FIDELITY D & D BANCORP INC - Annual Report: 2009 (Form 10-K)
UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON,
D.C. 20549
FORM
10-K
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ANNUAL
REPORT UNDER SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES
EXCHANGE
ACT OF 1934
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FOR
THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2009
COMMISSION
FILE NUMBER 333-90273
FIDELITY
D & D BANCORP, INC.
COMMONWEALTH
OF PENNSYLVANIA I.R.S. EMPLOYER IDENTIFICATION NO: 23-3017653
BLAKELY
AND DRINKER STREETS
DUNMORE,
PENNSYLVANIA 18512
TELEPHONE
NUMBER (570) 342-8281
SECURITIES
REGISTERED UNDER SECTION 12(b) OF THE ACT:
None
SECURITIES
REGISTERED UNDER SECTION 12(g) OF THE ACT:
Common
Stock, without par value
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by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in
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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
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such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes x No ¨
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Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the
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The
aggregate market value of the voting common stock held by non-affiliates of the
registrant was $32,019,171 as of June 30, 2009, based on the closing price
of $18.60. The number of shares of common stock outstanding as
of February 28, 2010, was 2,110,614.
DOCUMENTS
INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE
Excerpts
from the Registrant’s 2009 Annual Report to Shareholders are incorporated herein
by reference in response to Part I. Portions of the Registrant’s
definitive Proxy Statement to be used in connection with the 2010 Annual Meeting
of Shareholders are incorporated herein by reference in partial response to
Part II and Part III.
Fidelity
D & D Bancorp, Inc.
2009
Annual Report on Form 10-K
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FIDELITY
D & D BANCORP, INC.
Forward-Looking
Statements
Certain
of the matters discussed in this Annual Report on Form 10-K may constitute
forward-looking statements for purposes of the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and as such may
involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause
the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially
different from future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied
by such forward-looking statements. The words “expect,” “anticipate,”
“intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “estimate,” and similar expressions are intended to
identify such forward-looking statements.
The
Company’s actual results may differ materially from the results anticipated in
these forward-looking statements due to a variety of factors, including, without
limitation:
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the
effects of economic deterioration on current customers, specifically the
effect of the economy on loan customers’ ability to repay
loans;
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costs and effects of litigation and of unexpected or adverse outcomes in
such litigation;
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monetary and fiscal policies, as well as legislative and regulatory
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effect of changes in accounting policies and practices, as may be adopted
by the regulatory agencies, as well as the Financial Accounting Standards
Board and other accounting standard
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the
risks of changes in interest rates on the level and composition of
deposits, loan demand, and the values of loan collateral, securities and
interest rate protection agreements, as well as interest rate
risks;
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the
effects of competition from other commercial banks, thrifts, mortgage
banking firms, consumer finance companies, credit unions, securities
brokerage firms, insurance companies, money market and other mutual funds
and other financial institutions operating in our market area and
elsewhere, including institutions operating locally, regionally,
nationally and internationally, together with such competitors offering
banking products and services by mail, telephone, computer and the
internet;
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failure of assumptions underlying the establishment of reserves for loan
and lease losses and estimations of values of collateral and various
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disruption
of credit and equity markets.
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The
Company cautions readers not to place undue reliance on forward-looking
statements, which reflect analyses only as of the date of this
document. The Company has no obligation to update any forward-looking
statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this
document.
Readers
should review the risk factors described in this document and other documents
that we file or furnish, from time to time, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, including quarterly reports filed on Form 10-Q and any current
reports filed or furnished on Form 8-K.
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Fidelity
D & D Bancorp, Inc. (the Company) was incorporated in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, on August 10, 1999, and is a bank holding company, whose
wholly-owned state chartered commercial bank is The Fidelity Deposit and
Discount Bank (the Bank) (collectively, the Company). The Company is
headquartered at Blakely and Drinker Streets in Dunmore,
Pennsylvania.
The Bank
has offered a full range of traditional banking services since it commenced
operations in 1903. The Bank has a personal and corporate trust
department and also provides alternative financial and insurance products with
asset management services. A full list of services provided by the
Bank is detailed in the section entitled “Products and Services” contained
within the 2009 Annual Report to Shareholders, incorporated by
reference. The service area is comprised of the Borough of Dunmore
and the surrounding communities within Lackawanna and Luzerne counties in
Northeastern Pennsylvania.
