EAGLE BANCORP INC (EGBN)
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SEC company page: https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=1050441. Latest filing source: 0001050441-26-000021.
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Business
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Risk Factors
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Selected Fundamentals
| Metric | Value | Unit | FY | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 604,482,000 | USD | 2025 | 2026-03-09 |
| Net income | -138,052,000 | USD | 2025 | 2026-03-09 |
| Assets | 10,497,203,000 | USD | 2025 | 2026-03-09 |
Financials
Annual standardized facts from SEC companyfacts as of latest extracted filing date 2026-03-09. Source: https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/CIK0001050441.json. Derived margins, ratios, and free cash flow are computed from the extracted annual SEC facts.
| Metric | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 285,805,000 | 324,034,000 | 393,286,000 | 429,630,000 | 389,986,000 | 364,496,000 | 424,613,000 | 625,327,000 | 687,563,000 | 604,482,000 |
| Net income | 97,707,000 | 100,232,000 | 152,276,000 | 142,943,000 | 132,217,000 | 176,691,000 | 140,930,000 | 100,534,000 | -47,035,000 | -138,052,000 |
| Diluted EPS | 2.86 | 2.92 | 4.42 | 4.18 | 4.09 | 5.52 | 4.39 | 3.31 | -1.56 | -4.55 |
| Operating cash flow | 116,820,000 | 160,924,000 | 165,455,000 | 132,684,000 | 133,139,000 | 238,437,000 | 194,902,000 | 195,626,000 | 123,770,000 | 28,495,000 |
| Capital expenditures | 7,426,000 | 5,758,000 | 1,482,000 | 2,839,000 | 2,945,000 | 5,286,000 | 2,113,000 | 70,000 | 326,000 | 7,733,000 |
| Dividends paid | 0.00 | 22,332,000 | 28,330,000 | 44,691,000 | 55,776,000 | 54,993,000 | 45,617,000 | 15,314,000 | ||
| Share buybacks | 0.00 | 54,903,000 | 61,432,000 | 682,000 | 33,087,000 | 48,033,000 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Assets | 6,890,096,000 | 7,479,029,000 | 8,389,137,000 | 8,988,719,000 | 11,117,802,000 | 11,847,310,000 | 11,150,854,000 | 11,664,538,000 | 11,129,508,000 | 10,497,203,000 |
| Liabilities | 6,047,297,000 | 6,528,591,000 | 7,280,196,000 | 7,798,038,000 | 9,876,910,000 | 10,496,535,000 | 9,922,533,000 | 10,390,255,000 | 9,903,447,000 | 9,365,920,000 |
| Stockholders' equity | 842,799,000 | 950,438,000 | 1,108,941,000 | 1,190,681,000 | 1,240,892,000 | 1,350,775,000 | 1,228,321,000 | 1,274,283,000 | 1,226,061,000 | 1,131,283,000 |
| Free cash flow | 109,394,000 | 155,166,000 | 163,973,000 | 129,845,000 | 130,194,000 | 233,151,000 | 192,789,000 | 195,556,000 | 123,444,000 | 20,762,000 |
Ratios
| Metric | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | 34.19% | 30.93% | 38.72% | 33.27% | 33.90% | 48.48% | 33.19% | 16.08% | -6.84% | -22.84% |
| Return on equity | 11.59% | 10.55% | 13.73% | 12.01% | 10.65% | 13.08% | 11.47% | 7.89% | -3.84% | -12.20% |
| Return on assets | 1.42% | 1.34% | 1.82% | 1.59% | 1.19% | 1.49% | 1.26% | 0.86% | -0.42% | -1.32% |
| Liabilities / equity | 7.18 | 6.87 | 6.56 | 6.55 | 7.96 | 7.77 | 8.08 | 8.15 | 8.08 | 8.28 |
Industry Peer Context
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Financial Bridges
Free cash flow = operating cash flow - capital expenditures
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts FY 2025. Operating cash flow: accession 0001050441-26-000021; concept NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities; source concepts us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities | Capital expenditures: accession 0001050441-26-000021; concept PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment; source concepts us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment | Free cash flow: accession 0001050441-26-000021; concept NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities - PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment; source concepts us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities; us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment
Financial Charts
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2025 ended 2025-12-31; accession 0001050441-26-000021; filed 2026-03-09. Concept: InterestAndDividendIncomeOperating. Source concepts: us-gaap:InterestAndDividendIncomeOperating.
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2025 ended 2025-12-31; accession 0001050441-26-000021; filed 2026-03-09. Concept: NetIncomeLoss. Source concepts: us-gaap:NetIncomeLoss.
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2025 ended 2025-12-31; accession 0001050441-26-000021; filed 2026-03-09. Concept: EarningsPerShareDiluted. Source concepts: us-gaap:EarningsPerShareDiluted.
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2025 ended 2025-12-31; accession 0001050441-26-000021; filed 2026-03-09. Concept: NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities. Source concepts: us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities.
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2025 ended 2025-12-31; accession 0001050441-26-000021; filed 2026-03-09. Concept: PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment. Source concepts: us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment.
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2025 ended 2025-12-31; accession 0001050441-26-000021; filed 2026-03-09. Concept: PaymentsOfDividendsCommonStock. Source concepts: us-gaap:PaymentsOfDividendsCommonStock.
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2025 ended 2025-12-31; accession 0001050441-26-000021; filed 2026-03-09. Concept: PaymentsForRepurchaseOfCommonStock. Source concepts: us-gaap:PaymentsForRepurchaseOfCommonStock.
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2025 ended 2025-12-31; accession 0001050441-26-000021; filed 2026-03-09. Concept: Assets. Source concepts: us-gaap:Assets.
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2025 ended 2025-12-31; accession 0001050441-26-000021; filed 2026-03-09. Concept: Liabilities. Source concepts: us-gaap:Liabilities.
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2025 ended 2025-12-31; accession 0001050441-26-000021; filed 2026-03-09. Concept: StockholdersEquity. Source concepts: us-gaap:StockholdersEquity.
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2025 ended 2025-12-31; accession 0001050441-26-000021; filed 2026-03-09. Concept: NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities - PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment. Source concepts: us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities; us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment.
Quarterly
Quarterly standardized facts from SEC companyfacts as of latest extracted filing date 2026-05-07. Source: https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/CIK0001050441.json.
| Quarter | End Date | Revenue | Net Income | Diluted EPS | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-Q2 | 2022-06-30 | 0.49 | reported discrete quarter | ||
| 2022-Q3 | 2022-09-30 | 1.16 | reported discrete quarter | ||
| 2023-Q1 | 2023-03-31 | 0.78 | reported discrete quarter | ||
| 2023-Q2 | 2023-06-30 | 156,510,000 | 28,692,000 | 0.94 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2023-Q3 | 2023-09-30 | 161,149,000 | 27,383,000 | 0.91 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2023-Q4 | 2023-12-31 | 167,421,000 | 20,225,000 | derived Q4 = FY annual - nine-month YTD | |
| 2024-Q1 | 2024-03-31 | 175,602,000 | -338,000 | -0.01 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2024-Q2 | 2024-06-30 | 169,731,000 | -83,802,000 | -2.78 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2024-Q3 | 2024-09-30 | 173,813,000 | 21,815,000 | 0.72 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2024-Q4 | 2024-12-31 | 168,417,000 | 15,290,000 | derived Q4 = FY annual - nine-month YTD | |
| 2025-Q1 | 2025-03-31 | 153,878,000 | 1,675,000 | 0.06 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2025-Q2 | 2025-06-30 | 151,443,000 | -69,775,000 | -2.30 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2025-Q3 | 2025-09-30 | 150,103,000 | -67,513,000 | -2.22 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2025-Q4 | 2025-12-31 | 149,526,000 | -2,439,000 | derived Q4 = FY annual - nine-month YTD | |
| 2026-Q1 | 2026-03-31 | 131,901,000 | 14,718,000 | 0.48 | reported discrete quarter |
Quarterly Charts
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2026 ended 2026-03-31; accession 0001050441-26-000066; filed 2026-05-07. Concept: InterestAndDividendIncomeOperating. Source concepts: us-gaap:InterestAndDividendIncomeOperating.
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2026 ended 2026-03-31; accession 0001050441-26-000066; filed 2026-05-07. Concept: NetIncomeLoss. Source concepts: us-gaap:NetIncomeLoss.
Figure provenance: SEC companyfacts. Latest point: FY 2026 ended 2026-03-31; accession 0001050441-26-000066; filed 2026-05-07. Concept: EarningsPerShareDiluted. Source concepts: us-gaap:EarningsPerShareDiluted.
Macro Cross-References
- CPIAUCSL - Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items in U.S. City Average
- UNRATE - Unemployment Rate
- FEDFUNDS - Federal Funds Effective Rate
- CES0500000003 - Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees, Total Private
- DFEDTARU - Federal Funds Target Range - Upper Limit
- DFEDTARL - Federal Funds Target Range - Lower Limit
- DGS3MO - Market Yield on U.S. Treasury Securities at 3-Month Constant Maturity
- DGS2 - Market Yield on U.S. Treasury Securities at 2-Year Constant Maturity
- DGS10 - Market Yield on U.S. Treasury Securities at 10-Year Constant Maturity
- DGS30 - Market Yield on U.S. Treasury Securities at 30-Year Constant Maturity
- T10Y2Y - 10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Minus 2-Year Treasury Constant Maturity
- CPILFESL - Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items Less Food and Energy
- CPIUFDSL - Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Food
- CPIENGSL - Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Energy
- CUSR0000SAH1 - Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Shelter
- PCEPI - Personal Consumption Expenditures: Chain-type Price Index
- PCEPILFE - Personal Consumption Expenditures Excluding Food and Energy: Chain-type Price Index
- PPIACO - Producer Price Index by Commodity: All Commodities
- T10YIE - 10-Year Breakeven Inflation Rate
- U6RATE - Total Unemployed, Plus All Marginally Attached Workers Plus Total Employed Part Time for Economic Reasons
- PAYEMS - All Employees, Total Nonfarm
- CIVPART - Labor Force Participation Rate
- EMRATIO - Employment-Population Ratio
- UNEMPLOY - Unemployed
- CE16OV - Employment Level
- ICSA - Initial Claims
- JTSJOL - Job Openings: Total Nonfarm
- JTSQUR - Quits: Total Nonfarm
- GDPC1 - Real Gross Domestic Product
- A191RL1Q225SBEA - Real Gross Domestic Product: Percent Change from Preceding Period
- INDPRO - Industrial Production: Total Index
- TCU - Capacity Utilization: Total Index
- HOUST - New Privately-Owned Housing Units Started: Total Units
- PERMIT - New Privately-Owned Housing Units Authorized in Permit-Issuing Places: Total Units
- RSAFS - Advance Retail Sales: Retail Trade
- PCE - Personal Consumption Expenditures
- DSPIC96 - Real Disposable Personal Income
- PSAVERT - Personal Saving Rate
- M2SL - M2
- BOPGSTB - U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services: Balance
- MSPUS - Median Sales Price of Houses Sold for the United States
- HSN1F - New One Family Houses Sold: United States
- RHORUSQ156N - Homeownership Rate in the United States
- TTLCONS - Total Construction Spending: Total Construction in the United States
- RRVRUSQ156N - Rental Vacancy Rate in the United States
- TOTALSL - Total Consumer Credit Owned and Securitized
- REVOLSL - Revolving Consumer Credit Owned and Securitized
- DRCCLACBS - Delinquency Rate on Credit Card Loans, All Commercial Banks
- GDP - Gross Domestic Product
- GPDI - Gross Private Domestic Investment
- GCE - Government Consumption Expenditures and Gross Investment
- PCEC - Personal Consumption Expenditures
- NETEXP - Net Exports of Goods and Services
- GFDEBTN - Federal Debt: Total Public Debt
- GFDEGDQ188S - Federal Debt: Total Public Debt as Percent of Gross Domestic Product
- FYFSD - Federal Surplus or Deficit
- FGRECPT - Federal Government Current Receipts
- FGEXPND - Federal Government: Current Expenditures
- MANEMP - All Employees, Manufacturing
- USCONS - All Employees, Construction
- USTRADE - All Employees, Retail Trade
- USFIRE - All Employees, Financial Activities
- USGOVT - All Employees, Government
- AWHAETP - Average Weekly Hours of All Employees, Total Private
- DGORDER - Manufacturers' New Orders: Durable Goods
- NEWORDER - Manufacturers' New Orders: Nondefense Capital Goods Excluding Aircraft
- BUSINV - Total Business Inventories
- EXPGS - Exports of Goods and Services
- IMPGS - Imports of Goods and Services
- IR - Import Price Index (End Use): All Commodities
- PPIFIS - Producer Price Index by Commodity: Final Demand
Latest quarter (10-Q)
Latest 10-Q source: 0001050441-26-000066.
ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS ("MD&A")
The following discussion provides information about the results of operations, financial condition, liquidity, asset quality, and capital resources of Eagle Bancorp, Inc. and its subsidiaries (collectively, the "Company") as of and for the periods indicated. The Company’s primary subsidiary is EagleBank (the "Bank"), and the Company’s other direct and indirect active subsidiaries are Bethesda Leasing, LLC, Eagle Insurance Services, LLC and Landroval Municipal Finance, Inc.
This discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction with the unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes thereto, appearing elsewhere in this report and the MD&A in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 (the "2025 Form 10-K").
Caution About Forward-Looking Statements. This report contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act"), as amended. These forward-looking statements represent plans, estimates, objectives, goals, guidelines, expectations, intentions, projections and statements of our beliefs concerning future events, business plans, objectives, our expected financial condition and asset quality, expected operating results and the assumptions upon which those statements are based. Forward-looking statements include, without limitation, any statement that may predict, forecast, indicate or imply future results, performance or achievements and are typically identified with words such as "may," "will," "can," "anticipates," "believes," "expects," "plans," "strategies," "outlook," "estimates," "potential," "assume," "probable," "possible," "continue," "should," "could," "would," "strive," "seeks," "deem," "projections," "forecast," "consider," "indicative," "uncertainty," "likely," "unlikely," "likelihood," "unknown," "attributable," "depends," "intends," "generally," "feel," "typically," "judgment," "subjective" and similar words or phrases.
For details on factors that could affect these expectations, see the risk factors and other cautionary language included in the Company's 2025 Form 10-K, and in other periodic and current reports filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). These forward-looking statements are based largely on our expectations and are subject to a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties that are subject to change based on factors which are, in many instances, beyond our control. Actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those contemplated, expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. The Company's past results are not necessarily indicative of future performance, and nothing contained herein is meant to or should be considered and treated as earnings guidance of future performance projections. All information is as of the date of this report. Any forward-looking statements made by or on behalf of the Company speak only as to the date they are made. Except to the extent required by applicable law or regulation, the Company undertakes no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statement for any reason.
General
The Company is a growth-oriented, one-bank holding company headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. The Company provides general commercial and consumer banking services through the Bank, its wholly owned banking subsidiary, a Maryland chartered bank which is a member of the Federal Reserve System (the "Federal Reserve Board", "Federal Reserve" or "FRB").
The Company was organized in October 1997 to be the holding company for the Bank. The Bank was organized in 1998 as an independent, community-oriented, full service banking alternative to the super regional financial institutions that dominate the Company’s primary market area. The Company’s philosophy is to provide superior, personalized service to its customers. The Company focuses on relationship banking, providing each customer with a number of services and becoming familiar with and addressing customer needs in a proactive, personalized fashion. The Bank currently has twelve branch offices (six in Suburban Maryland, three in Washington, D.C. and three in Northern Virginia), a principal corporate office, four lending centers and one operations center.
The Bank offers a broad range of commercial banking services to its business and professional clients, as well as full-service consumer banking services to individuals living and/or working primarily in the Bank's market area. The Bank emphasizes providing commercial banking services to sole proprietors, small and medium-sized businesses, non-profit organizations and associations, and investors living and working in and near the primary service area. These services include the usual deposit functions of commercial banks, including business and personal checking accounts, Negotiable Order of Withdrawal ("NOW") accounts, money market and savings accounts, business, construction, and commercial loans, consumer loans, and cash management services. The Bank is also active in
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the origination of Small Business Administration ("SBA") loans. The Bank generally sells the guaranteed portion of the SBA loans in a transaction apart from the loan origination generating noninterest income from the gains on sale, as well as servicing income on the portion participated.
Bethesda Leasing, LLC, a subsidiary of the Bank, holds title to and manages other real estate owned ("OREO") assets. Landroval Municipal Finance, Inc., a subsidiary of the Bank, focuses on lending to municipalities by buying debt on the public market as well as direct purchase issuance.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
The Company's Consolidated Financial Statements are prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America ("GAAP") and follow general practices within the banking industry. Application of these principles requires management to make estimates, assumptions, and judgments that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. These estimates, assumptions and judgments are based on information available as of the date of the Consolidated Financial Statements; accordingly, as this information changes, the Consolidated Financial Statements could reflect different estimates, assumptions, and judgments. Certain policies have a greater reliance on the use of estimates, assumptions and judgments and, as such, have a greater possibility of producing results that could be materially different than originally reported. Estimates, assumptions, and judgments are necessary when assets and liabilities are required to be recorded at fair value, when a decline in the value of an asset not carried on the financial statements at fair value warrants an impairment write-down or a valuation reserve to be established, or when an asset or liability needs to be recorded contingent upon a future event. Carrying assets and liabilities at fair value inherently results in more financial statement volatility. The Company applies the accounting policies contained in "Note 1 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies" to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in the Company's 2025 Form 10-K and "Note 1 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies" to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in this report. There have been no significant changes to the Company's accounting policies as disclosed in the Company's 2025 Form 10-K.
Allowance for Credit Losses and Provision for Unfunded Commitments
A consequence of lending activities is that we incur credit losses, so we record an allowance for credit losses (the "ACL") with respect to loan receivables and a reserve for unfunded commitments (the "RUC") as estimates of those losses. The amount of the ACL on loans is based on management's assessment of current expected credit losses ("CECL") in the portfolio.
The amount of such losses will vary depending upon the risk characteristics of the loan portfolio as affected by economic conditions such as changes in interest rates, the financial performance of borrowers and regional unemployment rates, which management estimates by using a national forecast and estimating a regional adjustment based on historical differences between the two.
Management has significant discretion in making the judgments inherent in the determination of the provisions for credit loss, the ACL and the RUC. Our determination of these amounts requires significant reliance on estimates and significant judgment as to the amount and timing of expected future cash flows on loans, significant reliance on historical loss rates on homogenous portfolios, consideration of our quantitative and qualitative evaluation of economic factors and the reliance on our reasonable and supportable forecasts.
We estimate the ACL on loans using a quantitative model that uses a probability of default ("PD") / Loss Given Default ("LGD") cash flow method with an exposure at default ("EAD") model to estimate expected credit losses for our loan segments. The modeling of expected prepayment speeds is based on historical internal data and adjustments to account for loan-specific risk characteristics after pooling our loan portfolio based on similar risk characteristics.
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The Company uses regression analysis of historical internal and peer data provided by a third-party service provider (as Company loss data alone is insufficient) to determine suitable loss drivers to utilize when modeling lifetime PD and LGD. This analysis also determines how expected PD will react to forecasted levels of the loss drivers. During 2024, management enhanced the cash flow model to incorporate additional macroeconomic variables. The four economic variables selected, national unemployment (original variable used), Commercial Real Estate ("CRE") Price Index, House Price Index and Gross Domestic Product ("GDP"), are incorporated by utilizing a Loss Driver Analysis approach that factors in historical losses, including during the Great Recession, of regional peer banks and the Bank. The updated model incorporates a weighting of three economic scenarios; baseline, upside and downside. The scenarios cover the four economic forecast variables, with each segment of the portfolio linked to two of these variables, depending on the segment. The loss driver analysis is spread over a reasonable and supportable period of 18 months and reverts back to a historical loss rate over twelve months on a straight-line basis over the loan's remaining maturity. Management leverages economic projections from reputable and independent third parties to inform its loss driver forecasts over the forecast period.
Loans that have evidence of credit deterioration are excluded from the loan segments subject to the quantitative model described above and are individually assessed.
The RUC represents the expected credit losses on off-balance sheet commitments such as unfunded commitments to extend credit and standby letters of credit. The RUC is determined by estimating future draws and applying the expected loss rates on those draws.
The ACL also includes an amount for inherent risks not reflected in the historical analyses. Relevant factors reflected in the qualitative component of the reserve include, but are not limited to, concentrations of credit risk, app
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Latest 10-K MD&A
ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS ("MD&A")
The following discussion provides information about the results of operations, financial condition, liquidity, asset quality, and capital resources of the Company as of and for the periods indicated. The Company’s primary subsidiary is the Bank, and the Company’s other direct and indirect active subsidiaries are Bethesda Leasing, LLC, Eagle Insurance Services, LLC and Landroval Municipal Finance, Inc.
This discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction with the audited Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes thereto, appearing elsewhere in this report.
We have omitted discussion of the earliest of the three years covered by our consolidated financial statements presented in this report as that disclosure is included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on February 27, 2025. You can reference the discussion and analysis of our results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2023 compared to the year ended December 31, 2024 in "Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" within that report.
Caution About Forward Looking Statements. This report contains forward looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Exchange Act. These forward looking statements represent plans, estimates, objectives, goals, guidelines, expectations, intentions, projections and statements of our beliefs concerning future events, business plans, objectives, expected operating results and the assumptions upon which those statements are based. Forward looking statements include, without limitation, any statement that may predict, forecast, indicate or imply future results, performance or achievements and are typically identified with words such as "may," "will," "can," "anticipates," "believes," "expects," "plans," "outlook," "estimates," "potential," "assume," "probable," "possible," "continue," "should," "could," "would," "strive," "seeks," "deem," "projections," "forecast," "consider," "indicative," "uncertainty," "likely," "unlikely," "likelihood," "unknown," "attributable," "depends," "intends," "generally," "feel," "typically," "judgment," "subjective" and similar words or phrases. These forward looking statements are based largely on our expectations and are subject to a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties that are subject to change based on factors which are, in many instances, beyond our control. Actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those contemplated, expressed or implied by the forward looking statements.
The following factors, among others, could cause our financial performance to differ materially from that expressed in such forward looking statements:
•Changes in the general economic, political, social and health conditions, including the macroeconomic and other challenges and uncertainties resulting from the effects of pandemics and natural disasters;
•The timely development of competitive new products and services and the acceptance of these products and services by new and existing customers;
•The willingness of customers to substitute competitors’ products and services for our products and services;
•Our management of liquidity risks in our operations, including, but not limited to, risks related to customer deposits, deposits in excess of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC") insurance coverage limits, access to capital markets and securities and market values;
•The effect of acquisitions we may make, including, without limitation, the failure to achieve the expected revenue growth and/or expense savings from such acquisitions;
•Our management of risks inherent in our real estate loan portfolio, and the risk of a prolonged downturn in the real estate market, which could impair the value of, and our ability to sell, properties which stand as collateral for loans we make;
•The growth and profitability of noninterest or fee income being less than expected;
•Changes in the level of our nonperforming assets and charge-offs;
•Changes in consumer spending and savings habits;
•The impact of climate change or government action and societal responses to climate change;
•Difficulty recruiting or retaining successful bankers, executive officers or other key personnel;
•Changing bank regulatory conditions, policies or programs, whether arising as new legislation or regulatory initiatives, that could lead to restrictions on activities of banks generally, or our subsidiary bank in particular,
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more restrictive regulatory capital requirements, increased costs, including deposit insurance premiums, regulation or prohibition of certain income producing activities or changes in the secondary market for loans and other products;
•The impact of changes in financial services policies, laws and regulations, including laws, regulations and policies concerning taxes, banking, securities and insurance and the application thereof by regulatory bodies;
•The effects of, and changes in, trade, monetary and fiscal policies and laws, including interest rate policies of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System ("Federal Reserve Board," "Federal Reserve" or "FRB"), inflation, interest rate, market and monetary fluctuations;
•Results of examinations of us by our regulators, including the possibility that our regulators may, among other things, require us to increase our allowance for credit losses, to write-down assets, to hold more capital or to incur costs to remediate supervisory findings;
•The effects or impact of any litigation, governmental investigations and proceedings, including enforcement proceedings and any possibly resulting fines, judgments, expenses or restrictions on our business activities;
•Unanticipated regulatory or judicial proceedings;
•The effect of changes in accounting policies and practices, as may be adopted from time-to-time by bank regulatory agencies, the SEC, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board ("PCAOB") or the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB");
•Cybersecurity breaches, threats, and cyber-fraud that cause the Bank to sustain financial losses;
•Technological and social media changes;
•Our management of risks inherent in the use of statistical and quantitative data and modeling;
•The strength of the United States economy, in general, and the strength of the local economies in which we conduct operations;
•Changes in trade, immigration, fiscal and monetary policies;
•Political uncertainty in the United States, changes in government spending and workforce and their effects on the economy of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area;
•Geopolitical conditions, including acts or threats of terrorism, actions taken by the United States or other governments in response to acts or threats of terrorism and/or military conflicts, which could impact business and economic conditions in the United States and abroad; and
•The factors discussed under the caption "Risk Factors" in this report.
If one or more of the factors affecting our forward looking information and statements proves incorrect, then our actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, forward looking information and statements contained in this report. No undue reliance should be placed on our forward looking information and statements. We will not update the forward looking statements to reflect actual results or changes in the factors affecting the forward looking statements.
General
The Company provides general commercial and consumer banking services through the Bank, its wholly owned banking subsidiary, a Maryland chartered bank which is a member of the Federal Reserve. The Company was organized in October 1997 and to be the holding company for the Bank. The Bank was organized in 1998 as an independent, community oriented, full service banking alternative to the super regional financial institutions, which dominate the Company’s primary market area.
The Company’s philosophy is to provide superior, personalized service to its customers. The Company focuses on relationship banking, providing each customer with a number of services and becoming familiar with and addressing customer needs in a proactive, personalized fashion. The Bank currently has twelve branch offices (six in Suburban Maryland, three in Washington, D.C. and three in Northern Virginia), a principal corporate office, four lending centers (two are co-located with branches and one co-located in the principal corporate office) and one operations center. Refer to the "Business" section above, which describes in detail the various banking services offered.
General economic, political, social and health conditions affect financial markets, and therefore, our business. Although the economy experienced higher levels of inflation in the recent past, the inflationary pressure continued to subside during 2025 and the Federal Reserve decreased interest rates three times for a total of 75 basis points. Fiscal and monetary policies have a direct and indirect impact on the level and volatility of interest rates, liquidity of financial markets, the availability and cost of capital, and market conditions of financing. Actual real U.S. GDP
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growth for 2025 was 2.2%, compared to 2.8% growth in 2024, as the economy continues to grow despite continuing to experience the effects of inflationary pressures and higher interest rates which were raised in 2022 and 2023. Unemployment increased through 2025 as the U.S. unemployment rate ended the year at 4.4%, up from 4.1% at the end of 2024.
Longer-term U.S. interest rates slightly increased in 2025, with the ten year U.S. Treasury rate averaging 4.29% in 2025 as compared to 4.21% in 2024. The yield curve steepened in 2025 as short-term rates decreased due to Federal Reserve rate cuts while long-term rates increased compared to 2024.
We believe the Company’s primary market, the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, continues to exhibit resilience relative to other parts of the country despite the volatility in the current economic environment. The Washington, D.C. metropolitan area maintains a diverse economy which includes the public sector, a large healthcare component, substantial business services and a highly educated work force. The private sector, in particular, the Leisure and Hospitality sector has seen some recovery in recent years following the adverse effects of the pandemic. The multi-family commercial real estate leasing sector, notwithstanding increased supply of units in the Bank’s market area, has held up relatively well, particularly for well-located close-in projects. While commercial real estate ("CRE") office properties continue to experience challenges and we recognized losses in that sector in 2025, the Company has remained focused on monitoring this sector and working with borrowers in order to mitigate further credit losses within our loan portfolio. Overall, we believe commercial real estate values have generally decreased and we continue to be cautious of the cap rates at which such assets are trading, resulting in conservative valuations.
As of December 31, 2025, the Company had total assets of approximately $10.5 billion, total loans held for investment of $7.3 billion and total deposits of $9.1 billion. We have remained cognizant of the volatility in our industry, capital markets and interest rate markets. Loan balances decreased in the CRE segments in 2025 while we saw increases in our commercial and owner-occupied commercial real estate loans portfolio. Additionally, we experienced changes in our funding mix as increases in interest-bearing deposits offset a decrease in noninterest-bearing deposits. The yield on earning assets decreased in 2025. During the year ended December 31, 2025, the yield on earning assets decreased by 34 basis points (from 5.65% to 5.31%) while cost of funds decreased 42 basis points (from 3.59% to 3.17%).
The Company’s capital position remained strong in 2025 as a result of its strong retained earnings position, despite the impact of the increased loan provision and resulting 2025 net loss. The Company paid a quarterly dividend in each quarter of 2025; however, the quarterly cash dividend amount was reduced to $0.01 in the fourth quarter of 2025 to preserve capital as the Company addresses asset quality matters.
The Company believes its strategy of remaining growth-oriented, retaining talented staff and maintaining focus on seeking quality lending and deposit relationships will inure to the benefit of the organization's success. Additionally, the Company believes this strategy of relationship building has fostered future growth opportunities, as the Company’s reputation in the marketplace remains strong.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
The Company's Consolidated Financial Statements are prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America ("GAAP") and follow general practices within the banking industry. Application of these principles requires management to make estimates, assumptions, and judgments that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. These estimates, assumptions and judgments are based on information available as of the date of the Consolidated Financial Statements; accordingly, as this information changes, the Consolidated Financial Statements could reflect different estimates, assumptions, and judgments. Certain policies have a greater reliance on the use of estimates, assumptions and judgments and, as such, have a greater possibility of producing results that could be materially different than originally reported. Estimates, assumptions, and judgments are necessary when assets and liabilities are required to be recorded at fair value, when a decline in the value of an asset not carried on the financial statements at fair value warrants an impairment write-down or a valuation reserve to be established, or when an asset or liability needs to be recorded contingent upon a future event. Carrying assets and liabilities at fair value inherently results in more financial statement volatility.
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Allowance for Credit Losses and Provision for Unfunded Commitments
A consequence of lending activities is that we incur credit losses, so we record an allowance for credit losses (the "ACL") with respect to loan receivables and a reserve for unfunded commitments (the "RUC") as estimates of those losses. The amount of the ACL on loans is based on management's assessment of current expected credit losses ("CECL") in the portfolio.
The amount of such losses will vary depending upon the risk characteristics of the loan portfolio as affected by economic conditions such as changes in interest rates, the financial performance of borrowers and regional unemployment rates, which management estimates by using a national forecast and estimating a regional adjustment based on historical differences between the two.
Management has significant discretion in making the judgments inherent in the determination of the provisions for credit loss, the ACL and the RUC. Our determination of these amounts requires significant reliance on estimates and significant judgment as to the amount and timing of expected future cash flows on loans, significant reliance on historical loss rates on homogenous portfolios, consideration of our quantitative and qualitative evaluation of economic factors and the reliance on our reasonable and supportable forecasts.
We estimate the ACL on loans using a quantitative model that uses a probability of default ("PD") / Loss Given Default ("LGD") cash flow method with an exposure at default ("EAD") model to estimate expected credit losses for our loan segments. The modeling of expected prepayment speeds is based on historical internal data and adjustments to account for loan-specific risk characteristics after pooling our loan portfolio based on similar risk characteristics.
The Company uses regression analysis of historical internal and peer data provided by a third-party service provider (as Company loss data alone is insufficient) to determine suitable loss drivers to utilize when modeling lifetime PD and LGD. This analysis also determines how expected PD will react to forecasted levels of the loss drivers. During 2024, management enhanced the cash flow model to incorporate additional macroeconomic variables. The four economic variables selected, national unemployment (original variable used), Commercial Real Estate ("CRE") Price Index, House Price Index and Gross Domestic Product ("GDP"), are incorporated by utilizing a Loss Driver Analysis approach that factors in historical losses, including during the Great Recession, of regional peer banks and the Bank. The updated model incorporates a weighting of three economic scenarios; baseline, upside and downside. The scenarios cover the four economic forecast variables, with each segment of the portfolio linked to two of these variables, depending on the segment. The loss driver analysis is spread over a reasonable and supportable period of 18 months and reverts back to a historical loss rate over twelve months on a straight-line basis over the loan's remaining maturity. Management leverages economic projections from reputable and independent third parties to inform its loss driver forecasts over the forecast period.
Loans that have evidence of credit deterioration are excluded from the loan segments subject to the quantitative model described above and are individually assessed.
The RUC represents the expected credit losses on off-balance sheet commitments such as unfunded commitments to extend credit and standby letters of credit. The RUC is determined by estimating future draws and applying the expected loss rates on those draws.
The ACL also includes an amount for inherent risks not reflected in the historical analyses. Relevant factors reflected in the qualitative component of the reserve include, but are not limited to, concentrations of credit risk, appraisal risk from volatility in the market, changes in underwriting standards, experience and depth of lending staff and trends in delinquencies.
Management has developed an analytical process to monitor the adequacy of the ACL. Our methodology for determining our ACL was developed utilizing, among other factors, the guidance from federal banking regulatory agencies and relevant available information from internal and external sources and relating to past events, current conditions and reasonable and supportable forecasts. The process is being continually enhanced and refined based on periodic reviews. Material changes to these and other relevant factors may result in greater volatility to the reserve for credit losses, and therefore, greater volatility to our reported earnings. See "Note 1 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies", "Note 3 – Investment Securities" and "Note 4 – Loans and Allowance for Credit Losses" to the Consolidated Financial Statements, and the “Provision for Credit Losses” and "Allowance for Credit Losses" sections below for more information on the provision for credit losses and ACL for the loan portfolio.
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Selected Financial Data
The following discussion is intended to assist in understanding the financial condition and results of operations of the Company as of and for the year ended December 31, 2025. The information contained in this section should be read together with the December 31, 2025 audited Consolidated Financial Statements and the accompanying Notes included in "Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data" of this Form 10-K.
This section of this Form 10-K generally discusses 2025 items and year-to-year comparisons between 2025 and 2024. Discussions of 2023 items and year-to-year comparisons between 2024 and 2023 that are not included in this Form 10-K can be found in "Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in Part II, Item 7 of the Company’s Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024.
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| (dollars in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||
| Consolidated Balance Sheets: | |||||||||||
| Securities - available-for-sale | $ | 976,770 | $ | 1,267,404 | |||||||
| Securities - held-to-maturity | 854,780 | 938,647 | |||||||||
| Loans held for sale | 90,650 | — | |||||||||
| Loans held for investment | 7,280,459 | 7,934,888 | |||||||||
| Allowance for credit losses | (159,604) | (114,390) | |||||||||
| Total assets | 10,497,203 | 11,129,508 | |||||||||
| Deposits | 9,133,606 | 9,131,078 | |||||||||
| Other short-term borrowings | — | 490,000 | |||||||||
| Long-term borrowings | 76,428 | 76,108 | |||||||||
| Total liabilities | 9,365,920 | 9,903,447 | |||||||||
| Total shareholders’ equity | 1,131,283 | 1,226,061 | |||||||||
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| (dollars in thousands except per share data) | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | ||||||||
| Consolidated Statements of Operations: | |||||||||||
| Interest income | $ | 604,482 | $ | 687,563 | $ | 625,327 | |||||
| Interest expense | 334,595 | 398,875 | 334,781 | ||||||||
| Provision for credit losses | 293,097 | 66,360 | 31,536 | ||||||||
| Noninterest income | 29,308 | 19,939 | 21,536 | ||||||||
| Goodwill impairment | — | 104,168 | — | ||||||||
| Noninterest expense (including goodwill impairment) | 200,655 | 274,634 | 153,293 | ||||||||
| Income (loss) before income tax expense | (196,184) | (30,240) | 127,520 | ||||||||
| Income tax expense | (58,132) | 16,795 | 26,986 | ||||||||
| Net income (loss) | (138,052) | (47,035) | 100,534 | ||||||||
| Cash dividends declared | 15,314 | 32,117 | 54,293 | ||||||||
| Total net revenue (1) | 299,195 | 308,627 | 312,082 | ||||||||
| Per Common Share Data: | |||||||||||
| Net income (loss), basic | $ | (4.55) | $ | (1.56) | $ | 3.31 | |||||
| Net income (loss), diluted | (4.55) | (1.56) | 3.31 | ||||||||
| Dividends declared | 0.505 | 1.07 | 1.80 | ||||||||
| Book value | 37.26 | 40.60 | 42.58 | ||||||||
| Common shares outstanding | 30,359,632 | 30,202,003 | 29,925,612 | ||||||||
| Weighted average common shares outstanding, basic | 30,347,121 | 30,157,051 | 30,345,504 | ||||||||
| Weighted average common shares outstanding, diluted | 30,347,121 | 30,157,051 | 30,393,100 |
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| Ratios: | |||||||||||
| Net interest margin | 2.37 | % | 2.37 | % | 2.53 | % | |||||
| Efficiency ratio (2) | 67.06 | % | 88.99 | % | 49.12 | % | |||||
| Return on average assets | (1.16) | % | (0.38) | % | 0.84 | % | |||||
| Return on average common equity | (11.47) | % | (3.77) | % | 8.11 | % | |||||
| CET1 capital (to risk weighted assets) | 13.07 | % | 14.63 | % | 13.90 | % | |||||
| Total capital (to risk weighted assets) | 14.33 | % | 15.86 | % | 14.79 | % | |||||
| Tier 1 capital (to risk weighted assets) | 13.07 | % | 14.63 | % | 13.90 | % | |||||
| Tier 1 capital (to average assets) | 9.72 | % | 10.74 | % | 10.73 | % | |||||
| Dividend payout ratio | (11.09) | % | (68.28) | % | 54.00 | % | |||||
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| (dollars in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||
| Asset Quality: | |||||||||||
| Nonperforming assets and loans 90+ past due(3) | $ | 108,956 | $ | 211,449 | |||||||
| Nonperforming assets and loans 90+ past due to total assets | 1.04 | % | 1.90 | % | |||||||
| Nonperforming loans to total loans | 1.47 | % | 2.63 | % | |||||||
| Allowance for credit losses to loans | 2.19 | % | 1.44 | % | |||||||
| Allowance for credit losses to nonperforming loans | 149.31 | % | 54.81 | % | |||||||
| For the Year Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
| (dollars in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | ||||||||
| Asset Quality Activity: | |||||||||||
| Net charge-offs | $ | 248,178 | $ | 38,555 | $ | 18,850 | |||||
| Net charge-offs to average loans | 3.22 | % | 0.48 | % | 0.24 | % |
(1)Total net revenue calculated as net interest income plus noninterest income.
(2)Computed by dividing noninterest expense by total net revenue.
(3)Excludes HFS loans.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Management uses non-GAAP measures because they provide information to investors about the underlying operational performance and trends of the Company. These disclosures should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for results determined in accordance with GAAP and are not necessarily comparable to non-GAAP performance measures which may be presented by other bank holding companies. Management compensates for these limitations by providing detailed reconciliations between GAAP information and the non-GAAP financial measures.
The table below reconciles the GAAP financial measures to the associated non-GAAP financial measures.
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| Pre-provision net revenue: | |||||||||||||||
| Net interest income | $ | 269,887 | $ | 288,688 | $ | 290,546 | |||||||||
| Noninterest income | 29,308 | 19,939 | 21,536 | ||||||||||||
| Total net revenue | 299,195 | 308,627 | 312,082 | ||||||||||||
| Less: Noninterest expense | (200,655) | (274,634) | (153,293) | ||||||||||||
| Pre-provision net revenue | $ | 98,540 | $ | 33,993 | $ | 158,789 |
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Results of Operations
Summary of Consolidated Statements of Operations
This section discusses our condensed consolidated results of operations and should be read together with our consolidated financial statements and the accompanying notes.
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| (dollars in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 | Change | |||||||||||||
| Net Interest Income | $ | 269,887 | $ | 288,688 | $ | (18,801) | ||||||||||
| Less: Provision for (Reversal of) Credit Losses | 293,097 | 66,360 | 226,737 | |||||||||||||
| Less: Provision for (Reversal of) Credit Losses for Unfunded Commitments | 1,627 | (2,127) | 3,754 | |||||||||||||
| Net Interest Income After Provision for (Reversal of) Credit Losses | (24,837) | 224,455 | (249,292) | |||||||||||||
| Noninterest income | 29,308 | 19,939 | 9,369 | |||||||||||||
| Noninterest expense | 200,655 | 274,634 | (73,979) | |||||||||||||
| Income (Loss) Before Income Tax Expense | (196,184) | (30,240) | (165,944) | |||||||||||||
| Income Tax Expense (Benefit) | (58,132) | 16,795 | (74,927) | |||||||||||||
| Net Income (Loss) | $ | (138,052) | $ | (47,035) | $ | (91,017) |
Net loss for the year ended December 31, 2025, compared to the same period in 2024, was primarily due to higher provision for credit losses, partially offset by the corresponding income tax benefit and lower noninterest expense. See respective subsections below for the primary drivers of change and further discussion on net interest income, provision for credit losses, noninterest income, noninterest expenses, and income tax expenses.
When the impact of the provision is excluded, pre-provision net revenue ("PPNR"), a non-GAAP measure, was $98.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, as compared to $34.0 million for the same period in 2024. The increase was primarily due to lower noninterest expenses in the current period driven by the recognition of one-time goodwill impairment of $104.2 million during 2024 which resulted in higher noninterest expense in the prior period. For further discussion of drivers for this change, see the "Noninterest Expense" section below.
Refer to the "Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures" section for additional detail and a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures.
The efficiency ratio, which measures the ratio of noninterest expense to total net revenue (the sum of net interest income and noninterest income), was 67.06% for 2025 compared to 88.99% for 2024. This improvement was primarily due to lower noninterest expenses in the current period driven by the recognition of one-time goodwill impairment of $104.2 million during 2024 which resulted in higher noninterest expense in the prior period.
Net interest margin, which measures net interest income as a percentage of earning assets, was flat at 2.37% for the year ended December 31, 2025 compared to 2.37% for the same period in 2024. For further information on the components and drivers of these changes, see the "Net Interest Income and Net Interest Margin" section below.
Loans, which generally have higher yields than securities and other earning assets, represented 68% and 66% of average earning assets for years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. Refer to the "Loan Portfolio" below for further discussion on loans.
Average investment securities for year ended December 31, 2025 were 18.3% of average earning assets compared to 20.2% for the same period in 2024. Interest-bearing deposits with other banks represented 14.0% and 14.1% of average earning assets for years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. Refer to the "Investment Securities and Short-Term Investments" section below for further discussion on investment securities.
The ratio of common equity to total assets decreased to 10.78% as of December 31, 2025, compared to 11.02% as of December 31, 2024. For December 31, 2025, the return (loss) on average assets ("ROAA") was (1.16)%, compared to (0.38)% for the same period in 2024. Total shareholders’ equity was $1.13 billion as of December 31, 2025, compared to $1.23 billion as of December 31, 2024, a decrease of 8%. The return (loss) on average common equity for December 31, 2025 was (11.47)%, compared to (3.77)% for the same period in 2024. All these decreases were primarily driven by higher credit losses in 2025.
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Net Interest Income and Net Interest Margin
Net interest income is the difference between interest income on earning assets and the cost of funds supporting those assets. Earning assets are composed primarily of loans, investment securities and interest-bearing deposits with other banks and other short term investments. The cost of funds represents interest expense on deposits, customer repurchase agreements and other borrowings, which consist primarily of federal funds purchased, advances from secured financing arrangements, including the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta ("FHLB") and Discount Window, and senior notes. Noninterest-bearing deposits and capital are other components representing funding sources. Changes in the volume and mix of assets and funding sources, along with the changes in yields earned and rates paid, determine changes in net interest income.
The table below presents the average balances and rates of the major categories of the Company's assets and liabilities. Included in the tables are measurements of interest rate spread and margin. Interest rate spread is the difference (expressed as a percentage) between the interest rate earned on earning assets less the interest rate paid on interest-bearing liabilities. While the interest rate spread provides a quick comparison of earnings rates versus cost of funds, management believes that margin, together with net interest income, provides a better measurement of performance. The net interest margin (as compared to net interest spread) includes the effect of noninterest-bearing sources in its calculation. Net interest margin is net interest income expressed as a percentage of average earning assets.
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Eagle Bancorp, Inc.
Consolidated Average Balances, Interest Yields And Rates (Unaudited)
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| (dollars in thousands) | Average Balance | Interest | Average Yield / Rate | Average Balance | Interest | Average Yield / Rate | Average Balance | Interest | Average Yield / Rate | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assets | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest earning assets: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest-bearing deposits with other banks and other short-term investments | $ | 1,555,653 | $ | 66,356 | 4.27 | % | $ | 1,717,180 | $ | 89,203 | 5.19 | % | $ | 1,024,319 | $ | 52,587 | 5.13 | % | ||||||||||||||
| Loans held for sale | 43,061 | 2,299 | 5.34 | % | 3,241 | 101 | 3.12 | % | 1,212 | 73 | 6.02 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Loans (1) (2) | 7,713,886 | 492,508 | 6.38 | % | 7,997,653 | 548,288 | 6.86 | % | 7,815,832 | 518,007 | 6.63 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Investment securities available-for-sale (2) | 1,184,313 | 24,716 | 2.09 | % | 1,473,095 | 28,774 | 1.95 | % | 1,584,239 | 32,074 | 2.02 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Investment securities held-to-maturity | 900,764 | 19,242 | 2.14 | % | 983,309 | 21,197 | 2.16 | % | 1,057,445 | 22,586 | 2.14 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total interest earning assets | 11,397,677 | 605,121 | 5.31 | % | 12,174,478 | 687,563 | 5.65 | % | 11,483,047 | 625,327 | 5.45 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest earning assets | 653,920 | 449,904 | 501,722 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Less: allowance for credit losses | (152,154) | (104,020) | (79,218) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total noninterest earning assets | 501,766 | 345,884 | 422,504 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total Assets | $ | 11,899,443 | $ | 12,520,362 | $ | 11,905,551 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest-bearing liabilities: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest-bearing transaction | $ | 1,405,552 | $ | 42,097 | 3.00 | % | $ | 1,700,301 | $ | 60,573 | 3.56 | % | $ | 1,459,795 | $ | 46,140 | 3.16 | % | ||||||||||||||
| Savings and money market | 3,714,262 | 125,609 | 3.38 | % | 3,411,971 | 139,539 | 4.09 | % | 3,176,203 | 132,374 | 4.17 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Time deposits | 3,199,611 | 146,949 | 4.59 | % | 2,432,713 | 120,309 | 4.95 | % | 1,774,184 | 79,030 | 4.45 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total interest-bearing deposits | 8,319,425 | 314,655 | 3.78 | % | 7,544,985 | 320,421 | 4.25 | % | 6,410,182 | 257,544 | 4.02 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Customer repurchase agreements and federal funds purchased | 25,710 | 764 | 2.97 | % | 37,872 | 1,271 | 3.36 | % | 36,663 | 1,218 | 3.32 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Derivative collateral liability | 11,676 | 639 | 5.47 | % | — | — | — | % | — | — | — | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Other short-term borrowings | 228,357 | 11,086 | 4.85 | % | 1,476,550 | 72,386 | 4.90 | % | 1,521,160 | 73,253 | 4.82 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Long-term borrowings | 76,276 | 8,090 | 10.61 | % | 66,321 | 4,797 | 7.23 | % | 69,861 | 2,766 | 3.96 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total interest-bearing liabilities | 8,661,444 | 335,234 | 3.87 | % | 9,125,728 | 398,875 | 4.37 | % | 8,037,866 | 334,781 | 4.17 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest-bearing liabilities: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest-bearing demand | 1,898,067 | 1,987,886 | 2,508,687 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other liabilities | 135,871 | 160,580 | 118,880 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total noninterest-bearing liabilities | 2,033,938 | 2,148,466 | 2,627,567 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shareholders’ equity | 1,204,061 | 1,246,168 | 1,240,118 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity | $ | 11,899,443 | $ | 12,520,362 | $ | 11,905,551 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest income | $ | 269,887 | $ | 288,688 | $ | 290,546 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest spread | 1.44 | % | 1.28 | % | 1.28 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest margin | 2.37 | % | 2.37 | % | 2.53 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cost of funds | 3.17 | % | 3.59 | % | 3.17 | % |
(1)Loans placed on nonaccrual status are included in average balances. Net loan fees and late charges included in interest income on loans totaled $15.1 million, $17.2 million and $16.7 million for the years ended 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
(2)Interest and fees on loans and investments exclude tax equivalent adjustments.
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Net interest income decreased in 2025 compared to 2024, primarily due to a larger decrease in interest-earning assets compared to interest-bearing liabilities. Additionally, average loan yields and interest bearing deposits with other banks and short term investments yields were lower in 2025 compared to the prior year, partially offset by lower rates on interest-bearing liabilities.
Net interest margin remained flat in 2025 compared to 2024. The cost of funds on interest-bearing liabilities decreased by 42 basis points from 3.59% for 2024 to 3.17% for 2025, while the yield on interest-earning assets had a decrease of 34 basis points from 5.65% for 2024 to 5.31% for 2025.
Rate/Volume Analysis of Net Interest Income
The rate/volume table below presents the composition of the change in net interest income for the period indicated, as allocated between the change in net interest income due to changes in the volume of average earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities, and the changes in net interest income due to changes in interest rates.
| Year Ended December 31, 2025 Compared with Year Ended December 31, 2024 | Year Ended December 31, 2024 Compared with Year Ended December 31, 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| (dollars in thousands) | Change Due to Volume | Change Due to Rate | Total Increase (Decrease) | Change Due to Volume | Change Due to Rate | Total Increase (Decrease) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest earned on: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest-bearing deposits with other banks and other short-term investments | $ | (8,391) | $ | (14,456) | $ | (22,847) | $ | 35,662 | $ | 954 | $ | 36,616 | |||||||||||||||||
| Loans held for sale | 1,241 | 957 | 2,198 | 122 | (94) | 28 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loans | (19,454) | (36,326) | (55,780) | 12,049 | 18,232 | 30,281 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Investment securities available-for sale | (5,641) | 1,583 | (4,058) | (2,250) | (1,050) | (3,300) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Investment securities held-to-maturity | (1,779) | (176) | (1,955) | (1,583) | 194 | (1,389) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total interest income | (34,024) | (48,418) | (82,442) | 44,000 | 18,236 | 62,236 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest paid on: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest-bearing transaction | (10,500) | (7,975) | (18,475) | 7,602 | 6,831 | 14,433 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Savings and money market | 12,363 | (26,293) | (13,930) | 9,826 | (2,661) | 7,165 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Time deposits | 37,927 | (11,286) | 26,641 | 29,334 | 11,945 | 41,279 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Customer repurchase agreements | (408) | (98) | (506) | 40 | 13 | 53 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Derivative collateral liability | 639 | — | 639 | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other short-term borrowings | (61,191) | (108) | (61,299) | (2,148) | 1,281 | (867) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Long-term borrowings | 720 | 2,573 | 3,293 | (140) | 2,171 | 2,031 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total interest expense | (20,450) | (43,187) | (63,637) | 44,514 | 19,580 | 64,094 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest income | $ | (13,574) | $ | (5,231) | $ | (18,805) | $ | (514) | $ | (1,344) | $ | (1,858) |
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Provision for Credit Losses
The provision for credit losses represents the amount of expense charged to current earnings to record the ACL on loans and the ACL on HTM investment securities. The amount of the ACL on loans is based on management's assessment of current expected credit losses in the portfolio. Those factors include historical losses based on internal and peer data, economic conditions and trends, the value and adequacy of collateral, volume and mix of the portfolio, performance of the portfolio, and internal loan processes of the Company.
The table below presents a breakdown of the current provision for credit losses included in our Consolidated Statements of Operations.
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| (dollars in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | ||||||||||||
| Provision for (reversal of) credit losses - loans | $ | 293,392 | $ | 67,005 | $ | 30,346 | |||||||||
| Provision for (reversal of) credit losses - HTM debt securities | (295) | (645) | 1,190 | ||||||||||||
| Total Provision for credit losses | $ | 293,097 | $ | 66,360 | $ | 31,536 | |||||||||
| Net charge offs in ACL | $ | (248,178) | $ | (38,555) | $ | (18,850) |
The change in the provision for credit losses on the loan portfolio for the December 31, 2025 was primarily attributable to the replenishment of the reserve following net charge-offs, as reported in the table above, and an increase in the qualitative reserve for CRE office loans ("office overlay").
Net charge-offs of $248.2 million during 2025 represented 3.22% of average loans held for investment, an increase from net charge-offs of $38.6 million in 2024, which represented 0.48% of average loans held for investment. During 2025, we began executing on a revised strategy for resolving criticized and classified loans with the goal of accelerating dispositions and reducing asset quality risk. In furtherance of this strategy, we obtained updated valuations in 2025 on the underlying collateral for certain loans and incorporated new information about borrower performance. Updated valuations obtained during the year reflected the rapidly changing commercial real estate market in the D.C. metro area, in many cases showing substantial declines. This information resulted in significant charge offs during 2025, primarily on office loans and other real estate loans with underlying office exposure and to a lesser extent on land, multifamily, and senior living loans.
Additionally, certain loans were transferred to loans held-for-sale ("HFS") in 2025, which resulted in additional charge-offs to record those loans at their fair value at the time of transfer. Total charge-offs in 2025 related to loans that were transferred to HFS or sold during 2025 were $176.5 million. We believe our actions in 2025 reflect a disciplined approach to credit risk management that incorporates updated market and borrower data into our loss estimates.
The office overlay increased in 2025 relative to 2024, impacted by updated assumptions associated with the PD and LGD rates as well as downward risk rating migration, as further discussed in the "Allowance for Credit Losses" section below. Although loans were transferred to held-for-sale, reducing the CRE office loan population, the resulting charge-offs on those loans informed higher loss factors on the remaining loans addressed by the office overlay, contributing to its elevated level for 2025. The increase in the office overlay for 2025 reflects management’s assessment of continued uncertainty in the CRE market, particularly within the office sector, as well as potential lag effects from interest-rate sensitivity, valuation declines, and refinancing risk. Management continues to monitor trends, including occupancy, capitalization rates, and market liquidity, across key metropolitan areas and may adjust qualitative reserves further as these factors evolve.
The ACL coverage ratio remains within management’s target range and reflects the current asset quality profile, though further provision expense may be required if collateral values or borrower performance continue to deteriorate.
The provision for credit losses for the held-to-maturity securities portfolio was recorded primarily on several corporate bonds. During the year ended December 31, 2025, there was a reversal of provision for credit losses of $295 thousand for the held-to-maturity securities portfolio, compared to a reversal of provision expense of $645 thousand for the year ended December 31, 2024.
The provision for credit losses for unfunded commitments is presented separately on the Consolidated Statements of Operations. This provision considers the probability that unfunded commitments will fund, among other factors.
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There was a provision expense of $1.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, compared to a reversal of provision of $2.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, primarily due to higher unfunded commitments in our commercial and industrial portfolio during the current period.
Refer to the discussion under "Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates" above and in "Note 1 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies" to the Consolidated Financial Statements for an overview of the methodology management employs on a quarterly basis to assess the adequacy of the allowance and the provisions charged to expense. Also, refer to the table in the "Allowance for Credit Losses" section which reflects activity in the ACL.
Noninterest Income
Noninterest income includes service charges on deposits, gain/(loss) on sale of investment securities and loans, income from Bank-Owned Life Insurance ("BOLI") and other income. The table below summarizes the comparative noninterest income.
| For the Year Ended December 31, | |||||||||||||||
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| (dollars in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 | Dollar Change | Percent Change | |||||||||||
| Service charges on deposits | $ | 7,127 | $ | 6,843 | $ | 284 | 4 | % | |||||||
| Gain (loss) on sale of loans | (4,687) | 57 | (4,744) | N/A | |||||||||||
| Net gain (loss) on sale of investment securities | (3,823) | 14 | (3,837) | N/A | |||||||||||
| Increase in the cash surrender value of bank-owned life insurance | 20,372 | 2,885 | 17,487 | 606 | % | ||||||||||
| Other income | 10,319 | 10,140 | 179 | 2 | % | ||||||||||
| Total | $ | 29,308 | $ | 19,939 | $ | 9,369 | 47 | % |
The increase in total noninterest income in 2025 as compared to 2024 was primarily due to increases in the cash surrender value of BOLI investments in 2025 driven by additional BOLI investment of $200 million made in the first quarter of 2025, partially offset by elevated losses on the sale of HFS loans and AFS securities.
Noninterest Expense
Total noninterest expense includes salaries and employee benefits, premises and equipment expenses, marketing and advertising, data processing, legal, accounting and professional fees, FDIC insurance assessments and other expenses. The table below summarizes the comparative noninterest expense.
| For the Year Ended December 31, | |||||||||||||||
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| (dollars in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 | Dollar Change | Percent Change | |||||||||||
| Salaries and employee benefits | $ | 87,859 | $ | 87,768 | $ | 91 | — | % | |||||||
| Premises and equipment expenses | 12,027 | 11,382 | 645 | 6 | % | ||||||||||
| Marketing and advertising | 5,016 | 5,449 | (433) | (8) | % | ||||||||||
| Data processing | 16,574 | 14,093 | 2,481 | 18 | % | ||||||||||
| Legal, accounting and professional fees | 10,168 | 9,286 | 882 | 9 | % | ||||||||||
| FDIC insurance | 31,413 | 29,009 | 2,404 | 8 | % | ||||||||||
| Goodwill impairment | — | 104,168 | (104,168) | (100) | % | ||||||||||
| Legal contingency | 10,000 | — | 10,000 | 100 | % | ||||||||||
| Other expenses | 27,598 | 13,479 | 14,119 | 105 | % | ||||||||||
| Total | $ | 200,655 | $ | 274,634 | $ | (73,979) | (27) | % |
The decrease in total noninterest expense for 2025 as compared to 2024, was primarily due to no goodwill impairment during the current period, partially offset by elevated other expenses driven by disposition costs associated with the sale of certain HFS loans and further valuation adjustment on the remaining HFS portfolio during the fourth quarter of 2025. Additionally, a legal contingency of $10 million was recognized in 2025 for an outstanding legal matter. See "Note 19 – Commitments and Contingent Liabilities" for further details.
The major components of other expenses include regulatory assessment fees, director compensation, real estate taxes, and insurance expenses. Additionally, other expenses were elevated for the current period primarily due to $6.3 million in disposition costs related to HFS loan sales and $8.4 million in valuation adjustment on the remaining HFS portfolio.
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As a percentage of average assets, total noninterest expense was 1.69% for the year ended December 31, 2025 as compared to 2.19% in 2024, primarily due to no goodwill impairment during the current period.
Income Tax Expense
For the December 31, 2025, income tax benefit was $58.1 million, compared to income tax expense of $16.8 million for the December 31, 2024. The switch from income tax expense in 2024 to income tax benefit in 2025 was primarily due to a pre-tax loss of $196.2 million in 2025.
The effective tax rate for the year ended December 31, 2025 was 29.63%. The effective tax rate represents the percentage of income tax benefit against the pre-tax loss in 2025. The effective tax rate for 2025 varies from the 21% statutory rate primarily due to the tax benefit from the solar investment tax credits purchased at discount, low-income housing tax credit equity investment, tax-exempt interest income and tax-exempt income from the increase in the cash surrender value of BOLI.
Balance Sheet Analysis
Overview
This section discusses our condensed consolidated balance sheets and should be read together with our consolidated financial statements and the accompanying notes.
| As of | |||||||||||
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| December 31, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | Change | |||||||||
| Assets | |||||||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents (1) | $ | 695,693 | $ | 633,480 | $ | 62,213 | |||||
| Investment securities (2) | 1,831,550 | 2,206,051 | (374,501) | ||||||||
| Loans held for sale | 90,650 | — | 90,650 | ||||||||
| Loans held for investment, at amortized cost | 7,280,459 | 7,934,888 | (654,429) | ||||||||
| Less: Allowance for credit losses | (159,604) | (114,390) | (45,214) | ||||||||
| Loans held for investment, net of allowance | 7,120,855 | 7,820,498 | (699,643) | ||||||||
| Deferred income taxes | 132,330 | 91,472 | 40,858 | ||||||||
| Bank-owned life insurance | 335,177 | 115,806 | 219,371 | ||||||||
| Other assets (3) | $ | 290,948 | $ | 262,201 | $ | 28,747 | |||||
| Total Assets | $ | 10,497,203 | $ | 11,129,508 | $ | (632,305) | |||||
| Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity | |||||||||||
| Liabilities | |||||||||||
| Deposits: | |||||||||||
| Noninterest-bearing demand | $ | 1,433,952 | $ | 1,544,403 | $ | (110,451) | |||||
| Interest-bearing transaction | 1,038,154 | 1,211,791 | (173,637) | ||||||||
| Savings and money market | 3,624,813 | 3,599,221 | 25,592 | ||||||||
| Time deposits | 3,036,687 | 2,775,663 | 261,024 | ||||||||
| Total deposits | 9,133,606 | 9,131,078 | 2,528 | ||||||||
| Customer repurchase agreements | — | 33,157 | (33,157) | ||||||||
| Borrowings | 76,428 | 566,108 | (489,680) | ||||||||
| Other liabilities (4) | 155,886 | 173,104 | (17,218) | ||||||||
| Total Liabilities | 9,365,920 | 9,903,447 | (537,527) | ||||||||
| Total Shareholders’ Equity | 1,131,283 | 1,226,061 | (94,778) | ||||||||
| Total Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity | $ | 10,497,203 | $ | 11,129,508 | $ | (632,305) |
(1)Consists of cash and due from banks, interest-bearing deposits with banks, and other short-term investments.
(2)Consists of available-for-sale securities at fair value and held-to-maturity securities, net of allowance for credit losses.
(3)Consists of Federal Reserve and Federal Home Loan Bank stock, premises and equipment, right-of-use assets, other real estate owned, and other assets.
(4)Consists of operating lease liabilities, reserve for unfunded commitments and other liabilities.
See respective subsections below for the primary drivers of change and further discussion on investment securities, loans, allowance for credit losses, other earning asset, deposits and other borrowings.
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The decrease in total assets as of December 31, 2025 from December 31, 2024 was primarily due to declines in securities and loans balances from sales, maturities/liquidations and paydowns. This decrease in total assets was partially offset by additional BOLI investment during the year.
Investment securities, net of the allowance for credit losses, were $1.8 billion as of December 31, 2025 as compared to $2.2 billion as of December 31, 2024, a 17% decrease, primarily driven by maturities and paydowns on both AFS and HTM securities, and sales of AFS securities. The Bank does not currently plan to reinvest these proceeds back into the investment securities portfolio. Refer to the "Investment Securities and Short-Term Investments" section below for further discussion on investment securities.
Loans held for investment ("HFI") decreased by $654.4 million (from $7.9 billion as of December 31, 2024 to $7.3 billion as of December 31, 2025) while HFS loans increased by $90.7 million. Refer to the "Loan Portfolio", "Loan Maturity" and other loans-related sections below for further discussion on loans.
Total shareholders’ equity as of December 31, 2025 was $1.13 billion as compared to $1.23 billion as of December 31, 2024, a 8% decrease. The decrease in shareholders’ equity in 2025 was primarily due to net loss from operations of $138.1 million, and payment of cash dividends of $15.3 million, offset by $52.3 million in other comprehensive income. The ratio of common equity to total assets was 10.78% as of December 31, 2025 as compared to 11.02% as of December 31, 2024. Book value per share was $37.26 as of December 31, 2025, a 8.23% decrease from $40.60 as of December 31, 2024.
In order to be considered well-capitalized, the Bank must have a common equity tier one capital ("CET1") risk based capital ratio of 6.5%, a Tier 1 risk-based ratio of 8.0%, a total risk-based capital ratio of 10.0% and a leverage ratio of 5.0%. The Company and the Bank exceeded all these requirements and satisfy the capital conservation buffer of 2.5% of CET1 capital as of December 31, 2025. Failure to maintain the required capital conservation buffer would limit the ability of the Company and the Bank to pay dividends, repurchase shares or pay discretionary bonuses.
The Company's capital ratios remain substantially in excess of regulatory minimums and buffer requirements. The total risk based capital ratio was 14.33% as of December 31, 2025, as compared to 15.86% as of December 31, 2024. The CET1 risk based capital ratio was 13.07% as of December 31, 2025, as compared to 14.63% as of December 31, 2024. The tier 1 risk based capital ratio was 13.07% as of December 31, 2025, as compared to 14.63% as of December 31, 2024. The tier 1 leverage ratio was 9.72% as of December 31, 2025, as compared to 10.74% as of December 31, 2024. Refer to "Capital Resources and Adequacy" section below for further discussion on our capital.
Investment Securities and Short-Term Investments
This section and "Note 3 – Investment Securities" to the Consolidated Financial Statements provide additional information regarding the Company’s investment securities categorized as "available-for-sale" or AFS and as "held-to-maturity" or HTM. The Company classifies its investment securities as either AFS or HTM. The AFS classification requires that investment securities be recorded at fair value with any difference between the fair value and amortized cost (the purchase price adjusted by any discount accretion or premium amortization) reported as a component of shareholders’ equity (accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)), net of deferred income taxes, while securities classified as HTM are recorded and presented at their amortized cost.
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The tables below provide information regarding the composition of the investment securities portfolio at the dates indicated. As of December 31, 2025, the investment portfolio balances for both AFS securities at fair value and HTM securities at amortized cost basis decreased as compared to December 31, 2024, and the composition of the portfolios changed, as displayed in the tables below.
| As of | ||||||||||||||||||
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| (dollars in thousands) | Fair Value | Percent of Total | Average Duration (in years) | Fair Value | Percent of Total | Average Duration (in years) | ||||||||||||
| Investment securities available-for-sale: | ||||||||||||||||||
| U.S. treasury bonds | $ | — | — | % | — | $ | 24,776 | 2 | % | — | ||||||||
| U.S. agency securities | 337,708 | 35 | % | 2.5 | 558,535 | 44 | % | 2.5 | ||||||||||
| Residential mortgage-backed securities | 562,504 | 57 | % | 3.8 | 625,316 | 49 | % | 4.0 | ||||||||||
| Commercial mortgage-backed securities | 66,545 | 7 | % | 3.8 | 48,945 | 4 | % | 4.0 | ||||||||||
| Municipal bonds | 8,046 | 1 | % | 5.3 | 8,014 | 1 | % | 6.0 | ||||||||||
| Corporate bonds | 1,967 | — | % | 5.1 | 1,818 | — | % | 5.6 | ||||||||||
| Total | $ | 976,770 | 100 | % | $ | 1,267,404 | 100 | % |
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| December 31, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |||||||||||||||||
| (dollars in thousands) | Amortized Cost | Percent of Total | Average Duration (in years) | Amortized Cost | Percent of Total | Average Duration (in years) | ||||||||||||
| Investment securities held-to-maturity: | ||||||||||||||||||
| Residential mortgage-backed securities | $ | 544,402 | 64 | % | 5.1 | $ | 605,904 | 65 | % | 5.4 | ||||||||
| Commercial mortgage-backed securities | 85,760 | 10 | % | 5.1 | 88,575 | 9 | % | 5.4 | ||||||||||
| Municipal bonds | 106,875 | 12 | % | 6.3 | 114,060 | 12 | % | 6.7 | ||||||||||
| Corporate bonds | 118,773 | 14 | % | 3.7 | 131,414 | 14 | % | 4.3 | ||||||||||
| Total | 855,810 | 100 | % | 939,953 | 100 | % | ||||||||||||
| Allowance for credit losses | (1,030) | (1,306) | ||||||||||||||||
| Total held-to-maturity securities, net of ACL | $ | 854,780 | $ | 938,647 |
As of December 31, 2025, the AFS investment portfolio decreased by 23% and HTM investment portfolio decreased by 9%, as compared to December 31, 2024, primarily driven by maturities and paydowns on both AFS and HTM securities, and sales of AFS securities. The investment portfolio is managed to achieve goals related to liquidity, income, interest rate risk management and to provide collateral for repurchase agreements and borrowings from the FHLB and FRB discount window.
The Company had a net unrealized loss in AFS securities of $78.6 million with a deferred tax asset of $19.3 million as of December 31, 2025, as compared to a net unrealized loss in AFS securities of $141.5 million with a deferred tax asset of $34.8 million as of December 31, 2024 driven by lower market interest rates and securities approaching maturity.
As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company had $38.5 million and $44.8 million, respectively, of unamortized unrealized losses outstanding following the transfer of investment securities from AFS to HTM in 2022. These unrealized losses are included in accumulated other comprehensive loss and are amortized through interest income as a yield adjustment over the remaining term of the securities.
As of December 31, 2025, there was no single issuer of securities owned by the Company with a book or fair value exceeding 10% of the Company’s shareholders’ equity, other than the U.S. Government, U.S. agencies and U.S. Government-sponsored enterprises.
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As of December 31, 2025, $66.5 million of corporate bonds were subordinated debt from other financial institutions. Corporate bonds generally, and subordinated debt in particular, pose credit risk such that if any of these issuers were to enter bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings, we could experience losses that may be material to operating results and our financial condition. We may also experience increases in provisions for credit losses, adversely affecting our earnings, if the creditworthiness of the issuers declines, whether due to idiosyncratic factors, economic conditions generally or other unforeseen factors or events.
The following tables provide information, on an amortized cost basis, for AFS and HTM portfolios regarding the expected maturity and weighted-average yield of the investment portfolio as of December 31, 2025. Expected maturities will differ from contractual maturities because borrowers may have the right to call or prepay obligations with or without call or prepayment penalties. Yields on tax exempt securities have not been calculated on a tax equivalent basis.
| One Year or Less | After One Year Through Five Years | After Five Years Through Ten Years | After Ten Years | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| (dollars in thousands) | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Available-for-sale: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| U.S. agency securities | $ | 58,374 | 1.57 | % | $ | 224,088 | 1.69 | % | $ | 62,720 | 1.75 | % | $ | 10,067 | 1.25 | % | $ | 355,249 | 1.67 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Residential mortgage-backed securities | 55 | 1.88 | % | 3,659 | 1.93 | % | 163,073 | 1.46 | % | 453,753 | 1.95 | % | 620,540 | 1.82 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial mortgage-backed securities | 9,507 | 1.22 | % | 8,290 | 3.19 | % | 47,467 | 3.65 | % | 3,667 | 3.86 | % | 68,931 | 3.27 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Municipal bonds | — | — | % | — | — | % | — | — | % | 8,426 | 2.67 | % | 8,426 | 2.67 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Corporate bonds | — | — | % | — | — | % | 2,000 | 5.50 | % | — | — | 2,000 | 5.50 | % | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | 67,936 | 1.52 | % | $ | 236,037 | 1.75 | % | $ | 275,260 | 1.93 | % | $ | 475,913 | 1.96 | % | $ | 1,055,146 | 1.88 | % |
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| Residential mortgage-backed securities | $ | 13 | 2.88 | % | $ | 1,370 | 2.92 | % | $ | 13,059 | 2.29 | % | $ | 529,960 | 2.64 | % | $ | 544,402 | 2.63 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Commercial mortgage-backed securities | — | — | % | 28,263 | 2.72 | % | 20,455 | 2.44 | % | 37,042 | 2.63 | % | 85,760 | 2.61 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Municipal bonds | — | — | % | 14,366 | 3.06 | % | 41,434 | 3.23 | % | 51,075 | 3.41 | % | 106,875 | 3.29 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Corporate bonds | 4,897 | 4.26 | % | 56,657 | 3.67 | % | 57,219 | 3.89 | % | — | — | % | 118,773 | 3.80 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | 4,910 | 4.26 | % | $ | 100,656 | 3.31 | % | $ | 132,167 | 3.30 | % | $ | 618,077 | 2.70 | % | 855,810 | 2.88 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Allowance for credit losses | (1,030) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total held-to-maturity securities, net of ACL | $ | 854,780 |
Interest-bearing deposits with banks and other short-term investments primarily consist of liquid assets held at the Federal Reserve to meet general liquidity needs of the Company. Interest-bearing deposits with banks and other short-term investments were $684.0 million as of December 31, 2025, as compared to $619.0 million as of December 31, 2024, an increase of $65.0 million or 10%, primarily due to an increase in deposits at the Federal Reserve.
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Loan Portfolio
In its lending activities, the Company seeks to develop and expand relationships with clients whose businesses and individual banking needs will grow with the Bank. We believe superior customer service, local decision making and accelerated turnaround time from application to closing are significant factors in growing the loan portfolio and meeting the lending needs in the markets served, while maintaining sound asset quality.
Loans held for investment were $7.3 billion as of December 31, 2025, as compared to $7.9 billion as of December 31, 2024, a decrease of $654.4 million or 8.2%. During the year ended December 31, 2025, certain loans, primarily income producing commercial real estate loans, were reclassified from HFI to HFS loans. This reclassification resulted in net charge-offs of $132.3 million in order to bring the loans to the lower of cost or fair value of $201.4 million at the time of transfer. During the twelve months ended December 31, 2025, seven HFS loans were sold, resulting in a loss of $4.7 million. There were $90.7 million in loans held for sale as of December 31, 2025 and none as of December 31, 2024.
The loan portfolio mix continues to evolve as the Bank has experienced a reduction in income producing commercial real estate loans and owner-occupied construction loans, offset by increases in commercial and owner-occupied commercial real estate loans. These shifts reflect our strategic focus on reshaping the portfolio toward relationship-driven commercial lending and asset classes aligned with our long-term risk-adjusted return objectives.
Market rates in 2025 for our new loan originations on average have been fairly consistent with the market rates at the end of 2024, even though short-term interest rates decreased. In 2025 the Federal Reserve adjusted short-term interest rates downwards three times for a total decrease of 75 basis points. We continue to see opportunities for growth in the commercial lending market and our processes for evaluating these opportunities are designed to ensure they are subject to reasonable underwriting standards, including appropriate cash flow necessary to support debt service. Following origination, we continue to monitor our borrowers' business plans and assess primary and alternative sources for loan repayment and, if necessary, obtain collateral or additional collateral to mitigate credit loss in the event of default.
The Bank has a large portion of its loan portfolio related to real estate, with 80% consisting of commercial real estate and real estate construction loans as of December 31, 2025. Non-owner occupied commercial real estate and commercial and residential construction represented 57% of the loan portfolio while the remaining 23% is represented by the "owner occupied - commercial real estate" and "construction - C&I (owner occupied)" loans.
The table below presents loans, net of amortized deferred fees and costs by major category.
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| (dollars in thousands) | Amount | % | Amount | % | ||||||||||
| Commercial | $ | 1,338,486 | 18 | % | $ | 1,183,628 | 15 | % | ||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | 3,350,718 | 46 | % | 4,064,846 | 51 | % | ||||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 1,602,124 | 22 | % | 1,269,669 | 16 | % | ||||||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | 37,100 | 1 | % | 50,535 | 1 | % | ||||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | 795,400 | 11 | % | 1,210,763 | 15 | % | ||||||||
| Construction - C&I (owner occupied) | 108,468 | 1 | % | 103,259 | 1 | % | ||||||||
| Home equity | 47,448 | 1 | % | 51,130 | 1 | % | ||||||||
| Other consumer | 715 | — | % | 1,058 | — | % | ||||||||
| Total loans | 7,280,459 | 100 | % | 7,934,888 | 100 | % | ||||||||
| Less: allowance for credit losses | (159,604) | (114,390) | ||||||||||||
| Loans, net(1) | $ | 7,120,855 | $ | 7,820,498 |
(1)Excludes accrued interest receivable of $35.9 million and $42.9 million as of December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively, which is recorded in other assets.
As noted above, a significant portion of the loan portfolio consists of commercial, construction and commercial real estate loans, primarily in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and is secured by real estate or other collateral in that market. While our basic market is the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, the Bank has made loans outside that market where the borrower or its key decision makers have a meaningful relationship with the Bank and generally operate in or are based in our market. Although all of these loans are made to a diversified pool of unrelated borrowers across numerous businesses, adverse developments in the real estate market could continue
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to have an adverse impact on this portfolio of loans and the Company’s earnings and financial position. Management believes that the commercial real estate concentration risk is mitigated by diversification among the types and characteristics of real estate collateral properties, sound underwriting practices and ongoing portfolio monitoring and market analysis.
