Simmons First National Corporation

Good morning, and welcome to the Simmons First National Corporation First Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's remarks, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star then one on your touchtone phone. To withdraw your question, please press star then two. Please note this event is being recorded. I'd now like to turn the conference over to Ed Billick, Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Good morning and welcome to Simmons First National Corporation's first quarter 2024 earnings call. Joining me today are several members of our executive management team, including our executive chairman, George Makris, CEO, Bob Fellman, President, Jay Brogdon, and CFO, Daniel Hobbs. Today's call will be in a Q&A format. Before we begin, I would like to remind you that our first quarter earnings materials, including the earnings release and the presentation deck, are available on our website at SimmonsBank.com under the Investor Relations tab. During today's call, we will make forward-looking statements about our future plans, goals, expectations, estimates, projections, and outlook, including, among others, our outlook regarding future economic conditions, interest rates, lending and deposit activity, credit quality, liquidity, and net interest margin. These statements involve risk and uncertainties, and you should therefore not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statement, as actual results could differ materially from those expressed in or implied by the forward-looking statements due to a variety of factors. Additional information concerning some of these factors is contained in our earnings release and investor presentation furnished with our Form 8K today, and our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31st, 2023, including the risk factors contained in that Form 10-K. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and Simmons assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements or other information. Finally, in this presentation, we will discuss certain non-GAAP financial metrics we believe provide useful information to investors, additional disclosures regarding non-GAAP metrics including the reconciliations of those non-GAAP metrics to GAAP, are contained in our earnings release and investor presentation, which are included as exhibits to the Form 8K we filed with the SEC this morning and are also available on the investor relations page of our website, SimmonsBank.com. Operator, we are ready to begin the Q&A session.

Thank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. To ask a question, you may press star and one on your touchtone phone. If you're using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing the keys. To withdraw your question, please press star, then two. In the interest of time, please limit yourself to one question and one follow-up. At this time, we'll pause momentarily to assemble our roster. Our first question comes from David Feaster from Raymond James. Please go ahead.