ณ์ ์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ์์ฅ์ ๊ฑด๊ฐ๊ณผ ์ฐ๋น ๊ด๋ จ ํ
๋ง๋ค์ด ๋ง์ด ๋ํ๋๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ์๋งํธ๋ ์์ฌ PB ์ ์ฒด ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค์์ 30๊ฐ์ง ์ฒจ๊ฐ๋ฌผ์ ์ ๊ฑฐํ๊ฒ ๋ค๊ณ ๋ฐํํ๊ณ ์. ํฌ์ฅ ์ ๋ฉด ํ์ ๊ด๋ จ ์ํ ๋ผ๋ฒจ๋ง ๋ฒ์๋ ๋
ผ์๋๊ณ ์๊ณ , ์์ด ๊ฐ์ด๋๋ผ์ธ ๊ฐ์ ๋ ์์ ๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. GLP-1 ์จํฉ ๋ผ๋ฒจ ๊ด๋ จํด์ ๋ง์ํ์ ๊ฒ ๊ธฐ์ตํฉ๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ์งํ ์ํฉ์ ์ด๋ป์ต๋๊น? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ก์ ์ฐ์ ์์๋ ๋ฌด์์
๋๊น? ๋ค, GLP-1 ์จํฉ ๋ผ๋ฒจ๋ง์ ๊ณํ๋๋ก ์ ์งํ๋๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ฃผ์ ์ ํ ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์์ ๋จ๋ฐฑ์ง ํจ๋๊ณผ ์์ ์ฑ๋ถ์ ๊ฐ์กฐํ๋ ๋ผ๋ฒจ์ ์ ์ฉํ๊ธฐ ์์ํ๊ณ , ์๋น์ ๋ฐ์๋ ๋งค์ฐ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ ๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ์ฐ์ ์์๋ ํฌ๊ฒ ์ธ ๊ฐ์ง์ ๋๋ค. ์ฒซ์งธ, ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค ์ ๋ฐ์ ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ด ๋ผ๋ฒจ๋ง์ ํ๋ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ํนํ ๊ณ ๋จ๋ฐฑ ์ ํ๊ตฐ์ ์ง์คํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋์งธ, ์๋งค์ ์ฒด๋ค๊ณผ์ ํ๋ ฅ์ ๊ฐํํ์ฌ ๋งค์ฅ ๋ด ๊ฐ์์ฑ์ ๋์ด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ค๋ GLP-1 ์ฌ์ฉ์๋ค์ด ์ฆ๊ฐํ๋ ํธ๋ ๋๋ฅผ ์ธ์ํ๊ณ ์์ด์ ํ์กฐ์ ์ ๋๋ค. ์ ์งธ, ์ ํ ํ์ ์ ๋๋ค. ๋จ์ํ ๋ผ๋ฒจ๋ง์ ๊ทธ์น์ง ์๊ณ , GLP-1 ์ฌ์ฉ์๋ค์ ์์ ์๊ตฌ์ฌํญ์ ๋ง๋ ์ ์ ํ ๊ฐ๋ฐ์๋ ํฌ์ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ์ค์ฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ์์ฅ ์ ์ ์จ์ ํ๋ํ๋ ๋ฐ ํต์ฌ์ ์ธ ์์๊ฐ ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์์ฅ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด GLP-1 ๋ผ๋ฒจ์ด ์๋ ์ ํ๋ค์ ํ๋งค ์ฑ์ฅ๋ฅ ์ด ์ผ๋ฐ ์ ํ ๋๋น ์๋นํ ๋๊ฒ ๋ํ๋๊ณ ์์ด์, ์ด ์ ๋ต์ด ์ฌ๋ฐ๋ฅธ ๋ฐฉํฅ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๊ณ ์๋ค๊ณ ํ์ ํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Sean Connolly: President, CEO & Director Yes. Great question, Alexia. The innovation performance over the last several years has just gotten better and better and better every year, and it was good to start with. So we've wrapped really good innovation years. And each year, we make progress in innovation, both in terms of TPDs that we're able to secure, but also velocity per TPD has gotten better and better. And this year is better than last year and last year was better than the year before. So I'm very pleased with where we are on innovation, and we'll continue to share more about some of the success stories that we've had with innovation. But I think your second question speaks to also what's driving a lot -- not all, but a lot of the innovation success. There is undoubtedly a lot of consumer focus these days on health and wellness and has been the case for 50 years. Kind of the definition of what does good health and wellness food look like in 2026 is different than it looked 10 years ago, which is different than it looked 20 years before that. So right now, health and wellness is heavily, as everybody knows and can see, heavily about protein. So the presence of protein in products is hugely important to consumers. That's a major part of our benefit bundle that we've baked into a lot of our innovations. I would say, secondly, clean label continues to be really important as well as vegetable nutrition. So if you think about our portfolio with brands like Birds Eye Vegetables, which are just awesome vegetables flash frozen at the peak of rightness, you think about protein meat sticks as well as seeds and you think about our frozen businesses like Healthy Choice, which are incredibly clean label, incredibly healthy, high in protein, low in sugar, low in carbs, things like that, it's very well positioned. And so I probably feel like our portfolio is as well positioned today as it's been to compete in a world that's very focused on health and wellness. And one of the things I find most interesting about the double-click on that is it's young consumers. Young consumers, which we over-index with, are more focused on health and wellness than I've seen in a while, and it is playing right into some of our tailwind businesses like our protein-focused brands. And that's a real positive. And you see it in categories outside of food, like they're drinking less, things like that. And so you get a good return when you can secure young consumers, because you keep them around a lot longer. And we've had really good progress with our young consumers. And that's helping us because, obviously, young consumers also tend to be lower income consumers, because they're just -- they're getting started in their career, and we have a lot of good value products. | **Sean Connolly:** ๋ค, ์ข์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. ์ง๋ ๋ช ๋ ๊ฐ ํ์ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ ๋งค๋ ๊ณ์ํด์ ๋ ์ข์์ง๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฒ์๋ถํฐ ์ข์๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ฌ์ค์ด์ง๋ง์. ์ ๋ง ํ๋ฅญํ ํ์ ์ ํด๋ค์ ๋ณด๋ด์์ต๋๋ค. ๋งค๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ํ๋ณดํ ์ ์๋ TPD ์ธก๋ฉด์์๋ TPD๋น ์๋ ์ธก๋ฉด์์ ๋ชจ๋ ํ์ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์์ ์ง์ ์ ์ด๋ฃจ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฌํด๋ ์๋ ๋ณด๋ค ๋ ์ข๊ณ , ์๋ ์ ๊ทธ ์ ๋ ๋๋ณด๋ค ๋ ์ข์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ํ์ฌ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ํ์ ์์น์ ๋ํด ๋งค์ฐ ๋ง์กฑ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ์๊ฐํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ํ์ ์ ํตํด ๊ฑฐ๋ ์ฑ๊ณต ์ฌ๋ก๋ค์ ๋ํด ์์ผ๋ก๋ ๊ณ์ ๊ณต์ ํด ๋๊ฐ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ ๋ฒ์งธ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ํ์ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ด๋๋ ์์ธ๋ค์ ๋ํ ๊ฒ์ธ๋ฐ, ์ ๋ถ๋ ์๋์ง๋ง ์๋น ๋ถ๋ถ์ ์ค๋ช ํด์ฃผ๋ ๋ด์ฉ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ด ๋๋ค. ์์ฆ ์๋น์๋ค์ด ๊ฑด๊ฐ๊ณผ ์ฐ๋น์ ๋ง์ ๊ด์ฌ์ ๊ฐ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ ์์ฌ์ ์ฌ์ง๊ฐ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ ์ง๋ 50๋ ๊ฐ ๊ณ์๋์ด ์จ ํ์์ ๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง 2026๋ ์ ๊ฑด๊ฐํ๊ณ ์ฐ๋น์ ์ข์ ์ํ์ ๋ํ ์ ์๋ 10๋ ์ ๊ณผ ๋ค๋ฅด๊ณ , ๋ ๊ทธ ์ด์ 20๋ ๊ณผ๋ ๋ค๋ฆ ๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ๊ฑด๊ฐ๊ณผ ์ฐ๋น์ ๋ชจ๋๊ฐ ์๊ณ ๋ณด์๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ๋จ๋ฐฑ์ง์ ํฌ๊ฒ ์ง์ค๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ ํ ๋ด ๋จ๋ฐฑ์ง ํจ์ ์ฌ๋ถ๊ฐ ์๋น์๋ค์๊ฒ ๋งค์ฐ ์ค์ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ง์ ํ์ ์ ํ์ ๋ด์๋ธ ํต์ฌ ๊ฐ์น ๋ฒ๋ค์ ์ฃผ์ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ ๋ฒ์งธ๋ก๋ ํด๋ฆฐ ๋ผ๋ฒจ(clean label)์ด ์ฌ์ ํ ๋งค์ฐ ์ค์ํ๋ฉฐ, ์ฑ์ ์์๋ ๋ง์ฐฌ๊ฐ์ง์ ๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค๋ฅผ ๋ณด์๋ฉด, ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ ์ ํ ์ํ์์ ๊ธ์ ๋๋ํ ํ๋ฅญํ ์ฑ์ ์ ํ์ธ Birds Eye Vegetables๊ฐ ์๊ณ , ๋จ๋ฐฑ์ง ๋ฏธํธ ์คํฑ๊ณผ ์จ์๋ฅ ์ ํ๋ค์ด ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, Healthy Choice ๊ฐ์ ๋๋์ํ ์ฌ์ ๋ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด ์ ํ๋ค์ ์ ๋ง ๊นจ๋ํ ์๋ฃ๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ฉํ๊ณ , ๋งค์ฐ ๊ฑด๊ฐํ๋ฉฐ, ๋จ๋ฐฑ์ง ํจ๋์ด ๋๊ณ ๋น๋ถ๊ณผ ํ์ํ๋ฌผ์ ๋ฎ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฐ ํน์ฑ๋ค ๋๋ถ์ ์ ํฌ๋ ์์ฃผ ์ ๋ฆฌํ ์์น์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ๊ฑด๊ฐ๊ณผ ์ฐ๋น์ ์ค์ํ๋ ์์ฅ ํ๊ฒฝ์์ ๊ฒฝ์ํ๊ธฐ์ ์ ํฌ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค๊ฐ ์ง๊ธ๋งํผ ์ข์ ์์น์ ์์๋ ์ ์ด ์๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ๋ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋ก์ด ์ ์ ๋ฐ๋ก ์ ์ ์๋น์์ธต์ ๋๋ค. ์ ์ ์๋น์์ธต์ ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ ์ ๋ณด์ด๋ ์ธ๊ทธ๋จผํธ์ธ๋ฐ์, ์ต๊ทผ ๋ค์ด ๊ฑด๊ฐ๊ณผ ์ฐ๋น์ ๊ทธ ์ด๋ ๋๋ณด๋ค ์ง์คํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ๋จ๋ฐฑ์ง ์ค์ฌ ๋ธ๋๋์ ๊ฐ์ ์ ํฌ์ ์ฑ์ฅ ์ฌ์ ๋ถ์ ์ ๋ง ๊ธ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ์์ฉํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ํ ์ธ ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์์๋ ์ด๋ฐ ํธ๋ ๋๊ฐ ๋ณด์ด๋๋ฐ, ์๋ฅผ ๋ค์ด ์์ฃผ๋์ด ์ค์ด๋๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ ํ์๋ค์ด์ฃ . ์ ์ ์๋น์๋ฅผ ํ๋ณดํ๋ฉด ํจ์ฌ ์ค๋ซ๋์ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ผ๋ก ์ ์งํ ์ ์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ์ข์ ์์ต์ ๊ฑฐ๋ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ๋ ์ ์ ์๋น์์ธต์์ ์ ๋ง ์ข์ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๊ฒ์ด ์ ํฌ์๊ฒ ๋์์ด ๋๋ ์ด์ ๋, ์ ์ ์๋น์๋ค์ด ์ปค๋ฆฌ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ง ์์ํ๋ ๋จ๊ณ์ด๋ค ๋ณด๋ ๋์ฒด๋ก ์ ์๋์ธต์ ์ํ๋ ๊ฒฝํฅ์ด ์๊ณ , ์ ํฌ๋ ๊ฐ์ฑ๋น ์ข์ ์ ํ์ ๋ง์ด ๋ณด์ ํ๊ณ ์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from Leah Jordan with Goldman Sachs. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๊ณจ๋๋ง์ญ์ค์ ๋ฆฌ์ ์กฐ๋ ์ ๋๋ฆฌ์คํธ๊ป์ ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Leah Jordan: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division So you're stepping up your A&P spend in the back half. Just any color on how we should think about the balance between the 2 quarters? And with the step-up and the fact that you're calling out that consumers are still value seeking, has anything changed in your approach for this spend, be it across categories, channels or frequency, anything there? | **Leah Jordan:** ํ๋ฐ๊ธฐ์ ๊ด๊ณ ์ ์ ๋น(A&P) ์ง์ถ์ ๋๋ฆฌ์ ๋ค๊ณ ํ์ จ๋๋ฐ, 3๋ถ๊ธฐ์ 4๋ถ๊ธฐ ๊ฐ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์๊ฐํ๋ฉด ๋ ๊น์? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ง์ถ์ ๋๋ฆฌ์๋ ์ํฉ์์ ์๋น์๋ค์ด ์ฌ์ ํ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ถ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์๋ค๊ณ ๋ง์ํ์ จ๋๋ฐ, ์ด๋ฒ ์ง์ถ ์ ๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์์ ๋ณํ๊ฐ ์๋์? ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋ณ, ์ฑ๋๋ณ, ๋๋ ๋น๋ ์ธก๋ฉด์์ ๋ฌ๋ผ์ง ์ ์ด ์๋์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Sean Connolly: President, CEO & Director Well, that's a very insightful question, Leah. One of the things you will see us incorporate into our advertising this quarter is an increased emphasis on relative value. We always talk about the quality of our products. That will go unchanged. But the relative value of our products versus things like quick-serve restaurants, things like that, is undeniable. And sometimes you have to remind consumers of that because while prices might be higher today than they were 3 years ago, relatively speaking, it's hard to beat the value and the quality that our products offer. And that value message is really value as a priority area is being very woven into our innovations themselves. Some of our innovations coming this year will be more value-oriented and our marketing messages will be value-oriented. And we think, given the inflection we've already got, that will continue to push some of the lapsed users back into the franchise and continue to help drive our organic sales growth. | **Sean Connolly:** ๋งค์ฐ ํต์ฐฐ๋ ฅ ์๋ ์ง๋ฌธ์
๋๋ค, Leah. ์ด๋ฒ ๋ถ๊ธฐ ๊ด๊ณ ์์ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ์ด ๋ณด์๊ฒ ๋ ๊ฒ ์ค ํ๋๋ ์๋์ ๊ฐ์น์ ๋ํ ๊ฐ์กฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐํํ๋ค๋ ์ ์
๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ๋ ํญ์ ์ ํ์ ํ์ง์ ๋ํด ์ด์ผ๊ธฐํด์๊ณ , ๊ทธ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ณํจ์ด ์์ ๊ฒ์
๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ํจ์คํธํธ๋ ๋ ์คํ ๋ ๊ฐ์ ๊ณณ๋ค๊ณผ ๋น๊ตํ์ ๋ ์ ํฌ ์ ํ์ ์๋์ ๊ฐ์น๋ ๋ถ์ธํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋๋ก๋ ์๋น์๋ค์๊ฒ ์ด๋ฅผ ์๊ธฐ์์ผ์ค ํ์๊ฐ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์๋ํ๋ฉด ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ด 3๋