The Company's concentration in the Washington, D.C. metro area includes "Washington's Maryland Suburbs," which comprises Frederick, Prince George's and Montgomery counties, and "Northern Virginia," which comprises Alexandria, Arlington, Falls Church, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William counties.
The chart below displays our loan portfolio, as a percentage of total amortized cost, by geographic concentration.
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As part of its lending strategy, the Company maintains a substantial portfolio of CRE loans, with $5.7 billion and $6.5 billion, or 78.3% and 81.5% of total loans, of amortized cost outstanding as of December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively. Management meets regularly in order to monitor its existing CRE loan portfolio and to evaluate the pipeline for CRE loan investment. Income producing CRE loans collateralized by office properties comprised approximately $576.1 million and $862.2 million, or 7.9% and 10.9% of total loans, as of December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.
Office loans within Washington, D.C., Washington's Maryland Suburbs and Northern Virginia were $545.8 million and $795.0 million, or 7.5% and 10.0% of total loans, as of December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.
The chart below displays the geographic concentration of income producing - CRE office loans in our loan portfolio, as percentage of total principal balance.
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The table below summarizes the Company's income producing - commercial real estate loans, at principal balance, by collateral location and type.
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| (dollars in thousands) | Washington, D.C. | Washington, D.C. Suburbs | Other | Northern Virginia | Other | Other | Total | Percent of Total | ||||||||||||||||
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| Hotel & motel | $ | 135,227 | $ | 75,189 | $ | 91,009 | $ | 95,570 | $ | — | $ | 20,757 | $ | 417,752 | 13 | % | ||||||||
| Industrial | 849 | 64,377 | 39,572 | 34,684 | 10,516 | — | 149,998 | 4 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Mixed use | 209,200 | 43,346 | 3,000 | 6,737 | 20,721 | 4,883 | 287,887 | 9 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Multifamily | 347,618 | 191,638 | 302 | 201,824 | 135,216 | 48,052 | 924,650 | 28 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Office | 136,645 | 177,185 | 4,524 | 232,889 | 25,836 | — | 577,079 | 17 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Retail | 61,371 | 63,178 | 55,068 | 44,484 | 48,536 | 2,462 | 275,099 | 8 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Single / 1-4 Family & Res. Condo | 62,521 | 1,975 | 1,860 | 6,890 | 6,329 | 3,991 | 83,566 | 2 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Other(1) | 204,717 | 168,972 | 12,143 | 223,494 | 5,913 | 25,433 | 640,672 | 19 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | 1,158,148 | $ | 785,860 | $ | 207,478 | $ | 846,572 | $ | 253,067 | $ | 105,578 | $ | 3,356,703 | 100 | % | ||||||||
| Percent of total | 35% | 23% | 6% | 25% | 8% | 3% | 100% | |||||||||||||||||
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| Less than $1 million | 2 | % | 2 | % | 2 | % | 2 | % | 2 | % | 2 | % | ||||||||||||
| $1 million to $5 million | 10 | % | 11 | % | 18 | % | 8 | % | 6 | % | 16 | % | ||||||||||||
| $5 million to $10 million | 7 | % | 7 | % | 17 | % | 5 | % | 10 | % | 35 | % | ||||||||||||
| $10 million to $25 million | 16 | % | 11 | % | 28 | % | 34 | % | 31 | % | 12 | % | ||||||||||||
| $25 million to $50 million | 41 | % | 32 | % | 35 | % | 34 | % | 31 | % | 34 | % | ||||||||||||
| Greater than $50 million | 24 | % | 37 | % | — | % | 17 | % | 20 | % | 1 | % | ||||||||||||
| Total | 100 | % | 100 | % | 100 | % | 100 | % | 100 | % | 100 | % |
(1)Primarily includes commercial real estate loans with land, storage, and healthcare collateral.
As of December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, $107.9 million and $287.0 million, respectively, of principal of CRE loans collateralized by office properties were criticized or classified.
The table below displays income producing - commercial real estate loans, at principal, that are criticized or classified by collateral type.
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| Hotel & motel | $ | 6,275 | $ | — | $ | 6,275 | $ | — | $ | — | $ | — | |||||||||||
| Industrial | 2,697 | — | 2,697 | 5,000 | — | 5,000 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mixed use | 50,299 | 69,797 | 120,096 | — | 8,764 | 8,764 | |||||||||||||||||
| Multifamily | 43,201 | 132,419 | 175,620 | 51,539 | 21,202 | 72,741 | |||||||||||||||||
| Office | 23,705 | 84,185 | 107,890 | 126,736 | 160,229 | 286,965 | |||||||||||||||||
| Retail | — | 12,424 | 12,424 | 3,518 | 1,803 | 5,321 | |||||||||||||||||
| Single / 1-4 Family & Res. Condo | — | 5,747 | 5,747 | — | 1,810 | 1,810 | |||||||||||||||||
| Other | 59,838 | 69,119 | 128,957 | — | 84,835 | 84,835 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | 186,015 | $ | 373,691 | $ | 559,706 | $ | 186,793 | $ | 278,643 | $ | 465,111 |
The Company has executed balance sheet optimization actions to reduce commercial real estate loan concentration, including actions to reduce exposure to short- and intermediate-term valuation risk in the office portfolio. These steps reflect our strategic focus on improving portfolio resilience and risk-adjusted returns. While we remain disciplined in evaluating additional opportunities to further address concentration and valuation risk, future decisions or actions, if made or taken, could continue to result in elevated credit costs and may materially impact our results in the periods in which such decisions or actions are made or executed. There can be no assurance that any additional initiatives will be undertaken or, if pursued or undertaken, will achieve their intended results.
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The federal banking regulators have issued guidance for those institutions which are deemed to have concentrations in commercial real estate lending. Pursuant to the supervisory criteria contained in the guidance for identifying institutions with a potential commercial real estate concentration risk, institutions which have (1) total reported loans for construction, land development and other land acquisitions which represent 100% or more of an institution’s total risk-based capital; or (2) total commercial real estate loans representing 300% or more of the institution’s total risk-based capital and the institution’s commercial real estate loan portfolio has increased 50% or more during the prior 36 months are identified as having potential commercial real estate concentration risk. Institutions which are deemed to have concentrations in commercial real estate lending are expected to employ heightened levels of risk management with respect to their commercial real estate portfolios and may be required to hold higher levels of capital.
As of December 31, 2025, non-owner occupied commercial real estate loans (including construction, land and land development loans) represented 336.6% of consolidated risk based capital. Even though we saw a decline in that segment over the past 36 months of 9.1% compared to the threshold laid out in the regulatory guidance of 50% growth, we continue to expect the heightened supervisory expectations to continue to apply to us given the federal banking regulators' general focus on commercial real estate exposures at banks. Construction, land and land development loans represented 92.1% of consolidated risk based capital. Management has extensive experience in commercial real estate lending and has implemented and continues to maintain risk management procedures and underwriting criteria with respect to its commercial real estate portfolio designed to address the risks inherent in that asset class. Loan monitoring practices include but are not limited to periodic stress testing analysis to evaluate changes to cash flows, owing to interest rate increases and declines in net operating income. Nevertheless, we may be required to maintain higher levels of capital as a result of our commercial real estate concentrations, which could require us to raise additional capital, increasing our funding costs or diluting our shareholders, or take other action to retain capital, adversely affecting shareholder returns. The Company seeks to manage the risks relating to commercial real estate and its capital adequacy through the development and implementation of its Capital Policy and Capital Plan, the preparation of pro-forma projections including stress testing and the development of internal minimum targets for regulatory capital ratios that are subject to approval by the Board of Directors (the "Board") and in excess of well capitalized ratio requirements.
The Company monitors industry and collateral concentrations to avoid loan exposures to a large group of similar industries or similar collateral. An industry for this purpose is defined as a group of businesses that are engaged in similar activities and have similar economic characteristics that would cause their ability to meet contractual obligations to be similarly affected by changes in economic or other conditions.
Certain directors and executive officers have had loan transactions with the Company. Such loans were made in the ordinary course of the Company’s lending business; were made on substantially the same terms, including interest rates and collateral, as those prevailing at the time for comparable loans with third parties; and, in the opinion of management, did not involve more than the normal risk of collectability or present other unfavorable features. Refer to "Note 4 – Loans and Allowance for Credit Losses" to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further detail regarding related party loans.
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Loan Maturity
The table below sets forth the time to contractual maturity of the loan portfolio. Loans are shown in the period based on final contractual maturity. Demand loans, having no contractual maturity, and overdrafts are reported as due in one year or less.
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| (dollars in thousands) | Total | One Year or Less | Over One Year to Five Years | Over Five Years to Fifteen Years | Over Fifteen Years | ||||||||||||||
| Commercial | $ | 1,338,486 | $ | 364,688 | $ | 839,995 | $ | 131,228 | $ | 2,575 | |||||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate (1) | 3,350,718 | 1,742,098 | 1,434,780 | 173,840 | — | ||||||||||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 1,602,124 | 196,592 | 647,820 | 470,321 | 287,391 | ||||||||||||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | 37,100 | 8,938 | 19,673 | 825 | 7,664 | ||||||||||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | 795,400 | 650,519 | 115,262 | — | 29,619 | ||||||||||||||
| Construction - C&I (owner occupied) | 108,468 | 1,749 | 41,740 | 9,139 | 55,840 | ||||||||||||||
| Home equity | 47,448 | 1,736 | 90 | 1,929 | 43,693 | ||||||||||||||
| Other consumer | 715 | 460 | 156 | 14 | 85 | ||||||||||||||
| Total loans | $ | 7,280,459 | $ | 2,966,780 | $ | 3,099,516 | $ | 787,296 | $ | 426,867 | |||||||||
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| Commercial | $ | 185,292 | $ | 60,519 | $ | 84,394 | $ | 40,379 | $ | — | |||||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate (1) | 1,559,388 | 518,756 | 918,574 | 122,058 | — | ||||||||||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 610,464 | 174,961 | 231,170 | 148,204 | 56,129 | ||||||||||||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | 34,625 | 7,794 | 19,673 | 508 | 6,650 | ||||||||||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | 29,614 | 6,891 | 22,723 | — | — | ||||||||||||||
| Construction - C&I (owner occupied) | 6,595 | — | 2,892 | 3,703 | — | ||||||||||||||
| Home equity | 304 | 173 | — | 131 | — | ||||||||||||||
| Other consumer | 166 | — | 156 | — | 10 | ||||||||||||||
| Total loans | $ | 2,426,448 | $ | 769,094 | $ | 1,279,582 | $ | 314,983 | $ | 62,789 | |||||||||
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| Commercial | $ | 1,153,194 | $ | 304,169 | $ | 755,601 | $ | 90,849 | $ | 2,575 | |||||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate (1) | 1,791,330 | 1,223,342 | 516,206 | 51,782 | — | ||||||||||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 991,660 | 21,631 | 416,650 | 322,117 | 231,262 | ||||||||||||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | 2,475 | 1,144 | — | 317 | 1,014 | ||||||||||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | 765,786 | 643,628 | 92,539 | — | 29,619 | ||||||||||||||
| Construction - C&I (owner occupied) | 101,873 | 1,749 | 38,848 | 5,436 | 55,840 | ||||||||||||||
| Home equity | 47,144 | 1,563 | 90 | 1,798 | 43,693 | ||||||||||||||
| Other consumer | 549 | 460 | — | 14 | 75 | ||||||||||||||
| Total loans | $ | 4,854,011 | $ | 2,197,686 | $ | 1,819,934 | $ | 472,313 | $ | 364,078 |
(1)Income producing CRE office loans with total principal of $577.1 million and multifamily loans with total principal of $924.7 million as of December 31, 2025 are included within income producing - commercial real estate. The charts below represent their maturities schedules.
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Allowance for Credit Losses
The ACL is an estimate based on many factors which reflect management’s assessment of the risk in the loan portfolio. Those factors include economic conditions and trends, the value and adequacy of collateral, volume and mix of the portfolio, performance of the portfolio and internal loan processes of the Company and Bank. A full discussion of the accounting for ACL is contained in "Note 1 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies" to the Consolidated Financial Statements and activity in the ACL is contained in "Note 4 – Loans and Allowance for Credit Losses" to the Consolidated Financial Statements. Also, refer to "Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates" above for further discussion of the methodology which management employs to maintain an adequate ACL, as well as "Provision for Credit Losses" above for a discussion of the Company's calculation of the provision for credit losses during the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024.
The ACL for loans as of December 31, 2025 was $159.6 million, which reflected a increase of $45.2 million from $114.4 million as of December 31, 2024, reflecting a provision for credit losses of $293.4 million and $248.2 million in net charge-offs during the year ended December 31, 2025. Net charge-offs of $248.2 million during the year ended December 31, 2025 represented 3.22% of average loans held for investment, an increase from net charge-offs of $38.6 million during same period in 2024, which represented 0.48% of average loans held for investment. The ACL represented 2.19% of total loans as of December 31, 2025 as compared to 1.44% as of December 31, 2024.
Management believes the ACL as of December 31, 2025 remains adequate to absorb estimated losses inherent in the portfolio following the loss recognition on high-risk loans concentrated in the commercial real estate office segment. The losses recognized in 2025 were primarily due to updated valuations on the underlying collateral for certain loans and the incorporation of new information about borrower performance. The updated valuations obtained during the year reflected the rapidly changing commercial real estate market in the D.C. metro area, in many cases showing substantial declines. This resulted in higher provisioning and an elevated rate of charge-offs during the year. As of December 31, 2025, the allowance represented 149% of nonperforming loans as compared to 55% as of December 31, 2024. The increase in the ACL for loans at December 31, 2025 compared to December 31, 2024, was primarily due to increased reserves related to the Bank's CRE office overlay. The overlay increased as charge-offs taken during the current period and negative risk rating migration within the CRE office portfolio were incorporated into the calculation. Negative risk rating migration within the CRE office portfolio during 2025 was primarily a result of continued market deterioration and the incorporation of new information about borrower performance. In addition, the ACL on individually assessed loans modestly increased as updated valuation information was received, primarily on loans that migrated to nonperforming status during the current period.
As part of its comprehensive loan review process, the Bank’s Risk Committee evaluates loans which are past due 30 days or more. The Committee makes an assessment of the conditions and circumstances surrounding delinquent and potential problem loans. The Bank’s loan policy requires that loans be placed on nonaccrual if they are 90 days past due or if their collection is deemed to be doubtful, unless they are well secured and in the process of collection. The Credit Administration department analyzes the status of development and construction projects, including sales activities and utilization of interest reserves in order to assess potential increased levels of risk which may require additional reserves.
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As the loan portfolio and ACL review processes continue to evolve there may be changes to elements of the allowance and this may have an effect on the overall level of the allowance maintained. Management conducted sensitivity analysis on the CECL model by using Moody's upside and downside scenarios across the forecast period.
As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company had $106.9 million and $208.7 million, respectively, of loans classified as nonperforming. Please refer to "Note 1 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies" to the Consolidated Financial Statements under the caption "Loans" for a discussion of the Company’s policy regarding individual evaluation of loans to record a provision for expected credit losses. Please refer to the "Nonperforming Assets" section for a discussion of problem and potential problem assets.
As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, loans rated special mention had an amortized cost of $268.9 million and $244.8 million, respectively, and loans rated substandard had an amortized cost of $514.5 million and $426.4 million, respectively. The increase in substandard loans was primarily attributable to additions in CRE loans, particularly in income producing - commercial real estate as weaknesses in borrower performance were identified during our credit monitoring processes.
As of December 31, 2025, 99% and 79% of special mention and substandard loans, respectively, were current, with the remainder either 30 or more days past due or nonperforming. Based upon their status as potential problem loans, loans risk rated special mention or substandard receive heightened scrutiny. Additionally, the Company's credit loss allowance methodology incorporates increased reserve factors for office loans considered potential problem loans as compared to the general portfolio.
Management recognizes the risks inherent in the CRE portfolio and remains focused on maintaining disciplined portfolio management and a robust risk rating process. The Bank has implemented enhanced analytical procedures for evaluating credit requests, refined its risk rating framework, and strengthened ongoing monitoring of the loan portfolio and the adequacy of the ACL, particularly for CRE and construction loans, including those secured by office properties. These efforts include the use of stress testing analyses. Additionally, fair value assessments of loans acquired are included in our analytical procedures. The loan portfolio analysis process is ongoing and proactive to support the Company's objective of maintaining a portfolio of quality credits and quickly identifying weaknesses before they become more severe.
Portfolio management and the risk rating process are core parts of the Company’s credit risk management, including for commercial real estate loans. The Bank conducts analysis of credit requests and the management of problem credits. The Bank has developed and implemented analytical procedures for evaluating credit requests, has refined the Company’s risk rating system and has adopted enhanced monitoring of the loan portfolio and the adequacy of the ACL, in particular on its commercial real estate and construction loans (including those collateralized by office properties). These analyses include stress testing. The loan portfolio analysis process is ongoing and proactive to support the Company's objective of maintaining a portfolio of quality credits and quickly identifying weaknesses before they become more severe.
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The table below presents activity in the allowance for credit losses.
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| (dollars in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 | |||||
| Balance at beginning of period | $ | 114,390 | $ | 85,940 | |||
| Charge-offs: | |||||||
| Commercial | (2,410) | (4,906) | |||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | (205,661) | (30,284) | |||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | (22,238) | (3,800) | |||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | (18,712) | (129) | |||||
| Home equity | (206) | — | |||||
| Other consumer | (35) | (88) | |||||
| Total charge-offs | (249,262) | (39,207) | |||||
| Recoveries: | |||||||
| Commercial | 666 | 373 | |||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | 332 | 185 | |||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 86 | 94 | |||||
| Total recoveries | 1,084 | 652 | |||||
| Net charge-offs | (248,178) | (38,555) | |||||
| Provision for credit losses - loans | 293,392 | 67,005 | |||||
| Balance at end of period | $ | 159,604 | $ | 114,390 | |||
| Ratio of net charge-offs to average loans outstanding during the period | 3.22 | % | 0.48 | % |
The allocation of the allowance as of December 31, 2025 includes the allowance for credit losses of $19.6 million against individually assessed loans of $106.9 million, as compared to allowance for credit losses of $17.1 million against individually assessed loans of $208.7 million as of December 31, 2024. In addition, the Company's performing office coverage ratio, which calculates the ACL attributable to loans collateralized by performing office properties as a percentage of total loans, was 12.89% and 3.81% as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The allocation of the allowance to each category is not necessarily indicative of future losses or charge-offs and does not restrict the usage of the allowance to absorb losses in any category. The Company has updated its allocation methodology to better reflect the ACL attributable to loan categories and collateral types. Conforming changes have been made to prior period amounts. These reclassifications had no effect on net income (loss) or shareholders' equity. The table below displays the allocation of the ACL by loan category and the percentage of allowance in each category.
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| (dollars in thousands) | Amount | % of Total ACL | % of Total Loans | Amount | % of Total ACL | % of Total Loans | ||||||||||||||
| Commercial | $ | 26,607 | 17 | % | 18 | % | $ | 16,293 | 14 | % | 15 | % | ||||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | 98,707 | 62 | % | 46 | % | 65,375 | 57 | % | 51 | % | ||||||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 20,719 | 13 | % | 22 | % | 19,295 | 17 | % | 16 | % | ||||||||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | 339 | — | % | 1 | % | 472 | — | % | 1 | % | ||||||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | 11,171 | 7 | % | 11 | % | 11,333 | 10 | % | 15 | % | ||||||||||
| Construction - C&I (owner occupied) | 1,515 | 1 | % | 1 | % | 1,079 | 1 | % | 1 | % | ||||||||||
| Home equity | 519 | — | % | 1 | % | 515 | 1 | % | 1 | % | ||||||||||
| Other consumer | 27 | — | % | — | % | 28 | — | % | — | % | ||||||||||
| Total | $ | 159,604 | 100 | % | 100 | % | $ | 114,390 | 100 | % | 100 | % |
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The table below displays the allocation of the ACL specific to income producing - commercial real estate loans by collateral type.
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| (dollars in thousands) | Amount | Percentage | Amount | Percentage | ||||||||||||
| Hotel & motel | $ | 3,934 | 4 | % | $ | 3,294 | 5 | % | ||||||||
| Industrial | 1,359 | 1 | % | 2,301 | 4 | % | ||||||||||
| Mixed use | 2,627 | 3 | % | 4,617 | 7 | % | ||||||||||
| Multifamily | 7,468 | 8 | % | 8,041 | 12 | % | ||||||||||
| Office | 71,364 | 72 | % | 38,040 | 58 | % | ||||||||||
| Retail | 2,791 | 3 | % | 4,658 | 7 | % | ||||||||||
| Single / 1-4 Family & Res. Condo | 885 | 1 | % | 987 | 2 | % | ||||||||||
| Other | 8,279 | 8 | % | 3,437 | 5 | % | ||||||||||
| Total ACL - Income producing - commercial real estate loans | $ | 98,707 | 100 | % | $ | 65,375 | 100 | % |
Nonperforming Assets
The Company’s nonperforming assets are comprised of the amortized cost of loans delinquent 90 days or more, and nonaccrual HFI loans, which includes the nonperforming portion of loan modifications, and the carrying value of other real estate owned ("OREO"). Nonperforming assets totaled $109.0 million as of December 31, 2025, representing 1.04% of total assets, as compared to $211.4 million as of December 31, 2024, representing 1.90% of total assets. The decrease was primarily due to charge offs of nonaccrual loans, including on loans transferred to HFS, and changes in nonperforming loans discussed below. As of December 31, 2025, nonaccrual HFS loans totaling $90.7 million were excluded from nonperforming assets since they are carried at the lower of cost or fair value and are not reflected in credit metrics.
The Company had no accruing loans that were 90 days or more past due as of December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024. Management prioritizes remaining attentive to early signs of deterioration in borrowers’ financial conditions and to taking action designed to mitigate risk. The Company places loans on nonaccrual status if it deems collection to be doubtful. The Company believes, based on its loan portfolio risk analysis that its ACL at 2.19% of total loans as of December 31, 2025, is adequate to absorb expected credit losses within the loan portfolio at that date.
Total nonperforming loans had an amortized cost of $106.9 million as of December 31, 2025, representing 1.47% of total loans, compared to $208.7 million as of December 31, 2024, representing 2.63% of total loans. This decrease was primarily driven by the reduction of nonperforming loans in the income producing - commercial real estate category.
The CECL standard allows for institutions to evaluate individual loans in the event that the asset does not share similar risk characteristics with its original segmentation. This can occur due to credit deterioration, increased collateral dependency or other factors leading to impairment. In particular, the Company individually evaluates loans on nonaccrual status, though it may individually evaluate other loans or groups of loans as well if it determines they no longer share similar risk with their assigned segment. Reserves on individually assessed loans are determined by one of two methods: the fair value of collateral or the discounted cash flow. Fair value of collateral is used for loans determined to be collateral dependent, and the fair value represents the net realizable value of the collateral, adjusted for sales costs, commissions, senior liens, etc. Discounted cash flow is used on loans that are not collateral dependent where structural concessions have been made and continuing payments are expected. The continuing payments are discounted over the expected life at the loan’s original contract rate and include adjustments for risk of default.
Nonperforming assets include loans that the Company considers to be individually assessed. Individually assessed loans are defined as those as to which we believe it is probable that we will not collect all amounts due according to the contractual terms of the loan agreement. Loans that do not share risk characteristics consistent with similar loans are evaluated on an individual basis. For collateral dependent financial assets where the Company has determined that foreclosure of the collateral is probable, or where the borrower is experiencing financial difficulty and the Company expects repayment of the financial asset to be provided substantially through the sale of the collateral, the ACL is measured based on the difference between the fair value of the collateral and the amortized cost basis of the asset as of the measurement date. When repayment is expected to be from the operation of the
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collateral, expected credit losses are calculated as the amount by which the amortized cost basis of the financial asset exceeds the NPV from the operation of the collateral. When repayment is expected to be from the sale of the collateral, expected credit losses are calculated as the amount by which the amortized cost basis of the financial asset exceeds the fair value of the underlying collateral less estimated cost to sell. The ACL may be zero if the fair value of the collateral at the measurement date exceeds the amortized cost basis of the financial asset.
Generally, collateral valuations associated with individually assessed loans are updated on not less than an annual basis. As part of our credit risk management process, we periodically reassess the value of collateral supporting commercial real estate loans, particularly in periods of market volatility. Normally, we obtain updated valuations when borrower performance suggests that repayment may become dependent on the underlying real estate and we determine that existing collateral values may not reflect current market conditions. This approach focuses on loans where cash flow coverage has deteriorated and where guarantor support appears uncertain or insufficient. In some cases when a loan is downgraded late in a quarter, a new valuation may not be obtained until the following quarter.
In evaluating whether a new valuation is warranted, we consider a range of factors, including trends in local property markets, changes in capitalization rates and lease terms, the availability and terms of financing for comparable properties, and observable shifts in supply-demand dynamics. We also assess property-specific factors such as deferred maintenance or improvements, zoning or regulatory changes, environmental matters, and other conditions that may materially influence value. Passage of time alone does not drive our valuation decisions; rather, we apply a judgment-based framework informed by current market data and asset-specific analysis.
The objectives of this process are to have our collateral estimates reflect current market conditions and to support timely and appropriate credit loss recognition as conditions evolve.
The Company evaluates all loan modifications according to the accounting guidance to determine if the modification results in a new loan or a continuation of the existing loan. Loan modifications to borrowers experiencing financial difficulties that result in a direct change in the timing or amount of contractual cash flows include situations where there is principal forgiveness, interest rate reductions, other-than-insignificant payment delays, term extensions, and combinations of the listed modifications. Modifications with terms not as favorable to the Company as the terms for comparable loans to other customers with similar collection risk who are not refinancing or restructuring a loan with the Company and which have a direct impact on cash flows are considered modified loans to borrowers experiencing financial difficulty. A loan that is considered a modified loan may be evaluated for disclosure if the commitment is $500 thousand or greater. Management strives to identify borrowers in financial difficulty early and may work with them to modify their loan to more affordable terms before their loan reaches nonaccrual status, foreclosure or repossession of the collateral to minimize economic loss to the Company.
Commercial and consumer loans modified are closely monitored for delinquency as an early indicator of possible future default. If loans modified in a loan restructuring subsequently default, the Company evaluates the loan for possible further impairment. The allowance may be increased, adjustments may be made in the allocation of the allowance, or partial charge-offs may be taken to further write-down the carrying value of the loan.
During the year ended December 31, 2025, the Bank modified 40 loans with a total amortized cost of $277.6 million as of December 31, 2025 (3.8% of the loan portfolio). These loans received extended loan terms of between approximately 4 to 36 months.
As of December 31, 2025, the payment status of 40 loans that were modified in the preceding twelve months, included 32 loans with a total amortized cost basis $232.0 million which were performing under their modified terms, 3 loans with a total amortized cost basis of $14.0 million which were 30-89 days past due and 5 loans with a total amortized cost basis of $31.6 million which were on nonaccrual status .
Management, from time-to-time and in the ordinary course of business, implements renewals, modifications, extensions and/or changes in terms of loans to borrowers who have the ability to repay on reasonable market-based terms and are not experiencing financial difficulty. For example: (1) adverse weather conditions may create a short term cash flow issue for an otherwise profitable retail business which suggests a temporary interest only period on an amortizing loan; (2) there may be delays in absorption on a real estate project which reasonably suggests extension of the loan maturity at market terms; or (3) there may be maturing loans to borrowers with demonstrated repayment ability who are not in a position at the time of maturity to obtain alternate long-term financing.
Included in nonperforming assets as of December 31, 2025 was OREO of $2.1 million, consisting of three foreclosed properties, compared to OREO of $2.7 million, consisting of five foreclosed properties as of December 31, 2024. OREO properties are carried at the lower of cost or at fair value less estimated costs to sell.
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It is the Company's policy to generally obtain third party appraisals prior to foreclosure and to obtain updated third party appraisals on OREO properties generally not less frequently than annually. Generally, the Company obtains updated appraisals or evaluations where it has reason to believe, based upon market indications (such as comparable sales, a scenario in which the Company is considering legitimate offers below carrying value, broker indications and similar factors), that the current appraisal does not accurately reflect current value. There were six OREO sales in the year ended December 31, 2025 and two in the year ended December 31, 2024, generating proceeds of $14.9 million and $656 thousand, respectively.
The table below presents the amounts of nonperforming assets, including loans at amortized cost and OREO at the lower of cost or fair value less estimated costs to sell.
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| (dollars in thousands) | December 31, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |||||
| Nonaccrual Loans: | |||||||
| Commercial | $ | 18,099 | $ | 2,048 | |||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | 62,537 | 168,454 | |||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 7,937 | 37,744 | |||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | 579 | 157 | |||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | 17,394 | — | |||||
| Home equity | 351 | 303 | |||||
| Total nonperforming loans(1) | 106,897 | 208,706 | |||||
| Other real estate owned | 2,059 | 2,743 | |||||
| Total nonperforming assets | $ | 108,956 | $ | 211,449 | |||
| Coverage ratio: allowance for credit losses to total nonperforming loans | 149 | % | 55 | % | |||
| Ratio of nonperforming loans to total loans | 1.47 | % | 2.63 | % | |||
| Ratio of nonperforming assets to total assets | 1.04 | % | 1.90 | % |
(1) Excludes nonaccrual HFS loans totaling $90.7 million and zero as of December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively.
Significant variation in the amount of nonperforming loans may occur from period to period because the amount of nonperforming loans depends largely on the condition of a relatively small number of individual credits and borrowers relative to the total loan portfolio.
As of December 31, 2025, there were $514.5 million of substandard loans. Based upon their status as potential problem loans, loans risk rated special mention or substandard receive heightened scrutiny and ongoing intensive risk management. Additionally, the Company's loan loss allowance methodology incorporates increased reserve factors for certain loans considered potential problem loans as compared to the general portfolio.
Other Earning Assets
As part of its employee benefits and financing strategies, the Company has invested in BOLI policies. BOLI serves as a tax-efficient asset designed to offset the cost of employee benefit obligations. The Company views BOLI as a long-term investment to help fund future benefit expenses.
As of December 31, 2025, the cash surrender value of BOLI totaled $335.2 million, compared to $115.8 million as of December 31, 2024. The increase reflects an additional BOLI investment of $200 million made in the first quarter of 2025 through premium payments as well as earnings on the policies during 2025.
Deposits and Other Borrowings
The principal sources of funds for the Bank are core deposits, consisting of demand deposits, money market accounts, Negotiable Order of Withdrawal ("NOW") accounts, savings accounts, and certificates of deposits. The deposit base includes transaction accounts, time and savings accounts and accounts which customers use for cash management which provide the Bank with a source of fee income and cross-marketing opportunities, as well as an attractive source of lower cost funds. To meet funding needs during periods of high loan demand and seasonal variations in core deposits, the Bank utilizes alternative funding sources such as brokered deposits, secured borrowings from the FHLB, and federal funds purchased lines of credit from correspondent banks.
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The table below presents the Bank’s deposit composition by balance and percentage.
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| (dollars in thousands) | Balance | Percentage | Balance | Percentage | ||||||||||
| Noninterest-bearing demand | $ | 1,433,952 | 16 | % | $ | 1,544,403 | 17 | % | ||||||
| Interest-bearing transaction | 1,038,154 | 11 | % | 1,211,791 | 13 | % | ||||||||
| Savings and money market | 3,624,813 | 40 | % | 3,599,221 | 39 | % | ||||||||
| Time deposits | 3,036,687 | 33 | % | 2,775,663 | 31 | % | ||||||||
| Total | $ | 9,133,606 | 100 | % | $ | 9,131,078 | 100 | % |
No single depositor represented more than 10% of total deposits as of December 31, 2025. The ten largest depositors not associated with brokered pass-through relationships represented approximately 18% of total deposits as of December 31, 2025. The Company maintains a significant deposit relationship with a third-party payments processor, whose business results in deposit inflows and outflows on an ongoing basis, which contributes to variations in period end balances compared to average deposit balances.
Average total deposits for the year ended December 31, 2025 were $10.2 billion, as compared to $9.5 billion for the same period in 2024, a 7% increase.
Time deposits were $3.0 billion as of December 31, 2025, which was 33% of deposits. This was an increase from $2.8 billion as of December 31, 2024, which was 31% of deposits. The increase in time deposits was primarily driven by growth in the Company's digital acquisition channel.
The table below summarizes time deposits in excess of $250 thousand by maturity.
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| (dollars in thousands) | December 31, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |||||
| Three months or less | $ | 252,100 | $ | 189,817 | |||
| More than three months through six months | 391,299 | 387,849 | |||||
| More than three months through twelve months | 305,557 | 710,021 | |||||
| Over twelve months | 521,701 | 421,530 | |||||
| Total | $ | 1,470,657 | $ | 1,709,217 |
Time deposits with balances of $250 thousand or more represented 16% and 19% of total deposits as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. See "Note 9 – Deposits" to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information regarding the maturities of time deposits and the Average Balances Table in the "Net Interest Income and Net Interest Margin" section for the average rates paid on interest-bearing deposits.
The Bank offers brokered time deposits generally in denominations of less than $250 thousand from brokerage networks. The Bank participates in CDARS and the ICS programs within IntraFi Network, LLC ("IntraFi"), which provide for reciprocal ("two-way") transactions among banks to maximize FDIC insurance. ICS also allows for the sale of deposits into the IntraFi Network ("One-Way Sale") which provides FDIC insurance for the depositor without reciprocal deposits returned to the Bank. Deposits sold through the IntraFi One-Way Sale process are not included in the Bank’s deposit totals. The sale of ICS deposits allows the Bank to moderate the fluctuation of deposit balances. As of December 31, 2025, the Bank sold de minimis deposits through the IntraFi One-Way Sale network. The total of reciprocal deposits as of December 31, 2025 was $1.7 billion (19% of total deposits) as compared to $1.4 billion (16% of total deposits) as of December 31, 2024. These sources are believed by the Company to represent a reliable and cost efficient alternative funding source for the Bank, but there can be no assurance that they will continue to be adequate or appropriate to meet our liquidity needs. The Bank also is able to receive one way CDARS deposits and participates in IntraFi’s Insured Network Deposit Program ("IND"). The Bank had $385.7 million and $894.7 million of IND brokered deposits as of December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively. However, to the extent that the condition or reputation of the Company or Bank deteriorates, or to the extent that there are significant changes in market interest rates which the Company and Bank do not elect to match, or if aggregate funding available to banks changes due to changes in the marketplace, we may experience an outflow of brokered deposits or difficulty with obtaining them in the future. In that event, we would be required to obtain alternate sources for funding, which may increase our cost of funds and negatively impact our net interest margin.
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We have used brokered deposits and intend to continue to use brokered deposits as one of our funding sources. As of December 31, 2025, total brokered deposits were $3.3 billion, or 36% of total deposits, compared to $4.0 billion, or 44% as of December 31, 2024. These brokered deposits were comprised of savings, money market and other interest-bearing transaction accounts of $2.4 billion and $2.7 billion, and time deposits of $0.8 billion and $1.3 billion as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The Company uses the Call Report definitions for regulatory reporting by the Bank to classify its deposits as brokered deposits. As of December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, total deposits included estimated totals of $2.3 billion and $2.2 billion of uninsured deposits, which represented 25% and 24% of total deposits, respectively.
The decrease in noninterest bearing demand deposits was offset by the increase in time deposits during the year ended December 31, 2025, due to continued elevated interest rates in 2025. Average noninterest bearing deposits over total deposits for years ended December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024 were 19% and 21%, respectively. The Bank also offers business NOW accounts and business savings accounts to accommodate those customers who may have excess short term cash to deploy in interest earning assets.
The Company used to offer a sweep account, or "customer repurchase agreement," allowing qualifying businesses to earn interest on short-term excess funds, which were not suited for either a certificate of deposit or a money market account. The Company discontinued this product offering in November 2025. The balances in these accounts were zero as of December 31, 2025 compared to $33.2 million as of December 31, 2024.
The Bank raises and renews time deposits through its branch network, for its public funds customers, and through brokered networks to meet the needs of its community of savers and as part of its interest rate risk management and liquidity planning.
The tables below summarize the Company's borrowings and activities on borrowings.
| (dollars in thousands) | Borrowings - Principal | Unamortized Deferred Issuance Costs | Net Borrowings Outstanding | Interest Rates (1) | |||||||||||
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| Customer repurchase agreements | $ | — | $ | — | $ | — | — | % | |||||||
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| FHLB secured borrowings | — | — | — | — | % | ||||||||||
| Long-term borrowings: | |||||||||||||||
| Senior notes | 77,665 | (1,237) | 76,428 | 10.00 | % | ||||||||||
| Total | $ | 77,665 | $ | (1,237) | $ | 76,428 | |||||||||
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| Customer repurchase agreements | $ | 33,157 | $ | — | $ | 33,157 | 2.67 | % | |||||||
| Short-term borrowings: | |||||||||||||||
| FHLB secured borrowings | 490,000 | — | 490,000 | 4.81 | % | ||||||||||
| Long-term borrowings: | |||||||||||||||
| Senior notes | 77,665 | (1,557) | 76,108 | 10.00 | % | ||||||||||
| Total | $ | 600,822 | $ | (1,557) | $ | 599,265 |
(1)Represent the weighted average interest rate on customer repurchase agreements, borrowings outstanding and the coupon interest rate on the subordinated notes, which approximates the effective interest rate.
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| (dollars in thousands) | Average Daily Balance (1) | Maximum Month-End Balance (1) | Average Daily Balance (1) | Maximum Month-End Balance (1) | |||||||||||
| Customer repurchase agreements and federal funds purchased | $ | 25,710 | $ | 40,049 | $ | 37,872 | $ | 44,454 | |||||||
| Short-term borrowings: | |||||||||||||||
| FHLB secured borrowings | $ | 228,357 | $ | 990,000 | $ | 373,544 | $ | 601,100 | |||||||
| FRB: BTFP secured borrowings | $ | — | $ | — | $ | 1,103,005 | $ | 1,800,000 | |||||||
| Subordinated notes, 5.75% | $ | — | $ | — | $ | 47,049 | $ | 70,000 | |||||||
| Long-term borrowings: | |||||||||||||||
| Senior notes | $ | 76,276 | $ | 76,428 | $ | 19,735 | $ | 77,665 |
(1)The average daily balance and maximum month-end balance are calculated on the principal balance on the borrowings.
Outstanding short-term advances and borrowings are part of the overall asset liability strategy to support loan growth.
The Company had no outstanding balances under its federal funds lines of credit provided by correspondent banks (which are unsecured) as of December 31, 2025 and 2024.
As of December 31, 2025, the Company had no outstanding balances in FHLB advances, compared to $490.0 million as of December 31, 2024. Outstanding FHLB advances are secured by collateral consisting of specifically pledged marketable investment securities, a blanket lien on qualifying loans in the Bank’s commercial mortgage, residential mortgage and home equity loan portfolios.
On September 30, 2024, the Company closed a private placement of its 10.00% senior unsecured debt totaling $77.7 million maturing on September 30, 2029 (the "2029 Senior Notes" or "Original Notes"). As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, the carrying value of these 2029 Senior Notes were $76.4 million and $76.1 million, respectively, which reflected $1.2 million and $1.6 million, respectively, in unamortized deferred financing costs that are being amortized over the life of the 2029 Senior Notes.
In connection with the issuance of the 2029 Senior Notes, the Company also entered into a registration rights agreement dated September 30, 2024 with the purchasers of the 2029 Senior Notes ("Registration Rights Agreement"). Pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, the Company filed an exchange offer registration statement with the SEC to exchange the Senior Notes for substantially identical notes registered under the Securities Act ("Exchange Notes"). The terms of the Exchange Notes are identical to the terms of the Original Notes, except that the transfer restrictions and registration rights applicable to the Original Notes do not apply to the Exchange Notes. The Company completed the exchange offer on January 16, 2025.
Commitments and Contractual Obligations
The Company has various financial obligations, including contractual obligations and commitments that may require future cash payments. The table below shows details on these fixed and determinable obligations.
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| (dollars in thousands) | Within One Year | One to Three Years | Three to Five Years | Over Five Years | Total | ||||||||||||||
| Deposits without a stated maturity (1) | $ | 6,096,919 | $ | — | $ | — | $ | — | $ | 6,096,919 | |||||||||
| Time deposits (1) | 2,178,745 | 656,190 | 201,752 | — | 3,036,687 | ||||||||||||||
| Borrowed funds (2) | — | — | 76,428 | — | 76,428 | ||||||||||||||
| Operating lease obligations | 4,728 | 9,801 | 8,308 | 19,415 | 42,252 | ||||||||||||||
| Outside data processing (3) | 6,887 | 14,561 | — | — | 21,448 | ||||||||||||||
| George Mason sponsorship (4) | 700 | 1,400 | 1,412 | 3,263 | 6,775 | ||||||||||||||
| LIHTC investments (5) | 11,811 | 631 | 314 | 364 | 13,120 | ||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | 8,299,790 | $ | 682,583 | $ | 288,214 | $ | 23,042 | $ | 9,293,629 |
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(1)Excludes accrued interest payable as of December 31, 2025.
(2)Borrowed funds represent long-term borrowings.
(3)The Bank has outstanding obligations under its current core data processing contract that expires in June 2029.
(4)The Bank has the option of terminating the George Mason University ("George Mason") agreement at the end of contract year 15 (effective June 30, 2030). Should the Bank elect to exercise its right to terminate the George Mason contract, its contractual obligation would decrease by $3.6 million for the option period (years 16-20).
(5)Low Income Housing Tax Credits ("LIHTC") expected payments for unfunded affordable housing commitments.
The Company is party to financial instruments with off-balance-sheet risk in the normal course of business to meet the financing needs of its customers and to reduce its own exposure to fluctuations in interest rates. These financial instruments include commitments to extend credit and standby letters of credit. They involve, to varying degrees, elements of credit risk in excess of the amount recognized in the balance sheets. The contract or notional amounts of those instruments reflect the extent of involvement the Company has in particular classes of financial instruments.
Various commitments to extend credit are made in the normal course of banking business. Letters of credit are also issued for the benefit of customers. These commitments are subject to loan underwriting standards and geographic boundaries consistent with the Company’s loans outstanding.
Unfunded loan commitments are agreements whereby the Bank has made a commitment to lend to a customer as long as there is satisfaction of the terms or conditions established in the contract, and the borrower has accepted the commitment in writing. Commitments generally have fixed expiration dates or other termination clauses and may require payment of a fee before the commitment period is extended. In many instances, borrowers are required to meet performance milestones in order to draw on a commitment as is the case in construction loans, or to have a required level of collateral in order to draw on a commitment as is the case in asset based lending credit facilities. Collateral obtained varies and may include certificates of deposit, accounts receivable, inventory, property and equipment, residential and CRE. Since commitments may expire without being drawn, the total commitment amount does not necessarily represent future cash requirements.
Unfunded lines of credit are agreements to lend to a customer as long as there is no violation of the terms or conditions established in the contract. Lines of credit generally have fixed expiration dates or other termination clauses and may require payment of a fee. Since lines of credit may expire without being drawn, the total unfunded line of credit amount does not necessarily represent future cash requirements.
Letters of credit include standby and commercial letters of credit. The credit risk involved in issuing letters of credit is essentially the same as that involved in extending loan facilities to customers. Letters of credit are conditional commitments issued by the Bank to guarantee the performance by the Bank's customer to a third party. Standby letters of credit generally become payable upon the failure of the customer to perform according to the terms of the underlying contract with the third party. Standby letters of credit are generally not drawn. Commercial letters of credit are issued specifically to facilitate commerce and typically result in the commitment being drawn when the underlying transaction is consummated between the customer and a third party. The contractual amount of these letters of credit represents the maximum potential future payments guaranteed by the Bank. The Bank has recourse against the customer for any amount it is required to pay to a third party under a letter of credit, and holds cash and or other collateral on those standby letters of credit for which collateral is deemed necessary. As of December 31, 2025, approximately 69% of the dollar amount of standby letters of credit was collateralized.
The table below displays loan commitments outstanding and lines and letters of credit.
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| Unfunded loan commitments | $ | 1,482,325 | $ | 1,318,133 | |||
| Unfunded lines of credit | 79,232 | 88,305 | |||||
| Letters of credit | 61,319 | 69,051 | |||||
| Total | $ | 1,622,876 | $ | 1,475,489 |
Unfunded loan commitments increased by $164.2 million in 2025 compared to 2024, primarily due to new commercial and industrial loans commitments during the year as the Bank advanced its strategic goals.
The Company’s exposure to credit loss in the event of nonperformance by the other party to the financial instrument for commitments to extend credit and standby letters of credit is represented by the contractual amount of those instruments. The Company uses the same credit policies in making commitments and conditional obligations as it does for on-balance sheet instruments. See "Note 18 – Financial Instruments with Off-Balance Sheet Risk" to the Consolidated Financial Statements for a summary list of loan commitments as of December 31, 2025 and 2024.
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In connection with deposit guarantees, the Bank collateralizes certain public funds using qualified investment securities.
With the exception of these off-balance sheet arrangements, the Company has no off-balance sheet arrangements that have or are reasonably likely to have a current or future effect on the Company’s financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations, capital expenditures or capital resources, that is material to investors.
Liquidity Management
Liquidity is a measure of the Company’s and Bank’s ability to meet loan demand and to satisfy depositor withdrawal requirements in an orderly manner. The Bank’s primary sources of liquidity consist of cash and cash balances due from correspondent banks, excess reserves at the Federal Reserve, loan repayments and other short-term investments, maturities and sales of investment securities, income from operations and new core deposits into the Bank. Approximately 53% of the Company's investment portfolio of debt securities is held as available-for-sale which allows flexibility to generate cash from sales as needed to meet ongoing cash needs. These securities can also be utilized as pledged assets that provide secondary liquidity through the form of additional available borrowings. These sources of liquidity are considered primary and are supplemented by the ability of the Company and Bank to borrow funds or issue brokered deposits, which are termed secondary sources of liquidity. Investment securities that are classified as held-to-maturity can also be used as collateral to pledge against additional borrowings.
The Company believes it maintains sufficient primary and secondary sources of liquidity to fund its operations. As of December 31, 2025, primary sources of liquidity were $1.7 billion, comprising interest-bearing deposits with other banks and other short-term investments and unencumbered AFS securities. Secondary sources of liquidity as of December 31, 2025 were $4.4 billion, which included the FHLB unused availability, other insured brokered deposit sweep programs, unpledged HTM securities, federal funds lines, and the FRB Discount Window. As of December 31, 2025, under the Company's liquidity formula, it had $6.1 billion of primary and secondary liquidity sources. Management believes the amount is adequate to meet current and projected funding needs.
The table below summarizes the Company's primary and secondary sources of liquidity available.
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| Cash and cash equivalents(1) | $ | 695,693 | $ | 633,480 | |||
| Unencumbered AFS securities | 973,791 | 1,198,616 | |||||
| Total primary sources of liquidity available | 1,669,484 | 1,832,096 | |||||
| Secondary sources of liquidity available:(2) | |||||||
| Unsecured brokered deposits (3) | 1,243,267 | 1,308,598 | |||||
| FHLB secured borrowings | 1,349,351 | 874,270 | |||||
| FRB: | |||||||
| Discount window secured borrowings | 1,373,872 | 1,800,646 | |||||
| Federal funds lines | 145,000 | 145,000 | |||||
| Unpledged assets: | |||||||
| Interest-bearing deposits with banks | 8,693 | 21,406 | |||||
| Unencumbered HTM securities | 315,683 | 1,280,156 | |||||
| Total secondary sources of liquidity available | 4,435,866 | 5,430,076 | |||||
| Total liquidity available | $ | 6,105,350 | $ | 7,262,172 |
(1)Consists of cash and due from banks, interest-bearing deposits with banks, and other short-term investments.
(2)Secondary sources of liquidity in use was $592.1 million as of December 31, 2025 and $1.6 billion as of December 31, 2024.
(3)The available liquidity from the unsecured brokered deposits represents unsecured funds under one-way CDARS, ICS, and other brokered deposits that would require paying prevailing market rates and would be dependent on the availability of funds in those networks.
Additionally, the Bank can purchase up to $145.0 million in federal funds on an unsecured basis from its correspondents, against which there were no amounts outstanding as of December 31, 2025 and can borrow
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unsecured funds under one-way CDARS and ICS brokered deposits in the amount of $1.1 billion, against which there was $38 million outstanding as of December 31, 2025. As of December 31, 2025, the Bank also has custodial agreements with various broker-dealers through IntraFi's IND program which provided $386.0 million of brokered deposits.
As of December 31, 2025, the Bank was also eligible to draw advances from the FHLB up to $1.3 billion based on assets pledged as collateral to the FHLB, against which the Bank borrowed none as of December 31, 2025.
The Bank may enter into repurchase agreements with broker-dealers provided adequate collateral exists. The Bank also has a back-up borrowing facility through the Discount Window at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond ("Federal Reserve Bank"). This facility, which can be used to borrow up to $1.4 billion, is collateralized with specific loan assets and investment securities pledged to the Federal Reserve Bank. It is anticipated that, except for periodic testing, this facility would be utilized for contingency funding only. There can be no assurance, however, that these alternative sources of liquidity will continue to be available or will be sufficient to meet our ongoing liquidity needs.
The Bank's aggregate borrowing capacity as of December 31, 2025 was $3.0 billion, which consists of $1.3 billion borrowing capacity from FHLB, $1.4 billion borrowing capacity from the Federal Reserve's Discount Window as discussed above, and $315.7 million of unencumbered HTM securities available to pledge to the FHLB or Discount Window.
The loss of deposits, including through disintermediation, is one of the primary risks to liquidity. Disintermediation occurs most commonly when rates rise and depositors withdraw deposits seeking higher rates in alternative savings and investment sources than the Bank may offer. The Bank regularly compares deposit interest rates and makes adjustments from time to time to ensure its interest rate offerings are competitive.
There is a risk that the cost of funds will increase significantly as the Bank competes for deposits or that some deposits would be lost if rates were to increase and the Bank elected not to remain competitive with its deposit rates. Under those conditions, the Bank believes that it is well positioned to use other sources of funds such as FHLB borrowings, brokered deposits, repurchase agreements and federal funds lines of credit to offset a decline in deposits in the short run, but the use of such sources may negatively impact net interest margin and earnings. The continuing elevated cost of funding has negatively impacted our net interest margin.
There can be no assurance that the mix of sources of funds available to us at any particular time in the future will be adequate to meet our future liquidity needs. The market for customer and brokered deposits is highly competitive and the risk of disintermediation is high, particularly in a high interest rate environment. Most of our noninterest-bearing deposits are operating deposits or compensating balances that are held in connection with lending relationships. The potential outflow of such deposits is a risk and may require the Bank to pay competitive rates of interest, which could significantly and negatively impact the Bank’s interest expense and net interest margin. Over the long-term, an adjustment in assets and change in business emphasis could compensate for a potential loss of deposits. The Bank also maintains a marketable investment portfolio to provide flexibility in the event of liquidity needs. The Asset Liability Committee ("ALCO") has adopted policy guidelines, which emphasize the importance of core deposits, adequate asset liquidity and a contingency funding plan.
Capital Resources and Adequacy
The assessment of capital adequacy depends on a number of factors such as asset quality and mix, liquidity, earnings performance, changing competitive conditions and economic forces, stress testing, regulatory measures and policy, as well as the overall level of growth and complexity of the balance sheet. The adequacy of the Company’s current and future capital needs is monitored by management on an ongoing basis. Management seeks to maintain a capital structure that will assure an adequate level of capital to support anticipated asset growth and to absorb potential losses.
The federal banking regulators have issued guidance for those institutions, which are deemed to have concentrations in commercial real estate lending. Pursuant to the supervisory criteria contained in the guidance for identifying institutions with a potential commercial real estate concentration risk, institutions which have total reported loans for construction, land development and other land acquisitions which represent 100% or more of an institution’s total risk-based capital; or total commercial real estate loans representing 300% or more of the institution’s total risk-based capital; or the institution’s commercial real estate loan portfolio has increased 50% or more during the prior 36 months are identified as having potential commercial real estate concentration risk. Institutions which are deemed to have concentrations in commercial real estate lending are expected to employ heightened levels of risk management with respect to their commercial real estate portfolios and may be required to hold higher levels of capital. The Company, like many community banks, has commercial real estate loans. Although
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growth in that segment declined over the past 36 months and did not exceed the 50% threshold laid out in the regulatory guidance, we expect the heightened supervisory expectations to continue to apply to us given the federal banking regulators’ general focus on commercial real estate exposures at banks.
Construction, land and land development loans represented 92.1% of total capital as of December 31, 2025, which no longer exceeded the regulatory concentration threshold, compared to 122.6% as of December 31, 2024. As of December 31, 2025 the Company exceeded the total commercial real estate loans threshold as it represented 336.6% of total capital compared to 373.3% as of December 31, 2024. Management has extensive experience in commercial real estate lending, and has implemented and continues to maintain heightened risk management procedures and strong underwriting criteria with respect to its commercial real estate portfolio.
Loan monitoring practices include but are not limited to periodic stress testing analysis to evaluate changes to cash flows, owing to interest rate increases and declines in net operating income. Nevertheless, as our commercial real estate concentration fluctuates each quarter, we may be required to maintain higher levels of capital, which could require us to obtain additional capital and may adversely affect shareholder returns. The Company seeks to manage the risks relating to commercial real estate and its capital adequacy through the development and implementation of its Capital Policy and Capital Plan, the preparation of pro-forma projections including stress testing and the development of internal minimum targets for regulatory capital ratios that are subject to approval by the Board and in excess of well capitalized ratios.
The Company and the Bank are subject to regulatory capital requirements administered by federal banking agencies. Capital adequacy guidelines and prompt corrective action regulations involve quantitative measures of assets, liabilities and certain off-balance-sheet items calculated under regulatory accounting practices. Capital amounts and classifications are also subject to qualitative judgments by regulators about components, risk weightings and other factors and the regulators can lower classifications in certain cases. Failure to meet various capital requirements can initiate regulatory action that could have a direct material effect on the financial statements.
As of December 31, 2025, the capital position of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, the Bank, continue to exceed regulatory requirements and well-capitalized guidelines. The primary indicators relied on by bank regulators in measuring the capital position are four ratios as follows: Tier 1 risk-based capital ratio, Total risk-based capital ratio, the Leverage ratio and the CET1 ratio. Tier 1 capital consists of common and qualifying preferred shareholders’ equity less goodwill and other intangibles. Total risk-based capital consists of Tier 1 capital and the qualifying portion of the ACL. Risk-based capital ratios are calculated with reference to risk-weighted assets, which are prescribed by regulation. The measure of Tier 1 capital to average assets for the prior quarter is often referred to as the leverage ratio. The CET1 ratio is the Tier 1 capital ratio but excluding preferred stock.
The Prompt Corrective Action ("PCA") regulations provide five categories, including well capitalized, adequately capitalized, undercapitalized, significantly undercapitalized and critically undercapitalized; however, these terms are not used to represent overall financial condition. If a bank is adequately capitalized, regulatory approval is required to, among other things, accept, renew or roll-over brokered deposits. If a bank is undercapitalized, capital distributions and growth and expansion are limited, and plans for capital restoration are required. If a bank is not well-capitalized, interest rate restrictions paid on deposits may apply.
The FRB and the FDIC have adopted the Basel III Rules implementing the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's capital guidelines for U.S. banks. Under the Basel III Rules, the Company and Bank are required to maintain a CET1 ratio of 4.5% and a capital conservation buffer of 2.5% of risk-weighted assets, effectively resulting in a minimum CET1 ratio of 7.0%; a minimum ratio of Tier 1 capital to risk-weighted assets of 6.0%, or 8.5% with the fully phased in capital conservation buffer; a minimum total capital to risk-weighted assets ratio of 10.5% with the fully phased-in capital conservation buffer; and a minimum leverage ratio of 4.0%. The Basel III Rules also increased risk weights for certain assets and off-balance-sheet exposures. As of December 31, 2025, the Company and the Bank exceeded all these thresholds.
The ability of the Company to continue to grow is dependent on its earnings and those of the Bank, the ability to obtain additional funds for contribution to the Bank’s capital, through additional borrowings, through the sale of additional common stock or preferred stock or through the issuance of additional qualifying capital instruments, such as subordinated debt. The capital levels required to be maintained by the Company and Bank may be impacted as a result of the Bank’s concentrations in commercial real estate loans.
The Company’s capital ratios were all well in excess of requirements established by the Federal Reserve Board and the Bank’s capital ratios were in excess of those required to be classified as a "well capitalized" institution under the PCA provisions of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.
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The table below presents the actual capital amounts and ratios for the Company and Bank.
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| CET1 capital (to risk weighted assets) | $ | 1,170,352 | 13.07 | % | $ | 1,190,094 | 13.37 | % | 7.00 | % | 6.50 | % | ||||||||
| Total capital (to risk weighted assets) | 1,282,913 | 14.33 | % | 1,302,018 | 14.63 | % | 10.50 | % | 10.00 | % | ||||||||||
| Tier 1 capital (to risk weighted assets) | 1,170,352 | 13.07 | % | 1,190,094 | 13.37 | % | 8.50 | % | 8.00 | % | ||||||||||
| Tier 1 capital (to average assets) | 1,170,352 | 9.72 | % | 1,190,094 | 9.92 | % | 4.00 | % | 5.00 | % | ||||||||||
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| CET1 capital (to risk weighted assets) | $ | 1,369,643 | 14.63 | % | $ | 1,373,857 | 14.76 | % | 7.00 | % | 6.50 | % | ||||||||
| Total capital (to risk weighted assets) | 1,484,420 | 15.86 | % | 1,488,635 | 16.00 | % | 10.50 | % | 10.00 | % | ||||||||||
| Tier 1 capital (to risk weighted assets) | 1,369,643 | 14.63 | % | 1,373,857 | 14.76 | % | 8.50 | % | 8.00 | % | ||||||||||
| Tier 1 capital (to average assets) | 1,369,643 | 10.74 | % | 1,373,857 | 10.82 | % | 4.00 | % | 5.00 | % |
(1)The risk-based ratios reflect the minimum requirement plus the capital conservation buffer of 2.50%.
(2)Applies to the Bank only.
Federal bank and holding company regulations, as well as Maryland law, impose certain restrictions on capital distributions, including dividend payments and share repurchases by the Bank, as well as restricting extensions of credit and transfers of assets between the Bank and the Company. The Company announced a regular quarterly cash dividend on January 21, 2026 of $0.01 per share to shareholders of record on February 2, 2026, paid on February 13, 2026. The quarterly cash dividend amount was reduced to $0.01 in the fourth quarter of 2025 to preserve capital as the Company addresses asset quality matters.
Impact of Inflation and Changing Prices
The Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes thereto have been prepared in accordance with GAAP, which require the measurement of financial position and operating results in terms of historical dollars without considering the changes in the relative purchasing power of money over time due to inflation. The impact of inflation is reflected in the increased cost of operations. Unlike most industrial companies, nearly all of our assets and liabilities are monetary in nature. As a result, interest rates have a greater impact on our performance than do the effects of general levels of inflation. Interest rates do not necessarily move in the same direction or to the same extent as the price of goods or services.
New Authoritative Accounting Guidance
Refer to "Note 1 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies" for New Authoritative Accounting Guidance and their expected impact on the Company’s Financial Statements.
MD&A history
Prior-year 10-K MD&A spans are extracted from SEC filings with the same bounded parser used for the latest filing. The latest 10-K appears above; prior years are below.
FY 2024 10-K MD&A
SEC filing source: 0001050441-25-000051.
ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
The following discussion provides information about the results of operations, financial condition, liquidity, and capital resources of the Company as of the dates and periods indicated. The Company’s primary subsidiary is the Bank, and the Company’s other direct and indirect active subsidiaries are Bethesda Leasing, LLC, Eagle Insurance Services, LLC and Landroval Municipal Finance, Inc.
This discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction with the audited Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes thereto, appearing elsewhere in this report.
We have omitted discussion of the earliest of the three years covered by our consolidated financial statements presented in this report as that disclosure is included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on February 29, 2024. You can reference the discussion and analysis of our results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2022 compared to the year ended December 31, 2023 in “Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” within that report.
Caution About Forward Looking Statements. This report contains forward looking statements. These forward looking statements represent plans, estimates, objectives, goals, guidelines, expectations, intentions, projections and statements of our beliefs concerning future events, business plans, objectives, expected operating results and the assumptions upon which those statements are based. Forward looking statements include, without limitation, any statement that may predict, forecast, indicate or imply future results, performance or achievements and are typically identified with words such as “may,” “will,” “can,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “expects,” “plans,” "outlook," “estimates,” “potential,” “assume," "probable," "possible," "continue,” “should,” “could,” “would,” “strive," "seeks,” "deem," "projections," "forecast," "consider," "indicative," "uncertainty," "likely," "unlikely," "likelihood," "unknown," "attributable," "depends," "intends," "generally," "feel," "typically," "judgment," "subjective" and similar words or phrases. These forward looking statements are based largely on our expectations and are subject to a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties that are subject to change based on factors which are, in many instances, beyond our control. Actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those contemplated, expressed or implied by the forward looking statements.
The following factors, among others, could cause our financial performance to differ materially from that expressed in such forward looking statements:
•Changes in the general economic, political, social and health conditions, including the macroeconomic and other challenges and uncertainties resulting from the effects of pandemics and natural disasters;
•The timely development of competitive new products and services and the acceptance of these products and services by new and existing customers;
•The willingness of customers to substitute competitors’ products and services for our products and services;
•Our management of liquidity risks in our operations, including, but not limited to, risks related to customer deposits, deposits in excess of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC") insurance coverage limits, access to capital markets and securities and market values;
•The effect of acquisitions we may make, including, without limitation, the failure to achieve the expected revenue growth and/or expense savings from such acquisitions;
•Our management of risks inherent in our real estate loan portfolio, and the risk of a prolonged downturn in the real estate market, which could impair the value of, and our ability to sell, properties which stand as collateral for loans we make;
•The growth and profitability of noninterest or fee income being less than expected;
•Changes in the level of our nonperforming assets and charge-offs;
•Changes in consumer spending and savings habits;
•The impact of climate change or government action and societal responses to climate change;
•Difficulty recruiting or retaining successful bankers, executive officers or other key personnel;
•Changing bank regulatory conditions, policies or programs, whether arising as new legislation or regulatory initiatives, that could lead to restrictions on activities of banks generally, or our subsidiary bank in particular, more restrictive regulatory capital requirements, increased costs, including deposit insurance premiums, regulation or prohibition of certain income producing activities or changes in the secondary market for loans and other products;
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•The impact of changes in financial services policies, laws and regulations, including laws, regulations and policies concerning taxes, banking, securities and insurance and the application thereof by regulatory bodies;
•The effects of, and changes in, trade, monetary and fiscal policies and laws, including interest rate policies of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System ("Federal Reserve Board," "Federal Reserve" or "FRB"), inflation, interest rate, market and monetary fluctuations;
•Results of examinations of us by our regulators, including the possibility that our regulators may, among other things, require us to increase our allowance for credit losses, to write-down assets, to hold more capital or to incur costs to remediate supervisory findings;
•The effects or impact of any litigation, governmental investigations and proceedings, including enforcement proceedings and any possibly resulting fines, judgments, expenses or restrictions on our business activities;
•Unanticipated regulatory or judicial proceedings;
•The effect of changes in accounting policies and practices, as may be adopted from time-to-time by bank regulatory agencies, the SEC, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board ("PCAOB") or the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB");
•Cybersecurity breaches, threats, and cyber-fraud that cause the Bank to sustain financial losses;
•Technological and social media changes;
•Our management of risks inherent in the use of statistical and quantitative data and modeling;
•The strength of the United States economy, in general, and the strength of the local economies in which we conduct operations;
•Changes in trade, immigration, fiscal and monetary policies;
•Political uncertainty in the United States and its effects on the economy of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area;
•Geopolitical conditions, including acts or threats of terrorism, actions taken by the United States or other governments in response to acts or threats of terrorism and/or military conflicts, which could impact business and economic conditions in the United States and abroad; and
•The factors discussed under the caption “Risk Factors” in this report.
If one or more of the factors affecting our forward looking information and statements proves incorrect, then our actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, forward looking information and statements contained in this report. No undue reliance should be placed on our forward looking information and statements. We will not update the forward looking statements to reflect actual results or changes in the factors affecting the forward looking statements.
GENERAL
The Company provides general commercial and consumer banking services through the Bank, its wholly owned banking subsidiary, a Maryland chartered bank which is a member of the Federal Reserve. The Company was organized in October 1997 and to be the holding company for the Bank. The Bank was organized in 1998 as an independent, community oriented, full service banking alternative to the super regional financial institutions, which dominate the Company’s primary market area. The Company’s philosophy is to provide superior, personalized service to its customers. The Company focuses on relationship banking, providing each customer with a number of services and becoming familiar with and addressing customer needs in a proactive, personalized fashion. The Bank currently has a total of twelve branch offices (six in Suburban Maryland, three in Washington, D.C. and three in Northern Virginia), a principal corporate office, four lending centers (two are co-located with branches and one co-located in the principal corporate office) and one operations center. Refer to the Business Section above, which describes in detail the various banking services offered.
General economic, political, social and health conditions affect financial markets, and therefore, our business. As the economy experienced higher levels of inflation in the recent past, interest rates increased in 2023, however as inflationary pressure during 2024 subsided, the Federal Reserve decreased interest rates three times for a total of 100 basis points. Fiscal and monetary policies have a direct and indirect impact on the level and volatility of interest rates, liquidity of financial markets, the availability and cost of capital, and market conditions of financing. Actual real U.S. GDP growth for 2024 was 3.1%, compared to 3.3% growth in 2023, as the economy continues to grow despite continuing to experience the effects of inflationary pressures and higher interest rates which were raised in 2022 and 2023. Unemployment slightly increased through 2024 as the U.S. unemployment rate ended the year at 4.0%, up from 3.7% at the end of 2023.
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Longer-term U.S. interest rates increased in 2024, with the ten year U.S. Treasury rate averaging 4.21% in 2024 as compared to 3.96% in 2023. The yield curve steepened in 2024 as short-term rates decreased due to Federal Reserve rate cuts while long-term rates increased compared to 2023.
We believe the Company’s primary market, the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, continues to exhibit resilience relative to other parts of the country despite the volatility in the current economic environment. The Washington, D.C. metropolitan area maintains a diverse economy which includes the public sector, a large healthcare component, substantial business services and a highly educated work force. The private sector, in particular, the Leisure and Hospitality sector has seen some recovery in recent years following the adverse effects of the pandemic. The multi-family commercial real estate leasing sector, notwithstanding increased supply of units in the Bank’s market area, has held up relatively well, particularly for well-located close-in projects. While commercial real estate office properties continue to experience challenges, the Company has remained focused on monitoring this sector and working with borrowers in order to mitigate credit losses within our loan portfolio. Overall, we believe commercial real estate values have generally decreased and we continue to be cautious of the cap rates at which such assets are trading, resulting in conservative valuations.
At December 31, 2024, the Company had total assets of approximately $11.1 billion, total loans of $7.9 billion, total deposits of $9.1 billion and twelve branches in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. We have remained cognizant of the volatility in our industry, capital markets and interest rate markets. While we remain cautious with regard to commercial real estate ("CRE") market conditions, principally office, the strength of the Washington D.C. metro area in certain sectors, particularly multi-family commercial real estate and the housing market, continue to drive premiums for well-located properties.
The Company has the financial resources to meet, and remains committed to meeting, the credit needs of its community. Loan balances increased in the CRE segments in 2024 which, combined with the higher levels of interest rates, resulted in changes in our liquidity mix as increases in interest-bearing deposits offset a decrease in non-interest bearing deposits. The yield on earning assets continued to increase in 2024. During the year ended December 31, 2024, the yield on earning assets increased by 20 basis points (from 5.45% to 5.65%) while cost of funds increased 42 basis points (from 3.17% to 3.59%) which resulted in a decrease of 16 basis points in the net interest margin.
The Company’s capital position remained strong in 2024 as a result of its strong retained earnings position, despite the impact of the goodwill impairment on 2024 net loss. As a result of the Company’s strong capital position, we were able to continue our quarterly dividend in 2024. The quarterly cash dividend amount was recalibrated to $0.165 in the third quarter of 2024 to reflect the company’s growth plans.
The Company believes its strategy of remaining growth-oriented, retaining talented staff and maintaining focus on seeking quality lending and deposit relationships has proven successful. Additionally, the Company believes this strategy of relationship building has fostered future growth opportunities, as the Company’s reputation in the marketplace remains strong.
CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND ESTIMATES
The Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements are prepared in accordance with GAAP and follow general practices within the banking industry. Application of these principles requires management to make estimates, assumptions and judgments that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. These estimates, assumptions and judgments are based on information available as of the date of the Consolidated Financial Statements; accordingly, as this information changes, the Consolidated Financial Statements could reflect different estimates, assumptions and judgments. Certain policies, including those identified below for the year ended December 31, 2024, inherently have a greater reliance on the use of estimates, assumptions and judgments and, as such, have a greater possibility of producing results that could be materially different than originally reported. Estimates, assumptions and judgments are necessary when assets and liabilities are required to be recorded at fair value, when a decline in the value of an asset not carried on the financial statements at fair value warrants an impairment write-down or a valuation reserve to be established or when an asset or liability needs to be recorded contingent upon a future event. Carrying assets and liabilities at fair value inherently results in more financial statement volatility.
Allowance for Credit Losses and Provision for Unfunded Commitments
A consequence of lending activities is that we may incur credit losses, so we record an allowance for credit losses ("ACL") with respect to loan receivables and a reserve for unfunded commitments (“RUC”) as estimates of those losses. The amount of the ACL on loans is based on management's assessment of current expected credit losses in the portfolio.
The amount of such losses will vary depending upon the risk characteristics of the loan portfolio as affected by economic conditions such as changes in interest rates, the financial performance of borrowers and regional unemployment rates, which management estimates by using a national forecast and estimating a regional adjustment based on historical differences between the two.
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Management has significant discretion in making the judgments inherent in the determination of the provisions for credit loss, ACL and the RUC. Our determination of these amounts requires significant reliance on estimates and significant judgment as to the amount and timing of expected future cash flows on loans, significant reliance on historical loss rates on homogenous portfolios, consideration of our quantitative and qualitative evaluation of economic factors and the reliance on our reasonable and supportable forecasts.
We estimate the ACL on loans using a quantitative model that uses a probability of default ("PD") / loss given default ("LGD") cash flow method with an exposure at default ("EAD") model to estimate expected credit losses for our loan segments. The modeling of expected prepayment speeds is based on historical internal data and adjustments to account for loan-specific risk characteristics after pooling our loan portfolio based on similar risk characteristics.
The Company uses regression analysis of historical internal and peer data provided by a third-party service provider (as Company loss data is insufficient) to determine suitable loss drivers to utilize when modeling lifetime PD and LGD. This analysis also determines how expected PD will react to forecasted levels of the loss drivers. During the three months ended March 31, 2024, management enhanced the cash flow model to incorporate three additional macroeconomic variables. The four economic variables selected, national unemployment (original variable used), Commercial Real Estate ("CRE") Price Index, House Price Index and Gross Domestic Product ("GDP"), are incorporated by utilizing a Loss Driver Analysis approach that factors in historical losses, including during the Great Recession, of regional peer banks and the Bank. The updated model incorporates a weighting of three economic scenarios; baseline, upside and downside. The scenarios cover the four economic forecast variables, with each segment of the portfolio linked to two of these variables, depending on the segment. The loss driver analysis is spread over a reasonable and supportable period of 18 months and reverts back to a historical loss rate over twelve months on a straight-line basis over the loan's remaining maturity. Management leverages economic projections from reputable and independent third parties to inform its loss driver forecasts over the forecast period.
Loans that have evidence of credit deterioration are excluded from the loan segments subject to the quantitative model described above and are individually assessed.
The ACL also includes an amount for inherent risks not reflected in the historical analyses. Relevant factors reflected in the qualitative component of the reserve include, but are not limited to, concentrations of credit risk, changes in underwriting standards, experience and depth of lending staff and trends in delinquencies.
Management has developed an analytical process to monitor the adequacy of the ACL. Our methodology for determining our ACL was developed utilizing, among other factors, the guidance from federal banking regulatory agencies and relevant available information from internal and external sources and relating to past events, current conditions and reasonable and supportable forecasts. The process is being continually enhanced and refined based on periodic reviews. Material changes to these and other relevant factors may result in greater volatility to the reserve for credit losses, and therefore, greater volatility to our reported earnings. For example, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and related hybrid or fully remote working environment has negatively impacted the performance outlook in the central business district office CRE segment of our loan portfolio, which informed our CECL economic forecast and continued to adversely impact our loss reserve as of December 31, 2024. See Notes 1, 3 and 4 to the Consolidated Financial Statements, the “Provision for Credit Losses” and "Allowance for Credit Losses" section in Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and the risk factors related to our business and economic conditions in Item 1A for more information on the provision for credit losses and ACL for the loan portfolio.
The RUC represents the expected credit losses on off-balance sheet commitments such as unfunded commitments to extend credit and standby letters of credit. The RUC is determined by estimating future draws and applying the expected loss rates on those draws.
While our methodology in establishing the reserve for credit losses attributes portions of the ACL and RUC to the commercial and consumer portfolio segments, the entire ACL and RUC is available to absorb credit losses expected in the total loan portfolio and total amount of unfunded credit commitments, respectively. Our model may reflect assumptions by management that are not covered by the qualitative and environmental factors, and we reevaluate all of its factors quarterly.
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SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
The following discussion is intended to assist in understanding the financial condition and results of operations of the Company as of and for the year ended December 31, 2024. The information contained in this section should be read together with the December 31, 2024 audited Consolidated Financial Statements and the accompanying Notes included in Item 8 Financial Statements And Supplementary Data of this Form 10-K.
