Equity Bancshares, Inc. (EQBK) Q2 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

Equity Bancshares, Inc. (NYSE:EQBK) Q2 2023 Earnings Conference Call July 19, 2023 10:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Chris Navratil - Investor Relations
Brad Elliott - Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Richard Sems - President, Equity Bank
Eric Newell - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
John Creech - Chief Credit Officer

Conference Call Participants

Jeff Rulis - D.A. Davidson
Terry McEvoy - Stephens
Andrew Liesch - Piper Sandler
Damon DelMonte - KBW

Operator

Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Second Quarter 2023 Equity Bancshares Inc. Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded.

I'd now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Chris Navratil.

Chris Navratil

Good morning and thank you for joining Equity Bancshares conference call, which will include discussion and presentation of our first quarter 2023 results. Presentation slides to accompany our call are available via PDF for download at investor.equitybank.com by clicking the presentation tab. You may also click the event icon for today's call posted at investor.equitybank.com to view the webcast player. If you are viewing this call on our webcast player, please note that slides will not automatically advance.

Please refer Slide 2, including important information regarding forward-looking statements. From time to time, we may make forward-looking statements within today's call and actual results may vary. 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 it over to our Chairman and CEO, Brad Elliot.

Brad Elliott

Good morning, and thank you for your interest in Equity Bancshares. I am pleased to introduce Ric Sems, our new President, who