์ ๋ณด๋ค ๋์ ์๋ ์์ง๋ง, ์๋์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ดค์ ๋ ์ ํฌ ์ ํ์ด ์ ๊ณตํ๋ ๊ฐ์น์ ํ์ง์ ๋ฅ๊ฐํ๊ธฐ๋ ์ด๋ ต๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์
๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ๊ฐ์น ๋ฉ์์ง, ์ฆ ์ฐ์ ์์ ์์ญ์ผ๋ก์์ ๊ฐ์น๋ ์ ํฌ ํ์ ์ ํ ์์ฒด์ ๋งค์ฐ ๊ธด๋ฐํ๊ฒ ๋
น์๋ค๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌํด ์ถ์๋ ์ผ๋ถ ํ์ ์ ํ๋ค์ ๋ณด๋ค ๊ฐ์น ์งํฅ์ ์ผ ๊ฒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋ง์ผํ ๋ฉ์์ง๋ ๊ฐ์น ์ค์ฌ์ผ๋ก ์ ๊ฐํ ์์ ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฏธ ํ๋ณดํ ์ ํ์ ์ ๊ณ ๋ คํ ๋, ์ด๋ฌํ ์ ๊ทผ์ด ์ดํํ๋ ์ฌ์ฉ์๋ค์ ํ๋์ฐจ์ด์ฆ๋ก ๋ค์ ๋์ด๋ค์ด๊ณ ์ ๊ธฐ์ ๋งค์ถ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฒฌ์ธํ๋ ๋ฐ ๋์์ด ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ํ๋จํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Leah Jordan: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division Okay. Great. And then I guess I had one quick follow-up on the weather piece in the quarter, specifically around -- related to the slow start to winter. Now that we've shifted to much colder weather across the U.S., just seeing if there's any color commentary around quarter-to-date trends. Have those normalized with your expectations or anything to think through there? | **Leah Jordan:** ๋ค, ์ข์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค ๋ ์จ ์ํฅ, ํนํ ๊ฒจ์ธ ์์์ด ๋ฆ์ด์ง ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ํด ๊ฐ๋จํ ํ์ ์ง๋ฌธ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ ์ญ์ ํจ์ฌ ์ถ์ด ๋ ์จ๊ฐ ์ฐพ์์๋๋ฐ์, ๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋๊ณ ๊ธฐ์ค์ผ๋ก ํธ๋ ๋์ ๋ํด ๋ง์ํด ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์? ์์์น์ ์ ์ํ๋์๋์ง, ์๋๋ฉด ๊ณ ๋ คํด์ผ ํ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฌํญ์ด ์๋์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Sean Connolly: President, CEO & Director Yes. The weather outlook certainly changed, didn't it, in the last couple of weeks. That's great for us. As I mentioned, just to put a fine point on this, there were 2 weather things in the quarter that we noticed, and they're tangible. So we'll just kind of unpack them. One is this hurricane thing. You're probably wondering what is this hurricane thing? Well, we've had hurricanes for 10 years that hit Continental U.S. And when we have hurricanes hit the Continental U.S., we sell a lot of food in Florida, particularly canned food, also along the Gulf Coast, sometimes the East Coast. And so that's kind of captured in our base. And last year, we had an unusually high hurricane quarter. We did not plan for that this year, we planned for a normal quarter. We didn't get any hurricane. So that's fortunate for the people along the coast line, but it was a little different than we planned. So that was a bit of a headwind. And then the question around when does the cold weather kind of roll in tends to affect when do we start to see that seasonal ramp-up in our canned food cooking ingredients portfolio like tomatoes or even canned chili. And so it always comes. It's a question of is it going to come early October, is it going to come November? So it came a little later than normal, but obviously, since the quarter has turned, you've seen very cold weather, and you already know what that does to businesses like cocoa and canned tomatoes and chili. So yes, that's another timing factor. | **Sean Connolly:** ๋ค, ๋ ์จ ์ ๋ง์ด ์ง๋ ๋ช ์ฃผ ์ฌ์ด์ ํ์คํ ๋ฐ๋์์ฃ . ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์๊ฒ๋ ์ข์ ์์์
๋๋ค. ๋ง์๋๋ ธ๋ฏ์ด, ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ช
ํํ ํ์๋ฉด, ์ด๋ฒ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ ๋ ์จ ๊ด๋ จ ์์ธ์ด ๋ ๊ฐ์ง ์์๊ณ , ์ด๊ฒ๋ค์ ์ค์ง์ ์ธ ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์ณค์ต๋๋ค. ํ๋์ฉ ์ค๋ช
๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ๋ ํ๋ฆฌ์ผ์ธ ๊ด๋ จ ์ฌํญ์ ๋๋ค. ํ๋ฆฌ์ผ์ธ์ด ๋ญ๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ ์ค์ํ๋๊ณ ์๊ฐํ์ค ์๋ ์๋๋ฐ์, ์ง๋ 10๋ ๊ฐ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ณธํ ๋ฅผ ๊ฐํํ ํ๋ฆฌ์ผ์ธ๋ค์ด ์์์ต๋๋ค. ํ๋ฆฌ์ผ์ธ์ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ณธํ ๋ฅผ ๊ฐํํ๋ฉด, ํนํ ํ๋ก๋ฆฌ๋ค์์ ์ํ, ํนํ ํต์กฐ๋ฆผ ์ํ์ด ๋ง์ด ํ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ๊ฑธํ ์ฐ์์ด๋ ๋๋ก๋ ๋๋ถ ํด์์์๋ ๋ง์ฐฌ๊ฐ์ง์ ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฐ ๊ฒ๋ค์ด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ธฐ์ ์ค์ ์ ๋ฐ์๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ์๋ ์๋ ์ ๋ํ ํ๋ฆฌ์ผ์ธ์ด ๋ง์๋ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌํด๋ ๊ทธ ์ ๋๋ฅผ ๊ณํ์ ๋ฐ์ํ์ง ์์๊ณ , ํ๋ ์์ค์ ๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ณํํ์ต๋๋ค. ํ๋ฆฌ์ผ์ธ์ด ๋ฐ์ํ์ง ์์์ต๋๋ค. ํด์ ์ง์ญ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋ค์๊ฒ๋ ๋คํ์ค๋ฌ์ด ์ผ์ด์ง๋ง, ์ ํฌ ๊ณํ๊ณผ๋ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ฌ๋์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ฝ๊ฐ์ ์ญํ์ด ์์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ด ๋ ์จ๊ฐ ์ธ์ ์์๋๋๋์ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ ํ ๋งํ ๋ ์น ๋ฆฌ ํต์กฐ๋ฆผ ๊ฐ์ ์๋ฆฌ ์ฌ๋ฃ ํต์กฐ๋ฆผ ์ํ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค์์ ๊ณ์ ์ ์์ ์ฆ๊ฐ๊ฐ ์ธ์ ์์๋ ์ง์ ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์น๋ ๊ฒฝํฅ์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฐ ์์๋ ํญ์ ์ฐพ์์ค๋๋ฐ, ๋ฌธ์ ๋ 10์ ์ด์ ์ฌ ๊ฒ์ธ์ง, 11์์ ์ฌ ๊ฒ์ธ์ง์ ๋๋ค. ์ฌํด๋ ํ์๋ณด๋ค ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ฆ๊ฒ ์์ง๋ง, ๋ถ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋ฐ๋ ์ดํ๋ก ๋งค์ฐ ์ถ์ด ๋ ์จ๊ฐ ์ด์ด์ง๊ณ ์๊ณ , ์ด๊ฒ์ด ์ฝ์ฝ์, ํ ๋งํ ํต์กฐ๋ฆผ, ์น ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ์ ์ฌ์ ์ ์ด๋ค ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์น๋์ง๋ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ ์๊ณ ๊ณ์ค ๊ฒ๋๋ค. ๋ค, ์ด๊ฒ๋ ํ์ด๋ฐ ์์ธ ์ค ํ๋์ ๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from Megan Clapp with Morgan Stanley. