Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to Southside Bancshares, Inc. third quarter 2022 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. To ask the question during the session. You will need to press star one one on your telephone. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker for today, Suni Davis, Chief Risk Officer. You may begin. Thank you, Tawanda. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Southside Bancshares' third quarter 2022 earnings call. A transcript of today's call will be posted on southside.com under Investor Relations. During today's call and in other disclosures and presentations. I will remind you that any forward-looking statements are subject to risk and uncertainties. Factors that could materially change our current forward-looking assumptions are described in our earnings release and our Form 10K. Joining me today are Lee Gibson, President and CEO, and Julie Shamburger, CFO. First, Lee will share his comments on the quarter, and then Julie will give an overview of our financial results. I will now turn the call over to Lee. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Southside Bancshares' third quarter earnings call for 2022. This morning, we reported excellent financial results this quarter. Highlights for the quarter included earnings per share of $0.84, a return on average tangible common equity of 19.94%, annualized linked quarter loan growth of 10.1% net of PPP a linked quarter increase of 6 basis points in our net interest margin an efficiency ratio of 47.42% and continued solid asset quality metrics. The linked quarter increase in our net interest margin reflected a 48 basis point increase in the average yield on loans a 10 basis point increase in the average yield on securities. Partially offset by a 40 basis point increase in the average rate on our interest-bearing liabilities. I wanna thank the entire Southside team for their continued contributions and efforts, which made these results possible. We're extremely pleased with our continued strong loan growth during the third quarter 2022. During our second quarter earnings call in July, we discussed the possibility that $60 million of our second quarter loan growth could be short-term and pay off prior to year-end. That potential payoff occurred during the third quarter. There was actually only $35 million with a longer-term refinance of the remaining $25 million. Our loan pipeline remains solid, and we're encouraged by the loan growth prospects for the fourth quarter and beginning 2023. In addition, we are seeing advances in our construction portfolio increasing as loans that closed several quarters ago are now beginning to fund. Given the outlook for the markets we serve, we continue to estimate loan growth for 2022, net of PPP loans in the mid-teens%. During the quarter, as interest rates increased, we hedged additional available-for-sale municipal securities to the call date to reduce the overall fair value volatility. Currently, approximately two-thirds of the par amount of our AFS municipal securities are hedged to the call date. The economic conditions in our markets remain solid, bolstered by continued company relocations and existing company expansions, combined with population growth a result of continued migration from other states. Rising mortgage rates and high costs have continued to take some of the steam out of the highly robust single-family market moving this market closer to pre-pandemic levels. However, housing shortages continue to exist in several Texas markets. We continue to successfully execute on our business model in what we consider to be the best state in the country in which to operate. I look forward to answering your questions following Julie's remarks, and I will now turn the call over to Julie. Thank you, Lee. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to our call today. We are pleased to report third quarter net income of $27 million, an increase of $1.5 million on a linked-quarter basis and diluted earnings per common share of $0.84, a $0.05 increase linked quarter. Our loan portfolio increased $103.1 million to $4.06 billion linked quarter, net of the $2.7 million decrease in PPP loans. The increase was driven primarily by strong growth within our real estate loan portfolio. Our CRE loans increased $67.2 million, construction loans increased $33.9 million, and we also experienced an increase in commercial loans of $7.2 million net of PPP on a linked-quarter basis. The weighted average rate of new loans funded during the quarter was approximately 5.2%. As of September 30, our PPP loans included in the commercial loan category totaled $306 thousand, down from $3 million last quarter. The average balance of PPP loans was approximately $2.5 million for the third quarter. We continue to experience strong asset quality metrics with non-performing assets of $11.7 million or 0.16% of total assets at September 30, consistent with last quarter. For the three months ended September 30, our allowance for loan loss increased due to the provision for credit losses on loans of $1.3 million recorded in the third quarter, partially offset