This section of this Form 10-K generally discusses 2024 items and year-to-year comparisons between 2024 and 2023. Discussions of 2022 items and year-to-year comparisons between 2023 and 2022 that are not included in this Form 10-K can be found in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in Part II, Item 7 of the Company’s Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023.
| (dollars in thousands) | December 31, 2024 | December 31, 2023 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consolidated Balance Sheets: | |||||||||||
| Securities - available for sale | $ | 1,267,404 | $ | 1,506,388 | |||||||
| Securities - held to maturity | 938,647 | 1,015,737 | |||||||||
| Loans | 7,934,888 | 7,968,695 | |||||||||
| Allowance for credit losses | (114,390) | (85,940) | |||||||||
| Goodwill and intangible assets, net | 16 | 104,925 | |||||||||
| Total assets | 11,129,508 | 11,664,538 | |||||||||
| Deposits | 9,131,078 | 8,808,039 | |||||||||
| Other short-term borrowings | 490,000 | 1,369,918 | |||||||||
| Long-term borrowings | 76,108 | — | |||||||||
| Total liabilities | 9,903,447 | 10,390,255 | |||||||||
| Total shareholders’ equity | 1,226,061 | 1,274,283 | |||||||||
| Tangible common equity (1) | 1,226,045 | 1,169,358 | |||||||||
| Years Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
| (dollars in thousands except per share data) | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | ||||||||
| Consolidated Statements of Operations: | |||||||||||
| Interest income | $ | 687,563 | $ | 625,327 | $ | 424,613 | |||||
| Interest expense | 398,875 | 334,781 | 91,746 | ||||||||
| Provision for credit losses | 66,360 | 31,536 | 266 | ||||||||
| Noninterest income | 19,939 | 21,536 | 23,654 | ||||||||
| Goodwill impairment | 104,168 | — | — | ||||||||
| Noninterest expense (including goodwill impairment) | 274,634 | 153,293 | 165,098 | ||||||||
| Income (loss) before income tax expense | (30,240) | 127,520 | 189,680 | ||||||||
| Income tax expense | 16,795 | 26,986 | 48,750 | ||||||||
| Net income (loss) | (47,035) | 100,534 | 140,930 | ||||||||
| Cash dividends declared | 32,117 | 54,293 | 55,776 | ||||||||
| Total net revenue (2) | 308,627 | 312,082 | 356,521 | ||||||||
| Per Common Share Data: | |||||||||||
| Net income (loss), basic | $ | (1.56) | $ | 3.31 | $ | 4.40 | |||||
| Net income (loss), diluted | (1.56) | 3.31 | 4.39 | ||||||||
| Dividends declared | 1.07 | 1.80 | 1.75 | ||||||||
| Book value | 40.60 | 42.58 | 39.18 | ||||||||
| Tangible book value (3) | 40.59 | 39.08 | 35.86 | ||||||||
| Common shares outstanding | 30,202,003 | 29,925,612 | 31,346,903 | ||||||||
| Weighted average common shares outstanding, basic | 30,157,051 | 30,345,504 | 32,004,251 | ||||||||
| Weighted average common shares outstanding, diluted | 30,157,051 | 30,393,100 | 32,078,070 |
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| Years Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | |||||||||
| Ratios: | |||||||||||
| Net interest margin | 2.37 | % | 2.53 | % | 2.93 | % | |||||
| Efficiency ratio (4) | 88.99 | % | 49.12 | % | 46.31 | % | |||||
| Return on average assets | (0.38) | % | 0.84 | % | 1.20 | % | |||||
| Return on average common equity | (3.77) | % | 8.11 | % | 10.99 | % | |||||
| Return on average tangible common equity (1) | (3.93) | % | 8.85 | % | 11.97 | % | |||||
| CET1 capital (to risk weighted assets) | 14.63 | % | 13.90 | % | 14.03 | % | |||||
| Total capital (to risk weighted assets) | 15.86 | % | 14.79 | % | 14.94 | % | |||||
| Tier 1 capital (to risk weighted assets) | 14.63 | % | 13.90 | % | 14.03 | % | |||||
| Tier 1 capital (to average assets) | 10.74 | % | 10.73 | % | 11.63 | % | |||||
| Tangible common equity ratio | 11.02 | % | 10.12 | % | 10.18 | % | |||||
| Dividend payout ratio | (68.28) | % | 54.00 | % | 39.58 | % | |||||
| (dollars in thousands) | December 31, 2024 | December 31, 2023 | |||||||||
| Asset Quality: | |||||||||||
| Nonperforming assets and loans 90+ past due | $ | 211,449 | $ | 66,632 | |||||||
| Nonperforming assets and loans 90+ past due to total assets | 1.90 | % | 0.57 | % | |||||||
| Nonperforming loans to total loans | 2.63 | % | 0.82 | % | |||||||
| Allowance for credit losses to loans | 1.44 | % | 1.08 | % | |||||||
| Allowance for credit losses to nonperforming loans | 54.81 | % | 131.16 | % | |||||||
| Years Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
| (dollars in thousands) | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | ||||||||
| Asset Quality Activity: | |||||||||||
| Net charge-offs | $ | 38,555 | $ | 18,850 | $ | 624 | |||||
| Net charge-offs to average loans | 0.48 | % | 0.24 | % | 0.01 | % |
(1)Tangible common equity and return on average tangible common equity are non-GAAP financial measures. Tangible common equity is defined as total common shareholders’ equity reduced by goodwill and other intangible assets.
(2)Total net revenue calculated as net interest income plus noninterest income.
(3)Tangible book value per common share, a non-GAAP financial measure, is defined as tangible common shareholders’ equity divided by total common shares outstanding.
(4)Computed by dividing noninterest expense by total net revenue.
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Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Management uses non-GAAP measures because they provide information to investors about the underlying operational performance and trends of the Company. Additionally, certain non-GAAP measures are monitored by regulators. These disclosures should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for results determined in accordance with GAAP and are not necessarily comparable to non-GAAP performance measures which may be presented by other bank holding companies. Management compensates for these limitations by providing detailed reconciliations between GAAP information and the non-GAAP financial measures.
The following tables reconcile the GAAP financial measures to the associated non-GAAP financial measures:
| (dollars in thousands except per share data) | December 31, 2024 | December 31, 2023 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tangible common equity | |||||||||
| Common shareholders’ equity | $ | 1,226,061 | $ | 1,274,283 | |||||
| Less: Intangible assets | (16) | (104,925) | |||||||
| Tangible common equity (Non-GAAP) | $ | 1,226,045 | $ | 1,169,358 | |||||
| Tangible common equity ratio | |||||||||
| Total assets | $ | 11,129,508 | $ | 11,664,538 | |||||
| Less: Intangible assets | (16) | (104,925) | |||||||
| Tangible assets | $ | 11,129,492 | $ | 11,559,613 | |||||
| Tangible common equity ratio (Non-GAAP) | 11.02 | % | 10.12 | % | |||||
| Tangible book value per share calculations | |||||||||
| Book value per common share | $ | 40.60 | $ | 42.58 | |||||
| Less: Intangible book value per common share | (0.01) | (3.50) | |||||||
| Tangible book value per common share (Non-GAAP) | $ | 40.59 | $ | 39.08 |
| Years Ended December 31, | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands) | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | |||||||
| Average tangible common equity | ||||||||||
| Average common shareholders’ equity | $ | 1,246,168 | $ | 1,240,118 | $ | 1,281,921 | ||||
| Less: Average intangible assets | (50,868) | (104,534) | (104,248) | |||||||
| Average tangible common equity (Non-GAAP) | $ | 1,195,300 | $ | 1,135,584 | $ | 1,177,673 | ||||
| Return on average tangible common equity | ||||||||||
| Net income (loss) available to common shareholders | $ | (47,035) | $ | 100,534 | $ | 140,930 | ||||
| Average tangible common equity | $ | 1,195,300 | 1,135,584 | 1,177,673 | ||||||
| Return on average tangible common equity (Non-GAAP) | (3.93) | % | 8.85% | 11.97% | ||||||
| Operating return on average tangible common equity | ||||||||||
| Net income (loss) available to common shareholders | $ | (47,035) | $ | 100,534 | $ | 140,930 | ||||
| Add back of goodwill impairment | 104,168 | — | — | |||||||
| Operating net income (Non-GAAP) | $ | 57,133 | $ | 100,534 | $ | 140,930 | ||||
| Average tangible common equity | $ | 1,195,300 | 1,135,584 | 1,177,673 | ||||||
| Operating return on average tangible common equity (Non-GAAP) | 4.78 | % | 8.85 | % | 11.97 | % |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands) | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | ||||||||||
| Efficiency ratio | |||||||||||||
| Net interest income | $ | 288,688 | $ | 290,546 | $ | 332,867 | |||||||
| Noninterest income | 19,939 | 21,536 | 23,654 | ||||||||||
| Total net revenue | 308,627 | 312,082 | 356,521 | ||||||||||
| Noninterest expense | 274,634 | 153,293 | 165,098 | ||||||||||
| Exclude goodwill impairment | (104,168) | — | — | ||||||||||
| Operating noninterest expense (Non-GAAP) | 170,466 | 153,293 | 165,098 | ||||||||||
| Efficiency ratio (Non-GAAP) | 88.99 | % | 49.12 | % | 46.31 | % | |||||||
| Operating efficiency ratio (Non-GAAP) | 55.23 | % | 49.12 | % | 46.31 | % | |||||||
| Operating net income | |||||||||||||
| Net income (loss) | $ | (47,035) | $ | 100,534 | $ | 140,930 | |||||||
| Add back of goodwill impairment | 104,168 | — | — | ||||||||||
| Operating net income (Non-GAAP) | $ | 57,133 | $ | 57,133 | $ | 100,534 | $ | 140,930 | |||||
| Operating earnings per share (diluted) | |||||||||||||
| Earnings (loss) per share (diluted) (1) | $(1.56) | $3.31 | $4.39 | ||||||||||
| Add back of goodwill impairment per share (diluted) | 3.45 | — | — | ||||||||||
| Operating earnings per share (diluted) (Non-GAAP) | $1.89 | $3.31 | $4.39 |
(1) For periods ended with a net loss, anti-dilutive financial instruments have been excluded from the calculation of earnings per share (diluted). Operating earnings per share (diluted) calculations include the impact of outstanding equity-based awards for all periods.
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RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
Year Ended December 31, 2024 Compared with Year Ended December 31, 2023
Overview
Net loss for the year ended December 31, 2024 was $47.0 million, as compared to net income of $100.5 million, for the same period in 2023. This decrease was primarily attributable to the recognition of goodwill impairment of $104.2 million in the second quarter of 2024 and an increase in provision for credit losses of $34.8 million, partially offset by a reduction of income tax expense of $10.2 million. For more information on the drivers and the components of these changes, see the "Provision for Credit Losses" and "Income Tax Expenses" sections below. Refer to the "Intangible Assets" section below for additional details on goodwill impairment..
Net interest income decreased to $288.7 million for 2024 compared to $290.5 million for 2023. Net interest income decreased primarily due to increased interest expense due to higher rates on deposits and borrowings, which was partially offset by an increase in interest income on loans. Total noninterest income in 2024 was $19.9 million, as compared to $21.5 million in 2023, a 7% decrease. For further information on the components and drivers of these changes, see the "Net Interest Income and Net Interest Margin" and "Noninterest Income" sections below. Operating net revenue (non-GAAP) was $308.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, as compared to $312.1 million for the same period in 2023.
The net interest margin, which measures the difference between interest income and interest expense as a percentage of earning assets, was 2.37% for 2024 and 2.53% for 2023, a decrease of 16 basis points. The drivers of the change are detailed in the "Net Interest Income and Net Interest Margin" section below.
The provision for credit losses in 2024 was $66.4 million as compared to $31.5 million in 2023. For information on the components and drivers of these changes see "Provision for Credit Losses" section below.
Noninterest expenses in 2024 totaled $274.6 million, as compared to $153.3 million in 2023, a 79% increase. The increase was primarily attributable to the recognition of goodwill impairment of $104.2 million in the second quarter of 2024 and higher FDIC insurance assessments during the year. Additional details on these expenses and other noninterest expenses are provided in "Noninterest Expense" section below.
The efficiency ratio, inclusive of the goodwill impairment charge, which measures the ratio of noninterest expense to total revenue, was 88.99% for 2024 as compared to 49.12% for 2023. Excluding the goodwill impairment charge, the operating efficiency ratio (non-GAAP) was 55.23%.
At December 31, 2024, total loan balances were $7.9 billion, and remained flat as compared to December 31, 2023, and average loans were 2% higher in 2024 as compared to 2023, driven by originations and advances which outpaced payoffs and paydowns.
Total deposits at December 31, 2024 increased by $323.0 million as compared to December 31, 2023. The increase consists of $1.0 billion in interest bearing deposits which was partially offset by a decrease of $0.7 billion in noninterest bearing deposits. This was primarily driven by a significant increase in short term interest rates and related migration to interest-bearing deposit accounts.
In terms of the average asset composition or mix, loans, which generally have higher yields than securities and other earning assets, represented 66% and 68% of average earning assets for 2024 and 2023, respectively. For 2024, as compared to 2023, average loans, excluding loans held for sale, increased by $181.8 million, or 2%, driven by originations and advances that outpaced payoffs and paydowns.
Average investment securities for 2024 were 20% of average earning assets compared to 23% for 2023. The combination of federal funds sold and interest bearing deposits with other banks represented 14% and 9% of average earning assets for 2024 and 2023, respectively.
The ratio of common equity to total assets increased to 11.02% at December 31, 2024 from 10.92% at December 31, 2023, due primarily to a decrease in total assets, in connection with decreases in loans and interest-bearing deposits with banks and other short-term investments. For the year ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company had average tangible common equity, a non-GAAP measure, of $1.2 billion and $1.1 billion, respectively. For 2024, the return on average assets (“ROAA”), inclusive of the goodwill impairment charge, was (0.38)%, as compared to 0.84% for 2023. Total shareholders’ equity was $1.23 billion at December 31, 2024 as compared to $1.27 billion at December 31, 2023, a decrease of 4%. The return on average common equity (“ROACE”) for 2024 was (3.77)% as compared to 8.11% for 2023. The ROATCE for 2024, a non-GAAP financial measure, was (3.93)% as compared to 8.85% for 2023. The adverse change in returns was primarily attributable to the recognition of goodwill impairment of $104.2 million in 2024. Excluding the goodwill impairment charge, operating return on average tangible common equity (non-GAAP) was 4.78%. Refer to the “Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” section for additional detail and a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures.
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Net Interest Income and Net Interest Margin
Net interest income is the difference between interest income on earning assets and the cost of funds supporting those assets. Earning assets are composed primarily of loans, investment securities and interest bearing deposits with other banks and other short term investments. The cost of funds represents interest expense on deposits, customer repurchase agreements and other borrowings, which consist primarily of federal funds purchased, advances from secured financing arrangements, including the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta ("FHLB") and Discount Window, and senior notes. Noninterest bearing deposits and capital are other components representing funding sources. Changes in the volume and mix of assets and funding sources, along with the changes in yields earned and rates paid, determine changes in net interest income.
Net interest income in 2024 was $288.7 million compared to $290.5 million in 2023. The 1% decrease for the year ended December 31, 2024 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2023 was primarily due to increases in average deposit rates (4.25% compared to 4.02%, respectively) and other short-term borrowings (4.90% compared to 4.82%, respectively), which were partially offset by higher average loan balances and yields (6.86% compared to 6.63%, respectively). Net interest income represented 94% and 93% of the Company’s total net revenue for the years ended December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively,
Net interest margin decreased by 16 basis points to 2.37% in 2024 from 2.53% in 2023. The decrease reflects the increase in the cost of funds on deposits, primarily in connection with an increase in rates, and borrowings, in connection with both an increase in volume and rates, offset by an increase in the yield on loans. The cost of funds on interest-bearing liabilities increased 42 basis points from 3.17% in 2023 to 3.59% in 2024, while the yield on interest-earning assets increased by 20 basis points from 5.45% in 2023 to 5.65% in 2024.
Average loans held for investment were $8.0 billion for the year ended December 31, 2024, compared to $7.8 billion for the same period in 2023. Average investment securities were $2.5 billion for the year ended December 31, 2024, compared to $2.6 billion for the same period in 2023. Average interest-bearing deposits with other banks and other short term investments were $1.7 billion for 2024 compared to $1.0 billion for 2023. Interest income on loans, the largest component of interest income on earning assets, had a yield of 6.86% in 2024, compared to 6.63% in 2023, an increase of 23 basis points.
Average interest-bearing deposits increased from $6.4 billion in the year ended December 31, 2023 to $7.5 billion in the year ended December 31, 2024, while average noninterest bearing demand deposits decreased to $2.0 billion for the year ended December 31, 2024 from $2.5 billion for the year ended December 31, 2023.
Average borrowings decreased from $1.6 billion in the year ended December 31, 2023 to $1.5 billion in the year ended December 31, 2024. Refer to the "Deposits and Other Borrowings" section below for further discussion of deposits and borrowings.
The table below presents the average balances and rates of the major categories of the Company's assets and liabilities for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022. Included in the table are measurements of interest rate spread and margin. Interest rate spread is the difference (expressed as a percentage) between the interest rate earned on earning assets less the interest rate paid on interest bearing liabilities. While the interest rate spread provides a quick comparison of earnings rates versus cost of funds, management believes that margin, together with net interest income, provides a better measurement of performance. The net interest margin (as compared to net interest spread) includes the effect of noninterest bearing sources in its calculation. Net interest margin is net interest income expressed as a percentage of average earning assets.
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Eagle Bancorp, Inc.
Consolidated Average Balances, Interest Yields And Rates (Unaudited)
(dollars in thousands)
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| 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Average Balance | Interest | Average Yield / Rate | Average Balance | Interest | Average Yield / Rate | Average Balance | Interest | Average Yield / Rate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assets | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest earning assets: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest bearing deposits with other banks and other short-term investments | $ | 1,706,439 | $ | 88,770 | 5.20 | % | $ | 1,015,199 | $ | 52,300 | 5.15 | % | $ | 1,235,768 | $ | 13,304 | 1.08 | % | ||||||||||||||
| Loans held for sale | 3,241 | 101 | 3.12 | % | 1,212 | 73 | 6.02 | % | 15,356 | 650 | 4.23 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Loans (1) (2) | 7,997,653 | 548,288 | 6.86 | % | 7,815,832 | 518,007 | 6.63 | % | 7,206,158 | 358,317 | 4.97 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Investment securities available-for-sale (2) | 1,473,095 | 28,774 | 1.95 | % | 1,584,239 | 32,074 | 2.02 | % | 2,003,475 | 33,641 | 1.68 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Investment securities held-to-maturity | 983,309 | 21,197 | 2.16 | % | 1,057,445 | 22,586 | 2.14 | % | 857,584 | 17,840 | 2.08 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Federal funds sold | 10,741 | 433 | 4.03 | % | 9,120 | 287 | 3.15 | % | 48,402 | 861 | 1.78 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total interest earning assets | 12,174,478 | 687,563 | 5.65 | % | 11,483,047 | 625,327 | 5.45 | % | 11,366,743 | 424,613 | 3.74 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest earning assets | 449,904 | 501,722 | 475,563 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Less: allowance for credit losses | 104,020 | 79,218 | 74,726 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total noninterest earning assets | 345,884 | 422,504 | 400,837 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total Assets | $ | 12,520,362 | $ | 11,905,551 | $ | 11,767,580 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest bearing liabilities: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest bearing transaction | $ | 1,700,301 | $ | 60,573 | 3.56 | % | $ | 1,459,795 | $ | 46,140 | 3.16 | % | $ | 893,137 | $ | 6,721 | 0.75 | % | ||||||||||||||
| Savings and money market | 3,411,971 | 139,539 | 4.09 | % | 3,176,203 | 132,374 | 4.17 | % | 4,683,850 | 65,777 | 1.40 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Time deposits | 2,432,713 | 120,309 | 4.95 | % | 1,774,184 | 79,030 | 4.45 | % | 669,824 | 10,763 | 1.61 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total interest bearing deposits | 7,544,985 | 320,421 | 4.25 | % | 6,410,182 | 257,544 | 4.02 | % | 6,246,811 | 83,261 | 1.33 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Customer repurchase agreements and federal funds purchased | 37,872 | 1,271 | 3.36 | % | 36,663 | 1,218 | 3.32 | % | 30,745 | 356 | 1.16 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Other short-term borrowings | 1,476,550 | 72,386 | 4.90 | % | 1,521,160 | 73,253 | 4.82 | % | 172,717 | 3,980 | 2.30 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Long-term borrowings | 66,321 | 4,797 | 7.23 | % | 69,861 | 2,766 | 3.96 | % | 69,737 | 4,149 | 5.95 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total interest bearing liabilities | 9,125,728 | 398,875 | 4.37 | % | 8,037,866 | 334,781 | 4.17 | % | 6,520,010 | 91,746 | 1.41 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest bearing liabilities: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest bearing demand | 1,987,886 | 2,508,687 | 3,871,773 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other liabilities | 160,580 | 118,880 | 93,876 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total noninterest bearing liabilities | 2,148,466 | 2,627,567 | 3,965,649 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shareholders’ equity | 1,246,168 | 1,240,118 | 1,281,921 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity | $ | 12,520,362 | $ | 11,905,551 | $ | 11,767,580 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest income | $ | 288,688 | $ | 290,546 | $ | 332,867 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest spread | 1.28 | % | 1.28 | % | 2.33 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest margin | 2.37 | % | 2.53 | % | 2.93 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cost of funds (3) | 3.59 | % | 3.17 | % | 0.88 | % |
(1)Loans placed on nonaccrual status are included in average balances. Net loan fees and late charges included in interest income on loans totaled $17.2 million, $16.7 million and $15.3 million, for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
(2)Interest and fees on loans and investments exclude tax equivalent adjustments.
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Rate/Volume Analysis of Net Interest Income
The rate/volume table below presents the composition of the change in net interest income for the periods indicated, as allocated between the change in net interest income due to changes in the volume of average earning assets and interest bearing liabilities and the changes in net interest income due to changes in interest rates. As the table shows, the decrease in net interest income in 2024 as compared to 2023 was primarily due to increase in interest bearing liabilities replacing non-interest bearing deposits.
| Year Ended December 31, 2024 Compared with Year Ended December 31, 2023 | Year Ended December 31, 2023 Compared with Year Ended December 31, 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands) | Change Due to Volume | Change Due to Rate | Total Increase (Decrease) | Change Due to Volume | Change Due to Rate | Total Increase (Decrease) | |||||||||||||||||
| Interest earned on: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loans | $ | 12,049 | $ | 18,232 | $ | 30,281 | $ | 30,315 | $ | 129,375 | $ | 159,690 | |||||||||||
| Loans held for sale | 122 | (94) | 28 | (599) | 22 | (577) | |||||||||||||||||
| Investment securities available-for sale | (2,250) | (1,050) | (3,300) | (7,040) | 5,473 | (1,567) | |||||||||||||||||
| Investment securities held-to-maturity | (1,583) | 194 | (1,389) | 4,158 | 588 | 4,746 | |||||||||||||||||
| Interest bearing bank deposits | 35,611 | 859 | 36,470 | (2,375) | 41,371 | 38,996 | |||||||||||||||||
| Federal funds sold | 51 | 95 | 146 | (699) | 125 | (574) | |||||||||||||||||
| Total interest income | 44,000 | 18,236 | 62,236 | 23,760 | 176,954 | 200,714 | |||||||||||||||||
| Interest paid on: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest bearing transaction | 7,602 | 6,831 | 14,433 | 4,264 | 35,155 | 39,419 | |||||||||||||||||
| Savings and money market | 9,826 | (2,661) | 7,165 | (21,172) | 87,769 | 66,597 | |||||||||||||||||
| Time deposits | 29,334 | 11,945 | 41,279 | 17,745 | 50,522 | 68,267 | |||||||||||||||||
| Customer repurchase agreements | 40 | 13 | 53 | 69 | 793 | 862 | |||||||||||||||||
| Borrowings | (2,288) | 3,452 | 1,164 | 45,216 | 22,674 | 67,890 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total interest expense | 44,514 | 19,580 | 64,094 | 46,122 | 196,913 | 243,035 | |||||||||||||||||
| Net interest income | $ | (514) | $ | (1,344) | $ | (1,858) | $ | (22,362) | $ | (19,959) | $ | (42,321) |
Provision for Credit Losses
The provision for credit losses represents the amount of expense charged to current earnings to record the ACL on loans and the ACL on HTM investment securities. The amount of the ACL on loans is based on management's assessment of current expected credit losses in the portfolio. Those factors include historical losses based on internal and peer data, economic conditions and trends, the value and adequacy of collateral, volume and mix of the portfolio, performance of the portfolio, and internal loan processes of the Company.
Refer to the discussion under “Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates” in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations above and in Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for an overview of the methodology management employs on a quarterly basis to assess the adequacy of the allowance and the provisions charged to expense. Also, refer to the table in the "Allowance for Credit Losses" section which reflects activity in the ACL.
The total provision for credit losses was $66.4 million during the year ended December 31, 2024, as compared to $31.5 million during the year ended December 31, 2023. During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company's provision for credit losses included a provision of $67.0 million on loans and net charge-offs of $38.6 million on loans. The provision for credit losses on loans for the same period in 2023 was $30.3 million and included $18.9 million of net charge offs.
The change in the provision for credit losses for the year ended December 31, 2024, was primarily attributable to the following factors: 1) specific reserves on individually evaluated non-performing loans; 2) changes in the qualitative component of the model relating to CRE office properties; and, 3) enhancements to the quantitative model during Q1 to include additional economic factors. Additionally, the change in provision for credit losses during the year ended December 31, 2024 was also impacted by the partial charge off of a CRE office loan after an updated valuation was received in the first quarter of 2025.
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The provision for loan credit losses for the year ended December 31, 2023 was driven by adjustments to the qualitative components of the CECL model combined with smaller increases in the quantitative components. The changes in qualitative components were due to perceived weakness in the commercial real estate market, in addition to high inflationary environment offset by a reduction in the quantitative reserves based on a decline in individually evaluated loans. The changes in quantitative components were related to changes in the nature and volume of the portfolio, changes in delinquencies and loss experience.
The provision for credit losses for the held-to-maturity securities portfolio was recorded primarily on several corporate bonds. During the year ended December 31, 2024, there was a reversal of provision for credit losses of $645 thousand for the held-to-maturity securities portfolios, compared to a provision expense of $1.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2023.
The provision for credit losses for unfunded commitments is presented separately on the Statement of Operations. This provision considers the probability that unfunded commitments will fund among other factors. There was a reversal of $2.1 million in 2024, compared to $0.3 million reversal in 2023.
Noninterest Income
Noninterest income includes service charges on deposits, gain on sale of loans, gain on sale of investment securities, income from bank owned life insurance (“BOLI”) and other income. The following table summarizes the comparative noninterest income for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023:
| Years Ended December 31, | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands) | 2024 | 2023 | Dollar Change | Percent Change | |||||||||||
| Service charges on deposits | $ | 6,843 | $ | 6,455 | $ | 388 | 6 | % | |||||||
| Gain on sale of loans | 57 | 418 | (361) | (86) | % | ||||||||||
| Net loss on sale of investment securities | 14 | (11) | 25 | (227) | % | ||||||||||
| Increase in the cash surrender value of bank-owned life insurance | 2,885 | 2,659 | 226 | 8 | % | ||||||||||
| Other income | 10,140 | 12,015 | (1,875) | (16) | % | ||||||||||
| Total | $ | 19,939 | $ | 21,536 | $ | (1,597) | (7) | % |
Total noninterest income for the year ended December 31, 2024 was $19.9 million as compared to $21.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2023. The 7% decrease was primarily based on the prior year nonrecurring items including income from Small Business Investment Companies ("SBIC") fund and lower swap fees income during the current year.
Noninterest Expense
Total noninterest expense includes salaries and employee benefits, premises and equipment expenses, marketing and advertising, data processing, legal, accounting and professional fees, FDIC insurance assessments and other expenses. The following table summarizes the comparative noninterest expense for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023:
| Years Ended December 31, | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands) | 2024 | 2023 | Dollar Change | Percent Change | |||||||||||
| Salaries and employee benefits | $ | 87,768 | $ | 86,096 | $ | 1,672 | 2 | % | |||||||
| Premises and equipment expenses | 11,382 | 12,606 | (1,224) | (10) | % | ||||||||||
| Marketing and advertising | 5,449 | 3,359 | 2,090 | 62 | % | ||||||||||
| Data processing | 14,093 | 13,083 | 1,010 | 8 | % | ||||||||||
| Legal, accounting and professional fees | 9,286 | 10,787 | (1,501) | (14) | % | ||||||||||
| FDIC insurance | 29,009 | 11,853 | 17,156 | 145 | % | ||||||||||
| Goodwill impairment | 104,168 | — | 104,168 | 100 | % | ||||||||||
| Other expenses | 13,479 | 15,509 | (2,030) | (13) | % | ||||||||||
| Total | $ | 274,634 | $ | 153,293 | $ | 121,341 | 79 | % |
Total noninterest expense was $274.6 million for 2024, as compared to $153.3 million for 2023, a 79% increase. The increase for the year ended December 31, 2024 was primarily due to the goodwill impairment charge of $104.2 million to reduce fully the carrying value of the Company's goodwill. Refer to the "Intangible Assets" section below for additional details. Excluding the goodwill impairment charge, total operating noninterest expense (non-GAAP) was $170.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2024. Refer to the "Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures" section for additional details and a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures.
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Marketing expenses were $5.4 million and $3.4 million, respectively, for the year ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, a 62% increase. The increase in marketing expenses was primarily due to higher marketing expenses related to our digital banking channel.
FDIC insurance expense was $29.0 million for 2024 as compared to $11.9 million for 2023, an increase of $17.1 million, or 145%. The increases in 2024 compared to 2023 were due to increases in FDIC deposit insurance assessments.
The major components of other expenses include broker fees, franchise taxes, insurance expenses and director compensation. Other expenses were $13.5 million for 2024 as compared to $15.5 million for 2023, a decrease of 13%. The decrease in 2024, as compared to 2023, was primarily due to a reduction in director fees and real estate taxes.
The efficiency ratio, which measures the ratio of noninterest expense to total revenue, was 88.99% for the year ended December 31, 2024, as compared to 49.12% for the same period in 2023. The adverse change in the efficiency ratio for the year ended December 31, 2024 was primarily driven by the recognition of goodwill impairment of $104.2 million. Excluding the goodwill impairment charge, the operating efficiency ratio (non-GAAP) was 55.23% for the year ended December 31, 2024. Refer to the "Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures" section for additional detail and a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures.
As a percentage of average assets, total noninterest expense (annualized) was 2.19% for the year ended December 31, 2024 as compared to 1.29% for the same period in 2023. The higher ratio for the current year is attributable to the goodwill impairment discussed above.
Income Tax Expense
Income tax expense was $16.8 million for 2024 as compared to $27.0 million for 2023. The decrease in the tax provisions over the comparative years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 was primarily driven by the decreases in pre-tax income period over period. The impact of the change in mix of the components noted above can be seen in the reconciliation of statutory federal income tax rate table in Note 13 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 was signed into law by President Biden on August 16, 2022 which made significant changes to the U.S. tax law, including the introduction of a corporate alternative minimum tax of 15% of the “adjusted financial statement income” of certain domestic corporations as well as a 1% excise tax on the fair market value of stock repurchases by certain domestic corporations, effective for tax years beginning in 2023. Effective January 1, 2023, the Company became subject to the tax laws under the Inflation Reduction Act. The Company has not experienced and currently does not expect the tax-related provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act to have a material impact on our financial results.
BALANCE SHEET ANALYSIS
Overview
Total assets at December 31, 2024 were $11.1 billion as compared to $11.7 billion at December 31, 2023, a 5% decrease. The decrease in total assets in 2024 was primarily due to decreases in investment securities and interest-bearing deposits with other banks, and the impairment charge of goodwill related to a 2014 acquisition.
The largest component of assets, total loans with an amortized cost basis, were approximately $7.9 billion at December 31, 2024, and remained relatively flat as compared to $8.0 billion at December 31, 2023. There were no loans held for sale at December 31, 2024 and 2023. Refer to the "Loan Portfolio" section below for further discussion on loans.
Investment securities, at amortized cost net of the allowance for credit losses, were $2.3 billion at December 31, 2024 as compared to $2.7 billion at December 31, 2023, a $336.5 million decrease, or 13%. The components and drivers of the change are discussed in the "Investment Securities and Short-Term Investments" section below.
In terms of funding, total deposits at December 31, 2024 were $9.1 billion as compared to $8.8 billion at December 31, 2023, an increase of 4%. Total borrowed funds (excluding customer repurchase agreements) were $566.1 million and $1.4 billion at December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. The components and drivers of the change are discussed in the "Deposits and Other Borrowings" section below.
Total shareholders’ equity at December 31, 2024 was $1.2 billion as compared to $1.3 billion at December 31, 2023, a 4% decrease. The decrease in shareholders’ equity in 2024 was primarily from the net loss from operations and payment of cash dividends, partially offset by an increase in other comprehensive income and share-based compensation.
In order to be considered well-capitalized, the Bank must have a CET1 risk based capital ratio of 6.5%, a Tier 1 risk-based ratio of 8.0%, a total risk-based capital ratio of 10.0% and a leverage ratio of 5.0%. The Company and the Bank exceed all these requirements and satisfy the capital conservation buffer of 2.5% of CET1 capital. Failure to maintain the required
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capital conservation buffer would limit the ability of the Company and the Bank to pay dividends, repurchase shares or pay discretionary bonuses.
The Company's capital ratios remain substantially in excess of regulatory minimums and buffer requirements. The total risk based capital ratio was 15.86% at December 31, 2024, as compared to 14.79% at December 31, 2023. The common equity tier one capital ("CET1") risk based capital ratio was 14.63% at December 31, 2024, as compared to 13.90% at December 31, 2023. The tier 1 risk based capital ratio was 14.63% at December 31, 2024, as compared to 13.90% at December 31, 2023. The tier 1 leverage ratio was 10.74% at December 31, 2024, as compared to 10.73% at December 31, 2023.
The ratio of common equity to total assets was 11.02% at December 31, 2024 as compared to 10.92% at December 31, 2023, as common equity levels declined 4% over the year ended December 31, 2024. Book value per share was $40.60 at December 31, 2024, a 4.7% decrease over $42.58 at December 31, 2023. These declines were primarily due to the goodwill impairment charge of $104.2 million.
In addition, the tangible common equity ratio was 11.02% at December 31, 2024, compared to 10.12% at December 31, 2023. Tangible book value per share was $40.59 at December 31, 2024, a 3.9% increase from $39.08 at December 31, 2023. Refer to the "Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures" section for additional detail and a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures.
Investment Securities and Short-Term Investments
The tables below and Note 3 to the Consolidated Financial Statements provide additional information regarding the Company’s investment securities categorized as “available-for-sale” or AFS and as "held-to-maturity" or HTM. The Company classifies its investment securities as either AFS or HTM. The AFS classification requires that investment securities be recorded at fair value with any difference between the fair value and amortized cost (the purchase price adjusted by any discount accretion or premium amortization) reported as a component of shareholders’ equity (accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)), net of deferred income taxes, while securities classified as HTM are recorded and presented at their amortized cost. At December 31, 2024, the Company had a net unrealized loss in AFS securities of $141.5 million with a deferred tax asset of $34.8 million, as compared to a net unrealized loss in AFS securities of $161.9 million with a deferred tax asset of $39.8 million at December 31, 2023.
The AFS portfolio comprises U.S. treasury bonds (2.0% of AFS securities), U.S. agency securities (44.1% of AFS securities) with an average duration of 2.5 years, seasoned MBS that are 100% agency issued (49.3% of AFS securities for residential mortgage-backed and 3.9% for commercial mortgage-backed), which have an average duration of 4 years with contractual maturities of the underlying mortgages of up to thirty years, municipal bonds (0.6% of AFS securities), which have an average duration of 6 years, and corporate bonds (0.1% of AFS securities), which have an average duration of 5.6 years.
The HTM portfolio comprises seasoned MBS that are 100% agency issued (64.5% of HTM securities for residential mortgage-backed and 9.4% for commercial mortgage-backed), which have an average duration of 5.4 years with contractual maturities of the underlying mortgages of up to thirty years, municipal bonds (12.1% of HTM securities), which have an average duration of 6.7 years, and corporate bonds (14.0% of HTM securities), which have an average duration of 4.3 years.
At December 31, 2024, the AFS investment portfolio was $1.3 billion as compared to $1.5 billion at December 31, 2023, a decrease of 16%. At December 31, 2024, the HTM investment portfolio was $0.9 billion as compared to $1.0 billion at December 31, 2023, a decrease of 8%. The investment portfolio is managed to achieve goals related to liquidity, income, interest rate risk management and to provide collateral for customer repurchase agreements and other borrowing relationships.
During the first quarter of 2022, we evaluated our securities portfolio and determined that certain securities will be maintained for the life of the instrument and made a decision to transfer $1.1 billion of securities designated as AFS to HTM, including $237.0 million of securities acquired in the first quarter of 2022 for which the intention to hold to maturity was finalized. The transferred securities had unrealized losses of $66.2 million, and, as of December 31, 2024, $44.8 million remains in accumulated other comprehensive loss and will be amortized ratably over the remaining lives of the securities through accumulated other comprehensive loss. The securities transferred were generally municipal bonds, corporate bonds, bonds that qualify for Community Reinvestment Act credit and MBS with longer final maturity dates.
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The following table provides information regarding the composition of the investment securities portfolio at the dates indicated. AFS securities are reported at estimated fair value and HTM securities are reported at amortized cost. At December 31, 2024, the investment portfolio balances for both AFS securities at fair value and HTM securities at amortized cost basis decreased as compared to December 31, 2023, and the composition of portfolio changed, as follows:
| December 31, | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2023 | |||||||||||||
| (dollars in thousands) | Fair Value | Percent of Total | Fair Value | Percent of Total | ||||||||||
| Investment securities available-for-sale: | ||||||||||||||
| U.S. treasury bonds | $ | 24,776 | 2 | % | $ | 47,901 | 3 | % | ||||||
| U.S. agency securities | 558,535 | 44 | % | 671,397 | 45 | % | ||||||||
| Residential mortgage-backed securities | 625,316 | 49 | % | 727,353 | 48 | % | ||||||||
| Commercial mortgage-backed securities | 48,945 | 4 | % | 49,564 | 3 | % | ||||||||
| Municipal bonds | 8,014 | 1 | % | 8,490 | 1 | % | ||||||||
| Corporate bonds | 1,818 | — | % | 1,683 | — | % | ||||||||
| Total | $ | 1,267,404 | 100 | % | $ | 1,506,388 | 100 | % |
| December 31, | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2023 | |||||||||||||
| (dollars in thousands) | Amortized Cost | Percent of Total | Amortized Cost | Percent of Total | ||||||||||
| Investment securities held-to-maturity: | ||||||||||||||
| Residential mortgage-backed securities | $ | 605,904 | 65 | % | $ | 670,043 | 66 | % | ||||||
| Commercial mortgage-backed securities | 88,575 | 9 | % | 90,227 | 9 | % | ||||||||
| Municipal bonds | 114,060 | 12 | % | 125,114 | 12 | % | ||||||||
| Corporate bonds | 131,414 | 14 | % | 132,309 | 13 | % | ||||||||
| Total | 939,953 | 100 | % | 1,017,693 | 100 | % | ||||||||
| Allowance for credit losses | (1,306) | (1,956) | ||||||||||||
| Total held-to-maturity securities, net of ACL | $ | 938,647 | $ | 1,015,737 |
At December 31, 2024, there were no issuers, other than the U.S. Government, U.S. agencies and U.S. Government-sponsored enterprises, whose securities owned by the Company had a book or fair value exceeding 10% of the Company’s shareholders’ equity.
The following tables provide information, on an amortized cost basis, for AFS and HTM portfolios regarding the expected maturity and weighted-average yield of the investment portfolio at December 31, 2024. Expected maturities will differ from contractual maturities because borrowers may have the right to call or prepay obligations with or without call or prepayment penalties. Yields on tax exempt securities have not been calculated on a tax equivalent basis.
| One Year or Less | After One Year Through Five Years | After Five Years Through Ten Years | After Ten Years | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands) | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Available-for-sale: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| U.S. treasury bonds | $ | 24,988 | 0.69 | % | $ | — | — | % | $ | — | — | % | $ | — | $ | 24,988 | 0.69 | % | |||||||||||||||||
| U.S. agency securities | 163,511 | 1.18 | % | 359,242 | 1.57 | % | 66,580 | 1.92 | % | 10,944 | 1.25 | % | 600,277 | 1.50 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Residential mortgage-backed securities | — | — | % | 4,917 | 1.83 | % | 143,010 | 1.46 | % | 571,888 | 1.92 | % | 719,815 | 1.83 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial mortgage-backed securities | 5,002 | 3.33 | % | 23,220 | 2.04 | % | 15,053 | 2.26 | % | 9,973 | 3.58 | % | 53,248 | 2.51 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Municipal bonds | — | — | % | — | — | % | — | — | % | 8,607 | 2.67 | % | 8,607 | 2.67 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Corporate bonds | — | — | % | — | — | % | 2,000 | 5.50 | % | — | — | 2,000 | 5.50 | % | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | 193,501 | 1.17 | % | $ | 387,379 | 1.60 | % | $ | 226,643 | 1.68 | % | $ | 601,412 | 1.95 | % | $ | 1,408,935 | 1.70 | % |
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| One Year or Less | After One Year Through Five Years | After Five Years Through Ten Years | After Ten Years | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| (dollars in thousands) | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Held-to-maturity: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residential mortgage-backed securities | $ | — | — | % | $ | 691 | 2.70 | % | $ | 16,867 | 2.28 | % | $ | 588,346 | 2.63 | % | $ | 605,904 | 2.62 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Commercial mortgage-backed securities | — | — | % | 11,602 | 2.76 | % | 25,337 | 2.57 | % | 51,636 | 2.64 | % | 88,575 | 2.64 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Municipal bonds | 6,946 | 2.86 | % | 12,605 | 2.97 | % | 26,018 | 3.00 | % | 68,491 | 3.46 | % | 114,060 | 3.26 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Corporate bonds | — | — | % | 51,456 | 4.47 | % | 79,958 | 3.84 | % | — | — | % | 131,414 | 4.09 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | 6,946 | 2.86 | % | $ | 76,354 | 3.95 | % | $ | 148,180 | 3.30 | % | $ | 708,473 | 2.71 | % | 939,953 | 2.90 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Allowance for credit losses | (1,306) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total held-to-maturity securities, net of ACL | $ | 938,647 |
Federal funds sold were $2.6 million at December 31, 2024, as compared to $3.7 million at December 31, 2023. These funds represent excess daily liquidity which is invested on an unsecured basis with well capitalized banks, in amounts generally limited both in the aggregate and to any one bank.
Interest bearing deposits with banks and other short-term investments primarily consist of liquid assets held at the Federal Reserve to meet general liquidity needs of the Company, such as future loan demand and future increases in investment securities, among others. Interest bearing deposits with banks and other short-term investments were $619.0 million at December 31, 2024, as compared to $709.9 million at December 31, 2023, a decrease of $90.9 million or 13%, primarily due to decrease in deposits at the Federal Reserve. Refer to the "Deposits and Other Borrowings" section below for further discussion.
The Bank did not hold any time deposits at December 31, 2024 or December 31, 2023.
Loan Portfolio
In its lending activities, the Company seeks to develop and expand relationships with clients whose businesses and individual banking needs will grow with the Bank. We believe superior customer service, local decision making and accelerated turnaround time from application to closing have been significant factors in growing the loan portfolio and meeting the lending needs in the markets served, while maintaining sound asset quality.
Total loan balances remained relatively flat over the past year as loans outstanding were $7.9 billion at December 31, 2024, as compared to $8.0 billion at December 31, 2023, a decrease of $33.8 million or 0.4%. The loan portfolio mix continues to evolve as the Bank has experienced a reduction in commercial loans, offset by an increase in fundings of ongoing construction projects for commercial and residential properties. Market rates year to date in 2024 for our new loan originations on average have been fairly consistent with the market rates at the end of 2023, since short-term interest rates remained unchanged for most of 2024. In September 2024 and the fourth quarter of 2024, the Federal Reserve adjusted short-term interest rates downwards three times for a total decrease of 100 basis points. We continue to see opportunities for growth in the commercial lending market in our focused sectors; our processes for evaluating these opportunities are designed to ensure they are subject to reasonable underwriting standards, including appropriate collateral and cash flow necessary to support debt service. Following origination, we continue to monitor our borrowers' business plans and assess primary and alternative sources for loan repayment and, if necessary, obtain collateral to mitigate credit loss in the event of default.
The Bank has a large portion of its loan portfolio related to real estate, with 83% consisting of commercial real estate and real estate construction loans as of December 31, 2024. Non-owner occupied commercial real estate represented 66% of the loan portfolio while the remaining 17% is represented by the "owner occupied-commercial real estate" and "construction–C&I (owner occupied)" loans.
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The following table shows the trends in the composition of the loan portfolio over the past two years. The table reflects loan balances, net of amortized deferred fees and costs, at December 31, 2024 and 2023 by major category.
| December 31, | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2023 | |||||||||||||
| (dollars in thousands) | Amount | % | Amount | % | ||||||||||
| Commercial | $ | 1,183,341 | 15 | % | $ | 1,473,766 | 18 | % | ||||||
| PPP loans | 287 | — | % | 528 | — | % | ||||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | 4,064,846 | 51 | % | 4,094,614 | 51 | % | ||||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 1,269,669 | 16 | % | 1,172,239 | 15 | % | ||||||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | 50,535 | 1 | % | 73,396 | 1 | % | ||||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | 1,210,763 | 15 | % | 969,766 | 12 | % | ||||||||
| Construction - C&I (owner occupied) | 103,259 | 1 | % | 132,021 | 2 | % | ||||||||
| Home equity | 51,130 | 1 | % | 51,964 | 1 | % | ||||||||
| Other consumer | 1,058 | — | % | 401 | — | % | ||||||||
| Total loans | 7,934,888 | 100 | % | 7,968,695 | 100 | % | ||||||||
| Less: allowance for credit losses | (114,390) | (85,940) | ||||||||||||
| Loans, net(1) | $ | 7,820,498 | $ | 7,882,755 |
(1)Excludes accrued interest receivable of $42.9 million and $45.3 million at December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively, which is recorded in other assets.
As noted above, a significant portion of the loan portfolio consists of commercial, construction and commercial real estate loans, primarily made in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and is secured by real estate or other collateral in that market. While our basic market is the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, the Bank has made loans outside that market where the borrower or its key decision makers have a meaningful relationship with the Bank and generally operate in or are based in our market. Although all of these loans are made to a diversified pool of unrelated borrowers across numerous businesses, adverse developments in the real estate market could continue to have an adverse impact on this portfolio of loans and the Company’s earnings and financial position. Management believes that the commercial real estate concentration risk is mitigated by diversification among the types and characteristics of real estate collateral properties, sound underwriting practices and ongoing portfolio monitoring and market analysis.
The Company's concentration in the Washington, D.C. metro area, includes "Washington's Maryland Suburbs," which comprise Frederick, Prince George's and Montgomery counties and "Northern Virginia," which comprises Alexandria, Arlington, Falls Church, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William counties. At December 31, 2024, 31.3%, 27.4%, 23.9%, 5.8%, and 11.6% of the loan portfolio, as a percentage of total amortized cost, was concentrated in Washington D.C., Washington's Maryland Suburbs, Northern Virginia, other counties in Maryland and other locations in the United States, respectively. At December 31, 2023, 31.5%, 26.4%, 25.1%, 5.5% and 11.5% of the loan portfolio, as a percentage of total amortized cost, was concentrated in Washington D.C., Washington's Maryland Suburbs, Northern Virginia, other counties in Maryland and other locations in the United States, respectively. While we remain cautious with regard to CRE market conditions, principally office, the strength of the Washington D.C. metro area in certain sectors, particularly multi-family commercial real estate and the housing market, continue to drive premiums for well-located properties.
As part of its lending strategy, the Company maintains a substantial portfolio of CRE loans, with $6.5 billion and $6.1 billion, or 81.5% and 77.0% of total loans, of amortized cost outstanding at December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively. Management meets regularly in order to monitor its existing CRE loan portfolio and to evaluate the pipeline for CRE loan investment. Income producing CRE loans collateralized by office properties comprised approximately $862.2 million and $949.0 million, or 10.9% and 11.9% of total loans, at December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively.
Office loans within Washington D.C., Washington's Maryland Suburbs and Northern Virginia were $795.0 million and $879.0 million, or 10.0% and 11.0% of total loans, at December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively. As a percentage of total principal balance of income producing - CRE office loans, 39.0%, 35.7%, 15.0%, and 10.3% were located in Washington's Maryland Suburbs, Northern Virginia, the central business district of Washington D.C., and Washington, D.C. (outside the central business district), respectively, at December 31, 2024.
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The following table summarizes the Company's income producing - commercial real estate loans, at principal, by collateral location and type, at December 31, 2024:
| December 31, 2024 | Maryland | Virginia | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands) | Washington D.C. | Washington Suburbs | Other | Northern Virginia | Other | Other | Total | Percent of Total | |||||||||||||
| Collateral Type: | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Hotel & motel | $136,553 | $80,445 | $82,634 | $60,223 | $ | — | $21,545 | $ | 381,400 | 10% | |||||||||||
| Industrial | 874 | 72,209 | 40,370 | 17,731 | 11,258 | — | 142,442 | 4% | |||||||||||||
| Mixed use | 323,391 | 44,175 | 371 | 54,497 | 25,687 | 4,970 | 453,091 | 11% | |||||||||||||
| Multifamily | 372,756 | 192,117 | 313 | 120,330 | 84,975 | 48,173 | 818,664 | 20% | |||||||||||||
| Office | 220,632 | 327,187 | 4,254 | 248,855 | 63,023 | — | 863,951 | 21% | |||||||||||||
| Retail | 78,818 | 99,962 | 60,770 | 74,167 | 65,162 | 1,509 | 380,388 | 9% | |||||||||||||
| Single / 1-4 Family & Res. Condo | 68,968 | 2,573 | 2,111 | 10,239 | 6,460 | 4,043 | 94,394 | 2% | |||||||||||||
| Other | 179,784 | 181,378 | 30,435 | 441,885 | 8,572 | 97,168 | 939,222 | 23% | |||||||||||||
| Total | $1,381,776 | $1,000,046 | $221,258 | $1,027,927 | $265,137 | $177,408 | $4,073,552 | 100% | |||||||||||||
| Percent of total | 34 | % | 25 | % | 5 | % | 25 | % | 7 | % | 4 | % | 100 | % | |||||||
| Percent of Principal by Loan Size: | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Less than $1 million | 2 | % | 2 | % | 3 | % | 1 | % | 2 | % | 1 | % | |||||||||
| $1 million to $5 million | 9 | % | 10 | % | 20 | % | 7 | % | 11 | % | 11 | % | |||||||||
| $5 million to $10 million | 7 | % | 7 | % | 25 | % | 5 | % | 12 | % | 31 | % | |||||||||
| $10 million to $25 million | 19 | % | 13 | % | 32 | % | 34 | % | 41 | % | 8 | % | |||||||||
| $25 million to $50 million | 47 | % | 28 | % | 20 | % | 41 | % | 34 | % | 21 | % | |||||||||
| Greater than $50 million | 16 | % | 40 | % | — | % | 12 | % | — | % | 28 | % | |||||||||
| Total | 100 | % | 100 | % | 100 | % | 100 | % | 100 | % | 100 | % |
At December 31, 2024 and 2023, $287.0 million and $240.7 million, respectively, of principal of CRE loans collateralized by office properties were criticized or classified.
The federal banking regulators have issued guidance for those institutions which are deemed to have concentrations in commercial real estate lending. Pursuant to the supervisory criteria contained in the guidance for identifying institutions with a potential commercial real estate concentration risk, institutions which have (1) total reported loans for construction, land development and other land acquisitions which represent 100% or more of an institution’s total risk-based capital; or (2) total commercial real estate loans representing 300% or more of the institution’s total risk-based capital and the institution’s commercial real estate loan portfolio has increased 50% or more during the prior 36 months are identified as having potential commercial real estate concentration risk. Institutions which are deemed to have concentrations in commercial real estate lending are expected to employ heightened levels of risk management with respect to their commercial real estate portfolios and may be required to hold higher levels of capital.
The Company, like many community banks, has a concentration in commercial real estate loans, and the Company has experienced growth in its commercial real estate portfolio in recent years. As of December 31, 2024, non-owner occupied commercial real estate loans (including construction, land and land development loans) represented 372.6% of consolidated risk based capital. Although growth in that segment over the past 36 months at 26.8% did not exceed the 50% threshold laid out in the regulatory guidance, we expect the heightened supervisory expectations to continue to apply to us given the federal banking regulators' general focus on commercial real estate exposures at banks. Construction, land and land development loans represented 122.6% of consolidated risk based capital. Management has extensive experience in commercial real estate lending and has implemented and continues to maintain risk management procedures and underwriting criteria with respect to its commercial real estate portfolio designed to address the risks inherent in that asset class. Loan monitoring practices include but are not limited to periodic stress testing analysis to evaluate changes to cash flows, owing to interest rate increases and declines in net operating income. Nevertheless, we may be required to maintain higher levels of capital as a result of our commercial real estate concentrations, which could require us to raise additional capital, increasing our funding costs or diluting our shareholders, or take other action to retain capital, adversely affecting shareholder returns. The Company seeks to manage the risks relating to commercial real estate and its capital adequacy through the development and implementation of its Capital Policy and Capital Plan, the preparation of pro-forma projections including stress testing and the development of internal minimum targets for regulatory capital ratios that are subject to approval by the Board of Directors (the "Board") and in excess of well capitalized ratio requirements.
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The Company monitors industry and collateral concentrations to avoid loan exposures to a large group of similar industries or similar collateral. An industry for this purpose is defined as a group of businesses that are engaged in similar activities and have similar economic characteristics that would cause their ability to meet contractual obligations to be similarly affected by changes in economic or other conditions.
Certain directors and executive officers have had loan transactions with the Company. Such loans were made in the ordinary course of the Company’s lending business; were made on substantially the same terms, including interest rates and collateral, as those prevailing at the time for comparable loans with third parties; and, in the opinion of management, did not involve more than the normal risk of collectability or present other unfavorable features. Refer to Note 4 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further detail regarding related party loans.
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Loan Maturity
The following table sets forth the time to contractual maturity of the loan portfolio as of December 31, 2024. Loans are shown in the period based on final contractual maturity. Demand loans, having no contractual maturity, and overdrafts are reported as due in one year or less.
| Due In | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands) | Total | One Year or Less | Over One to Five Years | Over Five to Fifteen Years | Over Fifteen Years | ||||||||||||||
| Commercial | $ | 1,183,341 | $ | 427,540 | $ | 636,875 | $ | 115,432 | $ | 3,494 | |||||||||
| PPP loans | 287 | — | 287 | — | — | ||||||||||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate (1) | 4,064,846 | 1,754,660 | 2,076,013 | 234,173 | — | ||||||||||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 1,269,669 | 244,067 | 463,328 | 322,976 | 239,298 | ||||||||||||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | 50,535 | 12,566 | 28,716 | 376 | 8,877 | ||||||||||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | 1,210,763 | 633,672 | 543,766 | 3,584 | 29,741 | ||||||||||||||
| Construction - C&I (owner occupied) | 103,259 | 27,561 | 2,714 | 9,796 | 63,188 | ||||||||||||||
| Home equity | 51,130 | 2,570 | 740 | 1,281 | 46,539 | ||||||||||||||
| Other consumer | 1,058 | 719 | 15 | — | 324 | ||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | 7,934,888 | $ | 3,103,355 | $ | 3,752,454 | $ | 687,618 | $ | 391,461 | |||||||||
| Loans with: | |||||||||||||||||||
| Predetermined fixed interest rate | |||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial | $ | 320,770 | $ | 92,282 | $ | 152,054 | $ | 76,434 | $ | — | |||||||||
| PPP loans | 287 | — | 287 | — | — | ||||||||||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | 1,930,656 | 702,661 | 1,077,264 | 150,731 | — | ||||||||||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 663,483 | 194,330 | 251,802 | 159,625 | 57,726 | ||||||||||||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | 46,761 | 11,571 | 27,572 | 43 | 7,575 | ||||||||||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | 53,573 | 19,655 | 33,918 | — | — | ||||||||||||||
| Construction - C&I (owner occupied) | 10,283 | 3,415 | 1,748 | 5,120 | — | ||||||||||||||
| Home equity | 404 | 207 | — | 197 | — | ||||||||||||||
| Other consumer | 74 | 44 | 15 | — | 15 | ||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | 3,026,291 | $ | 1,024,165 | $ | 1,544,660 | $ | 392,150 | $ | 65,316 | |||||||||
| Floating or adjustable interest rate | |||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial | $ | 862,571 | $ | 335,257 | $ | 484,821 | $ | 38,999 | $ | 3,494 | |||||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | 2,134,190 | 1,052,000 | 998,748 | 83,442 | — | ||||||||||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 606,186 | 49,738 | 211,526 | 163,350 | 181,572 | ||||||||||||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | 3,774 | 994 | 1,144 | 334 | 1,302 | ||||||||||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | 1,157,190 | 614,018 | 509,848 | 3,583 | 29,741 | ||||||||||||||
| Construction - C&I (owner occupied) | 92,976 | 24,146 | 966 | 4,676 | 63,188 | ||||||||||||||
| Home equity | 50,726 | 2,362 | 741 | 1,084 | 46,539 | ||||||||||||||
| Other consumer | 984 | 675 | — | — | 309 | ||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | 4,908,597 | $ | 2,079,190 | $ | 2,207,794 | $ | 295,468 | $ | 326,145 |
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(1)Income producing CRE office loans with total principal of $864.0 million and multifamily loans with total principal of $818.7 million at December 31, 2024 are included within income producing - commercial real estate. The charts below represent their maturities schedules.
Allowance for Credit Losses
The ACL is an estimate based on many factors which reflect management’s assessment of the risk in the loan portfolio. Those factors include economic conditions and trends, the value and adequacy of collateral, volume and mix of the portfolio, performance of the portfolio and internal loan processes of the Company and Bank. A full discussion of the accounting for ACL is contained in Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements and activity in the ACL is contained in Note 4 to the Consolidated Financial Statements. Also, please refer to the discussion under the caption “Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates” within Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operation for further discussion of the methodology which management employs to maintain an adequate ACL, as well as the discussion under the caption “Provision for Credit Losses” for a discussion of the Company's calculation of the provision for credit losses during the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023.
The ACL for loans at December 31, 2024 was $114.4 million, which reflected a $28.5 million increase from $85.9 million at December 31, 2023, reflecting a provision for credit losses of $67.0 million and $38.6 million in net charge-offs during the year ended December 31, 2024. Net charge-offs of $38.6 million during 2024 represented 0.48% of average loans held for investment, an increase from net charge-offs of $18.9 million during 2023, which represented 0.24% of average loans held for investment. Net charge-offs during the year ended December 31, 2024, included $29.0 million of charge offs on two CRE office lending relationships. The ACL represented 1.44% of total loans at December 31, 2024 as compared to 1.08% at December 31, 2023. At December 31, 2024, the allowance represented 55% of nonperforming loans as compared to 131% at December 31, 2023.
As part of its comprehensive loan review process, the Bank’s Risk Committee evaluates loans which are past due 30 days or more. The Committee makes an assessment of the conditions and circumstances surrounding delinquent and potential problem loans. The Bank’s loan policy requires that loans be placed on nonaccrual if they are 90 days past due or if their collection is deemed to be doubtful, unless they are well secured and in the process of collection. The Credit Administration department analyzes the status of development and construction projects, including sales activities and utilization of interest reserves in order to assess potential increased levels of risk which may require additional reserves.
As the loan portfolio and ACL review processes continue to evolve there may be changes to elements of the allowance and this may have an effect on the overall level of the allowance maintained. Management did conduct sensitivity analysis on the CECL model by using Moody's upside and downside scenarios across the forecast period.
At December 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company had $208.7 million and $65.5 million, respectively, of loans classified as nonperforming. Please refer to Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements under the caption “Loans” for a discussion of the Company’s policy regarding individual evaluation of loans to record a provision for expected credit losses. Please refer to the “Nonperforming Assets” section for a discussion of problem and potential problem assets.
As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, loans rated special mention had an amortized cost of $244.8 million and $207.1 million, respectively, and loans rated substandard had an amortized cost of $426.4 million and $335.8 million, respectively. The increases in special mention and substandard loans were primarily attributable to additions in CRE loans in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, particularly in income producing - commercial real estate and commercial loans. The increases in substandard loans were primarily attributable to certain CRE loans in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. At December 31, 2024, 100% and 46% of special mention and substandard loans, respectively, were current. Based upon their status as potential problem loans, loans risk rated special mention or substandard receive heightened scrutiny and ongoing intensive risk
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management. Additionally, the Company's loan loss allowance methodology incorporates increased reserve factors for certain loans considered potential problem loans as compared to the general portfolio.
At December 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company's performing office coverage ratio, which calculates the ACL attributable to loans collateralized by performing office properties as a percentage of total loans, was 3.81% and 1.91%, respectively.
Portfolio management and the risk rating process are core parts of the Company’s credit risk management, including for commercial real estate loans. The Bank conducts analysis of credit requests and the management of problem credits. The Bank has developed and implemented analytical procedures for evaluating credit requests, has refined the Company’s risk rating system and has adopted enhanced monitoring of the loan portfolio and the adequacy of the ACL, in particular on its commercial real estate and construction loans (including those collateralized by office properties). These analyses include stress testing. The loan portfolio analysis process is ongoing and proactive to support the Company's objective of maintaining a portfolio of quality credits and quickly identifying weaknesses before they become more severe.
The following table sets forth activity in the allowance for credit losses:
| Years Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands) | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | ||||||||
| Balance at beginning of year | $ | 85,940 | $ | 74,444 | $ | 74,965 | |||||
| Charge-offs: | |||||||||||
| Commercial | (4,906) | (2,020) | (1,561) | ||||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | (30,284) | (11,817) | — | ||||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | (3,800) | — | (1,355) | ||||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | (129) | (5,636) | — | ||||||||
| Other consumer | (88) | (50) | (79) | ||||||||
| Total charge-offs | (39,207) | (19,523) | (2,995) | ||||||||
| Recoveries: | |||||||||||
| Commercial | 373 | 576 | 713 | ||||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | 185 | — | — | ||||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 94 | 55 | 25 | ||||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | — | 36 | 1,627 | ||||||||
| Other consumer | — | 6 | 6 | ||||||||
| Total recoveries | 652 | 673 | 2,371 | ||||||||
| Net charge-offs | (38,555) | (18,850) | (624) | ||||||||
| Provision for credit losses - loans | 67,005 | 30,346 | 103 | ||||||||
| Balance at end of year | $ | 114,390 | $ | 85,940 | $ | 74,444 | |||||
| Ratio of allowance for credit losses to total loans outstanding at year end | 1.44 | % | 1.08 | % | 0.97 | % | |||||
| Ratio of net charge-offs during the year to average loans outstanding during the year | 0.48 | % | 0.24 | % | 0.01 | % |
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The following table reflects the allocation of the ACL at December 31, 2024 and 2023 by loan category and the percentage of allowance in each category. The allocation of the allowance at December 31, 2024 includes allowance for credit losses of $17.1 million against individually assessed loans of $208.7 million, as compared to allowance for credit losses of $0.6 million against individually assessed loans of $66.1 million at December 31, 2023. The allocation of the allowance to each category is not necessarily indicative of future losses or charge-offs and does not restrict the usage of the allowance to absorb losses in any category.
| December 31, | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||
| (dollars in thousands) | Amount | % of Total ACL | % of Total Loans | Amount | % of Total ACL | % of Total Loans | ||||||||||||||
| Commercial | $ | 19,390 | 17 | % | 15 | % | $ | 17,824 | 21 | % | 18 | % | ||||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | 55,185 | 48 | % | 51 | % | 40,050 | 47 | % | 51 | % | ||||||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 22,654 | 19 | % | 16 | % | 14,333 | 16 | % | 15 | % | ||||||||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | 610 | 1 | % | 1 | % | 861 | 1 | % | 1 | % | ||||||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | 14,585 | 13 | % | 15 | % | 10,198 | 12 | % | 12 | % | ||||||||||
| Construction - C&I (owner occupied) | 1,282 | 1 | % | 1 | % | 1,992 | 2 | % | 2 | % | ||||||||||
| Home equity | 653 | 1 | % | 1 | % | 657 | 1 | % | 1 | % | ||||||||||
| Other consumer | 31 | — | % | — | % | 25 | — | % | — | % | ||||||||||
| Total | $ | 114,390 | 100 | % | 100 | % | $ | 85,940 | 100 | % | 100 | % |
Nonperforming Assets
The Company’s level of nonperforming assets, which is comprised of the amortized cost of loans delinquent 90 days or more, and nonaccrual loans, which includes the nonperforming portion of loan modifications, and the carrying value of other real estate owned ("OREO") totaled $211.4 million at December 31, 2024, representing 1.90% of total assets, as compared to $66.6 million at December 31, 2023, representing 0.57% of total assets. The increase is primarily due to the increase in nonperforming loans discussed below.
The Company had no accruing loans that were 90 days or more past due at December 31, 2024 or December 31, 2023. Management prioritizes remaining attentive to early signs of deterioration in borrowers’ financial conditions and to taking action designed to mitigate risk. The Company places loans on nonaccrual status if it deems collection to be doubtful. The Company believes, based on its loan portfolio risk analysis that its ACL at 1.44% of total loans at December 31, 2024, is adequate to absorb expected credit losses within the loan portfolio at that date.
Total nonperforming loans had an amortized cost of $208.7 million at December 31, 2024, representing 2.63% of total loans, compared to $65.5 million at December 31, 2023, representing 0.82% of total loans. The increase was primarily from the addition of four income-producing commercial real estate loans and one owner-occupied commercial real estate loan.
The CECL standard allows for institutions to evaluate individual loans in the event that the asset does not share similar risk characteristics with its original segmentation. This can occur due to credit deterioration, increased collateral dependency or other factors leading to impairment. In particular, the Company individually evaluates loans on nonaccrual, though it may individually evaluate other loans or groups of loans as well if it determines they no longer share similar risk with their assigned segment. Reserves on individually assessed loans are determined by one of two methods: the fair value of collateral or the discounted cash flow. Fair value of collateral is used for loans determined to be collateral dependent, and the fair value represents the net realizable value of the collateral, adjusted for sales costs, commissions, senior liens, etc. Discounted cash flow is used on loans that are not collateral dependent where structural concessions have been made and continuing payments are expected. The continuing payments are discounted over the expected life at the loan’s original contract rate and include adjustments for risk of default.
Nonperforming assets include loans that the Company considers to be individually assessed. Individually assessed loans are defined as those as to which we believe it is probable that we will not collect all amounts due according to the contractual terms of the loan agreement. Loans that do not share risk characteristics consistent with similar loans are evaluated on an individual basis. For collateral dependent financial assets where the Company has determined that foreclosure of the collateral is probable, or where the borrower is experiencing financial difficulty and the Company expects repayment of the financial asset to be provided substantially through the sale of the collateral, the ACL is measured based on the difference between the fair value of the collateral and the amortized cost basis of the asset as of the measurement date. When repayment is expected to be from the operation of the collateral, expected credit losses are calculated as the amount by which the amortized cost basis of the financial asset exceeds the NPV from the operation of the collateral. When repayment is expected to be from
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the sale of the collateral, expected credit losses are calculated as the amount by which the amortized cost basis of the financial asset exceeds the fair value of the underlying collateral less estimated cost to sell. The ACL may be zero if the fair value of the collateral at the measurement date exceeds the amortized cost basis of the financial asset. Generally, all appraisals associated with individually assessed loans are updated on a not less than annual basis.
The Company evaluates all loan modifications according to the accounting guidance to determine if the modification results in a new loan or a continuation of the existing loan. Loan modifications to borrowers experiencing financial difficulties that result in a direct change in the timing or amount of contractual cash flows include situations where there is principal forgiveness, interest rate reductions, other-than-insignificant payment delays, term extensions, and combinations of the listed modifications. Modifications with terms not as favorable to the Company as the terms for comparable loans to other customers with similar collection risk who are not refinancing or restructuring a loan with the Company and which have a direct impact on cash flows are considered modified loans to borrowers experiencing financial difficulty. A loan that is considered a modified loan may be evaluated for disclosure if the commitment is $500 thousand or greater. Management strives to identify borrowers in financial difficulty early and work with them to modify their loan to more affordable terms before their loan reaches nonaccrual status, foreclosure or repossession of the collateral to minimize economic loss to the Company.
Commercial and consumer loans modified are closely monitored for delinquency as an early indicator of possible future default. If loans modified in a loan restructuring subsequently default, the Company evaluates the loan for possible further impairment. The allowance may be increased, adjustments may be made in the allocation of the allowance, or partial charge-offs may be taken to further write-down the carrying value of the loan.
During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Bank modified 41 loans with a total amortized cost of $401.8 million at December 31, 2024 (5.1% of the loan portfolio). These loans received extended loan terms of between approximately one to 36 months.
As of December 31, 2024, the payment status of six loans that were modified in the preceding twelve months, which totaled $137.1 million of amortized cost basis, including two loans with an amortized cost basis of $5.4 million were 30 to 89 days past due, and the other four loans with a total amortized cost basis of $131.7 million were on nonaccrual status. As of December 31, 2024, additional loans that were modified in the preceding twelve months which were performing under their modified terms totaled $264.7 million of amortized cost basis.
Management, from time-to-time and in the ordinary course of business, implements renewals, modifications, extensions and/or changes in terms of loans to borrowers who have the ability to repay on reasonable market-based terms, as circumstances may warrant, and therefore, such modifications are not considered to be loan restructurings to a borrower experiencing financial difficulty, as the accommodation of a borrower's request does not rise to the level of a concession if the modified transaction is at market rates and terms and/or the borrower is not experiencing financial difficulty. For example: (1) adverse weather conditions may create a short term cash flow issue for an otherwise profitable retail business which suggests a temporary interest only period on an amortizing loan; (2) there may be delays in absorption on a real estate project which reasonably suggests extension of the loan maturity at market terms; or (3) there may be maturing loans to borrowers with demonstrated repayment ability who are not in a position at the time of maturity to obtain alternate long-term financing.
Included in nonperforming assets at December 31, 2024 is OREO of $2.7 million, consisting of five foreclosed properties, compared to OREO of $1.1 million, consisting of three foreclosed properties at December 31, 2023. OREO properties are carried at the lower of cost or at fair value less estimated costs to sell.
It is the Company's policy to generally obtain third party appraisals prior to foreclosure and to obtain updated third party appraisals on OREO properties generally not less frequently than annually. Generally, the Company would obtain updated appraisals or evaluations where it has reason to believe, based upon market indications (such as comparable sales, a scenario in which the Company is considering legitimate offers below carrying value, broker indications and similar factors), that the current appraisal does not accurately reflect current value. There were two OREO sales in 2024 and two in 2023, generating proceeds of $656 thousand and $987 thousand, respectively.
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The following table shows the amounts of nonperforming assets, including loans at amortized cost and OREO at the lower of cost or fair value less estimated costs to sell, at the dates indicated:
| (dollars in thousands) | December 31, 2024 | December 31, 2023 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nonaccrual Loans: | |||||||
| Commercial | $ | 2,048 | $ | 2,049 | |||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | 168,454 | 40,926 | |||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 37,744 | 19,836 | |||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | 157 | 1,946 | |||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | — | 525 | |||||
| Home equity | 303 | 242 | |||||
| Total nonperforming loans (1) | 208,706 | 65,524 | |||||
| Other real estate owned | 2,743 | 1,108 | |||||
| Total nonperforming assets | $ | 211,449 | $ | 66,632 | |||
| Coverage ratio, allowance for credit losses to total nonperforming loans | 55 | % | 131 | % | |||
| Ratio of nonperforming loans to total loans | 2.63 | % | 0.82 | % | |||
| Ratio of nonperforming assets to total assets | 1.90 | % | 0.57 | % |
(1)Gross interest income of $8.8 million, and $4.2 million would have been recorded for 2024, and 2023, respectively, if nonaccrual loans shown above had been current and in accordance with their original terms, while interest actually recorded on such loans was $4.1 million, and $1.5 million at December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. See Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for a description of the Company’s policy for placing loans on nonaccrual status.
Significant variation in the amount of nonperforming loans may occur from period to period because the amount of nonperforming loans depends largely on the condition of a relatively small number of individual credits and borrowers relative to the total loan portfolio.
At December 31, 2024, there were $426.4 million of Substandard loans. Based upon their status as potential problem loans, loans risk rated special mention or substandard receive heightened scrutiny and ongoing intensive risk management. Additionally, the Company's loan loss allowance methodology incorporates increased reserve factors for certain loans considered potential problem loans as compared to the general portfolio.
Other Earning Assets
Bank owned life insurance at December 31, 2024 amounted to $115.8 million, as compared to $112.9 million at December 31, 2023. Refer to Note 18 to Consolidated Financial Statements for further detail.
Intangible Assets
The Company recognized a servicing asset for the computed value of servicing fees on the sales of multifamily FHA loans prior to selling those in 2024. The Company currently recognizes a servicing asset for the guaranteed portion of Small Business Administration ("SBA") loans and other loans sold with retained servicing which is in excess of the normal servicing fees. Assumptions related to loan term and amortization are made to arrive at the initial recorded value, which is included in intangible assets, net, on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. At December 31, 2024 and 2023, the balance of excess servicing fees was $16 thousand and $37 thousand, respectively, and were amortized as a reduction of actual service fees collected, which is a component of other income.
In 2008, the Company recorded an unidentified intangible asset (goodwill) incident to the acquisition of Fidelity of $2.2 million. In 2014, the Company recorded an initial amount of unidentified intangible (goodwill) incident to the acquisition of Virginia Heritage of approximately $102 million.
During the second quarter ended June 30, 2024, Management determined that a triggering event had occurred as a result of the share price trading under book value for more than four quarters due to changes in macroeconomic conditions and market volatility in the financial markets and the banking industry due to the impact from rising interest rates. As a result of the triggering event, the Company engaged a third-party service provider to assist Management with the determination of the fair value of the Company in the second quarter of 2024. The resulting calculations indicated that the fair value did not exceed the carrying amount of the Company's sole reporting unit as of May 31, 2024 which resulted in a determination that goodwill had become fully impaired. The goodwill impairment charge of $104.2 million reduced fully the carrying value of the Company's
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goodwill as of May 31, 2024. The impaired goodwill is primarily related to the acquisition of the Virginia Heritage Bank in October 2014. The impairment charge did not impact our cash flows, liquidity ratios, core operating performance, or regulatory capital ratios.
The method employed to determine the fair value of the reporting unit was a combination of a risk-weighted income and market valuation methodologies, comprised of the discounted cash flow method, the guideline public company method and the guideline transaction method. Significant judgment is necessary in the determination of the fair value of a reporting unit. Refer to "Critical Accounting Policies" for additional details.
Refer to Note 7 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for information on the initial and current carrying values as well as additions and amortization.
Deposits and Other Borrowings
The principal sources of funds for the Bank are core deposits, consisting of demand deposits, money market accounts, Negotiable Order of Withdrawal ("NOW") accounts, savings accounts, and certificates of deposits. The deposit base includes transaction accounts, time and savings accounts and accounts which customers use for cash management and which provide the Bank with a source of fee income and cross-marketing opportunities, as well as an attractive source of lower cost funds. To meet funding needs during periods of high loan demand and seasonal variations in core deposits, the Bank regularly utilizes alternative funding sources such as secured borrowings from the FHLB, federal funds purchased lines of credit from correspondent banks and brokered deposits from regional and national brokerage firms. Additionally, the Bank participated in the BTFP established by Federal Reserve Bank in March 2023. The Federal Reserve announced in January 2024 that the BTFP will stop originating new loans on March 11, 2024, as scheduled. In January 2024, the Company borrowed an additional $500.0 million through the BTFP and refinanced $500.0 million under the program, each at an interest rate of 4.76% and a maturity date in January 2025. These loans were repaid in the fourth quarter of 2024.
For the year ended December 31, 2024, deposits were $9.1 billion as compared to $8.8 billion at December 31, 2023, an increase of 4%. The increase was primarily attributable to a $558.2 million increase in interest bearing time deposits and a $285.2 million increase in savings and money market accounts, offset by a $734.7 million reduction in noninterest bearing deposits. These deposit changes were the result of growth in time deposits from the company's digital acquisition channel, partially offset by a decline in deposits from a third party payment processor related to the fluctuations in deposit levels resulting from its business, as well as declines in some public and brokered fundings.
Noninterest bearing deposits decreased $734.7 million or 32% to $1.5 billion at December 31, 2024 as compared to $2.3 billion at December 31, 2023, while interest bearing deposits increased by $499.5 million, or 12%. Within interest bearing deposits, money market and savings accounts collectively amounted to $3.6 billion at December 31, 2024, or 39% of total deposits, as compared to $3.3 billion, or 38% of total deposits, at December 31, 2023, an increase of $285.2 million, or 9%.
No single depositor represented more than 10% of total deposits as of December 31, 2024. The ten largest depositors not associated with brokered pass-through relationships represented approximately 23% of total deposits in the aggregate as of December 31, 2024. The Company maintains a significant deposit relationship with a third-party payments processor, whose business results in deposit inflows and outflows on an ongoing basis, which contributes to variations in period end compared to average deposit balances.
Average total deposits for the year ended December 31, 2024 were $9.5 billion, as compared to $8.9 billion for the same period in 2023, a 7% increase.
Time deposits were $2.8 billion at December 31, 2024, which was 30% of deposits. This was an increase from $2.2 billion at December 31, 2023, which was 25% of deposits. The increase in time deposits was driven by growth in the Company's digital acquisition channel.
