ENB Financial Corp - Quarter Report: 2008 June (Form 10-Q)
UNITED
STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 20549
FORM
10-Q
(Mark
One)
[ X ] QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT
TO SECTION 13 OR 15 (d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF
1934
For the
quarterly period ended June
30, 2008
OR
[ ] TRANSITION REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15 (d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF
1934
For the
transition period from _________________________________________ to
_________________________________________
ENB Financial
Corp
(Exact
name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Pennsylvania
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000-53297
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51-0661129
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(State
or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)
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(Commission
File Number)
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(IRS
Employer Identification No)
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31
E. Main St., Ephrata, PA
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17522-0457
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(Address
of principal executive offices)
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(Zip
Code)
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Registrant’s
telephone number, including area code
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(717) 733-4181
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Former
name, former address, and former fiscal year, if changed since last
report
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Not Applicable
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Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be
filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the
preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required
to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for
the past 90 days. Yes ý No o
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an
accelerated filer or a non-accelerated filer. See definitions of “accelerated
filer,” and “large accelerated filer” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check
one):
Large
Accelerated filer o
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Accelerated
filer o
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Non-accelerated
filer ý (Do
not check if a smaller reporting company)
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Smaller
reporting company o
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Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule
12b-2 of the Exchange Act).
Yes o
No ý
APPLICABLE
ONLY TO CORPORATE ISSUERS:
Indicate
the number of shares outstanding of each of the issuer’s classes of common
stock, as of the latest practicable date. As of August
11, 2008, the Bank had 2,869,557
shares of $0.20 (par) Common Stock outstanding.
ENB
FINANCIAL CORP
June 30,
2008
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PART
I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
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Item
1. Financial Statements
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The
Ephrata National Bank
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Balance Sheets (Unaudited)
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June
30,
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December
31,
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June
30,
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2008
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2007
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2007
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(Dollars
in thousands, except share data)
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$ | $ |
$
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ASSETS
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Cash
and due from banks
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17,197 | 17,201 | 14,077 | |||||||||
Intererest-bearing
deposits in other banks
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160 | 96 | 226 | |||||||||
Federal
funds sold
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2,870 | - | 6,500 | |||||||||
Total
cash and cash equivalents
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20,227 | 17,297 | 20,803 | |||||||||
Securities
available for sale (at fair value)
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231,021 | 192,960 | 186,327 | |||||||||
Loans
held for sale
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611 | 365 | 247 | |||||||||
Loans
(net of unearned income)
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386,174 | 384,999 | 375,554 | |||||||||
Less:
Allowance for loan losses
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4,033 | 3,682 | 3,539 | |||||||||
Net
loans
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382,141 | 381,317 | 372,015 | |||||||||
Premises
and equipment
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18,311 | 17,810 | 17,309 | |||||||||
Regulatory
stock
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4,767 | 4,111 | 4,126 | |||||||||
Bank
owned life insurance
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14,207 | 13,871 | 10,805 | |||||||||
Other
assets
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7,267 | 6,031 | 6,711 | |||||||||
Total
assets
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678,552 | 633,762 | 618,343 | |||||||||
LIABILITIES
AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
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Liabilities:
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Deposits:
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Noninterest-bearing
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111,715 | 107,839 | 99,575 | |||||||||
Interest-bearing
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397,395 | 370,887 | 371,664 | |||||||||
Total
deposits
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509,110 | 478,726 | 471,239 | |||||||||
Short-term
borrowings
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- | 100 | - | |||||||||
Long-term
debt
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97,000 | 82,000 | 77,500 | |||||||||
Other
liabilities
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4,308 | 4,114 | 4,206 | |||||||||
Total
liabilities
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610,418 | 564,940 | 552,945 | |||||||||
Stockholders'
equity:
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Common
stock, par value $0.20;
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Shares: Authorized
12,000,000
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Issued and
Outstanding 2,869,557
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(3,000,000
Issued and 2,861,854 and 2,855,428 Outstanding
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as
of 12-31-07 and 6-30-07)
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574 | 600 | 600 | |||||||||
Capital
surplus
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4,457 | 4,502 | 4,520 | |||||||||
Retained
Earnings
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65,211 | 68,158 | 66,831 | |||||||||
Accumulated
other comprehensive loss, net of tax
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(2,108 | ) | (181 | ) | (2,098 | ) | ||||||
Less: (Treasury
shares at cost 138,146 shares
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as
of 12-31-07 and 144,572 shares as of 6-30-07)
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- | (4,257 | ) | (4,455 | ) | |||||||
Total
stockholders' equity
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68,134 | 68,822 | 65,398 | |||||||||
Total
liabilities and stockholders' equity
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678,552 | 633,762 | 618,343 | |||||||||
See
Unaudited Notes to the Interim Financial Statements
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The
Ephrata National Bank
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Statement
of Income (Unaudited)
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Periods
Ended June 30, 2008 and 2007
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Three
Months
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Six
Months
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2008
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2007
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2008
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2007
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(Dollars
in thousands, except share data)
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$
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$
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$
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$
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Interest
and dividend income:
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Interest
and fees on loans
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5,899 | 6,155 | 11,955 | 12,106 | ||||||||||||
Interest
on securities available for sale
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Taxable
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2,077 | 1,424 | 3,858 | 2,854 | ||||||||||||
Tax-exempt
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600 | 677 | 1,246 | 1,377 | ||||||||||||
Interest
on federal funds sold
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14 | 68 | 25 | 100 | ||||||||||||
Interest
on deposits at other banks
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1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | ||||||||||||
Dividend
income
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77 | 92 | 166 | 185 | ||||||||||||
Total
interest and dividend income
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8,668 | 8,419 | 17,253 | 16,628 | ||||||||||||
Interest
expense:
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Interest
on deposits
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2,615 | 2,780 | 5,378 | 5,536 | ||||||||||||
Interest
on short-term borrowings
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8 | 6 | 20 | 45 | ||||||||||||
Interest
on long-term debt
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1,018 | 860 | 1,995 | 1,643 | ||||||||||||
Total
interest expense
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3,641 | 3,646 | 7,393 | 7,224 | ||||||||||||
Net
interest income
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5,027 | 4,773 | 9,860 | 9,404 | ||||||||||||
Provision
for loan losses
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150 | 162 | 349 | 1,236 | ||||||||||||
Net
interest income after provision for loan losses
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4,877 | 4,611 | 9,511 | 8,168 | ||||||||||||
Other
income:
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Trust
and investment services income
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261 | 241 | 535 | 491 | ||||||||||||
Service
fees
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452 | 431 | 883 | 821 | ||||||||||||
Commissions
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338 | 275 | 644 | 527 | ||||||||||||
Gains
(losses) on securities transactions, net
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86 | (2 | ) | 112 | (2 | ) | ||||||||||
Gains
on sale of mortgages
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37 | 41 | 75 | 61 | ||||||||||||
Earnings
on bank owned life insurance
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156 | 92 | 303 | 175 | ||||||||||||
Other
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33 | 97 | 167 | 217 | ||||||||||||
Total
other income
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1,363 | 1,175 | 2,719 | 2,290 | ||||||||||||
Operating
expenses:
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Salaries
and employee benefits
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2,607 | 2,379 | 5,245 | 4,763 | ||||||||||||
Occupancy
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306 | 278 | 608 | 574 | ||||||||||||
Equipment
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237 | 225 | 469 | 456 | ||||||||||||
Advertising
& marketing
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86 | 154 | 167 | 255 | ||||||||||||
Computer
software & data processing
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369 | 353 | 757 | 716 | ||||||||||||
Bank
shares tax
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225 | 114 | 364 | 224 | ||||||||||||
Professional
services
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352 | 260 | 606 | 517 | ||||||||||||
Other
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410 | 545 | 780 | 937 | ||||||||||||
Total
operating expenses
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4,592 | 4,308 | 8,996 | 8,442 | ||||||||||||
Income
before income taxes
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1,648 | 1,478 | 3,234 | 2,016 | ||||||||||||
Provision
for federal income taxes
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220 | 167 | 411 | 23 | ||||||||||||
Net
income
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1,428 | 1,311 | 2,823 | 1,993 | ||||||||||||
Earnings
per share of common stock
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0.50 | 0.46 | 0.99 | 0.70 | ||||||||||||
Cash
dividends paid per share
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0.31 | 0.30 | 0.62 | 0.60 | ||||||||||||
Weighted
average shares outstanding
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2,865,735 | 2,853,045 | 2,863,989 | 2,851,588 | ||||||||||||
See
Unaudited Notes to the Interim Financial Statements
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The
Ephrata National Bank
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Statement
of Comprehensive
Income (Unaudited)
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Periods
Ended June 30, 2008 and 2007
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Three
Months
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Six
Months
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2008
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2007
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2008
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2007
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(Dollars
in thousands)
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$ |
$
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$
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$
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Net
income
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1,428 | 1,311 | 2,823 | 1,993 | ||||||||||||
Other
comprehensive loss arising during the period
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(3,713 | ) | (2,117 | ) | (3,033 | ) | (1,539 | ) | ||||||||
Reclassification
adjustment for (gains) losses realized in income
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(86 | ) | 2 | (112 | ) | 2 | ||||||||||
Other
comprehensive loss before tax
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(3,627 | ) | (2,119 | ) | (2,921 | ) | (1,541 | ) | ||||||||
Income
tax benefit related to comprehensive loss
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(1,233 | ) | (720 | ) | (993 | ) | (524 | ) | ||||||||
Other
comprehensive loss
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(2,394 | ) | (1,399 | ) | (1,928 | ) | (1,017 | ) | ||||||||
Comprehensive
income (loss)
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(966 | ) | (88 | ) | 895 | 976 |
See
Unaudited Notes to the Interim Financial Statements
The
Ephrata National Bank
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Statement
of Cash Flows (Unaudited)
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Periods
Ended June 30, 2008 and 2007
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Six
Months
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2008
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2007
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(DOLLARS
IN THOUSANDS)
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$
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$
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Cash
flows from operating activities:
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Net
income
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2,823 | 1,993 | ||||||
Adjustments
to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating
activities:
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Net
amortization of securities and loan fees
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168 | 263 | ||||||
(Increase)
decrease in interest receivable
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(161 | ) | (65 | ) | ||||
Increase
in interest payable
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55 | 67 | ||||||
Provision
for loan losses
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349 | 1,236 | ||||||
(Gains)
losses on securities transactions, net
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(112 | ) | 2 | |||||
Gains
on sale of mortgages
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(75 | ) | (61 | ) | ||||
Loans
originated for sale
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(1,161 | ) | (292 | ) | ||||
Proceeds
from sales of loans
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990 | 630 | ||||||
Earnings
on bank owned life insurance
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(303 | ) | (175 | ) | ||||
Losses
on sale of other real estate owned
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6 | - | ||||||
Depreciation
of premises and equipment and amortization of software
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573 | 570 | ||||||
Deferred
income tax benefit
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(376 | ) | (212 | ) | ||||
Other
assets and other liabilities, net
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311 | 71 | ||||||
Net
cash provided by operating activities
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3,087 | 4,027 | ||||||
Cash
flows from investing activities:
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Securities
available for sale:
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Proceeds
from maturities, calls, and repayments
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35,174 | 9,942 | ||||||
Proceeds
from sales
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7,793 | 576 | ||||||
Purchases
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(84,028 | ) | (7,113 | ) | ||||
Proceeds
from sale of other real estate owned
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150 | 0 | ||||||
Purchase
of regulatory bank stock
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(656 | ) | (464 | ) | ||||
Redemptions
of regulatory bank stock
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0 | 455 | ||||||
Purchase
of bank owned life insurance
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(33 | ) | (2,339 | ) | ||||
Net
increase in loans
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(1,150 | ) | (10,478 | ) | ||||
Purchase
of premises and equipment
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(1,021 | ) | (955 | ) | ||||
Purchase
of computer software
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(85 | ) | (58 | ) | ||||
Net
cash used in investing activities
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(43,856 | ) | (10,434 | ) | ||||
Cash
flows from financing activities:
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Net
increase in demand deposits, NOW and savings accounts
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13,587 | 8,346 | ||||||
Net
increase (decrease) in time deposits
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16,796 | (6,366 | ) | |||||
Net
decrease in short term borrowings
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(100 | ) | (1,200 | ) | ||||
Proceeds
from long-term debt
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15,000 | 11,500 | ||||||
Dividends
paid
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(1,776 | ) | (1,711 | ) | ||||
Treasury
stock sold & common stock issued
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192 | 174 | ||||||
Net
cash provided by financing activities
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43,699 | 10,743 | ||||||
Net
increase in cash and cash equivalents
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2,930 | 4,336 | ||||||
Cash
and cash equivalents at beginning of year
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17,297 | 16,467 | ||||||
Cash
and cash equivalents at end of period
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20,227 | 20,803 | ||||||
Supplemental
disclosures of cash flow information:
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Interest
paid
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7,338 | 7,157 | ||||||
Income
taxes paid
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600 | 325 | ||||||
See
Unaudited Notes to the Interim Financial Statements
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Notes to
the Unaudited Interim Financial Statements
1. Basis
of Presentation
The
accompanying unaudited financial statements have been prepared in accordance
with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles for interim financial
information and to general practices within the banking
industry. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and
footnotes required by generally accepted accounting principles for complete
financial statements. In the opinion of management, all adjustments
considered necessary for fair presentation have been
included. Certain items previously reported have been reclassified to
conform to the current period’s reporting format. Such
reclassifications did not affect net income or stockholders equity.
ENB
Financial is the successor issuer of the Ephrata National Bank. On
July 1, 2008, ENB Financial Corp became the bank holding company for Ephrata
National Bank, which is now a wholly owned subsidiary of ENB Financial
Corp. Ephrata National Bank was the only operational entity as of
June 30, 2008; and therefore, this Form 10-Q, for the second quarter of 2008 is
reporting on the results of operations and financial condition of the Ephrata
National Bank. As a result, the financial statements presented and the
management discussion and analysis which follows is for and only discusses
Ephrata National Bank.
Operating
results for the three months ended June 30, 2008, are not necessarily indicative
of the results that may be expected for the year ended December 31,
2008. For further information, refer to the financial statements and
footnotes thereto included in The Ephrata National Bank’s (“the “Bank”) Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007.
2. Fair
Value Presentation
In
September 2006, the FASB issued FASB No. 157, Fair Value Measurements, to
provide consistency and comparability in determining fair value measurements and
to provide for expanded disclosures about fair value measurements. The
definition of fair value maintains the exchange price notion in earlier
definitions of fair value but focuses on the exit price of the asset or
liability. The exit price is the price that would be received to sell the asset
or paid to transfer the liability adjusted for certain inherent risks and
restrictions. Expanded disclosures are also required about the use of fair value
to measure assets and liabilities.
The
following table presents information about the Bank’s securities measured at
fair value on a recurring basis as of June 30, 2008, and indicates the fair
value hierarchy of the valuation techniques utilized by the Bank to determine
such fair value:
Fair
Value Measurements Utilized for the Bank’s Securities:
Dollars
in Thousands
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Quoted
Prices in
Active
Markets for
Identical
Assets
(Level
1)
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Significant
Other
Observable
Inputs
(Level 2)
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Balance
as of
June
30, 2008
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Securities
available-for-sale
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$ | 2,763 | $ | 228,259 | $ | 231,022 |
As
required by FASB No. 157, each financial asset and liability must be identified
as having been valued according to specified level of input, 1, 2 or 3. Level 1
inputs are quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or
liabilities that the Bank has the ability to access at the measurement date.
