Good morning, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Tractor Supply Company's Conference Call to discuss First Quarter 2025 results. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question and answer session and instructions will follow at that time. We ask that all participants limit themselves to one question and return to the queue for additional questions. Please note that the queue for our question and answer session did not open until the start of this call. Please be advised that reproduction of this call in whole or in part is not permitted without written authorization of Tractor Supply Company. And as a reminder, this call is being recorded. I would now like to introduce your host for today's call, Mary Winn Pilkington, Senior Vice President of Investor and Public Relations for Tractor Supply Company. Mary Winn, please go ahead.

Thank you, Alyssa. Good morning, everyone. We appreciate your time and participation in today's call. On the call today are Hal Lawton, our CEO, and Kurt Barton, our CFO. Following our prepared remarks, we'll open the floor for questions. Please note that a supplemental slide presentation has been made available on our website to accompany today's earnings release. Now let me reference the Safe Harbor provisions under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. This call may contain certain forward-looking statements that are subject to significant risks and uncertainties, including the future operating and financial performance of the company. In many cases, these risks and uncertainties are beyond our control. Although the company believes the expectations reflected in its forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations or any of its forward-looking statements will prove to be correct and actual results may differ materially from expectations. Important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in the forward-looking statements are included at the end of the press release issued today and in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Information contained in this call is accurate only as of the date discussed. Investors should not assume that statements will remain operative at a later time. Tractor Supply undertakes no obligation to update any information discussed in this call. As we move into the Q and A session, please limit yourself to one to ensure everyone has the opportunity to participate. If you have additional questions, please feel free to rejoin the queue. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation. We will be available after the call for further discussions. For your time and attention this morning. It's my pleasure to turn the call over to Hal. Thank you, Mary Winn.

Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. As always, I'd like to begin by thanking the Tractor Supply team for all they do and for their dedication to our purpose of serving life out here. Despite a softer than expected start to the year, given the delayed spring selling season, we're proud to report another quarter of strong execution by the Tractor Supply team. In the face of volatile weather and a shifting operating landscape, our team remained focused on what we could control. Investing with purpose, managing costs with discipline, and most importantly, serving our customers. On the customer front, the underlying health of our business remains strong and healthy. And I'll highlight four key indicators. One, we had robust transaction growth. Two, we also had strong unit growth in our consumable, usable, and edible categories. Three, we had positive new customer counts. And four, we had record retention of existing customers. These customer indicators reinforce our belief that our customer base remains both healthy and engaged and that we continue to gain market share. Now I want to take a moment to address the updated guidance we issued today. Since we shared our initial outlook for 2025, the macro environment has clearly become more uncertain. Drawing on some of the scenario planning we used during the early days of COVID, today, in addition to an updated fiscal year outlook, we're providing second quarter guidance. The updated fiscal year outlook is reflective of three primary considerations. One, it flows through the seasonal spring softness we've experienced to date. Two, it assumes that pressure on big ticket categories will persist for the remainder of the first half. And three, it reflects a range of scenarios related to tariff costs that our vendor base and we are incurring in the second quarter. In other words, we've considered the implications of tariffs through the ninety-day pause that began on April 9. While not our standard practice, given current conditions, as I mentioned, we are also providing second quarter guidance. As we believe offering near-term visibility is important for our investors at this time. As always, our goal is to be transparent, and we remain committed to updating our outlook as we gain greater visibility. I'll now turn the call over to Kurt to walk you through the financials. Thank you, Hal, and good morning, everyone.

