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| We continue to hold excess capital at Axos Financial and Axos Bank even after our opportunistic share repurchases, solid loan growth and continued investments in our business |
| It's only been a few months, but we are seeing good engagement with our new consumer banking application from new and existing customers |
| Broad-based loan growth, coupled with net interest margin expansion, resulted in double-digit net income growth year-over-year than linked quarter annualized |
| Our profitability, liquidity, balance sheet positioning and growth outlook all remain favorable |
| This acquisition provides us with another specialty lending vertical with attractive risk-adjusted returns, particularly in the dealer floor plan line of credit segment |
| Our relationships with leading boat manufacturers and dealers and high net worth retail customers provide tremendous cross-sell opportunities for our consumer and commercial bank |
| And so what would have been, I think, a very nice quarter of asset growth in that AES business ended up being still a net growth, but I would say relatively mediocre in comparison with what I would like to see, but the pipeline is really good, and the activity is great |
| The platform has new features and functionality and a better, more integrated user experience across all consumer lending, deposit and securities products |
| And then it's up to our origination engines, which are pretty good, and they're continuing to grow with our cap call business with our floor plan business, et cetera, to be able to replace those assets |
| We grew net interest margin despite holding excess liquidity for a third consecutive quarter |
| Axos Securities comprised primarily of our custody and clearing businesses had another strong contribution to our fee and net income |
| With our consistently high returns and strong capital position, we continue to believe that buying back our stock at these attractive valuations is a prudent use of excess capital generated by our strong earnings |
| Over time, we believe the ability to leverage our relationships with advisers and broker-dealers to cross-sell Axos' consumer deposits and lending products will be a good source of incremental growth |
| We had another strong quarter of deposit growth, with ending balances increasing by $443 million from June 30, 2023, or 10% annualized |
| Our credit quality remains strong with net annualized charge-offs to average loans of 4 basis points in the three months ended September 30, 2023 |
| With strong liquidity and capital, a de minimis unrealized loss on our small investment securities portfolio and solid growth prospects given the diverse nature of our banking and securities businesses, we are operating from a position of strength relative to our competitors |
| We are confident that our model of strong liquidity and high returns positions us well to generate consistent profitable loan growth |
| Our capital levels remain strong with Tier 1 leverage of 9.9% of the bank and 9.3% at the holding company, both well above our regulatory requirements |
| As we slowly unwind our excess liquidity and grow deposits from lower cost sources such as our commercial and treasury management, Axos Fiduciary Services, Axos advisory services and other sources, we feel confident in our ability to maintain our 4.25% to 4.35% net interest margin guidance for the next few quarters |
| We generated double-digit year-over-year growth in earnings per share, book value per share and ending loan and deposit balances for four consecutive quarters |
| Our returns, credit and margin are best-in-class because we focus on asset-based lending opportunities with the best risk-adjusted returns, and we stress for deals with low leverage and credit enhancements |
| We had strong originations in our real estate and non-real estate lender finance and asset-backed lending groups, including our capital call lines |
| We are well positioned to maintain strong profitability and EPS growth irrespective of the interest rate, regulatory or economic environment |
| We believe that we will be able to grow loans by high single digits to low teens year-over-year and maintain our net interest margin in the range of 4.25% to 4.35% for the next few quarters |
| Broker-dealer fee income increased 36% year-over-year due to higher interest rates and increased client activity |
| Our consolidated bank-only net interest margins were above our guidance of 4.25% to 4.35% despite maintaining a higher level of excess liquidity than we have maintained historically |
| I think conservatively, we ought to be able to do several billion dollars of growth in the remaining several quarters on a net basis, that probably looks more like four or five on a gross basis, which is nice |
| That said, we continue to identify strong credits, and our loan pipeline remained solid at $1.6 billion as of October 20, 2023, consisting of $238 million of single-family residential jumbo mortgage, $20 million of agency gain on sale mortgage, $44.2 million of multifamily and small balance commercial mortgage, $63 million of auto and consumer and $1.28 billion across the commercial platform |
| So I think that's pretty good |
| Single-family mortgages grew net ending loan balances by $95 million despite a tough environment for purchase and refinance activity in the single-family mortgage market |
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| So this is just nothing of any real significance or anything that I'm looking at and saying, wow, this may translate into some significant loss content |
| And frankly, if you look at it, it's a little bit up from the prior quarter, but it's down from a year ago, right? So if you look at NPLs, for example, single-family is down significantly from last year |
| We are also seeing a more pronounced pullback in loan demand as developers and borrowers reassess their return objectives in a higher rate environment and a slowing economy |
| And those TAMs, we're seeing them have net asset losses as advisers break away |
| I mean I do think that I think the office sector is under pressure, but I think fundamentals in multifamily and industrial and lease-up activity in Industrial looks fantastic |
| We expect to maintain some excess liquidity given the uncertain economic, geopolitical and industry environment |
| One multifamily and commercial mortgage with an outstanding principal balance of $5 million became delinquent this quarter |
| Axos' internal risk assessment of the digital asset business concluded that the regulatory treatment for retail accounts was indeterminable, and therefore, cannot meet the bank's client acceptance criteria |
| The only reason I even mentioned it is because there's been some short-seller tweets that have deliberately confused |
| Because the tough part is, unless you're extending loans with absolutely hard lockouts where they can't prepay, you're really taking asymmetrical risk there |
| But if somehow there was a massive demand for deposits, and we weren't able to cut any deposit rates and still grow and rates came down on that short side, we might see a little compression |
| Total commercial real estate loans secured by office properties declined by $96 million linked quarter to $456 million |
| began after Silvergate and Signature Bank failed |
| I was curious, any common themes that you're observing? Is it that lease-ups are going slower than expected? Or is it really driven by higher rates and pressure on DSCR |
| So we weren't doing anything there until after Signature and Silvergate collapsed |
| We don't really see some sort of deterioration on the operating or cash flow side of any significance, really |
| Evidently, there were some transactions related to binance.com that were widely reported to be involved with the various characters and then there was an attempt to link us to binance.com, which was a false statement |
| So there's nothing really that we see that's of any significant set of concerns with respect to any actual loss content |
| And we firmly didn't do that, and their commentary was, well, you're taking risk on the other side in a short-term environment |
| And that's what's kind of keeping growth down right now |
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