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The
banking business is highly competitive, and the profitability of the Company
depends principally upon the Company’s ability to compete in its market
area. Competition includes, among other sources, the
following:
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community banks
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loan companies
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other
financial service
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The
Company has been able to compete effectively with other financial institutions
by emphasizing technology and customer service, including local decision making
on loans. These efforts enabled the Company to establish long-term
customer relationships and build customer loyalty by providing products and
services designed to address their specific needs.
There are
no concentrations of loans that, if lost, would have a materially adverse effect
on the continued business of the Company. The Company’s loan
portfolio does not have a material concentration within a single industry or
group of related industries that are vulnerable to the risk of a near-term
severe impact. However, the Company’s success is dependent, to a
significant degree, on economic conditions in Northeastern Pennsylvania,
especially Lackawanna and Luzerne counties which the Company defines as its
primary market area. The banking industry is affected by general
economic conditions including the effects of inflation, recession, unemployment,
real estate values, trends in national and global economies and other factors
beyond the Company’s control. An economic recession or a delayed
economic recovery over a prolonged period of time in the Company’s primary
market area could cause an increase in the level of the Company’s non-performing
assets and loan losses, and thereby cause operating losses, impairment of
liquidity and erosion of capital. We cannot assure you that adverse
changes in the local economy would not have a material effect on the Company’s
future consolidated financial condition, results of operations and cash
flows. Refer to Item 1A, “Risk Factors” for material risks and
uncertainties that management believes affect the Company.
The
Company had 185 full-time equivalent employees on December 31, 2009, which
includes exempt officers, exempt, non-exempt and part-time
employees.
Federal
and state banking laws contain numerous provisions that affect various aspects
of the business and operations of the Company and the Bank. The
Company is subject to, among others, the regulations of the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the SEC) and the Federal Reserve Board (the FRB) and the
Bank is subject to, among others, the regulations of the Pennsylvania Department
of Banking and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the
FDIC). Refer to Part II, Item 7 “Supervision and Regulation” for
descriptions of and references to applicable statutes and regulations which are
not intended to be complete descriptions of these provisions or their effects on
the Company or the Bank. They are summaries only and are qualified in
their entirety by reference to such statutes and
regulations. Applicable regulations relate to, among other
things:
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Annually,
the Bank is examined by the Pennsylvania Department of Banking and/or the
FDIC. The last examination was conducted by the FDIC as of December
31, 2008.
The
Company’s website address is http://www.bankatfidelity.com. The
Company makes available through this website the annual reports on Form 10-K,
quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K and amendments to
those reports as soon as reasonably practical after filing with the
SEC. You may read and copy any materials filed with the SEC at the
SEC’s Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, NE, Washington, DC
20549. You may obtain information on the operation of the Public
Reference Room by calling the SEC at (202) 551-8090. The SEC also
maintains an internet site that contains reports, proxy and information
statements and other information about the Company at
http://www.sec.gov.
The
Company’s accounting policies and procedures are designed to comply with
accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America
(GAAP). Refer to “Critical Accounting Policies,” which are
incorporated by reference in Part II, Item 7.
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An
investment in the Company’s common stock is subject to risks inherent to the
Company’s business. The material risks and uncertainties that
management believes affect the Company are described below. Before
making an investment decision, you should carefully consider the risks and
uncertainties described below together with all of the other information
included or incorporated by reference in this report. The risks and
uncertainties described below are not the only ones facing the
Company. Additional risks and uncertainties that management is not
aware of or focused on or that management currently deems immaterial may also
impair the Company’s business operations. This report is qualified in
its entirety by these risk factors.
If any of
the following risks actually occur, the Company’s financial condition and
results of operations could be materially and adversely affected. If
this were to happen, the value of the Company’s common stock could decline
significantly, and you could lose all or part of your investment.
Risks
Related to the Company’s Business
The
Company’s business is subject to interest rate risk and variations in interest
rates may negatively affect its financial performance.
Changes
in the interest rate environment may reduce profits. The Company’s earnings and
cash flows are largely dependent upon its net interest income. Net interest
income is the difference between the interest earned on loans, securities and
other interest-earning assets, and interest paid on deposits, borrowings and
other interest-bearing liabilities. As prevailing interest rates change, net
interest spreads are affected by the difference between the maturities and
re-pricing characteristics of interest-earning assets and interest-bearing
liabilities. In addition, loan volume and yields are affected by market interest
rates on loans, and rising interest rates generally are associated with a lower
volume of loan originations. An increase in the general level of interest rates
may also adversely affect the ability of certain borrowers to pay the interest
on and principal of their obligations. Accordingly, changes in levels of market
interest rates could materially adversely affect the Company’s net interest
spread, asset quality, loan origination volume and overall
profitability.