In the first quarter, our total sales were a record $3.47 billion, an increase of 2.1%. Comparable store sales declined 0.9%. This performance was driven by strong transaction growth of 2.1% offset by a decline in average ticket of 2.9%. Diluted earnings per share was 34¢. These results were below our expectations. And we believe that weather was the key swing factor on our results in the quarter. As we analyze our performance across the weeks of the quarter, geographical regions, or product categories, the results point to the delay in spring seasonal shift as the key factor weighing on our results. We also recognize the evolving macroeconomic environment and are closely monitoring ongoing discussions around a potential economic slowdown and its impact on consumer spending. We do believe that some of the softness in big ticket categories reflects a degree of caution in consumer sentiment amid the current environment. That said, based on our analysis of first quarter performance, we believe our underperformance was primarily driven by adverse weather conditions, rather than broader macroeconomic trends. Where our business had a normal transition to spring, we were pleased with the results. Unfortunately, that was not in the vast majority of the country. And we estimate the arrival of spring was delayed by about three weeks across most of our markets, especially in the Midwest and Northeast where there was snow just last week. Looking at the cadence of comparable store sales over the quarter, we began with a strong January, successfully comping over last year's performance. When evaluating January and February together, we were particularly pleased with the results in our cold weather categories which performed well. However, the momentum slowed as we moved into mid-February and March. Typically, we begin to see early signs of spring in the South…

Overall,

our Q sales increased in the mid-single digits with unit growth in the high single digits. Given the extended cold weather in the quarter, a leading growth category was heating fuel, which was up north of 20%. Propane, wood pellets, bedding, and pine shavings are great examples of the resiliency of our business model. Domestically sourced, needs-based products. Additionally, products such as bird feeding and poultry feed had robust growth as did equine and livestock feed. We were only halfway through our chick days program, but we have been very pleased to date. Broadly, we believe that we continue to gain market share in pet food and our feed categories, even as key indicators like pet ownership, and cattle and horse counts continue to have modest declines. Categories that were a negative drag to our comp sales included our spring seasonal and related big ticket items like riding lawnmowers and outdoor power equipment, and our spring items in clothing and gifts truck tool and hardware. For perspective, our lawn and garden department declined low double digits and riding lawn mowers were down about 25%. While certain seasonal categories weighed on our comparable sales, it's important to underscore the resilience and strength of our core business. In fact, our 2.1% increase in comp transactions highlights the underlying health of our model and the needs-based demand-driven products our customers depend on us for, day in and day out. Transaction growth was offset by a lower average ticket, driven primarily by a negative product mix from fewer spring seasonal goods and modest pressure from lower average unit retail prices. Average unit retail was impacted by a low double-digit decline in big ticket items, and strong growth in lower-priced heating fuel. Combined, about 75% of our AUR decline is explained by these two categories…

For the remainder of our prepared remarks, I would like to address the key questions and themes we have heard from many of you in the recent weeks. In this time of uncertainty, I want to make sure we're giving you a real-time view into how we're thinking about the business and the current dynamic environment. So let's start with the top question on everyone's mind. How is Tractor Supply managing through tariffs, and corresponding price check strategies? First, it's important to recognize this management team has a strong track record of navigating complexity with discipline and clarity. We've been through many other battles together. It was during the prior rounds of tariffs, inflationary spikes, or supply chain disruption, we know how to operate in these environments and we're applying those same playbooks now. Refined with even better data and sharper execution building on our learnings from these past rounds. We begin from a position of strength on tariffs. This is not an existential crisis for Tractor Supply. Over 60% of our business is from products that are manufactured, bagged, assembled, or grown in The United States. And only 12% of our business is direct imports. And on our direct imports, over the last several years, we've reduced the share from China from north of 90% to currently below 70% and we're on track to be closer to 50% by year-end. When it comes to the recent tariff announcements, we're taking a proactive but measured approach. Like many, we stood up a task force, and our merchant sourcing, inventory, and supply chain teams have been working twenty-four seven since. Despite our relatively advantaged retail business model, the increased costs are substantial. For many of our manufacturing partners and us. One of the competitive advantages of Tractor Supply is our agile…

Thank you.

We will now begin the question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, you may do so by dialing 1 on your telephone keypad. To remove your question, you may press 2. And for those using a speakerphone, please remember to pick up your handset before asking your question. As a reminder, we ask that you ask one question then return to the queue. Once again, 1 to ask a question. Our first question comes from the line of Peter Benedict with Baird. Please go ahead.

