Primis (FRST) Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

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Fri, April 24, 2026 astatine 11:59 AM CDT 28 min read

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Apr. 24, 2026 astatine 10 a.m. ET

• President and Chief Executive Officer — Dennis J. Zember

• Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer — Matthew Alan Switzer

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Matthew Alan Switzer: Good morning. Thank you for joining america for Primis Financial Corp.’s 2026 First Quarter Webcast and Conference Call. Before we begin, delight enactment that galore of our comments during this telephone volition beryllium forward-looking statements, which impact hazard and uncertainty. There are galore factors that could origin existent results to disagree materially from the anticipated results oregon different expectations expressed successful the forward-looking statements. Further treatment of the company’s hazard factors and different important accusation regarding our forward-looking statements are portion of our caller filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our precocious filed net release, which has besides been posted to the Investor Relations conception of our firm site, permsbank.com.

We undertake nary work to update oregon revise forward-looking statements to bespeak changed assumptions, the occurrence of unanticipated events, oregon changes to aboriginal operating results implicit time. In addition, immoderate of the fiscal measures that we whitethorn sermon this greeting are non-GAAP fiscal measures. Our non-GAAP measurement comparative to the astir comparable GAAP measurement volition beryllium discussed erstwhile the non-GAAP measurement is utilized if not readily apparent. I volition present crook the telephone implicit to our President and Chief Executive Officer, Dennis J. Zember.

Dennis J. Zember: Thank you, Matt. Thank you to each of you that person joined our archetypal 4th call. We are excited to study that successful the archetypal quarter, we earned $7.3 million, oregon $0.30 per share, which compares to $22.6 cardinal and $0.92 per stock successful the aforesaid 4th of 2025. I conjecture I americium speechmaking that, excited to study net shrinking that much. The information of the substance is connected an operating basis, we earned $0.33 per stock successful the archetypal quarter, which excluded a tiny taxation accommodation related to 2025 results. And erstwhile you comparison that to the aforesaid 4th a twelvemonth ago, it is up 126% connected operating earnings, wherever we reported $0.14 successful the aforesaid 4th of 2025.

And Matt whitethorn notation this, but the archetypal 4th of 2025 included a important summation connected the deconsolidation of Panacea, which is what I americium excluding. Our cardinal operating ratios evidently improved alongside that net fig I conscionable gave you. On an operating basis, our ROA improved to 0.84% compared to 0.40% successful the aforesaid 4th of 2025. Driving that were a mates of items, mostly borderline arsenic good arsenic operating disbursal control. Our nett involvement borderline benefited from the securities restructure arsenic good arsenic the premix of earning assets and climbed to 3.43% successful the archetypal 4th compared to 3.15% successful the aforesaid 4th of 2025.