WesBanco, Inc. (NASDAQ:WSBC) Q2 2024 Earnings Conference Call July 26, 2024 10:00 AM ET

Company Participants

John Iannone - Senior Vice President, Investor Relations
Jeff Jackson - President & Chief Executive Officer
Dan Weiss - Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Karl Shepard - RBC Capital Markets
Catherine Mealor - KBW
Russell Gunther - Stephens
David Bishop - Hovde Group
Daniel Cardenas - Janney Montgomery Scott
Manuel Navas - D.A. Davidson

Operator

Good morning and welcome to the WesBanco, Inc.'s Second Quarter 2024 Earnings and Proposed Merger Conference Call. All participants will be in a listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions] Please note this event is being recorded.

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

John Iannone

Thank you. Good morning, and welcome to WesBanco, Inc.'s second quarter 2024 earnings and proposed merger with Premier Financial Corporation conference call. Leading the call today are Jeff Jackson, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Dan Weiss, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

Today's call, an archive of which will be available on our website for one year, contains forward-looking information, including certain plans, expectations, goals, and projections and including statements about the benefits of the proposed merger between WesBanco, Inc. and Premier Financial Corporation, which are subject to numerous assumptions, risks, and uncertainties.

In addition, presentations to which we will be referencing today were filed as parts of Forms 8-K and posted to wesbanco.com. Cautionary statements about this information and reconciliations of non-GAAP measures are included in both our earnings related and merger-related materials 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 26, 2024, and WesBanco and Premier undertake no obligation to update them.

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

Jeff Jackson

Thanks John and good morning. This is an exciting and momentous day for WesBanco. In addition to reporting our second quarter results, we also announced an agreement to merge with Premier Financial Corp., an almost $9 billion asset bank headquartered in Defiance, Ohio. This merger will create a community-focused regional financial services partner with more than $27 billion in assets, significant economies of scale, and strong pro forma profitability metrics.

As you noticed, we also filed two presentations; one on the proposed merger and the other is our standard earnings presentation. On today's call, we will review our results for the second quarter of 2024, provide our current 2024 outlook, and review our announced merger with Premier.