Fair values determined by Level 2 inputs utilize inputs other than quoted prices
included in Level 1 that are observable for the asset, either directly or
indirectly. Level 2 inputs include quoted prices for similar assets in active
markets, and inputs other than quoted prices that are observable for the asset
or liability. Level 3 inputs are unobservable inputs for the asset, and
include situations where there is little, if any, market activity for the asset
or liability. In certain cases, the inputs used to measure fair value may fall
into different levels of the fair value hierarchy. In such cases, the level in
the fair value hierarchy, within which the fair value measurement in its
entirety falls, has been determined based on the lowest level input that is
significant to the fair value measurement in its entirety. The Bank’s assessment
of the significance of a particular input to the fair value measurement in its
entirety requires judgment, and considers factors specific to the
asset.
As of
June 30, 2008, the Bank did not have any assets measured at fair value on a
nonrecurring basis. The measurement of fair value should be consistent with one
of the following valuation techniques: market approach, income approach, and/or
cost approach. The market approach uses prices and other relevant information
generated by market transactions
involving
identical or comparable assets or liabilities (including a business). For
example, valuation techniques consistent with the market approach often use
market multiples derived from a set of comparables. Multiples might lie in
ranges with a different multiple for each comparable. The selection of where
within the range the appropriate multiple falls requires judgment, considering
factors specific to the measurement (qualitative and quantitative). Valuation
techniques consistent with the market approach include matrix pricing. Matrix
pricing is a mathematical technique used principally to value debt securities
without relying exclusively on quoted prices for the specific securities, but
rather by relying on the securities’ relationship to other benchmark quoted
securities. As of June 30, 2008, all of the financial assets measured at fair
value utilized the market approach.
3.
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Commitments
and Contingent Liabilities
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In order
to meet the financing needs of its customers in the normal course of business,
the Bank makes various commitments that are not reflected in the accompanying
financial statements. These commitments include firm commitments to
extend credit, unused lines of credit and open letters of credit. As
of June 30, 2008, firm loan commitments were $6.7 million, unused lines of
credit were $78.6 million, and open letters of credit were $14.2
million. The total of these commitments was $99.5 million, which
represents the Bank’s exposure to credit loss in the event of nonperformance by
its customers with respect to these financial instruments. The actual
credit losses that may arise from these commitments are expected to compare
favorably with the Bank’s loan loss experience on its loan portfolio taken as a
whole. The Bank uses the same credit policies in making commitments
and conditional obligations as it does for balance sheet financial
instruments.
The
construction phase has begun for a future branch site on a tract of land located
in Penn Township, Lancaster County. The Bank has signed a
construction contract for $2.1 million. Previous contracts related to
design and land development of the branch have been fully
paid. Actual construction of the branch began in April
2008. Through June 30, 2008, $715,000 of construction costs has been
paid against the $2.1 million contract. The branch is expected to be
completed by September 2008.
4. Recently
Issued Accounting Standards
In
September 2006, the FASB issued FAS No. 157, Fair Value Measurements,
which provides enhanced guidance for using fair value to measure assets and
liabilities. The standard applies whenever other standards require or
permit assets or liabilities to be measured at fair value. The
Standard does not expand the use of fair value in any new
circumstances. FAS No. 157 is effective for financial statements
issued for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007, and interim
periods within those fiscal years. In February 2008, the FASB issued
Staff Position No. 157-1, Application of FASB Statement No.
157 to FASB Statement No. 13 and Other Accounting Pronouncements That Address
Fair Value Measurements for Purposes of Lease Classification or Measurement
under Statement 13, which removed leasing transactions accounted for
under FAS No. 13 and related guidance from the scope of FAS No.
157. Also in February 2008, the FASB issued Staff Position No.157-2,
Partial Deferral of the
Effective Date of Statement 157, which deferred the effective date of FAS
No. 157 for all nonfinancial assets and nonfinancial liabilities to fiscal years
beginning after November 15, 2008. The adoption of this standard is
not expected to have a material effect on the Company’s results of operations or
financial position.
In
February 2007, the FASB issued FAS No. 159, The Fair Value Option for Financial
Assets and Financial Liabilities – Including an amendment of FASB Statement No.
115, which provides all entities with an option to report selected
financial assets and liabilities at fair value. The objective of the FAS No. 159
is to improve financial reporting by providing entities with the opportunity to
mitigate volatility in earnings caused by measuring related assets and
liabilities differently without having to apply the complex provisions of hedge
accounting. FAS No. 159 is effective as of the beginning of an
entity’s first fiscal year beginning after November 15, 2007. Early
adoption is permitted as of the beginning of a fiscal year that begins on or
before November 15, 2007, provided the entity also elects to apply the
provisions of FAS No. 157, Fair Value
Measurements. The adoption of this standard is not expected to
have a material effect on the Company’s results of operations or financial
position.
In
December 2007, the FASB issued FAS No. 141 (revised 2007), Business Combinations (“FAS
141(R)), which establishes principles and requirements for how an acquirer
recognizes and measures in its financial statements the identifiable assets
acquired, the liabilities assumed, and any noncontrolling interest in an
acquiree, including the recognition and measurement of goodwill acquired in a
business combination. FAS No. 141(R) is effective for fiscal years
beginning on or after December 15, 2008. Earlier adoption is
prohibited. The adoption of this standard is not expected to have a
material effect on the Company’s results of operations or financial
position.
In
December 2007, the FASB issued FAS No. 160, Noncontrolling Interests in
Consolidated Financial Statements — an amendment of ARB
No. 51. FAS No. 160 amends ARB No. 51 to establish
accounting and reporting standards for the noncontrolling interest in a
subsidiary and for the deconsolidation of a subsidiary. It clarifies that
a noncontrolling interest in a subsidiary, which is sometimes referred to as
minority interest, is an ownership interest in the consolidated entity that
should be reported as equity in the consolidated financial statements.
Among other requirements, this statement requires consolidated net income to be
reported at amounts that include the amounts attributable to both the parent and
the noncontrolling interest. It also requires disclosure, on the face of
the consolidated income statement, of the amounts of consolidated net income
attributable to the parent and to the noncontrolling interest. FAS
No. 160 is effective for fiscal years beginning on or after December 15,
2008. Earlier adoption is prohibited. The adoption of this
standard is not expected to have a material effect on the Bank’s results of
operations or financial position
In March
2008, the FASB issued FAS No. 161, Disclosures about Derivative
Instruments and Hedging Activities, to require enhanced disclosures about
derivative instruments and hedging activities. The new standard has revised
financial reporting for derivative instruments and hedging activities by
requiring more transparency about how and why an entity uses derivative
instruments, how derivative instruments and related hedged items are accounted
for under FAS No. 133, Accounting for Derivative
Instruments and Hedging Activities; and how derivative instruments and
related hedged items affect an entity’s financial position, financial
performance, and cash flows. FAS No. 161 requires disclosure of the
fair values of derivative instruments and their gains and losses in a tabular
format. It also requires entities to provide more information about their
liquidity by requiring disclosure of derivative features that are credit
risk-related. Further, it requires cross-referencing within footnotes to enable
financial statement users to locate important information about derivative
instruments. FAS No. 161 is effective for financial statements issued
for fiscal years and interim periods beginning after November 15, 2008, with
early application encourage. The adoption of this standard is not
expected to have a material effect on the Company’s results of operations or
financial position.
In
May 2008, the FASB issued FAS No. 162, The Hierarchy of Generally Accepted
Accounting Principles. FAS No. 162 identifies the sources of
accounting principles and the framework for selecting the principles used in the
preparation of financial statements of nongovernmental entities that are
presented in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles (the GAAP
hierarchy). FAS No. 162 will become effective 60 days following the
SEC's approval of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board amendments to AU
Section 411, The Meaning
of Present Fairly in Conformity With Generally Accepted Accounting
Principles. The Company does not expect the adoption of FAS No. 162
to have a material effect on its results of operations and financial
position.
In April
2008, the FASB issued FASB Staff Position No. 142-3, Determination of the Useful Life of
Intangible Assets (“FSP 142-3”). FSP 142-3 amends the factors that should
be considered in developing assumptions about renewal or extension used in
estimating the useful life of a recognized intangible asset under FAS
No. 142, Goodwill and
Other Intangible Assets. This standard is intended to improve the
consistency between the useful life of a recognized intangible asset under FAS
No. 142 and the period of expected cash flows used to measure the fair
value of the asset under FAS No. 141R and other GAAP. FSP 142-3
is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after
December 15, 2008. The measurement provisions of this standard will apply
only to intangible assets of the Company acquired after the effective
date.
In June
2008, the FASB issued FASB Staff Position (FSP) No. EITF 03-6-1, Determining Whether Instruments
Granted in Share-Based Payment Transactions Are Participating Securities,
to clarify that instruments granted in share-based payment transactions can be
participating securities prior to the requisite service having been
rendered. A basic principle of the FSP is that unvested share-based
payment awards that contain nonforfeitable rights to dividends or dividend
equivalents (whether paid or unpaid) are participating securities and are to be
included in the computation of EPS pursuant to the two-class method. The
provisions of this FSP are effective for financial statements issued for fiscal
years beginning after December 15, 2008, and interim periods within those years.
All prior-period EPS data presented (including interim financial statements,
summaries of earnings, and selected financial data) are required to be adjusted
retrospectively to conform with the provisions of the FSP. The adoption of
this FSP is not expected to have a material effect on the Company’s results of
operations or financial position.
The FASB
and SEC have issued a number of other accounting rules during late 2007 and
early 2008. These additional promulgations have no relevance to the
business operations of the Bank, and therefore, will not have an impact on the
Company’s financial reporting.
Item
2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition
and Results of Operations
The
following discussion and analysis represents management’s view of the financial
condition and results of the Bank. This discussion and analysis
should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and other financial
schedules included in this quarterly report and in conjunction with the 2007
Annual Report to Shareholders of the Bank. The financial condition and results
presented are not indicative of future performance.
The information contained in this
interim report is unaudited. In the opinion of management, the
financial information presented along with Management’s Discussion and Analysis
reflects all adjustments necessary to present fairly the financial condition and
results of operations for the reported periods. Any adjustments made
were of a normal, recurring nature.
The
financial condition and results of operation for the period ended June 30, 2008
reflect the operations and results of the Corporation’s wholly owned subsidiary,
the “Bank”.
Forward-Looking
Statements
The U.S.
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides safe harbor in regard
to the inclusion of forward-looking statements in this document and documents
incorporated by reference. Forward-looking statements pertain to
possible or assumed future results that are made using current
information. These forward-looking statements are generally
identified when terms such as; “believe,” “estimate,”
“anticipate,” “expect,” “project,” “forecast” and other similar
wording are used. The readers of this report should take into
consideration that these forward-looking statements represent management’s
expectations as to future forecasts of financial performance, or the likelihood
that certain events will or will not occur. Due to the very nature of
estimates or predictions, these forward-looking statements should not be
construed to be indicative of actual future
results. Additionally, management may change estimates of
future performance, or the likelihood of future events, as additional
information is obtained. This document may also address financial
targets or goals that management is striving to reach but these targets or goals
should not be used to predict future results.
Readers
should note that many factors affect this forward-looking information, some of
which are discussed elsewhere in this document and in the documents that are
incorporated by reference into this document. These factors include,
but are not limited to the following:
·
|
Monetary
and interest rate policies of the Federal Reserve Board
(“FRB”)
|
·
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Economic
conditions
|
·
|
Political
changes and their impact on new laws and
regulations
|
·
|
Competitive
forces
|
·
|
Management’s
ability to manage credit risk, liquidity risk, interest rate risk, and
fair value risk
|
·
|
Operation,
legal, and reputation risk
|
·
|
Incorrect
analysis of risk or unsuccessful strategies or implementation of
strategies designed to mitigate
risks
|
Readers
should be aware that if any of the above factors change significantly, the
statements regarding future performance could also change
materially. Under the safe harbor provision, the Corporation is not
required to publicly update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect
events or circumstances that arise after the date of this report. The
Corporation is not obligated to update publicly any forward-looking statements
made in this quarterly report to reflect the effects of subsequent
events. Readers should review any changes in risk factors in
documents filed by the Corporation with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(SEC) by the Bank periodically, including subsequent Annual Reports on Form
10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form
8-K.
On July
1, 2008, the Bank completed its reorganization as a wholly owned subsidiary of
ENB Financial Corp (the “Corporation”). Effective on July 1, 2008 the
Corporation owns all shares of the Bank. Shareholders who previously
owned shares of Ephrata National Bank will own the equivalent amount of shares
of ENB Financial Corp, upon conversion of those shares.
CRITICAL ACCOUNTING
POLICIES
The
presentation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted
accounting principles, requires management to make estimates and assumptions
that affect many of the reported amounts and disclosures. Actual
results could differ from these estimates.
A
material estimate that is particularly susceptible to significant change is the
determination of the allowance for loan losses. Management believes
that the allowance for loan losses is adequate and reasonable. The
Bank’s methodology for determining the allowance for loan losses is described in
a later section of this Management’s Discussion and Analysis. Given
the very subjective nature of identifying and valuing loan losses, it is likely
that well-informed individuals could make materially different assumptions, and
could therefore calculate a materially different allowance
amount. Management uses all available information to evaluate and
provide for future loan losses. However, changes in economic
conditions may necessitate revisions to the provision and respective allowance
in the future. In addition, various regulatory agencies, as an
integral part of their examination process, periodically review the Bank’s
allowance for loan losses. Such agencies may require the Bank to
recognize adjustments to the allowance based on their judgments of information
available to them at the time of their examination.
Another
material estimate is the calculation of fair market values for the securities
held by the Bank. The Bank receives estimated fair values of debt
securities from the bond accounting services of a brokerage
firm. This firm currently uses five independent valuation services to
determine the fair market values of securities. In accordance with
FAS 157, Fair Value
Measurements, the Bank’s securities must be valued according to a
specified level of input hierarchy, referred to as level 1, 2 or 3
inputs. Fair Value Presentation is covered in Note 2 in the Bank’s
Notes to the Unaudited Interim Financial Statements. Nearly all of
the Bank’s securities are valued using Level 2 inputs which includes quoted
prices for similar assets in active markets. Management reviews the
level inputs used to value the Bank’s securities on a quarterly basis and
reports this in Note 2. Management also evaluates the valuation
methodology annually for adequacy and believes the current valuation methodology
to be materially accurate. All of the Bank’s securities are
classified as available for sale and are carried at fair value on the balance
sheets, with unrealized gains and losses excluded from earnings and reported
separately through other comprehensive income (included in the stockholders’
equity section of the balance sheet, net of tax).
RESULTS OF
OPERATIONS
Overview
The Bank
recorded net income of $1,428,000 and $2,823,000 for the three and six month
periods ending June 30, 2008, representing an 8.9% and 41.7% increase from the
same periods in 2007. The Bank’s core earnings, net interest income
improved for both periods while earnings were significantly improved for the
year to date period as a result of sharp reductions in the provision for loan
losses.
The
Bank’s net interest income (“NII”), which is affected by the Bank’s net interest
margin (NIM) and the growth of interest earning assets, continues to improve and
has grown at a slightly faster pace in the second quarter of 2008 compared to
the first quarter of 2008. The Bank’s second quarter NII was
$5,027,000, an increase of $254,000 or 5.3% over the NII in the second quarter
of 2007. For the year-to-date 2008, the Bank’s NII increased $456,000
or 4.8% to $9,860,000. This is a marked improvement over the last two
years. The Bank’s NII only grew 2.3% in 2007 compared to 2006, and
for 2006 the NII did not reflect any growth over 2005. In 2008, the
Bank’s NII increased as a result of the growth of interest earning balances, as
the Bank’s NIM decreased from 3.60% for the first six months of 2007, to 3.52%
for the same period of 2008. Average interest earning assets grew
7.8% and 6.6% respectively over the three and six-month periods ended June 30,
2008, compared to the same prior year periods, providing the necessary growth
for the Bank to increase NII despite a weaker margin. For the six
month period ending June 30, 2008, the Bank was able to increase interest income
by $625,000 over the same period of 2007, while total interest expense increased
$169,000 for the same period.
