Equity Bancshares, Inc. (EQBK) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us and welcome to the Equity Bankshares second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. After today's prepared remarks, we will host a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one to raise your hand. To withdraw your question, press star one again. I will now hand the conference over to Luke Pfeiffer. Luke, please go ahead. Welcome, everyone, and thank you for joining the Equity Bank Share second quarter earnings call. A quick note before we begin. 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. After the presentation, we'll open the floor up for questions and discussion, the conversation we look forward to. With that, let me turn the call over to our chairman and CEO, Brad Elliott. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us. Today's results are what we've been working towards since we announced the NBC and Frontier transactions. We knew what the numbers would look like once the merger noise was muted, and we could see the earnings power of the combined companies with Equity Bank. Our teams worked hard to get the Frontier transaction closed on January 1st and merged in the first quarter. With a desire to keep as much of the M&A noise in the first quarter to let everyone see a more normalized number this quarter. For the first time since closing, we're clearly showing investors what this franchise earns without the noise of merger charges. Day 2 provisions and integration costs overs...