The following table summarizes time deposits in excess of $250 thousand by maturity:
| (dollars in thousands) | December 31, 2024 | December 31, 2023 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Three months or less | $ | 189,817 | $ | 119,880 | |||
| More than three months through six months | 387,849 | 318,353 | |||||
| More than three months through twelve months | 710,021 | 368,103 | |||||
| Over twelve months | 421,530 | 726,758 | |||||
| Total | $ | 1,709,217 | $ | 1,533,094 |
Maturities of time deposits with balances of $250 thousand or more represented 19% and 17% of total deposits as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. See Note 10 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information
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regarding the maturities of time deposits and the Average Balances Table in the “Net Interest Income and Net Interest Margin” section for the average rates paid on interest-bearing deposits. Time deposits of $250 thousand or more can be more volatile and more expensive than time deposits of less than $250 thousand. However, because the Bank focuses on relationship banking, and its marketplace demographics are favorable, its historical experience has been that large time deposits have not been more volatile or significantly more expensive than smaller denomination certificates.
From time to time, when appropriate in order to fund strong loan demand or account for increased deposit outflow, the Bank accepts brokered time deposits, generally in denominations of less than $250 thousand, from a regional brokerage firm and other national brokerage networks, including IntraFi Network, LLC ("IntraFi"). Additionally, the Bank participates in the CDARS and the ICS products, which provide for reciprocal (“two-way”) transactions among banks facilitated by IntraFi for the purpose of maximizing FDIC insurance. ICS also allows for the sale of deposits into the IntraFI Network (“One-Way Sale”) which provides FDIC insurance for the depositor without reciprocal deposits returned to the Bank. Deposits sold through the IntraFi One-Way Sale process are not included in the Bank’s deposit totals.The sale of ICS deposits allows the Bank to moderate the fluctuation of deposit balances. As of December 31, 2024, the Bank sold $115.3 million through the IntraFi One-Way Sale network. The total of reciprocal deposits at December 31, 2024 was $1.4 billion (16% of total deposits) as compared to $1.7 billion (19% of total deposits) at December 31, 2023. These sources are believed by the Company to represent a reliable and cost efficient alternative funding source for the Bank, but there can be no assurance that they will continue to be adequate or appropriate to meet our liquidity needs. The Bank also is able to obtain one way CDARS deposits and participates in IntraFi’s Insured Network Deposit Program, (“IND”). The Bank had $894.7 million and $786.5 million of IND brokered deposits as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. However, to the extent that the condition or reputation of the Company or Bank deteriorates, or to the extent that there are significant changes in market interest rates which the Company and Bank do not elect to match, or if aggregate funding available to banks change due to changes in the marketplace, we may experience an outflow of brokered deposits or difficulty with obtaining them in the future. In that event we would be required to obtain alternate sources for funding, which may increase our cost of funds and negatively impact our net interest margin.
We have used brokered deposits and intend to continue to use brokered deposits as one of our funding sources to support future growth. At December 31, 2024, total brokered deposits were $4.0 billion, or 43.61% of total deposits, of which $1.4 billion were attributable to CDARS and ICS two-way accounts. At December 31, 2023, total brokered deposits (which did not include the CDARS and ICS two-way) were $2.5 billion, or 28.8% of total deposits. These brokered deposits were comprised of savings, money market and other interest-bearing transaction accounts of $2.7 billion and $1.1 billion, and time deposits of $1.3 billion and $1.5 billion at December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. The increase in the proportion of total deposits classified as brokered deposits reflected that CDARS and ICS two-way were included in brokered deposits at December 31, 2024. The Company uses the Call Report definitions for regulatory reporting by the Bank to classify its deposits as brokered deposits.
At December 31, 2024 and 2023, total deposits included estimated totals of $2.2 billion and $2.8 billion of uninsured deposits, which represented 24% and 31% of total deposits, respectively. The decrease in the percentage of the Bank's deposits that are uninsured was in part due to customers' increased use of the products facilitated by IntraFi that enable customers to maximize FDIC deposit insurance coverage for their deposits.
At December 31, 2024, the Company had $1.5 billion in noninterest bearing demand deposits, representing 17% of total deposits compared to $2.3 billion of noninterest bearing demand deposits at December 31, 2023, or 26% of total deposits. The decrease in noninterest bearing demand deposits was offset by the increase in time deposits during the year ended December 31, 2024, due to continued elevated interest rates in 2024. Average noninterest bearing deposits over total deposits for years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 were 21% and 28%, respectively. The Bank also offers business NOW accounts and business savings accounts to accommodate those customers who may have excess short term cash to deploy in interest earning assets.
As an enhancement to the basic noninterest bearing demand deposit account, the Company offers a sweep account, or “customer repurchase agreement,” allowing qualifying businesses to earn interest on short-term excess funds, which are not suited for either a certificate of deposit or a money market account. The balances in these accounts were $33.2 million at December 31, 2024 compared to $30.6 million at December 31, 2023. Customer repurchase agreements are not deposits and are not insured by the FDIC, but are collateralized by U.S. agency securities and/or U.S. agency backed MBS. These accounts are particularly suitable to businesses with significant fluctuation in the levels of cash flows. Attorney and title company escrow accounts are examples of accounts which can benefit from this product, as are customers who may require collateral for deposits in excess of FDIC insurance limits but do not qualify for other pledging arrangements. This program requires the Company to maintain a sufficient investment securities level to accommodate the fluctuations in balances which may occur in these accounts.
At December 31, 2024, the Company had $2.8 billion in time deposits, an increase of $0.6 billion from year end December 31, 2023. The Bank raises and renews time deposits through its branch network, for its public funds customers, and through brokered certificates of deposits ("CDs") to meet the needs of its community of savers and as part of its interest rate
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risk management and liquidity planning. Throughout the year, the Bank raised rates in most of its time deposit accounts in response to the continued elevated interest rate environment.
The following tables summarize the Company's borrowings at December 31, 2024 and 2023 and activities on borrowings for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023:
| (dollars in thousands) | Borrowings - Principal | Unamortized Deferred Issuance Costs | Net Borrowings Outstanding | Interest Rates (1) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 31, 2024 | |||||||||||||||
| Customer repurchase agreements | $ | 33,157 | $ | — | $ | 33,157 | 2.67 | % | |||||||
| Short-term borrowings: | |||||||||||||||
| FHLB | 490,000 | — | 490,000 | 4.81 | % | ||||||||||
| Long-term borrowings: | |||||||||||||||
| Senior notes | 77,665 | (1,557) | 76,108 | 10.00 | % | ||||||||||
| Total | $ | 600,822 | $ | (1,557) | $ | 599,265 | |||||||||
| December 31, 2023 | |||||||||||||||
| Customer repurchase agreements | $ | 30,587 | $ | — | $ | 30,587 | 3.42 | % | |||||||
| Short-term borrowings: | |||||||||||||||
| FRB BTFP secured borrowings | 1,300,000 | — | 1,300,000 | 4.53 | % | ||||||||||
| Subordinated notes | 70,000 | (82) | 69,918 | 5.75 | % | ||||||||||
| Total | $ | 1,400,587 | $ | (82) | $ | 1,400,505 |
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| 2024 | 2023 | ||||||||||||||
| (dollars in thousands) | Average Daily Balance (2) | Maximum Month-End Balance (2) | Average Daily Balance (2) | Maximum Month-End Balance (2) | |||||||||||
| Customer repurchase agreements and federal funds purchased | $ | 37,872 | $ | 44,454 | $ | 36,663 | $ | 54,851 | |||||||
| Short-term borrowings: | |||||||||||||||
| FHLB secured borrowings | $ | 373,544 | $ | 601,100 | $ | 549,522 | $ | 1,770,156 | |||||||
| FRB: BTFP secured borrowings | $ | 1,103,005 | $ | 1,800,000 | $ | 971,507 | $ | 1,300,000 | |||||||
| Subordinated notes, 5.75% | $ | 47,049 | $ | 70,000 | $ | 70,000 | $ | 70,000 | |||||||
| Long-term borrowings: | |||||||||||||||
| Senior notes | $ | 19,735 | $ | 77,665 | $ | — | $ | — |
(1)Represent the weighted average interest rate on customer repurchase agreements, borrowings outstanding and the coupon interest rate on the subordinated notes, which approximates the effective interest rate.
(2)The average daily balance and maximum month-end balance are calculated on the principal balance on the borrowings.
Outstanding short-term advances and borrowings are part of the overall asset liability strategy to support loan growth.
The Company had no outstanding balances under its federal funds lines of credit provided by correspondent banks (which are unsecured) at December 31, 2024 and 2023.
At December 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company had outstanding balances of $490.0 million and $0.0 million, respectively, of FHLB advances borrowed as part of the overall asset liability strategy. Outstanding FHLB advances are secured by collateral consisting of specifically pledged marketable investment securities, a blanket lien on qualifying loans in the Bank’s commercial mortgage, residential mortgage and home equity loan portfolios.
Additionally, at December 31, 2024, the Company had no advances outstanding under the BTFP, and $1.3 billion, outstanding at December 31, 2023. In March, 2023, the Federal Reserve announced that it would make available additional funding to eligible depository institutions through the creation of a new BTFP, which provided eligible depository institutions, including the Company's subsidiary bank, EagleBank, an additional source of liquidity. This program has ended as scheduled.
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The subordinated notes outstanding at December 31, 2023 comprised the Company's August 5, 2014 issuance of $70.0 million of subordinated notes, which matured and were repaid in September 2024.
On September 30, 2024, the Company closed a private placement of its 10.00% senior unsecured debt totaling $77.7 million maturing on September 30, 2029 (the "2029 Senior Notes" or "Original Notes"). At December 31, 2024, the carrying value of these 2029 Senior Notes was $76.1 million which reflected $1.6 million in unamortized deferred financing costs that are being amortized over the life of the 2029 Senior Notes.
In connection with the issuance of the 2029 Senior Notes, the Company also entered into a registration rights agreement dated September 30, 2024 with the purchasers of the 2029 Senior Notes (the “Registration Rights Agreement”). Pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, the Company filed an exchange offer registration statement with the SEC to exchange the Senior Notes for substantially identical notes registered under the Securities Act (the "Exchange Notes"). The terms of the Exchange Notes are identical to the terms of the Original Notes, except that the transfer restrictions and registration rights applicable to the Original Notes do not apply to the Exchange Notes. The Company completed the exchange offer on January 16, 2025.
CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS
The Company has various financial obligations, including contractual obligations and commitments that may require future cash payments. The following table shows details on these fixed and determinable obligations as of December 31, 2024, in the time period indicated.
| (dollars in thousands) | Within One Year | One to Three Years | Three to Five Years | Over Five Years | Total | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deposits without a stated maturity (1) | $ | 6,355,415 | $ | — | $ | — | $ | — | $ | 6,355,415 | |||||||||
| Time deposits (1) | 2,210,348 | 522,376 | 42,939 | — | 2,775,663 | ||||||||||||||
| Borrowed funds (2) | 523,157 | — | 76,108 | — | 599,265 | ||||||||||||||
| Operating lease obligations | 5,060 | 6,105 | 5,046 | 7,604 | 23,815 | ||||||||||||||
| Outside data processing (3) | 5,857 | 13,059 | 7,258 | — | 26,174 | ||||||||||||||
| George Mason sponsorship (4) | 688 | 1,400 | 1,400 | 3,975 | 7,463 | ||||||||||||||
| LIHTC investments (5) | 15,110 | 4,769 | 665 | 429 | 20,973 | ||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | 9,115,635 | $ | 547,709 | $ | 133,416 | $ | 12,008 | $ | 9,808,768 |
(1)Excludes accrued interest payable at December 31, 2024.
(2)Borrowed funds include customer repurchase agreements and other short-term and long-term borrowings.
(3)The Bank has outstanding obligations under its current core data processing contract that expires in June 2029.
(4)The Bank has the option of terminating the George Mason University ("George Mason") agreement at the end of contract year 15 (that is, effective June 30, 2030). Should the Bank elect to exercise its right to terminate the George Mason contract, its contractual obligation would decrease by $3.6 million for the option period (years 16-20).
(5)Low Income Housing Tax Credits (“LIHTC”) expected payments for unfunded affordable housing commitments.
The Company is party to financial instruments with off-balance-sheet risk in the normal course of business to meet the financing needs of its customers and to reduce its own exposure to fluctuations in interest rates. These financial instruments include commitments to extend credit and standby letters of credit. They involve, to varying degrees, elements of credit risk in excess of the amount recognized in the balance sheets. The contract or notional amounts of those instruments reflect the extent of involvement the Company has in particular classes of financial instruments.
Various commitments to extend credit are made in the normal course of banking business. Letters of credit are also issued for the benefit of customers. These commitments are subject to loan underwriting standards and geographic boundaries consistent with the Company’s loans outstanding.
Unfunded loan commitments are agreements whereby the Bank has made a commitment to lend to a customer as long as there is satisfaction of the terms or conditions established in the contract, and the borrower has accepted the commitment in writing. Commitments generally have fixed expiration dates or other termination clauses and may require payment of a fee before the commitment period is extended. In many instances, borrowers are required to meet performance milestones in order to draw on a commitment as is the case in construction loans, or to have a required level of collateral in order to draw on a commitment as is the case in asset based lending credit facilities. Collateral obtained varies and may include certificates of deposit, accounts receivable, inventory, property and equipment, residential and CRE. Since commitments may expire without being drawn, the total commitment amount does not necessarily represent future cash requirements.
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Unfunded lines of credit are agreements to lend to a customer as long as there is no violation of the terms or conditions established in the contract. Lines of credit generally have fixed expiration dates or other termination clauses and may require payment of a fee. Since lines of credit may expire without being drawn, the total unfunded line of credit amount does not necessarily represent future cash requirements.
Letters of credit include standby and commercial letters of credit. The credit risk involved in issuing letters of credit is essentially the same as that involved in extending loan facilities to customers. Letters of credit are conditional commitments issued by the Bank to guarantee the performance by the Bank's customer to a third party. Standby letters of credit generally become payable upon the failure of the customer to perform according to the terms of the underlying contract with the third party. Standby letters of credit are generally not drawn. Commercial letters of credit are issued specifically to facilitate commerce and typically result in the commitment being drawn when the underlying transaction is consummated between the customer and a third party. The contractual amount of these letters of credit represents the maximum potential future payments guaranteed by the Bank. The Bank has recourse against the customer for any amount it is required to pay to a third party under a letter of credit, and holds cash and or other collateral on those standby letters of credit for which collateral is deemed necessary. At December 31, 2024, approximately 71% of the dollar amount of standby letters of credit was collateralized.
Loan commitments outstanding and lines and letters of credit at December 31, 2024 and 2023 were as follows:
| (dollars in thousands) | 2024 | 2023 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unfunded loan commitments | $ | 1,318,133 | $ | 1,981,334 | |||
| Unfunded lines of credit | 88,305 | 98,614 | |||||
| Letters of credit | 69,051 | 87,146 | |||||
| Total | $ | 1,475,489 | $ | 2,167,094 |
Unfunded loan commitments declined in 2024 by $663.2 million, as compared to 2023, as previously committed construction projects advanced toward completion, while new construction loan commitments during the year were limited as the Bank advanced its strategic goals.
The Company’s exposure to credit loss in the event of nonperformance by the other party to the financial instrument for commitments to extend credit and standby letters of credit is represented by the contractual amount of those instruments. The Company uses the same credit policies in making commitments and conditional obligations as it does for on-balance-sheet instruments. See Note 19 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for a summary list of loan commitments at December 31, 2024 and 2023.
In connection with deposit guarantees, the Bank collateralizes certain public funds using qualified investment securities.
With the exception of these off-balance sheet arrangements, the Company has no off-balance sheet arrangements that have or are reasonably likely to have a current or future effect on the Company’s financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations, capital expenditures or capital resources, that is material to investors.
LIQUIDITY MANAGEMENT
Liquidity is a measure of the Company’s and Bank’s ability to meet loan demand and to satisfy depositor withdrawal requirements in an orderly manner. The Bank’s primary sources of liquidity consist of cash and cash balances due from correspondent banks, excess reserves at the Federal Reserve, loan repayments, federal funds sold and other short-term investments, maturities and sales of investment securities, income from operations and new core deposits into the Bank. Approximately 57% of the Company's investment portfolio of debt securities is held in an available-for-sale status which allows for flexibility, subject to holdings held as collateral for customer repurchase agreements and public funds, to generate cash from sales as needed to meet ongoing loan demand. As of December 31, 2024, the unrealized losses recorded on the available-for-sale securities were acting as a deterrent to any sale of those securities to raise liquidity. However, these securities can be utilized as pledged assets that provide secondary liquidity through the form of additional available borrowings. Investment securities that are classified as held-to-maturity can also be used as collateral to pledge against additional borrowings. These sources of liquidity are considered primary and are supplemented by the ability of the Company and Bank to borrow funds or issue brokered deposits, which are termed secondary sources of liquidity and which are substantial.
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The following table summarizes the Company's secondary sources of liquidity in use and available at December 31, 2024:
| (dollars in thousands) | Secondary Sources of Liquidity in Use | Secondary Sources of Remaining Liquidity Available | |||||
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| Unsecured brokered deposits (1) | $ | 1,099,075 | $ | 1,308,598 | |||
| FHLB secured borrowings | 490,000 | 874,270 | |||||
| FRB: | |||||||
| Discount window secured borrowings | — | 1,800,646 | |||||
| Federal funds lines | — | 145,000 | |||||
| Customer repurchase agreements | 33,151 | — | |||||
| Unpledged assets: (2) | |||||||
| Interest-bearing deposits with banks | N/A | 21,406 | |||||
| Investment securities | N/A | 1,280,156 | |||||
| Total | $ | 1,622,226 | $ | 5,430,076 |
(1)The available liquidity from the unsecured brokered deposits represents unsecured funds under one-way CDARS and ICS brokered deposits that would require then current market rates and be dependent on the availability of funds in those networks.
(2)Comprise unencumbered assets that could be liquidated or used as collateral to obtain additional liquidity through debt financing.
The funding mix has continued to change throughout the year ended December 31, 2024. Deposits at year end were $9.1 billion and $8.8 billion at December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. The increase was primarily attributable to a $558.2 million increase in interest bearing time deposits, offset by a $734.7 million reduction in noninterest bearing deposits and a $285.2 million reduction in savings and money market accounts. The growth in interest bearing deposits was driven by the increase in time deposit through the digital acquisition channel during the year ended December 31, 2024, as discussed in "Deposits and Other Borrowings" above. Short-term borrowings were $0.5 billion and $1.4 billion at December 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively. The decrease in short-term borrowings was due to the early retirement of BTFP borrowings during the fourth quarter of the year ended December 31, 2024 partially offset by an increase in FHLB borrowings.
Additionally, the Bank can purchase up to $145.0 million in federal funds on an unsecured basis from its correspondents, against which there were no amounts outstanding at December 31, 2024 and can borrow unsecured funds under one-way CDARS and ICS brokered deposits in the amount of $1.1 billion, against which there was $73 million outstanding at December 31, 2024. At December 31, 2024, the Bank also has custodial agreements with various broker-dealers through IntraFi's IND program which provided $894.7 million of brokered deposits.
At December 31, 2024, the Bank was also eligible to draw advances from the FHLB up to $1.4 billion based on assets pledged as collateral to the FHLB, against which the Bank borrowed $490.0 million as of December 31, 2024. The Bank posted additional collateral to the FHLB during the year ended December 31, 2024 to increase its availability to meet its ongoing liquidity needs and expects to continue utilizing this source of funding in the future.
In March 2023, the Federal Reserve Board announced that it would make available additional funding to eligible depository institutions through the creation of the BTFP. The BTFP provided eligible depository institutions, including the Bank, an additional source of liquidity. In January 2024, the Company borrowed an additional $500.0 million through the BTFP and refinanced $500.0 million under the program at an interest rate of 4.76% and a maturity in January 2025. The Federal Reserve discontinued the origination of new loans on March 11, 2024, as scheduled. During the year ended December 31, 2024, this alternative source of liquidity was being utilized for balance sheet optimization. The Company repaid $500.0 million in November 2024, and the remaining $500.0 million was repaid in December 2024.
The Bank may enter into repurchase agreements as well as obtain additional borrowing capabilities from the FHLB provided adequate collateral exists to secure these lending relationships. The Bank also has a back-up borrowing facility through the Discount Window at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (“Federal Reserve Bank”). This facility, which can be used to borrow up to $1.8 billion, is collateralized with specific loan assets identified to the Federal Reserve Bank. During the third quarter, additional collateral in the form of acceptable loans was pledged to the Discount Window increasing available contingent capacity. It is anticipated that, except for periodic testing, this facility would be utilized for contingency funding
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only. There can be no assurance, however, that these alternative sources of liquidity will continue to be available or will be sufficient to meet our ongoing liquidity needs.
In total, the Bank's aggregate borrowing capacity at December 31, 2024 was $4.0 billion, which consists of $0.9 billion and $1.8 billion additional aggregate capacity to borrow from the FHLB and the Federal Reserve's Discount Window, respectively, on assets that have been pledged. The Bank's aggregate borrowing capacity also includes unencumbered securities totaling approximately $1.3 billion available for pledging to the FHLB or Federal Reserve for additional borrowing capacity.
The loss of deposits, including through disintermediation, is one of the greater risks to liquidity. Disintermediation occurs most commonly when rates rise and depositors withdraw deposits seeking higher rates in alternative savings and investment sources than the Bank may offer. The Bank makes competitive deposit interest rate comparisons weekly and makes adjustments from time to time to ensure its interest rate offerings are competitive.
There is, however, a risk that the cost of funds will increase significantly as the Bank competes for deposits or that some deposits would be lost if rates were to increase and the Bank elected not to remain competitive with its deposit rates. Under those conditions, the Bank believes that it is well positioned to use other sources of funds such as FHLB borrowings, brokered deposits, repurchase agreements and correspondent banks’ lines of credit to offset a decline in deposits in the short run, but the use of such sources may negatively impact our net interest margin and our earnings. The continuing elevated cost of funding negatively impacted our net interest margin. In September 2024 and the fourth quarter of 2024, the Federal Reserve decreased interest rates by a total of 100 basis points, which had minimal impact on net interest margin for most of the year ended December 31, 2024.
There can be no assurance that the mix of sources of funds available to us at any particular time in the future will be adequate to meet our future liquidity needs. However, the market for customer and brokered deposits is highly competitive and the risk of disintermediation is high, particularly in a high interest rate environment. Most of our noninterest bearing deposits are operating deposits or compensating balances that are held in connection with lending relationships. The potential outflow of such deposits is a risk unless we pay a more competitive rate of interest on them, which could significantly and negatively impact the Bank’s interest expense and net interest margin, as the transfer of some noninterest-bearing deposits to interest-bearing deposits did in 2024. Over the long-term, an adjustment in assets and change in business emphasis could compensate for a potential loss of deposits. The Bank also maintains a marketable investment portfolio to provide flexibility in the event of significant liquidity needs. The Asset Liability Committee ("ALCO") has adopted policy guidelines, which emphasize the importance of core deposits, adequate asset liquidity and a contingency funding plan.
The Company believes it maintains sufficient primary and secondary sources of liquidity to fund its operations. During the year ended December 31, 2024, average short term liquidity was $3.2 billion comprising interest bearing deposits with other banks and other short-term investments and AFS securities, which is above the Bank's average needs. Secondary sources of liquidity at December 31, 2024 were $5.4 billion, which include the FHLB, other insured brokered deposit sweep programs, unpledged securities, Fed funds lines, and the FRB Discount Window. At December 31, 2024, the Company held total securities available to be pledged with an estimated fair value of $1.3 billion. At December 31, 2024, under the Bank’s liquidity formula, it had $6.8 billion of primary and secondary liquidity sources. Management believes the amount is adequate to meet current and projected funding needs.
CAPITAL RESOURCES AND ADEQUACY
The assessment of capital adequacy depends on a number of factors such as asset quality and mix, liquidity, earnings performance, changing competitive conditions and economic forces, stress testing, regulatory measures and policy, as well as the overall level of growth and complexity of the balance sheet. The adequacy of the Company’s current and future capital needs is monitored by management on an ongoing basis. Management seeks to maintain a capital structure that will assure an adequate level of capital to support anticipated asset growth and to absorb potential losses.
The federal banking regulators have issued guidance for those institutions, which are deemed to have concentrations in commercial real estate lending. Pursuant to the supervisory criteria contained in the guidance for identifying institutions with a potential commercial real estate concentration risk, institutions which have (1) total reported loans for construction, land development and other land acquisitions which represent 100% or more of an institution’s total risk-based capital; or (2) total commercial real estate loans representing 300% or more of the institution’s total risk-based capital and the institution’s commercial real estate loan portfolio has increased 50% or more during the prior 36 months are identified as having potential commercial real estate concentration risk. Institutions which are deemed to have concentrations in commercial real estate lending are expected to employ heightened levels of risk management with respect to their commercial real estate portfolios and may be required to hold higher levels of capital. The Company, like many community banks, has commercial real estate loans, and the Company has experienced growth in its commercial real estate portfolio in recent years. Although growth in that segment over the past 36 months at 26.8% did not exceed the 50% threshold laid out in the regulatory guidance, we expect the
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heightened supervisory expectations to continue to apply to us given the federal banking regulators’ general focus on commercial real estate exposures at banks.
At December 31, 2024, we did exceed the construction, land development, and other land acquisitions regulatory concentration threshold, and we continue to monitor our concentration in commercial real estate lending and remain in compliance with the guidance issued by the federal banking regulators. Construction, land and land development loans represent 122.60% of consolidated risk based capital. Management has extensive experience in commercial real estate lending, and has implemented and continues to maintain heightened risk management procedures and strong underwriting criteria with respect to its commercial real estate portfolio.
Loan monitoring practices include but are not limited to periodic stress testing analysis to evaluate changes to cash flows, owing to interest rate increases and declines in net operating income. Nevertheless, as our commercial real estate concentration fluctuates each quarter, we may be required to maintain higher levels of capital as a result of our commercial real estate concentrations, which could require us to obtain additional capital and may adversely affect shareholder returns. The Company seeks to manage the risks relating to commercial real estate and its capital adequacy through the development and implementation of its Capital Policy and Capital Plan, the preparation of pro-forma projections including stress testing and the development of internal minimum targets for regulatory capital ratios that are subject to approval by the Board and in excess of well capitalized ratios (as defined in the section “Regulation” above).
The Company and the Bank are subject to regulatory capital requirements administered by federal banking agencies. Capital adequacy guidelines and prompt corrective action regulations involve quantitative measures of assets, liabilities and certain off-balance-sheet items calculated under regulatory accounting practices. Capital amounts and classifications are also subject to qualitative judgments by regulators about components, risk weightings and other factors and the regulators can lower classifications in certain cases. Failure to meet various capital requirements can initiate regulatory action that could have a direct material effect on the financial statements.
At December 31, 2024, the capital position of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, the Bank, continue to exceed regulatory requirements and well-capitalized guidelines. The primary indicators relied on by bank regulators in measuring the capital position are four ratios as follows: Tier 1 risk-based capital ratio, Total risk-based capital ratio, the Leverage ratio and the CET1 ratio. Tier 1 capital consists of common and qualifying preferred shareholders’ equity less goodwill and other intangibles. Total risk-based capital consists of Tier 1 capital, plus qualifying subordinated debt and the qualifying portion of the ACL. Risk-based capital ratios are calculated with reference to risk-weighted assets, which are prescribed by regulation. The measure of Tier 1 capital to average assets for the prior quarter is often referred to as the leverage ratio. The CET1 ratio is the Tier 1 capital ratio but excluding preferred stock.
The prompt corrective action regulations provide five categories, including well capitalized, adequately capitalized, undercapitalized, significantly undercapitalized and critically undercapitalized, although these terms are not used to represent overall financial condition. If a bank is adequately capitalized, regulatory approval is required to, among other things, accept, renew or roll-over brokered deposits. If a bank is undercapitalized, capital distributions and growth and expansion are limited, and plans for capital restoration are required. If a bank is not well-capitalized, interest rate restrictions apply.
The FRB and the FDIC have adopted the Basel III Rules implementing the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's capital guidelines for U.S. banks. Under the Basel III Rules, the Company and Bank are required to maintain a CET1 ratio of 4.5% and a capital conservation buffer of 2.5% of risk-weighted assets, effectively resulting in a minimum CET1 ratio of 7.0%; a minimum ratio of Tier 1 capital to risk-weighted assets of 6.0%, or 8.5% with the fully phased in capital conservation buffer; a minimum total capital to risk-weighted assets ratio of 10.5% with the fully phased-in capital conservation buffer; and a minimum leverage ratio of 4.0%. The Basel III Rules also increased risk weights for certain assets and off-balance-sheet exposures. See the “Regulation” section for additional information regarding regulatory capital requirements. At December 31, 2024, the Company and the Bank met all these requirements.
The Company announced a regular quarterly cash dividend on January 22, 2025 of $0.165 per share to shareholders of record on February 7, 2025 and it was paid on February 21, 2025. Bank and holding company regulations, as well as Maryland law, impose certain restrictions on dividend payments by the Bank, as well as restricting extensions of credit and transfers of assets between the Bank and the Company. See further detail In "Item 5 - Market for Registrant's Common Equity" section.
The ability of the Company to continue to grow is dependent on its earnings and those of the Bank, the ability to obtain additional funds for contribution to the Bank’s capital, through additional borrowings, through the sale of additional common stock or preferred stock or through the issuance of additional qualifying capital instruments, such as subordinated debt. The capital levels required to be maintained by the Company and Bank may be impacted as a result of the Bank’s concentrations in commercial real estate loans. See further detail at the “Regulation” and “Risk Factors” sections.
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corrective action provisions of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. The actual capital amounts and ratios for the Company and Bank as of December 31, 2024 and 2023 are presented in the table below:
| Company | Bank | Minimum RequiredFor CapitalAdequacy Purposes (1) | To Be WellCapitalizedUnder PromptCorrective ActionRegulations (2) | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands) | Actual Amount | Ratio | Actual Amount | Ratio | ||||||||||||||||
| As of December 31, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| CET1 capital (to risk weighted assets) | $ | 1,369,643 | 14.63 | % | $ | 1,373,857 | 14.76 | % | 7.00 | % | 6.50 | % | ||||||||
| Total capital (to risk weighted assets) | 1,484,420 | 15.86 | % | 1,488,635 | 16.00 | % | 10.50 | % | 10.00 | % | ||||||||||
| Tier 1 capital (to risk weighted assets) | 1,369,643 | 14.63 | % | 1,373,857 | 14.76 | % | 8.50 | % | 8.00 | % | ||||||||||
| Tier 1 capital (to average assets) | 1,369,643 | 10.74 | % | 1,373,857 | 10.82 | % | 4.00 | % | 5.00 | % | ||||||||||
| As of December 31, 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| CET1 capital (to risk weighted assets) | $ | 1,335,967 | 13.90 | % | $ | 1,330,001 | 13.92 | % | 7.00 | % | 6.50 | % | ||||||||
| Total capital (to risk weighted assets) | 1,421,347 | 14.79 | % | 1,415,381 | 14.81 | % | 10.50 | % | 10.00 | % | ||||||||||
| Tier 1 capital (to risk weighted assets) | 1,335,967 | 13.90 | % | 1,330,001 | 13.92 | % | 8.50 | % | 8.00 | % | ||||||||||
| Tier 1 capital (to average assets) | 1,335,967 | 10.73 | % | 1,330,001 | 10.72 | % | 4.00 | % | 5.00 | % |
(1)The risk-based ratios reflect the minimum requirement plus the capital conservation buffer of 2.50%.
(2)Applies to Bank only
In December 2018, federal banking regulators issued a final rule that provides an optional three-year phase-in period for the adverse regulatory capital effects of adopting the CECL methodology pursuant to new accounting guidance for the recognition of credit losses on certain financial instruments, effective January 1, 2020. In March 2020, the federal banking regulators issued an interim final rule that provides banking organizations with an alternative option to temporarily delay for two years the estimated impact of the adoption of the CECL methodology on regulatory capital, followed by the three-year phase-in period. The cumulative amount that is not recognized in regulatory capital will be phased in at 25 percent per year beginning January 1, 2022. We have elected to adopt the option provided by the March 2020 interim final rule.
IMPACT OF INFLATION AND CHANGING PRICES
The Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes thereto have been prepared in accordance with GAAP in the United States of America, which require the measurement of financial position and operating results in terms of historical dollars without considering the changes in the relative purchasing power of money over time due to inflation. The impact of inflation is reflected in the increased cost of operations. Unlike most industrial companies, nearly all of our assets and liabilities are monetary in nature. As a result, interest rates have a greater impact on our performance than do the effects of general levels of inflation. Interest rates do not necessarily move in the same direction or to the same extent as the price of goods or services.
NEW AUTHORITATIVE ACCOUNTING GUIDANCE
Refer to Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for New Authoritative Accounting Guidance and their expected impact on the Company’s Financial Statements.
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FY 2023 10-K MD&A
SEC filing source: 0001050441-24-000053.
ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
The following discussion provides information about the results of operations, financial condition, liquidity, and capital resources of the Company. The Company’s primary subsidiary is the Bank, and the Company’s other direct and indirect active subsidiaries are Bethesda Leasing, LLC, Eagle Insurance Services, LLC and Landroval Municipal Finance, Inc.
This discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction with the audited Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes thereto, appearing elsewhere in this report.
We have omitted discussion of the earliest of the three years covered by our consolidated financial statements presented in this report as that disclosure is included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on February 9, 2023. You can reference the discussion and analysis of our results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to the year ended December 31, 2022 in “Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” within that report.
Caution About Forward Looking Statements. This report contains forward looking statements. These forward looking statements represent plans, estimates, objectives, goals, guidelines, expectations, intentions, projections and statements of our beliefs concerning future events, business plans, objectives, expected operating results and the assumptions upon which those statements are based. Forward looking statements include, without limitation, any statement that may predict, forecast, indicate or imply future results, performance or achievements and are typically identified with words such as “may,” “will,” “can,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “expects,” “plans,” "outlook," “estimates,” “potential,” “assume," "probable," "possible," "continue,” “should,” “could,” “would,” “strive," "seeks,” "deem," "projections," "forecast," "consider," "indicative," "uncertainty," "likely," "unlikely," ""likelihood," "unknown," "attributable," "depends," "intends," "generally," "feel," "typically," "judgment," "subjective" and similar words or phrases. These forward looking statements are based largely on our expectations and are subject to a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties that are subject to change based on factors which are, in many instances, beyond our control. Actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those contemplated, expressed or implied by the forward looking statements.
The following factors, among others, could cause our financial performance to differ materially from that expressed in such forward looking statements:
•Changes in the general economic, political, social and health conditions, including the macroeconomic and other challenges and uncertainties resulting from the effects of pandemics and natural disasters;
•The timely development of competitive new products and services and the acceptance of these products and services by new and existing customers;
•The willingness of customers to substitute competitors’ products and services for our products and services;
•Our management of liquidity risks in our operations, including, but not limited to, risks related to customer deposits, deposits in excess of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC") insurance coverage limits, access to capital markets and securities and market values;
•The effect of acquisitions we may make, including, without limitation, the failure to achieve the expected revenue growth and/or expense savings from such acquisitions;
•Our management of risks inherent in our real estate loan portfolio, and the risk of a prolonged downturn in the real estate market, which could impair the value of, and our ability to sell, properties which stand as collateral for loans we make;
•Our decision to cease originating residential mortgages;
•The growth and profitability of noninterest or fee income being less than expected;
•Changes in the level of our nonperforming assets and charge-offs;
•Changes in consumer spending and savings habits;
•The impact of climate change or government action and societal responses to climate change;
•Difficulty recruiting or retaining successful bankers, executive officers or other key personnel;
•Changing bank regulatory conditions, policies or programs, whether arising as new legislation or regulatory initiatives, that could lead to restrictions on activities of banks generally, or our subsidiary bank in particular, more restrictive regulatory capital requirements, increased costs, including deposit insurance premiums, regulation or prohibition of certain income producing activities or changes in the secondary market for loans and other products;
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•The impact of changes in financial services policies, laws and regulations, including laws, regulations and policies concerning taxes, banking, securities and insurance and the application thereof by regulatory bodies;
•The effects of, and changes in, trade, monetary and fiscal policies and laws, including interest rate policies of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System ("Federal Reserve Board," "Federal Reserve" or "FRB"), inflation, interest rate, market and monetary fluctuations;
•Results of examinations of us by our regulators, including the possibility that our regulators may, among other things, require us to increase our allowance for credit losses, to write-down assets, to hold more capital or to incur costs to remediate supervisory findings;
•The effects or impact of any litigation, regulatory proceeding, including enforcement proceedings and any possibly resulting fines, judgments, expenses or restrictions on our business activities;
•Unanticipated regulatory or judicial proceedings;
•The effect of changes in accounting policies and practices, as may be adopted from time-to-time by bank regulatory agencies, the SEC, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board ("PCAOB") or the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB");
•Cybersecurity breaches, threats, and cyber-fraud that cause the Bank to sustain financial losses;
•Technological and social media changes;
•Our management of risks inherent in the use of statistical and quantitative data and modeling;
•The strength of the United States economy, in general, and the strength of the local economies in which we conduct operations;
•Geopolitical conditions, including acts or threats of terrorism, actions taken by the United States or other governments in response to acts or threats of terrorism and/or military conflicts, which could impact business and economic conditions in the United States and abroad; and
•The factors discussed under the caption “Risk Factors” in this report.
If one or more of the factors affecting our forward looking information and statements proves incorrect, then our actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, forward looking information and statements contained in this report. You should not place undue reliance on our forward looking information and statements. We will not update the forward looking statements to reflect actual results or changes in the factors affecting the forward looking statements.
GENERAL
The Company is a one-bank holding company headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, which is currently celebrating twenty-five years of successful operations. The Company provides general commercial and consumer banking services through the Bank, its wholly owned banking subsidiary, a Maryland chartered bank which is a member of the Federal Reserve. The Company was organized in October 1997 and to be the holding company for the Bank. The Bank was organized in 1998 as an independent, community oriented, full service banking alternative to the super regional financial institutions, which dominate the Company’s primary market area. The Company’s philosophy is to provide superior, personalized service to its customers. The Company focuses on relationship banking, providing each customer with a number of services and becoming familiar with and addressing customer needs in a proactive, personalized fashion. The Bank currently has a total of thirteen branch offices (six in Suburban Maryland, four in Washington, D.C. and three in Northern Virginia), a principal corporate office, four lending centers (two are co-located with branches and one co-located in the principal corporate office) and one operations center. Refer to the Business Section above, which describes in detail the various banking services offered.
General economic, political, social and health conditions affect financial markets, and therefore, our business. As the economy has experienced higher levels of inflation, interest rates have increased due to current monetary policies. Fiscal and monetary policies have a direct and indirect impact on the level and volatility of interest rates, liquidity of financial markets, the availability and cost of capital, and market conditions of financing. In 2022, the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee ("FOMC"), began a series of rate increases thereby discontinuing the generally accommodative monetary policy it had pursued when the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020. In late 2022, the Federal Reserve begun tapering purchases of securities and is no longer expanding its balance sheet as aggressively. Actual real U.S. GDP growth for 2023 was 3.3%, in contrast to 2.1% growth in 2022 as the economy grew despite continuing to experience the effects of inflationary pressures and rising interest rates that also existed in 2022. The employment climbed throughout 2023 as the U.S. unemployment rate ended the year at 3.7%, up from 3.4% at the end of 2022.
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Longer-term U.S. interest rates increased in 2023, with the ten year U.S. Treasury rate averaging 3.96% in 2023 as compared to 2.95% in 2022. The yield curve in 2023 was inverted as rates increased sharply on the short end of the curve and remained anchored on the longer end versus a more normal shape in 2022.
We believe the Company’s primary market, the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, continues to exhibit a certain degree of resilience relative to other parts of the country despite the volatility in the current economic environment. The Washington, D.C. metropolitan area maintains a diverse economy which includes a stable public sector, a large healthcare component, substantial business services and a highly educated work force. The private sector, in particular, the Leisure and Hospitality sector has seen some recovery in recent years following the adverse effects of the pandemic. The multi-family commercial real estate leasing sector, notwithstanding increased supply of units in the Bank’s market area, has held up relatively well, particularly for well-located close-in projects. While commercial real estate office properties continue to experience challenges, the Company has remained focused on monitoring this sector and working with borrowers in order to mitigate credit losses within our loan portfolio. Overall, we believe commercial real estate values have generally decreased moderately, but we continue to be cautious of the cap rates at which some assets are trading, and therefore, we are being careful with valuations.
At December 31, 2023, the Company had total assets of approximately $11.7 billion, total loans of $8.0 billion, total deposits of $8.8 billion and thirteen branches in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The loan portfolio continued to grow in the year ended December 31, 2023, due primarily to our income producing commercial real estate ("CRE") loan originations and fundings, along with increases in our owner occupied CRE loans, and to a lesser extent, construction - commercial and residential loans and construction C&I (owner occupied) loans. Amidst this growth, we have remained cognizant of the volatility in our industry, capital markets and interest rate markets. While we remain cautious with regard to CRE market conditions, principally office, the strength of the Washington D.C. metro area in certain sectors, particularly multi-family commercial real estate and the housing market, continue to drive premiums for well-located properties.
The Company has the financial resources to meet, and remains committed to meeting, the credit needs of its community. Loan balances increased in 2022 and 2023 as rising rates led to deposit disintermediation reducing our liquidity levels and earning assets. The yield on earning assets continued to increase in 2023. During the year ended December 31, 2023, the yield on earning assets increased by 171 basis points (from 3.74% to 5.45%) while cost of funds increased 229 basis points (from 0.88% to 3.17%) which resulted in a decrease of 40 basis points in the net interest margin.
The Company’s capital position remained strong in 2023 as a result of continued earnings, improved economic conditions and strong asset quality. As a result of the Company’s strong capital position and earnings, we were able to continue our quarterly dividend in 2023. Additionally, the Company was active in share repurchase activity as we repurchased 1,600,000 shares at an average price of $29.74 per share during 2023.
The Company believes its strategy of remaining growth-oriented, retaining talented staff and maintaining focus on seeking quality lending and deposit relationships has proven successful. Additionally, the Company believes this strategy of relationship building has fostered future growth opportunities, as the Company’s reputation in the marketplace remains strong.
CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND ESTIMATES
The Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements are prepared in accordance with GAAP and follow general practices within the banking industry. Application of these principles requires management to make estimates, assumptions and judgments that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. These estimates, assumptions and judgments are based on information available as of the date of the Consolidated Financial Statements; accordingly, as this information changes, the Consolidated Financial Statements could reflect different estimates, assumptions and judgments. Certain policies, including those identified below for the year ended December 31, 2023, inherently have a greater reliance on the use of estimates, assumptions and judgments and, as such, have a greater possibility of producing results that could be materially different than originally reported. Estimates, assumptions and judgments are necessary when assets and liabilities are required to be recorded at fair value, when a decline in the value of an asset not carried on the financial statements at fair value warrants an impairment write-down or a valuation reserve to be established or when an asset or liability needs to be recorded contingent upon a future event. Carrying assets and liabilities at fair value inherently results in more financial statement volatility.
Allowance for Credit Losses and Provision for Unfunded Commitments
A consequence of lending activities is that we may incur credit losses, so we record an allowance for credit losses ("ACL") with respect to loan receivables and a reserve for unfunded commitments (“RUC”) as estimates of those losses. The amount of such losses will vary depending upon the risk characteristics of the loan portfolio as affected by economic conditions
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such as changes in interest rates, the financial performance of borrowers and regional unemployment rates, which management estimates by using a national forecast and estimating a regional adjustment based on historical differences between the two.
On January 1, 2020, when the Company adopted FASB's Accounting Standard Codification ("ASC") 326, Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments, and its related amendments, our methodology for estimating these credit losses changed significantly from years prior to 2020. The standard replaced the “incurred loss” approach with a “current expected credit loss” approach known as CECL, which requires an estimate of the credit losses expected over the life of an exposure (or pool of exposures). CECL removes the incurred loss approach’s threshold that delayed the recognition of a credit loss until it was “probable” a loss event was “incurred.”
The Provision for Unfunded Commitments represents the expected credit losses on off-balance sheet commitments such as unfunded commitments to extend credit and standby letters of credit. The RUC is determined by estimating future draws and applying the expected loss rates on those draws.
Management has significant discretion in making the judgments inherent in the determination of the provisions for credit loss, ACL and the RUC. Our determination of these amounts requires significant reliance on estimates and significant judgment as to the amount and timing of expected future cash flows on loans, significant reliance on historical loss rates on homogenous portfolios, consideration of our quantitative and qualitative evaluation of economic factors and the reliance on our reasonable and supportable forecasts.
The ACL represents the expected credit losses arising from the Company's loan and available-for-sale ("AFS") securities portfolios. The ACL is determined as follows:
The Company uses a loan-level probability of default ("PD")/ loss given default ("LGD") cash flow method with an exposure at default ("EAD") model to estimate expected credit losses for the commercial, income producing – commercial real estate, owner occupied – commercial real estate, real estate mortgage - residential, construction – commercial and residential, construction – C&I (owner occupied), home equity and other consumer loan pools. For each of these loan segments, the Company generates cash flow projections at the instrument level wherein payment expectations are adjusted for estimated prepayment speed, probability of default and loss given default. The modeling of expected prepayment speeds is based on historical internal data.
The Company uses regression analysis of historical internal and peer data (as Company loss data is insufficient) to determine suitable loss drivers to utilize when modeling lifetime PD and LGD. This analysis also determines how expected PD will react to forecasted levels of the loss drivers. For our cash flow model, management utilizes and forecasts regional unemployment by using a national forecast and estimating a regional adjustment based on historical differences between the two as a loss driver over our reasonable and supportable period of 18 months, and reverts back to a historical loss rate over the following twelve months on a straight-line basis. Management leverages economic projections from reputable and independent third parties to inform its loss driver forecasts over the forecast period.
The ACL also includes an amount for inherent risks not reflected in the historical analyses. Relevant factors include, but are not limited to, concentrations of credit risk, changes in underwriting standards, experience and depth of lending staff and trends in delinquencies. While our methodology in establishing the reserve for credit losses attributes portions of the ACL and RUC to the commercial and consumer portfolio segments, the entire ACL and RUC is available to absorb credit losses expected in the total loan portfolio and total amount of unfunded credit commitments, respectively.
Going forward, the impact of utilizing the CECL approach to calculate the reserve for credit losses will be significantly
influenced by the composition, characteristics and quality of our loan portfolio, as well as the prevailing economic conditions and forecasts utilized. Material changes to these and other relevant factors may result in greater volatility to the reserve for credit losses, and therefore, greater volatility to our reported earnings. For example, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and related hybrid or fully remote working environment has negatively impacted the performance outlook in the central business district office commercial real estate segment of our loan portfolio, which informed our CECL economic forecast and continued to adversely impact our loss reserve as of December 31, 2023. See Notes 1, 3 and 4 to the Consolidated Financial Statements, the “Provision for Credit Losses” section in Management’s Discussion and Analysis and the risk factors related to our business and economic conditions in Item 1A for more information on the provision for credit losses.
Goodwill
Goodwill represents the excess of the cost of an acquisition over the fair value of the net assets acquired. Goodwill is subject to impairment testing, which must be conducted at least annually or upon the occurrence of a triggering event. Various
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factors, such as the Company’s results of operations, the trading price of the Company’s common stock relative to the book value per share, macroeconomic conditions and conditions in the banking sector, inform whether a triggering event for an interim goodwill impairment test has occurred. Goodwill is recorded and evaluated for impairment at its reporting unit, the Company. The Company's policy is to test goodwill for impairment annually as of December 31, or on an interim basis if an event triggering an impairment assessment is determined to have occurred.
Testing of goodwill impairment comprises a two-step process. First, the Company performs a qualitative assessment to evaluate relevant events or circumstances to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount. If the Company determines that it is more likely than not that an impairment has occurred, it proceeds to the quantitative impairment test, whereby it calculates the fair value of the reporting unit and compares it with its carrying amount, including goodwill. In its performance of impairment testing, the Company has the unconditional option to proceed directly to the quantitative impairment test, bypassing the qualitative assessment. If the carrying amount of the reporting unit exceeds the fair value, the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds fair value, up to the carrying value of goodwill, is recorded through earnings as an impairment charge. If the results of the qualitative assessment indicate that it is not more likely than not that an impairment has occurred, or if the quantitative impairment test results in a fair value of the reporting unit that is greater than the carrying amount, then no impairment charge is recorded.
During the second quarter of 2023, Management determined that a triggering event had occurred as a result of a sustained decrease in the Company's stock price and a revision in the earnings outlook in comparison to budget for the remainder of 2023 due primarily to the economic uncertainty and market volatility resulting from the rising interest rate environment and the stress in the banking sector in the first and second quarters of 2023. The Company performed a qualitative assessment and quantitative impairment test on its only reporting unit as of May 31, 2023. The Company engaged a third-party service provider to assist Management with the determination of the fair value of the Company in the second quarter of 2023. In accordance with its regular schedule for impairment testing, the Company performed a second qualitative assessment and quantitative impairment test on its only reporting unit as of December 31, 2023. The resulting calculations indicated that the fair value exceeded the carrying amount of the Company's only reporting unit by approximately 17% and 21% as of May 31, 2023 and December 31, 2023, respectively, which resulted in a determination of no impairment loss on the Company's only reporting unit.
The method employed was a combination of a risk-weighted income valuation methodology, comprising a discounted cash flow analysis, and a market valuation methodology, comprising the guideline public company method.
Significant judgment is necessary in the determination of the fair value of a reporting unit. The income valuation methodology requires an estimation of future cash flows, considering the after-tax results of operations, the extent and timing of credit losses, and appropriate discount and growth rates. Actual future cash flows may differ from forecasted results based on the assumptions used.
In performing the discounted cash flow analysis, the Company utilized multi-year cash projections that rely on internal forecasts of loan and deposit growth, bond mix, financing composition, market pricing of securities, credit performance, forward interest rates, future returns driven by net interest margin, fee generation and expense incurrence, industry and economic trends, and other relevant considerations. The long-term growth rate used in the calculation of fair value was derived from published projections of the inflation rate and GDP, along with Management estimates.
The discount rate was calculated as the cost of equity capital using the modified capital asset pricing model, which includes variables including the risk-free interest rate, beta, equity risk premium, size premium, and company-specific risk premium.
The market approach considers a combination of price to tangible book value and price to earnings, adjusted based on companies similar to the reporting unit and adjusted for selected multiples, along with a control premium based on a review of transactions in the banking industry in order to calculate the indicated value of the Company's equity on a control, marketable basis.
Future events could cause the Company to conclude that the Company’s goodwill has become impaired, which would result in recording an impairment loss. Any resulting impairment loss could have a material adverse impact on the Company’s financial condition and results of operations, however, it would not impact our regulatory capital ratios, tangible common equity ratio, nor our liquidity position. Management has evaluated and will continue to evaluate economic conditions in interim periods for triggering events.
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SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
The following discussion is intended to assist in understanding the financial condition and results of operations of the Company as of and for the year ended December 31, 2023. The information contained in this section should be read together with the December 31, 2023 audited Consolidated Financial Statements and the accompanying Notes included in Item 8 Financial Statements And Supplementary Data of this Form 10-K.
This section of this Form 10-K generally discusses 2023 items and year-to-year comparisons between 2023 and 2022. Discussions of 2021 items and year-to-year comparisons between 2022 and 2021 that are not included in this Form 10-K can be found in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in Part II, Item 7 of the Company’s Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022.
| (dollars in thousands) | December 31, 2023 | December 31, 2022 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consolidated Balance Sheets: | |||||||||||
| Securities - available for sale | $ | 1,506,388 | $ | 1,598,666 | |||||||
| Securities - held to maturity | 1,015,737 | 1,093,374 | |||||||||
| Loans held for sale | — | 6,734 | |||||||||
| Loans | 7,968,695 | 7,635,632 | |||||||||
| Allowance for credit losses | (85,940) | (74,444) | |||||||||
| Goodwill and intangible assets, net | 104,925 | 104,233 | |||||||||
| Total assets | 11,664,538 | 11,150,854 | |||||||||
| Deposits | 8,808,039 | 8,713,182 | |||||||||
| Borrowings | 1,369,918 | 1,044,795 | |||||||||
| Total liabilities | 10,390,255 | 9,922,533 | |||||||||
| Total shareholders’ equity | 1,274,283 | 1,228,321 | |||||||||
| Tangible common equity (1) | 1,169,358 | 1,124,088 | |||||||||
| Years Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
| (dollars in thousands) | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | ||||||||
| Consolidated Statements of Income: | |||||||||||
| Interest income | $ | 625,327 | $ | 424,613 | $ | 364,496 | |||||
| Interest expense | 334,781 | 91,746 | 39,982 | ||||||||
| Provision for (reversal of) credit losses | 31,536 | 266 | (20,821) | ||||||||
| Noninterest income | 21,536 | 23,654 | 40,385 | ||||||||
| Noninterest expense | 153,293 | 165,098 | 149,165 | ||||||||
| Income before taxes | 127,520 | 189,680 | 237,674 | ||||||||
| Income tax expense | 26,986 | 48,750 | 60,983 | ||||||||
| Net income | 100,534 | 140,930 | 176,691 | ||||||||
| Cash dividends declared | 54,293 | 55,776 | 44,691 | ||||||||
| Total revenue (2) | 312,082 | 356,521 | 364,899 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands except per share data) | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | ||||||||
| Per Common Share Data: | |||||||||||
| Net income, basic | $ | 3.31 | $ | 4.40 | $ | 5.53 | |||||
| Net income, diluted | 3.31 | 4.39 | 5.52 | ||||||||
| Dividends declared | 1.80 | 1.75 | 1.40 | ||||||||
| Book value | 42.58 | 39.18 | 42.28 | ||||||||
| Tangible book value (3) | 39.08 | 35.86 | 38.97 | ||||||||
| Common shares outstanding | 29,925,612 | 31,346,903 | 31,950,092 | ||||||||
| Weighted average common shares outstanding, basic | 30,345,504 | 32,004,251 | 31,935,824 | ||||||||
| Weighted average common shares outstanding, diluted | 30,393,100 | 32,078,070 | 32,003,090 | ||||||||
| Ratios: | |||||||||||
| Net interest margin | 2.53 | % | 2.93 | % | 2.81 | % | |||||
| Efficiency ratio (4) | 49.12 | % | 46.31 | % | 40.88 | % | |||||
| Return on average assets | 0.84 | % | 1.20 | % | 1.49 | % | |||||
| Return on average common equity | 8.11 | % | 10.99 | % | 13.54 | % | |||||
| Return on average tangible common equity (1) | 8.85 | % | 11.97 | % | 14.73 | % | |||||
| CET1 capital (to risk weighted assets) | 13.90 | % | 14.03 | % | 14.63 | % | |||||
| Total capital (to risk weighted assets) | 14.79 | % | 14.94 | % | 15.74 | % | |||||
| Tier 1 capital (to risk weighted assets) | 13.90 | % | 14.03 | % | 14.63 | % | |||||
| Tier 1 capital (to average assets) | 10.73 | % | 11.63 | % | 10.19 | % | |||||
| Tangible common equity ratio | 10.12 | % | 10.18 | % | 10.60 | % | |||||
| Dividend payout ratio | 54.00 | % | 39.58 | % | 25.29 | % | |||||
| (dollars in thousands) | December 31, 2023 | December 31, 2022 | |||||||||
| Asset Quality: | |||||||||||
| Nonperforming assets and loans 90+ past due | $ | 66,632 | $ | 8,430 | |||||||
| Nonperforming assets and loans 90+ past due to total assets | 0.57 | % | 0.08 | % | |||||||
| Nonperforming loans to total loans | 0.82 | % | 0.08 | % | |||||||
| Allowance for credit losses to loans | 1.08 | % | 0.97 | % | |||||||
| Allowance for credit losses to nonperforming loans | 131.16 | % | 1,150.96 | % | |||||||
| Years Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
| (dollars in thousands) | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | ||||||||
| Asset Quality Activity: | |||||||||||
| Net charge-offs | $ | 18,850 | $ | 624 | $ | 13,339 | |||||
| Net charge-offs to average loans | 0.24 | % | 0.01 | % | 0.18 | % |
(1)Tangible common equity and return on average tangible common equity are non-GAAP financial measures. Tangible common equity is defined as total common shareholders’ equity reduced by goodwill and other intangible assets.
(2)Total revenue calculated as net interest income plus noninterest income.
(3)Tangible book value per common share, a non-GAAP financial measure, is defined as tangible common shareholders’ equity divided by total common shares outstanding.
(4)Computed by dividing noninterest expense by the sum of net interest income and noninterest income.
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Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The information set forth below contains certain financial information determined by methods other than in accordance with GAAP. These non-GAAP financial measures are “tangible common equity,” “tangible book value per common share,” “efficiency ratio” and “return on average tangible common equity.” The Company considers these non-GAAP measurements useful for investors, regulators, management and others to evaluate capital adequacy and to compare against other financial institutions. Management uses these non-GAAP measures in its analysis of our performance because it believes these measures are used as a measure of our performance by investors.
Tangible common equity to tangible assets (the "tangible common equity ratio"), tangible book value per common share, the annualized return on average tangible common equity ("ROATCE"), and the efficiency ratio are non-GAAP financial measures derived from GAAP-based amounts.
The Company calculates the tangible common equity ratio by excluding the balance of intangible assets from common shareholders' equity and dividing by tangible assets. The Company calculates tangible book value per common share by dividing tangible common equity by common shares outstanding, as compared to book value per common share, which the Company calculates by dividing common shareholders' equity by common shares outstanding. The Company calculates the ROATCE by dividing net income available to common shareholders by average tangible common equity which is calculated by excluding the average balance of intangible assets from the average common shareholders' equity. The Company considers this information important to shareholders as tangible equity is a measure that is consistent with the calculation of capital for bank regulatory purposes, which excludes intangible assets from the calculation of risk based ratios, and as such is useful for investors, regulators, management and others to evaluate capital adequacy and to compare against other financial institutions.
The Company calculates the efficiency ratio by dividing noninterest expense by the sum of net interest income and noninterest income. The efficiency ratio measures a bank's overhead as a percentage of its revenue. The Company believes that reporting the non-GAAP efficiency ratio more closely measures its effectiveness of controlling operational activities.
These disclosures should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for results determined in accordance with GAAP and are not necessarily comparable to non-GAAP performance measures which may be presented by other bank holding companies. Management compensates for these limitations by providing detailed reconciliations between GAAP information and the non-GAAP financial measures.
The following tables reconcile the GAAP financial measures to the associated non-GAAP financial measures:
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| (dollars in thousands except per share data) | December 31, 2023 | December 31, 2022 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Common shareholders’ equity | $ | 1,274,283 | $ | 1,228,321 | |||||||
| Less: Intangible assets | (104,925) | (104,233) | |||||||||
| Tangible common equity | $ | 1,169,358 | $ | 1,124,088 | |||||||
| Book value per common share | $ | 42.58 | $ | 39.18 | |||||||
| Less: Intangible book value per common share | (3.50) | (3.32) | |||||||||
| Tangible book value per common share | $ | 39.08 | $ | 35.86 | |||||||
| Total assets | $ | 11,664,538 | $ | 11,150,854 | |||||||
| Less: Intangible assets | (104,925) | (104,233) | |||||||||
| Tangible assets | $ | 11,559,613 | $ | 11,046,621 | |||||||
| Tangible common equity ratio | 10.12 | % | 10.18 | % | |||||||
| Years Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
| (dollars in thousands) | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | ||||||||
| Average common shareholders’ equity | $ | 1,240,118 | $ | 1,281,921 | $ | 1,304,902 | |||||
| Less: Average intangible assets | (104,534) | (104,248) | (104,265) | ||||||||
| Average tangible common equity | $ | 1,135,584 | $ | 1,177,673 | $ | 1,200,637 | |||||
| Net Income | $ | 100,534 | $ | 140,930 | $ | 176,691 | |||||
| Average tangible common equity | $ | 1,135,584 | $ | 1,177,673 | $ | 1,200,637 | |||||
| Return on average tangible common equity | 8.85 | % | 11.97 | % | 14.72 | % | |||||
| Noninterest expense | $ | 153,293 | $ | 165,098 | $ | 149,165 | |||||
| Net interest income | $ | 290,546 | $ | 332,867 | $ | 324,514 | |||||
| Noninterest income | 21,536 | 23,654 | 40,385 | ||||||||
| Operating revenue | $ | 312,082 | $ | 356,521 | $ | 364,899 | |||||
| Efficiency ratio | 49.12 | % | 46.31 | % | 40.88 | % |
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
Year Ended December 31, 2023 Compared with Year Ended December 31, 2022
Overview
Net income for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 was $100.5 million and $140.9 million, respectively. Net income per basic and diluted common share for the year ended December 31, 2023 was $3.31 and $3.31, respectively, compared to $4.40 and $4.39 per basic and diluted common share, respectively, for the year ended December 31, 2022, a 25% decrease.
Net income decreased in 2023 relative to 2022 primarily due to a decrease in net interest income of $42.3 million and an increase in provision for credit losses of $31.3 million. These were offset by a decrease in the provision for unfunded commitments of $1.7 million, a decrease in noninterest expenses of $11.8 million, and a reduction of income tax expense of $21.8 million.
The most significant portion of revenue (i.e., net interest income plus noninterest income) is net interest income, which decreased to $290.5 million for 2023 compared to $332.9 million for 2022. Net interest income decreased primarily due to increased interest expense due to higher rates on deposits and borrowings, which was partially offset by an increase in interest income on loans.
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The net interest margin, which measures the difference between interest income and interest expense (i.e., net interest income) as a percentage of earning assets, was 2.53% for 2023 and 2.93% for 2022, a decrease of 40 basis points. The drivers of the change are detailed in the "Net Interest Income and Net Interest Margin" section below.
The provision for credit losses in 2023 was $31.5 million as compared to $266 thousand in 2022. For information on the components and drivers of these changes see "Provision for Credit Losses" section below.
Total noninterest income in 2023 was $21.5 million, as compared to $23.7 million in 2022, a 9% decrease. The primary drivers for the decrease in noninterest income was a reduction in gain on the sales of residential mortgage loans and fees associated with residential mortgage loans in connection with the cessation of that business during the year ended December 31, 2023.
Noninterest expenses in 2023 totaled $153.3 million, as compared to $165.1 million in 2022, a 7% decrease. The decrease in noninterest expense was primarily attributable to the second quarter of 2022 accrual of settlement expenses in connection with the agreements with the SEC and FRB associated with previously disclosed government investigations, totaling $22.9 million. This was partially offset by increases in salaries and benefits of $2.0 million, legal and professional fees of $2.2 million and $6.9 million in FDIC insurance assessments. Additional details on the accrual for the agreements and other noninterest expenses are provided in "Noninterest Expense" section below.
The efficiency ratio, which measures the ratio of noninterest expense to total revenue, was 49.12% for 2023 as compared to 46.31% for 2022. The adverse change in the efficiency ratio was primarily driven by the decrease in net interest income as a result of the increase in interest rates on deposits and borrowings which was partially offset by the decrease in noninterest expense in connection with the second quarter of 2022 accrual of settlement expenses in connection with the agreements with the SEC and FRB associated with previously disclosed government investigations, totaling $22.9 million. Refer to the "Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures" section for additional detail and a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures.
At December 31, 2023, total loan balances were 4% higher than they were at December 31, 2022, and average loans were 8% higher in 2023 as compared to 2022, driven by originations and advances which outpaced payoffs and paydowns.
Total deposits at December 31, 2023 increased by $94.9 million as compared to December 31, 2022. The increase consists of $966.5 million in interest bearing deposits which was partially offset by a decrease of $871.7 million in noninterest bearing deposits. This was primarily driven by a significant increase in short term interest rates and the related deposit disintermediation and migration to interest-bearing deposit accounts.
In terms of the average asset composition or mix, loans, which generally have higher yields than securities and other earning assets, represented 68% and 63% of average earning assets for 2023 and 2022, respectively. For 2023, as compared to 2022, average loans, excluding loans held for sale, increased by $609.7 million, or 8%, driven by originations and advances that outpaced payoffs and paydowns.
Average investment securities for 2023 were 23% of average earning assets compared to 25% for 2022. The combination of federal funds sold, interest bearing deposits with other banks and loans held for sale represented 9% and 11% of average earning assets for 2023 and 2022, respectively, as lower levels of on-balance sheet liquidity existed throughout 2023. The decrease was driven by the decline in deposits due to a significant increase in short term interest rates.
The ratio of common equity to total assets decreased to 10.92% at December 31, 2023 from 11.02% at December 31, 2022, due primarily to an increase in total assets, in connection with increases in loans and interest-bearing deposits with banks and other short-term investments, and partially offset by an increase in common equity due to a reduction in accumulated other comprehensive losses.
For 2023, the return on average assets (“ROAA”) was 0.84%, as compared to 1.20% for 2022. Total shareholders’ equity was $1.27 billion at December 31, 2023 as compared to $1.23 billion at December 31, 2022, an increase of 4%. The return on average common equity (“ROACE”) for 2023 was 8.11% as compared to 10.99% for 2022. The ROATCE for 2023, a non-GAAP financial measure, was 8.85% as compared to 11.97% for 2022. Refer to the “Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” section for additional detail and a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures.
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Net Interest Income and Net Interest Margin
Net interest income is the difference between interest income on earning assets and the cost of funds supporting those assets. Earning assets are composed primarily of loans, investment securities and interest bearing deposits with other banks and other short term investments. The cost of funds represents interest expense on deposits, customer repurchase agreements and other borrowings, which consist primarily of federal funds purchased, advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta ("FHLB") and Bank Term Funding Program ("BTFP") and subordinated notes. Noninterest bearing deposits and capital are other components representing funding sources. Changes in the volume and mix of assets and funding sources, along with the changes in yields earned and rates paid, determine changes in net interest income.
Net interest income represented 93% of the Company’s revenue for both years ended December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022. Net interest income in 2023 was $290.5 million compared to $332.9 million in 2022. The 13% decrease for the year ended December 31, 2023 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2022 was primarily due to increases in average deposit rates (4.02% compared to 1.33%, respectively) and other borrowings (4.78% compared to 3.35%, respectively), which were partially offset by higher average loan balances and yields (6.63% compared to 4.97%, respectively).
Net interest margin decreased by 40 basis points to 2.53% in 2023 from 2.93% in 2022. The decrease reflects the increase in the cost of funds on deposits, primarily in connection with an increase in rates, and borrowings, in connection with both an increase in volume and rates, offset by an increase in the yield on loans. The cost of funds on interest-bearing liabilities increased 229 basis points from 0.88% in 2022 to 3.17% in 2023, while the yield on interest-earning assets increased by 171 basis points from 3.74% in 2022 to 5.45% in 2023.
Average borrowings increased from $242.5 million in the year ended December 31, 2022 to $1.6 billion in the year ended December 31, 2023. Average interest-bearing deposits increased from $6.2 billion in the year ended December 31, 2022 to $6.4 billion in the year ended December 31, 2023.
Average loans (excluding loans held for sale) were $7.8 billion for the year ended December 31, 2023, compared to $7.2 billion for the same period in 2022. Average investment securities were $2.6 billion for the year ended December 31, 2023, compared to $2.9 billion for the same period in 2022. Average interest-bearing deposits with other banks and other short term investments were $1.0 billion for 2023 compared to $1.2 billion for 2022. As a result of FRB actions related to Fed Funds interest rate increases, overall yields and rates increased in 2023 as compared to 2022, as variable rate loans adjusted upwards and an increased number of loans moved off their rate floors.
During the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company incurred interest expense on brokered deposits, excluding the Certificate of Deposit Account Registry Service ("CDARS") and Insured Cash Sweep ("ICS") two-way accounts, of $111.9 million and $44.3 million, respectively.
Loans, the largest component of interest income on earning assets, had a yield of 6.63% in 2023, compared to 4.97% in 2022, an increase of 166 basis points.
The table below presents the average balances and rates of the major categories of the Company's assets and liabilities for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021. Included in the table are measurements of interest rate spread and margin. Interest rate spread is the difference (expressed as a percentage) between the interest rate earned on earning assets less the interest rate paid on interest bearing liabilities. While the interest rate spread provides a quick comparison of earnings rates versus cost of funds, management believes that margin, together with net interest income, provides a better measurement of performance. The net interest margin (as compared to net interest spread) includes the effect of noninterest bearing sources in its calculation. Net interest margin is net interest income expressed as a percentage of average earning assets.
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Eagle Bancorp, Inc.
Consolidated Average Balances, Interest Yields And Rates (Unaudited)
(dollars in thousands)
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| 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Average Balance | Interest | Average Yield / Rate | Average Balance | Interest | Average Yield / Rate | Average Balance | Interest | Average Yield / Rate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assets | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest earning assets: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest bearing deposits with other banks and other short-term investments | $ | 1,015,199 | $ | 52,300 | 5.15 | % | $ | 1,235,768 | $ | 13,304 | 1.08 | % | $ | 2,499,377 | $ | 3,511 | 0.14 | % | ||||||||||||||
| Loans held for sale | 1,212 | 73 | 6.02 | % | 15,356 | 650 | 4.23 | % | 71,043 | 2,278 | 3.21 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Loans (1) (2) | 7,815,832 | 518,007 | 6.63 | % | 7,206,158 | 358,317 | 4.97 | % | 7,260,886 | 335,471 | 4.62 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Investment securities available-for-sale (2) | 1,584,239 | 32,074 | 2.02 | % | 2,003,475 | 33,641 | 1.68 | % | 1,653,522 | 23,205 | 1.40 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Investment securities held-to-maturity | 1,057,445 | 22,586 | 2.14 | % | 857,584 | 17,840 | 2.08 | % | — | — | — | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Federal funds sold | 9,120 | 287 | 3.15 | % | 48,402 | 861 | 1.78 | % | 31,667 | 31 | 0.10 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total interest earning assets | 11,483,047 | 625,327 | 5.45 | % | 11,366,743 | 424,613 | 3.74 | % | 11,516,495 | 364,496 | 3.16 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest earning assets | 501,722 | 475,563 | 416,492 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Less: allowance for credit losses | 79,218 | 74,726 | 96,252 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total noninterest earning assets | 422,504 | 400,837 | 320,240 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total Assets | $ | 11,905,551 | $ | 11,767,580 | $ | 11,836,735 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest bearing liabilities: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest bearing transaction | $ | 1,459,795 | $ | 46,140 | 3.16 | % | $ | 893,137 | $ | 6,721 | 0.75 | % | $ | 814,999 | $ | 1,609 | 0.20 | % | ||||||||||||||
| Savings and money market | 3,176,203 | 132,374 | 4.17 | % | 4,683,850 | 65,777 | 1.40 | % | 4,947,198 | 15,000 | 0.30 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Time deposits | 1,774,184 | 79,030 | 4.45 | % | 669,824 | 10,763 | 1.61 | % | 803,718 | 11,163 | 1.39 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total interest bearing deposits | 6,410,182 | 257,544 | 4.02 | % | 6,246,811 | 83,261 | 1.33 | % | 6,565,915 | 27,772 | 0.42 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Customer repurchase agreements and federal funds purchased | 36,663 | 1,218 | 3.32 | % | 30,745 | 356 | 1.16 | % | 24,884 | 51 | 0.20 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Borrowings | 1,591,021 | 76,019 | 4.78 | % | 242,454 | 8,129 | 3.35 | % | 464,973 | 12,159 | 2.61 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total interest bearing liabilities | 8,037,866 | 334,781 | 4.17 | % | 6,520,010 | 91,746 | 1.41 | % | 7,055,772 | 39,982 | 0.57 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest bearing liabilities: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest bearing demand | 2,508,687 | 3,871,773 | 3,374,662 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other liabilities | 118,880 | 93,876 | 101,399 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total noninterest bearing liabilities | 2,627,567 | 3,965,649 | 3,476,061 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shareholders’ equity | 1,240,118 | 1,281,921 | 1,304,902 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity | $ | 11,905,551 | $ | 11,767,580 | $ | 11,836,735 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest income | $ | 290,546 | $ | 332,867 | $ | 324,514 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest spread | 1.28 | % | 2.33 | % | 2.59 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest margin | 2.53 | % | 2.93 | % | 2.81 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cost of funds (3) | 3.17 | % | 0.88 | % | 0.38 | % |
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(1)Loans placed on nonaccrual status are included in average balances. Net loan fees and late charges included in interest income on loans totaled $16.7 million, $15.3 million and $30.6 million, for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
(2)Interest and fees on loans and investments exclude tax equivalent adjustments.
(3)The Company revised its cost of funds methodology to use a daily average calculation where interest expense on interest bearing liabilities is divided by average interest bearing liabilities and average noninterest bearing deposits. Previously, the Company calculated the cost of funds as the difference between yield on earning assets and net interest margin. The cost of funds for the year ended December 31, 2022 and 2021 have been recalculated using the current methodology.
The rate/volume table below presents the composition of the change in net interest income for the periods indicated, as allocated between the change in net interest income due to changes in the volume of average earning assets and interest bearing liabilities and the changes in net interest income due to changes in interest rates. As the table shows, the decrease in net interest income in 2023 as compared to 2022 was due to an increase in rate on interest bearing liabilities, which was partially offset by an increase in rate on interest bearing assets.
| Year Ended December 31, 2023 Compared with Year Ended December 31, 2022 | Year Ended December 31, 2022 Compared with Year Ended December 31, 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands) | Change Due to Volume | Change Due to Rate | Total Increase (Decrease) | Change Due to Volume | Change Due to Rate | Total Increase (Decrease) | |||||||||||||||||
| Interest earned on: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loans | $ | 30,315 | $ | 129,375 | $ | 159,690 | $ | (2,529) | $ | 25,375 | $ | 22,846 | |||||||||||
| Loans held for sale | (599) | 22 | (577) | (1,786) | 158 | (1,628) | |||||||||||||||||
| Investment securities available-for sale | (7,040) | 5,473 | (1,567) | 4,911 | 5,525 | 10,436 | |||||||||||||||||
| Investment securities held-to-maturity | 4,158 | 588 | 4,746 | 12,035 | 5,805 | 17,840 | |||||||||||||||||
| Interest bearing bank deposits | (2,375) | 41,371 | 38,996 | (1,775) | 11,568 | 9,793 | |||||||||||||||||
| Federal funds sold | (699) | 125 | (574) | 16 | 814 | 830 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total interest income | 23,760 | 176,954 | 200,714 | 10,872 | 49,245 | 60,117 | |||||||||||||||||
| Interest paid on: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest bearing transaction | 4,264 | 35,155 | 39,419 | 154 | 4,958 | 5,112 | |||||||||||||||||
| Savings and money market | (21,172) | 87,769 | 66,597 | (798) | 51,575 | 50,777 | |||||||||||||||||
| Time deposits | 17,745 | 50,522 | 68,267 | (1,860) | 1,460 | (400) | |||||||||||||||||
| Customer repurchase agreements | 69 | 793 | 862 | 12 | 293 | 305 | |||||||||||||||||
| Other borrowings | 45,216 | 22,674 | 67,890 | (6,712) | 2,682 | (4,030) | |||||||||||||||||
| Total interest expense | 46,122 | 196,913 | 243,035 | (9,204) | 60,968 | 51,764 | |||||||||||||||||
| Net interest income | $ | (22,362) | $ | (19,959) | $ | (42,321) | $ | 20,076 | $ | (11,723) | $ | 8,353 |
Provision for Credit Losses
The provision for credit losses represents the amount of expense charged to current earnings to record the ACL on loans and the ACL on AFS investment securities and HTM investment securities. The amount of the ACL on loans is based on management's assessment of current expected credit losses in the portfolio. Those factors include historical losses based on internal and peer data, economic conditions and trends, the value and adequacy of collateral, volume and mix of the portfolio, performance of the portfolio, and internal loan processes of the Company.
Please refer to the discussion under “Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates” above and in Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for an overview of the methodology management employs on a quarterly basis to assess the adequacy of the allowance and the provisions charged to expense. Also, refer to the table in the "Allowance for Credit Losses" section which reflects activity in the ACL.
The total provision for credit losses was $31.5 million during the year ended December 31, 2023, as compared to $266 thousand during the year ended December 31, 2022. The provision included $30.3 million and $103 thousand on the loan portfolio during the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. The provision for loan credit losses for the year ended December 31, 2023 was driven by adjustments to the qualitative components of the CECL model combined with smaller increases in the quantitative components. The changes in qualitative components were due to perceived weakness in the
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commercial real estate market, in addition to the high inflationary environment offset by a reduction in the quantitative reserves based on a decline in individually evaluated loans. The changes in quantitative components were related to changes in the nature and volume of the portfolio, changes in delinquencies and loss experience. In 2022, the provisions were primarily driven by adjustments to the qualitative components of the CECL model owing to the high inflationary environment and the related uncertainty and impacts on the broader economy, offset by improvements in asset quality.