The Bank
recorded a provision for loan losses of $150,000 for the three months ended June
30, 2008, compared to $162,000 in the same period of 2007. The 2008 year-to-date
provision was $349,000 compared to $1,236,000 through June 30,
2007. During 2007, the Bank charged off $844,000 in the form of
several loans to one commercial borrower which alone was responsible for over
75% of the $1,078,000 of total charge offs experienced in 2007. Comparatively,
in 2008, the Bank has not experienced significant losses on large credits;
however, to be prudent, the Bank has maintained a strong provision for loan
losses to mitigate future possible credit losses. For further information on
credit quality of the loan portfolio refer to the non-performing and allowance
for loan losses sections on pages 26 and 27 under Item 2 Financial
Condition.
The
banking industry uses two primary performance measurements to gauge a Bank’s
performance; they are return on average assets (“ROA”) and return on average
equity (“ROE”). The first, return on average assets, measures how efficiently a
bank generates income based on the amount of assets or size of a
bank. The second, return on equity, measures the efficiency of a bank
in generating income based on the amount of equity or capital
utilized. The latter
measurement
typically receives more attention from shareholders. The Bank’s key
performance ratios in the following table reflect the Bank’s stronger earnings
for the three and six-month periods ended June 30, 2008, as compared to the same
period in 2007. The Bank’s Asset Liability guidelines call for a
number of performance levels including an ROA of 1.00% and ROE of
10.00%. Currently, the Bank’s performance ratios are lower than these
targets, and below historical norms. This is due largely to the
current environment of declining margins, larger provisions for loan losses and
intense competition. Management expects that ROA and ROE will both
continue to improve throughout the year; however, it is doubtful that these
ratios will meet the targets for the current year.
Key
Ratios
Three
Months Ended
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Six
Months Ended
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June
30,
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June
30,
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2008
|
2007
|
2008
|
2007
|
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Return
on Average Assets
|
0.86 | % | 0.85 | % | 0.86 | % | 0.66 | % | ||||||||
Return
on Average Equity
|
8.30 | % | 7.99 | % | 8.17 | % | 6.11 | % |
The
results of the Bank’s operations can be best explained by addressing in further
detail the five major sections of the income statement, which are as
follows:
|
·
|
Net
interest income
|
|
·
|
Provision
for loan losses
|
|
·
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Non-interest
income
|
|
·
|
Non-interest
expenses
|
|
·
|
Provision
for income taxes
|
Each of
these five areas is analyzed in the following discussion.
Net
Interest Income
Net
interest income (“NII”) constitutes the largest portion of the Bank’s operating
income; therefore, the direction of NII and the rate of increase or decrease
will often determine the overall performance of the Bank. For the
first six months of 2008, the Bank’s NII was 77.8% of the Bank’s gross revenue
stream compared to 80.4% in the same period of 2007.
NII is
the difference between interest income earned on assets and interest expense
incurred on liabilities. Accordingly, two factors affect net interest
income:
|
·
|
The
rates charged on interest-earning assets and paid on interest-bearing
liabilities
|
|
·
|
The
average balance of interest-earning assets and interest-bearing
liabilities
|
The
Federal Reserve’s Federal funds rate, which is the overnight rate that financial
institutions buy or sell overnight funds, has declined from 5.25% in August of
2007 to 2.00% by April 30, 2008. The Federal funds rate was reduced
by 100 basis points in the second half of 2007, with another 225 basis points of
reductions in the first four months of 2008. The rate reductions have
had positive and negative impacts to the Bank’s NII and margin. The
net effect has been higher NII but lower margin. The rate reductions
have helped the Bank by reducing the cost of funds and increasing the slope of
the U.S. Treasury Curve. The increased slope of the treasury curve
has allowed management to more easily grow the Bank by increasing the
investments in securities at favorable yields. Through out most
of 2007, the U.S. Treasury curve was primarily flat and the Bank did not have
the ability to obtain cheaper short term (less than one-year term) funds and
invest or lend out longer term funds at higher rates. By the first
quarter of 2008, overnight and short-term funds were at significantly lower
rates than in 2007, while mid-term and long-term rates did not decline,
resulting in a positively sloped yield curve. Since the Bank’s deposits and
borrowings are priced on the short-term rates while loans and securities are
priced on rates out beyond one year, the significant rate drops on the short end
of the rate curve allowed management to make progress in repricing time deposits
and borrowings to lower levels, helping the Bank reduce the overall cost of
funds. Rates on interest bearing core deposit accounts were also
reduced. Meanwhile, the Bank was able to continue to invest and
originate loans at longer terms where the U.S. Treasury curve and market rates
remained higher.
Working
against the increase in asset yield, the same Federal Reserve actions to reduce
the Federal Funds rates also caused the Prime Rate to decline from 8.25% in
August of 2007 to 5.00% by April 30, 2008. Over $50 million, or
about
12% of
the Bank’s loans, are Prime Based loans which reprice immediately after the
Prime rate is reduced. The impact of having over $50 million of the
Bank’s Prime Rate loans reprice from an 8.25% rate in August of 2007 to 5.00% as
of April 30, 2008, has acted to reduce the average yield of the Bank’s loan
portfolio and contributed to the lower average asset yield of the
Bank. The Bank’s average yield on total interest earning assets
declined 19 basis points for the six month period ending June 30, 2008, while
the average cost of interest bearing funds decreased by 17 basis points,
compared to the same period of 2007. The net effect was a decline in
the Bank’s NIM that acted to limit the amount of increase in the Bank’s
NII.
While the
Bank’s margin has declined from 2007 to 2008, the balances of the Bank’s
interest earning assets have grown at a faster pace resulting in a higher
NII. This is also referred to as a rate versus volume explanation,
where in this case, the impact of carrying a higher balance of interest earning
assets more than offset the negative impact of lower rates on all of the Bank’s
interest earning assets. Loan growth has slowed, primarily due to
economic weakness, so the majority of the growth in the Bank’s assets has
occurred with securities. For the first six months of 2008, the
average balance of the Bank’s securities grew 12.3%, while the average balance
of the Bank’s loans grew 4.2% over the same period of 2007. The
Bank’s interest earning assets averaged 6.6% higher in the first six months of
2008 which was partially offset by a lower NIM resulting in 4.8% increase in
NII.
Management
currently anticipates that the U.S. Treasury curve will remain with a
significant positive slope for the remainder of 2008 based on available economic
data. This will allow management to continue to price the vast
majority of the Bank’s liabilities based off of lower short term rates, while
management is able to price loans and investments off the 5 year and 10 year
Treasury rates that are significantly above short term
rates. Management currently anticipates that the Bank’s margin will
stabilize and could improve slightly in the third quarter as additional time
deposits and borrowed funds are repriced to lower interest rates.
The
following table shows a summary analysis of net interest income on a fully
taxable equivalent (“FTE”) basis. For analytical purposes and
throughout this discussion, all yields, rates, and measurements such as NII, net
interest spread, and net yield on interest-earning assets are all presented on a
FTE basis. The FTE net interest income shown in both tables below
will exceed the NII, as reported on the statements of income. The
benefit provided by nontaxable assets resulted in the FTE adjustment of
$427,000, and $428,000 for second quarter of 2008 and 2007,
respectively. The year-to-date FTE adjustment was $872,000 through
June 30, 2008, and $896,000 for the same period in 2007.
Net
Interest Earnings
|
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(Dollars
in thousands)
|
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Three
Months Ended
|
Six
Months Ended
|
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June
30,
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June
30,
|
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2008
|
2007
|
2008
|
2007
|
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$
|
$
|
$
|
$
|
|||||||||||||
Total
interest income
|
8,668 | 8,419 | 17,253 | 16,628 | ||||||||||||
Total
interest expense
|
3,641 | 3,646 | 7,393 | 7,224 | ||||||||||||
Net
interest income
|
5,027 | 4,773 | 9,860 | 9,404 | ||||||||||||
Tax
equivalent adjustment
|
427 | 428 | 872 | 896 | ||||||||||||
Net
interest earnings
|
||||||||||||||||
(fully
taxable equivalent)
|
5,454 | 5,201 | 10,732 | 10,300 |
The
following tables show a more detailed analysis of net interest income on a FTE
basis shown with all the major elements of the Bank’s balance sheet, which
consists of interest-earning and non-interest-earning assets and
interest-bearing and non-interest-bearing liabilities.
COMPARATIVE
AVERAGE BALANCE SHEETS AND NET INTEREST INCOME
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(Dollars
in thousands)
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
For
the Three Months Ended June 30,
|
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2008
|
2007
|
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(c)
|
(c)
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Average
|
Annualized
|
Average
|
Annualized
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Balance
|
Interest
|
Yield/Rate
|
Balance
|
Interest
|
Yield/Rate
|
|||||||||||||||||||
$ |
$
|
%
|
$
|
$
|
%
|
|||||||||||||||||||
ASSETS
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Interest
earning assets:
|
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Federal
funds sold and interest
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
on
deposits at other banks
|
2,826 | 15 | 2.18 | 5,342 | 71 | 5.36 | ||||||||||||||||||
Securities
available for sale:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxable
|
170,059 | 2,123 | 4.99 | 127,329 | 1,478 | 4.64 | ||||||||||||||||||
Tax-exempt
|
54,877 | 877 | 6.39 | 63,738 | 987 | 6.20 | ||||||||||||||||||
Total
securities (d)
|
224,936 | 3,000 | 5.34 | 191,067 | 2,465 | 5.16 | ||||||||||||||||||
Loans
(a)
|
388,017 | 6,038 | 6.24 | 374,972 | 6,250 | 6.68 | ||||||||||||||||||
Regulatory
stock
|
4,680 | 42 | 3.58 | 4,260 | 61 | 5.69 | ||||||||||||||||||
Total
interest earning assets
|
620,459 | 9,095 | 5.87 | 575,641 | 8,847 | 6.15 | ||||||||||||||||||
Non-interest
earning assets (d)
|
49,153 | 41,832 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Total
assets
|
669,612 | 617,473 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
LIABILITIES
&
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
STOCKHOLDERS'
EQUITY
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Interest
bearing liabilities:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Demand
deposits
|
100,070 | 302 | 1.22 | 94,860 | 430 | 1.82 | ||||||||||||||||||
Savings
deposits
|
73,499 | 75 | 0.41 | 70,054 | 89 | 0.51 | ||||||||||||||||||
Time
deposits
|
218,474 | 2,238 | 4.12 | 207,292 | 2,262 | 4.38 | ||||||||||||||||||
Borrowed
funds
|
97,697 | 1,026 | 4.23 | 77,374 | 865 | 4.49 | ||||||||||||||||||
Total
interest bearing liabilities
|
489,740 | 3,641 | 2.99 | 449,580 | 3,646 | 3.25 | ||||||||||||||||||
Non-interest
bearing liabilities:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Demand
deposits
|
105,698 | 96,923 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Other
|
4,970 | 5,119 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Total
liabilities
|
600,408 | 551,622 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Stockholders'
equity
|
69,204 | 65,851 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Total
liabilities & stockholders' equity
|
669,612 | 617,473 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Net
interest income (FTE)
|
5,454 | 5,201 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Net
interest spread (b)
|
2.88 | 2.90 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Effect
of non-interest
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
bearing
funds
|
0.63 | 0.71 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Net
yield on interest earning assets (c)
|
|
3.51 | 3.61 |
(a)
Includes balances of nonaccrual loans and the recognition of any related
interest income. The quarter to date average balances include
net deferred loan fees and costs of ($317,000) as of June 30, 2008,
and ($353,000) as of June 30, 2007. Such fees and
costs recognized through income and included in the interest amounts
totaled $10,000 in 2008 and $23,000 in
2007.
|
(b)
Net interest spread is the arithmetic difference between the yield on
interest earning assets and the rate paid on interest
bearing liabilities.
|
(c)
Net yield, also referred to as net interest margin, is computed by
dividing net interest income (FTE) by total interest
|
(d)
Securities recorded at amortized cost. Unrealized holding gains
and losses are included in non-interest earning
assets.
|
COMPARATIVE
AVERAGE BALANCE SHEETS AND NET INTEREST INCOME
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
(Dollars
in thousands)
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
For
the Six Months Ended June 30,
|
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2008
|
2007
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
(c)
|
(c)
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Average
|
Annualized
|
Average
|
Annualized
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
Balance
|
Interest
|
Yield/Rate
|
Balance
|
Interest
|
Yield/Rate
|
|||||||||||||||||||
$
|
$
|
%
|
$
|
$
|
%
|
|||||||||||||||||||
ASSETS
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Interest
earning assets:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Federal
funds sold and interest
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
on
deposits at other banks
|
2,313 | 28 | 2.47 | 4,136 | 107 | 5.22 | ||||||||||||||||||
Securities
available for sale:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxable
|
158,564 | 3,945 | 4.98 | 127,618 | 2,964 | 4.65 | ||||||||||||||||||
Tax-exempt
|
56,590 | 1,822 | 6.53 | 63,901 | 2,009 | 6.29 | ||||||||||||||||||
Total
securities (d)
|
215,154 | 5,767 | 5.36 | 191,519 | 4,973 | 5.20 | ||||||||||||||||||
Loans
(a)
|
387,087 | 12,235 | 6.34 | 371,334 | 12,323 | 6.66 | ||||||||||||||||||
Regulatory
stock
|
4,553 | 95 | 4.17 | 4,191 | 121 | 5.79 | ||||||||||||||||||
Total
interest earning assets
|
609,107 | 18,125 | 5.96 | 571,180 | 17,524 | 6.15 | ||||||||||||||||||
Non-interest
earning assets (d)
|
48,762 | 40,823 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Total
assets
|
657,869 | 612,003 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
LIABILITIES
&
|
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STOCKHOLDERS'
EQUITY
|
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Interest
bearing liabilities:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Demand
deposits
|
100,523 | 680 | 1.36 | 92,598 | 845 | 1.84 | ||||||||||||||||||
Savings
deposits
|
70,990 | 161 | 0.46 | 69,243 | 200 | 0.58 | ||||||||||||||||||
Time
deposits
|
214,962 | 4,537 | 4.25 | 208,252 | 4,491 | 4.35 | ||||||||||||||||||
Borrowed
funds
|
94,177 | 2,015 | 4.30 | 76,106 | 1,688 | 4.47 | ||||||||||||||||||
Total
interest bearing liabilities
|
480,652 | 7,393 | 3.09 | 446,199 | 7,224 | 3.26 | ||||||||||||||||||
Non-interest
bearing liabilities:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Demand
deposits
|
102,797 | 94,908 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Other
|
4,956 | 5,060 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Total
liabilities
|
588,405 | 546,167 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Stockholders'
equity
|
69,464 | 65,836 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Total
liabilities & stockholders' equity
|
657,869 | 612,003 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Net
interest income (FTE)
|
10,732 | 10,300 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Net
interest spread (b)
|
2.87 | 2.89 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Effect
of non-interest
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
bearing
funds
|
0.65 | 0.71 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Net
yield on interest earning assets (c)
|
|
3.52 | 3.60 |
(a)
Includes balances of nonaccrual loans and the recognition of any related
interest income. Year to date average balances include
net deferred loan fees and costs of ($321,000) as of June 30, 2008,
and ($373,000) as of June 30, 2007. Such fees and
costs recognized through income and included in the interest amounts
totaled $23,000 in 2008 and $40,000 in
2007.
|
|
(b)
Net interest spread is the arithmetic difference between the yield on
interest earning assets and the rate paid on interest
bearing liabilities.
|
|
(c)
Net yield, also referred to as net interest margin, is computed by
dividing net interest income (FTE) by total interest earning
assets.
|
|
(d)
Securities recorded at amortized cost. Unrealized holding gains
and losses are included in non-interest earning
assets.
|
The
preceding charts provide comprehensive detail supporting all of the main
categories of the Bank’s balance sheet and their impact on net interest
income. Additionally, the analysis provides the Bank’s net interest
spread and the net yield on interest-earning assets. The net interest
spread is the difference between the yield on interest-earning assets and the
rate paid on interest-bearing liabilities. The net interest spread
has the deficiency of not giving credit for the non-interest-bearing funds and
capital used to fund a portion of the total interest-earning
assets. For this reason, management places more emphasis on the net
yield on interest-earning assets, also referred to as net interest margin
(“NIM”). The NIM is calculated by dividing net interest income into
total interest-earning assets. NIM is generally the benchmark used by
analysts to measure how efficiently a bank generates net interest
income. For example, a bank with a NIM of 3.75% would be able to use
fewer assets and still achieve the same level of net interest income as a bank
with a NIM of 3.50%.
