Simmons First National Corporation

Good day and welcome to the Simmons First National Corporation second quarter 2026 earnings conference call and webcast. All participants will be in a listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal conference specialists by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star then one on your touchtone phone. And to withdraw your question, please press star then two. Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr. Ed Bilek. Please go ahead, sir.

Good morning and welcome to Simmons First National Corporation's second quarter 2026 earnings call. Joining me today are several members of our executive management team, including President and CEO 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 second quarter earnings materials, including the earnings release and 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 then 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 yesterday as well as our Form 10K for the year ended December 31st, 2025 and our Form 10Q for the quarter ended March 31st, 2026. including the risk factors contained in those filings. 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 reconciliation of those non-GAAP metrics to GAAP are contained in our earnings release and investor presentation, which are furnished as exhibits to the Form 8K we filed yesterday with the SEC and are also available on our investor relations page of our website, simsbank.com. Operator, we're ready to begin the Q&A.

Thank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. To ask a question, you may press star then 1 on your touchtone phone. If you are using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing the keys. If at any time your question has been addressed and you would like to withdraw your question, please press star, then two. And our first question for today will come from David Feaster with Raymond James. Please go ahead.