WesBanco, Inc. (NASDAQ:WSBC) Q2 2022 Earnings Conference Call July 27, 2022 10:00 AM ET

Company Participants

John Iannone – Senior Vice President-Investor Relations

Todd Clossin – President and Chief Executive Officer

Dan Weiss – Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Karl Shepard – RBC Capital Markets

Steve Moss – B. Riley

Catherine Mealor – KBW

Manuel Navas – D.A. Davidson

Operator

Good morning, and welcome to the WesBanco Second Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in a listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions] After today’s presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. [Operator Instructions] Please note that this event is being recorded.

I would now like to turn the conference over to John Iannone, Senior Vice President-Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.

John Iannone

Thank you. Good morning. And welcome to WesBanco, Inc.’s second quarter 2022 earnings conference call.

Leading the call today are Todd Clossin, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Dan Weiss, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Today’s call, the archive of which will be available on our website for one year, contains forward-looking information. Cautionary statements about this information and reconciliations of non-GAAP measures are included in our earnings-related materials issued yesterday afternoon, as well as our other SEC filings and investor materials. These materials are available on the Investor Relations section of our website, wesbanco.com. All statements speak only as of July 27, 2022, and WesBanco undertakes no obligation to update them.

I would now like to turn the call over to Todd. Todd?

Todd Clossin

Thank you, John, and good morning, everyone. On today’s call, we’ll review our results for the second quarter of 2022, then provided an update on our operations and current 2022 outlook. Key takeaways from the call today are WesBanco remains a well capitalized financial institution with a strong balance sheet and solid credit quality metrics.

We continue to make appropriate strategic investments to enhance our ability to leverage long-term growth opportunities while remaining focused on expense managements. The successful execution of our strategies built upon our unique long-term advantages and strong credit and risk culture has positioned us well for future opportunities, while also supporting our teams as they generate very strong sequential quarter loan growth. We are very pleased with our performance during the second quarter of 2022. As we continue to demonstrate the success of our operational strategies implemented the past few years.