SB Financial Group, Inc. (SBFG) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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up to the investment community for questions and answers. I will now turn the conference over to Sarah Mekas with SB Financial. Please go ahead, Sarah. Thank you, and good morning, everyone. I'd like to remind you that this conference call is being broadcast live over the Internet and will be archived and available on our website at ir.yourstatebank.com. Joining me today are Mark Klein, Chairman, President, and CEO of Tony Cosentino, Chief Financial Officer, and Steve Walls, Chief Lending Officer. Today's presentation may contain forward-looking information. Cautionary statements about this information, as well as reconciliations of non-GAAP financial measures are included in today's earnings release materials, as well as our SEC filings. These materials are available on our website, and we encourage participants to refer to them for a complete discussion of risk factors and forward-looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date made and SB Financial undertakes no obligation to update them. I will now turn the call over to Mr. Klein. Thank you, Sarah, and good morning, everyone. Welcome to our second quarter 2025 conference call and webcast. We clearly approached this year with a fair bit of optimism that included favorable funding costs associated with our Marblehead acquisition, a much larger balance sheet from an expanded market presence, and a stable team of seasoned lenders all bound by an improving economic environment. Well, six months in, we have met and exceeded our expectations. On a go-forward basis, we have positioned ourselves quite nicely to continue our trends and to outperform our peers in the second half of this year. For this quarter, net income was $3.9 million, with diluted earnings per share of $0.60, up $0.13, or nearly 28% compa...