by net charge-offs of $237 thousand. As of September 30, our allowance for loan losses as a percentage of total loans was 0.90%. Our allowance for off-balance-sheet credit exposures increased to $2.1 million on a linked-quarter basis due to a provision of $200,000 compared to a reversal of provision expense of $521,000 in the last quarter. As of September 30, our loans with oil and gas industry exposure were $117.5 million, or 2.9% of total loans. Our securities portfolio decreased to 141.3 million, or 8.6% on a linked-quarter basis. The decrease was driven by sales of securities, principal payments and the increase in unrealized losses in the portfolio. During the third quarter, we transferred additional available-for-sale securities with fair values of $70.2 million to held-to-maturity, and subsequent to September thirtieth, we transferred additional AFS securities to HTM with fair values of $175.8 million. We recognized additional net losses of $99,000 on the sale of AFS securities during the quarter. At quarter end, we had a net unrealized loss in the AFS securities portfolio of $168.3 million compared to $83 million last quarter, an increase of $85.3 million. As Lee mentioned in his remarks, during the third quarter, we hedged additional AFS municipal securities, and as of September thirtieth, the unrealized gain on the hedged securities was approximately $24 million, partially offsetting the additional unrealized losses in the AFS securities portfolio. As of September 30th, the duration of the entire securities portfolio was 10.8 years, an increase from 9.3 years at June 30th. The duration of the AFS portfolio at September 30th was 9.6 years. Our mix of loans and securities at September 30th was 61% and 39% respectively, compared to 58% and 42% on a linked quarter basis due to growth in the loan portfolio, a decrease in the securities portfolio, combined with the decrease in the sum of total loans and securities. Our deposits decreased $67.3 million, or 1.1% on a linked quarter basis. The linked quarter decrease in deposits consisted of a decrease in interest-bearing deposits of $91.7 million, partially offset by an increase in non-interest-bearing deposits of $24.4 million. Our tax equivalent net interest margin increased on a linked quarter basis to 3.36% from 3.30%, while the tax equivalent net interest spread decreased for the same period to 308 from 314. The increase in net interest margin was primarily driven by the increase in the average yield on loans of 48 basis points and 10 basis points on the securities portfolio. Together, this resulted in a $4.4 million or 8.7% increase in net interest income for the three months ended September 30 when compared to the linked quarter. We recorded approximately $89,000 in net fees related to PPP loans this quarter compared to $268,000 last quarter. We also recorded $141,000 in purchase loan accretion this quarter. For the three months ended September 30, 2022, non-interest income, excluding net loss on the sale of AFS securities, decreased $906 thousand or 8% for the linked quarter. The decrease was driven primarily by decreases in deposit services income and brokerage services income. For the third quarter, non-interest expense was $33.5 million, an increase of $1.4 million or 4.2% on a linked quarter basis, due primarily to increases in salaries and employee benefits and professional fees. For the remainder of 2022, we expect quarterly non-interest expense to be approximately $32.5 million. Our fully taxable equivalent efficiency ratio decreased to 47.42% from 47.74% for the previous quarter. Income tax expense increased to $3.9 million compared to $3.3 million for the three months ended June 30th. Our effective tax rate increased to 12.6% for the third quarter from 11.5% last quarter. At this time, we estimate an annual effective tax rate of 11.8% for 2022. Thank you for joining us today. This concludes our comments, and we will open the line for your questions. Thank you. As a reminder to ask a question, you will need to press star one one on your telephone. That's star one one to ask a question. Please stand by while we compile the Q&A roster. Our first question comes from the line of Brad Milsaps with Piper Sandler. Your line is open. Hey, good afternoon. Hey, Brad. Hello. Thanks for taking my questions. Lee, I may have overestimated maybe the size of the bond portfolio for the quarter. Can you kinda help me understand, you know, maybe where the averages are headed? I think they were closer to $2.9 billion for the quarter versus the period-end was a little over $2.5 billion. I know one's presented at fair value and the other is presented at cost. You had a lot of movement in the quarter. Can you help me kind of get a feel for directionally kinda which way the average bond portfolio is headed over the next several quarters in your mind? I think, you know, Brad, you know, we indicated we weren't gonna increase the securities portfolio. I would say that, you know, the average should stay somewhere close to that. It may vary $50 million one way or another, but you know, there's some good opportunities to reinvest a roll-off at this point in