The Company is subject to lending
risk.
There are
inherent risks associated with the Company’s lending activities. These risks
include, among other things, the impact of changes in interest rates and changes
in the economic conditions in the markets where the Company operates as well as
those across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the United States. Increases
in interest rates and/or weakening economic conditions could adversely impact
the ability of borrowers to repay outstanding loans or the value of the
collateral securing these loans. The Company is also subject to various laws and
regulations that affect its lending activities. Failure to comply with
applicable laws and regulations could subject the Company to regulatory
enforcement action that could result in the assessment of significant civil
money penalties against the Company.
Commercial,
commercial real estate and real estate construction loans are generally viewed
as having more risk of default than residential real estate loans or consumer
loans. These types of loans are also typically larger than residential real
estate loans and consumer loans. Because these loans generally
have larger balances than residential real estate loans and consumer loans, the
deterioration of one or a few of these loans could cause a significant increase
in non-performing loans. An increase in non-performing loans could result in a
net loss of earnings from these loans, an increase in the provision for possible
loan losses and an increase in loan charge-offs, all of which could have a
material adverse effect on the Company’s financial condition and results of
operations.
The Company’s allowance for possible
loan losses may be insufficient.
The
Company maintains an allowance for possible loan losses, which is a reserve
established through a provision for possible loan losses charged to expense,
that represents management’s best estimate of probable losses that have been
incurred within the existing portfolio of loans. The allowance, in the judgment
of management, is necessary to reserve for estimated loan losses and risks
inherent in the loan portfolio. The level of the allowance reflects management’s
continuing evaluation of industry concentrations; specific credit risks; loan
loss experience; current loan portfolio quality; present economic, political and
regulatory conditions and unidentified losses inherent in the current loan
portfolio. The determination of the appropriate level of the allowance for
possible loan losses inherently involves a high degree of subjectivity and
requires the Company to make significant estimates of current credit risks and
future trends, all of which may undergo material changes. Changes in economic
conditions affecting borrowers, new information regarding existing loans,
identification of additional problem loans and other factors, both within and
outside of the Company’s control, may require an increase in the allowance for
possible loan losses. In addition, bank regulatory agencies periodically review
the Company’s allowance for loan losses and may require an increase in the
provision for possible loan losses or the recognition of further loan
charge-offs, based on judgments different than those of management. In addition,
if charge-offs in future periods exceed the allowance for possible loan losses,
the Company will need additional provisions to increase the allowance for
possible loan losses. Any increases in the allowance for loan losses will result
in a decrease in net income and capital and may have a material adverse effect
on the Company’s financial condition and results of operations.
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The
Company may need or be compelled to raise additional capital in the future, but
that capital may not be available when it is needed and on terms favorable to
current shareholders.
Federal
banking regulators require the Company and Bank to maintain adequate levels of
capital to support their operations. These capital levels are
determined and dictated by law, regulation and banking regulatory
agencies. In addition, capital levels are also determined by the
Company’s management and board of directors based on capital levels that they
believe are necessary to support the Company’s business
operations. The Company is evaluating its present and future capital
requirements and needs, is developing a comprehensive capital plan and is
analyzing capital raising alternatives, methods and options. Even if
the Company succeeds in meeting the current regulatory capital requirements, the
Company may need to raise additional capital in the near future to support
possible loan losses during future periods or to meet future regulatory capital
requirements.
Further,
the Company’s regulators may require it to increase its capital levels. If the
Company raises capital through the issuance of additional shares of its common
stock or other securities, it would likely dilute the ownership interests of
current investors and would likely dilute the per-share book value and earnings
per share of its common stock. Furthermore, it may have an adverse
impact on the Company’s stock price. New investors may also have
rights, preferences and privileges senior to the Company’s current shareholders,
which may adversely impact its current shareholders. The Company’s
ability to raise additional capital will depend on conditions in the capital
markets at that time, which are outside its control, and on its financial
performance. Accordingly, the Company cannot assure you of its
ability to raise additional capital on terms and time frames acceptable to it or
to raise additional capital at all. If the Company cannot raise
additional capital in sufficient amounts when needed, its ability to comply with
regulatory capital requirements could be materially
impaired. Additionally, the inability to raise capital in sufficient
amounts may adversely affect the Company’s operations, financial condition and
results of operations.