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ชจ๊ฑด์คํ ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ฉ๊ฑด ํด๋ฉ ์ ๋๋ฆฌ์คํธ๊ป์ ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Megan Christine Alexander: Morgan Stanley, Research Division I just had a quick follow-up to Tom's question earlier on the EPS outlook. You mentioned you seem confident on offsetting the shortfall from Ardent. The range is still quite wide. Sean, you mentioned it was wider than normal coming into the year. So can you just help us understand what are kind of the key swing factors or uncertainties that remain that justified keeping the EPS range wider now that we are halfway through the year rather than narrowing it? | **Megan Christine Alexander:** ํฐ์ด ์์ ์ง๋ฌธํ EPS ์ ๋ง์ ๋ํด ๊ฐ๋จํ ์ถ๊ฐ ์ง๋ฌธ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. Ardent ๋งค๊ฐ์ผ๋ก ์ธํ ๋ถ์กฑ๋ถ์ ์์ํ ์ ์๋ค๊ณ ์์ ํ์๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์๋ฐ์. ๊ทธ๋ผ์๋ ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค ๋ฒ์๊ฐ ์ฌ์ ํ ์๋นํ ๋์ต๋๋ค. Sean ๋๊ป์ ์ฐ์ด์ ํ์๋ณด๋ค ๋๊ฒ ์ค์ ํ๋ค๊ณ ๋ง์ํ์ จ๋๋ฐ์. ์ด์ ์ฐ๋์ ์ ๋ฐ์ด ์ง๋ ์์ ์์ EPS ๋ฒ์๋ฅผ ์ขํ์ง ์๊ณ ๋๊ฒ ์ ์งํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ํ๋นํ๋ค๊ณ ํ๋จํ์ ์ฃผ์ ๋ณ๋ ์์ธ์ด๋ ๋ถํ์ค์ฑ์ด ๋ฌด์์ธ์ง ์ค๋ช ํด ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๊น? |
| Sean Connolly: President, CEO & Director Yes. I wouldn't overthink keeping it wider, we are just at Q2. So when we narrow the range historically, it's usually in the back half of the year as we move toward the end of the year, it's usually not in the first quarter, even after the second quarter. So I wouldn't read much more into that other than we're just now finishing up second quarter, and we got the second half to go, and we'll update that range again next quarter. | **Sean Connolly:** ๋ค, ๋ฒ์๋ฅผ ๋๊ฒ ์ ์งํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ํด ๋๋ฌด ๊น์ด ์๊ฐํ์ค ํ์๋ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์์ง 2๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ง ๋ง์น ์์ ์ด๋๊น์. ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ์ฌ๋ก๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ฒ์๋ฅผ ์ขํ๋ ์๊ธฐ๋ ๋ณดํต ํ๋ฐ๊ธฐ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ง๋ก ๊ฐ์๋ก ๋ฒ์๋ฅผ ์ขํ๊ฐ๋๋ฐ, 1๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ด๊ณ 2๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ดํ์๋ ๋ฐ๋ก ์ขํ์ง๋ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋๊น ์ด๊ฒ์ ๋ํด ํน๋ณํ ์๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋์ค ํ์๋ ์๊ณ ์, ๋จ์ง ์ด์ ๋ง 2๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ๊ณ ํ๋ฐ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋จ์์๋ ์ํฉ์ด๋ผ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ค์ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ๋ค์ ๊ทธ ๋ฒ์๋ฅผ ์ ๋ฐ์ดํธํ ์์ ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Megan Christine Alexander: Morgan Stanley, Research Division Okay. And then maybe just another follow-up on I think it was Andrew's question at the beginning. So you talked about in the slides and in your prepared remarks the 2-year consumption trends in Refrigerated & Frozen inflecting back to positive. We know that the reported numbers are pretty noisy. And I know you don't want to provide guidance. But as we look to Q3 and just consider the momentum you're seeing in consumption on a 2-year basis and all of these timing shifts and what we'll see in terms of the shipment timing benefit, would you expect that 2-year reported trend in R&F to accelerate versus the first half? I'm just trying to get a sense because the Street does imply a bit of a deceleration. So just trying to understand how to think about that segment in particular given the noise. | **Megan Christine Alexander:** ๋ค, ์ฌ๋ผ์ด๋์ ๋ฐํ ๋ด์ฉ์์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ๋์ฅ ๋ฐ ๋๋ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ 2๊ฐ๋ ์๋น ํธ๋ ๋๊ฐ ํ๋ฌ์ค๋ก ์ ํ๋ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ํ ์ถ๊ฐ ์ง๋ฌธ์ด์๊ตฐ์. ๋ณด๊ณ ๋ ์์น๋ค์ด ์๋นํ ๋ณ๋์ฑ์ด ํฌ๋ค๋ ์ ์ ์ ํฌ๋ ์๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํ๊ณ ์ถ์ง ์๋ค๋ ์ ๋ ์ดํดํฉ๋๋ค๋ง, 3๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ ๋งํ ๋ 2๊ฐ๋ ๊ธฐ์ค์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์๋ ์๋น ๋ชจ๋ฉํ ๊ณผ ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ชจ๋ ํ์ด๋ฐ ๋ณํ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถํ ํ์ด๋ฐ ํจ๊ณผ ์ธก๋ฉด์์ ๋ํ๋ ๊ฒ๋ค์ ๊ณ ๋ คํ๋ฉด, ๋์ฅ ๋ฐ ๋๋ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ 2๊ฐ๋ ๋ณด๊ณ ํธ๋ ๋๊ฐ ์๋ฐ๊ธฐ ๋๋น ๊ฐ์ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์ํ์๋์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. ์์ฅ์์๋ ๋ค์ ๋ํ๋ฅผ ์์ํ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์ ์ฌ์ญค๋ด ๋๋ค. ํนํ ์ด๋ฐ ๋ณ๋์ฑ์ ๊ฐ์ํ ๋ ํด๋น ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ดํดํด์ผ ํ ์ง ํ์ ํ๋ ค๊ณ ํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Sean Connolly: President, CEO & Director I think you can expect a good second half in frozen. It's not a lot more complicated than the underlying trends are inflecting northward. Our market shares are either already back to the high watermark or very close to it. The programming that we've got in the marketplace in the next quarter will be stronger than we've had not only in the last quarter, but significantly stronger than a year ago, because a year ago, we were basically out of business in the quarter on promotions because of the supply constraints. So all of that lends itself to high-quality underlying momentum in the second -- in