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| Malcolm Holland As you can see, Veritex has made significant improvement on our strategy to build its 30-year balance sheet |
| Over one year ago, our team stacked hands to build a stronger balance sheet that could withstand all economic environments |
| Veritex continues to be one of the more profitable banks among its peer group |
| Our pipeline is at record levels, which bodes well for future revenue and Q4 revenue should be meaningfully higher than Q3 |
| Success on the deposit front for Veritex has three components; growing deposits, increasing our client acquisition rate, and increasing net client growth |
| You know -- but I think the timing is -- I thought Q4 90-days ago, I would have thought Q4 was going to be a really strong quarter with the new fiscal year for the Federal government |
| Similarly, our net client growth in the third quarter was up more than 4 times over the levels we experienced in the first half of the year |
| So that's why I tried to say, I think it's going to be meaningfully better than Q3, but not nearly as good as last year's Q4 unless something really pops a negative buzzy passed, but I feel really good about ‘24 |
| So we -- team has done a good job and getting everything placed in the right place, et cetera |
| And so, if you can -- all you got to do is get them in our company and mainly our service levels at the branches are incredibly high as you look at our ratings and all that, they are just incredibly high |
| All of this positive momentum towards a stronger balance sheet takes the work and effort of our entire bank |
| Our surveillance of the portfolio continues to be strong and we're moving risk grades as we see issues arise |
| Moving to slide five, Veritex made meaningful progress improving its liquidity and funding profile over the third quarter |
| We've been able to offset it and grow this quarter |
| The payoffs in the CRE portfolio remain strong |
| Better client selection, digital banking, direct marketing, MSRs, HLAs, family and friends promotions, commercial and community bank focus, et cetera, et cetera |
| It should range between $800 million and $900 million for 2023, a sure sign of strength in the Texas economy |
| Everyone involved is doing quite well |
| I'm pleased to note that our net client acquisition rate in the third quarter was a little more than double what we saw in the first-half of the year |
| I'm happy to say we're making progress candidly much quicker than we planned |
| We've always been a very profitable bank shown by our historical PPNR, ROAA, and efficiency ratios |
| Focusing on the year-to-date results, pre-tax pre-provision operating earnings increased 14% from 2022 to almost $175 million |
| And then the whole funding look -- outlook, which we had some really good vision into is on the second quarter of next year |
| That's double the first quarter and second quarter -- and so combined |
| It's been a record 12-months for this business |
| Internally, we call what we accomplished in the third quarter, Phase 1, Phase 2 is a continued effort to strengthen the balance sheet in a whole bunch of areas, the ones I've mentioned and a few others |
| I've been encouraged by the level of payoffs that have occurred this year in the amount of $932 million with $645 million of that in the CRE book |
| You know, if we're going to continue to make progress as Malcolm talked about on the overall strength of the balance sheet, we've got to put more liquidity into the investment portfolio |
| Finally, we've grown CET1 by 102 basis points over the last four quarters to 10.11% |
| I think it's going to be in line, you know, with what we're seeing, and -- you know, we would love to see it be a little bit better -- pipelines are better today versus where they were going into ‘24 |
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| Terry will provide some details shortly, but the main three drivers of our slight earnings decline were NIM pressure, continued lack of government loan fees, and increase in operating expenses |
| The company is in the defense space in government sector, and the company suffered from supply chain issues and inflation impact that significantly lowered the company's financial performance |
| Our pipelines are off over 80% and candidly the demand from our clients has been muted |
| Given the potential government shutdown and funding the government with continuing resolutions make it highly unlikely that Q4 will be as strong as Q4 ’22 |
| We started slowing loan growth |
| So overall, I think, I would tell you it's low-to-single -- low-to-middle-digits on growth for next year, but the paying on payoffs that could be a challenge |
| With all the great progress on the balance sheet, we understand that in these cycles, earnings will be under pressure |
| There has been some confusion and frustration |
| Net interest income decreased by $1.5 million to just under $100 million in Q3 |
| The net interest margin decreased 5 basis points from Q2 to 3.46% |
| You know, so I think it's -- you know, I think the mix, look, for two quarters, we fell down |
| Our CRE portfolio continues to decline despite continued ADC fundings of approximately $400 million a quarter |
| Given all the uncertainty facing the U.S |
| Thrive's production volume increased 1% to $564 million, while as gain on sale margin declined by 43 basis points to 257 basis points |
| Non-interest income decreased by $4 million to $9.7 million |
| Terry Earley The progress of change will probably slow, you would not expect to see Q4 |
| To maintain volume, Thrive had to sacrifice rate and therefore the gain on sale margin |
| I would see, so just as a function of the property type, you're going to see that out of state number come down fairly drastically with almost $0.5 billion in that 800 in warehouse and retail multi -- actually for that much closer to 600 |
| Looking forward into 2024, we forecast ADC fundings to decline by 75%, as compared to 2023 |
| One thing I would note, you know, the rate of migration and then -- as we -- as we analyze pretty granularly our deposit base, the level of migration for the last 250 basis points of move has really slowed down, meaning take out new customers |
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