Equity Bancshares, Inc. (EQBK) Q1 2025 Earnings Call

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Hello, everyone, and welcome to Equity Bank Shares' first quarter earnings call. My name's Lydia, and I'll be your operator today. After the prepared remarks, there'll be an opportunity to ask questions. If you'd like to participate in the Q&A, you can do so by pressing star followed by one on your telephone keypad. I'll now hand you over to Brian Catsby, Director of Corporate Development and Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Good morning. Thank you for joining us today for Equity Bank Shares' first quarter earnings call. Before we begin, let me remind you that today's call is being recorded and is available via webcast at investor.equitybank.com, along with our earnings release and presentation materials. Today's presentation contains forward-looking statements, which are subject to certain risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed. Following the presentation, we will allow time for questions and further discussion. Thank you all for joining us. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to our Chairman and CEO, Brad Elliott. Good morning. Thank you for joining Equity Bank Shares Earnings Call. Joining me today are Rick Sims, our bank CEO, Chris Navratil, our CFO, and Christoph Lukowski, our Chief Credit Officer. We are excited to share our company's strong beginning to 2025. In the first quarter, we achieved strong earnings, margin expansion, and built up our reserves to strengthen our balance sheet for whatever comes next. During the quarter, we were excited to announce the merger with NBC Corp, expanding our presence and our market share in Oklahoma as we continue to grow in this strategic area. As we announced on the call a few weeks ago, this will be impactful to Equity Bank in many posit...