the third quarter and in the second half. | **Sean Connolly:** ๋๋์ํ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์์ ํ๋ฐ๊ธฐ์ ์ข์ ์ค์ ์ ๊ธฐ๋ํ์ ๋ ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ผ๋ก ์์ฅ ํธ๋ ๋๊ฐ ์์น์ธ๋ก ์ ํ๋๊ณ ์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์์ฅ ์ ์ ์จ์ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ต๊ณ ์ ์ ํ๋ณตํ๊ฑฐ๋ ๊ทธ์ ๋งค์ฐ ๊ทผ์ ํ ์ํ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ค์ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ์์ฅ์ ์ ๋ณด์ผ ํ๋ก๋ชจ์ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ์ ์ง๋ ๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ณด๋ค ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ๋ฟ๋ง ์๋๋ผ, ์๋ ๋๊ธฐ ๋๋นํด์๋ ํจ์ฌ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํฉ๋๋ค. ์๋ ์ด๋ง๋๋ ๊ณต๊ธ ์ ์ฝ์ผ๋ก ์ธํด ํ๋ก๋ชจ์ ์ ๊ฑฐ์ ์งํํ์ง ๋ชปํ๊ฑฐ๋ ์. ์ด ๋ชจ๋ ์์ธ๋ค์ด 3๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ํ๋ฐ๊ธฐ ์ ๋ฐ์ ๊ฑธ์ณ ํํํ ๋ชจ๋ฉํ ์ ๋ง๋ค์ด๋ผ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from Chris Carey with Wells Fargo. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ Wells Fargo์ Chris Carey๋๊ป์ ์ฃผ์ จ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Christopher Carey: Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division Just regarding the inflation for this year, like there's some puts and takes, but it's basically tracking to where you thought. Is there any reason why it shouldn't be back in that 2-ish percent range going into next year based on what we can see today? Are there anomalies with the timing of some of the pork and beef inflation that you're seeing? Or is there going to be tariff carryover into next year with inventory? I think the comment was we'd like to get back to that range over time, but I just wondered if there were anomalies that you're thinking about that would prevent you from getting there going into next year? | **Christopher Carey:** ์ฌํด ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ ๊ณผ ๊ด๋ จํด์ ์ฌ๋ฌ ๋ณ์๋ค์ด ์์ง๋ง ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ผ๋ก ์์ํ๋ ์์ค์ผ๋ก ์งํ๋๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ์, ํ์ฌ ์ํฉ์ ๋ณผ ๋ ๋ด๋ ์ 2% ์์ค์ผ๋ก ๋์๊ฐ์ง ๋ชปํ ์ด์ ๊ฐ ์์๊น์? ๋ผ์ง๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ ์ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ ํ์ด๋ฐ๊ณผ ๊ด๋ จ๋ ํน์ด์ฌํญ์ด ์๋์? ์๋๋ฉด ์ฌ๊ณ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๊ด์ธ ์ํฅ์ด ๋ด๋ ๊น์ง ์ด์ด์ง ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ด ์๋์? ์๊ฐ์ด ์ง๋๋ฉด์ ๊ทธ ๋ฒ์๋ก ๋์๊ฐ๊ณ ์ถ๋ค๋ ๋ง์์ ํ์ จ๋๋ฐ, ๋ด๋ ์ ๊ทธ ๋ชฉํ ๋ฌ์ฑ์ ์ด๋ ต๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค ์ ์๋ ํน์ด์ฌํญ๋ค์ ์ผ๋์ ๋๊ณ ๊ณ์ ๊ฒ ์๋์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Sean Connolly: President, CEO & Director No, Chris, I feel like I'm more cautious on prognosticating about inflation now than I probably have ever been. But we've looked back 100 years at these inflation super cycles. And when you hit these kind of peaks on any individual commodity that have been unprecedented, you usually see a downward slope on the other side of that hill. We just have not, as an industry, experienced that yet. In our case, it's been a bit more challenging than some portfolios in that we're heavily skewed toward proteins, which, of course, remained high, but proteins go up and they usually come down. And obviously, different proteins have different timetables for that delta. So at some point, it's going to normalize here. At some point, very soon, we're going to have a lot of this stuff baked into our base already. So you could really start to see some relief in the P&L if things start to break our way. | **Sean Connolly:** ์ง๊ธ ์ธํ๋ ์ด์
์ ๋ํด ์์ธกํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๊ทธ ์ด๋ ๋๋ณด๋ค ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ฝ์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ง๋ 100๋
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์ํผ์ฌ์ดํด์ ๋๋์๋ดค์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํน์ ์์์ฌ๊ฐ ์ ๋ก ์๋ ์์ค์ ์ ์ ์ ๋๋ฌํ๋ฉด, ๋ณดํต ๊ทธ ์ธ๋ ๋ฐ๋ํธ์์๋ ํํฅ ๊ณก์ ์ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์
๊ณ๋ ์์ง ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๊ฒฝํ์ ํ์ง ๋ชปํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ, ์ผ๋ถ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค๋ณด๋ค ์ข ๋ ์ด๋ ค์ด ์ํฉ์ธ๋ฐ, ๋จ๋ฐฑ์ง ์ ํ ๋น์ค์ด ๋๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. ๋จ๋ฐฑ์ง ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ๋ฌผ๋ก ๋์ ์์ค์ ์ ์งํ์ง๋ง, ๋จ๋ฐฑ์ง์ ์ค๋ฅด๋ฉด ๋ณดํต ๋ด๋ ค๊ฐ๊ธฐ ๋ง๋ จ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ๋จ๋ฐฑ์ง ์ข ๋ฅ๋ง๋ค ๊ทธ ๋ณ๋ ์๊ธฐ๋ ๋ค๋ฆ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ด๋ ์์ ์๋ ์ ์ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์กฐ๋ง๊ฐ ์ด๋ฌํ ์์๋ค์ด ์ด๋ฏธ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๋ฐ์๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ๋๋ฉด ์ํฉ์ด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์๊ฒ ์ ๋ฆฌํ๊ฒ ์ ๊ฐ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ ์์ต๊ณ์ฐ์(P&L)์์ ์ค์ง์ ์ธ ๊ฐ์ ์ ๋ณด์ค ์ ์์ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Christopher Carey: Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division Okay. We'll see how it goes. Just from a portfolio standpoint, a little bit bigger picture. We've seen a ton of activity in the food sector with portfolio changes, separations, combinations and actually in broader staples as well even outside of food. When you think about what's going on in the environment right now, can you just give us the latest on Conagra's approach to its portfolio, how you think through portfolio opportunities one way or the other, and just how the balance sheet and your leverage targets factor into your medium-term objectives? Just any context would be helpful. | **Christopher Carey:** ์ข์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์งํ๋๋์ง ์ง์ผ๋ณด๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค ๊ด์ ์์ ์ข ๋ ํฐ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ผ๋ก ์ง๋ฌธ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ต๊ทผ ์ํ ์นํฐ์์ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค ๋ณํ, ๋ถ์ฌ, ํฉ๋ณ ๋ฑ ์์ฒญ๋ ํ๋๋ค์ด ์์๊ณ , ์ค์ ๋ก ์ํ ์ธ ์ํํ ์ ๋ฐ์์๋ ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์์ง์์ด ์์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ์์ฅ ํ๊ฒฝ์ ๊ณ ๋ คํ ๋, ์ฝ๋๊ทธ๋ผ์ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค ์ ๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์์ ๋ํ ์ต์ ์ ์ฅ์ ๋ง์ํด ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๊น? ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ค ์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๊ฒํ ํ๊ณ ๊ณ์ ์ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฌ๋ฌด์ํํ์ ๋ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ์ง ๋ชฉํ์น๊ฐ ์ค๊ธฐ ๋ชฉํ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ฐ์๋๋์ง ๋ง์ ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ค ๋งฅ๋ฝ์ด๋ ๋์์ด ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Sean Connolly: President, CEO & Director Sure. Well, first of all, just to remind the listeners on the call, we have done probably more M&A than most of the companies in our space over the last 10 years, and that includes inbounds and a lot of divestitures, even separations. So we're quite familiar with that. And of course, prior to being here, I was at Sara Lee, where we had a split and we stood up 2 independent companies and had a good outcome. So Dave and I and the Board are always thinking of everything under the sun in terms of ways to create value for our shareholders. And we are not the slightest bit entrenched in any way. If there is a clear path to creating value, we will pursue it, and we have done that in the past. So reshaping has always been part of our game plan, and that has included inbounds from time to time. I don't see us doing that anytime soon because we're focused on debt reduction. But it's also included outbounds. And we only recently completed the divestiture of Chef Boyardee. And while we sold some EPS with that, we felt like it was the right thing to do for the portfolio long term. So we'll continue to look at our options there. And if we see a clear pathway to value creation, we are always eagerly in pursuit of that. | **Sean Connolly:** ๋จผ์ ์ ํ ์ฐธ์ฌํ์ ๋ถ๋ค๊ป ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ์๋ฉด, ์ ํฌ๋ ์ง๋ 10๋
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๊ณ ๋ด ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ๊ธฐ์
๋ค๋ณด๋ค ๋ ๋ง์ M&A๋ฅผ ์งํํด์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌ๊ธฐ์๋ ์ธ๋ฐ์ด๋ ๊ฑฐ๋์ ์๋น์์ ๋งค๊ฐ, ์ฌ์ง์ด ๋ถ๋ฆฌ๊น์ง ํฌํจ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ด ๋ถ์ผ์ ๋ํด ์๋นํ ์ต์ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ ๊ฐ ์ด ํ์ฌ์ ์ค๊ธฐ ์ Sara Lee์ ์์ ๋๋ ํ์ฌ ๋ถํ ์ ํตํด 2๊ฐ์ ๋
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์ ์ค๋ฆฝํ๊ณ ์ข์ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ป์์ต๋๋ค. Dave์ ์ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ด์ฌํ๋ ํญ์ ์ฃผ์ฃผ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถํ ์ ์๋ ๋ชจ๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ๋ ์ด๋ค ์์ผ๋ก๋ ๊ธฐ์กด ๋ฐฉ์์ ์ฝ๋งค์ฌ ์์ง ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถํ ์ ์๋ ๋ช ํํ ๊ธธ์ด ์๋ค๋ฉด ์ถ์งํ ๊ฒ์ด๊ณ , ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ํด์์ต๋๋ค. ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค ์ฌํธ์ ํญ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์ ๋ต์ ํต์ฌ์ด์๊ณ , ๋๋ก๋ ์ธ์๋ ํฌํจ๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ํ์ฌ๋ ๋ถ์ฑ ๊ฐ์ถ์ ์ง์คํ๊ณ ์์ด์ ๋น๋ถ๊ฐ์ ์ธ์๋ฅผ ์งํํ์ง ์์ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์ ๋๋ค. ๋งค๊ฐ๋ ์ฌํธ์ ์ผ๋ถ์์ฃ . ์ต๊ทผ ์ ฐํ ๋ณด์ผ๋(Chef Boyardee) ๋งค๊ฐ์ ์๋ฃํ๋๋ฐ, ์ผ๋ถ ์ฃผ๋น์์ด์ต(EPS)์ ํฌ๊ธฐํ๊ธด ํ์ง๋ง ์ฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค ๊ด์ ์์ ์ฌ๋ฐ๋ฅธ ๊ฒฐ์ ์ด์๋ค๊ณ ํ๋จํฉ๋๋ค. ์์ผ๋ก๋ ๊ณ์ํด์ ์ต์ ๋ค์ ๊ฒํ ํ ๊ฒ์ด๊ณ , ๋ช ํํ ๊ฐ์น ์ฐฝ์ถ ๊ฒฝ๋ก๊ฐ ๋ณด์ธ๋ค๋ฉด ์ธ์ ๋ ์ ๊ทน์ ์ผ๋ก ์ถ์งํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from Scott Marks with Jefferies. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ์ ํ๋ฆฌ์ค์ ์ค์ฝง ๋งํฌ์ค๋๊ป์ ์ฃผ์ จ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Scott Marks: Jefferies LLC, Research Division I wanted to ask about the completion of the baked chicken facility. Can you just remind us how you're thinking about the cadence of repatriating some of that production and how we should be thinking about the magnitude and cadence of the margin improvement from those actions? | **Scott Marks:** ๊ตฌ์ด ์นํจ ์์ค ์๊ณต์ ๋ํด ์ง๋ฌธ๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ํด๋น ์์ฐ์ ๋ณธ๊ตญ์ผ๋ก ์ด์ ํ๋ ์๊ธฐ์ ์๋๋ฅผ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๊ณํํ๊ณ ๊ณ์ ์ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ด๋ฌํ ์กฐ์น๋ก ์ธํ ๋ง์ง ๊ฐ์ ์ ๊ท๋ชจ์ ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์์ํด์ผ ํ ์ง ๋ค์ ํ๋ฒ ์ค๋ช ํด ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๊น? |