time. You know, anticipate doing some of that. I don't really look for a major change as long as we continue to have the loan growth that we're having. Got it. Thank you for that. I think this quarter. Brad, when we talk about the average, I'm looking at the, you know, the average balances back on page 14 of the earnings release. Okay. For the three months, September thirtieth, which is right at $29 million. Not $29 million, $2.9 million. $2.9 billion. Let me get the numbers right. I'm sorry. The difference, I mean, you ended the quarter just under $2.6 billion. Some of that is obviously the loss, but it feels like it should, you know, the average should come down some too, 'cause I feel like you sold some bonds as well. Just wanna make sure I'm on the same page. Right. Okay. We did sell some bonds, but it was only maybe $15 million-$20 million in bonds. Okay. I think. Julie Shamburger's looking at me. Yeah. Yeah, we can follow up offline. It looked like your loan beta was kind of a mid-thirties for the quarter. It did sound like you're putting on new loans around 5.20, if I heard correctly, which seemed maybe a little low, you know, maybe relative to where rates are. Just wanted to ask, do you expect loan yield to continue to kinda move up at a similar pace as you saw in the third quarter? Or does that kind of 5.20 new loan yield put maybe a little bit of a governor on that? It could have been something just with the mix this quarter, but just kinda curious how you're thinking about loan betas. Right. I think we're looking at something similar for the fourth quarter. You know, that average loan yield at the time they went on may be skewed a little bit because for those that float, you know, either overnight or, you know, every 30 days, you know, those put on in July didn't take into consideration some of the later Fed increases. You know, probably if we looked at the real average rate and we took the real floating rates it may be a little bit higher. Got it. Okay. If that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah, no. Obviously, yes, kind of skewed by the mix. Yep, totally understand. Okay, great. I'll hop back in queue. Thank you for answering my questions. Okay. Thank you. Please stand by for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Brady Gailey with KBW. Your line is open. Hey, thank you. Good morning, guys. Good morning. Hey, Brady. How are you doing? All right. Ten percent linked-quarter annualized loan growth this quarter. You know, if I put you at around 10% next quarter, that'll hit the mid-teens guidance for this year. How are we thinking about next year? I know the outlook is uncertain as far as what the economy's gonna do, but is it right to think about maybe a step down in loan growth, something in the high single-digit level? How are y'all thinking about loan growth in the next year? You know, we'll have a better feel for that. I'd be surprised if it's, you know, what it was this year. I think, you know, either high single digits or maybe, you know, low double digits is probably where we'll land. That's something really that as this quarter progresses a little further, we'll have a better idea on and, you know, looking at the pipeline that's out there, and then getting a better feel for how these construction loans are gonna fund. Okay. All right. Then the guidance for expenses for 4Q of 32.5, that's about a $1 million step down from 3Q. Is that mostly in the compensation line? Any color you can provide on that? Yes. On salaries, of course, was the largest increase in employee benefits. Around two-thirds of that increase of $1.039 million was in health expense. I mean, obviously, health expense can do anything. We are self-insured. We are under last year's year-to-date on health claims, and we're also under budget. I mean, but more importantly, we're under last year's year-to-date. You know, Brady, that could happen again, but that's not what's budgeted. That's part of the reason for me keeping it really where I had it for third quarter. We had some increase there in professional fees and at least that. I think professional fees were up about $265 and at least $100 of that related specifically to a project that we worked on with legal. That will not occur again. You know, that is budget for the 32.5, so that was my reason for that. I was tempted to increase it. But I don't really have a basis for doing so at the moment, so. Yeah. The project was something we decided not to move forward on. It wasn't a lawsuit or anything like that. Okay. All right, great. Thanks for the color, guys. All right. Thank you. I'm showing no further questions in the queue. I would now like to turn the call back over to Lee Gibson for closing remarks. Thank you for joining us today. We appreciate the opportunity to answer your questions and your interest in Southside Bancshares. In closing, we're excited about the prospects for the fourth quarter and look forward to reporting those results to you during our next earnings call in January. This concludes the call. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's conference call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.