During the year ended December 31, 2023, a provision for credit losses on securities of $1.2 million was recorded, primarily on its corporate bonds classified as held-to-maturity, while a net provision for credit losses of $163 thousand was recorded during the year ended December 31, 2022.
The provision for unfunded commitments is presented separately on the Statement of Income. This provision considers the probability that unfunded commitments will fund. There was a reversal of $267 thousand in 2023, as compared to a provision of $1.5 million in 2022.
Noninterest Income
Noninterest income includes service charges on deposits, gain on sale of loans, gain on sale of investment securities, income from bank owned life insurance (“BOLI”) and other income. The following table summarizes the comparative noninterest income for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022:
| Years Ended December 31, | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands) | 2023 | 2022 | Dollar Change | Percent Change | |||||||||||
| Service charges on deposits | $ | 6,455 | $ | 5,399 | $ | 1,056 | 20 | % | |||||||
| Gain on sale of loans | 418 | 3,702 | (3,284) | (89) | % | ||||||||||
| Net loss on sale of investment securities | (11) | (169) | 158 | (93) | % | ||||||||||
| Increase in the cash surrender value of bank-owned life insurance | 2,659 | 2,547 | 112 | 4 | % | ||||||||||
| Other income | 12,015 | 12,175 | (160) | (1) | % | ||||||||||
| Total | $ | 21,536 | $ | 23,654 | $ | (2,118) | (9) | % |
Total noninterest income for the year ended December 31, 2023 was $21.5 million as compared to $23.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2022. The 9% decrease was primarily due to a reduction on gains on sale of residential mortgage loans of $3.3 million. The Company ceased originations of first lien residential mortgages for secondary sale in the first quarter of 2023, and completed residual origination and sales activities in the second quarter of 2023. This decrease was partially offset by an increase on service charges on deposits of $1.1 million to $6.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2023 from $5.4 million for the same period in 2022.
Other income totaled $12.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2023 as compared to $12.2 million for 2022, a decrease of 1%. The decrease in other income was primarily attributable to the reductions in Mastercard income of $1.8 million, servicing fees of $1.0 million, and other loan income of $548 thousand. This activity was partially offset by increases of $2.5 million of income from an investment in an SBIC fund, income on swap fees of $617 thousand, and gain on the sale of Federal Housing Administration ("FHA") multifamily-backed Government National Mortgage Association ("Ginnie Mae") securities of $479 thousand.
Noninterest Expense
Total noninterest expense includes salaries and employee benefits, premises and equipment expenses, marketing and advertising, data processing, legal, accounting and professional fees, FDIC insurance premiums and other expenses. The following table summarizes the comparative noninterest expense for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022:
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| Years Ended December 31, | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands) | 2023 | 2022 | Dollar Change | Percent Change | |||||||||||
| Salaries and employee benefits | $ | 86,096 | $ | 84,053 | $ | 2,043 | 2 | % | |||||||
| Premises and equipment expenses | 12,606 | 13,218 | (612) | (5) | % | ||||||||||
| Marketing and advertising | 3,359 | 4,721 | (1,362) | (29) | % | ||||||||||
| Data processing | 13,083 | 12,171 | 912 | 7 | % | ||||||||||
| Legal, accounting and professional fees | 10,787 | 8,583 | 2,204 | 26 | % | ||||||||||
| FDIC insurance | 11,853 | 4,969 | 6,884 | 139 | % | ||||||||||
| SEC/FRB penalties | — | 22,977 | (22,977) | (100) | % | ||||||||||
| Other expenses | 15,509 | 14,406 | 1,103 | 8 | % | ||||||||||
| Total | $ | 153,293 | $ | 165,098 | $ | (11,805) | (7) | % |
Total noninterest expense totaled $153.3 million for 2023, as compared to $165.1 million for 2022, a 7% decrease. For 2023, the efficiency ratio (ratio of noninterest expenses to total revenue) was 49.12% as compared to 46.31% for 2022. Refer to the “Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” section for additional detail and a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures. The decrease in 2023 as compared to 2022 was primarily associated with the $22.9 million of settlement expenses during the year ended December 31, 2022, which were partially offset by increases in FDIC insurance expenses of $6.9 million, legal, accounting and professional fees of $2.2 million and salaries and employee benefits of $2.0 million over the comparative year.
Salaries and employee benefits were $86.1 million for 2023, as compared to $84.1 million for 2022, an increase of 2%. The primary reason for the increase in 2023 from 2022 was the reversal of a $5.0 million accrual related to stock-based compensation awards and deferred compensation for our former CEO and Chairman in the first quarter of 2022. At December 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company’s full time equivalent staff numbered 452 and 496, respectively.
Premises and equipment expenses were $12.6 million for 2023 as compared to $13.2 million for 2022, a decrease of 5%. The decrease was due to the reduction in rent expense from the closure of three locations in 2023, and one additional location in the fourth quarter of 2022. The reduction was partially offset by normal lease increases and acceleration of leasehold amortization.
Legal, accounting and professional fees and expenses were $10.8 million for 2023 as compared to $8.6 million for 2022, a 26% increase. The increase was primarily attributable to an increase in legal expenses, which, for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, were $3.7 million and $1.0 million, respectively.
FDIC insurance expense was $11.9 million for 2023 as compared to $5.0 million for 2022, an increase of 139%. The increases in 2023 compared to 2022 were due to increases in FDIC deposit insurance assessments.
In 2022, the Company incurred a penalty of $22.9 million in connection with the settlements with the SEC and FRB. The amount of penalty fees was reported as noninterest expense for 2022. No such penalty fees were incurred in 2023.
The major components of other expenses include broker fees, franchise tax, insurance expenses and director compensation. Other expenses were $15.5 million for 2023 as compared to $14.4 million for 2022, an increase of 8%. The increase in 2023, as compared to 2022, was primarily due to increases in expenses incurred in connection with OREO properties.
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BALANCE SHEET ANALYSIS
Overview
Total assets at December 31, 2023 were $11.7 billion as compared to $11.2 billion at December 31, 2022, a 5% increase. The increase in total assets in 2023 was primarily due to increases in total interest-bearing deposits with banks and other short-term investments, and an increase in total loans. The largest component of assets, total loans (excluding loans held for sale), were approximately $8.0 billion at December 31, 2023, as compared to $7.6 billion at December 31, 2022 a 4% increase.
The increase in loans in 2023, was driven by growth from CRE and construction loans. There were no loans held for sale at December 31, 2023, compared to $6.7 million at December 31, 2022, as a result of the cessation in origination of residential mortgages as previously announced.
Investment securities, at amortized cost net of the allowance for credit losses, were $2.7 billion at December 31, 2023 as compared to $2.9 billion at December 31, 2022, a $213.2 million decrease, or 7%, primarily driven by the pay down of principal on mortgage-backed securities ("MBS") and sales and calls of securities.
In terms of funding, total deposits at December 31, 2023 were $8.8 billion as compared to $8.7 billion at December 31, 2022, an increase of 1%. Total borrowed funds (excluding customer repurchase agreements) were $1.4 billion and $1.0 billion at December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. The increase in borrowings was primarily to meet funding needs, including to fund loan growth.
Total shareholders’ equity at December 31, 2023 was $1.3 billion as compared to $1.2 billion at December 31, 2022, a 4% increase. The increase in shareholders’ equity in 2023 was primarily from a reduction of accumulated other comprehensive loss and net income partially offset by cash dividends.
The Company's capital ratios remain substantially in excess of regulatory minimum and buffer requirements. Regulatory ratios based on risk-weighted assets slightly declined in 2023 due to an increase in risk-weighted assets, which was partially offset by an increase in risk-based capital.
The total risk based capital ratio was 14.79% at December 31, 2023, as compared to 14.94% at December 31, 2022. In addition, the tangible common equity ratio was 10.12% at December 31, 2023, compared to 10.18% at December 31, 2022. The ratio of common equity to total assets was 10.92% at December 31, 2023 as compared to 11.02% at December 31, 2022. The common equity tier one capital ("CET1") risk based capital ratio was 13.90% at December 31, 2023, as compared to 14.03% at December 31, 2022. The tier 1 leverage ratio was 10.73% at December 31, 2023, as compared to 11.63% at December 31, 2022.
Investment Securities and Short-Term Investments
The tables below and Note 3 to the Consolidated Financial Statements provide additional information regarding the Company’s investment securities categorized as “available-for-sale” or AFS and as "held-to-maturity" or HTM. The Company classifies its investment securities as either AFS or HTM. The AFS classification requires that investment securities be recorded at fair value with any difference between the fair value and amortized cost (the purchase price adjusted by any discount accretion or premium amortization) reported as a component of shareholders’ equity (accumulated other comprehensive income), net of deferred income taxes, while securities classified as HTM are recorded and presented at their amortized cost. At December 31, 2023, the Company had a net unrealized loss in AFS securities of $161.9 million with a deferred tax asset of $39.8 million, as compared to a net unrealized loss in AFS securities of $205.2 million with a deferred tax asset of $50.4 million at December 31, 2022.
The AFS portfolio comprises U.S. treasury bonds (3.2% of AFS securities), U.S. agency securities (44.6% of AFS securities) with an average duration of 3.1 years, seasoned MBS that are 100% agency issued (48.3% of AFS securities for residential mortgage-backed and 3.3% for commercial mortgage-backed), which have an average duration of 3.4 years with contractual maturities of the underlying mortgages of up to thirty years, municipal bonds (0.6% of AFS securities), which have an average duration of 6.8 years, and corporate bonds (0.1% of AFS securities), which have an average duration of 6.1 years.
The HTM portfolio comprises seasoned MBS that are 100% agency issued (65.8% of HTM securities for residential mortgage-backed and 8.9% for commercial mortgage-backed), which have an average duration of 4.7 years with contractual
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maturities of the underlying mortgages of up to thirty years, municipal bonds (12.3% of HTM securities), which have an average duration of 6.1 years, and corporate bonds (13.0% of HTM securities), which have an average duration of 5.3 years.
At December 31, 2023, the AFS investment portfolio was $1.5 billion as compared to $1.6 billion at December 31, 2022, a decrease of 6%. At December 31, 2023, the HTM investment portfolio was $1.0 billion as compared to $1.1 billion at December 31, 2022, a decrease of 7%. The investment portfolio is managed to achieve goals related to liquidity, income, interest rate risk management and to provide collateral for customer repurchase agreements and other borrowing relationships.
During the first quarter of 2022, we evaluated our securities portfolio and determined that certain securities will be maintained for the life of the instrument and made a decision to transfer $1.1 billion of securities designated as AFS to HTM, including $237.0 million of securities acquired in the first quarter of 2022 for which the intention to hold to maturity was finalized. The transferred securities had unrealized losses of $66.2 million, and, as of December 31, 2023, $51.7 million remains in accumulated other comprehensive loss and will be amortized ratably over the remaining lives of the securities through accumulated other comprehensive loss. The securities transferred were generally municipal bonds, corporate bonds, bonds that qualify for Community Reinvestment Act credit and MBS with longer final maturity dates.
The following table provides information regarding the composition of the investment securities portfolio at the dates indicated. AFS securities are reported at estimated fair value and HTM securities are reported at amortized cost. At December 31, 2023, the investment portfolio balances at fair value decreased and amortized cost increased as compared to December 31, 2022, and the composition of portfolio changed, as follows:
| December 31, | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2022 | |||||||||||||
| (dollars in thousands) | Fair Value | Percent of Total | Fair Value | Percent of Total | ||||||||||
| Investment securities available-for-sale: | ||||||||||||||
| U.S. treasury bonds | $ | 47,901 | 3 | % | $ | 46,327 | 3 | % | ||||||
| U.S. agency securities | 671,397 | 45 | % | 669,728 | 42 | % | ||||||||
| Residential mortgage-backed securities | 727,353 | 48 | % | 820,503 | 51 | % | ||||||||
| Commercial mortgage-backed securities | 49,564 | 3 | % | 50,213 | 3 | % | ||||||||
| Municipal bonds | 8,490 | 1 | % | 10,087 | 1 | % | ||||||||
| Corporate bonds | 1,683 | — | % | 1,808 | — | % | ||||||||
| Total | $ | 1,506,388 | 100 | % | $ | 1,598,666 | 100 | % |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2022 | |||||||||||||
| (dollars in thousands) | Amortized Cost | Percent of Total | Amortized Cost | Percent of Total | ||||||||||
| Investment securities held-to-maturity: | ||||||||||||||
| Residential mortgage-backed securities | $ | 670,043 | 66 | % | $ | 741,057 | 68 | % | ||||||
| Commercial mortgage-backed securities | 90,227 | 9 | % | 92,557 | 8 | % | ||||||||
| Municipal bonds | 125,114 | 12 | % | 128,273 | 12 | % | ||||||||
| Corporate bonds | 132,309 | 13 | % | 132,253 | 12 | % | ||||||||
| Total | 1,017,693 | 100 | % | 1,094,140 | 100 | % | ||||||||
| Allowance for credit losses | (1,956) | (766) | ||||||||||||
| Total held-to-maturity securities, net of ACL | $ | 1,015,737 | $ | 1,093,374 |
At December 31, 2023, there were no issuers, other than the U.S. Government, U.S. agencies and U.S. Government-sponsored enterprises, whose securities owned by the Company had a book or fair value exceeding 10% of the Company’s shareholders’ equity.
The following tables provides information, on an amortized cost basis, for AFS and HTM portfolios regarding the expected maturity and weighted-average yield of the investment portfolio at December 31, 2023. Expected maturities will differ from contractual maturities because borrowers may have the right to call or prepay obligations with or without call or prepayment penalties. Yields on tax exempt securities have not been calculated on a tax equivalent basis.
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| One Year or Less | After One Year Through Five Years | After Five Years Through Ten Years | After Ten Years | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands) | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Available-for-sale: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| U.S. treasury bonds | $ | 24,952 | 0.97 | % | $ | 24,942 | 0.69 | % | $ | — | — | % | $ | — | — | $ | 49,894 | 0.83 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| U.S. agency securities | 569,749 | 1.45 | % | 105,230 | 1.34 | % | 42,244 | 2.90 | % | 11,867 | 1.25 | % | 729,090 | 1.51 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Residential mortgage-backed securities | 5 | 4.55 | % | 5,362 | 1.79 | % | 175,811 | 1.44 | % | 642,814 | 1.91 | % | 823,992 | 1.81 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial mortgage-backed securities | — | — | % | 29,284 | 2.30 | % | 15,063 | 2.27 | % | 10,210 | 3.81 | % | 54,557 | 2.57 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Municipal bonds | — | — | % | — | — | % | 8,783 | 2.67 | % | — | — | % | 8,783 | 2.67 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Corporate bonds | — | — | % | 2,000 | 5.50 | % | — | — | % | — | — | 2,000 | 5.50 | % | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | 594,706 | 1.43 | % | $ | 166,818 | 1.48 | % | $ | 241,901 | 1.79 | % | $ | 664,891 | 1.93 | % | $ | 1,668,316 | 1.69 | % |
| One Year or Less | After One Year Through Five Years | After Five Years Through Ten Years | After Ten Years | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| (dollars in thousands) | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Held-to-maturity: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residential mortgage-backed securities | $ | — | — | % | $ | 1,168 | 2.72 | % | $ | 21,489 | 2.32 | % | $ | 647,386 | 2.65 | % | $ | 670,043 | 2.64 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Commercial mortgage-backed securities | — | — | % | 1,728 | 2.63 | % | 35,737 | 2.63 | % | 52,762 | 2.54 | % | 90,227 | 2.58 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Municipal bonds | 11,832 | 2.69 | % | 29,150 | 3.24 | % | 71,981 | 3.16 | % | 12,151 | 3.85 | % | 125,114 | 3.20 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Corporate bonds | 28,041 | 3.64 | % | 92,695 | 4.01 | % | 11,573 | 4.46 | % | — | — | % | 132,309 | 3.97 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | 39,873 | 3.36 | % | $ | 124,741 | 3.80 | % | $ | 140,780 | 3.00 | % | $ | 712,299 | 2.66 | % | 1,017,693 | 2.88 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Allowance for credit losses | (1,956) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total held-to-maturity securities, net of ACL | $ | 1,015,737 |
Federal funds sold were $3.7 million at December 31, 2023, as compared to $33.9 million at December 31, 2022. These funds represent excess daily liquidity which is invested on an unsecured basis with well capitalized banks, in amounts generally limited both in the aggregate and to any one bank.
Interest bearing deposits with banks and other short-term investments represent liquid funds held at the Federal Reserve to meet general liquidity needs of the Company, such as future loan demand and future increases in investment securities, among others. Interest bearing deposits with banks and other short-term investments were $709.9 million at December 31, 2023, as compared to $265.3 million at December 31, 2022, an increase of $444.6 million, or 168%. In 2023, as rising rates led to deposit disintermediation reducing our liquidity levels, and loan balances increased, the Company reduced these short-term investments to rebalance the earning assets mix.
The Bank did not hold any time deposits at December 31, 2023 or December 31, 2022.
Loan Portfolio
In its lending activities, the Company seeks to develop and expand relationships with clients whose businesses and individual banking needs will grow with the Bank. We believe superior customer service, local decision making and accelerated turnaround time from application to closing have been significant factors in growing the loan portfolio and meeting the lending needs in the markets served, while maintaining sound asset quality.
Loans increased over the past year as loans outstanding were $7.97 billion at December 31, 2023, as compared to $7.64 billion at December 31, 2022, an increase of $333.1 million or 4.4% .
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The loan portfolio continued to grow in 2023, due primarily to our income producing CRE loan originations and fundings, along with increases in our owner occupied CRE loans, and to a lesser extent, construction - commercial and residential loans and construction C&I (owner occupied) loans. Amidst this growth, we have remained cognizant of the volatility in our industry, capital markets and interest rate markets. Market rates on our new loan originations have risen in connection with rate increases implemented by the Federal Reserve. We continue to see opportunities for growth in the commercial real estate market in our focused sectors; our processes for evaluating these opportunities are designed to subject them to reasonable underwriting standards, including appropriate collateral and cash flow necessary to support debt service. Following origination, we continue to monitor our borrowers' business plans and identify primary and alternative sources for loan repayment and, if necessary, obtain collateral to mitigate credit loss in the event of default.
"Owner occupied-commercial real estate" and "construction–C&I (owner occupied)" loans represent 17% of the loan portfolio. The Bank has a large portion of its loan portfolio related to real estate, with 80% consisting of commercial real estate and real estate construction loans. Other than "owner occupied commercial real estate" and "construction–C&I (owner occupied)", the percentage of remaining total loans represented by commercial real estate is 63%. Real estate also serves as collateral for loans made for other purposes, resulting in 82% of loans being secured or partially secured by real estate.
The following table shows the trends in the composition of the loan portfolio over the past two years.
| December 31, | ||||||||||||||
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| 2023 | 2022 | |||||||||||||
| (dollars in thousands) | Amount | % | Amount | % | ||||||||||
| Commercial | $ | 1,473,766 | 18 | % | $ | 1,487,349 | 19 | % | ||||||
| PPP loans | 528 | — | % | 3,256 | — | % | ||||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | 4,094,614 | 51 | % | 3,919,941 | 51 | % | ||||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 1,172,239 | 15 | % | 1,110,325 | 15 | % | ||||||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | 73,396 | 1 | % | 73,001 | 1 | % | ||||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | 969,766 | 12 | % | 877,755 | 12 | % | ||||||||
| Construction - C&I (owner occupied) | 132,021 | 2 | % | 110,479 | 1 | % | ||||||||
| Home equity | 51,964 | 1 | % | 51,782 | 1 | % | ||||||||
| Other consumer | 401 | — | % | 1,744 | — | % | ||||||||
| Total loans | 7,968,695 | 100 | % | 7,635,632 | 100 | % | ||||||||
| Less: allowance for credit losses | (85,940) | (74,444) | ||||||||||||
| Loans, net | $ | 7,882,755 | $ | 7,561,188 |
As noted above, a significant portion of the loan portfolio consists of commercial, construction and commercial real estate loans, primarily made in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and is secured by real estate or other collateral in that market. Although these loans are made to a diversified pool of unrelated borrowers across numerous businesses, adverse developments in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan real estate market could have an adverse impact on this portfolio of loans and the Company’s income and financial position. Management believes that the commercial real estate concentration risk is mitigated by diversification among the types and characteristics of real estate collateral properties, sound underwriting practices and ongoing portfolio monitoring and market analysis. While our basic market area is the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, the Bank has made loans outside that market area where the applicant is an existing customer and the nature and quality of such loans was consistent with the Bank’s lending policies.
The Company's concentration in the Washington, D.C. metro area, includes "Washington's Maryland Suburbs," which comprise Frederick, Prince George's and Montgomery counties and "Northern Virginia," which comprises Alexandria, Arlington, Falls Church, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William counties. At December 31, 2023, 31.5%, 26.4%, 25.1%, 5.5%, and 11.5% of the loan portfolio, as a percentage of total amortized cost, was concentrated in Washington D.C., Washington's Maryland Suburbs, Northern Virginia, other counties in Maryland and other locations in the United States, respectively. At December 31, 2022, 33.2%, 25.8%, 23.7%, 5.8% and 11.5% of the loan portfolio, as a percentage of total amortized cost, was concentrated in Washington D.C., Washington's Maryland Suburbs, Northern Virginia, other counties in Maryland and other locations in the United States, respectively. While we remain cautious with regard to CRE market conditions, principally office, the strength of the Washington D.C. metro area in certain sectors, particularly multi-family commercial real estate and the housing market, continue to drive premiums for well-located properties.
As part of its lending strategy, the Company maintains a substantial portfolio of CRE loans, with $6.1 billion and $5.8 billion, or 77.0% and 76.2% of total loans, outstanding at December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively.
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Management meets regularly in order to monitor its existing CRE loan portfolio and to evaluate the pipeline for CRE loan investment. The Company has remained focused on monitoring sectors that have been impacted by the ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly income producing CRE loans collateralized by office properties, which comprised approximately $949.0 million and $937.2 million, or 11.9% and 12.3% of total loans, at December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively. Office loans within Washington D.C., Washington's Maryland Suburbs and Northern Virginia were $879.0 million and $851.9 million, or 11.0% and 11.2% of total loans, at December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively. As a percentage of total income producing - CRE office loans, 35.4%, 32.7%, and 24.4% were located in Washington's Maryland Suburbs, Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C. at December 31, 2023.
The following table summarizes the Company's income producing - commercial real estate loans, at principal, by collateral location and type:
| (dollars in thousands) | Hotel & Motel | Industrial | Mixed Use | Multifamily | Office | Retail | Single / 1-4 Family & Res. Condo | Other | Total | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| December 31, 2023: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Washington D.C. | $ | 138,943 | $ | 4,987 | $ | 271,689 | $ | 353,805 | $ | 231,963 | $ | 82,436 | $ | 80,264 | $ | 184,790 | $ | 1,348,877 | |||||||||||||||||
| Maryland: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Washington Suburbs | 85,704 | 78,765 | 47,629 | 235,594 | 336,290 | 95,716 | 2,812 | 182,287 | 1,064,797 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other | 83,566 | 34,013 | 11,534 | 2,410 | 4,376 | 67,806 | 2,563 | 29,030 | 235,298 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Virginia: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Northern Virginia | 66,982 | 19,436 | 11,527 | 76,839 | 310,773 | 79,979 | 14,957 | 504,507 | 1,085,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other | — | 3,268 | 25,828 | 55,555 | 65,557 | 101,018 | 6,585 | 9,403 | 267,214 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other | 23,769 | — | 5,382 | 40,708 | 50 | 1,949 | 4,092 | 28,671 | 104,621 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | 398,964 | $ | 140,469 | $ | 373,589 | $ | 764,911 | $ | 949,009 | $ | 428,904 | $ | 111,273 | $ | 938,688 | $ | 4,105,807 |
At December 31, 2023 and 2022, $240.7 million and $4.3 million, respectively, of principal of loans collateralized by office properties were criticized or classified.
The federal banking regulators have issued guidance for those institutions which are deemed to have concentrations in commercial real estate lending. Pursuant to the supervisory criteria contained in the guidance for identifying institutions with a potential commercial real estate concentration risk, institutions which have (1) total reported loans for construction, land development and other land acquisitions which represent 100% or more of an institution’s total risk-based capital; or (2) total commercial real estate loans representing 300% or more of the institution’s total risk-based capital and the institution’s commercial real estate loan portfolio has increased 50% or more during the prior 36 months are identified as having potential commercial real estate concentration risk. Institutions which are deemed to have concentrations in commercial real estate lending are expected to employ heightened levels of risk management with respect to their commercial real estate portfolios and may be required to hold higher levels of capital. The Company, like many community banks, has a concentration in commercial real estate loans, and the Company has experienced growth in its commercial real estate portfolio in recent years. As of December 31, 2023, non-owner occupied commercial real estate loans (including construction, land and land development loans) represented 350.4% of consolidated risk based capital. Although growth in that segment over the past 36 months at 7% did not exceed the 50% threshold laid out in the regulatory guidance, we expect the heightened supervisory expectations to continue to apply to us given the federal banking regulators' general focus on commercial real estate exposures at banks. Construction, land and land development loans represented 111% of consolidated risk based capital. Management has extensive experience in commercial real estate lending and has implemented and continues to maintain risk management procedures and underwriting criteria with respect to its commercial real estate portfolio designed to address the risks inherent in that asset class. Loan monitoring practices include but are not limited to periodic stress testing analysis to evaluate changes to cash flows, owing to interest rate increases and declines in net operating income. Nevertheless, we may be required to maintain higher levels of capital as a result of our commercial real estate concentrations, which could require us to raise additional capital, increasing our funding costs or diluting our shareholders, or take other action to retain capital, adversely affecting shareholder returns. The Company seeks to manage the risks relating to commercial real estate and its capital adequacy through the development and implementation of its Capital Policy and Capital Plan, the preparation of pro-forma projections including stress testing and the development of internal minimum targets for regulatory capital ratios that are subject to approval by the the Board of Directors (the "Board") and in excess of well capitalized ratio requirements.
At December 31, 2023, the Company had no concentrations of loans with any one borrower in any one industry exceeding 10% of its total loan portfolio. An industry for this purpose is defined as a group of businesses that are engaged in similar activities and have similar economic characteristics that would cause their ability to meet contractual obligations to be similarly affected by changes in economic or other conditions.
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Certain directors and executive officers have had loan transactions with the Company. Such loans were made in the ordinary course of the Company’s lending business; were made on substantially the same terms, including interest rates and collateral, as those prevailing at the time for comparable loans with third parties; and, in the opinion of management, did not involve more than the normal risk of collectability or present other unfavorable features. Refer to Note 4 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further detail regarding related party loans.
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Loan Maturity
The following table sets forth the time to contractual maturity of the loan portfolio as of December 31, 2023.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands) | Total | One Year or Less | Over One to Five Years | Over Five to Fifteen Years | Over Fifteen Years | ||||||||||||||
| Commercial | $ | 1,473,766 | $ | 431,362 | $ | 868,535 | $ | 170,283 | $ | 3,586 | |||||||||
| PPP loans | 528 | — | 528 | — | — | ||||||||||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate (1) | 4,094,614 | 1,581,533 | 2,128,038 | 385,043 | — | ||||||||||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 1,172,239 | 193,757 | 409,730 | 351,184 | 217,568 | ||||||||||||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | 73,396 | 17,021 | 44,354 | 501 | 11,520 | ||||||||||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | 969,766 | 215,207 | 711,288 | 12,182 | 31,089 | ||||||||||||||
| Construction - C&I (owner occupied) | 132,021 | 769 | 37,988 | 34,319 | 58,945 | ||||||||||||||
| Home equity | 51,964 | 2,257 | 2,201 | 1,540 | 45,966 | ||||||||||||||
| Other consumer | 401 | 212 | 46 | — | 143 | ||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | 7,968,695 | $ | 2,442,118 | $ | 4,202,708 | $ | 955,052 | $ | 368,817 | |||||||||
| Loans with: | |||||||||||||||||||
| Predetermined fixed interest rate | |||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial | $ | 403,955 | $ | 47,290 | $ | 246,822 | $ | 109,843 | $ | — | |||||||||
| PPP loans | 528 | — | 528 | — | — | ||||||||||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | 1,849,347 | 662,143 | 1,014,799 | 172,405 | — | ||||||||||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 615,019 | 172,237 | 216,481 | 163,735 | 62,566 | ||||||||||||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | 67,877 | 13,186 | 44,354 | 153 | 10,184 | ||||||||||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | 67,891 | 16,597 | 51,294 | — | — | ||||||||||||||
| Construction - C&I (owner occupied) | 42,699 | 769 | 4,588 | 11,633 | 25,709 | ||||||||||||||
| Home equity | 579 | 36 | 180 | 363 | — | ||||||||||||||
| Other consumer | 54 | 5 | 46 | — | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | 3,047,949 | $ | 912,263 | $ | 1,579,092 | $ | 458,132 | $ | 98,462 | |||||||||
| Floating or adjustable interest rate | |||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial | $ | 1,069,811 | $ | 384,072 | $ | 621,713 | $ | 60,440 | $ | 3,586 | |||||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | 2,245,267 | 919,390 | 1,113,239 | 212,638 | — | ||||||||||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 557,220 | 21,520 | 193,249 | 187,449 | 155,002 | ||||||||||||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | 5,519 | 3,835 | — | 348 | 1,336 | ||||||||||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | 901,875 | 198,610 | 659,994 | 12,182 | 31,089 | ||||||||||||||
| Construction - C&I (owner occupied) | 89,322 | — | 33,400 | 22,686 | 33,236 | ||||||||||||||
| Home equity | 51,385 | 2,221 | 2,021 | 1,177 | 45,966 | ||||||||||||||
| Other consumer | 347 | 207 | — | — | 140 | ||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | 4,920,746 | $ | 1,529,855 | $ | 2,623,616 | $ | 496,920 | $ | 270,355 |
(1)Income producing CRE office loans, which had total principal of $949.0 million at December 31, 2023 and are included within income producing - commercial real estate, had principal of $325.3 million, $587.8 million, $35.7 million and $150 thousand aggregated with one year or less, over one year to five years, over five years to fifteen years, and over fifteen
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years remaining until contractual maturity, respectively. Approximately $107.0 million and $393.7 million of income producing CRE office loans as of December 31, 2023 were due to mature within three months and 18 months, respectively.
Loans are shown in the period based on final contractual maturity. Demand loans, having no contractual maturity, and overdrafts are reported as due in one year or less.
Allowance for Credit Losses
The ACL is an estimate based on many factors which reflect management’s assessment of the risk in the loan portfolio. Those factors include economic conditions and trends, the value and adequacy of collateral, volume and mix of the portfolio, performance of the portfolio and internal loan processes of the Company and Bank.
The ACL for loans at December 31, 2023, or $85.9 million, reflected a $11.5 million increase from December 31, 2022, or $74.4 million, reflecting a provision for credit losses of $30.3 million and $18.9 million in net charge-offs during the year ended December 31, 2023. Net charge-offs of $18.9 million during 2023 represented 0.24% of average loans, excluding loans held for sale, an increase from net charge-offs of $624 thousand during 2022, which represented 0.01% of average loans, excluding loans held for sale. Net charge-offs included $17.1 million of charge-offs on four loans, three of which were income producing - commercial real estate loans and one of which was a construction - commercial residential loan. The ACL represented 1.08% of total loans at December 31, 2023 as compared to 0.97% at December 31, 2022. At December 31, 2023, the allowance represented 131% of nonperforming loans as compared to 1,151% at December 31, 2022.
A full discussion of the accounting for ACL is contained in Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements and activity in the ACL is contained in Note 4 to the Consolidated Financial Statements. Also, please refer to the discussion under the caption “Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates” within Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operation for further discussion of the methodology which management employs to maintain an adequate ACL, as well as the discussion under the caption “Provision for Credit Losses” for a discussion of the Companys calculation of the provision for credit losses during the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022.
As part of its comprehensive loan review process, the Bank’s Risk Committee evaluates loans which are past due 30 days or more. The Committee makes an assessment of the conditions and circumstances surrounding delinquent and potential problem loans. The Bank’s loan policy requires that loans be placed on nonaccrual if they are 90 days past due or if their collection is deemed to be doubtful, unless they are well secured and in the process of collection. The Credit Administration department analyzes the status of development and construction projects, including sales activities and utilization of interest reserves in order to c assess potential increased levels of risk which may require additional reserves.
At December 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company had $65.5 million and $6.5 million, respectively, of loans classified as nonperforming. Please refer to Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements under the caption “Loans” for a discussion of the Company’s policy regarding individual evaluation of loans to record a provision for expected credit losses. Please refer to the “Nonperforming Assets” section for a discussion of problem and potential problem assets.
The Company believes it has taken a conservative posture with respect to risk rating its loan portfolio. As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, loans rated special mention were $207.1 million and $113.6 million, respectively, and loans rated substandard were $335.8 million and $88.7 million, respectively. The increases in special mention and substandard loans were primarily attributable to a continued focus on the evaluation of the Company's income producing - commercial real estate and owner occupied - commercial real estate loans. Based upon their status as potential problem loans, loans risk rated special mention or substandard receive heightened scrutiny and ongoing intensive risk management. Additionally, the Company's loan loss allowance methodology incorporates increased reserve factors for certain loans considered potential problem loans as compared to the general portfolio.
As the loan portfolio and ACL review processes continue to evolve there may be changes to elements of the allowance and this may have an effect on the overall level of the allowance maintained. Management did conduct sensitivity analysis on the CECL model, which, in part, was conducted by shocking the unemployment forecast up by 2% across the forecast period.
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Management, being aware of the loan growth experienced by the Bank and the risks facing commercial real estate, is intent on maintaining strong portfolio management and a strong risk rating process. The Bank provides analysis of credit requests and the management of problem credits. The Bank has developed and implemented analytical procedures for evaluating credit requests, has refined the Company’s risk rating system and has adopted enhanced monitoring of the loan portfolio and the adequacy of the ACL, in particular on its commercial real estate and construction loans (including those collateralized by office properties). These analyses include stress testing Additionally, fair value assessments of loans acquired are included in our analytical procedures. The loan portfolio analysis process is ongoing and proactive to support the Company's objective of maintaining a portfolio of quality credits and quickly identifying weaknesses before they become more severe.
The following table sets forth activity in the allowance for credit losses:
| Years Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands) | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | ||||||||
| Balance at beginning of year | $ | 74,444 | $ | 74,965 | $ | 109,579 | |||||
| Charge-offs: | |||||||||||
| Commercial | (2,020) | (1,561) | (8,788) | ||||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | (11,817) | — | — | ||||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | — | (1,355) | (5,445) | ||||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | (5,636) | — | (206) | ||||||||
| Other consumer | (50) | (79) | (1) | ||||||||
| Total charge-offs | (19,523) | (2,995) | (14,440) | ||||||||
| Recoveries: | |||||||||||
| Commercial | 576 | 713 | 486 | ||||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 55 | 25 | 97 | ||||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | 36 | 1,627 | 499 | ||||||||
| Other consumer | 6 | 6 | 18 | ||||||||
| Total recoveries | 673 | 2,371 | 1,100 | ||||||||
| Net charge-offs | (18,850) | (624) | (13,340) | ||||||||
| Provision for credit losses - loans | 30,346 | 103 | (21,274) | ||||||||
| Balance at end of year | $ | 85,940 | $ | 74,444 | $ | 74,965 | |||||
| Ratio of allowance for credit losses to total loans outstanding at year end | 1.08 | % | 0.97 | % | 1.06 | % | |||||
| Ratio of net charge-offs during the year to average loans outstanding during the year | 0.24 | % | 0.01 | % | 0.18 | % |
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The following table presents the allocation of the ACL by loan category and the percentage of allowance in each category. The allocation of the allowance at December 31, 2023 includes allowance for credit losses of $641 thousand against individually assessed loans of $66.1 million, as compared to allowance for credit losses of $5.2 million against individually assessed loans of $30.7 million at December 31, 2022. The allocation of the allowance to each category is not necessarily indicative of future losses or charge-offs and does not restrict the usage of the allowance for any specific loan or category.
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| 2023 | 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||
| (dollars in thousands) | Amount | % of Total ACL | % of Total Loans | Amount | % of Total ACL | % of Total Loans | ||||||||||||||
| Commercial | $ | 17,824 | 21 | % | 18 | % | $ | 15,655 | 21 | % | 19 | % | ||||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | 40,050 | 47 | % | 51 | % | 35,688 | 48 | % | 51 | % | ||||||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 14,333 | 16 | % | 15 | % | 12,702 | 17 | % | 15 | % | ||||||||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | 861 | 1 | % | 1 | % | 969 | 1 | % | 1 | % | ||||||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | 10,198 | 12 | % | 12 | % | 7,195 | 10 | % | 12 | % | ||||||||||
| Construction - C&I (owner occupied) | 1,992 | 2 | % | 2 | % | 1,606 | 2 | % | 1 | % | ||||||||||
| Home equity | 657 | 1 | % | 1 | % | 555 | 1 | % | 1 | % | ||||||||||
| Other consumer | 25 | — | % | — | % | 74 | — | % | — | % | ||||||||||
| Total | $ | 85,940 | 100 | % | 100 | % | $ | 74,444 | 100 | % | 100 | % |
Nonperforming Assets
As shown in the table below, the Company’s level of nonperforming assets, which is comprised of the amortized cost of loans delinquent 90 days or more, and nonaccrual loans, which includes the nonperforming portion of loan restructurings, and the carrying value of other real estate owned ("OREO") totaled $66.6 million at December 31, 2023, representing 0.57% of total assets, as compared to $8.4 million at December 31, 2022, representing 0.08% of total assets. The increase is primarily due to the increase in nonperforming loans discussed below.
The Company had no accruing loans 90 days or more past due at December 31, 2023 or December 31, 2022. Management prioritizes remaining attentive to early signs of deterioration in borrowers’ financial conditions and to taking action to mitigate risk. The Company places loans on nonaccrual status if it deems collection to be doubtful. The Company believes it is diligent in placing loans on nonaccrual status and believes, based on its loan portfolio risk analysis that its ACL at 1.08% of total loans at December 31, 2023, is adequate to absorb expected credit losses within the loan portfolio at that date.
Total nonperforming loans amounted to an amortized cost of $65.5 million at December 31, 2023, representing 0.82% of total loans, compared to $6.5 million at December 31, 2022, representing 0.08% of total loans. The increase was primarily attributable to the movement to nonaccrual of two income producing CRE loans with a total amortized cost of $38.6 million that are collateralized by office properties in Northern Virginia and received charge-offs of $9.3 million during the year ended December 31, 2023; and one owner occupied CRE loan with an amortized cost balance of $19.1 million that is collateralized by an assisted living facility in Maryland.
The CECL standard allows for institutions to evaluate individual loans in the event that the asset does not share similar risk characteristics with its original segmentation. This can occur due to credit deterioration, increased collateral dependency or other factors leading to impairment. In particular, the Company individually evaluates loans on nonaccrual and those identified as loan restructurings to borrowers experiencing financial difficulties, though it may individually evaluate other loans or groups of loans as well if it determines they no longer share similar risk with their assigned segment. Reserves on individually assessed loans are determined by one of two methods: the fair value of collateral or the discounted cash flow. Fair value of collateral is used for loans determined to be collateral dependent, and the fair value represents the net realizable value of the collateral, adjusted for sales costs, commissions, senior liens, etc. Discounted cash flow is used on loans that are not collateral dependent where structural concessions have been made and continuing payments are expected. The continuing payments are discounted over the expected life at the loan’s original contract rate and include adjustments for risk of default.
Nonperforming assets include loans that the Company considers to be individually assessed. Individually assessed loans are defined as those as to which we believe it is probable that we will not collect all amounts due according to the contractual terms of the loan agreement, as well as those loans whose terms have been modified in a loan restructuring to a borrower experiencing financial difficulties that has not shown a period of performance as required under applicable accounting standards. Loans that do not share risk characteristics are evaluated on an individual basis. For collateral dependent financial
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assets where the Company has determined that foreclosure of the collateral is probable, or where the borrower is experiencing financial difficulty and the Company expects repayment of the financial asset to be provided substantially through the sale of the collateral, the ACL is measured based on the difference between the fair value of the collateral and the amortized cost basis of the asset as of the measurement date. When repayment is expected to be from the operation of the collateral, expected credit losses are calculated as the amount by which the amortized cost basis of the financial asset exceeds the NPV from the operation of the collateral. When repayment is expected to be from the sale of the collateral, expected credit losses are calculated as the amount by which the amortized cost basis of the financial asset exceeds the fair value of the underlying collateral less estimated cost to sell. The ACL may be zero if the fair value of the collateral at the measurement date exceeds the amortized cost basis of the financial asset. Generally, all appraisals associated with individually assessed loans are updated on a not less than annual basis.
On January 1, 2023, the Company adopted the accounting guidance in ASU No. 2022-02, which eliminates the recognition and measurement of a troubled debt restructuring ("TDR"). Due to the removal of the TDR designation, the Company evaluates loan restructurings according to the accounting guidance for loan modifications to determine if the restructuring results in a new loan or a continuation of the existing loan. Loan modifications to borrowers experiencing financial difficulty that result in a direct change in the timing or amount of contractual cash flows include situations where there is principal forgiveness, interest rate reductions, other-than-insignificant payment delays, term extensions, and combinations of the listed modifications. A loan that is considered a restructured loan may be subject to an individually evaluated loan analysis if the commitment is $1.0 million or greater; otherwise, the restructured loan remains in the appropriate segment in the ACL model and associated reserves are adjusted based on changes in the discounted cash flows resulting from the modification of the restructured loan. Management strives to identify borrowers in financial difficulty early and work with them to modify their loan to more affordable terms before their loan reaches nonaccrual status, foreclosure or repossession of the collateral to minimize economic loss to the Company.
Commercial and consumer loans modified in a loan restructuring are closely monitored for delinquency as an early indicator of possible future default. If loans modified in a loan restructuring subsequently default, the Company evaluates the loan for possible further impairment. The allowance may be increased, adjustments may be made in the allocation of the allowance, or partial charge-offs may be taken to further write-down the carrying value of the loan.
During the year ended December 31, 2023, the Bank modified loans with a total amortized cost of $237.2 million at December 31, 2023 (3.0% of the loan portfolio). These loans received extended loan terms of between approximately one to 36 months. Five loans received a weighted average interest rate reduction of approximately 2.56%.
As of December 31, 2023, four loans that were modified in the preceding twelve months, including one loan with an amortized cost of $4.4 million that was 30 to 89 days past due and three loans with a total amortized cost of $57.7 million that were on nonaccrual status, experienced a subsequent payment default as of December 31, 2023. All other loans are performing under their modified terms.
Alternatively, management, from time-to-time and in the ordinary course of business, implements renewals, modifications, extensions and/or changes in terms of loans to borrowers who have the ability to repay on reasonable market-based terms, as circumstances may warrant, and therefore, such modifications are not considered to be loan restructurings to a borrower experiencing financial difficulty, as the accommodation of a borrower's request does not rise to the level of a concession if the modified transaction is at market rates and terms and/or the borrower is not experiencing financial difficulty. For example: (1) adverse weather conditions may create a short term cash flow issue for an otherwise profitable retail business which suggests a temporary interest only period on an amortizing loan; (2) there may be delays in absorption on a real estate project which reasonably suggests extension of the loan maturity at market terms; or (3) there may be maturing loans to borrowers with demonstrated repayment ability who are not in a position at the time of maturity to obtain alternate long-term financing.
Included in nonperforming assets at December 31, 2023 is OREO of $1.1 million, consisting of 2 foreclosed properties. Included in nonperforming assets at December 31, 2022 was OREO of $2.0 million, consisting of 4 foreclosed properties. OREO properties are carried at the lower of cost or at fair value less estimated costs to sell.
It is the Company's policy to generally obtain third party appraisals prior to foreclosure and to obtain updated third party appraisals on OREO properties generally not less frequently than annually. Generally, the Company would obtain updated appraisals or evaluations where it has reason to believe, based upon market indications (such as comparable sales, legitimate offers below carrying value, broker indications and similar factors), that the current appraisal does not accurately reflect current value. There were two OREO sales in 2023 and one in 2022, generating proceeds of $987 thousand and $241 thousand, respectively.
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The following table shows the amounts and relevant ratios of nonperforming assets, including loans at amortized cost and OREO at the lower of cost or fair value less estimated costs to sell, at the dates indicated:
| (dollars in thousands) | December 31, 2023 | December 31, 2022 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nonaccrual Loans: | |||||||
| Commercial | $ | 2,049 | $ | 2,488 | |||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | 40,926 | 2,000 | |||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 19,836 | 17 | |||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | 1,946 | 1,913 | |||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | 525 | — | |||||
| Home equity | 242 | — | |||||
| Other consumer | — | 50 | |||||
| Accrual loans-past due 90 days | — | — | |||||
| Total nonperforming loans (1) | 65,524 | 6,468 | |||||
| Other real estate owned | 1,108 | 1,962 | |||||
| Total nonperforming assets | $ | 66,632 | $ | 8,430 | |||
| Coverage ratio, allowance for credit losses to total nonperforming loans | 131 | % | 1,151 | % | |||
| Ratio of nonperforming loans to total loans | 0.82 | % | 0.08 | % | |||
| Ratio of nonperforming assets to total assets | 0.57 | % | 0.08 | % |
(1)Gross interest income of $4.2 million, and $558 thousand would have been recorded for 2023, and 2022, respectively, if nonaccrual loans shown above had been current and in accordance with their original terms, while interest actually recorded on such loans were $1.5 million, and $17 thousand at December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. See Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for a description of the Company’s policy for placing loans on nonaccrual status.
Significant variation in the amount of nonperforming loans may occur from period to period because the amount of nonperforming loans depends largely on the condition of a relatively small number of individual credits and borrowers relative to the total loan portfolio.
At December 31, 2023, there were $335.8 million of Substandard loans. Substandard loans are considered potential or actual problem loans due to known information about possible or actual credit problems which causes management to be uncertain as to the ability of the borrowers to comply with the present loan repayment terms, which may in the future result in the reclassification to the past due, nonaccrual or restructured loan categories, as appropriate. Based upon their status as potential or actual problem loans, these loans receive heightened scrutiny and ongoing intensive risk management.
Other Earning Assets
The Company ceased originations of first lien residential mortgage loans for secondary sale during the three months ended March 31, 2023, and completed residual origination and sales activities as of June 30, 2023. There were no residential mortgage loans held for sale at December 31, 2023, as compared to $6.7 million at December 31, 2022. The Company’s general practice was to originate and sell such loans only on a “servicing released” basis in order to enhance noninterest income.
Bank owned life insurance at December 31, 2023 amounted to $112.9 million, as compared to $111.0 million at December 31, 2022. Refer to Note 18 to Consolidated Financial Statements for further detail.
Intangible Assets
The Company recognizes a servicing asset for the computed value of servicing fees on the sales of multifamily FHA loans, the guaranteed portion of Small Business Administration ("SBA") loans and other loans sold with retained servicing
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which is in excess of the normal servicing fees. Assumptions related to loan term and amortization are made to arrive at the initial recorded value, which is included in intangible assets, net, on the Consolidated Balance Sheet.
For 2023, no excess servicing fees were recorded and $28 thousand was amortized as a reduction of actual service fees collected, which is a component of other income. At December 31, 2023, the balance of excess servicing fees was $37 thousand. For 2022, excess servicing fees of $67 thousand were recorded and $89 thousand was amortized as a reduction of actual service fees collected, which is a component of other income. At December 31, 2022, the balance of excess servicing fees was $65 thousand.
In 2008, the Company recorded an unidentified intangible asset (goodwill) incident to the acquisition of Fidelity of $2.2 million. In 2014, the Company recorded an initial amount of unidentified intangible (goodwill) incident to the acquisition of Virginia Heritage of approximately $102 million. Refer to Note 7 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for information on the initial and current carrying values as well as additions and amortization.
During the second quarter of 2023, Management determined that the goodwill needed to be tested for impairment. The determination was due to a triggering event which had occurred as a result of a sustained decrease in the Company's stock price and a revision in the earnings outlook in comparison to budget for the remainder of 2023 due primarily to the economic uncertainty and market volatility resulting from the rising interest rate environment and the recent events in the banking sector. The Company performed a qualitative assessment and quantitative impairment test on its only reporting unit as of May 31, 2023. The Company engaged a third-party service provider to assist Management with the determination of the fair value of the Company in the second quarter of 2023. In accordance with its regular schedule for impairment testing, the Company performed a second qualitative assessment and quantitative impairment test that rolled forward its second quarter of 2023 testing on its only reporting unit as of December 31, 2023. The resulting calculations indicated that the fair value exceeded the carrying amount of the Company's only reporting unit by approximately 17% and 21% as of May 31, 2023 and December 31, 2023, respectively, which resulted in a determination of no impairment loss on the Company's only reporting unit.
The method employed for the impairment testing was a combination of a risk-weighted income valuation methodology, comprising a discounted cash flow analysis, and a market valuation methodology, comprising the guideline public company method, was employed.
Significant judgment is necessary in the determination of the fair value of a reporting unit. The income valuation methodology requires an estimation of future cash flows, considering the after-tax results of operations, the extent and timing of credit losses, and appropriate discount and growth rates. Actual future cash flows may differ from forecasted results based on the assumptions used.
In performing the discounted cash flow analysis, the Company utilized multi-year cash projections that rely on internal forecasts of loan and deposit growth, bond mix, financing composition, market pricing of securities, credit performance, forward interest rates, future returns driven by net interest margin, fee generation and expense incurrence, industry and economic trends, and other relevant considerations. The long-term growth rate used in the calculation of fair value was derived from published projections of the inflation rate and GDP, along with Management estimates.
The market approach considers a combination of price to tangible book value and price to earnings, adjusted based on companies similar to the reporting unit and adjusted for selected multiples, along with a control premium based on a review of transactions in the banking industry in order to calculate the indicated value of the Company's equity on a control, marketable basis.
Management continues to monitor economic conditions, as future events could result in new determinations of triggering events which would require additional impairment tests of the Company's only reporting unit. Future events could cause the Company to conclude that goodwill or other intangibles have become impaired, which would result in recording an impairment loss. Any resulting impairment loss could have a material adverse impact on the Company’s financial condition and results of operations.
Deposits and Other Borrowings
The principal sources of funds for the Bank are core deposits, consisting of demand deposits, money market accounts, Negotiable Order of Withdrawal ("NOW") accounts, savings accounts, and certificates of deposits. The deposit base includes transaction accounts, time and savings accounts and accounts which customers use for cash management and which provide the Bank with a source of fee income and cross-marketing opportunities, as well as an attractive source of lower cost funds. To meet funding needs during periods of high loan demand and seasonal variations in core deposits, the Bank regularly utilizes
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alternative funding sources such as secured borrowings from the FHLB, federal funds purchased lines of credit from correspondent banks and brokered deposits from regional and national brokerage firms. Additionally, the Bank has participated in the BTFP established by Federal Reserve Bank in March 2023. The Federal Reserve announced in January 2024 that the BTFP will stop originating new loans on March 11, 2024, as scheduled. The Federal Reserve also modified the terms of the program so that the interest rate for new loans will be no lower than the interest rate on reserve balances in effect on the day the loan is made. In January 2024, prior to these announcements by the Federal Reserve, the Company borrowed an additional $500.0 million through the BTFP and refinanced $500.0 million under the program, each at an interest rate of 4.76% and a maturity date in January 2025.
For the year ended December 31, 2023, deposits were $8.8 billion as compared to $8.7 billion at December 31, 2022, an increase of 1%. The increase was primarily attributable to a $1.4 billion increase in interest bearing time deposits, offset by a $871.7 million reduction in noninterest bearing deposits and a $326.7 million reduction in savings and money market accounts as a result of an increase of disintermediation driven primarily by an increase in interest rates. The growth in interest bearing deposits was driven by the increased utilization of brokered deposits, particularly brokered time deposits, during the year ended December 31, 2023. During the year ended December 31, 2023, brokered time deposits increased by approximately $998.0 million, while other interest bearing brokered deposits decreased by approximately $977.6 million.
Noninterest bearing deposits decreased $871.7 million or 28% to $2.3 billion at December 31, 2023 as compared to $3.2 billion at December 31, 2022, while interest bearing deposits decreased by $140.8 million, or 12%. Within interest bearing deposits, money market and savings accounts collectively amounted to $3.3 billion at December 31, 2023, or 38% of total deposits, as compared to $3.6 billion, or 42% of total deposits, at December 31, 2022, a decrease of $326.7 million, or 9%.
No single depositor represented more than 10% of total deposits as of December 31, 2023. The ten largest depositors not associated with brokered pass-through relationships represented approximately 22% of total deposits in the aggregate as of December 31, 2023. The Company maintains a significant deposit relationship with a third-party payments processor, whose business results in deposit inflows and outflows on an ongoing basis, which contributes to variations in period end compared to average deposit balances.
Average total deposits for the year ended December 31, 2023 were $8.9 billion, as compared to $10.1 billion for the same period in 2022, a 12% decrease.
Time deposits were $2.2 billion at December 31, 2023, which was 25% of deposits. This was an increase from $783.5 million at December 31, 2022, which was 9% of deposits. The increase in time deposits was driven by an increased utilization of brokered time deposits.
The following table summarizes time deposits in excess of $250 thousand by maturity:
| (dollars in thousands) | December 31, 2023 | December 31, 2022 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Three months or less | $ | 119,880 | $ | 87,959 | |||
| More than three months through six months | 318,353 | 51,746 | |||||
| More than three months through twelve months | 368,103 | 108,877 | |||||
| Over twelve months | 726,758 | 269,200 | |||||
| Total | $ | 1,533,094 | $ | 517,782 |
Maturities of time deposits with balances of $250 thousand or more represented 17% and 6% of total deposits as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. See Note 10 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information regarding the maturities of time deposits and the Average Balances Table in the “Net Interest Income and Net Interest Margin” section for the average rates paid on interest-bearing deposits. Time deposits of $250 thousand or more can be more volatile and more expensive than time deposits of less than $250 thousand. However, because the Bank focuses on relationship banking, and its marketplace demographics are favorable, its historical experience has been that large time deposits have not been more volatile or significantly more expensive than smaller denomination certificates.
From time to time, when appropriate in order to fund strong loan demand or account for increased deposit outflow, the Bank accepts brokered time deposits, generally in denominations of less than $250 thousand, from a regional brokerage firm and other national brokerage networks, including IntraFi Network, LLC ("IntraFi"). Additionally, the Bank participates in the CDARS and the ICS products, which provide for reciprocal (“two-way”) transactions among banks facilitated by IntraFi for the purpose of maximizing FDIC insurance. The total of reciprocal deposits at December 31, 2023 was $1.7 billion (19% of total
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deposits) as compared to $782.2 million (9% of total deposits) at December 31, 2022. These sources are believed by the Company to represent a reliable and cost efficient alternative funding source for the Bank, but there can be no assurance that they will continue to be adequate or appropriate to meet our liquidity needs. The Bank also is able to obtain one way CDARS deposits and participates in IntraFi’s Insured Network Deposit, (“IND”). The Bank had $786.5 million and $1.1 billion of IND brokered deposits as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. However, to the extent that the condition or reputation of the Company or Bank deteriorates, or to the extent that there are significant changes in market interest rates which the Company and Bank do not elect to match, or if aggregate funding available to banks change due to changes in the marketplace, we may experience an outflow of brokered deposits or difficulty with obtaining them in the future. In that event we would be required to obtain alternate sources for funding, which may increase our cost of funds and negatively impact our net interest margin.
We have used brokered deposits and intend to continue to use brokered deposits as one of our funding sources to support future growth. At December 31, 2023 and 2022, total deposits included $2.5 billion and $2.5 billion of brokered deposits (excluding the CDARS and ICS two-way accounts), which represented 28.8% and 28.8% of total deposits, respectively. Brokered deposits comprised time deposits of $1.5 billion and $465.5 million, savings and money market accounts of $961.5 million and $1.3 billion, and interest-bearing transaction accounts of $108.2 million and $590.1 million at December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
At December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, total deposits included estimated totals of $2.8 billion and $4.4 billion of uninsured deposits, which represented 31% and 51% of total deposits, respectively. The decrease in the percentage of the Bank's deposits that are uninsured was in part due to customers' increased use of the products facilitated by IntraFi that enable customers to maximize FDIC deposit insurance coverage for their deposits.
At December 31, 2023, the Company had $2.3 billion in noninterest bearing demand deposits, representing 26% of total deposits compared to $3.2 billion of noninterest bearing demand deposits at December 31, 2022, or 36% of total deposits. The decrease was primarily attributable to outflows from noninterest bearing deposits, money market and savings accounts which was partially offset by the increase in time deposits. Average noninterest bearing deposits over total deposits for years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 were 28% and 38%, respectively. The Bank also offers business NOW accounts and business savings accounts to accommodate those customers who may have excess short term cash to deploy in interest earning assets.
As an enhancement to the basic noninterest bearing demand deposit account, the Company offers a sweep account, or “customer repurchase agreement,” allowing qualifying businesses to earn interest on short-term excess funds, which are not suited for either a certificate of deposit or a money market account. The balances in these accounts were $30.6 million at December 31, 2023 compared to $35.1 million at December 31, 2022. Customer repurchase agreements are not deposits and are not insured by the FDIC, but are collateralized by U.S. agency securities and/or U.S. agency backed MBS. These accounts are particularly suitable to businesses with significant fluctuation in the levels of cash flows. Attorney and title company escrow accounts are examples of accounts which can benefit from this product, as are customers who may require collateral for deposits in excess of FDIC insurance limits but do not qualify for other pledging arrangements. This program requires the Company to maintain a sufficient investment securities level to accommodate the fluctuations in balances which may occur in these accounts.
At December 31, 2023 the Company had $2.2 billion in time deposits, an increase of $1.4 billion from year end December 31, 2022. The Bank raises and renews time deposits through its branch network, for its public funds customers, and through brokered certificates of deposits ("CDs") to meet the needs of its community of savers and as part of its interest rate risk management and liquidity planning. Throughout the year, the Bank raised rates in most of its time deposit accounts in response to the increased disintermediation of deposits, and the current rate environment with continued rate increases.
The following tables summarize the Company's borrowings at December 31, 2023 and 2022 and activities on borrowings for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022:
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| (dollars in thousands) | Borrowings - Principal | Unamortized Deferred Issuance Costs | Net Borrowings Outstanding | Interest Rates (1) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 31, 2023: | |||||||||||||||
| Customer repurchase agreements | $ | 30,587 | $ | — | $ | 30,587 | 3.42 | % | |||||||
| FRB BTFP secured borrowings | 1,300,000 | — | 1,300,000 | 4.53 | % | ||||||||||
| Subordinated notes, 5.75% | 70,000 | (82) | 69,918 | 5.75 | % | ||||||||||
| Total | $ | 1,400,587 | $ | (82) | $ | 1,400,505 | |||||||||
| December 31, 2022: | |||||||||||||||
| Customer repurchase agreements | $ | 35,100 | $ | — | $ | 35,100 | 2.94 | % | |||||||
| FHLB secured borrowings | 975,001 | — | 975,001 | 4.57 | % | ||||||||||
| Subordinated notes, 5.75% | 70,000 | (206) | 69,794 | 5.75 | % | ||||||||||
| Total | $ | 1,080,101 | $ | (206) | $ | 1,079,895 | |||||||||
| Years Ended December 31, | |||||||||||||||
| 2023 | 2022 | ||||||||||||||
| (dollars in thousands) | Average Daily Balance (2) | Maximum Month-End Balance (2) | Average Daily Balance (2) | Maximum Month-End Balance (2) | |||||||||||
| Customer repurchase agreements and federal funds purchased | $ | 36,663 | $ | 54,851 | $ | 30,745 | $ | 47,946 | |||||||
| FHLB secured borrowings | $ | 549,522 | $ | 1,770,156 | $ | 172,408 | $ | 975,001 | |||||||
| FRB BTFP secured borrowings | $ | 971,507 | $ | 1,300,001 | $ | — | $ | — | |||||||
| Subordinated notes, 5.75% | $ | 70,000 | $ | 70,000 | $ | 70,000 | $ | 70,000 |
(1)Represent the weighted average interest rate on customer repurchase agreements, borrowings outstanding and the coupon interest rate on the subordinated notes, which approximates the effective interest rate.
(2)The average daily balance and maximum month-end balance are calculated on the principal balance on the borrowings.
The Company had no outstanding balances under its federal funds lines of credit provided by correspondent banks (which are unsecured) at December 31, 2023 and 2022.
At December 31, 2023 and 2022, the Company had no outstanding balances and $975.0 million, respectively, of FHLB advances borrowed as part of the overall asset liability strategy. Outstanding FHLB advances are secured by collateral consisting of a blanket lien on qualifying loans in the Bank’s commercial mortgage, residential mortgage and home equity loan portfolios. Additionally, at December 31, 2023, the Company had a $1.3 billion one year fixed rate advance from the BTFP as part of the overall asset liability strategy and to support loan growth. In January 2024, the Company borrowed an additional $500.0 million of BTFP financing and refinanced approximately $500.0 million at 4.76%, which mature in January 2025. The remaining approximately $800.0 million matures in March 2024. Outstanding BTFP advances are secured by collateral consisting of specifically pledged qualifying investment securities.
The subordinated notes outstanding at December 31, 2023 and 2022 consisted of the Company’s August 5, 2014 issuance of $70.0 million of subordinated notes, due September 1, 2024. The Company is considering various options to finance the upcoming maturity of the subordinated debt, and the Company may seek to issue new subordinated notes or other debt securities to replace those that are maturing, or fund the maturity through other means. Given prevailing interest rates, any new debt securities to refinance the subordinated notes are expected to have a higher interest rate than the subordinated notes. For additional information on the Company’s subordinated notes, please refer to Note 12 to the Consolidated Financial Statements, as well as the “Capital Resources and Adequacy” section below.
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CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS
The Company has various financial obligations, including contractual obligations and commitments that may require future cash payments except for its loan commitments, as shown in Note 20 to the Consolidated Financial Statements. The following table shows details on these fixed and determinable obligations as of December 31, 2023, in the time period indicated.
| (dollars in thousands) | Within One Year | One to Three Years | Three to Five Years | Over Five Years | Total | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deposits without a stated maturity (1) | $ | 6,590,572 | $ | — | $ | — | $ | — | $ | 6,590,572 | |||||||||
| Time deposits (1) | 1,445,395 | 756,763 | 15,309 | — | 2,217,467 | ||||||||||||||
| Borrowed funds (2) | 1,400,505 | — | — | — | 1,400,505 | ||||||||||||||
| Operating lease obligations | 6,564 | 8,593 | 4,525 | 3,556 | 23,238 | ||||||||||||||
| Outside data processing (3) | 5,450 | 11,568 | 13,382 | — | 30,400 | ||||||||||||||
| George Mason sponsorship (4) | 675 | 1,388 | 1,400 | 4,675 | 8,138 | ||||||||||||||
| LIHTC investments (5) | 16,292 | 6,340 | 518 | 735 | 23,885 | ||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | 9,465,453 | $ | 784,652 | $ | 35,134 | $ | 8,966 | $ | 10,294,205 |
(1)Excludes accrued interest payable at December 31, 2023.
(2)Borrowed funds include customer repurchase agreements and other borrowings.
(3)The Bank has outstanding obligations under its current core data processing contract that expire in June 2029 and one other vendor arrangement that relates to network infrastructure and data center services that expires in December 2024.
(4)The Bank has the option of terminating the George Mason University ("George Mason") agreement at the end of contract years 10 and 15 (that is, effective June 30, 2025 or June 30, 2030). Should the Bank elect to exercise its right to terminate the George Mason contract, contractual obligations would decrease $3.5 million and $3.6 million for the first option period (years 11-15) and the second option period (16-20), respectively.
(5)Low Income Housing Tax Credits (“LIHTC”) expected payments for unfunded affordable housing commitments.
The Company is party to financial instruments with off-balance-sheet risk in the normal course of business to meet the financing needs of its customers and to reduce its own exposure to fluctuations in interest rates. These financial instruments include commitments to extend credit and standby letters of credit. They involve, to varying degrees, elements of credit risk in excess of the amount recognized in the balance sheets. The contract or notional amounts of those instruments reflect the extent of involvement the Company has in particular classes of financial instruments.
Various commitments to extend credit are made in the normal course of banking business. Letters of credit are also issued for the benefit of customers. These commitments are subject to loan underwriting standards and geographic boundaries consistent with the Company’s loans outstanding.
Commitments to extend credit are agreements to lend to a customer as long as there is no violation of any condition established in the contract. Commitments generally have fixed expiration dates or other termination clauses and may require payment of a fee. Since some of the commitments are expected to expire without being drawn upon, the total commitment amounts do not necessarily represent future cash requirements.
Loan commitments outstanding and lines and letters of credit at December 31, 2023 and 2022 were as follows:
| (dollars in thousands) | 2023 | 2022 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unfunded loan commitments | $ | 1,981,334 | $ | 2,335,735 | |||
| Unfunded lines of credit | 98,614 | 107,919 | |||||
| Letters of credit | 87,146 | 100,196 | |||||
| Interest rate lock commitments | — | 6,963 | |||||
| Total | $ | 2,167,094 | $ | 2,550,813 |
The Company’s exposure to credit loss in the event of nonperformance by the other party to the financial instrument for commitments to extend credit and standby letters of credit is represented by the contractual amount of those instruments. The Company uses the same credit policies in making commitments and conditional obligations as it does for on-balance-sheet
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instruments. See Note 19 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for a summary list of loan commitments at December 31, 2023 and 2022.
Loan commitments represent agreements to lend to a customer as long as there is no violation of any condition established in the contract and which have been accepted in writing by the borrower. Commitments generally have fixed expiration dates or other termination clauses and may require payment of a fee. Since some of the commitments may expire without being drawn upon, the total commitment amounts do not necessarily represent future cash requirements. The Company evaluates each customer’s creditworthiness on a case-by-case basis. The amount of collateral obtained is based on management’s credit evaluation of the borrower. Collateral obtained varies and may include certificates of deposit, accounts receivable, inventory, property and equipment, residential and commercial real estate.
Standby letters of credit are conditional commitments issued by the Company which guarantee the performance of a customer to a third party. The credit risk involved in issuing letters of credit is essentially the same as that involved in extending loan facilities to customers. Collateral held varies as specified above and is required in instances which the Company deems necessary. At December 31, 2023, approximately 71% of the dollar amount of standby letters of credit was collateralized.
In connection with deposit guarantees, the Bank collateralizes certain public funds using qualified investment securities.
With the exception of these off-balance sheet arrangements, the Company has no off-balance sheet arrangements that have or are reasonably likely to have a current or future effect on the Company’s financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations, capital expenditures or capital resources, that is material to investors.
LIQUIDITY MANAGEMENT
Liquidity is a measure of the Company’s and Bank’s ability to meet loan demand and to satisfy depositor withdrawal requirements in an orderly manner. The Bank’s primary sources of liquidity consist of cash and cash balances due from correspondent banks, excess reserves at the Federal Reserve, loan repayments, federal funds sold and other short-term investments, maturities and sales of investment securities, income from operations and new core deposits into the Bank. Approximately 60% of the Company's investment portfolio of debt securities is held in an available-for-sale status which allows for flexibility, subject to holdings held as collateral for customer repurchase agreements and public funds, to generate cash from sales as needed to meet ongoing loan demand. As of December 31, 2023, the unrealized losses recorded on the available-for-sale securities were acting as a deterrent to any sale of those securities to raise liquidity. However, these securities are utilized as pledged assets that provide secondary liquidity through the form of additional available borrowings. Investment securities that are classified as held-to-maturity can also be used as collateral to pledge against additional borrowings. These sources of liquidity are considered primary and are supplemented by the ability of the Company and Bank to borrow funds or issue brokered deposits, which are termed secondary sources of liquidity and which are substantial.
The following table summarizes the Company's secondary sources of liquidity in use and available at December 31, 2023:
| (dollars in thousands) | Secondary Sources of Liquidity in Use | Secondary Sources of Liquidity Available | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unsecured brokered deposits (1) | $ | 977,915 | $ | 1,950,803 | |||
| FHLB secured borrowings | — | 1,271,846 | |||||
| FRB: | |||||||
| BTFP secured borrowings | 1,300,000 | 598,870 | |||||
| Discount window secured borrowings | — | 601,504 | |||||
| Federal funds lines | — | 155,000 | |||||
| Customer repurchase agreements | 30,587 | — | |||||
| Raymond James repurchase agreement | — | 17,993 | |||||
| Unpledged assets: (2) | |||||||
| Interest-bearing deposits with banks | N/A | 36,215 | |||||
| Investment securities | N/A | 292,258 | |||||
| Total | $ | 2,308,502 | $ | 4,924,489 |
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(1)The available liquidity from the unsecured brokered deposits represents unsecured funds under one-way CDARS and ICS brokered deposits that would require then current market rates and be dependent on the availability of funds in those networks.
(2)Comprise unencumbered assets that could be liquidated or used as collateral to obtain additional liquidity through debt financing.
The funding mix has continued to change throughout the year ended December 31, 2023. Deposits at year end were $8.8 billion and $8.7 billion at December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. The increase was primarily attributable to a $1.4 billion increase in interest bearing time deposits, offset by a $871.7 million reduction in noninterest bearing deposits and a $326.7 million reduction in savings and money market accounts as a result of an increase of disintermediation driven primarily by an increase in interest rates. The growth in interest bearing deposits was driven by the increased utilization of brokered deposits, particularly brokered time deposits, during the year ended December 31, 2023, as discussed in "Deposits and Other Borrowings" above. Borrowings were $1.4 billion and $1.0 billion at December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively. The increase in borrowings was due to the utilization of BTFP borrowings during the year ended December 31, 2023.
Additionally, the Bank can purchase up to $155.0 million in federal funds on an unsecured basis from its correspondents, against which there were no amounts outstanding at December 31, 2023 and can borrow unsecured funds under one-way CDARS and ICS brokered deposits in the amount of $1.7 billion, against which there was $94 million outstanding at December 31, 2023. At December 31, 2023, the Bank also has custodial agreements with various broker-dealers through IntraFi's IND program which provided $786.5 million of brokered deposits.
At December 31, 2023, the Bank was also eligible to make advances from the FHLB up to $1.3 billion based on assets pledged as collateral to the FHLB, against which there was no outstanding amount as of December 31, 2023. The Bank had FHLB borrowings of $975.0 million outstanding at December 31, 2022, which were repaid during the year ended December 31, 2023. The Bank posted additional collateral to the FHLB during the year ended December 31, 2023 to increase its eligibility for advances to meet its ongoing liquidity needs and expects to continue utilizing this source of funding in the future.
In March 2023, the Federal Reserve Board announced that it would make available additional funding to eligible depository institutions through the creation of the BTFP. The BTFP provides eligible depository institutions, including the Bank, an additional source of liquidity. At December 31, 2023, the Bank had eligible collateral and borrowing capacity with the BTFP of $1.9 billion on assets that have been pledged, of which $1.3 billion was outstanding. This alternative source of liquidity is being utilized for balance sheet optimization. The Federal Reserve announced in January 2024 that the BTFP will stop originating new loans on March 11, 2024, as scheduled. The Federal Reserve also modified the terms of the program so that the interest rate for new loans will be no lower than the interest rate on reserve balances in effect on the day the loan is made. In January 2024, prior to these announcements by the Federal Reserve, the Company borrowed an additional $500.0 million through the BTFP and refinanced $500.0 million under the program at an interest rate of 4.76% and a maturity in January 2025. The remaining $800.0 million matures in March 2024. Once the BTFP program terminates and in light of the changes to the BTFP's terms, we may be required to rely on other, potentially more expensive, sources of liquidity.
The Bank's aggregate borrowing capacity at December 31, 2023 was $2.2 billion, which consists of $1.9 billion of additional aggregate capacity to borrow from the FHLB and BTFP on assets that have been pledged. The Bank also has unencumbered securities totaling approximately $292.3 million available for pledging to the FHLB or the BTFP for additional borrowing capacity.
The Bank may enter into repurchase agreements as well as obtain additional borrowing capabilities from the FHLB provided adequate collateral exists to secure these lending relationships. The Bank also has a back-up borrowing facility through the Discount Window at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (“Federal Reserve Bank”). This facility, which amounts to approximately $601.5 million, is collateralized with specific loan assets identified to the Federal Reserve Bank. It is anticipated that, except for periodic testing, this facility would be utilized for contingency funding only. There can be no assurance, however, that these alternative sources of liquidity will continue to be available or will be sufficient to meet our ongoing liquidity needs.
The loss of deposits, through disintermediation, is one of the greater risks to liquidity. Disintermediation occurs most commonly when rates rise and depositors withdraw deposits seeking higher rates in alternative savings and investment sources than the Bank may offer. The Bank makes competitive deposit interest rate comparisons weekly and makes adjustments from time to time to ensure its interest rate offerings are competitive.
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There is, however, a risk that the cost of funds will increase significantly as the Bank competes for deposits or that some deposits would be lost if rates were to increase and the Bank elected not to remain competitive with its deposit rates. Under those conditions, the Bank believes that it is well positioned to use other sources of funds such as FHLB borrowings, brokered deposits, repurchase agreements and correspondent banks’ lines of credit to offset a decline in deposits in the short run, but the use of such sources may negatively impact our net interest margin and our earnings. The mix of sources used in the year ended December 31, 2023 negatively impacted our net interest margin and earnings, as expected in an economic environment with rising interest rates. There can be no assurance that the mix of sources of funds available to us at any particular time in the future will be adequate to meet our future liquidity needs. However, the market for customer and brokered deposits is highly competitive and the risk of disintermediation is high, particularly in a high interest rate environment. The potential outflow of such deposits is a risk unless we pay a more competitive rate of interest on them, which could significantly and negatively impact the Bank’s interest expense and net interest margin, as the transfer of some noninterest-bearing deposits to interest-bearing deposits did in 2023. Over the long-term, an adjustment in assets and change in business emphasis could compensate for a potential loss of deposits. The Bank also maintains a marketable investment portfolio to provide flexibility in the event of significant liquidity needs. The Asset Liability Committee ("ALCO") has adopted policy guidelines, which emphasize the importance of core deposits, adequate asset liquidity and a contingency funding plan.
The Company believes it maintains sufficient primary and secondary sources of liquidity to fund its operations. During the year ended December 31, 2023, average short term liquidity was $2.6 billion, which is above the Bank's average needs. Secondary sources of liquidity at December 31, 2023 were $4.9 billion, which include the FHLB, BTFP, other insured brokered deposit sweep programs, unpledged securities, Fed funds lines, and the FRB Discount Window. At December 31, 2023, the Company held total securities available to be pledged with a par balance of $292.3 million. At December 31, 2023, under the Bank’s liquidity formula, it had $5.9 billion of primary and secondary liquidity sources. Management believes the amount is adequate to meet current and projected funding needs.
CAPITAL RESOURCES AND ADEQUACY
The assessment of capital adequacy depends on a number of factors such as asset quality and mix, liquidity, earnings performance, changing competitive conditions and economic forces, stress testing, regulatory measures and policy, as well as the overall level of growth and complexity of the balance sheet. The adequacy of the Company’s current and future capital needs is monitored by management on an ongoing basis. Management seeks to maintain a capital structure that will assure an adequate level of capital to support anticipated asset growth and to absorb potential losses.
The federal banking regulators have issued guidance for those institutions, which are deemed to have concentrations in commercial real estate lending. Pursuant to the supervisory criteria contained in the guidance for identifying institutions with a potential commercial real estate concentration risk, institutions which have (1) total reported loans for construction, land development and other land acquisitions which represent 100% or more of an institution’s total risk-based capital; or (2) total commercial real estate loans representing 300% or more of the institution’s total risk-based capital and the institution’s commercial real estate loan portfolio has increased 50% or more during the prior 36 months are identified as having potential commercial real estate concentration risk. Institutions which are deemed to have concentrations in commercial real estate lending are expected to employ heightened levels of risk management with respect to their commercial real estate portfolios and may be required to hold higher levels of capital. The Company, like many community banks, has in commercial real estate loans, and the Company has experienced growth in its commercial real estate portfolio in recent years. Although growth in that segment over the past 36 months at 7% did not exceed the 50% threshold laid out in the regulatory guidance, we expect the heightened supervisory expectations to continue to apply to us given the federal banking regulators’ general focus on commercial real estate exposures at banks.
