Kingstone Companies, Inc (KINS) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Good morning and welcome to Kingstone Company's second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. I'll now turn the call over to your host, Stefan Norbaum, Kingstone's investor relations representative. Stefan, you may begin. Thank you and good morning, everyone. Joining us today are President and Chief Executive Officer Meryl Golden and Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Randy Patten. On behalf of the company, I would like to note that this conference call may contain forward-looking statements which involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from projected results. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made, and Kingston undertakes no obligation to update the information discussed. For more information, please refer to the section entitled Risk Factors in Part 1, Item 1A of the company's latest Form 10-K. Additionally, today's remarks may include references to non-GAAP measures. For definitions and reconciliations of these non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures, please see the tables in our latest earnings release available at kingstonecompanies.com. With that, it is my pleasure to turn the call over to Meryl Golden. Meryl? Thanks, Stephan. Good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining our call. Kingston delivered the most profitable quarter in our history. Net income reached a record $15.5 million. Net income per diluted share increased 35% to $1.05. And our gap net combined ratio improved 1.3 points to 70.2. That performance produced an annualized return on equity of 50.8%. Diluted book value per share reached $8.69. up 35% year-over-year, reflecting the value we are creating for...