Before we begin, I would like to remind you that this conference call may contain forward-looking statements with respect to the future performance of financial condition of Civista Bancshares, Inc. that involves risks and uncertainties and various factors could cause actual results to be materially different from any future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These factors are discussed in the company's SEC filings, which are available on the company's website. The company disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements made during the call. Additionally, management may refer to non-GAAP measures, which are intended to supplement, but not substitute the most directly comparable GAAP measures. The press release also available on the company's website, contains the financial and other quantitative information to be discussed today as well as the reconciliation of the GAAP to non-GAAP measures. This call will be recorded and made available on the Civista Bancshares website at www.civb.com. At the conclusion of Mr. Shaffer's remarks, he and the Civista management team will take any questions you may have. Now I will turn the call over to Mr. Shaffer.

Good afternoon. This is Dennis Shaffer, President and CEO of Civista Bancshares, and I would like to thank you for joining us for our second quarter 2025 earnings call. I'm joined today by Chuck Parcher, EVP of the Company and President and Chief Lending Officer of the bank; Rich Dutton, SVP of the company and Chief Operating Officer of the bank; Ian Whinnem, SVP of the company and Chief Financial Officer of the bank and other members of our executive team. This morning, we reported net income for the second quarter of $11 million or $0.71 per diluted share, which represents a $4 million or 56% increase over our second quarter in 2024 and an $847,000 increase over our linked quarter. This also represents an increase in pre-provision net revenue of $3.3 million or 37.5% over our second quarter in 2024 and a $770,000 or 6.7% increase over our linked quarter. Our second quarter results included a $757,000 positive nonrecurring adjustment related to finalizing the conversion of our leasing division's core system. Absent this adjustment, net income for the second quarter would have been $10.3 million or $0.66 per diluted share. Net interest income for the quarter was $34.8 million, which represents an increase of $2 million or 6.2% compared to our linked quarter. The increase was attributable to our earning asset yield increasing 13 basis points to 5.84% while holding our overall funding costs steady at 2.32%. Our cost of core deposits increased by 6 basis points to 1.48%, which was offset by the repricing of a $150 million brokered CD that matured in late March at carry a rate of 5.8%. We were also able to reduce and replace these deposits with $125 million of CDs laddered over the next 12 months at a blended rate of 4.26%…

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Your first question comes from Brendan Nosal with Hovde Group.

Maybe just starting off here on the core margin. Actually the onetime noise that you guys called out, it more or less came in as expected, it was up nicely from the first quarter. Any thoughts on how that core margin trends over the balance of the second half as you weigh deposit competition with a pickup in asset yields on remixing?

Brent, this is Ian. So as we kind of think of Q2 going into Q3, early in Q2, we shifted our focus on our CDs into a shorter term as we expected some rate cuts occurring in the third and fourth quarters. So now our highest rate on those 3 months CDs as opposed to 7 and 12 months that we're doing earlier in the year. Also, we have a good amount of loans that are coming up for repricing as they come forward into the year, that's going to be helping us also. We have about $50 million in the third quarter, another $50 million in the fourth quarter. They're going to reprice up about 150 basis points. So as we factor in those as well as the immediate benefit that we get out of that $75 million of capital that's paying down borrowings immediately. That's going to pay off near 4.5% of the borrowings. All in all, we expect our margin for the third quarter to come in maybe low to mid 3.50%, so somewhere around 3.52%, 3.53% and then expanding a little bit more in the fourth quarter.

I appreciate the color there. That's helpful. One more for me before I step back. Can you just update us on the competitive environment and how it's evolved for both lending and funding, we're hearing that several larger regionals are starting to step back into certain asset classes and trying to grow loans again. So I'm just kind of curious what your experience is.

We're seeing some of the same thing you're just alluding to. I think the regions are getting a little more aggressive. I think the WesBanco Premier thing as it kind of settles through, I think WesBanco is going to get a little more aggressive as well. We are seeing some opportunities in the marketplace because of that acquisition, both with talent and with new clients. So we look forward to that, but it is a very competitive market across both deposits and lending.

