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John
Conference Operator

Good morning. My name is John, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Orsan Financial Services Inc. First Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker remarks, there will be a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question during the Q&A session, simply press star followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. And if you would like to withdraw your question, press star one again. I will now turn the call over to Tom Quinn, President and Chief Executive Officer of Orrstown Financial Services, Inc. and Orrstown Bank, who will begin the conference. Mr. Quinn, please go ahead.

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Tom Quinn
President and Chief Executive Officer, Orrstown Financial Services, Inc. and Orrstown Bank

Thank you, Operator, and good morning. I'd like to thank everyone for participating in Orrstown's first quarter 2026 earnings conference call, both by telephone and through the webcast. If you have not read the earnings release we issued yesterday afternoon, you may access it along with the financial tables and schedules by going to our website, www.orstown.com. Once there, you can click on the investor relations link and then on the events and presentations link. Also, before we start, I would like to mention that today's presentation may contain forward-looking information. Cautionary statements about this information are included in the earnings release, the investor presentation, and our SEC filings. The earnings release and investor presentations also include non-GAAP financial measures. The appropriate reconciliations to GAAP are included in those documents. Joining me on the call this morning are Orrstown Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Adam Metz, as well as Chief Financial Officer Neil Kalani, our Chief Revenue Officer Zach Curry, Chief Risk Officer Bob Karate and Chief Credit Officer Dave Tchaikovsky will also participate on the call. For our financial highlights, Orrstown achieved another successful quarter, delivering strong results across the board. Net income increased to $21.8 million, or $1.12 per diluted share. Return on average equity and return on average assets continued to exceed peer multiples. Fee income of $15.6 million contributed 24.1% of the total operating income. Non-interest expense declined, highlighting our continued commitment to creating efficiencies within the company. Our net interest margin remained near the top of all peers. We started off the year with another profitable quarter and created momentum leading into the rest of the year. I will now turn the call over to Adam Metz, who will speak about our balance sheet. Adam?

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Adam Metz
Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

Thank you, Tom. Good morning, everyone. Loan growth was steady during the quarter, coming in at 4% on an annualized basis. Loan production was excellent, but overall growth was impacted by unexpected loan prepayments. Growth has occurred across our footprint and our product set, a mix of CNI and CRE. Our pipelines continue to be robust and support our growth targets. On the credit front, we recorded moderate provision expense aligning with the portfolio growth and experienced a reduction in classified loans. We remain prudent in our lending decisions, but we feel that the credit environment remains sound and without significant signs of stress. We are pleased with our meaningful deposit growth during the quarter. Deposits increased by 98.7 million, reflecting increases in interest-bearing demand deposits, non-interest demand deposits, time deposits, and money market deposits. This deposit growth accelerated in the second half of the quarter, which enabled us to reduce borrowings at quarter end. This shift from borrowings to deposits reduced our go forward funding costs, which we expect to become more apparent in the second quarter. Neil will discuss this in more detail during his presentation. Our capital ratios continue to build quickly with our earnings generation, which will create flexibility for us in the future. Capital levels continue to support our growth as well as providing the ability to facilitate other capital allocation opportunities. We maintain a long-term focus on generating earnings and growth to continually build shareholder value. In support of that, the board declared a quarterly dividend of 30 cents per share payable in May. Neil Kalani, our CFO, will now discuss our quarterly results in more detail. Neil? Thanks, Adam.

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