Oh, hey. Good morning, everybody. Thanks for all those comments out at the end. Super helpful. Could you maybe clarify the tariff environment that you're assuming in the second quarter? And then even more importantly for the second half of the year was a little unclear to me. You mentioned something about the ninety-day stuff is are you guys thinking one forty-five China and 10% rest of the world? Is that what you're baking in for this quarter for the full year? I guess maybe some more clarity around that. It wasn't, it wasn't clear to me from your comments. Thank you.

Good morning. Thanks, Peter, for the question. Absolutely. So the way we've approached this is basically to think about tariffs over the next in the context of the Q2 ninety-day receipts. Alright. So to your point, we are making the assumption that the current 10% in kind of non-China and the 45% in China, in addition to the other tariffs that have been introduced such as the steel tariff steel and aluminum tariff as well, we're assuming that those will be in place for the fullness of Q2. And so all the receipts that are being, you know, kind of occurring in our value system during the Q2 time frame, we're assuming that cost is gonna make its way into its value system our value system in some way. Whether that's our in our manufacturer's profit whether that us finding efficiencies, whether that make its way over into the consumer. So we've kind of limited our guidance for today to the exposure that we see over the next ninety days. And so, you know, stepping back, we're optimist. We're hopeful that much of the global trade policy that's out there today will kind of moderate, and there'll be some cooling off, and cooler heads will prevail. But we think that, you know, kind of as we're all watching the news, we'll see how that evolves. But for the sake of being prudent and just kind of thoughtful and pick snapping the chalk line, What we've snapped the chalk line around is the second quarter receipts that are occurring in our supply chain system.

Very helpful. Thank you very much.

Thank you.

The next question is from the line of Chris Horvers with JPMorgan. Please go ahead.

Thanks. Good morning. It's Bharat Rao on for Chris. So on the 2Q guide, Hal, I think you mentioned expectation for continued big ticket pressure. But curious as to what's being baked in the guide in terms of, like, any sort of sequential improvement in the category and from the Easter shift. And then on the full year with the top line range being raised at the high end, just curious to as to what's baked into there as to, like, what would help you in ahead of the original guide and hit that 4% comp. Thank you.

Yeah. Good morning. On Q2, we took a very prudent and kind of conservative approach to the quarter. As I mentioned, we baked flowed through in our full year the guidance in our performance in the seasonal business through the current year to date. We also assumed that there would not be a returning pickup in big ticket through the balance of the quarter. But we did assume that our Q categories would continue to perform as they are. And as I mentioned, we're seeing strength there and modest pickup actually in several of those businesses. In addition, we are also assuming that our core categories and the more the less big ticket seasonal businesses continue to perform as well. Those performed reasonably well in the month of March and have performed reasonably well in the month of April, and we expect that to continue as well. So, basically, we kind of flowed through our current run rates from, as we're seeing it in the March and April time frame through the balance of the quarter. You know, that said, spring is really just beginning in the country. We are ready and very excited about it. We got great products. We've got great setup ready to go. And, you know, we certainly are hopeful that our prudent outlook and we overperform. But we basically took our current run rates and flowed it through. We thought that was the most prudent thing to do at this time.

Thank you.

Next question is from the line of Scott Ciccarelli with Truist. Please go ahead.

Hey. Good morning. This is Josh Young on for Scott. So you mentioned you're seeing a request for price increases from vendors at this point. Can you just give us some more color on how widespread that is across SKUs? And have you started to pass through much price at this point?

Good morning. As it relates to price increases, we are not taking price increases at this time. And we've been very clear on that in the system. There's too much uncertainty. And once there's greater certainty, then we look forward to very productive conversations with our vendor partners and the rest of our supply chain network. To talk about how to best manage and navigate things going forward. That said, our vendors still have to ship out of China for many of their products where they're single sourced there. And they are incurring that tariff as we speak of a 45%. That tariff is making its way on the balance sheet of our vendors, It will eventually make its way into their cost of goods. And then they will be looking for ways to manage that through their P and L and also through the rest of the chain. We would expect those sorts of conversations to begin over the next few weeks and into the following months. And that's the kind of pressure that's kind of what I'd say we're seeing right now. But again, we're not taking cost increases at this moment.