At December 31, 2023, we did exceed the construction, land development, and other land acquisitions regulatory concentration threshold, and we continue to monitor our concentration in commercial real estate lending and remain in compliance with the guidance issued by the federal banking regulators. Construction, land and land development loans represent 111% of total risk based capital. Management has extensive experience in commercial real estate lending, and has implemented and continues to maintain heightened risk management procedures and strong underwriting criteria with respect to its commercial real estate portfolio.
Loan monitoring practices include but are not limited to periodic stress testing analysis to evaluate changes to cash flows, owing to interest rate increases and declines in net operating income. Nevertheless, as our commercial real estate concentration fluctuates each quarter, we may be required to maintain higher levels of capital as a result of our commercial real estate concentrations, which could require us to obtain additional capital and may adversely affect shareholder returns. The Company seeks to manage the risks relating to commercial real estate and its capital adequacy through the development and implementation of its Capital Policy and Capital Plan, the preparation of pro-forma projections including stress testing and the development of internal minimum targets for regulatory capital ratios that are subject to approval by the Board and in excess of well capitalized ratios (as defined in the section “Regulation” above).
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The Company and the Bank are subject to regulatory capital requirements administered by federal banking agencies. Capital adequacy guidelines and prompt corrective action regulations involve quantitative measures of assets, liabilities and certain off-balance-sheet items calculated under regulatory accounting practices. Capital amounts and classifications are also subject to qualitative judgments by regulators about components, risk weightings and other factors and the regulators can lower classifications in certain cases. Failure to meet various capital requirements can initiate regulatory action that could have a direct material effect on the financial statements.
The prompt corrective action regulations provide five categories, including well capitalized, adequately capitalized, undercapitalized, significantly undercapitalized and critically undercapitalized, although these terms are not used to represent overall financial condition. If a bank is only adequately capitalized, regulatory approval is required to, among other things, accept, renew or roll-over brokered deposits. If a bank is undercapitalized, capital distributions and growth and expansion are limited, and plans for capital restoration are required.
At December 31, 2023, the capital position of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, the Bank, continue to exceed regulatory requirements and well-capitalized guidelines. The primary indicators relied on by bank regulators in measuring the capital position are four ratios as follows: Tier 1 risk-based capital ratio, Total risk-based capital ratio, the Leverage ratio and the CET1 ratio. Tier 1 capital consists of common and qualifying preferred shareholders’ equity less goodwill and other intangibles. Total risk-based capital consists of Tier 1 capital, plus qualifying subordinated debt and the qualifying portion of the ACL. Risk-based capital ratios are calculated with reference to risk-weighted assets, which are prescribed by regulation. The measure of Tier 1 capital to average assets for the prior quarter is often referred to as the leverage ratio. The CET1 ratio is the Tier 1 capital ratio but excluding preferred stock.
The FRB and the FDIC have adopted the Basel III Rules implementing the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's capital guidelines for U.S. banks. Under the Basel III Rules, the Company and Bank are required to maintain a CET1 ratio of 4.5% and a capital conservation buffer of 2.5% of risk-weighted assets, effectively resulting in a minimum CET1 ratio of 7.0%; a minimum ratio of Tier 1 capital to risk-weighted assets of 6.0%, or 8.5% with the fully phased in capital conservation buffer; a minimum total capital to risk-weighted assets ratio of 10.5% with the fully phased-in capital conservation buffer; and a minimum leverage ratio of 4.0%. The Basel III Rules also increased risk weights for certain assets and off-balance-sheet exposures. See the “Regulation” section for additional information regarding regulatory capital requirements.
The Company’s capital position remained strong for the year ended December 31, 2023 as a result of continued earnings, continued improvements in economic conditions and strong asset quality. As a result of the Company’s strong capital position and earnings, we were able to continue with our quarterly dividend. The Company announced a regular quarterly cash dividend on December 19, 2023 of $0.45 per share to shareholders of record on January 11, 2024 and it was paid on January 31, 2024.
The Company’s capital ratios were all well in excess of guidelines established by the Federal Reserve Board and the Bank’s capital ratios were in excess of those required to be classified as a “well capitalized” institution under the prompt corrective action provisions of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. The Company’s and Bank’s capital ratios at December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022 are shown in Note 21 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.
The ability of the Company to continue to grow is dependent on its earnings and those of the Bank, the ability to obtain additional funds for contribution to the Bank’s capital, through additional borrowings, through the sale of additional common stock or preferred stock or through the issuance of additional qualifying capital instruments, such as subordinated debt. The capital levels required to be maintained by the Company and Bank may be impacted as a result of the Bank’s concentrations in commercial real estate loans. See further detail at the “Regulation” and “Risk Factors” sections.
IMPACT OF INFLATION AND CHANGING PRICES
The Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes thereto have been prepared in accordance with GAAP in the United States of America, which require the measurement of financial position and operating results in terms of historical dollars without considering the changes in the relative purchasing power of money over time due to inflation. The impact of inflation is reflected in the increased cost of operations. Unlike most industrial companies, nearly all of our assets and liabilities are monetary in nature. As a result, interest rates have a greater impact on our performance than do the effects of general levels of inflation. Interest rates do not necessarily move in the same direction or to the same extent as the price of goods or services.
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NEW AUTHORITATIVE ACCOUNTING GUIDANCE
Refer to Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for New Authoritative Accounting Guidance and their expected impact on the Company’s Financial Statements.
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FY 2022 10-K MD&A
SEC filing source: 0001050441-23-000060.
ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
The following discussion provides information about the results of operations, financial condition, liquidity, and capital resources of the Company. The Company’s primary subsidiary is the Bank, and the Company’s other direct and indirect active subsidiaries are Bethesda Leasing, LLC, Eagle Insurance Services, LLC and Landroval Municipal Finance, Inc.
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This discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction with the audited Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes thereto, appearing elsewhere in this report.
Caution About Forward Looking Statements. This report contains forward looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Exchange Act. These forward looking statements represent plans, estimates, objectives, goals, guidelines, expectations, intentions, projections and statements of our beliefs concerning future events, business plans, objectives, expected operating results and the assumptions upon which those statements are based. Forward looking statements include, without limitation, any statement that may predict, forecast, indicate or imply future results, performance or achievements and are typically identified with words such as “may,” “will,” “can,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “expects,” “plans,” “estimates,” “potential,” “assume," "probable," "possible," "continue,” “should,” “could,” “would,” “strive," "seeks,” "deem," "projections," "forecast," "consider," "indicative," "uncertainty," "likely," "unlikely," ""likelihood," "unknown," "attributable," "depends," "intends," "generally," "feel," "typically," "judgment," "subjective" and similar words or phrases. These forward looking statements are based largely on our expectations and are subject to a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties that are subject to change based on factors which are, in many instances, beyond our control. Actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those contemplated, expressed or implied by the forward looking statements.
The following factors, among others, could cause our financial performance to differ materially from that expressed in such forward looking statements:
•Changes in the general economic, political, social and health conditions, including the macroeconomic and other challenges and uncertainties resulting from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic;
•The timely development of competitive new products and services and the acceptance of these products and services by new and existing customers;
•The willingness of customers to substitute competitors’ products and services for our products and services;
•Our management of liquidity risks in our operations, including, but not limited to, risks related to customer deposits, deposits in excess of the FDIC insurance coverage limits, access to capital markets and securities and market values;
•The effect of acquisitions we may make, including, without limitation, the failure to achieve the expected revenue growth and/or expense savings from such acquisitions;
•Our management of risks inherent in our real estate loan portfolio, and the risk of a prolonged downturn in the real estate market, which could impair the value of, and our ability to sell, properties which stand as collateral for loans we make;
•Our decision to cease originating residential mortgages (See Note 26 of the Consolidated Financial Statements for further details);
•The growth and profitability of noninterest or fee income being less than expected;
•Changes in the level of our nonperforming assets and charge-offs;
•Changes in consumer spending and savings habits;
•The impact of climate change or government action and societal responses to climate change;
•Difficulty recruiting or retaining successful bankers, executive officers or other key personnel;
•Changing bank regulatory conditions, policies or programs, whether arising as new legislation or regulatory initiatives, that could lead to restrictions on activities of banks generally, or our subsidiary bank in particular, more restrictive regulatory capital requirements, increased costs, including deposit insurance premiums, regulation or prohibition of certain income producing activities or changes in the secondary market for loans and other products;
•The impact of changes in financial services policies, laws and regulations, including laws, regulations and policies concerning taxes, banking, securities and insurance and the application thereof by regulatory bodies;
•The effects of, and changes in, trade, monetary and fiscal policies and laws, including interest rate policies of the Federal Reserve Board, inflation, interest rate, market and monetary fluctuations;
•Results of examinations of us by our regulators, including the possibility that our regulators may, among other things, require us to increase our allowance for credit losses, to write-down assets or to hold more capital;
•The effects or impact of any litigation, regulatory proceeding, including enforcement proceedings and any possibly resulting fines, judgments, expenses or restrictions on our business activities;
•Unanticipated regulatory or judicial proceedings;
•The effect of changes in accounting policies and practices, as may be adopted from time-to-time by bank regulatory agencies, the SEC, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board ("PCAOB") or the FASB;
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•Cybersecurity breaches, threats, and cyber-fraud that cause the Bank to sustain financial losses;
•Technological and social media changes;
•Our management of risks inherent in the use of statistical and quantitative data and modeling;
•The strength of the United States economy, in general, and the strength of the local economies in which we conduct operations;
•Geopolitical conditions, including acts or threats of terrorism, actions taken by the United States or other governments in response to acts or threats of terrorism and/or military conflicts, which could impact business and economic conditions in the United States and abroad; and
•The factors discussed under the caption “Risk Factors” in this report.
If one or more of the factors affecting our forward looking information and statements proves incorrect, then our actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, forward looking information and statements contained in this report. You should not place undue reliance on our forward looking information and statements. We will not update the forward looking statements to reflect actual results or changes in the factors affecting the forward looking statements.
GENERAL
The Company is a growth-oriented, one-bank holding company headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, which is currently celebrating twenty-four years of successful operations. The Company provides general commercial and consumer banking services through the Bank, its wholly owned banking subsidiary, a Maryland chartered bank which is a member of the Federal Reserve. The Company was organized in October 1997 and to be the holding company for the Bank. The Bank was organized in 1998 as an independent, community oriented, full service banking alternative to the super regional financial institutions, which dominate the Company’s primary market area. The Company’s philosophy is to provide superior, personalized service to its customers. The Company focuses on relationship banking, providing each customer with a number of services and becoming familiar with and addressing customer needs in a proactive, personalized fashion. The Bank currently has a total of sixteen branch offices (six in Suburban Maryland, five in Washington, D.C. and five in Northern Virginia), a principal corporate office, five lending centers (two are co-located with branches and one co-located in the principal corporate office) and one operations center. Refer to the Business Section above, which describes in detail the various banking services offered.
Although the global economy has largely adapted operations to a world with COVID-19, certain adverse residual consequences of the pandemic continue to impact the macroeconomic environment and they may continue to persist. The growth in economic activity and demand for goods and services, alongside labor shortages and supply chain complications and/or disruptions, has contributed greatly to rising inflationary pressures. In 2022, the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee ("FOMC"), began a series of rate increases thereby discontinuing the generally accommodative monetary policy it had pursued when the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020. In late 2022, the Federal Reserve begun tapering purchases of securities and is no longer expanding its balance sheet as aggressively. Actual real U.S. GDP growth for 2022 was 2.1%, in contrast to 5.7% growth in 2021 as the economy re-opened, and was adversely impacted by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Employment climbed throughout 2022 as the U.S. unemployment rate ended the year at 3.4%, down from 3.9% at the end of 2021.
Longer-term U.S. interest rates increased in 2022, with the ten year U.S. Treasury rate averaging 2.95% in 2022 as compared to 1.45% in 2021. The yield curve in 2022 was inverted as rates increased sharply on the short end of the curve and remained anchored on the longer end versus a more normal shape in 2021.
As the ten year U.S. Treasury rate continued to increase in 2022, the volume of residential mortgage lending continued to decrease in 2022. Overall, real estate values in most of the Company's markets decreased moderately in 2022 as the FOMC increased interest rates in 2022 to stave off inflationary pressures. Political gridlock continued in Washington, D.C. over concerns of public debt and deficits, as well as tax policy and spending levels.
The Company’s primary market, the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, has continued to perform well relative to other parts of the country notwithstanding the adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, due to a stable public sector along with increased government spending. The private sector, in particular, the Leisure and Hospitality sector has seen some recovery in recent years following the adverse effects of the pandemic. The multi-family commercial real estate leasing sector, notwithstanding increased supply of units in the Bank’s market area, has held up relatively well, particularly for well-located close-in projects. Overall, commercial real estate values have generally held up well, but we continue to be cautious of the cap rates at which some assets are trading, and therefore, we are being careful with valuations.
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In spite of recent challenges, the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area maintains a diverse economy including a large healthcare component, substantial business services and a highly educated work force.
The Company has the financial resources to meet, and has remained committed to meeting, the credit needs of its community. The decline in the Company's loan balances in 2021 was a result of PPP loans paying off, competition refinancing at lower rates with longer amortization periods, and excess liquidity at competing banks as well as many companies and construction project sponsors. Loan balances increased in 2022 as rising rates led to deposit disintermediation reducing our liquidity levels and earning assets. However, rates on interest earning assets increased which ultimately had a net positive impact on the net interest margin and resulted in a higher net interest income in 2022 despite the decrease in liquidity and earning assets.
The Company’s capital position remained strong in 2022 as a result of good earnings, improved economic conditions and strong asset quality. As a result of the Company’s strong capital position and earnings, we were able to continue our quarterly dividend in 2022. Additionally, the Company was active in share repurchase activity as we repurchased 738,300 shares at an average price of $44.82 per share during 2022.
On December 13, 2022, the Company's Board of Directors authorized a new share repurchase program to take effect starting January 2, 2023, after the expiration of the previous repurchase program on December 31, 2022. The Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of 1,600,000 shares of common stock, or approximately 5% of the Company's outstanding shares of common stock, under the 2023 Repurchase Program, which will expire on December 31, 2023, subject to earlier termination of the program by the Board of Directors.
The Company believes its strategy of remaining growth-oriented, retaining talented staff and maintaining focus on seeking quality lending and deposit relationships has proven successful. Additionally, the Company believes such focus and strategy of relationship building has fostered future growth opportunities, as the Company’s reputation in the marketplace remains strong. At December 31, 2022, the Company had total assets of approximately $11.2 billion, total loans of $7.6 billion, total deposits of $8.7 billion and sixteen branches in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND ESTIMATES
The Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements are prepared in accordance with GAAP and follow general practices within the banking industry. Application of these principles requires management to make estimates, assumptions and judgments that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. These estimates, assumptions and judgments are based on information available as of the date of the Consolidated Financial Statements; accordingly, as this information changes, the Consolidated Financial Statements could reflect different estimates, assumptions and judgments. Certain policies, including those identified below for the year ended December 31, 2022, inherently have a greater reliance on the use of estimates, assumptions and judgments and, as such, have a greater possibility of producing results that could be materially different than originally reported. Estimates, assumptions and judgments are necessary when assets and liabilities are required to be recorded at fair value, when a decline in the value of an asset not carried on the financial statements at fair value warrants an impairment write-down or a valuation reserve to be established or when an asset or liability needs to be recorded contingent upon a future event. Carrying assets and liabilities at fair value inherently results in more financial statement volatility.
Allowance for Credit Losses and Provision for Unfunded Commitments
A consequence of lending activities is that we may incur credit losses, so we record an ACL with respect to loan receivables and a reserve for unfunded commitments (“RUC”) as estimates of those losses. The amount of such losses will vary depending upon the risk characteristics of the loan portfolio as affected by economic conditions such as changes in interest rates, the financial performance of borrowers and regional unemployment rates, which management estimates by using a national forecast and estimating a regional adjustment based on historical differences between the two.
As a result of our January 1, 2020 adoption of FASB's Accounting Standard Codification ("ASC") 326, Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments, and its related amendments, our methodology for estimating these credit losses changed significantly from years prior to 2020. The standard replaced the “incurred loss” approach with a “current expected credit loss” approach known as CECL, which requires an estimate of the credit losses expected over the life of an exposure (or
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pool of exposures). CECL removes the incurred loss approach’s threshold that delayed the recognition of a credit loss until it was “probable” a loss event was “incurred.”
The Provision for Unfunded Commitments represents the expected credit losses on off-balance sheet commitments such as unfunded commitments to extend credit and standby letters of credit. The RUC is determined by estimating future draws and applying the expected loss rates on those draws.
Management has significant discretion in making the judgments inherent in the determination of the provisions for credit loss, ACL and the RUC. Our determination of these amounts requires significant reliance on estimates and significant judgment as to the amount and timing of expected future cash flows on loans, significant reliance on historical loss rates on homogenous portfolios, consideration of our quantitative and qualitative evaluation of economic factors and the reliance on our reasonable and supportable forecasts.
The ACL represents the expected credit losses arising from the Company's loan and available-for-sale ("AFS") securities portfolios. The ACL is determined as follows:
The Company uses a loan-level probability of default ("PD")/ loss given default ("LGD") cash flow method with an exposure at default ("EAD") model to estimate expected credit losses for the commercial, income producing – commercial real estate, owner occupied – commercial real estate, real estate mortgage - residential, construction – commercial and residential, construction – C&I (owner occupied), home equity and other consumer loan pools. For each of these loan segments, the Company generates cash flow projections at the instrument level wherein payment expectations are adjusted for estimated prepayment speed, probability of default and loss given default. The modeling of expected prepayment speeds is based on historical internal data.
The Company uses regression analysis of historical internal and peer data (as Company loss data is insufficient) to determine suitable loss drivers to utilize when modeling lifetime PD and LGD. This analysis also determines how expected PD will react to forecasted levels of the loss drivers. For our cash flow model, management utilizes and forecasts regional unemployment by using a national forecast and estimating a regional adjustment based on historical differences between the two as a loss driver over our reasonable and supportable period of 18 months, and reverts back to a historical loss rate over the following twelve months on a straight-line basis. While the COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted unemployment projections for 2021, which informed our CECL economic forecast and increased our loss reserve for that year, there were positive signs in 2022 as the unemployment rate and economic forecast continued to improve and suggested that the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on credit would not be as significant as previously considered in 2021. Management leverages economic projections from reputable and independent third parties to inform its loss driver forecasts over the forecast period.
The ACL also includes an amount for inherent risks not reflected in the historical analyses. Relevant factors include, but are not limited to, concentrations of credit risk, changes in underwriting standards, experience and depth of lending staff and trends in delinquencies. While our methodology in establishing the reserve for credit losses attributes portions of the ACL and RUC to the commercial and consumer portfolio segments, the entire ACL and RUC is available to absorb credit losses expected in the total loan portfolio and total amount of unfunded credit commitments, respectively.
Going forward, the impact of utilizing the CECL approach to calculate the reserve for credit losses will be significantly
influenced by the composition, characteristics and quality of our loan portfolio, as well as the prevailing economic conditions and forecasts utilized. Material changes to these and other relevant factors may result in greater volatility to the reserve for credit losses, and therefore, greater volatility to our reported earnings. For example, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and related hybrid or fully remote working environment had negatively impacted the performance outlook in the central business district office commercial real estate segment of our loan portfolio, which informed our CECL economic forecast and continued to adversely impact our loss reserve as of December 31, 2022. See Notes 1, 3 and 4 to the Consolidated Financial Statements, the “Provision for Credit Losses” section in Management’s Discussion and Analysis and the risk factors related to our business and economic conditions in Item 1A for more information on the provision for credit losses.
SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
The following discussion is intended to assist in understanding the financial condition and results of operations of the Company as of and for the year ended December 31, 2022. The information contained in this section should be read together with the December 31, 2022 audited Consolidated Financial Statements and the accompanying Notes included in Item 8 Financial Statements And Supplementary Data of this Form 10-K.
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This section of this Form 10-K generally discusses 2022 items and year-to-year comparisons between 2022 and 2021. Discussions of 2020 items and year-to-year comparisons between 2021 and 2020 that are not included in this Form 10-K can be found in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in Part II, Item 7 of the Company’s Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The information set forth below contains certain financial information determined by methods other than in accordance with GAAP. These non-GAAP financial measures are “tangible common equity,” “tangible book value per common share,” “efficiency ratio” and “return on average common equity.” Management uses these non-GAAP measures in its analysis of our performance because it believes these measures are used as a measure of our performance by investors.
These disclosures should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for results determined in accordance with GAAP and are not necessarily comparable to non-GAAP performance measures which may be presented by other bank holding companies. Management compensates for these limitations by providing detailed reconciliations between GAAP information and the non-GAAP financial measures. A reconciliation table is set forth below following the selected historical consolidated financial data.
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| 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | |||||||||
| Balance Sheets - Period End | |||||||||||
| Securities - available for sale | $ | 1,598,666 | $ | 2,623,408 | $ | 1,151,083 | |||||
| Securities - held to maturity | 1,093,374 | — | — | ||||||||
| Loans held for sale | 6,734 | 47,218 | 88,205 | ||||||||
| Loans | 7,635,632 | 7,065,598 | 7,760,212 | ||||||||
| Allowance for credit losses | (74,444) | (74,965) | (109,579) | ||||||||
| Intangible assets, net | 104,233 | 104,255 | 104,307 | ||||||||
| Total assets | 11,150,854 | 11,847,310 | 11,117,802 | ||||||||
| Deposits | 8,713,182 | 9,981,540 | 9,189,203 | ||||||||
| Borrowings | 1,044,795 | 369,670 | 568,077 | ||||||||
| Total liabilities | 9,922,533 | 10,496,535 | 9,876,910 | ||||||||
| Total shareholders’ equity | 1,228,321 | 1,350,775 | 1,240,892 | ||||||||
| Tangible common equity (1) | 1,124,088 | 1,246,520 | 1,135,778 | ||||||||
| Statements of Income | |||||||||||
| Interest income | $ | 424,613 | $ | 364,496 | $ | 389,986 | |||||
| Interest expense | 91,746 | 39,982 | 68,424 | ||||||||
| Provision (reversal) for credit losses | 266 | (20,821) | 45,571 | ||||||||
| Noninterest income | 23,654 | 40,385 | 45,696 | ||||||||
| Noninterest expense | 165,098 | 149,165 | 144,162 | ||||||||
| Income before taxes | 189,680 | 237,674 | 176,145 | ||||||||
| Income tax expense | 48,750 | 60,983 | 43,928 | ||||||||
| Net income | 140,930 | 176,691 | 132,217 | ||||||||
| Cash dividends declared | 55,776 | 44,691 | 28,330 | ||||||||
| Total revenue (2) | 356,521 | 364,899 | 367,258 |
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| Years Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands except per share data) | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | ||||||||
| Per Common Share Data | |||||||||||
| Net income, basic | $ | 4.40 | $ | 5.53 | $ | 4.09 | |||||
| Net income, diluted | 4.39 | 5.52 | 4.09 | ||||||||
| Dividends declared | 1.75 | 1.40 | 0.88 | ||||||||
| Book value | 39.18 | 42.28 | 39.05 | ||||||||
| Tangible book value (3) | 35.86 | 38.97 | 35.74 | ||||||||
| Common shares outstanding | 31,346,903 | 31,950,092 | 31,779,663 | ||||||||
| Weighted average common shares outstanding, basic | 32,004,251 | 31,935,824 | 32,334,201 | ||||||||
| Weighted average common shares outstanding, diluted | 32,078,070 | 32,003,090 | 32,362,556 | ||||||||
| Ratios | |||||||||||
| Net interest margin | 2.93 | % | 2.81 | % | 3.19 | % | |||||
| Efficiency ratio (4) | 46.31 | % | 40.88 | % | 39.25 | % | |||||
| Return on average assets | 1.20 | % | 1.49 | % | 1.28 | % | |||||
| Return on average common equity | 10.99 | % | 13.54 | % | 10.98 | % | |||||
| Return on average tangible common equity (1) | 11.97 | % | 14.73 | % | 12.03 | % | |||||
| CET1 capital (to risk weighted assets) | 14.03 | % | 14.63 | % | 13.49 | % | |||||
| Total capital (to risk weighted assets) | 14.94 | % | 15.74 | % | 17.04 | % | |||||
| Tier 1 capital (to risk weighted assets) | 14.03 | % | 14.63 | % | 13.49 | % | |||||
| Tier 1 capital (to average assets) | 11.63 | % | 10.19 | % | 10.31 | % | |||||
| Tangible common equity ratio | 10.18 | % | 10.60 | % | 10.31 | % | |||||
| Dividend payout ratio | 39.58 | % | 25.29 | % | 21.59 | % | |||||
| Asset Quality | |||||||||||
| Nonperforming assets and loans 90+ past due | $ | 8,430 | $ | 30,843 | $ | 65,930 | |||||
| Nonperforming assets and loans 90+ past due to total assets | 0.08 | % | 0.26 | % | 0.59 | % | |||||
| Nonperforming loans to total loans | 0.08 | % | 0.41 | % | 0.79 | % | |||||
| Allowance for credit losses to loans | 0.97 | % | 1.06 | % | 1.41 | % | |||||
| Allowance for credit losses to nonperforming loans | 1,150.96 | % | 256.66 | % | 179.80 | % | |||||
| Net charge-offs | $ | 624 | $ | 13,339 | $ | 20,097 | |||||
| Net charge-offs to average loans | 0.01 | % | 0.18 | % | 0.26 | % |
(1)Tangible common equity and return on average tangible common equity are non-GAAP financial measures. Tangible common equity is defined as total common shareholders’ equity reduced by goodwill and other intangible assets.
(2)Total revenue calculated as net interest income plus noninterest income.
(3)Tangible book value per common share, a non-GAAP financial measure, is defined as tangible common shareholders’ equity divided by total common shares outstanding.
(4)Computed by dividing noninterest expense by the sum of net interest income and noninterest income.
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The following table details our Non-GAAP to GAAP reconciliation for the years 2020 through 2022.
| Non-GAAP Reconciliation | Years Ended December 31, | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands except per share data) | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | ||||||||
| Common shareholders’ equity | $ | 1,228,321 | $ | 1,350,775 | $ | 1,240,891 | |||||
| Less: Intangible assets | (104,233) | (104,255) | (104,307) | ||||||||
| Tangible common equity | $ | 1,124,088 | $ | 1,246,520 | $ | 1,136,584 | |||||
| Book value per common share | $ | 39.18 | $ | 42.28 | $ | 39.05 | |||||
| Less: Intangible book value per common share | (3.32) | (3.31) | (3.31) | ||||||||
| Tangible book value per common share | $ | 35.86 | $ | 38.97 | $ | 35.74 | |||||
| Total assets | $ | 11,150,854 | $ | 11,847,310 | $ | 11,117,802 | |||||
| Less: Intangible assets | (104,233) | (104,255) | (104,307) | ||||||||
| Tangible assets | $ | 11,046,621 | $ | 11,743,055 | $ | 11,013,495 | |||||
| Tangible common equity ratio | 10.18 | % | 10.61 | % | 10.32 | % | |||||
| Average common shareholders’ equity | $ | 1,281,921 | $ | 1,304,902 | $ | 1,204,341 | |||||
| Less: Average intangible assets | (104,248) | (104,265) | (104,361) | ||||||||
| Average tangible common equity | $ | 1,177,673 | $ | 1,200,637 | $ | 1,099,980 | |||||
| Net Income | $ | 140,930 | $ | 176,691 | $ | 132,217 | |||||
| Average tangible common equity | $ | 1,177,673 | $ | 1,200,637 | $ | 1,099,438 | |||||
| Return on average tangible common equity | 11.97 | % | 14.72 | % | 12.03 | % | |||||
| Total noninterest expense | $ | 165,098 | $ | 149,165 | $ | 144,162 | |||||
| Net interest income | $ | 332,867 | $ | 324,514 | $ | 321,562 | |||||
| Total noninterest income | 23,654 | 40,385 | 45,696 | ||||||||
| Total of net interest and noninterest income | $ | 356,521 | $ | 364,899 | $ | 367,258 | |||||
| Efficiency ratio | 46.31 | % | 40.88 | % | 39.25 | % |
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
Twelve Months Ended December 31, 2022 Compared with Twelve Months Ended December 31, 2021
Overview
Net income for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021 was $140.9 million and $176.7 million, respectively. Net income per basic and diluted common share for 2022 was $4.40 and $4.39, respectively, compared to $5.53 and $5.52 per basic and diluted common share, respectively for 2021, a 20% decrease.
Net income decreased in 2022 relative to 2021 primarily due to the provision reversals in the allowance for credit losses in 2021 that did not recur in 2022, increases in interest expense, lower noninterest income and higher noninterest expense which was partially offset by an increase in interest income.
The most significant portion of revenue (i.e., net interest income plus noninterest income) is net interest income, which increased to $332.9 million for 2022 compared to $324.5 million for 2021. The increase was due to an increase in the yield on average earning assets from 3.16% to 3.74%, or 58 basis points, which was partially offset by an increase in cost of funds of 46 basis points in net interest margin due to increased rates on interest bearing deposits and other borrowings.
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The net interest margin, which measures the difference between interest income and interest expense (i.e., net interest income) as a percentage of earning assets, was 2.93% for 2022 and 2.81% for 2021, an increase of 12 basis points. The drivers of the change are detailed in the "Net Interest Income and Net Interest Margin" section below.
The provision for credit losses in 2022 was $266 thousand as compared to a reversal of $20.8 million in 2021. For information on the components and drivers of these changes see "Provision for Credit Losses" section below.
Total noninterest income in 2022 was $23.7 million, as compared to $40.4 million in 2021, a 41% decrease.
Noninterest expenses in 2022 totaled $165.1 million, as compared to $149.2 million in 2021, an 11% increase. The efficiency ratio, which measures the ratio of noninterest expense to total revenue, was 46.31% for 2022 as compared to 40.88% for 2021. The adverse change in the efficiency ratio was driven by the $22.9 million settlement expenses, which increased noninterest expense and was partially offset by the $5.0 million accrual reduction related to share-based compensation awards and deferred compensation associated with our former CEO and Chairman, which reduced noninterest expense. Refer to the “Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” section for additional detail and a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures.
At December 31, 2022, total loan balances (including PPP loans) were 8% higher than they were at December 31, 2021, and average loans were 1% lower in 2022 as compared to 2021. PPP loans represented just $3.3 million of total loans at the end of 2022, as compared to $51.1 million at the end of 2021. Excluding PPP loans, adjusted loan balances, increased 9% in 2022, driven by originations and advances which outpaced payoffs and paydowns. The decline in PPP loans was the result of the forgiveness process.
Total deposits at December 31, 2022 declined by $1.3 billion as compared to December 31, 2021. The decline consists of $127.2 million in noninterest bearing deposits and $1.1 billion in interest bearing deposits. This was primarily driven by a significant increase in short term interest rates and the related deposit disintermediation.
In terms of the average asset composition or mix, loans, which generally have higher yields than securities and other earning assets, represented 63.4% and 63.0% of average earning assets for 2022 and 2021, respectively. For 2022, as compared to 2021, average loans, excluding loans held for sale, decreased $54.7 million, or 1%, driven by slightly higher payoffs and paydowns, which just outpaced originations and advances as well as PPP loan forgiveness.
Average investment securities for 2022 were 25% of average earning assets compared to 14% for 2021. The combination of federal funds sold, interest bearing deposits with other banks and loans held for sale represented 11% and 23% of average earning assets for 2022 and 2021, respectively, as lower levels of on-balance sheet liquidity existed throughout 2022. The decrease was driven by the decline in deposits due to a significant increase in short term interest rates.
The ratio of common equity to total assets decreased to 11.02% at December 31, 2022 from 11.40% at December 31, 2021, due to the significant impact of higher rates on the unrealized loss position of the investment portfolio and resulting impact to accumulated other comprehensive income. The impact resulted in a reduction of common equity of $185.5 million related to investment securities in addition to the $55.8 million of cash dividends declared and $33.1 million in share repurchase activity during 2022.
For 2022, the return on average assets (“ROAA”) was 1.20%, as compared to 1.49% for 2021. Total shareholders’ equity was $1.23 billion at December 31, 2022 as compared to $1.35 billion at December 31, 2021, a decrease of 9%. The return on average common equity (“ROACE”) for 2022 was 10.99% as compared to 13.54% for 2021. The return on average tangible common equity (“ROATCE”) for 2022, a non-GAAP financial measure, was 11.97% as compared to 14.73% for 2021. Refer to the “Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” section for additional detail and a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures. The decreases in these returns was primarily due to lower noninterest income, higher noninterest expense, the SEC and FRB settlements and, to a lesser extent, the non recurrence of provision reversals in the allowance for credit losses and net interest income on a lower asset base.
Net Interest Income and Net Interest Margin
Net interest income is the difference between interest income on earning assets and the cost of funds supporting those assets. Earning assets are composed primarily of loans, loans held for sale, investment securities and interest bearing deposits with other banks. The cost of funds represents interest expense on deposits, customer repurchase agreements and other borrowings, which consist of federal funds purchased, advances from the FHLB and subordinated notes. Noninterest bearing
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deposits and capital are other components representing funding sources. Changes in the volume and mix of assets and funding sources, along with the changes in yields earned and rates paid, determine changes in net interest income.
The Bank's earnings are significantly dependent upon net interest income, which is the difference between interest earned on earning assets and interest expense on interest bearing liabilities. Net interest income represented 93% and 89% of the Company’s revenue for the years ended December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively. Net interest income in 2022 was $332.9 million compared to $324.5 million in 2021. The 3% increase resulted from an increase in rates on earning assets, which was partially offset by increased rates on lower average balances of interest bearing deposits, as compared to 2021.
Net interest margin increased by 12 basis points to 2.93% in 2022 from 2.81% in 2021. The increase reflects the impact of an increase in yields which more than offset the increase in the cost of funds and decrease in average earning assets. The yield on earning assets increased by 58 basis points from 3.16% in 2021 to 3.74% in 2022 while cost of funds increased 46 basis points from 0.35% in 2021 to 0.81% in 2022. Average interest bearing deposits with other banks and other short term investments were $1.2 billion for 2022 compared to $2.5 billion for 2021. As a result of FRB actions related to Fed Funds interest rate increases, overall yields and rates increased in 2022 as compared to 2021, as variable rate loans adjusted upwards and an increased number of loans moved off their rate floors.
Loans, the largest component of interest income on earnings assets, had a yield of 4.97% in 2022, compared to 4.62% in 2021, an increase of 35 basis points (includes PPP loans).
Although deposits declined in 2022 due to disintermediation, the deposit mix continued to be favorable at year end, with average noninterest deposits being 38% of average total deposits, up from 34% in 2021. In 2022, average loans, the primary source of the Bank’s revenue, decreased by 1% between 2021 and 2022.
The table below presents the average balances and rates of the major categories of the Company's assets and liabilities for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020. Included in the table are measurements of interest rate spread and margin. Interest rate spread is the difference (expressed as a percentage) between the interest rate earned on earning assets less the interest rate paid on interest bearing liabilities. While the interest rate spread provides a quick comparison of earnings rates versus cost of funds, management believes that margin, together with net interest income, provides a better measurement of performance. The net interest margin (as compared to net interest spread) includes the effect of noninterest bearing sources in its calculation. Net interest margin is net interest income expressed as a percentage of average earning assets.
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Eagle Bancorp, Inc.
Consolidated Average Balances, Interest Yields And Rates (Unaudited)
(dollars in thousands)
| Years Ended December 31, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Average Balance | Interest | Average Yield / Rate | Average Balance | Interest | Average Yield / Rate | Average Balance | Interest | Average Yield / Rate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assets | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest earning assets: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest bearing deposits with other banks and other short-term investments | $ | 1,235,768 | $ | 13,304 | 1.08 | % | $ | 2,499,377 | $ | 3,511 | 0.14 | % | $ | 1,181,591 | $ | 2,601 | 0.22 | % | ||||||||||||||
| Loans held for sale | 15,356 | 650 | 4.23 | % | 71,043 | 2,278 | 3.21 | % | 67,361 | 2,125 | 3.15 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Loans (1) (2) | 7,206,158 | 358,317 | 4.97 | % | 7,260,886 | 335,471 | 4.62 | % | 7,868,523 | 366,729 | 4.66 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Investment securities available-for-sale (2) | 2,003,475 | 33,641 | 1.68 | % | 1,653,522 | 23,205 | 1.40 | % | 929,983 | 18,440 | 1.98 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Investment securities held-to-maturity | 857,584 | 17,840 | 2.08 | % | — | — | — | % | — | — | — | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Federal funds sold | 48,402 | 861 | 1.78 | % | 31,667 | 31 | 0.10 | % | 32,781 | 91 | 0.28 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total interest earning assets | 11,366,743 | 424,613 | 3.74 | % | 11,516,495 | 364,496 | 3.16 | % | 10,080,239 | 389,986 | 3.87 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest earning assets | 475,563 | 416,492 | 371,345 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Less: allowance for credit losses | 74,726 | 96,252 | 101,621 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total noninterest earning assets | 400,837 | 320,240 | 269,724 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total Assets | $ | 11,767,580 | $ | 11,836,735 | $ | 10,349,963 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest bearing liabilities: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest bearing transaction | $ | 893,137 | $ | 6,721 | 0.75 | % | $ | 814,999 | $ | 1,609 | 0.20 | % | $ | 783,568 | $ | 3,190 | 0.41 | % | ||||||||||||||
| Savings and money market | 4,683,850 | 65,777 | 1.40 | % | 4,947,198 | 15,000 | 0.30 | % | 3,925,413 | 26,271 | 0.67 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Time deposits | 669,824 | 10,763 | 1.61 | % | 803,718 | 11,163 | 1.39 | % | 1,149,185 | 24,105 | 2.10 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total interest bearing deposits | 6,246,811 | 83,261 | 1.33 | % | 6,565,915 | 27,772 | 0.42 | % | 5,858,166 | 53,566 | 0.91 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Customer repurchase agreements and federal funds purchased | 30,745 | 356 | 1.16 | % | 24,884 | 51 | 0.20 | % | 29,345 | 293 | 1.00 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Other short-term borrowings | 172,717 | 3,980 | 2.30 | % | 300,003 | 2,008 | 0.67 | % | 280,126 | 1,870 | 0.66 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Long-term borrowings | 69,737 | 4,149 | 5.95 | % | 164,970 | 10,151 | 6.15 | % | 259,975 | 12,696 | 4.80 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total interest bearing liabilities | 6,520,010 | 91,746 | 1.41 | % | 7,055,772 | 39,982 | 0.57 | % | 6,427,612 | 68,425 | 1.06 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest bearing liabilities: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest bearing demand | 3,871,773 | 3,374,662 | 2,643,856 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other liabilities | 93,876 | 101,399 | 74,154 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total noninterest bearing liabilities | 3,965,649 | 3,476,061 | 2,718,010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shareholders’ equity | 1,281,921 | 1,304,902 | 1,204,341 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity | $ | 11,767,580 | $ | 11,836,735 | $ | 10,349,963 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest income | $ | 332,867 | $ | 324,514 | $ | 321,561 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest spread | 2.33 | % | 2.59 | % | 2.81 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest margin | 2.93 | % | 2.81 | % | 3.19 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cost of funds | 0.81 | % | 0.35 | % | 0.68 | % |
(1)Loans placed on nonaccrual status are included in average balances. Net loan fees and late charges included in interest income on loans totaled $15.3 million, $30.6 million and $22.3 million for the years ended December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
(2)Interest and fees on loans and investments exclude tax equivalent adjustments.
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The rate/volume table below presents the composition of the change in net interest income for the periods indicated, as allocated between the change in net interest income due to changes in the volume of average earning assets and interest bearing liabilities and the changes in net interest income due to changes in interest rates. As the table shows, the increase in net interest income in 2022 as compared to 2021 was due to an increase in volume of earning assets and a decrease in the volume of borrowings, which were partially offset by a change in mix along with the impact of higher deposit rates. The increase in net interest income in 2021 as compared to 2020 was due to a decrease in the volume of earning assets, which was more than offset by lower deposit rates.
| 2022 compared with 2021 | 2021 compared with 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands) | Change Due to Volume | Change Due to Rate | Total Increase (Decrease) | Change Due to Volume | Change Due to Rate | Total Increase (Decrease) | ||||||||||||||||
| Interest earned on | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loans | $ | (2,529) | $ | 25,375 | $ | 22,846 | $ | (28,320) | $ | (2,938) | $ | (31,258) | ||||||||||
| Loans held for sale | (1,786) | 158 | (1,628) | 116 | 37 | 153 | ||||||||||||||||
| Investment securities available-for sale | 4,911 | 5,525 | 10,436 | 14,354 | (9,589) | 4,765 | ||||||||||||||||
| Investment securities held-to-maturity | 12,035 | 5,805 | 17,840 | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||||
| Interest bearing bank deposits | (1,775) | 11,568 | 9,793 | 2,901 | (1,991) | 910 | ||||||||||||||||
| Federal funds sold | 16 | 814 | 830 | (3) | (57) | (60) | ||||||||||||||||
| Total interest income | 10,872 | 49,245 | 60,117 | (10,952) | (14,538) | (25,490) | ||||||||||||||||
| Interest paid on | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest bearing transaction | 154 | 4,958 | 5,112 | 128 | (1,709) | (1,581) | ||||||||||||||||
| Savings and money market | (798) | 51,575 | 50,777 | 6,838 | (18,109) | (11,271) | ||||||||||||||||
| Time deposits | (1,860) | 1,460 | (400) | (7,246) | (5,696) | (12,942) | ||||||||||||||||
| Customer repurchase agreements | 12 | 293 | 305 | (45) | (197) | (242) | ||||||||||||||||
| Other borrowings | (6,712) | 2,682 | (4,030) | (4,506) | 2,100 | (2,406) | ||||||||||||||||
| Total interest expense | (9,204) | 60,968 | 51,764 | (4,831) | (23,611) | (28,442) | ||||||||||||||||
| Net interest income | $ | 20,076 | $ | (11,723) | $ | 8,353 | $ | (6,121) | $ | 9,073 | $ | 2,952 |
Provision for Credit Losses
The provision for credit losses represents the amount of expense charged to current earnings to fund the ACL on loans and the ACL on AFS investment securities and HTM investment securities. The amount of the ACL on loans is based on many factors that reflect management’s assessment of the risk in the loan portfolio. Those factors include historical losses based on internal and peer data (as Company loss data is insufficient), economic conditions and trends, the value and adequacy of collateral, volume and mix of the portfolio, performance of the portfolio and internal loan processes of the Company and Bank. The ACL under CECL (adopted January 1, 2020) utilizes an economic forecast that is updated quarterly with the significant measure being the expected regional unemployment rate, which management estimates by using a national forecast and estimating a regional adjustment based on historical differences between the two.
The provision for credit losses was $266 thousand in 2022, as compared to a reversal of $20.8 million in 2021. The provisions were primarily driven by adjustments to the qualitative components of the CECL model owing to the high inflationary environment and the related uncertainty and impacts on the broader economy, offset by improvements in asset quality. The reversal in 2021 was driven by the improved macroeconomic outlook, improvement of credits in the loan portfolio and a reduction in total loans.
The provision for unfunded commitments is presented separately on the Statement of Income. This provision considers the probability that unfunded commitments will fund. The provision was $1.5 million in 2022, as compared to a reversal of $1.1 million in 2021.
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Management has developed a comprehensive analytical process to monitor the adequacy of the ACL. The process and guidelines were developed utilizing, among other factors, the guidance from federal banking regulatory agencies, relevant available information, from internal and external sources, relating to past events, current conditions and reasonable and supportable forecasts. The process is being continually enhanced and refined based on periodic review and challenge. Historical credit loss experience provides the basis for the estimation of expected credit losses. Adjustments to historical loss information are made for differences in current loan-specific risk characteristics such as differences in underwriting standards, portfolio mix, loan concentrations, credit quality or term, as well as for changes in environmental conditions, such as changes in unemployment rates, property values or other relevant factors. Refer to additional detail regarding these forecasts in the “Cash Flow Method" section of Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.
The results of this process, in combination with conclusions of the Bank’s outside consultants’ review of the risk inherent in the loan portfolio, support management’s assessment as to the adequacy of the allowance at the balance sheet date. Please refer to the discussion under “Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates” above and in Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for an overview of the methodology management employs on a quarterly basis to assess the adequacy of the allowance and the provisions charged to expense. Also, refer to the table in the "Allowance for Credit Losses" section which reflects activity in the ACL.
The ACL for loans at year-end 2022 decreased by $521 thousand as compared to year-end 2021, reflecting a provision for credit losses of $103 thousand and $624 thousand in net charge-offs. The $266 thousand charge to the provision for credit losses includes $163 thousand for securities and $103 thousand for loans. Net charge-offs of $624 thousand during 2022 represented 0.01% of average loans, excluding loans held for sale, a decline from net charge-offs of $13.3 million during 2021, which represented 0.18% of average loans, excluding loans held for sale. Net charge-offs during 2022 were attributable primarily to commercial loans net charge-offs of $848 thousand and consumer net charge-offs of $73 thousand, which was partially offset by commercial real estate recoveries of $297 thousand (net of charge-offs).
At December 31, 2022, the ACL represented 0.97% of loans outstanding, as compared to 1.06% at December 31, 2021. The ACL represented 1151% of nonperforming loans at December 31, 2022, as compared to 257% at December 31, 2021.
As part of its comprehensive loan review process, internal loan and credit committees carefully evaluate loans that are past-due 30 days or more. The committees make a thorough assessment of the conditions and circumstances surrounding each delinquent loan. The Bank’s loan policy requires that loans be placed on nonaccrual if they are 90 days past-due, unless they are well secured and in the process of collection. Additionally, the Credit Administration department specifically analyzes the status of development and construction projects, sales activities and utilization of interest reserves in order to carefully and prudently assess potential increased levels of risk requiring additional reserves.
The maintenance of a high quality loan portfolio, with an adequate ACL, will continue to be a primary management objective for the Company.
Noninterest Income
Noninterest income includes service charges on deposits, gain on sale of loans, gain on sale of investment securities, income from bank owned life insurance (“BOLI”) and other income. Total noninterest income for the year ended December 31, 2022 was $23.7 million as compared to $40.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2021. The 41% decrease was substantially due to lower gains on sale of residential mortgage loans of $10.3 million and lower net gains on sales of securities of $3.1 million. The Bank recently announced that it plans to cease originating residential mortgages for sale in the first quarter of 2023 (See Note 26 of the Consolidated Financial Statements for further details).
At December 31, 2022, locked commitments for residential mortgage loans were $323.7 million, as compared to $994.5 million at December 31, 2021, a 67.45% decrease. The rise in interest rates for residential mortgages in 2022 had a substantial negative impact on the volume of mortgage originations and in turn the sale of residential mortgages declined.
For the year ended December 31, 2022, service charges on deposits increased by $837 thousand to $5.4 million from $4.6 million for the same period in 2021, an increase of 18%. While total deposits decreased in 2022, deposit fees increased significantly since those fees are no longer waived due to the pandemic, as they had been in 2021.
Gain on sale of loans consists of gains on the sale of residential mortgage and SBA loans. For the year ended December 31, 2022, gain on sale of loans was $3.7 million, compared to $14.0 million in 2021, a decrease of 74%. The decrease was driven by higher residential mortgage rates in 2022, which reduced mortgage origination volume.
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The Company has historically originated residential mortgage loans and utilized both “mandatory delivery” and “best efforts” forward loan sale commitments to sell those loans with servicing released. Loans sold are subject to repurchase in circumstances where documentation is deficient or the underlying loan becomes delinquent or pays off within a specified period following loan funding and sale. The Bank considers these potential recourse provisions to be a minimal risk, but has established a reserve under GAAP for possible repurchases. There were no repurchases due to fraud by the borrower during the year ended December 31, 2022. The reserve is included in other liabilities on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. The Bank does not originate “sub-prime” loans and has no exposure to this market segment.
| Residential mortgage | Years Ended December 31, | ||||||||||
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| (dollars in thousands) | 2022 | 2021 | % Change | ||||||||
| Gain on sale | $ | 3,211 | $ | 13,585 | (76.4) | % | |||||
| Closed loans | 295,567 | 1,140,408 | (74.1) | % | |||||||
| Locked loans | 323,735 | 994,452 | (67.4) | % | |||||||
| Reserve | 25 | 125 | (80.0) | % |
The decision whether to sell residential mortgage loans on a mandatory or best efforts lock basis is a function of multiple factors, including, but not limited to, overall market volumes of mortgage loan originations, forecasted “pull-through” rates of origination, loan underwriting and closing operational considerations, pricing differentials between the two methods and availability and pricing of various interest rate hedging strategies associated with the mortgage origination pipeline. The Company continually monitors these factors to maximize profitability and minimize operational and interest rate risks.
The Company is an originator of SBA loans and its practice is to sell the guaranteed portion of those loans at a premium. Income from this source was $491 thousand for the year ended December 31, 2022, compared to $460 thousand for the same period in 2021. Activity in SBA loan sales to secondary markets can vary widely from year to year.
Loss on the sale of investment securities was $169 thousand for the year ended December 31, 2022, compared to a gain of $3.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2021.
Other income totaled $12.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2022 as compared to $16.8 million for 2021, a decrease of 27%. The FHA business unit generated income on the sale of FHA multifamily-backed Ginnie Mae securities of $790 thousand for 2022 compared to $4.2 million for 2021.
Servicing agreements relating to the Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed securities program require the Company to advance funds to make scheduled payments of principal, interest, taxes and insurance, if such payments have not been received from the borrowers. The Company will generally recover funds advanced pursuant to these arrangements under the FHA insurance and guarantee program. However, in the interim, the Company must absorb the cost of the funds it advances during the time the advance is outstanding. The Company must also bear the costs of attempting to collect on delinquent and defaulted mortgage loans. In addition, if a defaulted loan is not cured, the mortgage loan would be canceled as part of the foreclosure proceedings and the Company would not receive any future servicing income with respect to that loan. At December 31, 2022, the Company did not have any funds advanced outstanding under FHA mortgage loan servicing agreements.
Noninterest Expense
Total noninterest expense includes salaries and employee benefits, premises and equipment expenses, marketing and advertising, data processing, legal, accounting and professional fees, FDIC insurance premiums and other expenses.
Total noninterest expense totaled $165.1 million for 2022, as compared to $149.2 million for 2021, an 11% increase. For 2022, the efficiency ratio (ratio of noninterest expenses to total revenue) was 46.31% as compared to 40.88% for 2021. Refer to the “Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” section for additional detail and a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures. The increase in 2022 as compared to 2021 was primarily associated with the $22.9 million of settlement expenses in the second quarter of 2022, which were partially offset by the salary accrual reduction of $5.0 million related to stock-based compensation awards and deferred compensation for our former CEO and Chairman in the first quarter of 2022.
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Salaries and employee benefits were $84.1 million for 2022, as compared to $88.4 million for 2021, a decrease of 5%. The primary reason for the decrease in 2022 was the reduction of the $5.0 million accrual related to stock-based compensation awards and deferred compensation for our former CEO and Chairman in the first quarter of 2022. The accrual was originally recorded in the first quarter of 2019. Additionally, at December 31, 2022, the Company’s full time equivalent staff numbered 496, as compared to 507 at December 31, 2021.
Premises and equipment expenses were $13.2 million for 2022 as compared to $14.9 million for 2021, a decrease of 11%. The decrease was due to the reduction in rent expense from the closure of one location and was partially offset by normal lease increases and acceleration of leasehold amortization.
Marketing and advertising expenses were $4.7 million for 2022 as compared to $4.2 million for 2021, an increase of 13%. Marketing and advertising expenses increased due to additional advertising, promotions and sponsorships.
Data processing expenses were $12.2 million for 2022 as compared to $11.7 million for 2021, an increase of 4%.
Legal, accounting and professional fees and expenses were $8.6 million for 2022 as compared to $11.5 million for 2021, a 25% decrease. Legal expenses were greater in 2021 primarily due to the previously disclosed governmental investigations and related subpoenas and document requests, as well as our defense of the previously disclosed class action lawsuit. The amount of legal fees and expenditures reported for 2022 are net of expected insurance coverage where we believe we have a high likelihood of recovery pursuant to our D&O insurance policies, but does not include any offset for potential claims we may have in the future as to which recovery is impossible to predict at this time. Refer to Note 21 – Commitments and Contingent Liabilities to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on the Company’s recent proceedings.
FDIC insurance expense was $5.0 million for 2022 as compared to $5.9 million for 2021, a decrease of 16%. The decreases in 2022 compared to 2021 were due to a change in the institution's size, which improved metrics used in the calculation of fees.
In 2022, the Company incurred a penalty of $22.9 million in connection with the settlements with the SEC and FRB. The amount of penalty fees was reported as noninterest expense for 2022. No such penalty fees were incurred in 2021.
The major components of other expenses include broker fees, franchise tax, insurance expenses and director compensation. Other expenses were $14.4 million for 2022 as compared to $12.6 million for 2021, an increase of 14%. The increase in 2022, as compared to 2021, was primarily due to director compensation and insurance expenses.
Income Tax Expense
Income tax expense was $48.8 million for 2022 as compared to $61.0 million for 2021, resulting in an effective tax rate of 25.70% and 25.66%, respectively. The overall reduction in tax expense for 2022 versus 2021 was primarily attributable to lower pre-tax earnings, a lower state effective tax rate and to higher levels of tax-exempt income earned during 2022. The reductions in tax expense were partially offset by the non-deductible SEC and FRB settlements in 2022. The effective tax rate was essentially flat for 2022 compared to 2021 because the benefits from the lower effective state tax rate and the higher tax-exempt income were offset by the impact of the non-deductible expenses. The impact of the change in mix of the components noted above can be seen in the reconciliation of statutory federal income tax rate table in Note 14 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 ("Inflation Reduction Act") was signed into law by president Biden on August 16, 2022. The Inflation Reduction Act makes significant changes to the U.S. tax law, including the introduction of a corporate alternative minimum tax of 15% of the “adjusted financial statement income” of certain domestic corporations as well as a 1% excise tax on the fair market value of stock repurchases by certain domestic corporations, effective for tax years beginning in 2023. The Company currently does not expect the tax-related provision of the Inflation Reduction Act to have a material impact on our financial results.
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Twelve Months Ended December 31, 2021 Compared with Twelve Months Ended December 31, 2020
Overview
Net income for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 were $176.7 million and $132.2 million, respectively. Net income per basic and diluted common share for 2021 was $5.53 and $5.52, respectively, compared to $4.09 per basic and diluted common share for 2020, a 35% increase.
Net income increased in 2021 relative to 2020 primarily due to reversals from the allowance for credit losses and, to a lesser extent, net interest income on a higher asset base, partially offset by lower noninterest income and higher noninterest expense.
The most significant portion of revenue (i.e., net interest income plus noninterest income) is net interest income, which increased to $324.5 million in 2021 compared to $321.6 million for 2020. The increase resulted from an increase in average earning assets of 14%, which offset a decline of 38 basis points in net interest margin.
The net interest margin, which measures the difference between interest income and interest expense (i.e., net interest income) as a percentage of earning assets, was 2.81% for 2021 and 3.19% for 2020, a decline of 38 basis points. The drivers of the change are detailed in the "Net Interest Income and Net Interest Margin" section below.
The provision for credit losses in 2021 was a reversal of $20.8 million as compared to a provision of $45.6 million in 2020. The reversal of the provision was primarily driven by the improved economic environment, adjustments to the quantitative components of the CECL model and improvements in asset quality. For information on the components and drivers of these changes see "Provision for Credit Losses" section below.
Total noninterest income in 2021 was $40.4 million, as compared to $45.7 million in 2020, a 12% decrease.
Noninterest expenses in 2021 totaled $149.2 million, as compared to $144.2 million in 2020, a 3% increase.
The efficiency ratio, which measures the ratio of noninterest expense to total revenue, was 40.88% for 2021 as compared to 39.25% for 2020. Refer to the “Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” section for additional detail and a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures.
Income tax expense in 2021 was $61.0 million, as compared to $43.9 million in 2020, a 39% increase.
At December 31, 2021, total loan balances (including PPP loans) were 9% lower than they were at December 31, 2020, and average loans were 8% lower in 2021 as compared to 2020. PPP loans represented $51.1 million of total loans at the end of 2021, as compared to $454.8 million at the end of 2020. Excluding PPP loans, loans decreased 4% in 2021, driven by higher payoffs and paydowns, which outpaced originations and advances. The decline in PPP loans was the result of the forgiveness process and, in the second quarter of 2021, the Company's sale of a portion of the PPP loan portfolio.
Deposit growth was strong throughout 2021, and resulted in well above historical average overnight liquidity for the Company. Deposit funding during 2021 was primarily from noninterest bearing and money market accounts. In large part due to those inflows, total deposits at December 31, 2021 were 9% higher than deposits at December 31, 2020, while average deposits were 17% higher for 2021 compared with 2020. This increase in deposits allowed the Company to sustain strong primary and secondary sources of liquidity and increase the size of the investment securities portfolio.
In terms of the average asset composition or mix, loans, which generally have higher yields than securities and other earning assets, represented 63% and 76% of average earning assets for 2021 and 2020, respectively. For 2021, as compared to 2020, average loans, excluding loans held for sale, decreased $607.6 million, or 8%, driven by higher payoffs and paydowns, which outpaced originations and advances, and PPP loan forgiveness and sale.
Average investment securities for 2021 were 14% of average earning assets compared to 9% for 2020. The combination of federal funds sold, interest bearing deposits with other banks and loans held for sale represented 23% and 12% of average earning assets for 2021 and 2020, respectively, as much higher levels of on-balance sheet liquidity existed throughout 2021. These increases were driven by the decline in loans coupled with the inflow of deposits.
The ratio of common equity to total assets increased to 11.40% at December 31, 2021 from 11.16% at December 31, 2020, due to common equity growing faster rate than total assets, even with common equity reductions due to $682 thousand in share repurchase activity and $44.7 million of cash dividends declared.
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For 2021, the return on average assets (“ROAA”) was 1.49%, as compared to 1.28% for 2020. Total shareholders’ equity was $1.35 billion at December 31, 2021 and $1.24 billion and 2020, an increase of 9%. The return on average common equity (“ROACE”) for 2021 was 13.54% as compared to 10.98% for 2020. The return on average tangible common equity (“ROATCE”) for 2021 was 14.73% as compared to 12.03% for 2020. Refer to the “Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” section for additional detail and a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures. The increase in these returns was primarily due to reversals from the allowance for credit losses and to a lesser extent net interest income on a higher asset base, partially offset by lower noninterest income and higher noninterest expense.
Net Interest Income and Net Interest Margin
Net interest income in 2021 was $324.5 million compared to $321.6 million in 2020. For 2021, net interest income increased 1% over the same period for 2020. The increase resulted from an increase in average earning assets of 14%, which offset a decline of 38 basis points in net interest margin.
The net interest margin was 2.81% for 2021, as compared to 3.19% for 2020, a decline of 38 basis points. This decline was led by a lower rate environment and the decline in loans, which generally have higher yields than securities. Additionally, the increase in deposits, led to an increase in low yielding assets such as securities or interest bearing deposits at other banks, which contributed to net income and liquidity, but lowered net interest margin. In 2021, average loans decreased $607.6 million or 8% and average deposits increased by $1.4 billion or 17%.
Loans, the largest component of interest income on earnings assets, had a yield of 4.62% in 2021, compared to 4.66% in 2020, a decline of 4 basis points (includes PPP loans). The decline in yield was minimized due to disciplined loan pricing practices and the sale or forgiveness of PPP loans, which accelerated net deferred fees and cost into interest income. Additionally, the deposit mix remained favorable, with average noninterest deposits being 34% of average total deposits, up from 31% in 2020. In 2021, total net loans, the primary source of the Bank’s revenue, declined, although total assets increased over the same period. Further, loan pricing pressures in the highly competitive market for high-quality commercial loans, and the costs and implementation risks associated with pursuing loan growth, put pressure on loan portfolio yields and consequently the Bank’s net interest margin and net income.
Provision for Credit Losses
The provision for credit losses was a reversal of $20.8 million in 2021, as compared to a provision of $45.6 million in 2020. The reversal in 2021 was largely due to the improvement of the economy as the COVID-19 vaccines and treatments became widely available and the improvement in credit quality, whereas the provision in 2020 was due to a reserve build associated with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The provision for unfunded commitments is presented separately on the Statement of Income. This provision considers the probability that unfunded commitments will fund. The provision was a reversal of $1.1 million in 2021, as compared to a provision of $1.4 million in 2020.
For 2021, the ACL decreased by $34.6 million, reflecting a reversal of $20.8 million to provision for credit losses and $13.3 million in net charge-offs. Net charge-offs of $13.3 million during 2021 represented 0.18% of average loans, excluding loans held for sale, as compared to $20.1 million or 0.26% of average loans, excluding loans held for sale, in 2020. Net charge-offs during 2021 were attributable primarily to commercial real estate ($5.1 million) and commercial loans ($8.3 million).
At December 31, 2021 the ACL represented 1.06% of loans outstanding, as compared to 1.41% at December 31, 2020. The ACL represented 257% of nonperforming loans at December 31, 2021, as compared to 180% at December 31, 2020.
Noninterest Income
Noninterest income includes service charges on deposits, gain on sale of loans, gain on sale of investment securities, income from bank owned life insurance (“BOLI”) and other income. Total noninterest income for the year ended December 31, 2021 was $40.4 million as compared to $45.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2020. The 12% decrease was due substantially to $8.0 million lower gains on sale of residential mortgage loans which was partially offset by $1.1 million higher gains on sales of securities and $1.6 million higher fees associated with the origination, securitization, sale and servicing of FHA loans.
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The Bank recently announced that it plans to cease originating residential mortgages for sale in the first quarter of 2023 (See Note 26 of the Consolidated Financial Statements for further details).
For the year ended December 31, 2021, service charges on deposit accounts slightly increased $146 thousand to $4.6 million from $4.4 million for the same period in 2020, an increase of 3%. While deposits increased significantly in 2021, deposit fees continue to be waived due to the pandemic.
Gain on sale of loans consists of gains on the sale of residential mortgage and SBA loans. For the year ended December 31, 2021, gain on sale of loans was $14.0 million, compared to $22.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2020, a decrease of 36%. The decrease was driven by higher residential mortgage rates in the latter part of the year, which reduced mortgage origination volume.
| Residential mortgage | Years Ended December 31, | ||||||||||
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| (dollars in thousands) | 2021 | 2020 | % Change | ||||||||
| Gain on sale | $ | 13,585 | $ | 22,368 | (39.3) | % | |||||
| Closed loans | 1,140,408 | 1,260,615 | (9.5) | % | |||||||
| Locked loans | 994,452 | 1,860,813 | (46.6) | % | |||||||
| Reserve | 125 | 205 | (39.2) | % |
The Company is an originator of SBA loans and its practice is to sell the guaranteed portion of those loans at a premium. Income from this source was $460 thousand for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to $269 thousand for the same period in 2020. Activity in SBA loan sales to secondary markets can vary widely from year to year.
Gain on the sale of investments were $3.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to $1.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2020.
Other income totaled $16.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 as compared to $15.3 million for 2020, an increase of 9%. The FHA business unit generated income on the sale of FHA multifamily-backed GNMA securities of $5.0 million for 2021 compared to $3.4 million for 2020.
Noninterest Expense
Total noninterest expenses totaled $149.2 million for 2021, as compared to $144.2 million for 2020, a 3% increase. For 2021, the efficiency ratio (ratio of noninterest expenses to total revenue) was 40.88% as compared to 39.25% for 2020. Refer to the “Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” section for additional detail and a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures.
Salaries and employee benefits were $88.4 million for 2021, as compared to $74.4 million for 2020, an increase of 19%. The increase was a result of higher incentive bonus accruals based on Company performance and increased share based compensation. At December 31, 2021, the Company’s full time equivalent staff numbered 507, as compared to 519 at December 31, 2020.
Premises and equipment expenses were $14.9 million for 2021 as compared to $15.7 million for 2020, a decrease of 5%. The reduction in rent expense from the closure of several locations and was partially offset by normal lease increases and acceleration of leasehold amortization; and the third quarter of 2020 included a $1.7 million adjustment which increased rent expense in accordance with ASC 842 on leases.
Marketing and advertising expenses were $4.2 million for 2021 as compared to $4.3 million for 2020, a decrease of 3%. Marketing and advertising expenses remained low in 2021 as events and conferences remained on hold as a result of COVID-19.
Data processing expenses were $11.7 million for 2021 as compared to $10.7 million for 2020, an increase of 9%, primarily due to increased customer activity and annual increases in license fee renewals.
Legal, accounting and professional fees and expenses were $11.5 million for 2021 as compared to $16.4 million for 2020, a 30% decrease. The decrease was primarily associated with reduced legal fees as the Company incurred significant legal expenses in 2020 due to ongoing governmental investigations and subpoenas and document requests. Refer to Note 21 – Commitments and Contingent Liabilities to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on the Company’s recent proceedings.
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FDIC insurance expense was $5.9 million for 2021 as compared to $7.9 million for 2020, a decrease of 26%. The decrease was primarily due to adoption of the large bank assessment methodology.
Other expenses were $12.6 million for 2021 as compared to $14.7 million for 2020, a decrease of 14%. The decrease was associated with reductions in OREO expense, franchise tax, other loan expenses, telephone and travel expense. The major components of cost in this category include broker fees, franchise tax, insurance expenses, and director compensation. Cost control remains a significant operating objective of the Company.
Income Tax Expense
Income tax expense was $61.0 million for 2021 as compared to $43.9 million for 2020, resulting in an effective tax rate of 25.7% and 24.9%, respectively. The increase in rates was due to an increase in state income taxes and nondeductible stock-based compensation awarded to executive officers.
BALANCE SHEET ANALYSIS
Overview
Total assets at December 31, 2022 were $11.2 billion as compared to $11.8 billion at December 31, 2021, a 6% decrease. The decrease in total assets in 2022 was primarily due to the decrease in total interest-bearing deposits with banks and other short-term investments, partially offset by the increase in total loans. The largest component of assets, total loans (excluding loans held for sale), were $7.6 billion at December 31, 2022, as compared to $7.1 billion at December 31, 2021 an 8% increase. The increase in loans in 2022, was driven by growth from CRE loans. Additionally, the Bank reduced its PPP loans from $51.1 million at December 31, 2021 to $3.3 million at December 31, 2022 through the forgiveness process. Loans held for sale were $6.7 million at December 31, 2022, compared to $47.2 million at December 31, 2021, an 86% decrease due to a decline in production.
The investment securities portfolio totaled $2.7 billion at December 31, 2022 as compared to $2.6 billion at December 31, 2021, a $68.6 million increase. For the year ended December 31, 2022, total deposits were $8.7 billion as compared to $10.0 billion at December 31, 2021, a decrease of 13%, due primarily to deposit disintermediation as a result of the higher interest rate environment.
Total shareholders’ equity at December 31, 2022 was $1.23 billion as compared to $1.35 billion at December 31, 2021, a 9% decrease. The decrease in shareholders’ equity in 2022 was from unrealized losses on the AFS investments included in other comprehensive income (loss), cash dividends and common stock repurchased, offset by net income.
The Company's capital ratios remain substantially in excess of regulatory minimum and buffer requirements. Regulatory ratios based on risk-weighted assets declined in 2022 as non-risk weighted cash was moved into risk-weighted securities and loans.
The total risk based capital ratio was 14.94% at December 31, 2022, as compared to 15.74% at December 31, 2021. In addition, the tangible common equity ratio was 10.18% at December 31, 2022, compared to 10.60% at December 31, 2021. The ratio of common equity to total assets was 11.02% at December 31, 2022 as compared to 11.40% at December 31, 2021. The CET1 risk based capital ratio was 14.03% at December 31, 2022, as compared to 14.63% at December 31, 2021. The tier 1 leverage ratio was 11.63% at December 31, 2022, as compared to 10.19% at December 31, 2021.
Investment Securities and Short-Term Investments
The tables below and Note 3 to the Consolidated Financial Statements provide additional information regarding the Company’s investment securities categorized as “available-for-sale” or AFS and as "held-to-maturity" or HTM. The Company classifies its investment securities as either AFS or HTM. The AFS classification requires that investment securities be recorded at fair value with any difference between the fair value and amortized cost (the purchase price adjusted by any discount accretion or premium amortization) reported as a component of shareholders’ equity (accumulated other comprehensive income), net of deferred income taxes, while securities classified as HTM are recorded and presented at their amortized cost. At December 31, 2022, the Company had a net unrealized loss in AFS securities of $205.2 million with a deferred tax asset of
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$50.4 million, as compared to December 31, 2021 where there was a net unrealized loss in AFS securities of $18.6 million with a deferred tax asset of $5.0 million.
The AFS portfolio is comprised of U.S. treasury bonds (2.9% of AFS securities), U.S. agency securities (41.9% of AFS securities) with an average duration of 3.8 years, seasoned mortgage-backed securities that are 100% agency issued (51.3% of AFS securities for residential mortgage-backed and 3.1% for commercial mortgage-backed) which have an average expected life of 4.6 years with contractual maturities of the underlying mortgages of up to thirty years, municipal bonds (0.6% of AFS securities) which have an average duration of 6.6 years and corporate bonds (0.1% of AFS securities) which have an average duration of 0 years. Investment securities which are debt instruments are 95 percent of the portfolio and are generally rated AAA or AA or have the implicit guarantee of the U.S. Treasury.
At December 31, 2022, the AFS investment portfolio was $1.6 billion as compared to $2.6 billion at December 31, 2021, a decrease of 39%. The investment portfolio is managed to achieve goals related to liquidity, income, interest rate risk management and to provide collateral for customer repurchase agreements and other borrowing relationships. The decrease in AFS in 2022 was primarily due to securities being transferred into HTM. During the first quarter of 2022, we evaluated our securities portfolio and determined that certain securities will be maintained for the life of the instrument and made a decision to transfer $1.1 billion of securities designated as AFS to HTM, including $237.0 million of securities acquired in the first quarter of 2022 for which the intention to hold to maturity was finalized. The transferred securities had unrealized losses of $66.2 million, and, as of December 31, 2022, $59.1 million remains in accumulated other comprehensive loss and will be amortized ratably over the remaining lives of the securities through accumulated other comprehensive loss. The securities transferred were generally municipal bonds, corporate bonds, bonds that qualify for Community Reinvestment Act credit and mortgage-backed securities with longer final maturity dates. At December 31, 2022, $1.1 billion, or 40.6% of the securities portfolio, was classified as securities HTM.
The following table provides information regarding the composition of the investment securities portfolio at the dates indicated. AFS securities are reported at estimated fair value and HTM securities are reported at amortized cost. At December 31, 2022, the investment portfolio balances at fair value decreased and amortized cost increased as compared to December 31, 2021, and the composition of portfolio changed, as follows:
| Years Ended December 31, | ||||||||||||||
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| Available-for-sale | 2022 | 2021 | ||||||||||||
| (dollars in thousands) | Fair Value | Percent of Total | Fair Value | Percent of Total | ||||||||||
| U.S. treasury bonds | $ | 46,327 | 2.9 | % | $ | 49,458 | 1.9 | % | ||||||
| U.S. agency securities | 669,728 | 41.9 | % | 622,387 | 23.7 | % | ||||||||
| Residential mortgage-backed securities | 820,503 | 51.3 | % | 1,618,027 | 61.7 | % | ||||||||
| Commercial mortgage-backed securities | 50,213 | 3.1 | % | 59,646 | 2.3 | % | ||||||||
| Municipal bonds | 10,087 | 0.6 | % | 145,431 | 5.5 | % | ||||||||
| Corporate bonds | 1,808 | 0.1 | % | 128,459 | 4.9 | % | ||||||||
| $ | 1,598,666 | 100 | % | $ | 2,623,408 | 100 | % |
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| Held-to-maturity | 2022 | 2021 | ||||||||||||
| (dollars in thousands) | Amortized Cost | Percent of Total | Amortized Cost | Percent of Total | ||||||||||
| Residential mortgage-backed securities | $ | 741,057 | 67.8 | % | — | — | % | |||||||
| Commercial mortgage-backed securities | 92,557 | 8.4 | % | — | — | % | ||||||||
| Municipal bonds | 128,273 | 11.7 | % | — | — | % | ||||||||
| Corporate bonds | 132,253 | 12.1 | % | — | — | % | ||||||||
| 1,094,140 | 100 | % | — | — | % | |||||||||
| Allowance for credit losses | (766) | — | % | — | — | % | ||||||||
| Total held-to-maturity securities, net of ACL | $ | 1,093,374 | 100 | % | $ | — | — | % |
At December 31, 2022, there were no issuers, other than the U.S. Government and its agencies, whose securities owned by the Company had a book or fair value exceeding 10% of the Company’s shareholders’ equity.
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The following tables provides information, on an amortized cost basis, for AFS and HTM portfolios regarding the expected maturity and weighted-average yield of the investment portfolio at December 31, 2022. Expected maturities will differ from contractual maturities because borrowers may have the right to call or prepay obligations with or without call or prepayment penalties. Yields on tax exempt securities have not been calculated on a tax equivalent basis.
| Available-for-sale | One Year or Less | After One Year Through Five Years | After Five Years Through Ten Years | After Ten Years | Total | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| (dollars in thousands) | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| U.S. treasury bonds | $ | — | — | % | $ | 49,793 | 0.83 | % | $ | — | — | % | $ | — | — | $ | 49,793 | 0.83 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| U.S. agency securities | 549,137 | 1.50 | % | 111,742 | 0.81 | % | 73,886 | 2.90 | % | 13,012 | 1.25 | % | 747,777 | 1.53 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Residential mortgage-backed securities | 3,994 | 4.95 | % | 7,043 | 1.64 | % | 186,813 | 1.43 | % | 739,707 | 1.89 | % | 937,557 | 1.81 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial mortgage-backed securities | 475 | 1.25 | % | 24,938 | 2.10 | % | 20,001 | 2.54 | % | 10,657 | 3.67 | % | 56,071 | 2.55 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Municipal bonds | 300 | 5.96 | % | 1,444 | 5.20 | % | 8,956 | 2.44 | % | — | — | % | 10,700 | 2.91 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Corporate bonds | — | — | % | 2,000 | 5.50 | % | — | — | % | — | — | 2,000 | 5.50 | % | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Total available-for-sale securities | $ | 553,906 | 1.53 | % | $ | 196,960 | 1.09 | % | $ | 289,656 | 1.91 | % | $ | 763,376 | 1.90 | % | $ | 1,803,898 | 1.68 | % |
| Held-to-maturity | One Year or Less | After One Year Through Five Years | After Five Years Through Ten Years | After Ten Years | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands) | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residential mortgage-backed securities | — | — | % | 1,904 | 2.62 | % | 21,865 | 2.15 | % | 717,288 | 2.65 | % | 741,057 | 2.64 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial mortgage-backed securities | — | — | % | 1,865 | 2.63 | % | 36,709 | 2.63 | % | 53,983 | 2.59 | % | 92,557 | 2.61 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
| Municipal bonds | 3,156 | 2.50 | % | 35,579 | 3.04 | % | 77,262 | 3.06 | % | 12,276 | 3.12 | % | 128,273 | 3.05 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
| Corporate bonds | 23,954 | 3.44 | % | 84,953 | 4.26 | % | 23,346 | 3.81 | % | — | — | % | 132,253 | 4.03 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
| $ | 27,110 | 1.58 | % | $ | 124,301 | 1.99 | % | $ | 159,182 | 2.08 | % | $ | 783,547 | 2.80 | % | 1,094,140 | 2.85 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Allowance for credit losses | (766) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total held-to-maturity securities, net of ACL | $ | 1,093,374 |
Federal funds sold were $33.9 million at December 31, 2022, as compared to $20.4 million at December 31, 2021. These funds represent excess daily liquidity which is invested on an unsecured basis with well capitalized banks, in amounts generally limited both in the aggregate and to any one bank.
