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| But then we feel well positioned to be able to kind of maintain that 7%-8% over the course of the year |
| The $157 million in the new deposits that we generated through a couple of CD, different CD and money market specials during the quarter were very well received by the customers and our production staff did a really good job of pushing those through |
| Our third quarter was highlighted by balance sheet management, which yielded another quarter of solid capital accretion, strong deposit generation, margin stability, expense management, and continued healthy credit quality trends, all of which put us in position to be able to increase our dividend by $0.02 per share for the quarter, something we've been able to do for five years in a row now |
| I think I think from an operating standpoint, we had a great operating quarter and I think continuing to do that over time will justify stock appreciation as the market normalizes at some point, which I know it seems like it's been a long time and it could potentially be a while, but at some point, banks will be in favor and we feel like we're positioning ourselves to be one of the higher fliers in that market |
| It came in better than we expected and was driven really by number one, expense management, and two lower loan loss expense and continued stable credit trends and slightly lower loan growth, as Jude mentioned |
| We were very pleased with the quarter |
| And this is really functioning better than expected deposit growth during the quarter |
| A stable net interest margin is slightly better than expected loan discount accretion |
| And that's a positive thing for us to be able to demonstrate |
| During the third quarter, we continue to deliver solid fundamental shareholder or unit operating performance, generating a core ROAA of 1.1% by exercising discipline around expenses and maintaining good margin stability, even as we grew organic deposits |
| We are proud of the fact that our loan growth for the quarter was really headlined by a continued loan yield of 8.6% on new and renewed loans for the quarter and that is helping us continue to hold the margin in place |
| As they're recently for the ribbon cutting, and our team is very excited about the opportunities as we expand further into North Texas |
| Spread income also continued to grow and be strong in the performance in which we attributed to the long discount accretion of $2.4 million coming in $500,000 higher than expected and as well as the decision to hold on more balance sheet liquidity that Jude mentioned earlier boosted our net interest income |
| I'm being a little dramatic here, but we take it as a point of pride that the deals that we have done have made us a stronger franchise |
| EPS has increased by 81%, net income by 292%, while core efficiency has improved by 571 basis points |
| Importantly, we show tangible low value per share after adjusting for AOCI, growing by 33%, even while we have made the investments necessary to grow overall asset size by a factor of three over that time period, through acquisitions, team lift outs, and strong organic growth |
| So if that's what we choose to do, I do think that as we gain momentum and as we gain brand recognition, one of the, that's not just among client base, but it's also amongst potential teammates and employees that may be attracted to a bank such as ours |
| One of the reasons that we've had that we've displayed good expense control this past quarter and the quarter before that is that we made some decisions about hiring or putting off hiring until we felt comfortable that the revenue would justify it |
| Still have a good pipeline with good volume |
| We, as I mentioned earlier, we are very proud of the production side of the bank with our continued loan yields coming in on new renewed as average 160 and our deposit gathering that help us maintain our margins |
| So we are pleased about that |
| One I want to particularly point you towards is found on page nine, which speaks to the consistent improvements we've made in various earnings-focused metrics over the past five years |
| First, we've been particularly focused over the past few quarters on managing growth within our capital structure, and I'm pleased to report that our results are again accretive to tangible, excuse me, to TRBC to TCE, and TBVPS, even factoring in the headwinds of additional AOCI |
| So if we didn't expect that and if we didn't have that, we still feel like our loan pipeline is in good shape and our growth would have been up around the 4% or 5% range, maybe at this quarter without that |
| As we continue to work on earnings and grow within those earnings, that gives us more room for growth in loan book |
| As we mentioned earlier, the 14% we experienced this quarter was really good |
| I'll note we have added a couple of new slides to our deck that I think would be worth your focus and enhanced a couple others, particularly around our successful M&A track record, loan repricing opportunities, and composition of our CRD and office portfolios |
| Capital increased nicely during the second quarter as Jude mentioned, TCE to TA up 3 basis points and total risk-based capital up 22 basis points for the quarter |
| As far as the balance sheet, the balance sheet tends to remain healthy during the quarter and loans that were held for investment grew about 1.7% annualized, a little lower than expected that were but also consistent with our strategy of loan growth and as Jude mentioned we feel like that we'll round out the year at about 7% to 8% in annualized loan growth |
| On the surface, the optics of credit quality appeared mixed but as Jude mentioned, we feel like that our credit quality is stable and improving with those two previously discussed charge offs that we discussed in prior quarter prior to now that we're fully marked and we resolve them during this quarter |
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| We slowed loan growth during the quarter to 1.7% annualized, which reflects some slowing demand and continued selectiveness in our part, as well as unusually high paydowns and payoffs |
| Noninterest-bearing deposits remains a challenge and we will continue to put our efforts into that area as we move forward into 2024 |
| Looking forward into Q4, we expect the margin to remain flat, just like the down, maybe a single basis points due to modest continued liquidity bill and continued funding pressures |
| So, yes, I'll be disappointed if we don't |
| I think one of the things that is worth noting is our loan growth this quarter was really kind of muted by an outsized quarter of payoffs |
| I think we've lost our operator |
| And we will work on refinancing a piece of it and paying down a piece of it so that may negatively impact the margin as we go forward in the quarter |
| The Q3 core net interest margin excluding the loan discount accretion contracted three bps to 3.49 as Jude -- from 3.49 to 3.46, as Jude mentioned earlier |
| We think it's going to -- it's trending down and going to be right there in that space for a while |
| There is some slowdown in demand, but we also have been selected |
| That does impact the margin negatively because of the costs of those funds that come in that are mostly interest-bearing |
| But I think that the biggest part that we usually struggle with forecasting is that it is tax money |
| Core NIM was down three basis points, but that factors in again a $455,000 loan recovery from a previous charge off, and the decision to hold an additional $150 million in excess liquidity at the cost of six basis points to the margin |
| I don't see any reason that the improvements that we've demonstrated this year won't continue into the future |
| And it hasn't been a question of demand just dropping off cliff |
| Now the loan to deposit ratio has gotten down in kind of the mid-90s |
| I apologize if I missed this |
| So we don't expect that to be back up over 100 |
| So, just wanted to make sure we didn't lose sight of that |
| We're in the budgeting process just kind of begun it and probably with the amount of uncertainty that's out there now I think it would be a little bit too early to make any forecast of improvement there |
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