Okay. That's helpful. Thank you.

Thank you.

The next question is from the line of Michael Lasser with UBS. Please go ahead.

Thank you so much for taking my question. Hal, can you clear up a little confusion that we're hearing from some of the folks on the call, which is you have only embedded the tariffs for the next ninety days. But to get to the midpoint of the full year guide, you have to assume around a 4% comp increase. Which inevitably would embed some degree of price increase because it's hard to see the degree of traffic increasing that range given all the uncertainty today. So, a, can you reconcile those two factors? Will you be taking some price? And b, how much price have you embedded into the midpoint of the guide in the second half? How much inflation and what are you expecting as far as the elastic response?

Absolutely. If I would start just by talking about second half and thinking about how we thought about the second half and our outlook. The first thing I'd say is we feel very good about our Q business. It continues to perform well, and that it is higher penetration in the second half so that will naturally weigh things up. The second is our transactions continue to be very strong, and we would expect that to continue into the second half of the year. The third thing that we've been very consistent on, and I referenced in my prepared remarks, is we do expect AUR to begin to turn positive in the middle of this year. And that will support average ticket as we get into the back half of the year. I'd also make a few other comments is that we did have a very we had a drought summer last year, and we also had a very limited winter last year. So we do expect that our categories and some of our business will be stronger year, I mean, in the back half of the year. So net net, we feel very good about a mid as we've talked about our kind of original guidance we talked about a step up into the second half, and that would be kind of our normal in an operating in a normal operating environment. If on the high side at the 4%, that is reflective of what could potentially make its way in the system based just on Q2 tariffs that are being incurred in our value system, and it assumes a partial pass through of that. And there's a variety of scenarios around that. On the bottom side, it would assume that there's a little bit of consumer pullback in the second half that would flow through. But we feel very good, and we're managing and navigating towards that mid base case with many of the kind of natural accelerants that we've talked about occurring in the second half.

Michael, this is Kurt. I'll add one thing that may help on that as much too far.

Hey, Kurt.

Yeah. Hey. One more thing just to add to Hal's comments. If it helps in understanding this. The cost that Hal is talking about incurring is being incurred on the balance sheets for the indirect by our vendors during the second quarter. Our 12% of imports, of course, those are costs that will hit our balance sheet during the second quarter. The imports that hit in the second quarter typically flow through in the second half. So as you think about the cost that he's referring to on the ninety days, how we share that across the value stream on vendors or within Tractor Supply and if there's any that need to be passed through on retail prices, those types of actions are more likely to occur in the second half, which is why you see our guide for the second quarter as it is with the potential of multiple scenarios, one of those being some upside to the second half on the AUR.

Thank you very much. Good luck.

Thank you.

Next question is from the line of Chuck Grom with Gordon Haskett Research Advisors. Please go ahead.

Hey. Thanks very much. Good morning. On the cadence of the business in the quarter, you gave a lot of color, but I was wondering if you could just maybe double click on each month for us. And then within the month of April, are you guys tracking within the guide? I guess at this point in time, I imagine that 20 million recapture of Easter you've seen at this point. And then just dropping out, when you think about trade down, I guess, historically, what parts of the business would you begin to see at first? And it sounds like you're not seeing it yet. But I guess what areas would you see it? Thank you.