Interest bearing deposits with banks and other short-term investments represent liquid funds held at the Federal Reserve to meet general liquidity needs of the Company, such as future loan demand and future increases in investment securities, among others. Interest bearing deposits with banks and other short-term investments were $265.3 million at December 31, 2022, as compared to $1.68 billion at December 31, 2021, a decrease of $1.4 billion, or 84%. In 2022, as rising rates led to deposit disintermediation reducing our liquidity levels, and loan balances increased, the Company reduced these short-term investments to rebalance the earning assets mix.
The Bank did not hold any time deposits at December 31, 2022 or December 31, 2021.
Loan Portfolio
In its lending activities, the Company seeks to develop and expand relationships with clients whose business and individual banking needs will grow with the Bank. Superior customer service, local decision making and accelerated turnaround time from application to closing have been significant factors in growing the loan portfolio and meeting the lending needs in the markets served, while maintaining sound asset quality.
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Loans increased over the past year as loans outstanding were $7.6 billion at December 31, 2022, as compared to $7.1 billion at December 31, 2021, an increase of $570.0 million or 8% .
Loan production in 2022 was predominantly in the commercial, income producing - commercial real estate and owner occupied – commercial real estate loan categories. That said, the Company continues to be active as a construction lender and we expect to continue to see construction commitments funded up over time. Despite an increased level of in-market competition for business, we have experienced net loan growth for 2022 over 2021; the Bank continued to experience organic gross loan production, having originated more than $2.3 billion in new CRE loan commitments and more than $1.3 billion in CRE Construction commitment during 2022. This production was offset by the continued successful completion of projects and subsequent paydowns. Notwithstanding increased supply of units, multi-family commercial real estate leasing in the Bank’s market area has held up relatively well, particularly for well-located close-in projects. Overall, commercial real estate values have generally held up well, but we continue to be cautious of the cap rates at which some assets are trading, and therefore, we are being careful with valuations.
"Owner occupied-commercial real estate" and "construction–C&I (owner occupied)" loans represent 16% of the loan portfolio. The Bank has a large portion of its loan portfolio related to real estate, with 79% consisting of commercial real estate and real estate construction loans. When "owner occupied commercial real estate" and "construction–C&I (owner occupied)" are excluded, the percentage of total loans represented by commercial real estate decreases to 63%. Real estate also serves as collateral for loans made for other purposes, resulting in 81% of loans being secured or partially secured by real estate.
The following table shows the trends in the composition of the loan portfolio over the past three years.
| Years Ended December 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||
| (dollars in thousands) | Amount | % | Amount | % | Amount | % | |||||||||||||||
| Commercial | $ | 1,487,349 | 19 | % | $ | 1,354,317 | 19 | % | $ | 1,437,433 | 19 | % | |||||||||
| PPP loans | 3,256 | — | % | 51,105 | 1 | % | 454,771 | 6 | % | ||||||||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | 3,919,941 | 51 | % | 3,385,298 | 48 | % | 3,687,000 | 47 | % | ||||||||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 1,110,325 | 15 | % | 1,087,776 | 15 | % | 997,694 | 13 | % | ||||||||||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | 73,001 | 1 | % | 73,966 | 1 | % | 76,592 | 1 | % | ||||||||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | 877,755 | 12 | % | 896,319 | 13 | % | 873,261 | 11 | % | ||||||||||||
| Construction - C&I (owner occupied) | 110,479 | 1 | % | 159,579 | 2 | % | 158,905 | 2 | % | ||||||||||||
| Home equity | 51,782 | 1 | % | 55,811 | 1 | % | 73,167 | 1 | % | ||||||||||||
| Other consumer | 1,744 | — | % | 1,427 | — | % | 1,389 | — | % | ||||||||||||
| Total loans | 7,635,632 | 100 | % | 7,065,598 | 100 | % | 7,760,212 | 100 | % | ||||||||||||
| Less: Allowance for credit losses | (74,444) | (74,965) | (109,579) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Net loans | $ | 7,561,188 | $ | 6,990,633 | $ | 7,650,633 |
As noted above, a significant portion of the loan portfolio consists of commercial, construction and commercial real estate loans, primarily made in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and secured by real estate or other collateral in that market. Although these loans are made to a diversified pool of unrelated borrowers across numerous businesses, adverse developments in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan real estate market could have an adverse impact on this portfolio of loans and the Company’s income and financial position. While our basic market area is the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, the Bank has made loans outside that market area where the applicant is an existing customer and the nature and quality of such loans was consistent with the Bank’s lending policies.
The federal banking regulators have issued guidance for those institutions which are deemed to have concentrations in commercial real estate lending. Pursuant to the supervisory criteria contained in the guidance for identifying institutions with a potential commercial real estate concentration risk, institutions which have (1) total reported loans for construction, land development and other land acquisitions which represent 100% or more of an institution’s total risk-based capital; or (2) total commercial real estate loans representing 300% or more of the institution’s total risk-based capital and the institution’s commercial real estate loan portfolio has increased 50% or more during the prior 36 months are identified as having potential commercial real estate concentration risk. Institutions which are deemed to have concentrations in commercial real estate lending are expected to employ heightened levels of risk management with respect to their commercial real estate portfolios and may be required to hold higher levels of capital. The Company, like many community banks, has a concentration in commercial real estate loans, and the Company has experienced growth in its commercial real estate portfolio in recent years. As of
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December 31, 2022, non-owner-occupied commercial real estate loans (including construction, land and land development loans) represented 347.9% of consolidated risk based capital; however, growth in that segment over the past 36 months at 1.2% did not exceed the 50% threshold laid out in the regulatory guidance. Construction, land and land development loans represented 62% of consolidated risk based capital. Management has extensive experience in commercial real estate lending and has implemented and continues to maintain heightened risk management procedures and strong underwriting criteria with respect to its commercial real estate portfolio. Loan monitoring practices include but are not limited to periodic stress testing analysis to evaluate changes to cash flows, owing to interest rate increases and declines in net operating income. Nevertheless, we may be required to maintain higher levels of capital as a result of our commercial real estate concentrations, which could require us to obtain additional capital and may adversely affect shareholder returns. The Company has an extensive Capital Policy and Capital Plan, which includes pro-forma projections including stress testing within which the Board of Directors has established internal minimum targets for regulatory capital ratios that are in excess of well capitalized ratios.
At December 31, 2022, the Company had no concentrations of loans in any one industry exceeding 10% of its total loan portfolio. An industry for this purpose is defined as a group of businesses that are engaged in similar activities and have similar economic characteristics that would cause their ability to meet contractual obligations to be similarly affected by changes in economic or other conditions.
Certain directors and executive officers have had loan transactions with the Company. Such loans were made in the ordinary course of the Company’s lending business; were made on substantially the same terms, including interest rates and collateral, as those prevailing at the time for comparable loans with third parties; and, in the opinion of management, did not involve more than the normal risk of collectability or present other unfavorable features. Refer to Note 4 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further detail regarding related party loans.
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Loan Maturity
The following table sets forth the time to contractual maturity of the loan portfolio as of December 31, 2022.
| Due In | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands) | Total | One Year or Less | Over One to Five Years | Over Five to Ten Years | Over Ten Years | ||||||||||||||
| Commercial | $ | 1,487,349 | $ | 600,252 | $ | 736,058 | $ | 146,857 | $ | 4,182 | |||||||||
| PPP loans | 3,256 | 2,477 | 779 | — | — | ||||||||||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | 3,919,941 | 1,467,208 | 1,980,772 | 470,779 | 1,182 | ||||||||||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 1,110,325 | 52,642 | 422,667 | 489,123 | 145,893 | ||||||||||||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | 73,001 | 15,880 | 42,467 | 3,309 | 11,345 | ||||||||||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | 877,755 | 424,117 | 396,998 | 36,634 | 20,006 | ||||||||||||||
| Construction - C&I (owner occupied) | 110,479 | 12,308 | 10,141 | 34,712 | 53,318 | ||||||||||||||
| Home equity | 51,782 | 4,667 | 4,845 | 1,028 | 41,242 | ||||||||||||||
| Other consumer | 1,744 | 971 | 211 | — | 562 | ||||||||||||||
| Total loans | $ | 7,635,632 | $ | 2,580,522 | $ | 3,594,938 | $ | 1,182,442 | $ | 277,730 | |||||||||
| Loans with: | |||||||||||||||||||
| Predetermined fixed interest rate | |||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial | 426,932 | 107,215 | 229,695 | 90,022 | — | ||||||||||||||
| PPP loans | 3,256 | 2,477 | 779 | — | — | ||||||||||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | 1,729,753 | 455,687 | 973,078 | 300,988 | — | ||||||||||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 621,172 | 36,150 | 239,317 | 280,936 | 64,769 | ||||||||||||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | 67,195 | 12,328 | 41,894 | 2,956 | 10,017 | ||||||||||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | 28,184 | 25,724 | 2,460 | — | — | ||||||||||||||
| Construction - C&I (owner occupied) | 64,627 | 8,408 | 8,748 | 21,092 | 26,379 | ||||||||||||||
| Home equity | 998 | 174 | 228 | 596 | — | ||||||||||||||
| Other consumer | 152 | 8 | 127 | — | 17 | ||||||||||||||
| $ | 2,942,269 | $ | 648,171 | $ | 1,496,326 | $ | 696,590 | $ | 101,182 | ||||||||||
| Floating or adjustable interest rate | |||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial | 1,060,417 | 493,037 | 506,363 | 56,835 | 4,182 | ||||||||||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | 2,190,188 | 1,011,521 | 1,007,694 | 169,791 | 1,182 | ||||||||||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 489,153 | 16,492 | 183,350 | 208,187 | 81,124 | ||||||||||||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | 5,806 | 3,552 | 573 | 353 | 1,328 | ||||||||||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | 849,571 | 398,393 | 394,538 | 36,634 | 20,006 | ||||||||||||||
| Construction - C&I (owner occupied) | 45,852 | 3,900 | 1,393 | 13,620 | 26,939 | ||||||||||||||
| Home equity | 50,784 | 4,493 | 4,617 | 432 | 41,242 | ||||||||||||||
| Other consumer | 1,592 | 963 | 84 | — | 545 | ||||||||||||||
| $ | 4,693,363 | $ | 1,932,351 | $ | 2,098,612 | $ | 485,852 | $ | 176,548 | ||||||||||
| Total loans | $ | 7,635,632 | $ | 2,580,522 | $ | 3,594,938 | $ | 1,182,442 | $ | 277,730 |
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Loans are shown in the period based on final contractual maturity. Demand loans, having no contractual maturity, and overdrafts are reported as due in one year or less.
Allowance for Credit Losses
The amount of the ACL is based on many factors which reflect management’s assessment of the risk in the loan portfolio. Those factors include economic conditions and trends, the value and adequacy of collateral, volume and mix of the portfolio, performance of the portfolio and internal loan processes of the Company and Bank. The provision for credit losses represents the amount of expense charged to current earnings to fund the ACL.
Management has developed a comprehensive analytical process to monitor the adequacy of the ACL. This process and guidelines were developed utilizing, among other factors, the guidance from federal banking regulatory agencies. The ACL represented 0.97% of total loans at December 31, 2022 as compared to 1.06% at December 31, 2021. At December 31, 2022, the allowance represented 1,151% of nonperforming loans as compared to 257% at December 31, 2021. As the loan portfolio balances increased, the ACL decreased driven by the improved macroeconomic outlook and improvement of the quality of the loan portfolio.
In 2022, the decrease in the ratio of the allowance for loan losses to total loans was also driven by net charge offs of $624 thousand, which had a greater impact on the ratio than the increase in loans. The decreases were offset by the increase in the provision of $103 thousand due to the increase in loan balances.
In 2021, the decrease in the ratio of the allowance for loan losses to total loans was due to the provision reversal of $20.8 million and net charge offs of $13.3 million, which had a greater impact on the ratio than the decline in loans. The increase in the coverage ratio is due to the improvement in asset quality, which also contributed to the decision to reverse provisions to the ACL.
A full discussion of the accounting for ACL is contained in Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements and activity in the ACL is contained in Note 4 to the Consolidated Financial Statements. Also, please refer to the discussion under the caption “Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates” within Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operation for further discussion of the methodology which management employs to maintain an adequate ACL, as well as the discussion under the caption “Provision for Credit Losses.”
As part of its comprehensive loan review process, the Bank’s Board of Directors, Directors’ Loan Committee and Credit Review Committee carefully evaluate loans which are past due 30 days or more. The Committees make a thorough assessment of the conditions and circumstances surrounding delinquent and potential problem loans. The Bank’s loan policy requires that loans be placed on nonaccrual if they are 90 days past due, unless they are well secured and in the process of collection. The Credit Administration department specifically analyzes the status of development and construction projects, including sales activities and utilization of interest reserves in order to carefully and prudently assess potential increased levels of risk which may require additional reserves.
At December 31, 2022 and 2021, the Company had $6.5 million and $29.2 million, respectively, of loans classified as nonperforming. At each of December 31, 2022 and 2021, the Company also had $88.6 million of additional loans rated substandard or worse. Please refer to Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements under the caption “Loans” for a discussion of the Company’s policy regarding impairment of loans. Please refer to the “Nonperforming Assets” section for a discussion of problem and potential problem assets.
The Company has taken a conservative posture with respect to risk rating its loan portfolio. Based upon their status as potential problem loans, these loans receive heightened scrutiny and ongoing intensive risk management. Additionally, the Company's loan loss allowance methodology incorporates increased reserve factors for certain loans considered potential problem loans as compared to the general portfolio. See the “Allowance for Credit Losses” section for a description of the allowance methodology.
As the loan portfolio and ACL review processes continue to evolve, and with the adoption of CECL, there may be changes to elements of the allowance and this may have an effect on the overall level of the allowance maintained. Management did conduct sensitivity analysis on the CECL model. This was tested by shocking the unemployment forecast up by 2% across the forecast period. This stress test resulted in an increased expected loss and resulting increase to ACL of $11.2 million versus the current balance.
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Historically, the Bank has enjoyed a high quality loan portfolio with relatively low levels of net charge-offs and low delinquency rates. In 2022, the Company experienced an improvement in the reduced level of net charge-offs as a percentage of average loans (0.01%) as compared to 2021 (0.18%) and to 2020 (0.26%). The maintenance of a high quality portfolio will continue to be a high priority for both management and the Board of Directors.
Bank management, being aware of the loan growth experienced by the Bank, is intent on maintaining strong portfolio management and a strong risk rating process. The Bank provides analysis of credit requests and the management of problem credits. The Bank has developed and implemented analytical procedures for evaluating credit requests, has refined the Company’s risk rating system and has adopted enhanced monitoring of the loan portfolio (in particular the construction loan portfolio) and the adequacy of the ACL, including stress test analyses. Additionally, fair value assessments of loans acquired is made as part of analytical procedures. The loan portfolio analysis process is ongoing and proactive in order to maintain a portfolio of quality credits and to quickly identify any weaknesses before they become more severe.
The following table sets forth activity in the allowance for credit losses for the past three years.
| Years Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands) | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | ||||||||
| Balance at beginning of year | $ | 74,965 | $ | 109,579 | $ | 73,658 | |||||
| Impact of adopting CECL | — | — | 10,614 | ||||||||
| Charge-offs: | |||||||||||
| Commercial | 1,561 | 8,788 | 12,082 | ||||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | — | — | 4,300 | ||||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 1,355 | 5,445 | 20 | ||||||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | — | — | 815 | ||||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | — | 206 | 2,947 | ||||||||
| Home equity | — | — | 92 | ||||||||
| Other consumer | 79 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
| Total charge-offs | 2,995 | 14,440 | 20,259 | ||||||||
| Recoveries: | |||||||||||
| Commercial | 713 | 486 | 130 | ||||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | — | — | — | ||||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 25 | 97 | — | ||||||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | — | — | — | ||||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | 1,627 | 499 | 4 | ||||||||
| Home equity | — | — | — | ||||||||
| Other consumer | 6 | 18 | 28 | ||||||||
| Total recoveries | 2,371 | 1,100 | 162 | ||||||||
| Net charge-offs | 624 | 13,340 | 20,097 | ||||||||
| (Reversal) Provision for Credit Losses- Loans | 103 | (21,274) | 45,404 | ||||||||
| Balance at end of year | $ | 74,444 | $ | 74,965 | $ | 109,579 | |||||
| Ratio of allowance for credit losses to total loans outstanding at year end | 0.97 | % | 1.06 | % | 1.41 | % | |||||
| Ratio of net charge-offs during the year to average loans outstanding during the year | 0.01 | % | 0.18 | % | 0.26 | % |
The following table presents the allocation of the ACL by loan category and the percentage of allowance in each category. The allocation of the allowance at December 31, 2022 includes specific reserves of $5.2 million against individually assessed loans of $30.7 million, as compared to specific reserves of $7.0 million against individually assessed of $39.1 million at December 31, 2021. The allocation of the allowance to each category is not necessarily indicative of future losses or charge-offs and does not restrict the usage of the allowance for any specific loan or category.
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| 2022 | 2021 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| (dollars in thousands) | Amount | % of Total ACL | % of Total Loans | Amount | % of Total ACL | % of Total Loans | ||||||||||||||
| Commercial | $ | 15,655 | 21 | % | 19 | % | $ | 14,475 | 19 | % | 20 | % | ||||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | 35,688 | 48 | % | 51 | % | 38,287 | 51 | % | 48 | % | ||||||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 12,702 | 17 | % | 15 | % | 12,146 | 16 | % | 15 | % | ||||||||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | 969 | 1 | % | 1 | % | 449 | 1 | % | 1 | % | ||||||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | 8,801 | 12 | % | 12 | % | 9,099 | 12 | % | 15 | % | ||||||||||
| Home equity | 555 | 1 | % | 1 | % | 474 | 1 | % | 1 | % | ||||||||||
| Other consumer | 74 | 0 | 1 | % | 35 | — | % | — | % | |||||||||||
| Total allowance | $ | 74,444 | 100 | % | 100 | % | $ | 74,965 | 100 | % | 100 | % |
Nonperforming Assets
As shown in the table below, the Company’s level of nonperforming assets, which is comprised of loans delinquent 90 days or more, nonaccrual loans, which includes the nonperforming portion of troubled debt restructurings ("TDR"), and other real estate owned ("OREO") totaled $8.4 million at December 31, 2022, representing 0.08% of total assets, as compared to $30.8 million at December 31, 2021, representing 0.26% of total assets. The Company had no accruing loans 90 days or more past due at December 31, 2022 or December 31, 2021. Management remains attentive to early signs of deterioration in borrowers’ financial conditions and to taking the appropriate action to mitigate risk. Furthermore, the Company is diligent in placing loans on nonaccrual status and believes, based on its loan portfolio risk analysis, that its ACL at 0.97% of total loans at December 31, 2022, is adequate to absorb expected credit losses.
Total nonperforming loans amounted to $6.5 million at December 31, 2022, representing 0.08% of total loans, compared to $29.2 million at December 31, 2021, representing 0.41% of total loans. The majority of nonperforming loans are believed to be adequately secured by real estate.
The CECL standard allows for institutions to evaluate individual loans in the event that the asset does not share similar risk characteristics with its original segmentation. This can occur due to credit deterioration, increased collateral dependency or other factors leading to impairment. In particular, the Company individually evaluates loans on nonaccrual and those identified as TDRs, though it may individually evaluate other loans or groups of loans as well if it determines they no longer share similar risk with their assigned segment. Reserves on individually assessed loans are determined by one of two methods: the fair value of collateral or the discounted cash flow. Fair value of collateral is used for loans determined to be collateral dependent, and the fair value represents the net realizable value of the collateral, adjusted for sales costs, commissions, senior liens, etc. Discounted cash flow is used on loans that are not collateral dependent where structural concessions have been made and continuing payments are expected. The continuing payments are discounted over the expected life at the loan’s original contract rate and include adjustments for risk of default.
Nonperforming assets include loans that the Company considers to be individually assessed. Individually assessed loans are defined as those as to which we believe it is probable that we will not collect all amounts due according to the contractual terms of the loan agreement, as well as those loans whose terms have been modified in a TDR that has not shown a period of performance as required under applicable accounting standards. Loans that do not share risk characteristics are evaluated on an individual basis. For collateral dependent financial assets where the Company has determined that foreclosure of the collateral is probable, or where the borrower is experiencing financial difficulty and the Company expects repayment of the financial asset to be provided substantially through the sale of the collateral, the ACL is measured based on the difference between the fair value of the collateral and the amortized cost basis of the asset as of the measurement date. When repayment is expected to be from the operation of the collateral, expected credit losses are calculated as the amount by which the amortized cost basis of the financial asset exceeds the NPV from the operation of the collateral. When repayment is expected to be from the sale of the collateral, expected credit losses are calculated as the amount by which the amortized cost basis of the financial asset exceeds the fair value of the underlying collateral less estimated cost to sell. The ACL may be zero if the fair value of the
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collateral at the measurement date exceeds the amortized cost basis of the financial asset. Generally, all appraisals associated with individually assessed loans are updated on a not less than annual basis.
Loans are considered to have been modified in a TDR when, due to a borrower's financial difficulties, the Company makes unilateral concessions to the borrower that it would not otherwise consider. Concessions could include interest rate reductions, principal or interest forgiveness, forbearance and other actions intended to minimize economic loss and to avoid foreclosure or repossession of collateral. Alternatively, management, from time-to-time and in the ordinary course of business, implements renewals, modifications, extensions and/or changes in terms of loans to borrowers who have the ability to repay on reasonable market-based terms, as circumstances may warrant. Such modifications are not considered to be TDRs as the accommodation of a borrower's request does not rise to the level of a concession if the modified transaction is at market rates and terms and/or the borrower is not experiencing financial difficulty. For example: (1) adverse weather conditions may create a short term cash flow issue for an otherwise profitable retail business which suggests a temporary interest only period on an amortizing loan; (2) there may be delays in absorption on a real estate project which reasonably suggests extension of the loan maturity at market terms; or (3) there may be maturing loans to borrowers with demonstrated repayment ability who are not in a position at the time of maturity to obtain alternate long-term financing.
The most common change in terms provided by the Company is an extension of an interest only term. The determination of whether a restructured loan is a TDR requires consideration of all of the facts and circumstances surrounding the change in terms and the exercise of prudent business judgment. The Company had 5 TDRs at December 31, 2022, totaling approximately $24.4 million, as compared to 7 TDRs totaling approximately $16.5 million at December 31, 2021. Refer to Note 4 – Loan Modifications for more detail on TDRs.
Commercial and consumer loans modified in a TDR are closely monitored for delinquency as an early indicator of possible future default. If loans modified in a TDR subsequently default, the Company evaluates the loan for possible further impairment. The allowance may be increased, adjustments may be made in the allocation of the allowance or partial charge-offs may be taken to further write-down the carrying value of the loan. During 2022 and 2021, there was one loan modified in a TDR.
Included in nonperforming assets at December 31, 2022 is OREO of $2.0 million, consisting of 4 foreclosed properties. Included in nonperforming assets at December 31, 2021 was OREO of $1.6 million, consisting of three foreclosed properties. OREO properties are carried at fair value less estimated costs to sell.
It is the Company's policy to generally obtain third party appraisals prior to foreclosure and to obtain updated third party appraisals on OREO properties generally not less frequently than annually. Generally, the Company would obtain updated appraisals or evaluations where it has reason to believe, based upon market indications (such as comparable sales, legitimate offers below carrying value, broker indications and similar factors), that the current appraisal does not accurately reflect current value. There was one OREO sale in 2022 and one in 2021.
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The following table shows the amounts and relevant ratios of nonperforming assets at the dates indicated:
| (dollars in thousands) | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nonaccrual Loans: | |||||||||||
| Commercial | $ | 2,488 | $ | 8,876 | $ | 15,352 | |||||
| PPP | — | 1,365 | — | ||||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | 2,000 | 13,456 | 18,879 | ||||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 17 | 42 | 23,158 | ||||||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | 1,913 | 2,010 | 2,932 | ||||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | — | 3,093 | 206 | ||||||||
| Construction - C&I (owner occupied) | — | — | — | ||||||||
| Home equity | — | 366 | 416 | ||||||||
| Other consumer | 50 | — | — | ||||||||
| Accrual loans-past due 90 days | — | — | — | ||||||||
| Total nonperforming loans (1)(2) | 6,468 | 29,208 | 60,943 | ||||||||
| Other real estate owned | 1,962 | 1,635 | 4,987 | ||||||||
| Total nonperforming assets | $ | 8,430 | $ | 30,843 | $ | 65,930 | |||||
| Coverage ratio, allowance for credit losses to total nonperforming loans | 1,151 | % | 257 | % | 180 | % | |||||
| Ratio of nonperforming loans to total loans | 0.08 | % | 0.41 | % | 0.79 | % | |||||
| Ratio of nonperforming assets to total assets | 0.08 | % | 0.26 | % | 0.59 | % |
(1) At December 31, 2022, nonaccrual loans reported in the table above do not include any loans that were migrated from TDR and as of December 31, 2021 there was one loan totaling $101 thousand which migrated from performing troubled debt restructuring.
(2) Gross interest income of $558 thousand, $1.7 million and $3.7 million would have been recorded for 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively, if nonaccrual loans shown above had been current and in accordance with their original terms, while interest actually recorded on such loans were $17 thousand, $101 thousand and $679 thousand at December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively. See Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for a description of the Company’s policy for placing loans on nonaccrual status.
Significant variation in the amount of nonperforming loans may occur from period to period because the amount of nonperforming loans depends largely on the condition of a relatively small number of individual credits and borrowers relative to the total loan portfolio.
Other Earning Assets
Due to the higher interest rate environment in 2022, residential mortgage loans held for sale declined to $6.7 million at December 31, 2022 from $47.2 million at December 31, 2021. The Company’s general practice was to originate and sell such loans only on a “servicing released” basis in order to enhance noninterest income. The Bank plans to cease originating residential mortgages for sale in the first quarter of 2023 (See Note 26 of the Consolidated Financial Statements for further details). See the “Business” section for a additional details on the Bank’s residential mortgage lending and sales activities.
Bank owned life insurance at December 31, 2022 amounted to $111.0 million, as compared to $108.8 million at December 31, 2021. Refer to Note 19 to Consolidated Financial Statements for further detail.
Intangible Assets
The Company recognizes a servicing asset for the computed value of servicing fees on the sales of multifamily FHA loans, the guaranteed portion of SBA loans and other loans sold with retained servicing which is in excess of the normal servicing fees. Assumptions related to loan term and amortization are made to arrive at the initial recorded value, which is included in intangible assets, net, on the Consolidated Balance Sheet.
For 2022, excess servicing fees of $67 thousand were recorded and $89 thousand was amortized as a reduction of actual service fees collected, which is a component of other income. At December 31, 2022, the balance of excess servicing fees was $65 thousand. For 2021, excess servicing fees of $130 thousand were recorded and $182 thousand was amortized as a
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reduction of actual service fees collected, which is a component of other income. At December 31, 2021, the balance of excess servicing fees was $87 thousand.
In 2008, the Company recorded an unidentified intangible asset (goodwill) incident to the acquisition of Fidelity of $2.2 million. In 2014, the Company recorded an initial amount of unidentified intangible (goodwill) incident to the acquisition of Virginia Heritage of approximately $102 million.
Determining the fair value of a reporting unit under the goodwill impairment test is subjective and often involves the use of significant estimates and assumptions. Estimates of fair value are primarily determined using discounted cash flows, market comparisons and recent transactions. These approaches use significant estimates and assumptions including projected future cash flows, discount rates reflecting the market rate of return, projected growth rates and determination and evaluation of appropriate market comparable factors. Impairment analyses were performed as of December 31, 2022 and 2021 as part of our regularly scheduled annual impairment testing and found no impairment existed. Future events could cause the Company to conclude that goodwill or other intangibles have become impaired, which would result in recording an impairment loss. Any resulting impairment loss could have a material adverse impact on the Company’s financial condition and results of operations.
Refer to Note 7 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for information on the initial and current carrying values as well as additions and amortization.
Deposits and Other Borrowings
The principal sources of funds for the Bank are core deposits, consisting of demand deposits, money market accounts, NOW accounts and savings accounts. Additionally, the Bank obtains certificates of deposits from the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The deposit base includes transaction accounts, time and savings accounts and accounts which customers use for cash management and which provide the Bank with a source of fee income and cross-marketing opportunities, as well as an attractive source of lower cost funds. To meet funding needs during periods of high loan demand and seasonal variations in core deposits, the Bank regularly utilizes alternative funding sources such as secured borrowings from the FHLB, federal funds purchased lines of credit from correspondent banks and brokered deposits from regional and national brokerage firms.
For the year ended December 31, 2022, deposits were $8.7 billion as compared to $10.0 billion at December 31, 2021, a decrease of 13%. Noninterest bearing deposits decreased $127.2 million or 4% to $3.2 billion at December 31, 2022 as compared to $3.3 billion at December 31, 2021, while interest bearing deposits decreased by $1.1 billion, or 17%. Within interest bearing deposits, money market and savings accounts collectively amounted to $3.6 billion at December 31, 2022, or 42% of total deposits, as compared to $5.2 billion, or 52% of total deposits, at December 31, 2021, a decrease of $1.6 billion, or 30%.
Average total deposits for the year ended December 31, 2022 were $10.1 billion, as compared to $9.9 billion for the same period in 2021, a 2% increase.
Time deposits were $783.5 million at December 31, 2022, which was 9% of deposits. This was an increase from $729.1 million at December 31, 2021, which was 7% of deposits. The increase in time deposits was driven by an increase in interest rates.
| Time deposits $250,000 or more | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands) | 2022 | 2021 | |||||
| Three months or less | $ | 87,959 | $ | 16,663 | |||
| More than three months through six months | 51,746 | 56,619 | |||||
| More than three months through twelve months | 108,877 | 48,271 | |||||
| Over twelve months | 269,200 | 30,907 | |||||
| Total | $ | 517,782 | $ | 152,460 |
Maturities of time deposits with balances of $250 thousand or more represented 6% and 2% of total deposits as of December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. See Note 11 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information regarding the maturities of time deposits and the Average Balances Table in the “Net Interest Income and Net Interest Margin” section for the average rates paid on interest-bearing deposits. Time deposits of $250 thousand or more can be more volatile and more expensive than time deposits of less than $250 thousand. However, because the Bank focuses on relationship banking, and
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its marketplace demographics are favorable, its historical experience has been that large time deposits have not been more volatile or significantly more expensive than smaller denomination certificates.
From time to time, when appropriate in order to fund strong loan demand or account for increased deposit outflow, the Bank accepts brokered time deposits, generally in denominations of less than $250 thousand, from a regional brokerage firm and other national brokerage networks, including IntraFi. Additionally, the Bank participates in the CDARS and the ICS products, which provides for reciprocal (“two-way”) transactions among banks facilitated by IntraFi for the purpose of maximizing FDIC insurance. The total of reciprocal deposits at December 31, 2022 was $782.2 million (9% of total deposits) as compared to $701.5 million (7% of total deposits) at December 31, 2021. These sources are believed by the Company to represent a reliable and cost efficient alternative funding source for the Bank, but there can be no assurance that they will continue to be adequate or appropriate to meet our liquidity needs. The Bank also is able to obtain one way CDARS deposits and participates in IntraFi’s Insured Network Deposit, (“IND”). The Bank had $979.5 million and $1.7 billion of IND brokered deposits as of December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. However, to the extent that the condition or reputation of the Company or Bank deteriorates, or to the extent that there are significant changes in market interest rates which the Company and Bank do not elect to match, we may experience an outflow of brokered deposits or a difficulty with obtaining them in the future. In that event we would be required to obtain alternate sources for funding, which may increase our cost of funds and negatively impact our net interest margin.
At December 31, 2022 and 2021, total deposits included $2.3 billion and $2.6 billion of brokered deposits (excluding the CDARS and ICS two-way), which represented 26.5% and 26.5% of total deposits, respectively.
At December 31, 2022, the Company had $3.2 billion in noninterest bearing demand deposits, representing 36% of total deposits. This compared to $3.3 billion of noninterest bearing demand deposits at December 31, 2021, or 33% of total deposits. The Bank also offers business NOW accounts and business savings accounts to accommodate those customers who may have excess short term cash to deploy in interest earning assets.
As an enhancement to the basic noninterest bearing demand deposit account, the Company offers a sweep account, or “customer repurchase agreement,” allowing qualifying businesses to earn interest on short-term excess funds, which are not suited for either a certificate of deposit or a money market account. The balances in these accounts were $35.1 million at December 31, 2022 compared to $23.9 million at December 31, 2021. Customer repurchase agreements are not deposits and are not insured by the FDIC, but are collateralized by U.S. agency securities and or U.S. agency backed mortgage-backed securities. These accounts are particularly suitable to businesses with significant fluctuation in the levels of cash flows. Attorney and title company escrow accounts are examples of accounts which can benefit from this product, as are customers who may require collateral for deposits in excess of FDIC insurance limits but do not qualify for other pledging arrangements. This program requires the Company to maintain a sufficient investment securities level to accommodate the fluctuations in balances which may occur in these accounts.
The Company had no outstanding balances under its federal funds lines of credit provided by correspondent banks (which are unsecured) at December 31, 2022 and 2021. At December 31, 2022, the Company had $975.0 million of FHLB advances borrowed as part of the overall asset liability strategy. The Company had $300.0 million FHLB advances outstanding as of December 31, 2021. Outstanding FHLB advances are secured by collateral consisting of a blanket lien on qualifying loans in the Bank’s commercial mortgage, residential mortgage and home equity loan portfolios.
Long-term borrowings outstanding at December 31, 2022 and 2021 consisted of the Company’s August 5, 2014 issuance of $70.0 million of subordinated notes, due September 1, 2024. For additional information on the Company’s subordinated notes, please refer to Note 13 to the Consolidated Financial Statements, as well as the “Capital Resources and Adequacy” section below. Additionally, there were no long-term borrowings that consist of FHLB advances (maturities over one year) at December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021.
CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS
The Company has various financial obligations, including contractual obligations and commitments that may require future cash payments except for its loan commitments, as shown in Note 21 to the Consolidated Financial Statements. The following table shows details on these fixed and determinable obligations as of December 31, 2022, in the time period indicated.
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| (dollars in thousands) | Within One Year | One to Three Years | Three to Five Years | Over Five Years | Total | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deposits without a stated maturity (1) | $ | 7,929,683 | $ | — | $ | — | $ | — | $ | 7,929,683 | |||||||||
| Time deposits (1) | 463,393 | 310,218 | 6,758 | 3,130 | 783,499 | ||||||||||||||
| Borrowed funds (2) | 1,010,101 | 69,794 | — | — | 1,079,895 | ||||||||||||||
| Operating lease obligations | 6,916 | 12,198 | 4,717 | 5,436 | 29,267 | ||||||||||||||
| Outside data processing (3) | 3,600 | 1,625 | — | — | 5,225 | ||||||||||||||
| George Mason sponsorship (4) | 675 | 1,363 | 1,400 | 5,375 | 8,813 | ||||||||||||||
| LIHTC investments (5) | 6,363 | 5,660 | 768 | 931 | 13,722 | ||||||||||||||
| Other (6) | 2,000 | — | — | — | 2,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | 9,422,731 | $ | 400,858 | $ | 13,643 | $ | 14,872 | $ | 9,852,104 |
(1)Excludes accrued interest payable at December 31, 2022.
(2)Borrowed funds include customer repurchase agreements and other short-term and long-term borrowings.
(3)The Bank has outstanding obligations under its current core data processing contract that expire in June 2024 and one other vendor arrangement that relates to network infrastructure and data center services that expires in December 2024.
(4)The Bank has the option of terminating the George Mason agreement at the end of contract years 10 and 15 (that is, effective June 30, 2025 or June 30, 2030). Should the Bank elect to exercise its right to terminate the George Mason contract, contractual obligations would decrease $3.5 million and $3.6 million for the first option period (years 11-15) and the second option period (16-20), respectively.
(5)Low Income Housing Tax Credits (“LIHTC”) expected payments for unfunded affordable housing commitments.
(6)As disclosed in the 8-K dated January 25, 2021, pursuant to the executed stipulation of settlement of the demand litigation, the Company has agreed to invest an additional $2 million incremental spend above 2020 levels by the end of 2023 to enhance its corporate governance and risk and compliance controls and infrastructure.
The Company is party to financial instruments with off-balance-sheet risk in the normal course of business to meet the financing needs of its customers and to reduce its own exposure to fluctuations in interest rates. These financial instruments include commitments to extend credit and standby letters of credit. They involve, to varying degrees, elements of credit risk in excess of the amount recognized in the balance sheets. The contract or notional amounts of those instruments reflect the extent of involvement the Company has in particular classes of financial instruments.
Various commitments to extend credit are made in the normal course of banking business. Letters of credit are also issued for the benefit of customers. These commitments are subject to loan underwriting standards and geographic boundaries consistent with the Company’s loans outstanding.
Commitments to extend credit are agreements to lend to a customer as long as there is no violation of any condition established in the contract. Commitments generally have fixed expiration dates or other termination clauses and may require payment of a fee. Since some of the commitments are expected to expire without being drawn upon, the total commitment amounts do not necessarily represent future cash requirements.
Loan commitments outstanding and lines and letters of credit at December 31, 2022 and 2021 were as follows:
| (dollars in thousands) | 2022 | 2021 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unfunded loan commitments | $ | 2,335,735 | $ | 1,763,247 | |||
| Unfunded lines of credit | 107,919 | 108,209 | |||||
| Letters of credit | 100,196 | 112,509 | |||||
| Interest rate lock commitments | 6,963 | 56,331 | |||||
| Total | $ | 2,550,813 | $ | 2,040,296 |
Included in the unfunded loan commitments are interest rate lock commitments on residential mortgage loans which are short-term in nature. These interest rate lock commitments were $7.0 million as of December 31, 2022 and $53.3 million as of December 31, 2021.
The Company’s exposure to credit loss in the event of nonperformance by the other party to the financial instrument for commitments to extend credit and standby letters of credit is represented by the contractual amount of those instruments. The Company uses the same credit policies in making commitments and conditional obligations as it does for on-balance-sheet instruments. See Note 20 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for a summary list of loan commitments at December 31, 2022 and 2021.
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Loan commitments represent agreements to lend to a customer as long as there is no violation of any condition established in the contract and which have been accepted in writing by the borrower. Commitments generally have fixed expiration dates or other termination clauses and may require payment of a fee. Since some of the commitments may expire without being drawn upon, the total commitment amounts do not necessarily represent future cash requirements. The Company evaluates each customer’s creditworthiness on a case-by-case basis. The amount of collateral obtained is based on management’s credit evaluation of the borrower. Collateral obtained varies and may include certificates of deposit, accounts receivable, inventory, property and equipment, residential and commercial real estate.
Standby letters of credit are conditional commitments issued by the Company which guarantee the performance of a customer to a third party. The credit risk involved in issuing letters of credit is essentially the same as that involved in extending loan facilities to customers. Collateral held varies as specified above and is required in instances which the Company deems necessary. At December 31, 2022, approximately 60.8% of the dollar amount of standby letters of credit was collateralized.
In connection with deposit guarantees, the Bank collateralizes certain public funds using qualified investment securities.
With the exception of these off-balance sheet arrangements, the Company has no off-balance sheet arrangements that have or are reasonably likely to have a current or future effect on the Company’s financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations, capital expenditures or capital resources, that is material to investors.
LIQUIDITY MANAGEMENT
Liquidity is a measure of the Company’s and Bank’s ability to meet loan demand and to satisfy depositor withdrawal requirements in an orderly manner. The Bank’s primary sources of liquidity consist of cash and cash balances due from correspondent banks, excess reserves at the Federal Reserve, loan repayments, federal funds sold and other short-term investments, maturities and sales of available-for-sale investment securities, income from operations and new core deposits into the Bank. The majority of the Bank’s investment portfolio of debt securities is held in an available-for-sale status which allows for flexibility, subject to holdings held as collateral for customer repurchase agreements and public funds, to generate cash from sales as needed to meet ongoing loan demand. Investment securities that are classified as held-to-maturity can also be used as collateral to pledge against additional borrowings. These sources of liquidity are considered primary and are supplemented by the ability of the Company and Bank to borrow funds or issue brokered deposits, which are termed secondary sources of liquidity and which are substantial. Additionally, the Bank can purchase up to $155.0 million in federal funds on an unsecured basis from its correspondents, against which there were no amounts outstanding at December 31, 2022 and can borrow unsecured funds under one-way CDARS and ICS brokered deposits in the amount of $1.8 billion, against which there was $67 million outstanding at December 31, 2022. The Bank also has a commitment at December 31, 2022 from IntraFi to place up to $1.8 billion of brokered deposits from its IND program in amounts requested by the Bank, as compared to an actual balance of $1.1 billion at December 31, 2022. At December 31, 2022, the Bank was also eligible to make advances from the FHLB up to $1.1 billion based on collateral at the FHLB, of which there were $975.0 million outstanding as of December 31, 2022. The Bank has posted additional collateral to the FHLB in the first quarter of 2023 to increase its eligibility for advances up to $1.5 billion to meet its ongoing liquidity needs and expects to continue to utilize and expand this source of funding in the future. The Bank may enter into repurchase agreements as well as obtain additional borrowing capabilities from the FHLB provided adequate collateral exists to secure these lending relationships. The Bank also has a back-up borrowing facility through the Discount Window at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (“Federal Reserve Bank”). This facility, which amounts to approximately $607.0 million, is collateralized with specific loan assets identified to the Federal Reserve Bank. It is anticipated that, except for periodic testing, this facility would be utilized for contingency funding only. There can be no assurance, however, that these alternative sources of liquidity will continue to be available or will be sufficient to meet our ongoing liquidity needs.
The loss of deposits, through disintermediation, is one of the greater risks to liquidity. Disintermediation occurs most commonly when rates rise and depositors withdraw deposits seeking higher rates in alternative savings and investment sources than the Bank may offer. The Bank was founded under a philosophy of relationship banking and, therefore, believes that it has less of an exposure to disintermediation and resultant liquidity concerns than do many banks. The Bank makes competitive deposit interest rate comparisons weekly and makes adjustments from time to time to ensure its interest rate offerings are competitive. There is, however, a risk that the cost of funds will increase significantly as the Bank competes for deposits or that some deposits would be lost if rates were to increase and the Bank elected not to remain competitive with its deposit rates. Under those conditions, the Bank believes that it is well positioned to use other sources of funds such as FHLB borrowings, brokered deposits, repurchase agreements and correspondent banks’ lines of credit to offset a decline in deposits in the short run, but the use of such sources may negatively impact our net interest margin and our earnings and there can be no assurance that they will be adequate to meet our liquidity needs. However, the market for customer and brokered deposits is highly
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competitive and the risk of disintermediation is high, particularly in a high interest rate environment. Most of our noninterest bearing deposits are operating deposits or compensating balances that are held in connection with lending relationships, and are less likely to disintermediate. The potential outflow of such deposits is a risk unless we pay a more competitive rate of interest on them, which could significantly and negatively impact the Bank’s interest expense and net interest margin. Over the long-term, an adjustment in assets and change in business emphasis could compensate for a potential loss of deposits. The Bank also maintains a marketable investment portfolio to provide flexibility in the event of significant liquidity needs. The ALCO has adopted policy guidelines, which emphasize the importance of core deposits, adequate asset liquidity and a contingency funding plan.
At December 31, 2022, under the Bank’s liquidity formula, it had $4.4 billion of primary and secondary liquidity sources. Management believes the amount is deemed adequate to meet current and projected funding needs.
CAPITAL RESOURCES AND ADEQUACY
The assessment of capital adequacy depends on a number of factors such as asset quality and mix, liquidity, earnings performance, changing competitive conditions and economic forces, stress testing, regulatory measures and policy, as well as the overall level of growth and complexity of the balance sheet. The adequacy of the Company’s current and future capital needs is monitored by management on an ongoing basis. Management seeks to maintain a capital structure that will assure an adequate level of capital to support anticipated asset growth and to absorb potential losses.
The federal banking regulators have issued guidance for those institutions, which are deemed to have concentrations in commercial real estate lending. Pursuant to the supervisory criteria contained in the guidance for identifying institutions with a potential commercial real estate concentration risk, institutions which have (1) total reported loans for construction, land development and other land acquisitions which represent 100% or more of an institution’s total risk-based capital; or (2) total commercial real estate loans representing 300% or more of the institution’s total risk-based capital and the institution’s commercial real estate loan portfolio has increased 50% or more during the prior 36 months are identified as having potential commercial real estate concentration risk. Institutions which are deemed to have concentrations in commercial real estate lending are expected to employ heightened levels of risk management with respect to their commercial real estate portfolios and may be required to hold higher levels of capital. The Company, like many community banks, has a concentration in commercial real estate loans, and the Company continues to pursue lending opportunities in its commercial real estate portfolio.
Loan monitoring practices include but are not limited to periodic stress testing analysis to evaluate changes to cash flows, owing to interest rate increases and declines in net operating income. Nevertheless, we may be required to maintain higher levels of capital as a result of our commercial real estate concentrations, which could require us to obtain additional capital and may adversely affect shareholder returns. The Company has an extensive Capital Policy and Capital Plan, which includes pro-forma projections including stress testing within which the Board of Directors has established internal policy limits for regulatory capital ratios that are in excess of well capitalized ratios (as defined in the section “Regulation” above).
The Company and the Bank are subject to regulatory capital requirements administered by federal banking agencies. Capital adequacy guidelines and prompt corrective action regulations involve quantitative measures of assets, liabilities and certain off-balance-sheet items calculated under regulatory accounting practices. Capital amounts and classifications are also subject to qualitative judgments by regulators about components, risk weightings and other factors and the regulators can lower classifications in certain cases. Failure to meet various capital requirements can initiate regulatory action that could have a direct material effect on the financial statements.
The prompt corrective action regulations provide five categories, including well capitalized, adequately capitalized, undercapitalized, significantly undercapitalized and critically undercapitalized, although these terms are not used to represent overall financial condition. If a bank is only adequately capitalized, regulatory approval is required to, among other things, accept, renew or roll-over brokered deposits. If a bank is undercapitalized, capital distributions and growth and expansion are limited, and plans for capital restoration are required.
At December 31, 2022, the capital position of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, the Bank, continue to exceed regulatory requirements and well-capitalized guidelines. The primary indicators relied on by bank regulators in measuring the capital position are four ratios as follows: Tier 1 risk-based capital ratio, Total risk-based capital ratio, the Leverage ratio and the CET1 ratio. Tier 1 capital consists of common and qualifying preferred shareholders’ equity less goodwill and other intangibles. Total risk-based capital consists of Tier 1 capital, plus qualifying subordinated debt and the qualifying portion of the ACL, and for the Company to a limited extent, excess amounts of restricted core capital elements. Risk-based capital ratios are calculated with reference to risk-weighted assets, which are prescribed by regulation. The measure
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of Tier 1 capital to average assets for the prior quarter is often referred to as the leverage ratio. The CET1 ratio is the Tier 1 capital ratio but excluding preferred stock.
The FRB and the other federal banking agencies have adopted the Basel III Rules to implement the Basel III capital guidelines for U.S. banks. The capital rules require a CET1 ratio of 4.5% and a capital conservation buffer of 2.5% of risk-weighted assets, effectively resulting in a minimum CET1 ratio of 7.0%; a minimum ratio of Tier 1 capital to risk-weighted assets of 6.0%, or 8.5% with the fully phased in capital conservation buffer; a minimum total capital to risk-weighted assets ratio of 10.5% with the fully phased-in capital conservation buffer; and a minimum leverage ratio of 4.0%. The Basel III Rules also increased risk weights for certain assets and off-balance-sheet exposures. See the “Regulation” section for additional information regarding regulatory capital requirements.
The Company’s capital ratios were all well in excess of guidelines established by the Federal Reserve Board and the Bank’s capital ratios were in excess of those required to be classified as a “well capitalized” institution under the prompt corrective action provisions of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. The Company’s and Bank’s capital ratios at December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021 are shown in Note 22 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.
The ability of the Company to continue to grow is dependent on its earnings and those of the Bank, the ability to obtain additional funds for contribution to the Bank’s capital, through additional borrowings, through the sale of additional common stock or preferred stock or through the issuance of additional qualifying capital instruments, such as subordinated debt. The capital levels required to be maintained by the Company and Bank may be impacted as a result of the Bank’s concentrations in commercial real estate loans. See further detail at the “Regulation” and “Risk Factors” sections.
IMPACT OF INFLATION AND CHANGING PRICES
The Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes thereto have been prepared in accordance with GAAP in the United States of America, which require the measurement of financial position and operating results in terms of historical dollars without considering the changes in the relative purchasing power of money over time due to inflation. The impact of inflation is reflected in the increased cost of operations. Unlike most industrial companies, nearly all of our assets and liabilities are monetary in nature. As a result, interest rates have a greater impact on our performance than do the effects of general levels of inflation. Interest rates do not necessarily move in the same direction or to the same extent as the price of goods or services.
NEW AUTHORITATIVE ACCOUNTING GUIDANCE
Refer to Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for New Authoritative Accounting Guidance and their expected impact on the Company’s Financial Statements.
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FY 2021 10-K MD&A
SEC filing source: 0001050441-22-000040.
ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
The following discussion provides information about the results of operations, financial condition, liquidity, and capital resources of the Company. The Company’s primary subsidiary is the Bank, and the Company’s other direct and indirect active subsidiaries are Bethesda Leasing, LLC, Eagle Insurance Services, LLC, and Landroval Municipal Finance, Inc.
This discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction with the audited Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes thereto, appearing elsewhere in this report.
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Caution About Forward Looking Statements. This report contains forward looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Exchange Act. These forward looking statements represent plans, estimates, objectives, goals, guidelines, expectations, intentions, projections and statements of our beliefs concerning future events, business plans, objectives, expected operating results and the assumptions upon which those statements are based. Forward looking statements include without limitation, any statement that may predict, forecast, indicate or imply future results, performance or achievements, and are typically identified with words such as “may,” “will,” “can,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “expects,” “plans,” “estimates,” “potential,” “assume," "probable," "possible," "continue,” “should,” “could,” “would,” “strive," "seeks,” "deem," "projections," "forecast," "consider," "indicative," "uncertainty," "likely," "unlikely," ""likelihood," "unknown," "attributable," "depends," "intends," "generally," "feel," "typically," "judgment," "subjective" and similar words or phrases. These forward looking statements are based largely on our expectations and are subject to a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties that are subject to change based on factors which are, in many instances, beyond our control. Actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those contemplated, expressed, or implied by the forward looking statements.
The following factors, among others, could cause our financial performance to differ materially from that expressed in such forward looking statements:
•The macroeconomic and other challenges and uncertainties resulting from the coronavirus (“COVID-19”) pandemic;
•The timely development of competitive new products and services and the acceptance of these products and services by new and existing customers;
•The willingness of customers to substitute competitors’ products and services for our products and services;
•Our management of risks inherent in our real estate loan portfolio, and the risk of a prolonged downturn in the real estate market, which could impair the value of, and our ability to sell, properties which stand as collateral for loans we make;
•The effect of acquisitions we may make, including, without limitation, the failure to achieve the expected revenue growth and/or expense savings from such acquisitions;
•The growth and profitability of noninterest or fee income being less than expected;
•Changes in the level of our nonperforming assets and charge-offs;
•Changes in consumer spending and savings habits;
•Changing bank regulatory conditions, policies or programs, whether arising as new legislation or regulatory initiatives, that could lead to restrictions on activities of banks generally, or our subsidiary bank in particular, more restrictive regulatory capital requirements, increased costs, including deposit insurance premiums, regulation or prohibition of certain income producing activities or changes in the secondary market for loans and other products;
•The impact of changes in financial services policies, laws and regulations, including laws, regulations and policies concerning taxes, banking, securities and insurance, and the application thereof by regulatory bodies;
•The effects of, and changes in, trade, monetary and fiscal policies and laws, including interest rate policies of the Federal Reserve Board, inflation, interest rate, market and monetary fluctuations;
•Results of examinations of us by our regulators, including the possibility that our regulators may, among other things, require us to increase our allowance for credit losses, to write-down assets or to hold more capital;
•The effects or impact of any litigation, regulatory proceeding, including enforcement proceedings, and any possibly resulting fines, judgments, expenses or restrictions on our business activities;
•Unanticipated regulatory or judicial proceedings;
•The effect of changes in accounting policies and practices, as may be adopted from time-to-time by bank regulatory agencies, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board or the Financial Accounting Standards Board;
•Technological and social media changes;
•Cybersecurity breaches, threats, and cyber-fraud that cause the Bank to sustain financial losses;
•The strength of the United States economy, in general, and the strength of the local economies in which we conduct operations;
•Geopolitical conditions, including acts or threats of terrorism, actions taken by the United States or other governments in response to acts or threats of terrorism and/or military conflicts, which could impact business and economic conditions in the United States and abroad; and
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•The factors discussed under the caption “Risk Factors” in this report.
If one or more of the factors affecting our forward looking information and statements proves incorrect, then our actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, forward looking information and statements contained in this report. You should not place undue reliance on our forward looking information and statements. We will not update the forward looking statements to reflect actual results or changes in the factors affecting the forward looking statements.
GENERAL
The Company is a growth-oriented, one-bank holding company headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, which is currently celebrating twenty-three years of successful operations. The Company provides general commercial and consumer banking services through the Bank, its wholly owned banking subsidiary, a Maryland chartered bank which is a member of the Federal Reserve System. The Company was organized in October 1997 and to be the holding company for the Bank. The Bank was organized in 1998 as an independent, community oriented, full service banking alternative to the super regional financial institutions, which dominate the Company’s primary market area. The Company’s philosophy is to provide superior, personalized service to its customers. The Company focuses on relationship banking, providing each customer with a number of services and becoming familiar with and addressing customer needs in a proactive, personalized fashion. The Bank currently has a total of seventeen branch offices (six in Northern Virginia, six in Suburban Maryland, and five in Washington, D.C.), a principal corporate office, five lending centers (two are co-located with branches and one co-located in the principal corporate office) and one operations center. Refer to the Business Section above, which describes in detail the various banking services offered.
In general, the economy began to recover in 2021 as COVID-19 vaccines and treatments became more readily available in communities in the US and around the world. The improvement in the overall economy in 2021 led to supply chain issues, low unemployment rates and inflation. This led to expectations that the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee ("FOMC"), would discontinue the generally accommodative monetary policy it had pursued when the COVID-19 pandemic begin in early 2020. In late 2021, the Federal Reserve begun tapering purchases of securities and is no longer expanding its balance sheet as aggressively. Actual real U.S. GDP growth for 2021 was 5.7%, in contrast to a 3.4% decrease in 2020, which was adversely impacted by the onset of COVID-19. Employment climbed throughout 2021 as the U.S. unemployment rate ended the year at 3.9%, down from 6.7% at the end of 2020.
Longer-term U.S. interest rates increased in 2021, with the ten year U.S. Treasury rate averaging 1.45% in 2021 as compared to 0.88% in 2020. The yield curve in 2021 was steeper than in 2020, but narrowed toward the end of 2021 (two year as compared to ten year U.S. Treasury rates).
As the ten year U.S. Treasury rate increased in late 2021, the volume of residential mortgage lending began to decrease. Overall, real estate values in most of the Company's markets were stable-to-increasing in 2021 as interest rates, although up versus the prior year, remained historically low. Political gridlock continued in Washington, D.C. over concerns of pandemic policy, public debt and deficits, as well as tax policy and spending levels.
The Company’s primary market, the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, has continued to perform well relative to other parts of the country notwithstanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, due to a stable public sector along with increased government spending. The private sector, in particular, the Leisure and Hospitality sector still faces challenges associated with the pandemic. In spite of these challenges, the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area maintains a diverse economy including a large healthcare component, substantial business services, and a highly educated work force.
The Company has the financial resources to meet, and has remained committed to meeting, the credit needs of its community. The decline in the Company's loan balances in 2021 was a result of successful projects paying off, the competition to refinance at lower rates with longer amortization periods, and excess liquidity at competing banks as well as many companies and construction project sponsors. While our loan balances declined in 2021, deposit inflows increased our liquidity levels, which increased earning assets, but negatively impacted net interest margins and resulted in a much lower loan to deposit ratio.
The Company’s capital position remained strong in 2021 as a result of good earnings that were enhanced by reversal of provisions to the ACL, improved economic conditions and improved asset quality. Additionally, while mortgage rates increased in 2021 over 2020, the Company's residential lending group continues to contribute to earnings through the origination and sale of residential mortgages. As a result of the Company’s strong capital position and earnings, we were able to increase our quarterly dividend several times in 2021 and continue our share repurchase program. Although the number of shares
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repurchased by the Company was much smaller in 2021, this was due to the increase in the price of the Company common stock, making repurchases less accretive to earnings per share.
The Company believes its strategy of remaining growth-oriented, retaining talented staff and maintaining focus on seeking quality lending and deposit relationships has proven successful and is evidenced in its financial and performance ratios. Additionally, the Company believes such focus and strategy of relationship building has fostered future growth opportunities, as the Company’s reputation in the marketplace remains strong. At December 31, 2021, the Company had total assets of approximately $11.8 billion, total loans of $7.1 billion, total deposits of $10.0 billion and seventeen branches in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
Impact of COVID-19
During 2020 and to a lesser extent in 2021, our business has been, and continues to be, impacted by the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19. In March 2020, the outbreak of COVID-19 was recognized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization. The spread of COVID-19 created a global public health crisis that has resulted in unprecedented uncertainty, volatility and disruption in financial markets and in governmental, commercial and consumer activity in the U.S. and globally, including the markets that we serve. Efforts to limit the spread of COVID-19 have included quarantines, shelter-in-place orders, the closure or limiting capacity of businesses, travel restrictions, supply chain limitations and prohibitions on public gatherings, among other things, throughout many parts of the United States, including the Washington D.C. area.
As the COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing and dynamic in nature, there are many uncertainties, including its severity, duration, impact to our customers, employees and vendors, impact to the financial services and banking industry, impact to the economy as a whole and the level of governmental intervention (both economic and health-related). COVID-19 has negatively affected, and is expected to continue to negatively affect the Company. Furthermore, the sustainability of the economic recovery remains unclear and significant volatility could continue for a prolonged period as the potential exists for additional variants of COVID-19, including the recent Omicron variant, to impede the economic recovery.
CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES
The Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements are prepared in accordance with GAAP and follow general practices within the banking industry. Application of these principles requires management to make estimates, assumptions, and judgments that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. These estimates, assumptions and judgments are based on information available as of the date of the Consolidated Financial Statements; accordingly, as this information changes, the Consolidated Financial Statements could reflect different estimates, assumptions, and judgments. Certain policies, including those identified below for the year ended December 31, 2021, inherently have a greater reliance on the use of estimates, assumptions and judgments and, as such, have a greater possibility of producing results that could be materially different than originally reported. Estimates, assumptions, and judgments are necessary when assets and liabilities are required to be recorded at fair value, when a decline in the value of an asset not carried on the financial statements at fair value warrants an impairment write-down or a valuation reserve to be established, or when an asset or liability needs to be recorded contingent upon a future event. Carrying assets and liabilities at fair value inherently results in more financial statement volatility.
Provision for Credit Losses and Provision for Unfunded Commitments
A consequence of lending activities is that we may incur credit losses, so we record an ACL with respect to loan receivables and a reserve for unfunded commitments (“RUC”) as estimates of those losses. The amount of such losses will vary depending upon the risk characteristics of the loan portfolio as affected by economic conditions such as changes in interest rates, the financial performance of borrowers and regional unemployment rates, which management estimates by using a national forecast and estimating a regional adjustment based on historical differences between the two.
As a result of our January 1, 2020 adoption of FASB's Accounting Standard Codification ("ASC") 326, Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments, and its related amendments, our methodology for estimating these credit losses changed significantly from years prior to 2020.. The standard replaced the “incurred loss” approach with a “current expected credit loss” approach known as CECL, which requires an estimate of the credit losses expected over the life of an exposure (or pool of exposures). CECL removes the incurred loss approach’s threshold that delayed the recognition of a credit loss until it was “probable” a loss event was “incurred.”
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The Provision for Unfunded Commitments represents the expected credit losses on off-balance sheet commitments such as unfunded commitments to extend credit and standby letters of credit. The RUC is determined by estimating future draws and applying the expected loss rates on those draws.
Management has significant discretion in making the judgments inherent in the determination of the provisions for credit loss, ACL, and the RUC. Our determination of these amounts requires significant reliance on estimates and significant judgment as to the amount and timing of expected future cash flows on loans, significant reliance on historical loss rates on homogenous portfolios, consideration of our quantitative and qualitative evaluation of economic factors, and the reliance on our reasonable and supportable forecasts.
The Provision for Credit Losses ("PCL") represents the expected credit losses arising from the Company's loan and AFS securities portfolios. The PCL is determined by following:
The Company uses a loan-level probability of default ("PD")/ loss given default ("LGD") cash flow method with an exposure at default ("EAD") model to estimate expected credit losses for the commercial, income producing – commercial real estate, owner occupied – commercial real estate, real estate mortgage - residential, construction – commercial and residential, construction – C&I (owner occupied), home equity, and other consumer loan pools. For each of these loan segments, the Company generates cash flow projections at the instrument level wherein payment expectations are adjusted for estimated prepayment speed, probability of default, and loss given default. The modeling of expected prepayment speeds is based on historical internal data. PPP loans are included in the model but do not carry a reserve, as these loans are fully guaranteed by the SBA, whose guarantee is backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government.
The Company uses regression analysis of historical internal and peer data (as Company loss data is insufficient) to determine suitable loss drivers to utilize when modeling lifetime probability of default and loss given default. This analysis also determines how expected probability of default will react to forecasted levels of the loss drivers. For our cash flow model, management utilizes and forecasts regional unemployment by using a national forecast and estimating a regional adjustment based on historical differences between the two as a loss driver over our reasonable and supportable period of 18 months, and reverts back to a historical loss rate over the following twelve months on a straight-line basis. While the COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted unemployment projections for 2020, which informed our CECL economic forecast and increased our loss reserve for that year, there were positive signs in 2021 as the unemployment rate and economic forecast suggested the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on credit would not be as significant as previously considered in 2020. Management leverages economic projections from reputable and independent third parties to inform its loss driver forecasts over the forecast period.
The ACL also includes an amount for inherent risks not reflected in the historical analyses. Relevant factors include, but are not limited to, concentrations of credit risk, changes in underwriting standards, experience and depth of lending staff, and trends in delinquencies. While our methodology in establishing the reserve for credit losses attributes portions of the ACL and RUC to the commercial and consumer portfolio segments, the entire ACL and RUC is available to absorb credit losses expected in the total loan portfolio and total amount of unfunded credit commitments, respectively.
Going forward, the impact of utilizing the CECL approach to calculate the reserve for credit losses will be significantly
influenced by the composition, characteristics and quality of our loan portfolio, as well as the prevailing economic conditions and forecasts utilized. Material changes to these and other relevant factors may result in greater volatility to the reserve for credit losses, and therefore, greater volatility to our reported earnings. For example, the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted the performance outlook in the Accommodation & Food Service segment of our loan portfolio, which informs our CECL economic forecast and continues to adversely impact our loss reserve as of December 31, 2021. See Notes 1, 3 and 4 to the Consolidated Financial Statements, the “Provision for Credit Losses” section in Management’s Discussion and Analysis, and the COVID-19 risk factor in Item 1A for more information on the provision for credit losses.
Goodwill and Other Intangibles
Goodwill represents the excess of the cost of an acquisition over the fair value of the net assets acquired. Other intangible assets represent purchased assets and mortgage servicing rights ("MSRs") that lack physical substance but can be distinguished from goodwill because of contractual or other legal rights. Intangible assets that have finite lives, such as core deposit intangibles, are amortized over their estimated useful lives and subject to periodic impairment testing. Intangible assets (other than goodwill) are amortized to expense using accelerated or straight-line methods over their respective estimated useful lives.
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Goodwill is subject to impairment testing at the reporting unit level, which must be conducted at least annually. The Company performs impairment testing during the fourth quarter of each year (as of December 31) or when events or changes in circumstances indicate the assets might be impaired.
The Company performs a qualitative assessment to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount. Determining the fair value of a reporting unit under the goodwill impairment test is a matter of judgment and often involves the use of significant estimates and assumptions. Similarly, estimates and assumptions are used in determining the fair value of other intangible assets. Estimates of fair value are primarily determined using discounted cash flows, market comparisons and recent transactions. These approaches use significant estimates and assumptions including projected future cash flows, discount rates reflecting the market rate of return, projected growth rates and determination and evaluation of appropriate market comparables.
Management performed its annual assessment of goodwill as of December 31, 2021. Based on the results of qualitative assessments of the reporting unit, the Company concluded that no impairment existed at December 31, 2021. However, future events could cause the Company to conclude that goodwill or other intangibles have become impaired, which would result in recording an impairment loss. Any resulting impairment loss could have a material adverse impact on the Company’s financial condition and results of operations. See “Item 1A Risk Factors—Changes in the value of goodwill and intangible assets could reduce our earnings” for more information.
SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
The following discussion is intended to assist in understanding the financial condition and results of operations of the Company as of and for the year ended December 31, 2021. The information contained in this section should be read together with the December 31, 2021 audited Consolidated Financial Statements and the accompanying Notes included in Item 8. Financial Statements And Supplementary Data of this Form 10-K.
This section of this Form 10-K generally discusses 2021 and 2020 items and year-to-year comparisons between 2021 and 2020. Discussions of 2019 items and year-to-year comparisons between 2020 and 2019 that are not included in this Form 10-K can be found in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in Part II, Item 7 of the Company’s Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The information set forth below contains certain financial information determined by methods other than in accordance with GAAP. These non-GAAP financial measures are “tangible common equity,” “tangible book value per common share,” “efficiency ratio,” and “return on average common equity.” Management uses these non-GAAP measures in its analysis of our performance because it believes these measures are used as a measure of our performance by investors.
These disclosures should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for results determined in accordance with GAAP, and are not necessarily comparable to non-GAAP performance measures which may be presented by other bank holding companies. Management compensates for these limitations by providing detailed reconciliations between GAAP information and the non-GAAP financial measures. A reconciliation table is set forth below following the selected historical consolidated financial data.
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| Years Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | |||||||||
| Balance Sheets - Period End | |||||||||||
| Securities | $ | 2,623,408 | $ | 1,151,083 | $ | 843,363 | |||||
| Loans held for sale | 47,218 | 88,205 | 56,707 | ||||||||
| Loans | 7,065,598 | 7,760,212 | 7,545,748 | ||||||||
| Allowance for credit losses | (74,965) | (109,579) | (73,658) | ||||||||
| Intangible assets, net | 105,793 | 105,114 | 104,739 | ||||||||
| Total assets | 11,847,310 | 11,117,802 | 8,988,719 | ||||||||
| Deposits | 9,981,540 | 9,189,203 | 7,224,391 | ||||||||
| Borrowings | 369,670 | 568,077 | 498,667 | ||||||||
| Total liabilities | 10,496,535 | 9,876,910 | 7,798,038 | ||||||||
| Total shareholders’ equity | 1,350,775 | 1,240,892 | 1,190,681 | ||||||||
| Tangible common equity (1) | 1,244,982 | 1,135,778 | 1,085,942 | ||||||||
| Statements of Income | |||||||||||
| Interest income | $ | 364,496 | $ | 389,986 | $ | 429,630 | |||||
| Interest expense | 39,982 | 68,424 | 105,585 | ||||||||
| Provision (reversal) for credit losses | (20,821) | 45,571 | 13,091 | ||||||||
| Noninterest income | 40,385 | 45,696 | 25,699 | ||||||||
| Noninterest expense | 149,165 | 144,162 | 139,862 | ||||||||
| Income before taxes | 237,674 | 176,145 | 196,791 | ||||||||
| Income tax expense | 60,983 | 43,928 | 53,848 | ||||||||
| Net income | 176,691 | 132,217 | 142,943 | ||||||||
| Cash dividends declared | 44,691 | 28,330 | 22,332 | ||||||||
| Total revenue (2) | 364,899 | 367,258 | 349,744 |
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| Years Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands except per share data) | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | ||||||||
| Per Common Share Data | |||||||||||
| Net income, basic | $ | 5.53 | $ | 4.09 | $ | 4.18 | |||||
| Net income, diluted | 5.52 | $ | 4.09 | 4.18 | |||||||
| Dividends declared | 1.40 | 0.88 | 0.66 | ||||||||
| Book value | 42.28 | 39.05 | 35.82 | ||||||||
| Tangible book value (3) | 38.97 | 35.74 | 32.67 | ||||||||
| Common shares outstanding | 31,950,092 | 31,779,663 | 33,241,496 | ||||||||
| Weighted average common shares outstanding, basic | 31,935,824 | 32,334,201 | 34,178,804 | ||||||||
| Weighted average common shares outstanding, diluted | 32,003,090 | 32,362,556 | 34,210,646 | ||||||||
| Ratios | |||||||||||
| Net interest margin | 2.81 | % | 3.19 | % | 3.77 | % | |||||
| Efficiency ratio (4) | 40.88 | % | 39.25 | % | 39.99 | % | |||||
| Return on average assets | 1.49 | % | 1.28 | % | 1.61 | % | |||||
| Return on average common equity | 13.54 | % | 10.98 | % | 12.20 | % | |||||
| Return on average tangible common equity (1) | 14.73 | % | 12.03 | % | 13.40 | % | |||||
| CET1 capital (to risk weighted assets) | 15.02 | % | 13.49 | % | 12.87 | % | |||||
| Total capital (to risk weighted assets) | 16.15 | % | 17.04 | % | 16.20 | % | |||||
| Tier 1 capital (to risk weighted assets) | 15.02 | % | 13.49 | % | 12.87 | % | |||||
| Tier 1 capital (to average assets) | 10.19 | % | 10.31 | % | 11.62 | % | |||||
| Tangible common equity ratio | 10.60 | % | 10.31 | % | 12.22 | % | |||||
| Dividend payout ratio | 25.29 | % | 21.59 | % | 15.79 | % | |||||
| Asset Quality | |||||||||||
| Nonperforming assets and loans 90+ past due | $ | 30,843 | $ | 65,930 | $ | 50,216 | |||||
| Nonperforming assets and loans 90+ past due to total assets | 0.26 | % | 0.59 | % | 0.56 | % | |||||
| Nonperforming loans to total loans | 0.41 | % | 0.79 | % | 0.65 | % | |||||
| Allowance for credit losses to loans | 1.06 | % | 1.41 | % | 0.98 | % | |||||
| Allowance for credit losses to nonperforming loans | 256.66 | % | 179.80 | % | 151.16 | % | |||||
| Net charge-offs | $ | 13,339 | $ | 20,097 | $ | 9,377 | |||||
| Net charge-offs to average loans | 0.18 | % | 0.26 | % | 0.13 | % |
(1)Tangible common equity and return on average tangible common equity are non-GAAP financial measures. Tangible common equity is defined as total common shareholders’ equity reduced by goodwill and other intangible assets.
(2)Total revenue calculated as net interest income plus noninterest income.
(3)Tangible book value per common share, a non-GAAP financial measure, is defined as tangible common shareholders’ equity divided by total common shares outstanding.
(4)Computed by dividing noninterest expense by the sum of net interest income and noninterest income.
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The following table details our Non-GAAP to GAAP reconciliation for the years 2019 through 2021.
| Non-GAAP Reconciliation | Years Ended December 31, | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands except per share data) | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | ||||||||
| Common shareholders’ equity | $ | 1,350,775 | $ | 1,240,891 | $ | 1,190,681 | |||||
| Less: Intangible assets | (105,793) | (105,114) | (104,739) | ||||||||
| Tangible common equity | $ | 1,244,982 | $ | 1,135,777 | $ | 1,085,942 | |||||
| Book value per common share | $ | 42.28 | $ | 39.05 | $ | 35.82 | |||||
| Less: Intangible book value per common share | (3.31) | (3.31) | (3.15) | ||||||||
| Tangible book value per common share | $ | 38.97 | $ | 35.74 | $ | 32.67 | |||||
| Total assets | $ | 11,847,310 | $ | 11,117,802 | $ | 8,988,719 | |||||
| Less: Intangible assets | (105,793) | (105,114) | (104,739) | ||||||||
| Tangible assets | $ | 11,741,517 | $ | 11,012,688 | $ | 8,883,980 | |||||
| Tangible common equity ratio | 10.60 | % | 10.31 | % | 12.22 | % | |||||
| Average common shareholders’ equity | $ | 1,304,902 | $ | 1,204,341 | $ | 1,172,051 | |||||
| Less: Average intangible assets | (105,256) | (104,903) | (105,167) | ||||||||
| Average tangible common equity | $ | 1,199,646 | $ | 1,099,438 | $ | 1,066,884 | |||||
| Net Income | $ | 176,691 | $ | 132,217 | $ | 142,943 | |||||
| Average tangible common equity | $ | 1,199,646 | $ | 1,099,438 | $ | 1,066,884 | |||||
| Return on average tangible common equity | 14.73 | % | 12.03 | % | 13.40 | % | |||||
| Total noninterest expense | $ | 149,165 | $ | 144,162 | $ | 139,862 | |||||
| Net interest income | $ | 324,514 | $ | 321,562 | $ | 324,045 | |||||
| Total noninterest income | 40,385 | 45,696 | 25,699 | ||||||||
| Total of net interest and noninterest income | $ | 364,899 | $ | 367,258 | $ | 349,744 | |||||
| Efficiency ratio | 40.88 | % | 39.25 | % | 39.99 | % |
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
Overview
Net income for the years ending December 31, 2021 and 2020 were $176.7 million and $132.2 million, respectively. Net income per basic and diluted common share for 2021 was $5.53 and $5.52, respectively, compared to $4.09 per basic and diluted common share for 2020, a 35% increase.
Net income increased in 2021 relative to 2020 primarily due to reversals from the allowance for credit losses and, to a lesser extent, net interest income on a higher asset base, partially offset by lower noninterest income and higher noninterest expense.
The most significant portion of revenue (i.e., net interest income plus noninterest income) is net interest income, which increased to $324.5 million in 2021 compared to $321.6 million for 2020. The increase resulted from an increase in average earning assets of 14%, which offset a decline of 38 basis points in net interest margin.
The net interest margin, which measures the difference between interest income and interest expense (i.e., net interest income) as a percentage of earning assets, was 2.81% for 2021 and 3.19% for 2020, a decline of 38 basis points. The drivers of the change are detailed in the "Net Interest Income and Net Interest Margin" section below.
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The provision for credit losses in 2021 was a reversal of $20.8 million as compared to a provision of $45.6 million in 2020. The reversal of the provision was primarily driven by the improved economic environment, adjustments to the quantitative components of the CECL model and improvements in asset quality. For information on the components and drivers of these changes see "Provision for Credit Losses" section below.
Total noninterest income in 2021 was $40.4 million, as compared to $45.7 million in 2020, a 12% decrease.
Noninterest expenses in 2021 totaled $149.2 million, as compared to $144.2 million in 2020, a 3% increase.
The efficiency ratio, which measures the ratio of noninterest expense to total revenue, was 40.88% for 2021 as compared to 39.25% for 2020. Refer to the “Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” section for additional detail and a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures.
Income tax expense in 2021 was $61.0 million, as compared to $43.9 million in 2020, a 39% increase.
At December 31, 2021, total loan balances (including PPP loans) were 9% lower than they were at December 31, 2020, and average loans were 8% lower in 2021 as compared to 2020. PPP loans represented $51.1 million of total loans at the end of 2021, as compared to $454.8 million at the end of 2020. Excluding PPP loans, loans decreased 4% in 2021, driven by higher payoffs and paydowns, which outpaced originations and advances. The decline in PPP loans was the result of the forgiveness process and, in the second quarter of 2021, the Company's sale of a portion of the PPP loan portfolio.
Deposit growth was strong throughout 2021, and resulted in well above historical average overnight liquidity for the Company. Deposit funding during 2021 was primarily from noninterest bearing and money market accounts. In large part due to those inflows, total deposits at December 31, 2021 were 9% higher than deposits at December 31, 2020, while average deposits were 17% higher for 2021 compared with 2020. This increase in deposits allowed the Company to sustain strong primary and secondary sources of liquidity and increase the size of the investment securities portfolio.
