Scholastic Corporation (SCHL) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Operator

Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Scholastic reports, Second Quarter, Fiscal Year 2026 Results. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that today’s conference is being recorded. [Operator Instructions] I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Jeffrey Mathews, Executive Vice President and Chief Growth Officer.

Jeffrey Mathews
Executive VP, Chief Growth Officer & Interim President of Scholastic Education

Hello, and welcome, everyone, to Scholastic’s Fiscal 2026 Second Quarter Earnings Call. Today on the call, I’m joined by Peter Warwick, our President and Chief Executive Officer; and Haji Glover, our Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President. As usual, we posted the accompanying investor presentation on our IR website at investor.scholastic.com, which you may download now if you’ve not already done so.

We would like to point out that certain statements made today will be forward-looking. These forward-looking statements, by their nature, are subject to various risks and uncertainties and actual results may differ materially from those currently anticipated.

In addition, we will be discussing some non-GAAP financial measures, as defined in Regulation G. The reconciliations of those measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures may be found in the company’s earnings release and accompanying financial tables filed this afternoon on Form 8-K. This earnings release has also been posted to our Investor Relations website. We encourage you to review the disclaimers in the release and investor presentation and to review