Good morning. So just to elaborate on the color commentary that Kurt provided, January was a very strong month for us. We were coming right off of that month in our earnings call, and we shared some of that, some of that shared the news about some of that strength. Really predicated based on strong cold weather across the country, but also very dominant in the kind of North and Midwest, allowing us to comp the strong winter from the fall from the previous year. As we got into February, a call out two things. One, obviously, there was kind of a broader discussion across about the economy as we got into mid-February. You started to hear other retailers and even to yesterday food service providers kind of commenting on the same thing. In addition, for us, that's when the winter storm hit the South. And as Kurt talked about, in mid-February, that's really when we start to see the lift in our southern businesses, you know, kind of $510 million a week in lift week over week, and we just didn't see that. And in fact, we saw a pullback in a few of those weeks because the customers really weren't making it out of their homes. And then as we got into March, the cooler, wetter weather continued to persist. In the southern markets, that was a good thing, but it wasn't anywhere enough to offset the winter impact in the South and the cooler, wetter impact in the South. Some of that weather has persisted into April. What I will say, April's running right along with what we expected in our forecasting. And we commented and we've given guidance for Q2. We feel very confident in that guidance. And you can you know, look. We've got three months ahead for spring. We're excited about spring. We've got great products in spring. When the sun's out, our customers are shopping spring. And we look forward to executing against our spring game plan over the next three months.

Thank you.

The next question is from the line of Steven Forbes with Guggenheim. Please go ahead.

Morning, Hal. Good morning, everyone. Hal, maybe just following up on Tractor Supply Rx Curious if we can maybe talk about the intent willingness of your member base given all sort of the segmentation and survey work you guys do. To transition their spend over to your platform And then how should we think about the margin profile of Rx in the face of maybe some customer acquisition related spend as that program matures over time here?

Good morning. As I mentioned earlier, Rob Mills is in the room, and Rob is driving our integration and also, as you know, leads all of our digital efforts. And so I'll turn it over to him to answer the question. And thanks for the question.

Well, good morning, Steve. Great to hear from you. So first thing, I'll kind of start off saying is how shared in his opening comments, we're really pleased where we're at with the integration of Alivet. I'll kind of break it down into three buckets. First, the team. I spent quite a bit of time with the team, not just through the due diligence, but also through Q1. I'm extremely impressed with their culture, the knowledge, the team integration, and just the two organizations coming together with a common goal. Around how do we deliver that value and ease around our products into Tractor Supply. The second one is really focusing initially right out of the gate with the integration. And as you heard and saw, we did launch the integration of Rx into Tractor Supply. As well as our mobile app late last week going into this week. The adoption, the early read has been extremely strong. And, you know, we've taken a lot of time to understand what is our customer expecting both in the way of value and ease around speed, delivery, and how do we make it just a simple process to move their current script over to TractorSupply.com. We're in early days, but we feel great about it. Third area that we're gonna be doubling down now is what's at store integration. Anywhere from signage, how we're leveraging our PetIQ partnership, as well as training and driving knowledge within the store with our team members and the expertise of those customers coming in. And then lastly, it is all about Neighbor's Club integration with our 40 million customers and that majority of them owning a pet. So I'll just kind of sum it up by saying we're early in the game. We feel great about the opportunities. We've had no surprises. We're off to a strong start from an integration perspective. You're gonna see a lot more going into Q2.

Thank you, Rob. Thank you.

Next question is from the line of Seth Sigman with Barclays. Please go ahead.

Hey, great. Good morning, everyone. There's a lot of confusion on the guidance, and I know there's a lot of moving pieces here. But I think it would be helpful to maybe just quantify the actual sales impact, the actual EPS impact that you've embedded here from tariffs. Or at least give us some sort of range Because you're raising the high end of comps by 100 basis points for the full year, but you're lowering your earnings. So I think we're just trying to understand what's embedded here. And then as you think about this ninety-day pause, looking beyond that, what have you actually assumed for tariffs? Because it seemed like the messaging was suggesting that you're not assuming that's the go-forward rate. Maybe just help us understand that piece as well. Thank you so much. You're welcome.

Yes, Seth. Hey, this is Kurt. Let me start in maybe reverse order on how you brought some of those questions on it. On the second half, in regards to receipts, rather than try to parse out portions of these tariffs we've just said we've embedded into our assumptions only tariffs over the next ninety days. So whether that be the 10 or the hundred and 45, we will evaluate over this second quarter and be extremely transparent on the any changes based on a very fast moving and volatile environment at this point. We feel that the right and prudent thing to do. Also, in this environment, as I mentioned, we are managing through as most retailers, I'm sure, are a multitude of scenarios. There is vast type of options and scenarios as these costs go through the value chain, what type of sharing, etcetera. Our focus will be on maintaining market share. We want to keep our prices low. We will be negotiating and parting with our vendors. So the range was widened to represent a multitude of scenarios. Just to give you a perspective, in one scenario, you may we may see a scenario where there is limited demand or there's cost that needs to be passed on. That impacts the amount of units but has a benefit on AUR, that could put us, you know, closer to the mid or low end of the guidance range. You have other scenarios where there may be higher volumes, higher AUR, could impact your margins more much like inflation does. And so the best I can tell you is there's not a specific number that you know, we factored in. We're just managing through a number of scenarios. And as I mentioned, really guiding the business to just manage the guardrails and manage it to the midpoint of that. We've given you our previous guidance. You can look at what we've added on. I think we've given you enough to understand, you know, those the impact of that. Again, multiple scenarios. We've dealt with this before. And, I'm confident the team can manage us. And, we've given you our best guidance in how we view the business in this environment.

Thank you for that.

The next question is from the line of Karen Short with Melius Research. Please go ahead.

Hi. Thanks very much. You should have been in DC this week to explain all the myriads of issues that you're dealing with. But my main question is, when you look at the full year operating margin rate guide, can you just give a little color on the split or how to think about the cadence of gross margin versus SG and A? And then I think we've beaten the tariff comment to death, but our tariff thoughts to death. But gross margin original guidance was up 20 to 40 basis points, I believe. So just how to think about that? Throughout the year, assuming we're status quo as of what we know today.

Yeah. Karen, it's Kurt. The primary drivers on both gross margin SG and A for the most part hold in the new updated guidance fairly consistent with the original guidance. That said, I'll just continue to mention, there are multiple scenarios. And we anticipate, as we said in our original guidance, that gross margin for the year could expand 20 to 40 basis points. Higher in the first half than the second half. Some of that is mostly about compares to last year. SG and A deleveraging in the guide about 50 basis points for the year actually, the deleverage a little bit higher in the first half. As you think through the scenarios, as I mentioned, we could see where in a more inflationary environment, that inflation were related to any level of tariff costs. Puts pressure on margin rate, but benefits your SG and A. So there could be some movement in the on the P and L. But as we model it, I would encourage you to be fairly consistent with what we gave back in January with the original guide.

Okay. Thank you.

Thank you.

The next question is from the line of Chuck Cerankosky with Northcoast Research. Please go ahead.

Please go ahead. Good morning, everyone. Can you perhaps discuss the concept of moving production around to avoid tariffs or adjust to tariffs especially in imported apparel line? How practical is it? How easy is it? And do you end up just picking up additional cost from the new venue? Thank you.

Hey, Chuck. This is Seth. Thanks for the question. As Hal mentioned in his prepared remarks, we a couple quick things here. Number one, we have been actively working on resourcing, around not only Southeast Asia, but in other areas of the globe over the course, really over the last three years, aggressively. And have a lot of plans in place that will get us even closer to that kind of 50% or even less point by the end of this year out of China. And that work's already actively underway. Specifically to apparel, we on a on a direct import side for specifically, like, our private brands, we have fully moved out of China on apparel products already before these tariffs were announced. So we've been proactively planning this for some time. Relative to other categories, I'd tell you, he mentioned we stood up a task force, and I'd just like to thank that team from all the work they've been doing twenty-four seven over the course of the last three weeks. And that task force obviously has been assessing every program we have, where we have the opportunities to move, alternative sources of supply, and also domestic product that we're leaning into at the same time. Being that we are a needs-based business and we have a significant portion of our portfolio that is from The States and assembled and produced here in The States at the same time. So I feel very good about the work that's been going on. Obviously, it does take some time to move sources of supply, but this has been in process for us over the course of last few years. And that momentum has really picked up and is very strong. With a lot of movement already looking to occur in the back half this year.