In terms of the average asset composition or mix, loans, which generally have higher yields than securities and other earning assets, represented 63% and 76% of average earning assets for 2021 and 2020, respectively. For 2021, as compared to 2020, average loans, excluding loans held for sale, decreased $607.6 million, or 8%, driven by higher payoffs and paydowns, which outpaced originations and advances, and PPP loan forgiveness and sale.
Average investment securities for 2021 were 14% of average earning assets compared to 9% for 2020. The combination of federal funds sold, interest bearing deposits with other banks and loans held for sale represented 23% and 12% of average earning assets for 2021 and 2020, respectively, as much higher levels of on-balance sheet liquidity existed throughout 2021. These increases were driven by the decline in loans coupled with the inflow of deposits.
The ratio of common equity to total assets increased to 11.40% at December 31, 2021 from 11.16% at December 31, 2020, due to common equity growing faster rate than total assets, even with common equity reductions due to $682 thousand in share repurchase activity and $44.7 million of cash dividends declared.
For 2021, the return on average assets (“ROAA”) was 1.49%, as compared to 1.28% for 2020. Total shareholders’ equity was $1.35 billion at December 31, 2021 and $1.24 billion and 2020, an increase of 9%. The return on average common equity (“ROACE”) for 2021 was 13.54% as compared to 10.98% for 2020. The return on average tangible common equity (“ROATCE”) for 2021 was 14.73% as compared to 12.03% for 2020. Refer to the “Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” section for additional detail and a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures. The increase in these returns was primarily due to reversals from the allowance for credit losses and to a lesser extent net interest income on a higher asset base, partially offset by lower noninterest income and higher noninterest expense.
Net Interest Income and Net Interest Margin
Net interest income is the difference between interest income on earning assets and the cost of funds supporting those assets. Earning assets are composed primarily of loans, loans held for sale, investment securities, and interest bearing deposits with other banks. The cost of funds represents interest expense on deposits, customer repurchase agreements and other borrowings, which consist of federal funds purchased, advances from the FHLB and subordinated notes. Noninterest bearing deposits and capital are other components representing funding sources. Changes in the volume and mix of assets and funding sources, along with the changes in yields earned and rates paid, determine changes in net interest income.
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Net interest income in 2021 was $324.5 million compared to $321.6 million in 2020. For 2021, net interest income increased 1% over the same period for 2020. The increase resulted from an increase in average earning assets of 14%, which offset a decline of 38 basis points in net interest margin.
The net interest margin was 2.81% for 2021, as compared to 3.19% for 2020, a decline of 38 basis points. This decline was led by a lower rate environment and the decline in loans, which generally have higher yields than securities. Additionally, the increase in deposits, led to an increase in low yielding assets such as securities or interest bearing deposits at other banks, which contributed to net income and liquidity, but lowered net interest margin. In 2021, average loans decreased $607.6 million or 8% and average deposits increased by $1.4 billion or 17%.
Loans, the largest component of interest income on earnings assets, had a yield of 4.62% in 2021, compared to 4.66% in 2020, a decline of 4 basis points (includes PPP loans). The decline in yield was minimized due to disciplined loan pricing practices and the sale or forgiveness of PPP loans, which accelerated net deferred fees and cost into interest income. Additionally, the deposit mix remained favorable, with average noninterest deposits being 34% of average total deposits, up from 31% in 2020. In 2021, total net loans, the primary source of the Bank’s revenue, declined, although total assets increased over the same period. Further, loan pricing pressures in the highly competitive market for high-quality commercial loans, and the cost sand implementation risks associated with pursuing loan growth, has put pressure on loan portfolio yields and consequently the Bank’s net interest margin and net income.
The table below presents the average balances and rates of the major categories of the Company’s assets and liabilities for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019. Included in the table are two measurements, interest rate spread and net interest margin. Interest rate spread is the difference (expressed as a percentage) between the interest rate earned on earning assets less the interest expense on interest bearing liabilities. While the interest rate spread provides a quick comparison of earnings rates as compared to cost of funds, management believes that the net interest margin typically provides a better measurement of performance. However, given the increase in assets and liquidity from deposits, the usefulness of net interest margin comparisons are diluted. To illustrate, in 2021 net interest margins declined 38 basis points, which would normally be expected to lead to a decrease in net interest income; however, since average earning assets were up 14%, net interest income increased by 0.9%.
The net interest margin (as compared to the net interest spread) includes the effect of noninterest bearing sources in its calculation and is net interest income expressed as a percentage of average earning assets.
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Eagle Bancorp, Inc.
Consolidated Average Balances, Interest Yields And Rates (Unaudited)
(dollars in thousands)
| Years Ended December 31, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Average Balance | Interest | Average Yield / Rate | Average Balance | Interest | Average Yield / Rate | Average Balance | Interest | Average Yield / Rate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assets | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest earning assets: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest bearing deposits with other banks and other short-term investments | $ | 2,499,377 | $ | 3,511 | 0.14 | % | $ | 1,181,591 | $ | 2,601 | 0.22 | % | $ | 392,245 | $ | 7,438 | 1.90 | % | ||||||||||||||
| Loans held for sale | 71,043 | 2,278 | 3.21 | % | 67,361 | 2,125 | 3.15 | % | 40,192 | 1,565 | 3.89 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Loans (1) (2) | 7,260,886 | 335,471 | 4.62 | % | 7,868,523 | 366,729 | 4.66 | % | 7,332,886 | 399,358 | 5.45 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Investment securities available-for-sale (2) | 1,653,522 | 23,205 | 1.40 | % | 929,983 | 18,440 | 1.98 | % | 796,608 | 21,037 | 2.64 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Federal funds sold | 31,667 | 31 | 0.10 | % | 32,781 | 91 | 0.28 | % | 23,253 | 232 | 1.00 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total interest earning assets | 11,516,495 | 364,496 | 3.16 | % | 10,080,239 | 389,986 | 3.87 | % | 8,585,184 | 429,630 | 5.00 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest earning assets | 416,492 | 371,345 | 339,565 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Less: allowance for credit losses | 96,252 | 101,621 | 71,683 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total noninterest earning assets | 320,240 | 269,724 | 267,882 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total Assets | $ | 11,836,735 | $ | 10,349,963 | $ | 8,853,066 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest bearing liabilities: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest bearing transaction | $ | 814,999 | $ | 1,609 | 0.20 | % | $ | 783,568 | $ | 3,190 | 0.41 | % | $ | 743,361 | $ | 6,491 | 0.87 | % | ||||||||||||||
| Savings and money market | 4,947,198 | 15,000 | 0.30 | % | 3,925,413 | 26,271 | 0.67 | % | 2,873,054 | 50,042 | 1.74 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Time deposits | 803,718 | 11,163 | 1.39 | % | 1,149,185 | 24,105 | 2.10 | % | 1,404,748 | 34,493 | 2.46 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total interest bearing deposits | 6,565,915 | 27,772 | 0.42 | % | 5,858,166 | 53,566 | 0.91 | % | 5,021,163 | 91,026 | 1.81 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Customer repurchase agreements and federal funds purchased | 24,884 | 51 | 0.20 | % | 29,345 | 293 | 1.00 | % | 30,024 | 345 | 1.15 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Other short-term borrowings | 300,003 | 2,008 | 0.67 | % | 280,126 | 1,870 | 0.66 | % | 135,699 | 2,298 | 1.67 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Long-term borrowings | 164,970 | 10,151 | 6.15 | % | 259,975 | 12,696 | 4.80 | % | 217,507 | 11,916 | 5.40 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total interest bearing liabilities | 7,055,772 | 39,982 | 0.57 | % | 6,427,612 | 68,425 | 1.06 | % | 5,404,393 | 105,585 | 1.95 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest bearing liabilities: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest bearing demand | 3,374,662 | 2,643,856 | 2,210,516 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other liabilities | 101,399 | 74,154 | 66,106 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total noninterest bearing liabilities | 3,476,061 | 2,718,010 | 2,276,622 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shareholders’ equity | 1,304,902 | 1,204,341 | 1,172,051 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity | $ | 11,836,735 | $ | 10,349,963 | $ | 8,853,066 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest income | $ | 324,514 | $ | 321,561 | $ | 324,045 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest spread | 2.59 | % | 2.81 | % | 3.05 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest margin | 2.81 | % | 3.19 | % | 3.77 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cost of funds | 0.35 | % | 0.68 | % | 1.23 | % |
(1)Loans placed on nonaccrual status are included in average balances. Net loan fees and late charges included in interest income on loans totaled $30.6 million, $22.3 million, and $17.8 million, for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
(2)Interest and fees on loans and investments exclude tax equivalent adjustments.
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Rate/Volume Analysis of Net Interest Income
The rate/volume table below presents the composition of the change in net interest income for the periods indicated, as allocated between the change in net interest income due to changes in the volume of average earning assets and interest bearing liabilities, and the changes in net interest income due to changes in interest rates. As the table shows, the increase in net interest income in 2021, as compared to 2020 was due to a decrease in the volume of earning assets more than offset by lower deposit rates. The decrease in net interest income in 2020 as compared to 2019 was a function of an increase in the volume of earning assets more than offset by a decline in the net interest margin.
| 2021 compared with 2020 | 2020 compared with 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands) | Change Due to Volume | Change Due to Rate | Total Increase (Decrease) | Change Due to Volume | Change Due to Rate | Total Increase (Decrease) | ||||||||||||||||
| Interest earned on | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loans | $ | (28,320) | $ | (2,938) | $ | (31,258) | $ | 29,171 | $ | (61,799) | $ | (32,628) | ||||||||||
| Loans held for sale | 116 | 37 | 153 | 1,058 | (498) | 560 | ||||||||||||||||
| Investment securities | 14,354 | (9,589) | 4,765 | 3,522 | (6,119) | (2,597) | ||||||||||||||||
| Interest bearing bank deposits | 2,901 | (1,991) | 910 | 14,968 | (19,805) | (4,837) | ||||||||||||||||
| Federal funds sold | (3) | (57) | (60) | 95 | (236) | (141) | ||||||||||||||||
| Total interest income | (10,952) | (14,538) | (25,490) | 48,814 | (88,457) | (39,643) | ||||||||||||||||
| Interest paid on | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest bearing transaction | 128 | (1,709) | (1,581) | 351 | (3,652) | (3,301) | ||||||||||||||||
| Savings and money market | 6,838 | (18,109) | (11,271) | 18,329 | (42,101) | (23,772) | ||||||||||||||||
| Time deposits | (7,246) | (5,696) | (12,942) | (6,275) | (4,113) | (10,388) | ||||||||||||||||
| Customer repurchase agreements | (45) | (197) | (242) | (8) | (44) | (52) | ||||||||||||||||
| Other borrowings | (4,506) | 2,100 | (2,406) | 4,772 | (4,420) | 352 | ||||||||||||||||
| Total interest expense | (4,831) | (23,611) | (28,442) | 17,169 | (54,330) | (37,161) | ||||||||||||||||
| Net interest income | $ | (6,121) | $ | 9,073 | $ | 2,952 | $ | 31,645 | $ | (34,127) | $ | (2,482) |
Provision for Credit Losses
The provision for credit losses represents the amount of expense charged to current earnings to fund the ACL on loans and the ACL on available for sale investment securities. The amount of the ACL on loans is based on many factors that reflect management’s assessment of the risk in the loan portfolio. Those factors include historical losses based on internal and peer data (as Company loss data is insufficient), economic conditions and trends, the value and adequacy of collateral, volume and mix of the portfolio, performance of the portfolio, and internal loan processes of the Company and Bank. The ACL under CECL (adopted January 1, 2020) utilizes an economic forecast that is updated quarterly with the significant measure being the expected regional unemployment rate, which management estimates by using a national forecast and estimating a regional adjustment based on historical differences between the two.
The provision for credit losses was a reversal of $20.8 million in 2021, as compared to a provision of $45.6 million in 2020. The reversal in 2021 was largely due to the improvement of the economy as the COVID-19 vaccines and treatments became widely available and the improvement in credit quality, whereas the provision in 2020 was due to a reserve build associated with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The provision for unfunded commitments is presented separately on the Statement of Income. This provision considers the probability that unfunded commitments will fund. The provision was a reversal of $1.1 million in 2021, as compared to a provision of $1.4 million in 2020.
Management has developed a comprehensive analytical process to monitor the adequacy of the ACL. The process and guidelines were developed utilizing, among other factors, the guidance from federal banking regulatory agencies, relevant available information, from internal and external sources, relating to past events, current conditions and reasonable and supportable forecasts. Historical credit loss experience provides the basis for the estimation of expected credit losses.
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Adjustments to historical loss information are made for differences in current loan-specific risk characteristics such as differences in underwriting standards, portfolio mix, loan concentrations, credit quality, or term as well as for changes in environmental conditions, such as changes in unemployment rates, property values or other relevant factors. Refer to additional detail regarding these forecasts in the “Cash Flow Method" section of Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.
The results of this process, in combination with conclusions of the Bank’s outside consultants’ review of the risk inherent in the loan portfolio, support management’s assessment as to the adequacy of the allowance at the balance sheet date. Please refer to the discussion under “Critical Accounting Policies” above and in Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for an overview of the methodology management employs on a quarterly basis to assess the adequacy of the allowance and the provisions charged to expense. Also, refer to the table in the "Allowance for Credit Losses" section which reflects activity in the ACL.
For 2021, the ACL decreased by $34.6 million, reflecting a reversal of $20.8 million to provision for credit losses and $13.3 million in net charge-offs. Net charge-offs of $13.3 million during 2021 represented 0.18% of average loans, excluding loans held for sale, as compared to $20.1 million or 0.26% of average loans, excluding loans held for sale, in 2020. Net charge-offs during 2021 were attributable primarily to commercial real estate ($5.1 million) and commercial loans ($8.3 million).
At December 31, 2021 the ACL represented 1.06% of loans outstanding, as compared to 1.41% at December 31, 2020. The ACL represented 257% of nonperforming loans at December 31, 2021, as compared to 180% at December 31, 2020.
As part of its comprehensive loan review process, internal loan and credit committees carefully evaluate loans that are past-due 30 days or more. The committees make a thorough assessment of the conditions and circumstances surrounding each delinquent loan. The Bank’s loan policy requires that loans be placed on nonaccrual if they are ninety days past-due, unless they are well secured and in the process of collection. Additionally, Credit Administration specifically analyzes the status of development and construction projects, sales activities and utilization of interest reserves in order to carefully and prudently assess potential increased levels of risk requiring additional reserves.
The maintenance of a high quality loan portfolio, with an adequate ACL, will continue to be a primary management objective for the Company.
Noninterest Income
Noninterest income includes service charges on deposits, gain on sale of loans, gain on sale of investment securities, income from bank owned life insurance (“BOLI”) and other income. Total noninterest income for the year ended December 31, 2021 was $40.4 million as compared to $45.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2020. The 12% decrease was due substantially to $8.0 million lower gains on sale of residential mortgage loans which was partially offset by $1.1 million higher gains on sales of securities and $1.6 million higher fees associated with the origination, securitization, sale and servicing of FHA loans.
For the year ended December 31, 2021, service charges on deposit accounts slightly increased $146 thousand to $4.6 million from $4.4 million for the same period in 2020, an increase of 3%. While deposits increased significantly in 2021, deposit fees continue to be waived due to the pandemic.
Gain on sale of loans consists of gains on the sale of residential mortgage and SBA loans. For the year ended December 31, 2021, gain on sale of loans was $14.0 million, compared to $22.1 million in 2020, a decrease of 36%. The decrease was driven by higher residential mortgage rates in the latter part of the year, which reduced mortgage origination volume.
The Company originates residential mortgage loans and utilizes both “mandatory delivery” and “best efforts” forward loan sale commitments to sell those loans with servicing released. Loans sold are subject to repurchase in circumstances where documentation is deficient or the underlying loan becomes delinquent or pays off within a specified period following loan funding and sale. The Bank considers these potential recourse provisions to be a minimal risk, but has established a reserve under generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP") for possible repurchases. There were no repurchases due to fraud by the borrower during the year ended December 31, 2021. The reserve is included in other liabilities on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. The Bank does not originate “sub-prime” loans and has no exposure to this market segment.
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| Residential mortgage | Years Ended December 31, | ||||||||||
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| (dollars in thousands) | 2021 | 2020 | % Change | ||||||||
| Gain on sale | $ | 13,585 | $ | 22,368 | (39.3) | % | |||||
| Closed loans | 1,140,408 | 1,260,615 | (9.5) | % | |||||||
| Locked loans | 994,452 | 1,860,813 | (46.6) | % | |||||||
| Reserve | 125 | 205 | (39.2) | % |
The decision whether to sell residential mortgage loans on a mandatory or best efforts lock basis is a function of multiple factors, including but not limited to overall market volumes of mortgage loan originations, forecasted “pull-through” rates of origination, loan underwriting and closing operational considerations, pricing differentials between the two methods, and availability and pricing of various interest rate hedging strategies associated with the mortgage origination pipeline. The Company continually monitors these factors to maximize profitability and minimize operational and interest rate risks.
The Company is an originator of SBA loans and its practice is to sell the guaranteed portion of those loans at a premium. Income from this source was $460 thousand for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to $269 thousand for the same period in 2020. Activity in SBA loan sales to secondary markets can vary widely from year to year.
Gain on the sale of investments were $3.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to $1.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2020.
Other income totaled $16.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 as compared to $15.3 million for 2020, an increase of 9%. The FHA business unit generated income on the sale of FHA multifamily-backed GNMA securities of $5.0 million for 2021 compared to $3.4 million for 2020.
Servicing agreements relating to the Ginnie Mae ("GNMA") mortgage backed securities program require the Company to advance funds to make scheduled payments of principal, interest, taxes and insurance, if such payments have not been received from the borrowers. The Company will generally recover funds advanced pursuant to these arrangements under the FHA insurance and guarantee program. However, in the interim, the Company must absorb the cost of the funds it advances during the time the advance is outstanding. The Company must also bear the costs of attempting to collect on delinquent and defaulted mortgage loans. In addition, if a defaulted loan is not cured, the mortgage loan would be canceled as part of the foreclosure proceedings and the Company would not receive any future servicing income with respect to that loan. At December 31, 2021, the Company did not have any funds advanced outstanding under FHA mortgage loan servicing agreements.
Noninterest Expense
Total noninterest expense includes salaries and employee benefits, premises and equipment expenses, marketing and advertising, data processing, legal, accounting and professional fees, FDIC insurance premiums, and other expenses.
Total noninterest expenses totaled $149.2 million for 2021, as compared to $144.2 million for 2020, a 3% increase. For 2021, the efficiency ratio (ratio of noninterest expenses to total revenue) was 40.88% as compared to 39.25% for 2020. Refer to the “Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” section for additional detail and a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures.
Salaries and employee benefits were $88.4 million for 2021, as compared to $74.4 million for 2020, an increase of 19%. The increase was a result of higher incentive bonus accruals based on Company performance and increased share based compensation. At December 31, 2021, the Company’s full time equivalent staff numbered 507, as compared to 519 at December 31, 2020.
Premises and equipment expenses were $14.9 million for 2021 as compared to $15.7 million for 2020, a decrease of 5%. The reduction in rent expense from the closure of several locations and was partially offset by normal lease increases and acceleration of leasehold amortization; and the third quarter of 2020 included a $1.7 million adjustment which increased rent expense in accordance with ASC 842 on leases.
Marketing and advertising expenses were $4.2 million for 2021 as compared to $4.3 million for 2020, a decrease of 3%. Marketing and advertising expenses remained low in 2021 as events and conferences remained on hold as a result of COVID-19.
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Data processing expenses were $11.7 million for 2021 as compared to $10.7 million in 2020, an increase of 9%, primarily due to increased customer activity and annual increases in license fee renewals.
Legal, accounting and professional fees and expenses were $11.5 million for 2021 as compared to $16.4 million in 2020, a 30% decrease. The decrease was primarily associated with reduced legal fees as the Company incurred significant legal expenses in 2020 due to ongoing governmental investigations and subpoenas and document requests. Refer to Note 21 – Commitments and Contingent Liabilities to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on the Company’s recent proceedings.
FDIC insurance expense was $5.9 million for 2021 as compared to $7.9 million in 2020, a decrease of 26%. The decrease was primarily due to adoption of the large bank assessment methodology.
Other expenses were $12.6 million for 2021 as compared to $14.7 million for 2020, a decrease of 14%. The decrease was associated with reductions in OREO expense, franchise tax, other loan expenses, telephone and travel expense. The major components of cost in this category include broker fees, franchise tax, insurance expenses, and director compensation. Cost control remains a significant operating objective of the Company.
Income Tax Expense
Income tax expense was $61.0 million for 2021 as compared to $43.9 million in 2020, resulting in an effective tax rate of 25.7% and 24.9%, respectively. The increase in rates was due to an increase in state income taxes and nondeductible stock-based compensation awarded to executive officers.
BALANCE SHEET ANALYSIS
Overview
In 2021, asset growth was driven by deposits inflows. The cash from deposit inflows, along with cash from the decline in loans (from payoffs and paydowns) was invested in investment securities. Total assets at December 31, 2021 were $11.8 billion as compared to $11.1 billion at December 31, 2020, a 7% increase. Total loans (excluding loans held for sale) were $7.1 billion at December 31, 2021, as compared to $7.8 billion at December 31, 2020 a 9% decrease. The investment securities portfolio totaled $2.6 billion at December 31, 2021 as compared to $1.2 billion at December 31, 2020, a 128% increase. For the year ended December 31, 2021, total deposits were $10.0 billion as compared to $9.2 billion at December 31, 2020, an increase of 9%.
Total shareholders’ equity at December 31, 2021 was $1.35 billion as compared to $1.24 billion at December 31, 2020, a 9% increase. The increase in shareholders’ equity in 2021 was from net income offset primarily by cash dividends and unrealized losses on the AFS investments included in other comprehensive income (loss).
The total risk based capital ratio was 16.15% at December 31, 2021, as compared to 17.04% at December 31, 2020. In addition, the tangible common equity ratio was 10.60% at December 31, 2021, compared to 10.31% at December 31, 2020. The ratio of common equity to total assets was 11.40% at December 31, 2021 as compared to 11.16% at December 31, 2020. The Company’s capital position remains well in excess of regulatory requirements for well capitalized status. Total risk based capital decreased by 89 basis points as the large increase in the investment portfolio, offset the decline in loans, and increased risk weighted assets.
Investment Securities Available-for-Sale and Short-Term Investments
The tables below and Note 3 to the Consolidated Financial Statements provide additional information regarding the Company’s investment securities categorized as “available-for-sale” or AFS. The Company classifies all its investment securities as AFS. This classification requires that investment securities be recorded at their fair value with any difference between the fair value and amortized cost (the purchase price adjusted by any discount accretion or premium amortization) reported as a component of shareholders’ equity (accumulated other comprehensive income), net of deferred income taxes. At December 31, 2021, the Company had a net unrealized loss in AFS securities of $18.6 million with a deferred tax asset of $5.0 million as compared to a net unrealized gain in AFS securities of $22.0 million at December 31, 2020, with a deferred tax liability of $5.5 million.
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The AFS portfolio is comprised of U.S. agency securities (24% of AFS securities) with an average duration of 3.0 years, seasoned mortgage backed securities that are 100% agency issued (64% of AFS securities) which have an average expected life of 4.26 years with contractual maturities of the underlying mortgages of up to thirty years, municipal bonds (6% of AFS securities) which have an average duration of 6.5 years, and corporate bonds (5% of AFS securities) which have an average duration of 6.3 years. 95 percent of the investment securities which are debt instruments are rated AAA or AA or have the implicit guarantee of the U.S. Treasury.
At December 31, 2021, the investment portfolio was $2.6 billion as compared to $1.2 billion at December 31, 2020, an increase of 128%. The investment portfolio is managed to achieve goals related to liquidity, income, interest rate risk management and to provide collateral for customer repurchase agreements and other borrowing relationships. The increase in the investment portfolio in 2021 was driven by deposit inflows, of which a portion were invested in securities to generate income.
The following table provides information regarding the composition of the investment securities portfolio at the dates indicated. Amounts are reported at estimated fair value. At December 31, 2021, the investment portfolio balances at fair value increased as compared to December 31, 2020, and the composition of portfolio changed. The increase in fair value and the change in composition of the portfolio in 2021 was driven by the decision to put more of the cash balances generated by deposit inflows into higher yielding investments, which were primarily residential mortgage backed securities and U.S. agency securities.
| Years Ended December 31, | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2020 | |||||||||||||
| (dollars in thousands) | Balance | Percent of Total | Balance | Percent of Total | ||||||||||
| U.S. Treasury | $ | 49,458,000 | 1.9 | % | $ | — | — | % | ||||||
| U. S. agency securities | $ | 622,387,000 | 23.7 | % | 181,921 | 15.8 | % | |||||||
| Residential mortgage backed securities | 1,677,673,000 | 64.0 | % | 825,001 | 71.7 | % | ||||||||
| Municipal bonds | 145,431,000 | 5.5 | % | 108,113 | 9.4 | % | ||||||||
| Corporate bonds | 128,459,000 | 4.9 | % | 35,850 | 3.1 | % | ||||||||
| $ | 2,623,407,000 | 100 | % | $ | 1,150,885 | 100 | % |
At December 31, 2021, there were no issuers, other than the U.S. Government and its agencies, whose securities owned by the Company had a book or fair value exceeding 10% of the Company’s shareholders’ equity.
The following table provides information, on an amortized cost basis, regarding the contractual maturity and weighted-average yield of the investment portfolio at December 31, 2021. Expected maturities will differ from contractual maturities because borrowers may have the right to call or prepay obligations with or without call or prepayment penalties. Yields on tax exempt securities have not been calculated on a tax equivalent basis.
| One Year or Less | After One Year Through Five Years | After Five Years Through Ten Years | After Ten Years | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands) | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | Amortized Cost | Weighted Average Yield | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| U.S. Treasury | $ | — | — | % | $ | 49,693 | 0.83 | % | $ | — | — | % | $ | — | — | $ | 49,693 | 0.83 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| U. S. Government agency securities | 425,597 | 1.23 | % | 127,641 | 1.41 | % | 76,035 | 0.89 | % | $ | — | — | 629,273 | 1.23 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Residential mortgage backed securities | 9,401 | 1.37 | % | 1,202,291 | 1.38 | % | 463,263 | 1.51 | % | 17,818 | 1.91 | % | 1,692,773 | 1.42 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Municipal bonds | 4,806 | 2.45 | % | 25,457 | 2.65 | % | 97,945 | 2.28 | % | 13,708 | 2.39 | % | 141,916 | 2.36 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Corporate bonds | 18,924 | 2.31 | % | 54,630 | 3.77 | % | 55,458 | 2.15 | % | — | — | 129,012 | 2.86 | % | |||||||||||||||||||||
| $ | 458,728 | 1.29 | % | $ | 1,459,712 | 1.48 | % | $ | 692,701 | 1.60 | % | $ | 31,526 | 2.12 | % | $ | 2,642,667 | 1.48 | % |
Federal funds sold were $20.4 million at December 31, 2021 as compared to $28.2 million at December 31, 2020. These funds represent excess daily liquidity which is invested on an unsecured basis with well capitalized banks, in amounts generally limited both in the aggregate and to any one bank.
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Interest bearing deposits with banks and other short-term investments were $1.68 billion at December 31, 2021 as compared to $1.75 billion at December 31, 2020. These short term investments represent liquid funds held at the Federal Reserve to meet future loan demand, to fund future increases in investment securities and to meet other general liquidity needs of the Company. The Bank no longer holds any time deposits at December 31, 2021 or December 31, 2020.
Loan Portfolio
In its lending activities, the Company seeks to develop and expand relationships with clients whose businesses and individual banking needs will grow with the Bank. Superior customer service, local decision making, and accelerated turnaround time from application to closing have been significant factors in growing the loan portfolio, and meeting the lending needs in the markets served, while maintaining sound asset quality.
Loans declined over the past year as loans outstanding were $7.1 billion at December 31, 2021, as compared to $7.8 billion at December 31, 2020, a decrease of $695 million or 9% .
Loan production in 2021 was predominantly in the income producing - commercial real estate and owner occupied – commercial real estate loan categories, while construction loans have been de-emphasized. That said, the Company continues to be active as a construction lender and we expect to continue to see construction commitments funded up over time. Despite an increased level of in-market competition for business and a decline in net loan growth for the period ended 2021 over 2020, the Bank continued to experience organic gross loan production, having originated more than $1 billion in new CRE loan commitments during 2021. This production was offset by the continued successful completion of projects and subsequent paydowns. Notwithstanding increased supply of units, multi-family commercial real estate leasing in the Bank’s market area has held up well, particularly for well-located close-in projects. While as a general comment there has been softening in the office leasing market, in certain well-located pockets and submarkets, the sector has evidenced some resilience. Overall, commercial real estate values have generally held up well, but we continue to be cautious of the cap rates at which some assets are trading and we are being careful with valuations as a result.
"Owner occupied-commercial real estate" and "construction–C&I (owner occupied)" loans represent 18% of the loan portfolio. The Bank has a large portion of its loan portfolio related to real estate, with 61% consisting of commercial real estate and real estate construction loans. When "owner occupied commercial real estate" and "construction–C&I (owner occupied)" are excluded, the percentage of total loans represented by commercial real estate decreases to 60%. Real estate also serves as collateral for loans made for other purposes, resulting in 85% of loans being secured or partially secured by real estate.
The following table shows the trends in the composition of the loan portfolio over the past three years.
| Years Ended December 31, | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||
| (dollars in thousands) | Amount | % | Amount | % | Amount | % | |||||||||||||||
| Commercial | $ | 1,354,317 | 19 | % | $ | 1,437,433 | 19 | % | $ | 1,545,906 | 20 | % | |||||||||
| PPP loans | 51,105 | 1 | % | 454,771 | 6 | % | — | — | % | ||||||||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | 3,385,298 | 48 | % | 3,687,000 | 47 | % | 3,702,747 | 50 | % | ||||||||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 1,087,776 | 15 | % | 997,694 | 13 | % | 985,409 | 13 | % | ||||||||||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | 73,966 | 1 | % | 76,592 | 1 | % | 104,221 | 1 | % | ||||||||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | 896,319 | 13 | % | 873,261 | 11 | % | 1,035,754 | 14 | % | ||||||||||||
| Construction - C&I (owner occupied) | 159,579 | 2 | % | 158,905 | 2 | % | 89,490 | 1 | % | ||||||||||||
| Home equity | 55,811 | 1 | % | 73,167 | 1 | % | 80,061 | 1 | % | ||||||||||||
| Other consumer | 1,427 | — | % | 1,389 | — | % | 2,160 | — | |||||||||||||
| Total loans | 7,065,598 | 100 | % | 7,760,212 | 100 | % | 7,545,748 | 100 | % | ||||||||||||
| Less: Allowance for credit losses | (74,965) | (109,579) | (73,658) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Net loans | $ | 6,990,633 | $ | 7,650,633 | $ | 7,472,090 |
As noted above, a significant portion of the loan portfolio consists of commercial, construction and commercial real estate loans, primarily made in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and secured by real estate or other collateral in that market. Although these loans are made to a diversified pool of unrelated borrowers across numerous businesses, adverse developments in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan real estate market could have an adverse impact on this portfolio of loans and the Company’s income and financial position. While our basic market area is the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, the
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Bank has made loans outside that market area where the applicant is an existing customer and the nature and quality of such loans was consistent with the Bank’s lending policies. At present, the Company believes that commercial real estate values are stable to improving in those sub-markets of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area in which the Company has significant real estate exposure.
The federal banking regulators have issued guidance for those institutions which are deemed to have concentrations in commercial real estate lending. Pursuant to the supervisory criteria contained in the guidance for identifying institutions with a potential commercial real estate concentration risk, institutions which have (1) total reported loans for construction, land development, and other land acquisitions which represent 100% or more of an institution’s total risk-based capital; or (2) total commercial real estate loans representing 300% or more of the institution’s total risk-based capital and the institution’s commercial real estate loan portfolio has increased 50% or more during the prior 36 months are identified as having potential commercial real estate concentration risk. Institutions which are deemed to have concentrations in commercial real estate lending are expected to employ heightened levels of risk management with respect to their commercial real estate portfolios, and may be required to hold higher levels of capital. The Company, like many community banks, has a concentration in commercial real estate loans, and the Company has experienced growth in its commercial real estate portfolio in recent years. As of December 31, 2021, non-owner-occupied commercial real estate loans (including construction, land and land development loans) represent 320% of consolidated risk based capital; however, growth in that segment over the past 36 months at 4% does not exceed the 50% threshold laid out in the regulatory guidance. Construction, land and land development loans represent 110% of consolidated risk based capital. Management has extensive experience in commercial real estate lending, and has implemented and continues to maintain heightened risk management procedures, and strong underwriting criteria with respect to its commercial real estate portfolio. Loan monitoring practices include but are not limited to periodic stress testing analysis to evaluate changes to cash flows, owing to interest rate increases and declines in net operating income. Nevertheless, we may be required to maintain higher levels of capital as a result of our commercial real estate concentrations, which could require us to obtain additional capital, and may adversely affect shareholder returns. The Company has an extensive Capital Policy and Capital Plan, which includes pro-forma projections including stress testing within which the Board of Directors has established internal minimum targets for regulatory capital ratios that are in excess of well capitalized ratios.
As of December 31, 2021, loans to the Accommodation and Food Service industry represent 8.3% of the loan portfolio compared to 9.9% as of December 31, 2020. At December 31, 2021, the Company had no concentrations of loans in any one industry exceeding 10% of its total loan portfolio. An industry for this purpose is defined as a group of businesses that are engaged in similar activities and have similar economic characteristics that would cause their ability to meet contractual obligations to be similarly affected by changes in economic or other conditions.
Certain directors and executive officers have had loan transactions with the Company. Such loans were made in the ordinary course of the Company’s lending business, were made on substantially the same terms, including interest rates and collateral, as those prevailing at the time for comparable loans with third parties; and, in the opinion of management, did not involve more than the normal risk of collectability or present other unfavorable features. Refer to Note 4 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further detail regarding related party loans.
Loan Portfolio Exposures - COVID-19:
Industry areas of potential concern within the Loan Portfolio are presented below as of December 31, 2021. The Commercial Real Estate exposure is collateral-based and shows exposures on loans secured by tenant type
.
| Industry | Principal Balance (in millions) | % of Loan Portfolio | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accommodation & Food Services (1) | $ | 584 | (1) | 8.3 | % | |||
| Retail Trade (2) | 75 | (2) | 1.1 | % | ||||
| Commercial Real Estate exposure (not included above): | ||||||||
| Restaurant | 32 | 0.5 | % | |||||
| Hotel | 85 | 1.2 | % | |||||
| Retail | 359 | 5.1 | % | |||||
| Total | $ | 1,135 | 16.2 | % |
(1) Includes $22.2 million of PPP loans.
(2) Includes $36 thousand of PPP loans.
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The Bank continues to be proactive in regard to exposures to the Accommodation and Food Service industry and Retail Trade. Accommodation and Food Service exposure represents 8.3% of the Bank’s loan portfolio as of December 31, 2021 and Retail Trade exposure represents 1.1% of the Bank’s loan portfolio. The Bank is working with CRE borrowers and monitoring rent collections as part of our portfolio management oversight.
Loan Maturity
The following table sets forth the time to contractual maturity of the loan portfolio as of December 31, 2021.
| Due In | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands) | Total | One Year or Less | Over One to Five Years | Over Five to Ten Years | Over Ten Years | ||||||||||||||
| Commercial | $ | 1,354,317 | $ | 368,940 | $ | 796,850 | $ | 172,179 | $ | 16,348 | |||||||||
| PPP loans | 51,105 | 17,868 | 33,237 | — | — | ||||||||||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | 3,385,298 | 1,065,033 | 1,862,286 | 457,979 | — | ||||||||||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 1,087,776 | 80,361 | 371,843 | 484,377 | 151,195 | ||||||||||||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | 73,966 | 15,429 | 43,373 | 2,939 | 12,225 | ||||||||||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | 896,319 | 445,848 | 426,009 | 14,519 | 9,943 | ||||||||||||||
| Construction - C&I (owner occupied) | 159,579 | 16,919 | 58,015 | 56,334 | 28,311 | ||||||||||||||
| Home equity | 55,811 | 4,745 | 8,707 | 939 | 41,420 | ||||||||||||||
| Other consumer | 1,427 | 885 | — | — | 542 | ||||||||||||||
| Total loans | $ | 7,065,598 | $ | 2,016,028 | $ | 3,600,320 | $ | 1,189,266 | $ | 259,984 | |||||||||
| Loans with: | |||||||||||||||||||
| Predetermined fixed interest rate | $ | 3,053,033 | $ | 547,539 | $ | 1,696,538 | $ | 692,088 | $ | 116,868 | |||||||||
| Floating or Adjustable interest rate | 4,012,565 | 1,468,489 | 1,903,782 | 497,178 | 143,116 | ||||||||||||||
| Total loans | $ | 7,065,598 | $ | 2,016,028 | $ | 3,600,320 | $ | 1,189,266 | $ | 259,984 |
Loans are shown in the period based on final contractual maturity. Demand loans, having no contractual maturity, and overdrafts, are reported as due in one year or less.
Allowance for Credit Losses
The provision for credit losses represents the amount of expense charged to current earnings to fund the ACL. The amount of the ACL is based on many factors which reflect management’s assessment of the risk in the loan portfolio. Those factors include economic conditions and trends, the value and adequacy of collateral, volume and mix of the portfolio, performance of the portfolio, and internal loan processes of the Company and Bank.
Management has developed a comprehensive analytical process to monitor the adequacy of the ACL. This process and guidelines were developed utilizing, among other factors, the guidance from federal banking regulatory agencies. During 2021, a reversal of $20.8 million was made to the provision for credit losses and net charge-offs were $13.3 million. A full discussion of the accounting for ACL is contained in Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements and activity in the ACL is contained in Note 4 to the Consolidated Financial Statements. Also, please refer to the discussion under the caption “Critical Accounting Policies” within Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operation for further discussion of the methodology which management employs to maintain an adequate ACL, as well as the discussion under the caption “Provision for Credit Losses.”
The ACL represented 1.06% of total loans at December 31, 2021 as compared to 1.41% at December 31, 2020. At December 31, 2021, the allowance represented 257% of nonperforming loans as compared to 180% at December 31, 2020. The decrease in the ratio of the allowance for loan losses to total loans was due to the provision reversal of $20.8 million and net charge offs of $13.3 million, which had a greater impact on the ratio than the decline in loans.The increase in the coverage ratio is due to the improvement in asset quality, which also contributed to the decision to reverse provisions to the ACL.
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As part of its comprehensive loan review process, the Bank’s Board of Directors, Directors’ Loan Committee and Credit Review Committee carefully evaluate loans which are past due 30 days or more. The Committees make a thorough assessment of the conditions and circumstances surrounding delinquent and potential problem loans. The Bank’s loan policy requires that loans be placed on nonaccrual if they are 90 days past due, unless they are well secured and in the process of collection. The Credit Administration department specifically analyzes the status of development and construction projects, including sales activities and utilization of interest reserves in order to carefully and prudently assess potential increased levels of risk which may require additional reserves.
At December 31, 2021, the Company had $29.2 million of loans classified as nonperforming, and $88.6 million of additional loans rated substandard or worse, as compared to $60.9 million of nonperforming loans and $91.2 million of additional loans rated substandard or worse at December 31, 2020. Please refer to Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements under the caption “Loans” for a discussion of the Company’s policy regarding impairment of loans. Please refer to the “Nonperforming Assets” section for a discussion of problem and potential problem assets.
The Company has taken a conservative posture with respect to risk rating its loan portfolio. Based upon their status as potential problem loans, these loans receive heightened scrutiny and ongoing intensive risk management. Additionally, the Company's loan loss allowance methodology incorporates increased reserve factors for certain loans considered potential problem loans as compared to the general portfolio. See the “Allowance for Credit Losses” section for a description of the allowance methodology.
As the loan portfolio and ACL review processes continue to evolve, and with the adoption of CECL, there may be changes to elements of the allowance and this may have an effect on the overall level of the allowance maintained. Historically, the Bank has enjoyed a high quality loan portfolio with relatively low levels of net charge-offs and low delinquency rates. In 2021, the Company experienced a reduced level of net charge-offs as a percentage of average loans compared to 2020 (0.18% as compared to 0.26%). The maintenance of a high quality portfolio will continue to be a high priority for both management and the Board of Directors.
Bank management, being aware of the loan growth experienced by the Bank, is intent on maintaining strong portfolio management and a strong risk rating process. The Bank provides analysis of credit requests and the management of problem credits. The Bank has developed and implemented analytical procedures for evaluating credit requests, has refined the Company’s risk rating system, and has adopted enhanced monitoring of the loan portfolio (in particular the construction loan portfolio) and the adequacy of the ACL, including stress test analyses. Additionally, fair value assessments of loans acquired is made as part of analytical procedures. The loan portfolio analysis process is ongoing and proactive in order to maintain a portfolio of quality credits and to quickly identify any weaknesses before they become more severe.
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The following table sets forth activity in the allowance for credit losses - for the past three years.
| Years Ended December 31, | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands) | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | ||||||
| Balance at beginning of year | $109,579 | $ | 73,658 | $ | 69,944 | ||||
| Impact of adopting CECL | — | 10,614 | — | ||||||
| Charge-offs: | |||||||||
| Commercial | 8,788 | 12,082 | 4,868 | ||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | — | 4,300 | 1,847 | ||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 5,445 | 20 | — | ||||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | — | 815 | — | ||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | 206 | 2,947 | 3,496 | ||||||
| Home equity | — | 92 | — | ||||||
| Other consumer | 1 | 3 | 8 | ||||||
| Total charge-offs | 14,440 | 20,259 | 10,219 | ||||||
| Recoveries: | |||||||||
| Commercial | 486 | 130 | 405 | ||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | — | — | 26 | ||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 97 | — | 3 | ||||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | — | — | 3 | ||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | 499 | 4 | 354 | ||||||
| Home equity | — | — | — | ||||||
| Other consumer | 18 | 28 | 51 | ||||||
| Total recoveries | 1,100 | 162 | 842 | ||||||
| Net charge-offs | 13,340 | 20,097 | 9,377 | ||||||
| Provision for Credit Losses- Loans | (21,274) | 45,404 | 13,091 | ||||||
| Balance at end of year | $74,965 | $ | 109,579 | $ | 73,658 | ||||
| Ratio of allowance for credit losses to total loans outstanding at year end | 1.06 | % | 1.41 | % | 0.98 | % | |||
| Ratio of net charge-offs during the year to average loans outstanding during the year | 0.18 | % | 0.26 | % | 0.13 | % |
The following table presents the allocation of the ACL by loan category and the percent of allowance in each category. The allocation of the allowance at December 31, 2021 includes specific reserves of $7.0 million against individually assessed loans of $39.1 million as compared to specific reserves of $15.4 million against individually assessed of $71.2 million at December 31, 2020. The allocation of the allowance to each category is not necessarily indicative of future losses or charge-offs and does not restrict the usage of the allowance for any specific loan or category.
| Years Ended December 31, | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||
| (dollars in thousands) | Amount | ACL % Total | Loans % Total | Amount | ACL % Total | Loans % Total | ||||||||||||||
| Commercial | $ | 14,475 | 19 | % | 20 | % | $ | 26,569 | 24 | % | 24 | % | ||||||||
| Income Producing - Commercial Real Estate | 38,287 | 51 | % | 48 | % | 55,385 | 50 | % | 48 | % | ||||||||||
| Owner Occupied - Commercial Real Estate | 12,146 | 16 | % | 15 | % | 14,000 | 13 | % | 13 | % | ||||||||||
| Real Estate Mortgage - Residential | 449 | 1 | % | 1 | % | 1,020 | 1 | % | 1 | % | ||||||||||
| Construction - Commercial and Residential | 9,099 | 12 | % | 15 | % | 11,529 | 11 | % | 13 | % | ||||||||||
| Home Equity | 474 | 1 | % | 1 | % | 1,039 | 1 | % | 1 | % | ||||||||||
| Other Consumer | 35 | — | % | — | % | 37 | — | % | — | % | ||||||||||
| Total | $ | 74,965 | 100 | % | 100 | % | $ | 109,579 | 100 | % | 100 | % |
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Nonperforming Assets
As shown in the table below, the Company’s level of nonperforming assets, which is comprised of loans delinquent 90 days or more, nonaccrual loans, which includes the nonperforming portion of troubled debt restructurings ("TDR"), and other real estate owned ("OREO"), totaled $30.8 million at December 31, 2021, representing 0.26% of total assets, as compared to $65.9 million at December 31, 2020, representing 0.59% of total assets. The Company had no accruing loans 90 days or more past due at December 31, 2021 or December 31, 2020. Management remains attentive to early signs of deterioration in borrowers’ financial conditions and to taking the appropriate action to mitigate risk. Furthermore, the Company is diligent in placing loans on nonaccrual status and believes, based on its loan portfolio risk analysis, that its ACL at 1.06% of total loans at December 31, 2021, is adequate to absorb expected credit losses.
Total nonperforming loans amounted to $29.2 million at December 31, 2021, representing 0.41% of total loans, compared to $60.9 million at December 31, 2020, representing 0.79% of total loans. The decline in nonperforming loans was due to payoffs, note sales, charge offs and loans returning to accrual status after a period of sustained performance which offset new nonperforming loans. The majority of nonperforming loans are believed to be adequately secured by real estate.
The CECL standard allows for institutions to evaluate individual loans in the event that the asset does not share similar risk characteristics with its original segmentation. This can occur due to credit deterioration, increased collateral dependency or other factors leading to impairment. In particular, the Company individually evaluates loans on nonaccrual and those identified as TDRs, though it may individually evaluate other loans or groups of loans as well if it determines they no longer share similar risk with their assigned segment. Reserves on individually assessed loans are determined by one of two methods: the fair value of collateral or the discounted cash flow. Fair value of collateral is used for loans determined to be collateral dependent, and the fair value represents the net realizable value of the collateral, adjusted for sales costs, commissions, senior liens, etc. Discounted cash flow is used on loans that are not collateral dependent where structural concessions have been made and continuing payments are expected. The continuing payments are discounted over the expected life at the loan’s original contract rate and include adjustments for risk of default.
Nonperforming assets include loans that the Company considers to be individually assessed. Individually assessed loans are defined as those as to which we believe it is probable that we will not collect all amounts due according to the contractual terms of the loan agreement, as well as those loans whose terms have been modified in a TDR that has not shown a period of performance as required under applicable accounting standards. Loans that do not share risk characteristics are evaluated on an individual basis. For collateral dependent financial assets where the Company has determined that foreclosure of the collateral is probable, or where the borrower is experiencing financial difficulty and the Company expects repayment of the financial asset to be provided substantially through the sale of the collateral, the ACL is measured based on the difference between the fair value of the collateral and the amortized cost basis of the asset as of the measurement date. When repayment is expected to be from the operation of the collateral, expected credit losses are calculated as the amount by which the amortized cost basis of the financial asset exceeds the NPV from the operation of the collateral. When repayment is expected to be from the sale of the collateral, expected credit losses are calculated as the amount by which the amortized cost basis of the financial asset exceeds the fair value of the underlying collateral less estimated cost to sell. The ACL may be zero if the fair value of the collateral at the measurement date exceeds the amortized cost basis of the financial asset. Generally, all appraisals associated with individually assessed loans are updated on a not less than annual basis.
Loans are considered to have been modified in a TDR when, due to a borrower's financial difficulties, the Company makes unilateral concessions to the borrower that it would not otherwise consider. Concessions could include interest rate reductions, principal or interest forgiveness, forbearance, and other actions intended to minimize economic loss and to avoid foreclosure or repossession of collateral. Alternatively, management, from time-to-time and in the ordinary course of business, implements renewals, modifications, extensions, and/or changes in terms of loans to borrowers who have the ability to repay on reasonable market-based terms, as circumstances may warrant. Such modifications are not considered to be TDRs as the accommodation of a borrower's request does not rise to the level of a concession if the modified transaction is at market rates and terms and/or the borrower is not experiencing financial difficulty. For example: (1) adverse weather conditions may create a short term cash flow issue for an otherwise profitable retail business which suggests a temporary interest only period on an amortizing loan; (2) there may be delays in absorption on a real estate project which reasonably suggests extension of the loan maturity at market terms; or (3) there may be maturing loans to borrowers with demonstrated repayment ability who are not in a position at the time of maturity to obtain alternate long-term financing.
The most common change in terms provided by the Company is an extension of an interest only term. The determination of whether a restructured loan is a TDR requires consideration of all of the facts and circumstances surrounding the change in terms, and the exercise of prudent business judgment. The Company had 7 TDRs at December 31, 2021, totaling
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approximately $16.5 million, as compared to 10 TDRs totaling approximately $19.2 million at December 31, 2020. Refer to Note 4 – Loan Modifications for more detail on TDRs.
Commercial and consumer loans modified in a TDR are closely monitored for delinquency as an early indicator of possible future default. If loans modified in a TDR subsequently default, the Company evaluates the loan for possible further impairment. The allowance may be increased, adjustments may be made in the allocation of the allowance, or partial charge-offs may be taken to further write-down the carrying value of the loan. During 2021, there were no loans modified in a TDR as compared to two loans totaling approximately $572 thousand modified in a TDR during 2020.
Included in nonperforming assets at December 31, 2021 is OREO of $1.6 million, consisting of three foreclosed properties. Included in nonperforming assets at December 31, 2020 was OREO of $5.0 million , consisting of three foreclosed properties. OREO properties are carried at fair value less estimated costs to sell.
It is the Company's policy to generally obtain third party appraisals prior to foreclosure, and to obtain updated third party appraisals on OREO properties generally not less frequently than annually. Generally, the Company would obtain updated appraisals or evaluations where it has reason to believe, based upon market indications (such as comparable sales, legitimate offers below carrying value, broker indications and similar factors), that the current appraisal does not accurately reflect current value. There was one OREO sale in each of 2021 and 2020.
Beginning in the third quarter of 2020, all loans that received a second COVID-19 deferral or payment modification were downgraded to a watch-rating if not already rated as such. This was done to raise the visibility of these loans within the loan portfolio. After these COVID-19 deferred or modified loans demonstrate six months of payments and sustained performance, they may be considered for removal of the classification of a watch-rated loan. Watch-rated loans at December 31, 2021 were $351 million, of which $261 million were loans that received a COVID-19 deferral or payment modification (includes loans that were upgraded to watch-rated).
As of December 31, 2021, there were three loans with COVID-19 deferrals or payment modifications. Two of the loans were hotels and one was an assisted living facility. The aggregate note balance was $67 million. As of December 31, 2020, the aggregate note balance was $72 million.
The following table shows the amounts and relevant ratios of nonperforming assets at the dates indicated:
| (dollars in thousands) | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nonaccrual Loans: | |||||||||||
| Commercial | $ | 8,876 | $ | 15,352 | $ | 14,928 | |||||
| PPP | 1,365 | — | — | ||||||||
| Income producing - commercial real estate | 13,456 | 18,879 | 9,711 | ||||||||
| Owner occupied - commercial real estate | 42 | 23,158 | 6,463 | ||||||||
| Real estate mortgage - residential | 2,010 | 2,932 | 5,631 | ||||||||
| Construction - commercial and residential | 3,093 | 206 | 11,509 | ||||||||
| Construction - C&I (owner occupied) | — | — | — | ||||||||
| Home equity | 366 | 416 | 487 | ||||||||
| Other consumer | — | — | — | ||||||||
| Accrual loans-past due 90 days | — | — | — | ||||||||
| Total nonperforming loans (1)(2) | 29,208 | 60,943 | 48,729 | ||||||||
| Other real estate owned | 1,635 | 4,987 | 1,487 | ||||||||
| Total nonperforming assets | $ | 30,843 | $ | 65,930 | $ | 50,216 | |||||
| Coverage ratio, allowance for credit losses to total nonperforming loans | 256.66 | % | 179.80 | % | 151.16 | % | |||||
| Ratio of nonperforming loans to total loans | 0.41 | % | 0.79 | % | 0.65 | % | |||||
| Ratio of nonperforming assets to total assets | 0.26 | % | 0.59 | % | 0.56 | % |
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(1) At December 31, 2021, nonaccrual loans reported in the table above included one loan totaling $101 thousand and as of December 31, 2020 there were two loans totaling approximately $6.3 million which migrated from performing troubled debt restructuring.
(2) Gross interest income of $1.6 million, $3.7 million and $3.0 million would have been recorded for 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively, if nonaccrual loans shown above had been current and in accordance with their original terms, while interest actually recorded on such loans were $101 thousand $679 thousand and $630 thousand at December 31, 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively. See Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for a description of the Company’s policy for placing loans on nonaccrual status.
Significant variation in the amount of nonperforming loans may occur from period to period because the amount of nonperforming loans depends largely on the condition of a relatively small number of individual credits and borrowers relative to the total loan portfolio.
Other Earning Assets
Residential mortgage loans held for sale amounted to $47.2 million at December 31, 2021 compared to $88.2 million at December 31, 2020. The Company’s general practice is to originate and sell such loans only on a “servicing released” basis in order to enhance noninterest income. See the “Business” section for a description of the Bank’s residential mortgage lending and sales activities.
Bank owned life insurance at December 31, 2021 amounted to $108.8 million as compared to $76.7 million at December 31, 2020, which reflected the $30.0 million in additional policies added during 2021. Refer to Note 19 to Consolidated Financial Statements for further detail.
Intangible Assets
The Company recognizes a servicing asset for the computed value of servicing fees on the sales of multifamily FHA loans, the guaranteed portion of SBA loans, and other loans sold with retained servicing which is in excess of the normal servicing fees. Assumptions related to loan term and amortization are made to arrive at the initial recorded value, which is included in intangible assets, net, on the Consolidated Balance Sheet.
For 2021, excess servicing fees of $909 thousand were recorded and $132 thousand was amortized as a reduction of actual service fees collected, which is a component of other income. At December 31, 2021, the balance of excess servicing fees was $1.6 million. For 2020, excess servicing fees of $667 thousand were recorded and $228 thousand was amortized as a reduction of actual service fees collected, which is a component of other income. At December 31, 2020, the balance of excess servicing fees was $946 thousand.
In connection with the acquisitions of Fidelity in 2008 and Virginia Heritage in 2014, the Company allocated a portion of the purchase price to core deposit intangibles, based upon an independent evaluation, and which is included in intangible assets, on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. The amount of the core deposit intangible relating to the Fidelity and Virginia Heritage acquisitions was fully amortized at December 31, 2020, as a component of other noninterest expense.
In 2008, the Company recorded an unidentified intangible asset (goodwill) incident to the acquisition of Fidelity of $2.2 million. In 2014, the Company recorded an initial amount of unidentified intangible (goodwill) incident to the acquisition of Virginia Heritage of approximately $102 million.
Determining the fair value of a reporting unit under the goodwill impairment test is subjective and often involves the use of significant estimates and assumptions. Estimates of fair value are primarily determined using discounted cash flows, market comparisons and recent transactions. These approaches use significant estimates and assumptions including projected future cash flows, discount rates reflecting the market rate of return, projected growth rates and determination and evaluation of appropriate market comparable factors. Impairment analyses were performed as of December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020 as part of our regularly scheduled annual impairment testing and found no impairment existed. Future events could cause the Company to conclude that goodwill or other intangibles have become impaired, which would result in recording an impairment loss. Any resulting impairment loss could have a material adverse impact on the Company’s financial condition and results of operations.
Refer to Note 7 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for information on the initial and current carrying values as well as additions and amortization.
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Deposits and Other Borrowings
The principal sources of funds for the Bank are core deposits, consisting of demand deposits, money market accounts, NOW accounts, and savings accounts. Additionally, the Bank obtains certificates of deposits from the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The deposit base includes transaction accounts, time and savings accounts and accounts which customers use for cash management and which provide the Bank with a source of fee income and cross-marketing opportunities, as well as an attractive source of lower cost funds. To meet funding needs during periods of high loan demand and seasonal variations in core deposits, the Bank utilizes alternative funding sources such as secured borrowings from the FHLB, federal funds purchased lines of credit from correspondent banks and brokered deposits from regional and national brokerage firms.
For the year ended December 31, 2021, deposits were $10.0 billion as compared to $9.2 billion at December 31, 2020, an increase of 9%. Noninterest bearing deposits increased $468.6 million or 17% to $3.3 billion at December 31, 2021 as compared to $2.8 billion at December 31, 2020, while interest bearing deposits increased by $323.7 million, or 5%. Within interest bearing deposits, money market and savings accounts collectively amounted to $5.2 billion at December 31, 2021, or 52% of total deposits, as compared to $4.6 billion, or 51% of total deposits, at December 31, 2020, an increase of $552.1 million, or 12%.
Average total deposits for the year ended December 31, 2021 were $9.9 billion, as compared to $8.5 billion for the same period in 2020, an 17% increase.
Time deposits were $729.1 million at December 31, 2021, which was 7% of deposits. This is down from $977.8 million at December 31, 2020, which was 11% of deposits. The decline in time deposits is due to the low rate environment which has reduced depositor interest in time deposits.
| Time deposits $250,000 or more | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (dollars in thousands) | 2021 | 2020 | |||||
| Three months or less | $ | 16,663 | $ | 32,967 | |||
| More than three months through six months | 56,619 | 122,192 | |||||
| More than three months through twelve months | 48,271 | 47,638 | |||||
| Over twelve months | 30,907 | 28,280 | |||||
| Total | $ | 152,460 | $ | 231,077 |
Maturities of time deposits with balances of $250 thousand or more, which represents 7% and 11% of total deposits as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. See Note 11 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information regarding the maturities of time deposits and the Average Balances Table in the “Net Interest Income and Net Interest Margin” section for the average rates paid on interest-bearing deposits. Time deposits of $250 thousand or more can be more volatile and more expensive than time deposits of less than $250 thousand. However, because the Bank focuses on relationship banking, and its marketplace demographics are favorable, its historical experience has been that large time deposits have not been more volatile or significantly more expensive than smaller denomination certificates.
From time to time, when appropriate in order to fund strong loan demand, the Bank accepts brokered time deposits, generally in denominations of less than $250 thousand, from a regional brokerage firm, and other national brokerage networks, including IntraFi. Additionally, the Bank participates in the CDARS and the ICS products, which provides for reciprocal (“two-way”) transactions among banks facilitated by IntraFi for the purpose of maximizing FDIC insurance. The total of reciprocal deposits at December 31, 2021 was $701.5 million (7% of total deposits) as compared to $790.0 million at December 31, 2020 (9% of total deposits). These sources are believed by the Company to represent a reliable and cost efficient alternative funding source for the Bank. The Bank also is able to obtain one way CDARS deposits and participates in IntraFi’s Insured Network Deposit, (“IND”). The Bank had $1.7 billion and $1.3 billion of “IND” brokered deposits as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. However, to the extent that the condition or reputation of the Company or Bank deteriorates, or to the extent that there are significant changes in market interest rates which the Company and Bank do not elect to match, we may experience an outflow of brokered deposits. In that event we would be required to obtain alternate sources for funding.
At December 31, 2021, total deposits included $2.6 billion of brokered deposits (excluding the CDARS and ICS two-way), which represented 27% of total deposits. At December 31, 2020, total brokered deposits (excluding the CDARS and ICS two-way) were $2.4 billion, or 26% of total deposits.
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At December 31, 2021, the Company had $3.3 billion in noninterest bearing demand deposits, representing 33% of total deposits. This compared to $2.8 billion of noninterest bearing demand deposits at December 31, 2020 or 31% of total deposits. The Bank also offers business NOW accounts and business savings accounts to accommodate those customers who may have excess short term cash to deploy in interest earning assets.
As an enhancement to the basic noninterest bearing demand deposit account, the Company offers a sweep account, or “customer repurchase agreement,” allowing qualifying businesses to earn interest on short-term excess funds, which are not suited for either a certificate of deposit or a money market account. The balances in these accounts were $23.9 million at December 31, 2021 compared to $26.7 million at December 31, 2020. Customer repurchase agreements are not deposits and are not insured by the FDIC, but are collateralized by U.S. agency securities and or U.S. agency backed mortgage backed securities. These accounts are particularly suitable to businesses with significant fluctuation in the levels of cash flows. Attorney and title company escrow accounts are examples of accounts which can benefit from this product, as are customers who may require collateral for deposits in excess of FDIC insurance limits but do not qualify for other pledging arrangements. This program requires the Company to maintain a sufficient investment securities level to accommodate the fluctuations in balances which may occur in these accounts.
The Company had no outstanding balances under its federal funds lines of credit provided by correspondent banks (which are unsecured) at December 31, 2021 and 2020. At December 31, 2021, the Company had $300.0 million of FHLB advances borrowed as part of the overall asset liability strategy. The Company had $300.0 million FHLB advances outstanding as of December 31, 2020. Outstanding FHLB advances are secured by collateral consisting of a blanket lien on qualifying loans in the Bank’s commercial mortgage, residential mortgage and home equity loan portfolios.
Long-term borrowings outstanding at December 31, 2021 consisted of the Company’s August 5, 2014 issuance of $70.0 million of subordinated notes, due September 1, 2024. Long term borrowings at December 31, 2020 included the subordinated notes due September 1, 2024 and the Company’s July 26, 2016 issuance of $150.0 million of subordinated notes, due August 1, 2026. For additional information on the Company’s subordinated notes, please refer to Note 13 to the Consolidated Financial Statements, as well as the “Capital Resources and Adequacy” section below. Additionally, long-term borrowings consisted of FHLB advances with maturities over one year, with balances of $0 at December 31, 2021 and $50 million at December 31, 2020.
CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS
The Company has various financial obligations, including contractual obligations and commitments that may require future cash payments. Except for its loan commitments, as shown in Note 21 to the Consolidated Financial Statements. The following table shows details on these fixed and determinable obligations as of December 31, 2021 in the time period indicated.
| (dollars in thousands) | Within One Year | One to Three Years | Three to Five Years | Over Five Years | Total | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deposits without a stated maturity (1) | $ | 9,252,458 | $ | — | $ | — | $ | — | $ | 9,252,458 | |||||||||
| Time deposits (1) | 478,056 | 227,188 | 20,708 | 3,130 | 729,082 | ||||||||||||||
| Borrowed funds (2) | 323,918 | 69,670 | — | — | 393,588 | ||||||||||||||
| Operating lease obligations | 7,231 | 13,330 | 9,517 | 8,407 | 38,485 | ||||||||||||||
| Outside data processing (3) | 4,325 | 5,225 | — | — | 9,550 | ||||||||||||||
| George Mason sponsorship (4) | 675 | 1,350 | 1,388 | 6,075 | 9,488 | ||||||||||||||
| D.C. United (5) | 844 | — | — | — | 844 | ||||||||||||||
| LIHTC investments (6) | 7,973 | 7,023 | 469 | 1,039 | 16,504 | ||||||||||||||
| Other (7) | $ | — | $ | 2,000 | $ | — | $ | — | 2,000 | ||||||||||
| Total | $ | 10,075,480 | $ | 325,786 | $ | 32,082 | $ | 18,651 | $ | 10,451,999 |
(1)Excludes accrued interest payable at December 31, 2021.
(2)Borrowed funds include customer repurchase agreements, and other short-term and long-term borrowings.
(3)The Bank has outstanding obligations under its current core data processing contract that expire in June 2024 and one other vendor arrangement that relates to network infrastructure and data center services that expires in December 2022.
(4)The Bank has the option of terminating the George Mason agreement at the end of contract years 10 and 15 (that is, effective June 30, 2025 or June 30, 2030). Should the Bank elect to exercise its right to terminate the George Mason contract, contractual obligations would decrease $3.5 million and $3.6 million for the first option period (years 11-15) and the second option period (16-20), respectively.
(5)Marketing sponsorship agreement with D.C. United.
(6)Low Income Housing Tax Credits (“LIHTC”) expected payments for unfunded affordable housing commitments.
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(7)As disclosed in the 8-K dated January 25, 2021, pursuant to the executed stipulation of settlement of the demand litigation, the Company has agreed to invest an additional $2 million incremental spend above 2020 levels by the end of 2023 to enhance its corporate governance, and risk and compliance controls and infrastructure.
The Company is party to financial instruments with off-balance-sheet risk in the normal course of business to meet the financing needs of its customers and to reduce its own exposure to fluctuations in interest rates. These financial instruments include commitments to extend credit and standby letters of credit. They involve, to varying degrees, elements of credit risk in excess of the amount recognized in the balance sheets. The contract or notional amounts of those instruments reflect the extent of involvement the Company has in particular classes of financial instruments.
Various commitments to extend credit are made in the normal course of banking business. Letters of credit are also issued for the benefit of customers. These commitments are subject to loan underwriting standards and geographic boundaries consistent with the Company’s loans outstanding.
Commitments to extend credit are agreements to lend to a customer as long as there is no violation of any condition established in the contract. Commitments generally have fixed expiration dates or other termination clauses and may require payment of a fee. Since some of the commitments are expected to expire without being drawn upon, the total commitment amounts do not necessarily represent future cash requirements.
Loan commitments outstanding and lines and letters of credit at December 31, 2021 and 2020 are as follows:
| (dollars in thousands) | 2021 | 2020 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unfunded loan commitments | $ | 1,819,578 | $ | 2,175,271 | |||
| Unfunded lines of credit | 108,209 | 107,683 | |||||
| Letters of credit | 112,509 | 70,779 | |||||
| Total | $ | 2,040,296 | $ | 2,353,733 |
Included in the unfunded loan commitments are interest rate lock commitments on residential mortgage loans which are short-term in nature. These interest rate lock commitments were $53.3 million as of December 31, 2021 and $367.7 million as of December 31, 2020.
The Company’s exposure to credit loss in the event of nonperformance by the other party to the financial instrument for commitments to extend credit and standby letters of credit is represented by the contractual amount of those instruments. The Company uses the same credit policies in making commitments and conditional obligations as it does for on-balance-sheet instruments. See Note 21 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for a summary list of loan commitments at December 31, 2021 and 2020.
Loan commitments represent agreements to lend to a customer as long as there is no violation of any condition established in the contract and which have been accepted in writing by the borrower. Commitments generally have fixed expiration dates or other termination clauses and may require payment of a fee. Since some of the commitments may expire without being drawn upon, the total commitment amounts do not necessarily represent future cash requirements. The Company evaluates each customer’s creditworthiness on a case-by-case basis. The amount of collateral obtained is based on management’s credit evaluation of the borrower. Collateral obtained varies, and may include certificates of deposit, accounts receivable, inventory, property and equipment, residential and commercial real estate.
Standby letters of credit are conditional commitments issued by the Company which guarantee the performance of a customer to a third party. The credit risk involved in issuing letters of credit is essentially the same as that involved in extending loan facilities to customers. Collateral held varies as specified above and is required in instances which the Company deems necessary. At December 31, 2021, approximately 63% of the dollar amount of standby letters of credit was collateralized.
In connection with deposit guarantees, the Bank collateralizes certain public funds using qualified investment securities.
With the exception of these off-balance sheet arrangements, the Company has no off-balance sheet arrangements that have or are reasonably likely to have a current or future effect on the Company’s financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations, capital expenditures or capital resources, that is material to investors.
LIQUIDITY MANAGEMENT
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Liquidity is a measure of the Company’s and Bank’s ability to meet loan demand and to satisfy depositor withdrawal requirements in an orderly manner. The Bank’s primary sources of liquidity consist of cash and cash balances due from correspondent banks, excess reserves at the Federal Reserve, loan repayments, federal funds sold and other short-term investments, maturities and sales of investment securities, income from operations and new core deposits into the Bank. The Bank’s investment portfolio of debt securities is held in an available-for-sale status which allows for flexibility, subject to holdings held as collateral for customer repurchase agreements and public funds, to generate cash from sales as needed to meet ongoing loan demand. These sources of liquidity are considered primary and are supplemented by the ability of the Company and Bank to borrow funds or issue brokered deposits, which are termed secondary sources of liquidity and which are substantial. Additionally, the Bank can purchase up to $155.0 million in federal funds on an unsecured basis from its correspondents, against which there were no amounts outstanding at December 31, 2021, and can borrow unsecured funds under one-way CDARS and ICS brokered deposits in the amount of $1.8 billion, against which there was $79 thousand outstanding at December 31, 2021. The Bank also has a commitment at December 31, 2021 from IntraFi to place up to $1.8 billion of brokered deposits from its IND program in amounts requested by the Bank, as compared to an actual balance of $1.6 billion at December 31, 2021. At December 31, 2021, the Bank was also eligible to make advances from the FHLB up to $1.1 billion based on collateral at the FHLB, of which there were $300.0 million outstanding as of December 31, 2021. The Bank may enter into repurchase agreements as well as obtain additional borrowing capabilities from the FHLB provided adequate collateral exists to secure these lending relationships. The Bank also has a back-up borrowing facility through the Discount Window at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (“Federal Reserve Bank”). This facility, which amounts to approximately $549.0 million, is collateralized with specific loan assets identified to the Federal Reserve Bank. It is anticipated that, except for periodic testing, this facility would be utilized for contingency funding only.
The loss of deposits, through disintermediation, is one of the greater risks to liquidity. Disintermediation occurs most commonly when rates rise and depositors withdraw deposits seeking higher rates in alternative savings and investment sources than the Bank may offer. The Bank was founded under a philosophy of relationship banking and, therefore, believes that it has less of an exposure to disintermediation and resultant liquidity concerns than do many banks. The Bank makes competitive deposit interest rate comparisons weekly and feels its interest rate offerings are competitive. There is, however, a risk that some deposits would be lost if rates were to increase and the Bank elected not to remain competitive with its deposit rates. Under those conditions, the Bank believes that it is well positioned to use other sources of funds such as FHLB borrowings, brokered deposits, repurchase agreements and correspondent banks’ lines of credit to offset a decline in deposits in the short run. Over the long-term, an adjustment in assets and change in business emphasis could compensate for a potential loss of deposits. The Bank also maintains a marketable investment portfolio to provide flexibility in the event of significant liquidity needs. The ALCO has adopted policy guidelines, which emphasize the importance of core deposits, adequate asset liquidity and a contingency funding plan.
At December 31, 2021, under the Bank’s liquidity formula, it had $7.4 billion of primary and secondary liquidity sources. Management believes the amount is deemed adequate to meet current and projected funding needs.
CAPITAL RESOURCES AND ADEQUACY
The assessment of capital adequacy depends on a number of factors such as asset quality and mix, liquidity, earnings performance, changing competitive conditions and economic forces, stress testing, regulatory measures and policy, as well as the overall level of growth and complexity of the balance sheet. The adequacy of the Company’s current and future capital needs is monitored by management on an ongoing basis. Management seeks to maintain a capital structure that will assure an adequate level of capital to support anticipated asset growth and to absorb potential losses.
The federal banking regulators have issued guidance for those institutions, which are deemed to have concentrations in commercial real estate lending. Pursuant to the supervisory criteria contained in the guidance for identifying institutions with a potential commercial real estate concentration risk, institutions which have (1) total reported loans for construction, land development, and other land acquisitions which represent 100% or more of an institution’s total risk-based capital; or (2) total commercial real estate loans representing 300% or more of the institution’s total risk-based capital and the institution’s commercial real estate loan portfolio has increased 50% or more during the prior 36 months are identified as having potential commercial real estate concentration risk. Institutions which are deemed to have concentrations in commercial real estate lending are expected to employ heightened levels of risk management with respect to their commercial real estate portfolios, and may be required to hold higher levels of capital. The Company, like many community banks, has a concentration in commercial real estate loans, and the Company continues to pursue lending opportunities in its commercial real estate portfolio.
Loan monitoring practices include but are not limited to periodic stress testing analysis to evaluate changes to cash flows, owing to interest rate increases and declines in net operating income. Nevertheless, we may be required to maintain higher levels of capital as a result of our commercial real estate concentrations, which could require us to obtain additional
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capital, and may adversely affect shareholder returns. The Company has an extensive Capital Policy and Capital Plan, which includes pro-forma projections including stress testing within which the Board of Directors has established internal policy limits for regulatory capital ratios that are in excess of well capitalized ratios (as defined in the section “Regulation” above).
The Company and the Bank are subject to regulatory capital requirements administered by federal banking agencies. Capital adequacy guidelines and prompt corrective action regulations involve quantitative measures of assets, liabilities, and certain off-balance-sheet items calculated under regulatory accounting practices. Capital amounts and classifications are also subject to qualitative judgments by regulators about components, risk weightings, and other factors and the regulators can lower classifications in certain cases. Failure to meet various capital requirements can initiate regulatory action that could have a direct material effect on the financial statements.
The prompt corrective action regulations provide five categories, including well capitalized, adequately capitalized, undercapitalized, significantly undercapitalized, and critically undercapitalized, although these terms are not used to represent overall financial condition. If a bank is only adequately capitalized, regulatory approval is required to, among other things, accept, renew or roll-over brokered deposits. If a bank is undercapitalized, capital distributions and growth and expansion are limited, and plans for capital restoration are required.
At December 31, 2021, the capital position of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, the Bank, continue to exceed regulatory requirements and well-capitalized guidelines. The primary indicators relied on by bank regulators in measuring the capital position are four ratios as follows: Tier 1 risk-based capital ratio, Total risk-based capital ratio, the Leverage ratio and the CET1 ratio. Tier 1 capital consists of common and qualifying preferred shareholders’ equity less goodwill and other intangibles. Total risk-based capital consists of Tier 1 capital, plus qualifying subordinated debt, and the qualifying portion of the ACL, and for the Company to a limited extent, excess amounts of restricted core capital elements. Risk-based capital ratios are calculated with reference to risk-weighted assets, which are prescribed by regulation. The measure of Tier 1 capital to average assets for the prior quarter is often referred to as the leverage ratio. The CET 1 ratio is the Tier 1 capital ratio but excluding preferred stock.
The Federal Reserve Board and the other federal banking agencies have adopted the Basel III Rules to implement the Basel III capital guidelines for U.S. banks. The capital rules require a CET1 ratio of 4.5% and a capital conservation buffer of 2.5% of risk-weighted assets, effectively resulting in a minimum CET1 ratio of 7.0%; a minimum ratio of Tier 1 capital to risk-weighted assets of 6.0%, or 8.5% with the fully phased in capital conservation buffer; a minimum total capital to risk-weighted assets ratio of 10.5% with the fully phased-in capital conservation buffer; and a minimum leverage ratio of 4.0%. The Basel III Rules also increased risk weights for certain assets and off-balance-sheet exposures. See the “Regulation” section for additional information regarding regulatory capital requirements.
The Company’s capital ratios were all well in excess of guidelines established by the Federal Reserve Board and the Bank’s capital ratios were in excess of those required to be classified as a “well capitalized” institution under the prompt corrective action provisions of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. The Company’s and Bank’s capital ratios at December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020 are shown in Note 22 to the Consolidated Financial Statements.
The ability of the Company to continue to grow is dependent on its earnings and those of the Bank, the ability to obtain additional funds for contribution to the Bank’s capital, through additional borrowings, through the sale of additional common stock or preferred stock, or through the issuance of additional qualifying capital instruments, such as subordinated debt. The capital levels required to be maintained by the Company and Bank may be impacted as a result of the Bank’s concentrations in commercial real estate loans. See further detail at the “Regulation” and “Risk Factors” sections.
IMPACT OF INFLATION AND CHANGING PRICES
The Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes thereto have been prepared in accordance with GAAP in the United States of America, which require the measurement of financial position and operating results in terms of historical dollars without considering the changes in the relative purchasing power of money over time due to inflation. The impact of inflation is reflected in the increased cost of operations. Unlike most industrial companies, nearly all of our assets and liabilities are monetary in nature. As a result, interest rates have a greater impact on our performance than do the effects of general levels of inflation. Interest rates do not necessarily move in the same direction or to the same extent as the price of goods or services.
NEW AUTHORITATIVE ACCOUNTING GUIDANCE
Refer to Note 1 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for New Authoritative Accounting Guidance and their expected impact on the Company’s Financial Statements.
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