If
we conclude that the decline in value of any of our investment securities is
other than temporary, we will be required to write down the credit-related
portion of the impairment of that security through a charge to
earnings.
We review
our investment securities portfolio at each quarter-end reporting period to
determine whether the fair value is below the current carrying
value. When the fair value of any of our investment securities has
declined below its carrying value, we are required to assess whether the decline
is other than temporary. If we conclude that the decline is other
than temporary, we will be required to write down the credit-related portion of
the impairment of that security through a charge to earnings. As of
December 31, 2009, the book value of the Company’s pooled trust preferred
securities was $18,794,000 with an estimated fair value of
$5,242,000. Changes in the expected cash flows of these securities
and/or prolonged price declines have resulted and may result in our concluding
in future periods that there is additional impairment of these securities that
is other than temporary, which would require a charge to earnings for the
portion of the impairment that is deemed to be-credit-related. Due to
the complexity of the calculations and assumptions used in determining whether
an asset, such as pooled trust preferred securities, is impaired, the impairment
disclosed may not accurately reflect the actual impairment in the
future.
The Company is subject to
environmental liability risk associated with lending
activities.
A
significant portion of the Company’s loan portfolio is secured by real property.
During the ordinary course of business, the Company may foreclose on and take
title to properties securing certain loans. In doing so, there is a risk that
hazardous or toxic substances could be found on these properties. If hazardous
or toxic substances are found, the Company may be liable for remediation costs,
as well as for personal injury and property damage. Environmental laws may
require the Company to incur substantial expense and may materially reduce the
affected property’s value or limit the Company’s ability to use or sell the
affected property. In addition, future laws or more stringent interpretations or
enforcement policies with respect to existing laws may increase the Company’s
exposure to environmental liability. Although the Company has policies and
procedures to perform an environmental review before initiating any foreclosure
action on real property, these reviews may not be sufficient to detect all
potential environmental hazards. The remediation costs and any other financial
liabilities associated with an environmental hazard could have a material
adverse effect on the Company’s financial condition and results of
operations.
The Company’s profitability depends
significantly on economic conditions in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the
local region in which it conducts business.
The
Company’s success depends primarily on the general economic conditions of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the specific local markets in which the Company
operates. Unlike larger national or other regional banks that are more
geographically diversified, the Company provides banking and financial services
to customers primarily in Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties in Northeastern
Pennsylvania. The local economic conditions in these areas have a significant
impact on the demand for the Company’s products and services as well as the
ability of the Company’s customers to repay loans, the value of the collateral
securing loans and the stability of the Company’s deposit funding sources. A
significant decline in general economic conditions, caused by inflation,
recession, acts of terrorism, an outbreak of hostilities or other international
or domestic occurrences, unemployment, changes in securities markets or other
factors could impact these local economic conditions and, in turn, have a
material adverse effect on the Company’s financial condition and results of
operations.
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There is no assurance that the
Company will be able to successfully compete with others for
business.
The
Company competes for loans, deposits and investment dollars with numerous
regional and national banks and other community banking institutions, as well as
other kinds of financial institutions and enterprises, such as securities firms,
insurance companies, savings associations, credit unions, mortgage brokers and
private lenders. Many competitors have substantially greater resources than the
Company does, and operate under less stringent regulatory environments. The
differences in resources and regulations may make it more difficult for the
Company to compete profitably, reduce the rates that it can earn on loans and on
its investments, increase the rates it must offer on deposits and other funds,
and adversely affect its overall financial condition and earnings.
The Company is subject to extensive
government regulation and supervision.
The
Company, primarily through the Bank, is subject to extensive federal and state
regulation and supervision. Banking regulations are primarily intended to
protect depositors’ funds, federal deposit insurance funds and the banking
system as a whole, not shareholders. These regulations affect the Company’s
lending practices, capital structure, investment practices, dividend policy and
growth, among other things. Federal or commonwealth regulatory agencies
continually review banking laws, regulations and policies for possible changes.