As a
result of the Bank’s interest expense increasing at a faster pace than the
interest income, the Bank’s NIM was lower at 3.51% for the second quarter of
2008 compared to 3.61% for the second quarter of 2007. Likewise, the
NIM for the first six months of 2008 was lower at 3.52% compared to 3.60% for
the same period of 2007. The Asset Liability Committee (ALCO)
carefully monitors the NIM because it indicates trends in net interest income,
the Bank’s largest source of revenue. For more information on the
plans and strategies the Bank has in place to protect the NIM and moderate the
impact of rising rates, please see Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures
about Market Risk.
For the
three-month and six-month periods ending June 30, 2008, the yield on assets is
higher than the same periods in 2007. Fully tax-equivalent interest
income increased $248,000 or 2.8% and $601,000 or 3.4% for the quarter and
six-month periods ending June 30, 2008, compared to the same periods of
2007. The higher interest income was primarily the result of growing
both the balances and yields on securities. Fully-tax equivalent
interest income on securities grew by $535,000 or 21.7% and $794,000 or 16.0%
for the quarter and six-month periods ending June 30, 2008, compared to the same
periods of 2007. The higher security interest income was partially
offset by lower loan interest income. While the Bank was able to grow average
loan balances 3.5% and 4.2% for the quarter and six-month periods ending June
30, 2008, compared to the same periods of 2007. Sharp reductions in
the Prime Rate caused the loan yield and interest received on loans to decline
for both periods. During these periods the additional loan volume was not
sufficient enough to compensate for the lower yield on the entire loan
portfolio. The actual decline in loan income was $212,000 or 3.4%,
and $88,000 or 0.7, for the quarter and six-months ending June 30, 2008,
compared to the same periods of 2007. With the Prime Rate holding at
5.00%, management does not anticipate significant changes in the Bank’s average
loan yield. Management does anticipate that the Bank’s securities
portfolio will continue to gain yield as projected cash flow can presently be
reinvested into higher yielding securities.
The
average amount of Federal funds sold declined for both periods. As
interest rates declined the differential between longer term investment rates
and overnight interest rates grew, making it more advantageous to invest these
funds. With the current Federal funds at 2.00% it is anticipated that
the average amount of Federal funds sold will remain low for the near
future. Additionally, the Bank will likely purchase more Federal
funds overnight to fund additional loans or securities in an effort to increase
NII. Federal funds borrowed are included in the borrowed funds number
of the preceding charts.
The
average cost of the Bank’s interest bearing deposits and borrowed funds declined
for both the quarter and six-month periods ending June 30, 2008, compared to the
same periods of 2007, as lower short term rates enabled management to decrease
rates on all interest bearing deposit types. While the average cost
of funds was reduced significantly, the actual interest expense remained nearly
flat versus prior year periods because the balances of all deposit types and
borrowings also grew significantly. As a result, the Bank gained
significant funding over prior year periods but was paying about the same amount
in total interest expense. Total interest expense declined $5,000 or
0.1% for the quarter but increased $169,000 or 2.3% for the six-month periods
ending June 30, 2008, compared to the same periods of 2007. As
a result of holding interest expense flat for the quarter, and to a minimal
increase for the six-month period ending June 30, 2008, the above mentioned
moderate increases in fully tax equivalent interest income were sufficient to
provide the Bank with 4.9% and 4.2% increases respectively in fully tax
equivalent NII.
Management
was able to reduce the rate on the Bank’s interest bearing deposit instruments
multiple times since the Federal Reserve began decreasing rates in August of
2007. The deposit instruments that are the most rate sensitive,
and more closely follow overnight or short-term rates, are the instruments
management was able to continue to reprice lower as the Federal Reserve took
further actions to reduce the Federal funds rate. High balance NOW
and MMDA accounts and time deposit accounts are the instruments where management
was able to significantly reduce the weighed average cost. The interest-bearing
demand deposit category, which includes both NOW and MMDA accounts, averaged
1.22% compared to 1.82% in the same period of 2007. A similar savings
was experienced for the six-months ending June 30, 2008. The other
interest bearing liabilities experienced more moderate reductions in the average
cost of funds; however, the pace of reductions in the rates paid on time
deposits resulted in the average rate paid on time deposits to be 4.21%
for
the
quarter ending June 30, 2008, compared to 4.38% in the same quarter of
2007. The savings in rate for the six-month period were not as
large.
Management
anticipates that further savings can be realized in the average cost of interest
bearing funds as the Bank’s time deposits and borrowings mature and reprice to
lower interest rates. Management does not anticipate further
improvement in the cost of interest bearing demand deposit and savings accounts,
which are considered the Bank’s core deposits, as these rates have already been
significantly reduced with the ability to make further reductions
diminished. The Federal Reserve would have to reduce the overnight
Federal funds rates before further reductions could be made to the Bank’s
interest bearing core deposits.
The
borrowed fund category reflected the highest dollar and percentage growth out of
the Bank’s interest bearing liabilities for both periods. The majority of this
funding was used to purchase additional securities. Management was
able to obtain additional borrowings in the form of FHLB advances and repurchase
agreements at lower rates then the average rates on the existing borrowings,
which acted to reduce the average rate on the Bank’s total
borrowings. While the interest expense on the Bank’s total borrowings
grew $161,000 or 18.6% and $327,000 or 19.4% for the quarter and six-month
periods ending June 30, 2008, the average cost of these funds was 26 and 17
basis points lower respectively for the same periods. The Bank does not
anticipate increasing total borrowings through the end of the year.
In
addition to the interest-bearing cost of funds, the Bank’s non-interest-bearing
demand deposits continue to grow steadily, which has a significant impact in
reducing the Bank’s overall cost of funds. Ever dollar of
non-interest funding acts to offset the cost of interest-bearing deposit
accounts. For example, a matching balance in a non-interest bearing
checking account acts to offset the cost of a 5.00% time deposit, reducing the
average interest cost to 2.50%. Customers primarily utilize demand
deposit and savings accounts for the convenience of having their money liquid
and not necessarily to earn high interest; therefore, they are not as sensitive
to interest rate changes.
Provision
for Loan Losses
The
allowance for loan losses provides for losses inherent in the loan portfolio as
determined by a quarterly analysis and calculation of various factors related to
the loan portfolio. The amount of the provision reflects the adjustment
management determines necessary to ensure the allowance for loan losses is
adequate to cover any losses inherent in the loan portfolio. The Bank
gives special attention to the level of delinquent loans. The
analysis of the loan loss allowance takes into consideration, among other
things, the following factors:
|
·
|
Historical
loan loss experience
|
|
·
|
Loan
portfolio characteristics
|
|
·
|
Current
economic conditions
|
|
·
|
Volume
of delinquent and non-performing
loans
|
The Bank
added $150,000 and $349,000 to the allowance for the respective three and
six-month periods ended June 30, 2008, compared to $162,000 and $1,236,000 for
the same respective periods in 2007.
The
Bank’s provision for both the three and six-month periods ended June 30, 2008,
has normalized to the usual range of $150,000 to $200,000 per
quarter. Management deems this range to sufficiently provide for the
growth in the loan portfolio, as well as minor changes in credit risk. Beginning
in the first quarter of 2008, management increased the qualitative factors used
in the allowance for loan losses to account for the impact of weaker economic
conditions on the Bank’s borrowers. Higher qualitative factors will
cause the allowance calculation to increase, which will generally result in
higher provision amounts. To date, despite the uncertainty in the
global and national markets due to the credit crisis and the resulting weaker
economic conditions, management has not experienced any significant increase in
delinquencies or classified loans. Management believes higher
qualitative factors are necessary because the current credit crisis in not over,
and the full economic impact has yet to be determined. Offsetting the
need for higher provisions due to potential credit risk, loan growth has slowed,
reducing the need for higher provisions solely due to a larger portfolio.
Management anticipates maintaining the same $50,000 monthly provision for the
third quarter of 2008 and will reassess the provision after the September 30,
2008, allowance for loan loss calculation is performed.
The
provision for the prior year’s six-month period ended June 30, 2007, was
significantly higher than normal as the Bank recorded a large provision to the
allowance for loan losses to compensate for a commercial loan charge-off and
several specific allocations resulting from declining economic conditions facing
borrowers. The Bank charged off an $80,000 line of credit and $764,000 of
business loans associated with one borrower that went out of business in the
first quarter of 2007. The Bank does not have any further loans
outstanding to this borrower.
Management
continues to evaluate the allowance for loan losses in relation to the growth of
the loan portfolio and its associated credit risk. Management
believes the provision and the allowance for loan losses are adequate to provide
for future loan losses that are inherent within the existing loan portfolio. For
further discussion of the calculation see the “Allowance for Loan Losses”
section below.
Other
Income
Other
income for the second quarter of 2008 was $1,363,000, an increase of $188,000 or
16.0%, compared to the same period of 2007. For the six-month period
ended June 30, 2008, the other income increased $429,000 or 18.7% over the same
period in 2007. The following tables detail the categories that comprise other
operating income.
OTHER
INCOME
|
||||||||||||||||
(DOLLARS
IN THOUSANDS)
|
||||||||||||||||
Three
Months Ended June 30,
|
Increase
(Decrease)
|
|||||||||||||||
2008
|
2007
|
|||||||||||||||
$
|
$
|
$
|
%
|
|||||||||||||
Trust
and investment services
|
261 | 241 | 20 | 8.3 | ||||||||||||
Service
charges on deposit accounts
|
308 | 311 | (3 | ) | (1.0 | ) | ||||||||||
Other
service charges and fees
|
144 | 120 | 24 | 20.0 | ||||||||||||
Commissions
|
338 | 275 | 63 | 22.9 | ||||||||||||
Gains
(losses) on securities transactions
|
86 | (2 | ) | 88 | +100.0 | |||||||||||
Gain
on sale of mortgages
|
37 | 41 | (4 | ) | (9.8 | ) | ||||||||||
Earnings
on bank owned life insurance
|
156 | 92 | 64 | 69.6 | ||||||||||||
Other
miscellaneous income
|
33 | 97 | (64 | ) | (66.0 | ) | ||||||||||
Total
other income
|
1,363 | 1,175 | 188 | 16.0 |
OTHER
INCOME
|
||||||||||||||||
(DOLLARS
IN THOUSANDS)
|
||||||||||||||||
Six
Months Ended June 30,
|
Increase
(Decrease)
|
|||||||||||||||
2008
|
2007
|
|||||||||||||||
$
|
$
|
$
|
%
|
|||||||||||||
Trust
and investment services
|
535 | 491 | 44 | 9.0 | ||||||||||||
Service
charges on deposit accounts
|
615 | 581 | 34 | 5.9 | ||||||||||||
Other
service charges and fees
|
267 | 240 | 27 | 11.3 | ||||||||||||
Commissions
|
645 | 527 | 118 | 22.4 | ||||||||||||
Gains
(losses) on securities transactions
|
112 | (2 | ) | 114 | +100.0 | |||||||||||
Gain
on sale of mortgages
|
75 | 61 | 14 | 23.0 | ||||||||||||
Earnings
on bank owned life insurance
|
303 | 175 | 128 | 73.1 | ||||||||||||
Other
miscellaneous income
|
167 | 217 | (50 | ) | (23.0 | ) | ||||||||||
Total
other income
|
2,719 | 2,290 | 429 | 18.7 |
Trust and
investment services revenue, which consist of income from traditional trust
services and income from investment services provided through a third party, was
up moderately for both the three months and six months ending 2008 compared to
the same periods in 2007. For the three and six months ended June 30,
2008, income from traditional trust services increased by $32,000 or 17.6% and
$62,000 or 17.4% over the same periods in 2007. These increases
resulted from an increased number of trust accounts under management as well as
higher estate settlement activity. Income from investment services
decreased $10,000 or 14.2% and $18,000 or 15.6%, for the three and six months
ending June 30, 2008, compared to the same periods in 2007, as weakened equity
markets resulted in reduced interest in non-deposit investments. The
prior year’s periods were elevated due to more favorable equity climate and a
higher degree of interest in IRA contributions. The Bank has run an
IRA special during tax season for the past two years. The 2007
special was more successful than the 2008 special which faced a much more
difficult economic environment. Management believes customers did not
have as high a level of available funds to set aside for retirement in 2008 due
to a higher cost of living. The trust and investment services area
continues to be an area of strategic focus for the Bank, in an effort to develop
a comprehensive line of financial solutions across the
organization.
Service
charges on deposit accounts reflected little change for the quarter and were up
moderately for the six months compared to the same periods in
2007. Overdraft fees on checking accounts generally account for 90%
of the total income realized on service charges on deposit
accounts. Overdraft income alone was $269,000 for the quarter and
$546,000 for the six months ending June 30, 2008. This represented a
decline of $9,000 or 3.2% for the quarter and an increase of $27,000 or 5.2% for
the six month period, compared to the same periods of 2007. The
direction of overdraft income largely determines the direction of total income
from service charges on deposit accounts. Overdraft income has
averaged $91,000 for the first six months of 2008, but the second quarter
average slowed slightly. Management believes consumers are more
closely monitoring their finances with many increases in the cost of living
occurring.
Other
service charges and fees increased $24,000 or 20.0%, and $27,000 or 11.2% for
the three and six-month periods ending June 30, 2008, compared to the same
periods in 2007. Fees were higher for both periods due to increased
mortgage activity, while stronger letter of credit fee income in the second
quarter of 2008 caused the larger percentage increase to be for the quarter
ending 2008. Letter of credit fees were up $13,000 or 40.6% for the
quarter but were nearly level for the six-month period ending June 30, 2008,
compared to the same prior year periods. Mortgage document
preparation fees increased $17,000 or 154.5%, and $26,000 or 143.6% for the
three and six month periods ending June 30, 2008, compared to the same periods
of 2007. While the 2008 mortgage activity could not be characterized
as strong, it was significantly up from very weak 2007 levels. Offsetting these
higher fee amounts, the amount of fees realized on Star/Master Card issued was
lower for both periods due to a decrease in business debit card
fees.
Total
commission income continues to increase due primarily to the volume of debit
card transactions, which is the Bank’s largest source of commission income.
Debit card transaction commission income was responsible for nearly 85% of the
Bank’s total commission income for both the quarter and six-month periods ending
June 30, 2008. The check card exchange commission increased $51,000
or 22.1%, and $94,000 or 21.2% for the three and six-month periods ending June
30, 2008, compared to the same periods in 2007. Customers are
becoming more comfortable with the use of debit cards, as well as they are now
widely accepted by merchants, thereby increasing the number of transactions
processed. Higher energy and commodity prices have also played a factor in
increased the usage of debit cards. In addition to having more
transactions per customer, the Bank continues to increase the distribution of
debit cards to a larger segment of the Bank’s customer base.
Earnings
on Bank Owned Life Insurance (“BOLI”) increased $64,000 or 69.6% and $128,000 of
73.1% for the three and six month periods ending June 30, 2008, compared to the
same periods in 2007. The increases in BOLI income were a direct
result of additional BOLI purchases of life insurance. The growth in
the cash surrender value of the Bank’s BOLI is reflected as BOLI
income. The Bank purchased an additional $2.4 million of BOLI in May
2007 and $2.6 million in August of 2007. Management does not
anticipate any further BOLI purchases for several years.