Your next question comes from Terry McEvoy with Stephens.

Dennis, you said in your prepared remarks, you're seeing solid loan growth across the footprint. Could you just talk about maybe specific markets or sectors that are behind the demand? And were you maybe a bit more selective on loan growth in the second quarter, given the loan-to-deposit ratio? And I think that kind of feeds into your optimism for accelerated loan growth next year?

Yes. I think we've been viewing loan growth for a while. Now a lot of that loan growth in the second quarter was residential loan growth. We've been muting kind of the CRE just because of our -- the higher concentration. So I think the additional capital is going to help us accelerate that organic growth. And we felt we were kind of at a point where we needed to do something to be able to accelerate that. We know that the next quarter or 2, we'll probably take a step back as far as EPS growth and things like that. But then we really look long term, we think we can accelerate it and keep growing that and improving our ROA, improving our earnings and stuff. So we do see loan growth accelerating because there's a lot of opportunities over the last year to 18 months that we passed on. The opportunities are really throughout our footprint. Ohio has really become a business-friendly state. So we are adding jobs all throughout the state, there's been some significant companies announced investments into Ohio. So we feel really bullish on that, and we see that with our loan demand. I mean we see our lenders bringing in stuff from all across our footprint. So I'll let Chuck here comment to see if he has other comments, he's probably even closer to it than I am.

Well, I just think -- I think Dennis alluded to it, but the nice part of Ohio right now is the three major cities, Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati are all doing quite well, all expanding marketplaces from a jobs perspective and from a population perspective slightly. So we feel good about that. We really never saw any, what I would call, major deterioration in our office, even though we don't have much Central City office with very little at all. All of our office really held in there pretty good, the demand around, especially the suburbs of those three cities and then you throw in Dayton and Toledo are doing very well as well. So we feel good about what where we're positioned inside the Midwest right now.

And then as a follow-up, Dennis, thanks for running through some of the deposit initiatives. I believe it was last year when you announced a few other initiatives, one, I believe, with the state of Ohio. Can you just talk about the last year's deposit growth strategy in those initiatives. Are they at capacity? And then what do you think some of these newer initiatives can add to the balance sheet over the next few years?

Yes. Some of the things we did last year are probably at capacity. I mean, they were specifically like Ohio homebuyers was a specific program and stuff. So I think some of the new initiatives we are limitless for us. We've made a big investment into this mantle product. And that's a new deposit account origination system that really can expand our footprint and stuff and provide people in just an easier way to open accounts will initially lead with, as Ian was alluding to, when he addressed the margin question, a kind of higher rate CD to attract people. But that's still cheaper than some of the broker deposits and borrowings that we have. So the goal was to raise enough deposits to kind of keep pace with our loan growth. So that was a significant investment. We already talked about targeting these low and no deposit balances. I think in our strategic plan, we have -- we call for maybe hiring some more treasury management officers. We've had great success and growing -- adding deposits and growing the fee income over the last several years. So that's one of our initiatives, and we'd like to kick off and stuff. Maybe some branch -- adding some branches in areas where we've identified where we think there's growth and opportunity for us. So there are just a number of initiatives that we've outlined in our strategic plan that we are starting to execute on some of those, they take a little while to take hold, but hopefully, we're able to execute and increase our deposits to help keep pace with a lot of that what we see on the opportunity on the loan side.

Your next question comes from Tim Switzer with KBW.

I've been jumping around calls. So sorry, if this is already covered. But after adjusting for the onetimer in leasing fee income this quarter, still a little bit below what we had, and I know that line item can jump around quite a bit. Can you give us an update on maybe what we should be projecting going forward there?

Chuck, if you got thoughts on that?

