Mechanics Bank, established in 1905 in Richmond, California, has grown into one of California's oldest and strongest banks. With headquarters in Walnut Creek, the bank serves individuals, small to mid-sized businesses, and corporations through a comprehensive suite of financial solutions. Its product line includes checking and savings accounts, personal and ...Mechanics Bank, established in 1905 in Richmond, California, has grown into one of California's oldest and strongest banks. With headquarters in Walnut Creek, the bank serves individuals, small to mid-sized businesses, and corporations through a comprehensive suite of financial solutions. Its product line includes checking and savings accounts, personal and auto loans, business financing (term loans, lines of credit, equipment financing, SBA loans), multi-family, commercial, and owner-occupied real estate lending. The bank also provides credit/debit cards, payable and receivable solutions, fraud prevention, cash management, merchant and payroll services, Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) solutions, workplace benefit plans, foreign currency exchange, wire transfers, overdraft protection, deposit and treasury services, and wealth management offerings like trust and estate planning, investment and asset management, and retirement planning. The bank operates 115 branches across key California regions including the Greater San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Central Valley areas. As of the latest data, Mechanics Bank has total assets of approximately $22.4 billion, loans of $14.2 billion, and deposits of $19 billion. Financially, the bank shows a market cap of about $3.67 billion, a P/E ratio of 13.3, and a dividend yield of 7.9%. Key financial metrics include a return on equity of 10.1%, a net profit margin of 26.5%, and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.078. The bank employs 1,971 full-time employees. Leadership is headed by President and CEO C.J. Johnson, who has nearly 20 years of experience in financial services. Mechanics Bank is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol MCHB, with an IPO date of May 1, 2007. The bank emphasizes building prosperous communities and delivering highly personalized banking and wealth management solutions, maintaining a strong safety and soundness record. It also provides digital banking through online and mobile platforms, ensuring convenience for its clients.
Operator: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Mechanics Bancorp Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded. I would now like to turn the call over to Nathan Duda, Chief Financial Officer of mechanics. Please go ahead.
Nathan Duda: Thank you, operator, and good morning, everyone. We appreciate you joining our earnings conference call. With me here today are C.J. Johnson, our President and CEO; and Carl Webb, our Executive Chairman. The related earnings press release and earnings presentation are available on the News and Events section of our Investor Relations website. Before we begin, I'd like to remind everyone that any forward-looking statements are subject to risks uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated future results. Please see our safe harbor statements in our earnings press release and in our earnings presentation. All comments expressed or implied made during today's call are subject to those safe harbor statements. Any forward-looking statements made during this call are made only as of today's date, and we do not undertake any duty to update such forward-looking statements, except as required by law. Additionally, during today's call, we may discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures, which we believe are useful in evaluating our performance. A reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most comparable GAAP financial measures can also be found in our earnings release and in the earnings presentation. C.J., let me hand it over to you.
C. Johnson: Thank you, Nathan, and good morning. We appreciate everyone joining our call and for your interest in Mechanics Bancorp. I'll start today by summarizing the highlights of our second quarter performance. I'll also provide another strategic update on the bank before handing things off to Nathan to review our financials in more detail. Carl, Nathan and I will then open up the call for your questions. With that, let's turn to Slide 4. We had a nice second quarter reporting $57.7 million in net income. On a fully diluted basis, we earned $0.25 per share, and our tangible book value per share increased to $7.56. This quarter, we paid a large dividend of $0.70 per share with the major driver being the successful closure of our DUS business line sale to Fifth Third in early May. Q2 did have a few noncore items, which I'll walk you through quickly. We had 3 onetime noninterest income adjustments, including a $1.8 million MSR valuation gain, a final true-up of $900,000 related to the DUS sale, and a $600,000 loss on a sale of an old branch property that's been closed for a while. We also incurred $5.9 million of merger expenses, primarily severance as we finished up our Homestreet integration and had a significant amount of head count reduction as a result. We also had a negative provision of $2.8 million, which we backed out of our core …