The
reduction to the allowance for off balance sheet credits is recorded in the
miscellaneous income account. Conversely, when there is an increase
to the allowance for off balance sheet credits, it is recorded in miscellaneous
expense. During 2007, the Bank’s allowance for off balance sheet
credits was reduced by $61,000 and $76,000 for the quarter and six-months ending
June 30, 2008, which increased miscellaneous income. For the quarter
ending June 30, 2008, an increase in the allowance for off balance sheet credit
was required so miscellaneous income was not impacted. For the
six-months ending June 30, 2008, miscellaneous income was increased by $23,000
due to one reduction in the allowance for off balance sheet credits, compared to
increases of $76,000 from the same transactions in 2007. As a
result, the fluctuations in miscellaneous income for both the three and six
month periods ended June 30, 2008, are due principally to decreases in the
allowance for off balance sheet credits.
Operating
Expenses
The
following tables provides details of the Bank’s operating expenses for the three
and six months ended June 30, 2008, compared to the same periods in 2007, along
with the percentage increase or decrease for 2008 compared to the previous
year. The supporting narrative explaining expense categories
reflecting large dollar or large percentage changes follows the
tables.
OPERATING
EXPENSES
|
||||||||||||||||
(DOLLARS
IN THOUSANDS)
|
||||||||||||||||
Three
Months Ended June 30,
|
Increase
(Decrease)
|
|||||||||||||||
2008
|
2007
|
|||||||||||||||
$
|
$
|
$
|
%
|
|||||||||||||
Salaries
and employee benefits
|
2,607 | 2,379 | 228 | 9.6 | ||||||||||||
Occupancy
expenses
|
306 | 278 | 28 | 10.1 | ||||||||||||
Equipment
expenses
|
237 | 225 | 12 | 5.3 | ||||||||||||
Advertising
& marketing expenses
|
86 | 154 | (68 | ) | (44.2 | ) | ||||||||||
Computer
software & data
|
||||||||||||||||
processing
expenses
|
369 | 353 | 16 | 4.5 | ||||||||||||
Bank
shares tax
|
225 | 114 | 111 | 97.4 | ||||||||||||
Professional
services
|
352 | 260 | 92 | 35.4 | ||||||||||||
Other
operating expenses
|
410 | 545 | (135 | ) | (24.8 | ) | ||||||||||
Total
Operating Expenses
|
4,592 | 4,308 | 284 | 6.6 |
OPERATING
EXPENSES
|
||||||||||||||||
(DOLLARS
IN THOUSANDS)
|
||||||||||||||||
Six
Months Ended June 30,
|
Increase
(Decrease)
|
|||||||||||||||
2008
|
2007
|
|||||||||||||||
$
|
$
|
$
|
%
|
|||||||||||||
Salaries
and employee benefits
|
5,245 | 4,763 | 482 | 10.1 | ||||||||||||
Occupancy
expenses
|
608 | 574 | 34 | 5.9 | ||||||||||||
Equipment
expenses
|
469 | 456 | 13 | 2.9 | ||||||||||||
Advertising
& marketing expenses
|
167 | 255 | (88 | ) | (34.5 | ) | ||||||||||
Computer
software & data
|
||||||||||||||||
processing
expenses
|
757 | 716 | 41 | 5.7 | ||||||||||||
Bank
shares tax
|
364 | 224 | 140 | 62.5 | ||||||||||||
Professional
services
|
606 | 517 | 89 | 17.2 | ||||||||||||
Other
operating expenses
|
780 | 937 | (157 | ) | (16.8 | ) | ||||||||||
Total
Operating Expenses
|
8,996 | 8,442 | 554 | 6.6 |
Salaries
and employee benefits are the largest category of the Bank’s operating expenses,
typically representing more than 55% of the total operating
expenses. For the three months and six months ended June 30, 2008,
salary expense alone increased $166,000 or 9.3% and $333,000 or 9.4%, while
benefit costs increased $62,000 or 10.3% and $149,000 or 12.3% compared to the
same respective periods in 2007. The hiring of additional staff
is the predominate reason for the increase in salaries; however, normal salary
raises also contributed to the increase. The Bank’s number of full
time equivalent employees rose from 191 as of June 2007 to 199 as of June
2008.
Benefit
costs rose at a slightly faster pace than salaries due to higher insurance and
pension costs. Insurance costs include health, life and workers
compensation. Life insurance and workers compensation insurance costs
grew at a faster pace than medical insurance costs, due to higher workers
compensation claims and rate increases on the life insurance. Life
and workers compensation insurance increased $26,000 or 36.0% for the first six
months of 2008, while medical insurance increased $36,000 or
6.8%. Pension costs have risen faster than salary costs due to larger
amounts of the workforce being eligible and fully vested in the pension plan and
a low level of employee turnover. Pension costs increased $22,000 or
19.4% and $40,000 or 17.8% for the quarter and six month periods ending June 30,
2008, as compared to the same periods of 2007. The Bank strives to
provide competitive compensation and benefits to attract and retain quality
personnel, while maintaining the cost of salaries and benefits to approximately
55% of the total operating expenses.
Occupancy
expenses consist of the following:
|
·
|
Depreciation
of bank buildings
|
|
·
|
Real
estate taxes and property insurance
|
|
·
|
Utilities
|
|
·
|
Building
repair and maintenance
|
Occupancy
expenses for the three and six months ended June 30, 2008, increased $28,000 or
10.1% and $34,000 or 5.9% over the same periods in 2007. The
increases were spread across all occupancy categories; however, real estate
taxes and utilities were responsible for the majority of the
increase. Real estate taxes are higher due to additional Bank owned
property and higher tax rates. Real estate taxes were up $14,000 or
29.6%, and $25,000 or 26.1% for the quarter and six-month periods ending June
30, 2008, compared to the same prior year periods. Utilities
increased $9,000 or 11.1% and $15,000 or 8.2% as the cost of oil, electric, and
natural gas service have all increased well beyond the rate of
inflation.
Advertising
and marketing expenses for the three and six months ended June 30, 2008, were
$68,000 or 44.2% and $88,000 or 34.5% lower than the same periods in
2007. The largest reductions have been in television advertising,
with billboard and point of sale advertising also experiencing significant
percentage reductions. Management is leveraging the television marketing
campaign developed in 2007, without incurring the significant cost of developing
new ads. Additionally, billboard and point of sale advertising has
been refined and has been conducted with more focus to segments of the Bank’s
customers and prospective customers. The public relations related
advertising has not been reduced; therefore, it now averages approximately 30%
of total advertising and marketing expenditures up from approximately 25% in
2007. Management is planning on spending more advertising and
marketing dollars in the second half of the year as the Bank prepares to open
its eighth full service branch in Manheim, Pennsylvania in September of
2008. As a result, advertising and marketing expenses are not
expected to reflect as significant of declines by the end of the
year.
Computer
software and data processing expenses combined for the three and six months
ended June 30, 2008, increased $16,000 or 4.5%, and $41,000 or 5.7%, over the
same periods of 2007. The computer software and data processing
expenses are comprised of software amortization, software purchases, software
maintenance agreements and STAR network processing fees. These
moderate increases were generally caused by higher STAR network fees and higher
software maintenance fees. STAR network fees grew $11,000 or 5.8%,
and $19,000 or 4.9% for the three months and six month periods ending June 30
2008, compared to the same periods of 2007. STAR network fees are the fees paid
to process all ATM and debit card transactions. The STAR charges are
based on a per transaction basis; therefore, as customers increase usage of
their cards, the fee also increases. Software maintenance fees were
driven higher as a result of many first year renewals of software purchased in
2007. Software was added in 2007 linking ATM and debit card
processing to the Bank’s core processing on a real time basis.
Bank
shares tax is a tax assessed on banks operating in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania. At the end of 2007, the Pennsylvania Department of
Revenue made a significant policy change regarding shares previously exempt from
the tax. The tax was previously viewed to be a tax on the
shareholders with an exemption allowed for charitable trust
shares. Effective January 1, 2008, the Department of Revenue has
taken the position that the Bank Shares Tax is a tax on the Bank and not the
shareholder. Over 30% of the Bank’s issued and outstanding shares
were previously exempt as charitable trust shares and now must be included in
the shares tax calculation. As a result, the Bank has had to
significantly increase the accrual for shares tax expense, which began in the
second quarter of 2008 after management evaluated and determined that no
recourse was available to reduce this tax burden. Management
anticipates that the 2008 Bank shares tax expense for all of 2008 will be
$728,000, which would be a $279,000 or a 62.1% increase over the $449,000 of
Bank shares tax expense incurred during 2007. Approximately $250,000
of the anticipated tax increase would be attributable to the States policy
change.
Professional
services include accounting and auditing, legal costs, Federal Reserve charges,
courier services, pension and 401(K) administrative services, payroll procession
charges, and student loan servicing, in addition to a multitude of smaller third
party professional services. Professional services grew significantly
in the second quarter of 2008 as legal costs and shareholder expenses grew
$21,000 or 123.5%, and $26,000 or 89.7%, respectively, over the same period of
2007, in connection with the formation of a Bank Holding Company. The
Bank Holding Company was approved by shareholders in April of 2008, regulatory
bodies shortly thereafter, and became effective July 1, 2008. Third
party processing charges were also partially responsible for the increases in
professional services, with a $6,000 increase for payroll processing, $9,000
increase for student loan processing, and $9,000 increase in trust department
processing fees. In addition to these third party increases,
management entered into a large engagement with the Bank’s core processing
vendor in March of 2008. The engagement is to conduct a comprehensive
business processing assessment that is expected to be performed over a six month
period, which began in June of 2008. Initial assessment services were
performed during the second quarter with the main engagement beginning in the
second quarter of 2008.
Other
operating expenses include all of the remainder of the Bank’s operating
expenses. Some of the larger items included in this category
are:
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Postage
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FDIC
insurance assessment
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OCC
assessment
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General
insurance
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·
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Director
fees and expense
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General
supplies
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Charitable
contributions
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Delinquent
loan expenses
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Other
operating expenses for the three and six months ended June 30, 2008, decreased
$135,000 or 24.8% and $157,000 or 16.8% over the same periods in
2007. The majority of this decrease is due to OREO expenses incurred
in the second quarter 2007, for which there is no comparable activity in
2008. A loss of $116,000 was recorded on an OREO property when the
value was written down based on a sales agreement the Bank entered
into. The reduction in other operating expenses was also aided by a
reduction in director fees and directors deferred compensation, which were lower
by $21,000 and $22,000 for the three and six months ending June 30, 2008,
compared to the same prior year periods, as there were less required deferred
compensation payments in connection with previously deferred board
pay. The directors deferred compensation plan has not been available
for new deferrals since 1999. As a result, when annuity payment
obligations are completed on present and past directors, the Bank’s payment
stream is reduced. Other reductions in postage, other loan expenses,
publications, dues and contributions, and general insurance also contributed to
the reductions in other operating expenses, while an increase in the allowance
for off balance sheet credits of $18,000 in the second quarter effected both the
second quarter and year-to-date miscellaneous expense.
Income
Taxes
The
majority of the Bank’s income is taxed at a corporate rate of 34% for Federal
income tax purposes. Certain items of income are not subject to
Federal income tax, such as tax-exempt interest income on loans and securities;
therefore, the effective income tax rate for the Bank is lower than the stated
tax rate. The effective tax rate is calculated by dividing the Bank’s
provision for income tax by the pretax income for the applicable period. The
Bank’s provision for Federal income taxes is shown near the bottom of the
Statement of Income found on page 5.
To
increase financial performance, management had followed a strategy for over five
years of increasing the amount of federal tax-free assets, which includes
municipal bonds in the securities portfolio, tax-free loans, and
BOLI. By carrying a significant amount of tax-free assets management
reduced the effective tax rate from over 24% in years prior to 2000, to less
than 20% since 2002. The effective tax rate dropped even lower to
13.1% in 2006 and 9.9% in 2007 as the amount of tax free assets remained level
while the Bank’s pre-tax income declined by more than one-third from 2005
levels.
The
combination of lower pre-tax income levels in 2006 and 2007, and maintaining
roughly the same percentage of tax-free assets caused the Bank to be in an
alternative minimum tax (AMT) position beginning in 2006. The Bank
was again subject to AMT tax in 2007, and projects to be subject to AMT at the
end of 2008. The amount of AMT paid is able to be carried forward as
a credit against future tax when the Bank is no longer subject to
AMT. Because the Bank has been subject to AMT, the full
tax-equivalent yield on tax-free assets is not being realized; therefore,
management discontinued the purchasing of tax free municipal bonds and had been
less aggressive in pricing tax free loans since 2007.
For the
first six months of 2008, the Bank’s effective tax rate was 12.7%. Management
anticipates the Bank’s effective tax rate will continue to increase for the
remainder of the year as the Bank’s pre-tax income improves and as the amount of
tax-free assets as a percentage of the balance sheet declines.
Financial
Condition
Cash
and Cash Equivalents
Cash and
cash equivalents consist of the cash on hand in the Bank’s vaults, operational
transaction accounts with the Federal Reserve Bank (“FRB”), and deposits in
other banks. The FRB requires the Bank to keep a specified amount of
cash in its vaults and in the deposit accounts at the FRB. Known as
cash reserves, these funds provide for the daily clearing house activity of the
Bank and, therefore, fluctuate based on the volume of each day’s
transactions. As of June 30, 2008, the Bank had $20.2 million in cash
and cash equivalents, compared to $17.3 million and $20.8 million as of December
31, 2007, and June 30, 2007, respectively. The cash and cash
equivalents represent only one element of the Bank’s liquidity. For
further discussion on liquidity management see “Item 3. Quantitative
and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk.”
Securities
Available for Sale
As of
June 30, 2008, the Bank had $231.0 million of securities available for sale,
which accounted for 34.0% of the Bank’s assets. Securities available for sale
accounted for 30.4% and 30.1% of the Bank’s ending assets as of December 31,
2007, and March 31, 2007, respectively. Based on ending balances, the
securities portfolio grew $44.7 million or 24.0% since June 30, 2007, with $38.0
million of that growth occurring since December 31, 2007.
The Bank
generally will invest any excess liquidity into securities, primarily fixed
income bonds. The securities portfolio provides interest and dividend
income to supplement the interest income on loans. Additionally, the securities
portfolio assists the Bank’s management of both liquidity risk and interest rate
risk. In order to provide flexibility for management of liquidity and
interest rate risks, the securities portfolio is classified as available for
sale and reported at fair value. Management adjusts the value of all
the Bank’s securities on a monthly basis to fair market value as determined in
accordance with FAS 115
Accounting for Certain Investments in Debt & Equity Securities and
FAS 157 Fair Value Measurements.
Management has the ability and intent to hold all debt securities until
maturity; and therefore generally does not record impairment on the bonds that
are currently valued below par. Approximately 2.0% of the Bank’s
securities portfolio is invested in equity securities. Equity
securities general pose a greater risk to loss of principal, as management no
longer has the ability to hold these securities to a maturity
date. Any significant loss in fair market value could be permanent;
therefore management does evaluate these securities for impairment on a
quarterly basis. Refer to “Item 3 Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about
Market Risk” for further discussion of risk strategies.
The
composition of the Bank’s securities portfolio based on fair market value is
shown in the following table.