Well, I think -- I mean, I think our gain on sale and mortgage will continue to stay relatively consistent. And we're hoping the back half of the leasing year will be a little bit better. I think Trump's Big Beautiful, whatever you want to call it, Bill, brought back accelerated depreciation. We feel like the back half of the year on the leasing side, we'll have a little more volume there from that perspective. So...

Pipelines are a little bit up -- they're reporting. So we don't have probably a real good number for you yet, Tim, but it's been very lumpy. So for us because we've been just tweaking like I said, we did the core conversion and there too. So that's been a little bit -- it just made things lumpy, but we'll see if we can get a better number and provide some guidance here to everyone little bit later.

Yes. This is Ian, just to add a little, I think the first half, as Dennis just mentioned, was slow because of the CapEx spending on businesses on the leasing side. And then also, I think our sales team just had some distress because of our core system conversion. So as we take those two items away of getting bonus depreciation put in, maybe a little bit more comfort on what the future looks like with tariffs. We do expect to see that business rebound in second half.

Okay. All right. That makes sense. And you just touched on my next question related to the tariffs. Have you guys done kind of like a good deep dive into your loan book, see where you have exposure, if any? And what were the results of that?

We did look at it, and we've had quite a few conversations with our -- especially our larger manufacturers, believe it or not, most of them are optimistic. I feel like if we do bring more stuff into -- back domestically from overseas that there's opportunity there. Almost all of them said the capacity isn't there right now, take on all that work, that would all come back tomorrow, but most are optimistic. Now at the same time, as what Ian just alluded to, CapEx spend, everybody is still kind of waiting to see how it totally plays out and at least CapEx spending for our, what I would call, major middle market borrowers has not accelerated yet to look at that. I think everybody is still waiting a little bit to see how it totally plays out.

[Operator Instructions] your next question comes from Manuel Navas with D.A. Davidson.

Loan growth was a little bit higher through May. Was there some payoffs in commercial by the end of the quarter in June? Just trying to understand that shift.

Yes. Not anything drastic from that perspective. Our run rate has been pretty consistent, Manuel. So I guess, I don't know what are you picking that up from, I guess, the...

I guess the update through May, I think, had a little bit more loan growth. And the mantle initiative, is there any numbers around that so far in terms of amounts that is brought in here in July? Or just you've just been pretty excited about how it...

Yes, we don't really -- we just kicked it off July 7. So we do see some positive pickup in CD balances, but we're 2 weeks into it. So there's -- it was nothing major, like we haven't raised $100 million of deposits. We've got lots of employees in our family so far.

I appreciate the commentary on leasing recovery. Is that also impacting the loan balances as well or the lease...

On the leasing side, yes. .

Yes. So yes, on the leasing side, we sell about half of them. And so that would increase our leases that go on to the balance sheet too, if that's what your question is.

And then in the average balance sheet, was there anything interesting going on in deposit costs? It seems like CDs came down, but then your other line kind of saw a jump in deposit cost. Is that just some of the public funds? Your overall deposit costs were fine, but does it seem like some of the geographies shifted around.

Yes, we have seen a little bit of shift in some larger deposits that are in some of the different pricing buckets for public funds.

That goes back, I guess, to the competitive environment remain while, some of those higher deposit balances, we've had to tweak up. We kind of have priced into our effective Fed funds rate, but we did see a little bit of shift in some of the higher deposit balances. Discount to the effective funds rate. We still discount to that, right.

There are no further questions at this time. I will now turn the call over to Dennis Shaffer for closing remarks.

Well, in closing, I just want to thank everyone for joining us for today's call. The quarter is strong. We had this quarter's strong financial results. Our announcement of the Farmers deal and the follow-on offering were due in large part, just a lot of hard work and discipline from our team. I'm really confident as we move forward that we continue to improve on our strong core deposit franchise and we take this disciplined approach to managing the company. And I think it's just going to lead to a lot of long-term future success for us. So I look forward to talking to everyone again in a few months to share our third quarter results. Thank you for your time today.

Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes your conference call for today. We thank you for participating and ask that you please disconnect your lines.