| Sean Connolly: President, CEO & Director Sure. I'll make a quick comment, and then I'll flip it to Dave. But it's amazing. Chicken has always been an important part of our portfolio, but chicken has just been on fire over the last several years. And our historic business was mostly kind of roasted or baked chicken, and that's where we ran into some of the supply challenges last year. We got some quality inconsistencies. We've fixed those. That's done. So the baked chicken project is complete, and we like the way that looks, and that's great. But as you know, we also, in the last year, had some tremendous success with our new Banquet Mega Filets, which is a fried chicken product that basically looks a lot like a Chick-fil-A product. And that's an area where we've had limited capacity going forward. So we've elected to make some additional investments there to increase our capacity. It will take some time to build that out, but that's super exciting because chicken as a protein has just been on fire, in part because beef has been so expensive for the consumer. But I would say, even overall, when you look at foodservice trends and the success of Chick-fil-A and Raising Cane's, things like that, it's just been undeniable. So we're very excited about that being a continued tailwind for us, and getting those capabilities in-house enables us to make these products in the most efficient way possible with the best margin. Dave, do you want to add to that? | **Sean Connolly:** ๋ค, ๊ฐ๋จํ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ Dave์๊ฒ ๋๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ ๋ง ๋๋ผ์ด ์ผ์
๋๋ค. ์นํจ์ ํญ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค์์ ์ค์ํ ๋ถ๋ถ์ด์์ง๋ง, ์ง๋ ๋ช ๋
๊ฐ ์นํจ ์ฌ์
์ด ์ ๋ง ํญ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฑ์ฅํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๊ธฐ์กด ์ฌ์
์ ์ฃผ๋ก ๋ก์คํธ ์นํจ์ด๋ ๋ฒ ์ดํฌ๋ ์นํจ ์์ฃผ์๋๋ฐ, ์๋
์ ์ผ๋ถ ๊ณต๊ธ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ฅผ ๊ฒช์๋ ๋ถ๋ถ์ด ๋ฐ๋ก ์ฌ๊ธฐ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง ์ผ๊ด์ฑ์ ๋ฌธ์ ๊ฐ ์์์ฃ . ํ์ง๋ง ์ด ๋ฌธ์ ๋ค์ ํด๊ฒฐํ๊ณ ์๋ฃ๋์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฒ ์ดํฌ๋ ์นํจ ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ ์์ฑ๋๊ณ , ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ ๋ง์์ ๋ค๋ฉฐ ์์ฃผ ์ข์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์์๋ค์ํผ, ์๋ ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์๋ก์ด Banquet Mega Filets ์ ํ์ผ๋ก๋ ์์ฒญ๋ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ๊ฑฐ๋์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๊ฑด ํ๋ผ์ด๋ ์นํจ ์ ํ์ธ๋ฐ, ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ผ๋ก Chick-fil-A ์ ํ๊ณผ ๋งค์ฐ ์ ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ด ๋ถ์ผ๋ ์์ผ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์์ฐ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ด ์ ํ์ ์ธ ์์ญ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์์ฐ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ถ๊ฐ ํฌ์๋ฅผ ํ๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ฒฐ์ ํ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ตฌ์ถํ๋ ๋ฐ ์๊ฐ์ด ์ข ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ง๋ง, ์ ๋ง ๊ธฐ๋๋๋ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋๋ค. ์นํจ์ด๋ผ๋ ๋จ๋ฐฑ์ง ์ ํ์ด ์ ๋ง ํญ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ์ฑ์ฅ์ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ ์๊ฑฐ๋ ์. ๋ถ๋ถ์ ์ผ๋ก๋ ์๊ณ ๊ธฐ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ด ์๋น์๋ค์๊ฒ ๋๋ฌด ๋น์ธ์ก๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด๊ธฐ๋ ํฉ๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๋๋ผ๋, ์ธ์ ์ฐ์ ํธ๋ ๋์ ์นํ๋ (Chick-fil-A), ๋ ์ด์ง ์ผ์ธ์ค(Raising Cane's) ๊ฐ์ ๋ธ๋๋๋ค์ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ๋ณด๋ฉด ๋ถ์ธํ ์ ์๋ ํ์์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ด๊ฒ์ด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์๊ฒ ๊ณ์ํด์ ์ํ์ผ๋ก ์์ฉํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๋ ์ ์ ๋งค์ฐ ๊ณ ๋ฌด๋์ด ์๊ณ , ์ด๋ฌํ ์์ฐ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ๋ด์ฌํํจ์ผ๋ก์จ ์ต๊ณ ์ ๋ง์ง์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ฅ ํจ์จ์ ์ธ ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ์ ํ์ ๋ง๋ค ์ ์๊ฒ ๋ฉ๋๋ค. Dave, ์ถ๊ฐํ ๋ด์ฉ ์์ผ์ ๊ฐ์? |
| David Marberger: Executive VP & CFO Yes. So as we communicated at the beginning of the year with our guidance, we had estimated completing this line, this production at the end of the second quarter, which we have. So now we're in transition of bringing volume back in from the third party. As you can imagine, there's a transition there, and we build inventories and we deplete inventory. But all of that was built into our guidance, our margin and profit forecast for fiscal '26. So we're on track, and that's incorporated into what we've guided to. | **David Marberger:** ๋ค, ์ฐ์ด ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค๋ฅผ ๋ฐํํ ๋ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ, ์ ํฌ๋ ์ด ๋ผ์ธ, ์ด ์์ฐ์ 2๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋ง์ ์๋ฃํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์ํ๊ณ ์ค์ ๋ก ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด์ ์ 3์๋ก๋ถํฐ ๋ฌผ๋์ ๋ค์ ๊ฐ์ ธ์ค๋ ์ ํ ๊ณผ์ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์์๋ค์ํผ ์ ํ ๊ณผ์ ์ด ์๊ณ , ์ฌ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ์์๋ค๊ฐ ์์งํ๋ ๊ณผ์ ์ ๊ฑฐ์น๊ฒ ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ด ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ ํฌ ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค, 26ํ๊ณ์ฐ๋ ๋ง์ง๊ณผ ์ด์ต ์ ๋ง์ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ฐ์๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ๊ณํ๋๋ก ์งํ ์ค์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ์ ์ํ ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค์ ํฌํจ๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Scott Marks: Jefferies LLC, Research Division Understood. And then just quickly, second question for me. There was a pretty sizable impairment charge taken in the quarter. I don't believe I saw any details in the press release. So I wondering if you could just share any insight around that. | **Scott Marks:** ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ ๋ฒ์งธ ์ง๋ฌธ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฒ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ๊ฝค ํฐ ๊ท๋ชจ์ ์์์ฐจ์์ด ๋ฐ์ํ๋๋ฐ์. ๋ณด๋์๋ฃ์์ ์ธ๋ถ ๋ด์ฉ์ ์ฐพ์ง ๋ชปํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ํด ์ข ๋ ์์ธํ ์ค๋ช ํด ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์? |