SECURITIES
PORTFOLIO
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(DOLLARS
IN THOUSANDS)
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Period
Ending
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June
30, 2008
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December
31, 2007
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June
30, 2007
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$
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$
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%
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$
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%
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U.S.
treasuries & governmental agencies
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53,158 | 23.0 | 47,599 | 24.7 | 45,458 | 24.4 | ||||||||||||||||||
Mortgage-backed
securities
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51,635 | 22.4 | 33,097 | 17.1 | 27,230 | 14.6 | ||||||||||||||||||
Collateralized
mortgage obligations
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37,043 | 16.0 | 36,833 | 19.1 | 32,214 | 17.3 | ||||||||||||||||||
Private
label collateralized mortgage obligations
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18,045 | 7.8 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | ||||||||||||||||||
Corporate
debt securities
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12,885 | 5.6 | 11,507 | 6.0 | 10,449 | 5.6 | ||||||||||||||||||
Obligations
of states and political subdivisions
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54,351 | 23.5 | 60,422 | 31.3 | 62,648 | 33.6 | ||||||||||||||||||
Equity
securities
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3,904 | 1.7 | 3,502 | 1.8 | 8,328 | 4.5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Total
securities
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231,021 | 100.0 | 192,960 | 100.0 | 186,327 | 100.0 |
Each
quarter management sets portfolio allocation guidelines and adjusts security
portfolio strategy generally based upon the following factors:
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Performance
of the various instruments
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Direction
of interest rates
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Slope
of the yield curve
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·
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ALCO
positions as to liquidity, interest rate risk, and net portfolio
value
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State
of the economy and credit risk
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Current
tax position
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At the
beginning of the year, the Bank was able to utilize the positively sloped
treasury curve to add higher yielding securities to the portfolio, increasing
portfolio income from both a volume and rate standpoint. This was
done in part to offset the slower loan growth being experienced by the
Bank. The majority of growth occurred in government agency sponsored
mortgage backed securities (MBS), private label mortgage backed securities
(PCMO), and collateralized mortgage obligations (CMO). Although the specific
structure of each of these types of instruments is slightly different, they have
some common characteristics that make them appropriate for the Bank’s investment
strategy. Mortgage backed securities in general match with the overall
objectives of the securities strategy of providing:
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a
stable and reliable cash flow for
liquidity
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sufficient
protection against credit risk with AAA rated
security
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strong
income compared to other debt
securities
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Investment
in a substantial amount of mortgage backed security types referred to above help
management in maintaining a stable five year ladder of cash flows which assists
with the Bank’s liquidity and interest rate risk position. While cash
flows coming off of mortgage back maturities do slow down and speed up as
interest rates increase or decrease the overall effect on the portfolio is
minimal and this cash flows act to soften the impact of other debt securities
being called or maturing in their entirety.
Obligations
of states and political subdivisions, often referred to as municipal bonds, are
tax-free securities that generally provide the highest yield in the Bank’s
securities portfolio. Recently the Bank has been in a tax position
that requires the payment of the alternative minimum tax (AMT). This
means that relative to the Bank’s income the Bank has an excessive amount of tax
free income that causes the federal taxable income to be below a minimal amount,
therefore the Bank becomes subject to an alternative minimum tax. Due
to the Bank’s AMT tax position, management has determined that the size of the
municipal bond holdings in relation to the rest of the securities portfolio
should be decreased. Sizable reductions in the Bank’s tax free assets
and increased income would enable the Bank to avoid AMT in 2009, at which time
the municipal bond portfolio would again be increased to take advantage of the
higher yields.
The U.S.
agency preferred stock securities and CRA fund are equity investments with no
stated maturity. This differs from the rest of the portfolio, which
are debt securities and have stated maturity dates. The preferred
stock investments pay dividends based upon the two-year treasury rate, with a
two-year reset, whereas the CRA fund pays monthly dividends. The U.S. agency
preferred stock and CRA fund carry moderate risk including the possibility of
principal losses.
The Bank
purchased the preferred stock due to the fact that it carries a tax preferred
status, which produces a higher yield. The Bank has reduced the book value
amount of preferred stock it owns from $5.6 million as of June 30, 2007, to $1.5
million as of June 30, 2008. All of the U.S. agency preferred stock
the Bank currently owns is Fannie Mae preferred stock. Management
already took $222,000 of impairment associated with the Fannie Mae preferred
stock in September of 2006. Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are Government
Sponsored Entities (GSE) that have performed poorly in the current mortgage
crisis and their ongoing viability was in question before the U.S. Government
took recent action to support the GSE’s with further capital
injections. The U.S. Government has also authorized the purchase of
GSE stock in order to prevent any collapse of these companies and their
collateral effects on the mortgage market. As a result, the market
pricing for the Fannie Mae preferred stock has been very volatile. As
of June 30, 2008 the Bank’s Fannie Mae preferred stock position was showing a
$359,000 unrealized loss. Management evaluates the Fannie Mae
preferred stock position on an ongoing basis. Management does have
the ability to hold the preferred stock investment and it is the current
position of management that more recent price declines are temporary and not
permanent. U.S. government support of the GSE’s should stabilize and improve the
fair market values of the preferred stock. The rate environment also affects the
fair market value of the Fannie Mae preferred stock because the dividend is
linked to the 2 year U.S. treasury yield and resets every two years, therefore
higher interest rates result in better performance. It is unlikely
that management would purchase additional U.S. Agency Preferred Stock because of
the poor past performance and volatility of the GSE preferred stocks, and also
because the effective yield on the instruments is tax-advantaged, these
instruments do not perform well when the Bank is in an AMT
position. Management has set a target price to sell the remaining
U.S. agency preferred stock.
The Bank
also owns an addition $3 million of book value of the Access Capital Community
Investment Fund, which is a CRA equity fund. The fund had a fair
market value of $2,762,000 as of June 30, 2008. Management continues
to monitor the CRA fund for any impairment. As of June 30, 2008,
management believes the unrealized holding losses carried on the CRA fund to be
temporary and not permanent. The CRA fund is structured similar to a
mutual fund where
dollars
are invested in CRA qualifying pools of securitized
assets. Management has other investment options that can provide CRA
credit including variable rate CRA bond funds that do not have fair value
exposure that the equity funds do. As a result management is
currently evaluating other CRA investments in an effort to both assist with the
Bank’s CRA compliance and the Bank’s securities performance. The
current guideline used by management for the amount to be invested in CRA
approved investments is approximately 0.5% of the Bank’s assets.
The
entire securities portfolio is reviewed monthly for credit risk and evaluated
quarterly for possible impairment. In terms of credit risk and
impairment, management most closely watches the Bank’s U.S. agency preferred
stock positions and the CRA fund since they do not have a stated maturity date.
Corporate bonds and private mortgage backed securities have the most potential
credit risk. As of June 30, 2008, all of the Bank’s private label mortgage
backed securities were at or above the credit standards established by the
regulators and the more stringent standards set by Bank policy. The Bank holds
$12.8 million of corporate bonds, some of which are rated below the Bank’s
initial purchase acceptable rating of Moody A3 or S&P A-, as stated in the
Bank’s investment policy. The corporate bond portfolio held by the
Bank is relatively short, with a weighted average life of 1.9
years. Management believes that there is little potential for loss
from these securities; therefore, they were not considered impaired as of June
30, 2008. The Board of Directors has approved management’s strategy
of continuing to hold these securities until maturity. This decision was based
upon management’s continued detailed analysis of these corporate bond holdings,
including the most recent news on all of these entities.
Loans
The Bank
had $386.8 million total outstanding loans as of June 30, 2008, a $11.0 million
or 2.9% increase from June 30, 2007, and a $1.4 million or 0.4% increase from
December 31, 2007. The following tables show the composition of the Bank’s loans
as of June 30, 2008, December 31, 2007, and June 30, 2007.
LOANS
BY MAJOR CATEGORY
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(DOLLARS
IN THOUSANDS)
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June
30,
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December
31,
|
June
30,
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2008
|
2007
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2007
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$
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$
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$
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Real
Estate
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Residential
(a)
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160,456 | 150,996 | 148,249 | |||||||||
Commercial
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128,835 | 131,297 | 126,910 | |||||||||
Construction
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15,836 | 16,960 | 14,453 | |||||||||
Commercial
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70,458 | 75,172 | 75,044 | |||||||||
Consumer
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10,907 | 10,896 | 11,222 | |||||||||
386,492 | 385,321 | 375,878 | ||||||||||
Less:
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Deferred
loan fees, net
|
318 | 322 | 324 | |||||||||
Allowance
for loan losses
|
4,033 | 3,682 | 3,539 | |||||||||
Total
net loans
|
382,141 | 381,317 | 372,015 |
(a)
|
Residential
real estate loans do not include mortgage loans sold to and serviced for
Fannie Mae. These loans
totaled $10,470,000 as June 30, 2008, $9,975,000 as of December 31,
2007, and $9,197,000 as of June 30, 2007.
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|
Residential
real estate loans consisting of first and second mortgages, and home equity
loans comprise the largest portion of the Bank’s total
loans. The residential real estate category is consistently
near 40% of the Bank’s total loans. The balances in the real estate
residential category grew $12.2 million or 8.2% from June 30, 2007, and $9.4
million or 6.2% from December 31, 2007. The strong growth in the
first six months of 2008 is indicative of mortgages with adjustable rates
non-standard terms being refinanced into traditional fixed rate
mortgages. Additionally, given recent negative national events with
regard to the mortgage industry, consumers are seeking local lenders to partner
with for their financing needs. Management believes that there may be
a slowdown in the mortgage origination when the housing market and subprime
situation begins to stabilize.
Home
Equity loans have averaged from 25% to 30% of the Bank’s residential real estate
loan portfolio. The use of home equity loans is motivated by the favorable tax
treatment of real estate secured loans compared to unsecured
loans. More recently the higher percentage of home ownership along
with recent gains in real estate valuations has made the home equity loan
available to more borrowers. Borrowers have become more financially
astute and now look first at their home’s equity as the prime collateral to
secure all types of borrowings, with many of these loans being used for
purposes
other
than home improvement. For example, many middle-income parents will
take out a home equity loan for college education costs, purchasing autos,
recreational vehicles, or other non real estate improvement
purposes. With property values decreasing in recent months, many
borrowers do not have as much equity to borrow against; therefore, the demand
for home equity loans has decreased. It is anticipated that when property values
recover this will again be a high growth segment of the loan
portfolio.
Commercial
real estate loan growth has essentially stagnated following years of robust
growth. The Bank provides credit to many small and medium sized
businesses. The Bank’s market area is very diverse and generally has
a healthy economic climate, however, when a national economic decline is
substantial and ongoing, the local economy is impacted. The national
declines in housing, in terms of both valuation and building, have also impacted
the Bank’s market area. In addition, the recent spikes in energy
prices have impacted both consumers and businesses alike. Even local
businesses are not likely to expand until some of the economic uncertainty is
eliminated. The Bank continues to benefit from mergers in the market area by
gaining new commercial customers who choose to leave their previous bank after
it changes hands. The Bank maintains competitive rates on fixed term loans, as
well as favorable terms, including few prepayment penalties and
fees.
Consumer
loans declined from $11.2 million as of June 30, 2007, to $10.9 million as of
June 30, 2008. Competition for consumer loans continues to increase
as auto manufacturers provide attractive financing rates. Additional
it has become common for retail stores, appliance, furniture, and equipment
manufacturers to provide their own financing. The trend of using home
equity loans to finance many consumer types of debt beyond home improvement
loans has led to less consumer loans and more residential real estate
loans. Additionally, the increased use of credit cards diminishes the
need for consumer loans. The Bank did not experience any decline in
consumer loans from December 31, 2007 until June 30, 2008 as many consumers
needed to access all available credit as other sources of real estate secured
credit were not available due to declines in collateral
value. Management anticipates that the need for unsecured credit will
grow during this current credit crisis.
For
information regarding how the length of the loan portfolio and its repricing
affects interest rate risk please see “Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative
Disclosure about Market Risk.”
Non-Performing
Assets
Non-performing
assets include:
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Non-accrual
loans
|
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·
|
Loans
past due 90 days or more and still
accruing
|
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·
|
Troubled
debt restructurings
|
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·
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Other
real estate owned
|
On June
30, 2008, the Bank had $1,859,000 of non-performing assets, compared to
$1,598,000 and $1,091,000 as of December 31, 2007, and June 30, 2007,
respectively.
NON-PERFORMING
ASSETS
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(DOLLARS
IN THOUSANDS)
|
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June
30,
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Dec.
31,
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June
30,
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2008
|
2007
|
2007
|
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$
|
$
|
$
|
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Non-accrual
loans
|
683 | 425 | - | |||||||||
Loans
past due 90 days or more and still accruing
|
632 | 498 | 510 | |||||||||
Troubled
debt restructurings
|
24 | - | - | |||||||||
Total
non-performing loans
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1,339 | 923 | 510 | |||||||||
Other
real estate owned
|
520 | 675 | 581 | |||||||||
Total
non-performing assets
|
1,859 | 1,598 | 1,091 | |||||||||
Non-performing
assets to net loans
|
0.49 | % | 0.42 | % | 0.29 | % |
Loans
past 90 days due and still accruing are comprised of loans from all categories
in varying amounts. The largest portion of the $632,000 balance is a
home equity loan with a current balance of $492,000. The Bank is currently
pursuing a deed in lieu of foreclosure on this property. Management
believes there may be a small loss associated with this loan as the Bank will
likely list and sell the property in a declining real estate
market.
Non-accrual
loans experienced increases of $261,000 and $768,000 from the December 31, 2007,
and June 30, 2007, levels and were primarily responsible for the increases in
total non-performing loans for the same respective periods. These increases
resulted from the addition of several small business loans to non-accrual
status. Bank management has taken a proactive approach in managing
the delinquent credits by placing business loans, including those well secured
by real estate or other collateral on non-accrual status regardless of
anticipated losses. As of June 30, 2008, seven of the nine loans on
non-accrual were to small businesses in amounts less than $40,000 each, for a
combined total of $179,000.
One of
the non-accrual loans for $400,000 has experienced payments in the current
period; however, the loan was classified as doubtful in the fourth quarter of
2007 because it is unsecured and future performance of the loan based on the
original terms was in question. The borrower is in the real estate
development industry, an industry that has experienced significant weakening
since last summer. Management made the borrower aware of the need to either
pledge collateral or pay off the loan. It is anticipated that the
loan will be paid off prior to the end of 2008 at no loss to the
Bank.
The final
loan on non-accrual in the amount of $104,000 is related to a business loan that
is secured by a second lien on personal real estate. The business has
slowed and management determined that there could be some loss associated with
the loan. Payments continue to be made, and it is anticipated that
the personal real estate will be refinanced to pay off the first lien holder and
the Bank.
Two small
business loans totaling $24,000 are under restructured terms as of June 30,
2008. One loan for $23,000 was a line of credit which was
restructured to a term loan.
As of
June 30, 2008, the Bank held one OREO property, which is under an agreement of
sale. This is the second agreement of sale the Bank has negotiated on
this property since late 2007. In April 2008, the potential buyers,
who had signed an agreement of sale in 2007, chose not to go to settlement, and
as per the agreement of sale, the Bank was awarded the $62,500 non-refundable
down payment. As a result, the Bank placed the property up for sale
again. The Bank obtained a new agreement of sale in the second
quarter of 2008 with a new party for the recorded value of the
property. Settlement is anticipated in the final quarter of 2008,
pending the completion of a due-diligence period whereby the property meets all
contingencies of the agreement.
Allowance
for Loan Losses
The
allowance for loan losses is established to cover any losses inherent in the
loan portfolio. Management reviews the adequacy of the allowance each
quarter based upon a detailed analysis and calculation of the allowance for loan
losses. This calculation is based upon a systematic methodology for
determining the allowance for loan losses in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles. The calculation includes estimates and is
based upon losses inherent in the loan portfolio. The calculation,
and detailed analysis supporting it, emphasizes delinquent and non-performing
loans. The allowance calculation includes specific provisions for
non-performing loans and general allocations to cover anticipated losses on all
loan types based on historical losses. Based on the quarterly loan
loss calculation, management will adjust the provision to loan losses as
necessary. Changes to the allowance for loan losses during the year
will generally be affected by three events:
|
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|
Charge-off
of loans considered not recoverable
|
|
·
|
Recovery
of loans previously charged off
|
|
·
|
Provision
for loan loss
|
The
Allowance for Loan Losses Table below shows the activity in the allowance for
loan losses for the six-month periods ended June 30, 2008, and
2007. At the bottom of the table two benchmark percentages are
shown. The first is net charge-offs as a percentage of average loans
outstanding for the year. The second is the total allowance for loan
losses as a percentage of total loans.
ALLOWANCE
FOR LOAN LOSSES
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(DOLLARS
IN THOUSANDS)
|
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Six
Months Ended
|
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June
30,
|
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2008
|
2007
|
|||||||
$
|
$
|
|||||||
Balance
at January 1,
|
3,682 | 3,244 | ||||||
Loans
charged off:
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Real
estate
|
- | - | ||||||
Commercial
and industrial
|
25 | 891 | ||||||
Consumer
|
46 | 87 | ||||||
Total
charged off
|
71 | 978 | ||||||
Recoveries
of loans previously charged off:
|
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Real
estate
|
- | - | ||||||
Commercial
and industrial
|
58 | 8 | ||||||
Consumer
|
15 | 29 | ||||||
Total
recovered
|
73 | 37 | ||||||
Net
loans charged off
|
(2 | ) | 941 | |||||
Provision
charged to operating expense
|
349 | 1,236 | ||||||
Balance
at June 30,
|
4,033 | 3,539 | ||||||
Net
charge-offs (reserves) as a %
|
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of
average total loans outstanding
|
0.00 | % | 0.25 | % | ||||
Allowance
at end of period as a % of total loans
|
1.04 | % | 0.94 | % |
Charge-offs
for the first quarter of 2008 were $71,000 compared to $978,000 for the same
period in 2007. The charge-offs in the first six-months of 2008
represent a typical level of consumer loan and small business loan charge-offs
that would result from management charging off unsecured debt over 90 days
delinquent with little likelihood of recovery. The significantly
higher charge offs in 2007 were primarily the result of two commercial loans
totaling $844,000 being charged off in the first quarter 2007 when the business
ceased operations. Through June 30, 2008, the Bank provided $349,000
to the allowance for loan losses, compared to $1,236,000 in the same period of
2007. The provision is used to increase the allowance for loan losses
at a pace similar to the growth of the loan portfolio. The additional provision
in 2007 was to partially offset the reduction to the allowance for loan losses
caused by the charge offs.
The
allowance as a percentage of total loans represents the portion of the total
loan portfolio for which an allowance has been provided. The Bank typically
maintains this percentage between 0.85% and 0.95%. The composition of the Bank’s
loan portfolio has not changed materially from 2007 to 2008; however, management
views the overall risk profile of the portfolio to be higher in 2008, as a
result of more loans classified as substandard and special
mention. These classifications require larger provision amounts due
to a higher potential risk of loss. Management anticipates
maintaining the allowance as a percentage of total loans above the target range
for the foreseeable future.
The net
charge-offs as a percentage of average total loans outstanding indicates the
percentage of the Bank’s total loan portfolio that has been charged off during
the period. The Bank has historically experienced very low net
charge-off percentages due to management’s strong credit practices. The 0.00%
shown for the first six-months of 2008 represents recoveries in excess of
charge-offs, which infrequently occurs. In the first quarter of 2008,
the Bank received a $50,000 legal recovery as part of an agreement involving
several banks and a defaulting borrower related to the $844,000 of charge-off’s
to a commercial borrower in the first quarter of 2007. No further
collections are expected regarding this commercial borrower.
Premises
and Equipment
Premises
and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation, increased by $501,000 of 2.8%
and $1,002,000 of 5.8% from December 31, 2007, and June 30, 2007, respectively.
The increase is primarily related to the current construction of the Bank’s
newest full-service branch, located in Manheim, Pennsylvania. There
was also a minimal increase related to the
completion
of renovations on the existing drive-thru in Ephrata that occurred in September
2007. It is anticipated that premises and equipment will increase
further in 2008 as construction is completed for the Manheim
branch. The Bank continues to evaluate its current facilities and
comprehensively plan for any future additions. The increase in
premises and equipment due to new investments was partially offset by annual
depreciation.
Deposits
The
Bank’s total deposits increased $37.9 million or 8.0% from June 30, 2007, to
June 30, 2008. Total deposits increased $30.4 million or 6.3% from
December 31, 2007, to June 30, 2008. The following tables illustrate
the Bank’s level of deposits as of June 30, 2008, compared to December 31, 2007,
and June 30, 2007 respectively.
DEPOSITS
BY MAJOR CLASSIFICATION
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(DOLLARS
IN THOUSANDS)
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June
30,
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December
31,
|
June
30,
|
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2008
|
2007
|
2007
|
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$
|
$
|
$
|
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Non-interest
bearing demand deposits
|
111,715 | 107,839 | 99,575 | |||||||||
NOW
accounts
|
66,755 | 61,345 | 59,200 | |||||||||
Money
market deposit accounts
|
35,871 | 39,474 | 38,918 | |||||||||
Savings
deposits
|
75,249 | 67,344 | 70,769 | |||||||||
Time
deposits
|
212,174 | 193,880 | 193,772 | |||||||||
Brokered
time deposits
|
7,346 | 8,844 | 9,005 | |||||||||
Total
deposits
|
509,110 | 478,726 | 471,239 |
Customer
deposits continue to be the Bank’s primary source of funds. The Bank
has historically benefited from a stable deposit base with a large portion of
the total deposits consisting of non-interest bearing demand deposit accounts
and interest bearing and savings accounts. In addition to these two
deposit types; management also considers interest-bearing NOW and MMDA accounts
to be part of the Bank’s core deposits.
The
growth and mix of deposits is often driven by several factors
including:
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·
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Convenience
and service provided
|
|
·
|
Fees
|
|
·
|
Permanence
of the institution
|
|
·
|
Possible
risks associated with other investment
opportunities
|
|
·
|
Current
rates paid on deposits compared to competitor
rates
|
The
Bank’s core deposits grew $13.6 million and $21.1 million since December 31 and
June 30, 2007, respectively. The Bank has benefited from the recent changes in
several of the above factors in the local market. In the past year, two mergers
have been announced that directly effect our competition. One of the mergers is
completed and the other one is due to occur in the third quarter. As
a result, many customers moved their deposits to Ephrata National after becoming
dissatisfied with new fee structures and concerns about services provided by the
new institution. Management recognizes that while the local mergers have
benefited the Bank’s deposit growth, it is not typical growth and is likely to
be short lived. Management does anticipate with the opening of a new
branch in the third quarter that Bank will gain additional growth in core
deposits from the new market area.
Time
deposits are typically a more rate sensitive product making it a less reliable
source of funding. Time deposits fluctuate as consumers search for
the best rates in the market, with less allegiance to any particular financial
institution. Due to current adequate funding levels from all sources, the Bank’s
recent time deposit strategy has been to offer rates that meet or slightly
exceed the average rates offered by the local competing banks. The
Bank did benefit earlier in the year when consumers were highly concerned with a
declining stock market and the time deposit rates of the Bank compared very
favorably to local competition. Even though time deposits will likely
not provide equity like returns over the long-term, they are a safe investment
with FDIC coverage to insure no loss of principal below $100,000.
This
favorable environment was responsible for generated the $18.3 million or 9.4%
grow in time deposits that occurred between December 31, 2007, and June 30,
2008. Nearly all of this growth occurred in the first quarter of
2008. The majority of the growth has been in terms less than 18
months, which have lower rates, indicating that customers are not
looking
for long-term investments with the best return, but a temporary safe investment.
Management expects that when equity investments begin to rebound in performance
there will be a reduction in the Bank’s time deposits.
Subsequent
to March 31, 2008, management has taken a more conservative pricing approach to
time deposits and has been able to hold the levels reached in the first quarter
but not grow beyond them. If the economic environment improves and
loan demand begins to grow it would be anticipated that management would return
to the normal time deposit pricing approach.
For more
details regarding how the length of the deposit portfolio and its repricing
affects interest rate risk please see “Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative
Disclosure about Market Risk.”
Borrowings
Total
borrowings were $97.0 million, $82.1 million and $77.5 million as of June 30,
2008, December 31, 2007, and June 30, 2007, respectively. The Bank
was not borrowing overnight funds as of June 30, 2008, and 2007, but was
borrowing $100,000 as of December 31, 2007. These short-term funds
are used for immediate liquidity needs and are not typically part of an ongoing
liquidity or interest rate risk strategy, and therefore, they fluctuate more
rapidly.
Long-term
borrowings increased $15.0 million and $19.5 million from December 31, 2007, and
June 30, 2007, respectively to June 30, 2008. The Bank uses two main sources for
long-term borrowings: the Federal Home Loan Bank (“FHLB”) and
repurchase agreements through brokers or correspondent banks. Both of
these types of borrowings are used as a secondary source of funding, and
importantly, to mitigate interest rate risk. Management will continue
to analyze and compare the costs and benefits of borrowing versus obtaining
funding from deposits.
The
Bank’s borrowings with FHLB are primarily fixed rate loans. The
$10 million of new advances obtained in the first quarter of 2008 were all fixed
rate advances with no call provisions. The Bank also occasionally
uses convertible select loans that give advantageous pricing compared to fixed
rate loans; however they also have additional risk due to a call feature being
included on the loan. The call feature may be based on a time
requirement or a specific rate requirement. The Bank held $25.0
million of convertible select loans on June 30, 2008, and December 31, 2007,
compared to $20.0 million as of June 30, 2007. Management monitors
the amount of convertible select loans that could be called in any one year to
ensure the Bank does not have a concentrated amount of call risk in any one
year.
As of
June 30, 2008 the Bank held $25.0 million of repurchase borrowings compared to
$20.0 million as of December 31, 2007, and $10.0 million as of June 30,
2008. Repurchase agreements are designed whereby a loan is obtained
by pledging individual securities from the securities portfolio as
collateral. When the loan is paid off the collateral is
returned. Like FHLB convertible select loans, repurchase agreements
can carry more risk than fixed rate funding if there are call provisions;
however, the Bank entered repurchase agreements where rate caps were purchased
to provide specific interest rate risk protection. The interest
rate on this type of borrowing is generally more favorable than long-term fixed
rates and therefore assists the Bank in increasing net interest
margin. In all cases the rate advantage of callable borrowing
structures is weighed against any additional interest rate risk exposure assumed
compared to non-callable borrowing structures. Management views
repurchase agreement transactions as a diversification of funding outside of the
FHLB, because principally the same funding structures can be obtained as those
available through the FHLB.
In order
to limit the Bank’s exposure and reliance to a single funding source, the Bank’s
Asset Liability Policy sets a goal of maintaining the amount of borrowings from
the FHLB to 15% of the Bank’s asset size. As of June 30, 2008, the
Bank was within this policy guideline at 10.6% of asset size with $72.0 million
of total FHLB borrowings. The Bank also has a policy that
limits total borrowing from all sources to the 150% of the Bank’s
capital. As of June 30, 2008, total borrowings from all sources
amounted to 142.4% of the Bank’s capital. The Bank has maintained
FHLB borrowings and total borrowings within these limits in the first six months
of 2008 and throughout 2007. The Bank continues to be well under the
FHLB maximum borrowing capacity (MBC), which is currently $225.9
million. The Bank’s two internal policy limits are far more
restrictive than the FHLB MBC, which is calculated and set quarterly by
FHLB.
Stockholders’
Equity
Federal
Regulatory authorities require banks to meet minimum capital
levels. The Bank maintains capital ratios well above those minimum
levels and higher than the Bank’s peer group average. The
risk-weighted capital ratios are calculated by dividing capital by the
risk-weighted assets. Regulatory guidelines determine the
risk-weighted assets by assigning assets to one of four risk-weighted
categories. The calculation of Tier I Capital to Risk Weighted
Average Assets includes a reduction to capital for the Allowance for Loan
Losses, thereby making this ratio lower than the Total Capital to Risk-Weighted
Assets ratio.
The
following table reflects the Bank’s capital ratios compared to the regulatory
capital requirements.
Regulatory
Capital Ratios
|
Capital
Ratios
|
Regulatory
Requirements
|
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As
of
|
As
of
|
|||||||||||||||
June
30,
|
June
30,
|
Adequately
|
Well
|
|||||||||||||
2008
|
2007
|
Capitalized
|
Capitalized
|
|||||||||||||
Total
Capital to Risk-Weighted Assets
|
17.0 | % | 17.0 | % | 8.0 | % | 10.0 | % | ||||||||
Tier
I Capital to Risk-Weighted Assets
|
16.1 | % | 16.1 | % | 4.0 | % | 6.0 | % | ||||||||
Tier
I Capital to Average Assets
|
10.4 | % | 10.9 | % | 4.0 | % | 5.0 | % |
The high
level of capital maintained by the Bank provides a greater degree of financial
soundness as well as acting as a non-interest bearing source of
funds. A high level of capital also makes it more difficult for the
Bank to achieve a high return on average equity, which is a benchmark of
shareholder return.
The
Bank’s capital is affected by earnings, the payment of dividends, changes in
accumulated comprehensive income or loss, and equity transactions.
Total
dividends paid to shareholders for the six months ended June 30, 2008, were
$1,776,000 or $0.62 per share, compared to $1,711,000 or $0.60 per share paid to
shareholders during the same period in 2007. The Bank uses current
earnings and available retained earnings to pay dividends. The Bank’s
current capital plan calls for management to maintain Tier I Capital between
9.0% and 12% and includes maintaining a dividend payout ratio above
40%. Through June 30, 2007, the dividend payout ratio was
62.88%. Management anticipates that the payout ratio for the year
2008 will decline to under 60% by year-end.
The
amount of unrealized gain or loss on the Bank’s securities portfolio is
reflected, net of tax, as an adjustment to capital, as required by Statement of
Financial Accounting Standards No. 115. This is recorded as
accumulated other comprehensive income in the capital section of the Bank’s
balance sheet. An unrealized gain increases the Bank’s capital while
an unrealized loss reduces the Bank’s capital. This requirement takes
the position that if the Bank liquidated at the end of each period, the current
unrealized gain or loss of the securities portfolio would directly impact the
Bank’s capital. As of June 30, 2008, the Bank showed unrealized loss,
net of tax, of $2,108,000, compared to unrealized losses of $181,000 on December
31, 2007, and $2,098,000 on June 30, 2007. The changes in unrealized
losses are due to normal changes in market valuations as a result of interest
rate movements.
At the
close of the period ended June 30, 2008, the Bank retired the 130,443 shares of
treasury stock held as a result of previous stock purchase plans, less shares
utilized for the Bank’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan and Dividend Reinvestment
Plan. The retirement of treasury shares was required as part of the
formation of ENB Financial Corp. This change did not change the
dollar amount of capital; it simply reclassified the balance of treasury stock
through the common stock and capital surplus accounts.
Off
Balance Sheet Arrangements
In the
normal course of business, the Bank typically has off balance sheet arrangements
related to loan funding commitments. These arrangements may impact
the Bank’s financial condition and liquidity if all these arrangements were to
be exercised within a short period of time. As discussed in the
liquidity section to follow, the Bank has in place sufficient sources of
liquidity to meet these obligations. The following table presents information on
the commitments by the Bank as of June 30, 2008.
OFF-BALANCE
SHEET ARRANGEMENTS
|
||||
(DOLLARS
IN THOUSANDS)
|
||||
June
30,
|
||||
2008
|
||||
$
|
||||
Commitments
to extend credit:
|
||||
Revolving
home equity
|
14,341 | |||
Construction
loans
|
13,506 | |||
Real
estate loans
|
6,886 | |||
Business
loans
|
44,197 | |||
Consumer
loans
|
3,595 | |||
Other
|
2,857 | |||
Standby
letters of credit
|
14,070 | |||
Total
|
99,452 |
A
construction contract for a new branch located in Manheim, Pennsylvania, was
entered into during the fourth quarter of 2007. Previous contracts
related to design and land development of the branch have been fully
paid. The construction contract calls for the branch to be completed
at a cost of $2.1 million. Actual construction of the Branch began in
April 2008. Through June 30, 2008, $715,000 of construction costs have been paid
against the $2.1 million contract. The branch is expected to be
completed by September of 2008.