Changes to statutes, regulations or regulatory policies, including changes in
interpretation or implementation of statutes, regulations or policies, could
affect the Company in substantial and unpredictable ways. Such changes could
subject the Company to additional costs, limit the types of financial services
and products the Company may offer and/or increase the ability of non-banks to
offer competing financial services and products, among other things. Failure to
comply with laws, regulations or policies could result in sanctions by
regulatory agencies, civil money penalties and/or reputation damage, which could
have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, financial condition
and results of operations. While the Company has policies and procedures
designed to prevent any such violations, there can be no assurance that such
violations will not occur.
The Company’s controls and
procedures may fail or be circumvented.
Management
regularly reviews and updates the Company’s internal controls, disclosure
controls and procedures, and corporate governance policies and procedures. Any
system of controls, however well designed and operated, is based in part on
certain assumptions and can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurances
that the objectives of the system are met. Any failure or circumvention of the
Company’s controls and procedures or failure to comply with regulations related
to controls and procedures could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s
business, results of operations and financial condition.
New lines of business or new
products and services may subject the Company to additional
risks.
From
time-to-time, the Company may implement new lines of business or offer new
products and services within existing lines of business. There are substantial
risks and uncertainties associated with these efforts, particularly in instances
where the markets are not fully developed. In developing and marketing new lines
of business and/or new products and services the Company may invest significant
time and resources. Initial timetables for the introduction and development of
new lines of business and/or new products or services may not be achieved and
price and profitability targets may not prove feasible. External factors, such
as compliance with regulations, competitive alternatives, and shifting market
preferences, may also impact the successful implementation of a new line of
business or a new product or service. Furthermore, any new line of business
and/or new product or service could have a significant impact on the
effectiveness of the Company’s system of internal controls. Failure to
successfully manage these risks in the development and implementation of new
lines of business or new products or services could have a material adverse
effect on the Company’s business, results of operations and financial
condition.
The Company’s future acquisitions
could dilute your ownership and may cause it to become more susceptible to
adverse economic events.
The
Company may use its common stock to acquire other companies or make investments
in banks and other complementary businesses in the future. The Company may issue
additional shares of common stock to pay for future acquisitions, which would
dilute your ownership interest in the Company. Future business acquisitions
could be material to the Company, and the degree of success achieved in
acquiring and integrating these businesses into the Company could have a
material effect on the value of the Company’s common stock. In addition, any
acquisition could require it to use substantial cash or other liquid assets or
to incur debt. In those events, it could become more susceptible to economic
downturns and competitive pressures.
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The Company may not be able to
attract and retain skilled people.
The Company’s success depends, in large
part, on its ability to attract and retain key people. Competition for the best
people in most activities engaged in by the Company can be intense and the
Company may not be able to hire people or to retain them. The unexpected loss of
services of one or more of the Company’s key personnel could have a material
adverse impact on the Company’s business because of their skills, knowledge of
the Company’s market, years of industry experience and the difficulty of
promptly finding qualified replacement personnel.
The Company’s information systems
may experience an interruption or breach in security.
The
Company relies heavily on communications and information systems to conduct its
business. Any failure, interruption or breach in security of these systems could
result in failures or disruptions in the Company’s customer relationship
management, general ledger, deposit, loan and other systems. While the Company
has policies and procedures designed to prevent or limit the effect of the
failure, interruption or security breach of its information systems, there can
be no assurance that any such failures, interruptions or security breaches will
not occur or, if they do occur, that they will be adequately addressed. The
occurrence of any failures, interruptions or security breaches of the Company’s
information systems could damage the Company’s reputation, result in a loss of
customer business, subject the Company to additional regulatory scrutiny, or
expose the Company to civil litigation and possible financial liability, any of
which could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial condition
and results of operations.
The Company continually encounters
technological change.
The
financial services industry is continually undergoing rapid technological change
with frequent introductions of new technology-driven products and services. The
effective use of technology increases efficiency and enables financial
institutions to better serve customers and to reduce costs. The Company’s future
success depends, in part, upon its ability to address the needs of its customers
by using technology to provide products and services that will satisfy customer
demands, as well as to create additional efficiencies in the Company’s
operations. Many of the Company’s competitors have substantially greater
resources to invest in technological improvements. The Company may not be able
to effectively implement new technology-driven products and services or be
successful in marketing these products and services to its customers. Failure to
successfully keep pace with technological change affecting the financial
services industry could have a material adverse impact on the Company’s business
and, in turn, the Company’s financial condition and results of
operations.
The Company is subject to claims and
litigation pertaining to fiduciary responsibility.