| David Marberger: Executive VP & CFO Sure. So we obviously have had a sustained decline in our stock price and market cap. And so the way that you do impairment accounting, if there is a triggering event, and this would qualify for where if your stock and market cap over an extended period of time is lower, you have to go back and do all the analysis you do for goodwill impairment and brand impairment. So we always do this work in our Q4 every year. So the last time we did it was at the end of our third quarter or our fourth quarter last fiscal year. So we had to do that in the second quarter. And when we went through that process, given the macro backdrop, which has impacted the stock price, obviously, we made the decision to increase our discount rate. So a lot of our forecasts were the same. And as you see, we're holding our guidance. So we feel good about where the business is going. It's in line with expectations. But because we changed our discount rate, that drove the impairment. So it's really just marking kind of book down to the fair value. | **David Marberger:** ๋ค, ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ณด์๋ค์ํผ ์ ํฌ ์ฃผ๊ฐ์ ์๊ฐ์ด์ก์ด ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ํ๋ฝํ์ต๋๋ค. ์์ ํ๊ณ์ฒ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐฉ์์ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ด๋ฐ ์ฌ๊ฑด(triggering event)์ด ๋ฐ์ํ์ ๋ - ์ด๋ฒ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๊ฐ ์ฌ๊ธฐ ํด๋นํ๋๋ฐ์ - ์ฃผ๊ฐ์ ์๊ฐ์ด์ก์ด ์ฅ๊ธฐ๊ฐ์ ๊ฑธ์ณ ๋ฎ์์ง๋ฉด, ์์
๊ถ ์์๊ณผ ๋ธ๋๋ ์์์ ๋ํ ๋ชจ๋ ๋ถ์์ ๋ค์ ์ํํด์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ๋ ๋งค๋
4๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ์ด ์์
์ ํญ์ ์งํํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ง์ง๋ง์ผ๋ก ์งํํ ๊ฒ์ด ์ง๋ ํ๊ณ์ฐ๋ 3๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋ง, ์ฆ 4๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋ง์ด์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ด๋ฒ 2๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ๋ค์ ์งํํด์ผ ํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด ๊ณผ์ ์ ๊ฑฐ์น๋ฉด์, ์ฃผ๊ฐ์ ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์น ๊ฑฐ์๊ฒฝ์ ์ํฉ์ ๊ณ ๋ คํด ํ ์ธ์จ(discount rate)์ ์ํฅ ์กฐ์ ํ๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ฒฐ์ ํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ ์์ธก์น์ ์๋น ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋์ผํ๊ฒ ์ ์งํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ณด์๋ค์ํผ ์ ํฌ๋ ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค๋ฅผ ์ ์งํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ฌ์ ์ด ๋์๊ฐ๋ ๋ฐฉํฅ์ ๋ํด ๊ธ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์์๊ณผ ์ผ์นํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ํ ์ธ์จ(discount rate)์ ๋ณ๊ฒฝํ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ์์์ฐจ์(impairment)์ด ๋ฐ์ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ค์ ๋ก๋ ์ฅ๋ถ๊ฐ์ก์ ๊ณต์ ๊ฐ์น(fair value)๋ก ์กฐ์ ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋ถ๊ณผํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Operator: At this time, there are no more questions. The conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect. | **Operator:** ๋ ์ด์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ด ์์ผ์๊ตฐ์. ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ์ ๋ง์น๋๋ก ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ค๋ ์ฐธ์ํด ์ฃผ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๊ฒฐ์ ์ข ๋ฃํ์ ๋ ๋ฉ๋๋ค. |
# Conagra Brands Q2 Fiscal 2026 Earnings Call Summary
## Key Financial Metrics & Guidance
- **Full-year guidance reaffirmed**: Organic sales and operating margin targets maintained despite $30M (~$0.05 EPS) headwind from Ardent Mills divestiture
- **Inflation outlook unchanged**: 7% gross inflation (4% core + 3% tariffs), net 5.5% for the year; Q2 ran just under 7%
- **H2 expectations**: Positive organic sales growth expected; Q3 operating margins below Q2 due to A&P spend (>3% of sales) and inventory absorption headwinds
- **Productivity strong**: Running at ~5%, supporting margin recovery plans
- **Leverage focus**: Prioritizing debt reduction over M&A in near term
## Business Performance & Outlook
- **Frozen segment momentum building**: Market share nearly recovered to 53% in single-serve meals after supply constraints; stronger promotional calendar in H2 vs. prior year when supply limited activity
- **Snacks performing well**: Growing near mid-single digits, benefiting from C-store recovery and strong innovation (Slim Jim, FATTY)
- **Q2 headwinds (~100bps)**: Hurricane absence vs. prior year, delayed winter weather, SNAP payment pause, and retailer inventory management
- **December recovery**: Delayed shipments materializing as expected; seasonal promotional build shifting from Q2 to Q3
## Strategic Initiatives
- **Project Catalyst**: Multi-month initiative to reengineer core business processes using AI for effectiveness and efficiency gains; full details coming in calendar 2026
- **Pricing strategy**: Not rolling back list prices; instead maintaining pricing while adding "high-quality" promotions consistent with historical levelsโdriving volume without excessive discounting
- **Innovation success**: Accelerating with improved velocity per TPD; focused on health/wellness trends (protein, clean label, vegetables) resonating with younger consumers
- **Supply chain investments**: Baked chicken facility complete (Q2); additional fried chicken capacity being added for high-growth products like Banquet Mega Filets
## Management Tone & Risks
- **Tone**: