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| We also, in addition to driving sales and profitability, we’re driving growth in our loyalty program, we're driving growth across categories, we're expanding our brand awareness |
| Stores are such an important part of the story, but you've also done such an excellent job in the digital channel |
| We've had two years of really strong comp growth |
| So we're really excited about the future of beauty and our role in it and the opportunities that lie ahead of us |
| We operate in a growing and attractive and resilient category with really strong consumer engagement |
| We have a proven, differentiated business model, and we underpin that with an experienced leadership team and really caring passionate associates who are committed to giving great guest experiences |
| If we think about the post-pandemic period, the category has been experiencing really strong growth coming out of the pandemic |
| In addition to the retail stores, we also have a leading digital experience with ulta.com and our app that has really driven some nice growth for us over the years |
| We delivered record-setting profitability and revenues last year |
| And while we know the category and the environment will continue to evolve, we're confident in our ability to continue to drive market share and profitable growth |
| It's really around how do you comp the comp? Beauty has seen really impressive growth over the past couple of years |
| At TD Cowen, we rate Ulta outperform with a $570 price target based on 20 times our next year earnings and Ulta is also one of our top holiday picks because we believe beauty will remain a very important category this holiday season, and it continues to outperform on innovation in masks, skincare and fragrance |
| And I'm pleased to say that our results year-to-date are running a little bit ahead of our expectations |
| We also believe the Ultimate Rewards loyalty program is a key differentiator, which I'm sure we'll get to talk about this morning |
| And while that growth is starting to moderate a bit, engagement continues to be really strong |
| And then I think our loyalty program, which I know we'll talk about in a little bit, is really first rate and best-in-class |
| So we're excited about the partnership |
| So they're a very good proxy for what's happening in the business and the trends and interest of the beauty enthusiasts |
| And we see longer term more opportunities to really bring those two worlds together through the app to really elevate the guest experience |
| And so I think those factors, so the assortment, the footprint, the digital experiences, the loyalty program and our guest experience really differentiate us from other players and have really driven success for us |
| Coming out of the pandemic, the category has seen double-digit growth |
| We're getting great feedback from the guests |
| So it is a category where newness and innovation are really strong |
| And so it's a really powerful tool that we continue to invest in to learn to be more personalized with our guests |
| So they're easily accessible and I think really deliver a consistent experience across all of those formats |
| It's easy for guests to understand it delivers real value to the guest, and it delivers to us really unique insights that we can use as we develop our assortment and help our brands grow their business |
| I mean, beauty is a category that has delivered consistent growth over time |
| Looking out, we think we can deliver comp growth in the 3% to 5% range for the next several years |
| And for us, it gives us really unique insights into member shopping behavior, cross-category behavior for cross brand behavior that we can then use as we're thinking about our product assortment, our brand assortment and how we can help our brand partners really grow their business |
| That will give us the ability to be more nimble in our guest experience and more personalized when guests interact with those channels |
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| With the exception of the great recession, where it pulled back a little bit and the pandemic, of course |
| And so the category is moderating |
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