Skyward Specialty Insurance Group, Inc. (SKWD) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the second quarter of 2025 Skyward Specialty Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question, you will need to press star 1-1 on your telephone keypad. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Natalie Schoolcraft of Investor Relations. May I please begin? Thank you, Howard. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to our second quarter 2025 earnings conference call. Today I am joined by our chairman and chief executive officer, Andrew Robinson, and chief financial officer, Mark Hochul. We will begin the call today with our prepared remarks, and then we will open the lines for questions. Our comments today may include forward-looking statements, which by their nature involve a number of risk factors and uncertainties which may affect future financial performance. Such risk factors may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in our projections or forward-looking statements. These types of factors are discussed in our press release, as well as in our 10-K that was previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Financial schedules containing reconciliations of certain non-GAAP measures, along with other supplemental financial schedules, are included as part of our press release and available on our website under the Investor section. With that, I will turn the call over to Andrew. Andrew? Thank you, Natalie. Good morning, and thank you for joining us. We're pleased to report another outstanding quarter with adjusted operating income of $37.1 million or 89 cents per diluted share driven by $31.2 million of pre-tax under...