From
time-to-time, customers make claims and take legal action pertaining to the
Company’s performance of its fiduciary responsibilities. Whether customer claims
and legal action related to the Company’s performance of its fiduciary
responsibilities are founded or unfounded, if such claims and legal actions are
not resolved in a manner favorable to the Company, they may result in
significant financial liability and/or adversely affect the market perception of
the Company and its products and services as well as impact customer demand for
those products and services. Any financial liability or reputation damage could
have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, which, in turn, could
have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial condition and results
of operations.
Severe weather, natural disasters,
acts of war or terrorism and other external events could significantly impact
the Company’s business.
Severe
weather, natural disasters, acts of war or terrorism and other adverse external
events could have a significant impact on the Company’s ability to conduct
business. Such events could affect the stability of the Company’s deposit base,
impair the ability of borrowers to repay outstanding loans, impair the value of
collateral securing loans, cause significant property damage, result in loss of
revenue and/or cause the Company to incur additional expenses. Severe weather or
natural disasters, acts of war or terrorism or other adverse external events may
occur in the future. Although management has established disaster recovery
policies and procedures, the occurrence of any such event could have a material
adverse effect on the Company’s business, which, in turn, could have a material
adverse effect on the Company’s financial condition and results of
operations.
We
currently have an Interim Chief Executive Officer while we search for a
permanent Chief Executive Officer.
During
the third quarter of 2009 our President and Chief Executive Officer
resigned. As a result, the board of directors formed a CEO search
committee and is currently conducting a search. While we expect to recruit
a new CEO no later than the end of the second quarter of 2010, we cannot assure
you that the process will be concluded by then. Further, until we find a
permanent CEO, we may be unable to successfully manage and grow the business;
and, our business, financial condition and profitability may suffer. We
believe each member of our senior management team is important to our success
and the unexpected loss of any of these persons could impair our day-to-day
operations as well as our strategic direction.
8
Readers
should review the risk factors described in other documents that we file or
furnish, from time to time, with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
including Annual Reports to Shareholders, Annual Reports filed on Form 10-K and
other current reports filed or furnished on Form 8-K.
Risks
Associated with the Company’s Common Stock
The Company’s stock price can be
volatile.
Stock
price volatility may make it more difficult for you to resell your common stock
when you want and at prices you find attractive. The Company’s stock price can
fluctuate significantly in response to a variety of factors including, among
other things:
·
|
Actual or
anticipated variations in quarterly results of
operations.
|
·
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Recommendations by securities
analysts.
|
·
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Operating and stock price performance of other
companies that investors deem comparable to the
Company.
|
·
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News reports relating to trends, concerns and
other issues in the financial services
industry.
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·
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Perceptions in the marketplace regarding the
Company and/or its
competitors.
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·
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New technology used, or services offered, by
competitors.
|
·
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Significant acquisitions or business combinations,
strategic partnerships, joint ventures or capital commitments by or
involving the Company or its
competitors.
|
·
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Failure to integrate acquisitions or realize
anticipated benefits from
acquisitions.
|
·
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Changes in government
regulations.
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·
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Geopolitical conditions such as acts or threats of
terrorism or military
conflicts.
|
General
market fluctuations, industry factors and general economic and political
conditions and events, such as economic slowdowns or recessions, interest rate
changes or credit loss trends, could also cause the Company’s stock price to
decrease regardless of operating results.
The trading volume in the Company’s
common stock is less than that of other larger financial services
companies.
The
Company’s common stock is listed for trading on the over-the-counter bulletin
board and the trading volume in its common stock is less than that of other
larger financial services companies. A public trading market having the desired
characteristics of depth, liquidity and orderliness depends on the presence in
the marketplace of willing buyers and sellers of the Company’s common stock at
any given time. This presence depends on the individual decisions of investors
and general economic and market conditions over which the Company has no
control. Given the lower trading volume of the Company’s common stock,
significant sales of the Company’s common stock, or the expectation of these
sales, could cause the Company’s stock price to fall.
Risks
Associated with the Company’s Industry
Future governmental regulation and
legislation could limit the Company’s future growth.