Management
signed a contract in March of 2008 with the Bank’s core processing vendor to
conduct a comprehensive business processing assessment that is expected to be
conducted over a six month period beginning in June of 2008 with benefits to be
realized both immediately and over time. The goal of the business
processing assessment is to obtain: 1) operational cost savings in terms of
increased efficiency and lower overhead, and 2) revenue enhancements, which
would more than double the total fees paid to the Bank’s core
processor. The end result of the assessment is to be a more efficient
organization that provides better customer service, at increased levels of
profitability, for years to come. The fees related to the engagement
will vary according to whether the engagement expands or contracts in
scope. The pretax impact of the business processing assessment is
expected to have a negative impact to 2008 income in the amount of $150,000,
with the 2009 impact expected to be accretive to pretax income by approximately
$500,000.
Item 3. Quantitative and
Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk
As a
financial institution, the Bank is subject to three primary risks:
|
·
|
Credit
risk
|
|
·
|
Liquidity
risk
|
|
·
|
Interest
rate risk
|
The Board
of Directors has established an Asset Liability Management Committee to measure,
monitor and manage the Bank’s three primary risks. Interest rate risk
is further broken down into two components of Interest Rate Sensitivity Analysis
and Net Portfolio Value Analysis. The Bank’s Asset Liability
Management Policy establishes guidelines for all of these primary risks as well
as other financial performance measurements with target ranges. The
asset-liability goals and guidelines are consistent with the Bank’s Strategic
Plan goals.
Credit
Risk
For
discussion on credit risk refer to the sections in Item 2. Management’s
Discussion and Analysis, on securities, non-performing assets and allowance for
loan losses.
Liquidity
Risk
Liquidity
refers to having an adequate supply of cash, or cash equivalents, available to
meet business needs. Financial institutions must ensure that there is
adequate liquidity to meet a variety of funding needs, at a minimal
cost. Minimal cost is a crucial element of effective liquidity
management. For example, if a financial institution is required to
take significant action to obtain a large amount of expensive funds to gain
liquidity, it has generally not planned properly for its liquidity
needs. There is always the possibility that unusual economic events
may cause the Bank to have periods of low or high
liquidity. Management has a multi-layered approach to gain
liquidity should the need arise. Funding new loans and covering
deposit withdrawals are the primary liquidity needs of the Bank. The
Bank uses a variety of funding sources to meet liquidity needs, such
as:
|
·
|
Deposits
|
|
·
|
Loan
repayments
|
|
·
|
Maturities
and sales of securities
|
|
·
|
Short-term
borrowings from correspondent banks
|
|
·
|
Borrowings
from FHLB
|
|
·
|
Repurchase
agreements
|
|
·
|
Brokered
Certificates of Deposit
|
|
·
|
Current
earnings
|
As noted
in the discussion on deposits, the Bank’s customers have historically provided a
reliable and steadily increasing source of funds liquidity. The Bank
also has in place relationships with other banking institutions for the purpose
of buying and selling Federal funds. The lines of credit with these
institutions provide the Bank with immediate sources of additional
liquidity. The Bank currently has unsecured lines of credit totaling
$23 million. An additional $2.0 million would be available upon
pledging of sufficient collateral. This does not include amounts the
Bank can draw upon from member banks such as the Federal Reserve Discount Window
and the FHLB and Atlantic Central Bankers Bank.
The Bank
uses a cumulative maturity gap analysis to measure the amount of assets maturing
within various periods versus liabilities maturing in those same
periods. The Bank monitors six-month, one-year, three-year, and
five-year cumulative gaps to determine liquidity risk. The Bank was
within all GAP guidelines as of June 30, 2008. Management expects all GAP ratios
to remain within policy limits for the remainder of the year.
Interest
Rate Risk
The Bank
focuses on two tools for measuring interest rate risk:
|
·
|
Changes
in net interest income
|
|
·
|
Changes
in net portfolio value
|
The Bank
uses financial modeling to forecast earnings and fair value under different
interest rate projections. The results obtained through the use of
forecasting models are based on a variety of factors. Both earning
and fair value forecasts make use of the maturity and repricing schedules to
determine the changes to the Bank’s balance sheet over the course of
time. Additionally, there are many assumptions that factor into the
results. These assumptions include, but are not limited to, the
following:
|
·
|
Projected
interest rates
|
|
·
|
Timing
of interest rate changes
|
|
·
|
Prepayment
speeds on the loans held and mortgage backed
securities
|
|
·
|
Anticipated
calls on financial instruments with call
options
|
|
·
|
Deposit
and loan balance fluctuations
|
|
·
|
Economic
conditions
|
|
·
|
Consumer
reaction to interest rate changes
|
Each
month, new financial information is supplied to the model and new forecasts are
generated. The model has the ability to automatically revise growth rates for
assets and liabilities, and reinvestment rates for interest earning and bearing
funds based on a databank of historical financial information and key interest
rates that the model retains. Bank personnel perform an in depth
annual validation and quarterly review of the settings and assumptions used in
the model to ensure reliability of the forecast results. The Bank
also performs back testing to ensure the validity of the assumptions in the
model. Both the validation and back testing indicate that to the
model assumptions are reliable.
Changes
in Net Interest Income
The
change in net interest income measures the amount of net interest income
fluctuation the Bank would experience over one year assuming interest rates
change immediately and remain the same for one year. This is considered to be a
short-term view of interest rate risk. The Bank has historically been
liability sensitive; meaning that as interest rates go up, the Bank would likely
make less income due to sharper increases in the cost of funds than increases in
asset yield. Likewise, if rates go down, the Bank would see sharper reductions
in the cost of funds then decreases to asset yield, causing an increase to net
income.
The
analysis projects the net interest income expected in seven different rate
scenarios on a one-year time horizon. The scenarios consist of a
projection of net interest income if rates remain flat, increase 100, 200, or
300 basis points, or decrease 100, 200, or 300 basis points. As of
June 30, 2008, the Bank was within guidelines for all scenarios
Under all
the rates down scenarios of 100, 200, and 300 basis points, the Bank’s net
interest income decreases as managements loses the ability to gain sufficient
cost savings on deposits, as interest bearing demand deposits and savings
accounts would not be able to reprice to zero or below. At this point
in the rate cycle, only a rates down 100 basis points scenario would be
realistically possible. The Bank’s ALCO does plan in the event the
economic situation does further deteriorate, and the Federal Reserve actually
would reduce rates another 100 basis points. Management does not view
the rates down 200 and 300 basis points as likely scenarios given the current
economic conditions. Additionally, for the rates up scenarios of 100,
200 and 300 basis points, the Bank’s net interest income decreases slightly
compared to the rates unchanged scenario. Unlike the rates down
scenarios, the amount negative impact of rising rates is very minimal and the
larger rate movements do not get progressively worse. The rates up
200 and 300 show slight improvements over the rates up 100 basis
points. The limited negative impact of higher rates is because the
impact of assets repricing to higher rates nearly offsets the normal liability
sensitivity of the Bank, where a larger amount of liabilities reprice than
assets. In the rates up scenarios, all of the Bank’s variable rate
loans reprice higher by the full amount of the Federal Reserve’s action whereby
management is generally able to limit the amount of liability repricing to a
fraction of the rate increase. Management does not expect the Bank’s
exposure to interest rate changes to increase or change significantly over the
next twelve months.
Changes
in Net Portfolio Value
The
change in net portfolio value is considered a tool to measure long-term interest
rate risk. The analysis measures the exposure of the balance sheet to
valuation changes due to changes in interest rates. The calculation
of net portfolio value discounts future cash flows to the present value based on
current market rates. The changes in net portfolio value estimates
the gain or loss that would occur to the Bank’s market sensitive instruments
given a sustained interest rate increase or decrease in the same seven scenarios
mentioned under interest rate sensitivity. As of June 30, 2008, the
Bank was within guideline for all scenarios. The weakness in this
analysis is that it assumes liquidation of the Bank rather than as a going
concern. For that reason, it is considered a secondary measurement of
interest rate risk to interest rate sensitivity discussed
above.
Management
reviews the Asset Liability results monthly with strategic decisions being made
at a quarterly meeting. The Bank’s Asset Liability Committee will
typically meet on a monthly basis or more frequently to make interest rate
pricing decisions for both loans and deposits.
The Asset
Liability Committee continues to follow a strategy designed to mitigate interest
rate risk based on the Bank’s current balance sheet
structure. Essentially, through pricing and purchasing decisions, the
Bank focuses on shortening assets and lengthening liabilities. The
strategy calls for:
Assets
management
|
·
|
Increasing
the amount of prime based lending
|
|
·
|
Pricing
to encourage short term loans
|
|
·
|
Reducing
the length of the Bank’s securities
portfolio
|
Liabilities
management
|
·
|
Promoting
core deposits such as checking and savings, which function to lengthen
liabilities
|
|
·
|
Increasing
long-term fixed rate borrowings or borrowings with lock out
periods
|
|
·
|
Pricing
time deposits to encourage longer
terms
|
Item
4. Controls and Procedures
(a)
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures.
The
Bank’s management carried out an evaluation, under the supervision and with the
participation of the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer, of
the effectiveness of the design and the operation of the Bank’s disclosure
controls and procedures (as such term as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and
15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) as of June 30, 2008, pursuant to Exchange Act
Rule 13a-15. Based upon that evaluation, the Chief Executive Officer along
with the Chief Financial Officer concluded that the Bank’s disclosure controls
and procedures as of June 30, 2008, are effective in timely alerting them to
material information relating to the Bank required to be in the Bank’s periodic
filings under the Exchange Act.
(b)
Changes in Internal Controls.
There
have been no changes in the Bank’s internal controls over financial reporting
that occurred during the most recent fiscal quarter that has materially
affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Bank’s internal
control over financial reporting.
Item
4T. Controls and Procedures
The
information in Item 4 above is incorporated herein by reference.
PART II – OTHER INFORMATION
June 30,
2008
Item
1. Legal Proceedings
Management
is not aware of any litigation that would have a material adverse effect on the
financial position of the Bank. There are no proceedings pending
other than ordinary routine litigation incident to the business of the
Corporation or the Bank. In addition, no material proceedings are
pending, are known to be threatened, or contemplated against the Corporation or
the Bank by governmental authorities.
Item 1A.
Risk Factors
The
Corporation continually monitors the risks related to the Corporation’s
business, other events, the Corporation’s Common Stock and the Corporation’s
industry. There have not been any material changes in the primary
risks since the December 31, 2007, Form 10-K. Additionally, no new
risks have been identified since the last Form 10-K.
Item
2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and use of
Proceeds – Nothing to Report
Item
3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities – Nothing to
Report
Item
4. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security
Holders
(a)
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An
annual meeting of shareholders of the Bank was held April 15,
2008.
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(b)
- (c) Four matters were voted upon, as
follows:
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(1)
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The
shareholders approved the proposal to fix the number of directors to be
elected at nine, with 2,460,874 votes cast “For”, 39,513 votes cast
“Against”, 11,452 votes
“Abstained”.
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(2)
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The
shareholders approved the election of nine directors to serve for a
one-year term.
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Votes
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Votes
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Cast
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Cast
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Director
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“For”
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“Withheld”
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Paul
W. Brubaker
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2,475,726
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36,113
|
||
Aaron
L. Groff, Jr.
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2,476,242
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35,597
|
||
Willis
R. Lefever
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2,483,242
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28,597
|
||
Donald
Z. Musser
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2,483,589
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28,250
|
||
Bonnie
R. Sharp
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2,484,335
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27,504
|
||
J.
Harold Summers
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2,483,019
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28,820
|
||
Mark
C. Wagner
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2,484,335
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27,504
|
||
Paul
M. Zimmerman, Jr.
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2,483,242
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28,597
|
||
Thomas
H. Zinn
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2,481,580
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30,259
|
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(3)
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The
shareholders approved the adoption plan of reorganization and agreement
and plan of merger to form the holding company with 2,201,397 votes cast
“For,” 49, 683 votes cast “Against”, 5,919 votes cast “Abstained”, and
258,540 votes cast “Broker
Non-Votes”.
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(4)
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The
shareholders approved the proposal to adjourn or postpone the annual
meeting, if more time is needed to solicit additional votes, with
2,396,399 votes cast “For”, 61,331 votes cast “Against”, and 54,109 votes
cast for “Abstain.”
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(d)
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Nothing
to Report
|
Item
5. Other Information – Nothing to Report
Item
6. Exhibits:
Exhibits
- The following exhibits are filed as part of this filing on Form 10-Q or
incorporated by reference hereto:
Page
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3
(i)
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Articles
of Association of the Registrant, as amended
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*
|
3
(ii)
|
By-Laws
of the Registrant, as amended
|
**
|
10.1
|
Form
of Deferred Income Agreement
|
40
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10.2
|
2001
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
|
***
|
11
|
Statement
re computation of per share earnings
|
4
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(Included
on page 4 herein)
|
||
31.1
|
Section
302 Chief Executive Officer Certification
|
44
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31.2
|
Section
302 Principal Financial Officer Certification
|
45
|
32.1
|
Section
1350 Chief Executive Officer Certification
|
46
|
32.2
|
Section
1350 Principal Financial Officer Certification
|
47
|
|
*
|
Incorporated
herein by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the Corporation’s Form 8-K12g3 filed
with the SEC on July 1, 2008.
|
|
**
|
Incorporated
herein by reference to Exhibit 3.2 of the Corporation’s Form 8-K filed
with the SEC on July 9, 2008.
|
***
|
Incorporated
herein by reference to Exhibit 99.1 of the Corporation’s Registration
Statement on Form S-8 filed with the SEC on July 9,
2008.
|
ENB FINANCIAL CORP
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of Section 13 or 15 (d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by
the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
ENB FINANCIAL
CORP
|
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(Registrant)
|
||
Dated: August
12, 2008
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By
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/s/ Aaron
L. Groff,
Jr.
|
Aaron
L. Groff, Jr.
|
||
Chairman
of the Board,
|
||
President
& CEO
|
||
Dated: August
12, 2008
|
By
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/s/ Scott
E.
Lied
|
Scott
E. Lied, CPA
|
||
Senior
Vice President,
|
||
Chief
Financial Officer
|
ENB FINANCIAL
CORP
EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit
No.
|
Description
|
Page
number
on
Manually
Signed
Original
|
3(i)
|
Articles
of Association of the Registrant, as amended. (Incorporated herein by
reference to the Form 8-K 12g3 filed with the SEC on July 1,
2008.)
|
|
3
(ii)
|
By-Laws
of the Registrant, as amended. (Incorporated herein by reference to the
Form 8-K filed with the SEC on July 9, 2008.)
|
|
10.1
|
Form
of Deferred Income Agreement. (Filed with this 10-Q)
|
Page
40
|
10.2
|
2001
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
|
|
11
|
Statement
re: Computation of Earnings Per Share as found on page 4 of Form 10-Q,
which is included herein.
|
Page
4
|
31.1
|
Section
302 Chief Executive Officer Certification (Required by Rule
13a-14(a)).
|
Page
44
|
31.2
|
Section
302 Principal Financial Officer Certification (Required by Rule
13a-14(a)).
|
Page
45
|
32.1
|
Section
1350 Chief Executive Officer Certification (Required by Rule
13a-14(b)).
|
Page
46
|
32.2
|
Section
1350 Principal Financial Officer Certification (Required by Rule
13a-14(b)).
|
Page
47
|
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