Thank you. Thank you.

The next question is from the line of Zach Fadem with Wells Fargo. Please go ahead.

Good morning. I'm going to resist the urge to ask a tariff question. Two ones. First on sale leaseback. What was the benefit in Q2 or Q1 in any update on annual cadence. And then on new store productivity, it's been pretty wonky. And with Alivet, this time around, any color that you can provide on what you're seeing? And what we should expect? Thanks.

Zach, hey. This is Kurt. On the sale leaseback, as we said, we would be pretty consistent on an annual basis with the difference being a couple new stores. Additional stores added to the amount to be able to offset some of the onetime investments start up these strategic initiatives. You'll see on the cash flow statement a $17 million gain, and that flows through SG and A. There's no benefit in the corresponding Q1 last year, but there'll be a little bit of noise between the quarters. We anticipate in incurring modest amounts more in 2025. Like I said, about two additional stores, about $6 or $7 million year over year. So it'll play out relatively consistent. I would expect over the future quarters, there's really not much noise, from a sale leaseback year over year. New store productivity is continues to be strong. I understand and recognize with some of the square footage change and timing, it may be difficult from the data that you get to run that. Our new store productivity, we always target to be around the mid-sixties. It's historical average. New store productivity in a twelve-month rolling basis, 62%. And as a reminder, new stores have some at times have the same headwinds that comp stores do during a quarter like first quarter. So all normalized right exactly where we expected, and Alivet is contributing exactly what we had forecasted, and we like the growth trajectory even in Q1. And excited about, as Rob said, our ability to grow through our Neighbor's Club.

Alibaba? Alibaba about a point?

For the year to be it would be less than a point. Just modestly below a point.

Got it. Got it. Thanks so much for the time. Thanks, Kurt.

Thank you.

The next question is from the line of Peter Keith with Piper Sandler.

Oh, hey. Thank you very much. Thanks for all the great comments in the fiscal environment. I was wondering how you feel about your current rate of market share capture so far year to date? And then what are just some of the competitive advantages that you're thinking about flexing as we get into kind of this maybe a tariff price hike environment in the back half of the year?

Hey, Peter. Thanks so much for the question. Good to talk with you today. On the rate of the market share capture we continue to gain market share in a substantial way and it's been very consistent over the last three years. And in particular in our Q business. And we called this out in our prepared remarks. We are seeing high single-digit unit growth in across our feed categories, and then some even higher than that, we referenced poultry feed numerous times, and so I would call that one out as one even higher than that. If you look at cattle count, you look at horse count, just think about just generically speaking across kind of the animal count we are substantially gaining share there. On pet, as I mentioned in my prepared remarks, we do think we've passed the trough on pet. We're seeing a modest step up in the category, and as accordingly, we continue to gain share on top of that modest step up and feel very good about how we're moving forward in pet. What all and so then as I think about second half and if there was some consumer pullback, first off, our scale is gonna provide meaningful advantage to us. In our cost base, in our vendor negotiations, and our ability to navigate. The second thing is we are very much the leader in the market, and so in many ways, we're able to lead the market as it needs to be led. So I'd call that out as well. Third thing is our brand and our team members and all that we go to market to drive that business. You look at our positive comp transactions that we've consistently had in the business over the last five years, over the last decade and beyond, We know that will be a strength for us as we head into the second half of the year. So we feel excellent about the share gains we're taking across, whether it's in a tepid environment like we're seeing now, whether it was in a high growth environment like we saw in 2020 and 2021, and regardless of how that environment will play out in the back half of this year.

Operator, we've hit the top of that. Very good. Thanks so much. Operator, we've hit the top of the hour, so I think we'll wrap up the call out of respect to others on the call and other companies reporting. So with that, thank you all very much for your time and attention this morning. I'm around if there are any follow-ups and we look forward to speaking to you with our Q2 earnings in July. Thank you very much.

Thank you. This concludes today's conference call. Thank you all once again for your participation. You may now disconnect your lines.