The
Company is a registered bank holding company, and its subsidiary bank is a
depository institution whose deposits are insured by the FDIC. As a result, the
Company is subject to various regulations and examinations by various regulatory
authorities. In general, statutes establish the corporate governance and
eligible business activities for the Company, certain acquisition and merger
restrictions, limitations on inter-company transactions such as loans and
dividends, capital adequacy requirements, requirements for anti-money laundering
programs and other compliance matters, among other regulations. The Company is
extensively regulated under federal and state banking laws and regulations that
are intended primarily for the protection of depositors, federal deposit
insurance funds and the banking system as a whole. Compliance with these
statutes and regulations is important to the Company’s ability to engage in new
activities and consummate additional acquisitions.
In
addition, the Company is subject to changes in federal and state tax laws as
well as changes in banking and credit regulations, accounting principles and
governmental economic and monetary policies. The Company cannot predict whether
any of these changes may adversely and materially affect it. Federal and state
banking regulators also possess broad powers to take supervisory actions as they
deem appropriate. These supervisory actions may result in higher capital
requirements, higher insurance premiums and limitations on the Company’s
activities that could have a material adverse effect on its business and
profitability. While these statutes are generally designed to minimize potential
loss to depositors and the FDIC insurance funds, they do not eliminate risk, and
compliance with such statutes increases the Company’s expense, requires
management’s attention and can be a disadvantage from a competitive standpoint
with respect to non-regulated competitors.
The earnings of financial services
companies are significantly affected by general business and economic
conditions.
The
Company’s operations and profitability are impacted by general business and
economic conditions in the United States and abroad. These conditions include
short-term and long-term interest rates, inflation, money supply, political
issues, legislative and regulatory changes, fluctuations in both debt and equity
capital markets, broad trends in industry and finance, and the strength of the
U.S. economy and the local economies in which the Company operates, all of which
are beyond the Company’s control. Deterioration in economic conditions could
result in an increase in loan delinquencies and non-performing assets, decreases
in loan collateral values and a decrease in demand for the Company’s products
and services, among other things, any of which could have a material adverse
impact on the Company’s financial condition and results of
operations.
9
Financial services companies depend
on the accuracy and completeness of information about customers and
counterparties.
In
deciding whether to extend credit or enter into other transactions, the Company
may rely on information furnished by or on behalf of customers and
counterparties, including financial statements, credit reports and other
financial information. The Company may also rely on representations of those
customers, counterparties or other third parties, such as independent auditors,
as to the accuracy and completeness of that information. Reliance on inaccurate
or misleading financial statements, credit reports or other financial
information could have a material adverse impact on the Company’s business and,
in turn, the Company’s financial condition and results of
operations.
Consumers may decide not to use
banks to complete their financial transactions.
Technology
and other changes are allowing parties to complete financial transactions that
historically have involved banks through alternative methods. For example,
consumers can now maintain funds that would have historically been held as bank
deposits in brokerage accounts or mutual funds. Consumers can also complete
transactions such as paying bills and/or transferring funds directly without the
assistance of banks. The process of eliminating banks as intermediaries, known
as “disintermediation,” could result in the loss of fee income, as well as the
loss of customer deposits and the related income generated from those deposits.
The loss of these revenue streams and the lower cost deposits as a source of
funds could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial condition
and results of operations.
None
As of
December 31, 2009, the Company operated 11 full-service banking offices, of
which four were owned and seven were leased. None of the lessors of
the properties leased by the Company are affiliated with the Company and all of
the properties are located in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The
Company is headquartered at its owner-occupied main branch located on the corner
of Blakely and Drinker Streets in Dunmore, PA.
The
following table provides information with respect to the principal properties
from which the Bank conducts business:
Location
|
Owned / leased*
|
Type of use
|
Full service
|
Drive-thru
|
ATM
|
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Drinker
& Blakely Sts.,
Dunmore,
PA
|
Owned
|
Main Branch (1) (2)
|
x
|
x
|
x
|
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111
Green Ridge St.,
Scranton,
PA
|
Leased
|
Green Ridge Branch (2)
|
x
|
x
|
x
|
|||||
1311
Morgan Hwy.,
Clarks
Summit, PA
|
Leased
|
Abington Branch (3)
|
x
|
x
|
x
|
|||||
1232
Keystone Industrial Park Rd.,
Dunmore,
PA
|
Owned
|
Keystone Industrial Park
Branch
|
x
|
x
|
x
|
|||||
338
North Washington Ave., Scranton, PA
|
Owned
|
Financial Center Branch (4)
|
x
|
x
|
||||||
4010
Birney Ave.,
Moosic,
PA
|
Leased
|
Moosic Branch
|
x
|
x
|
x
|
|||||
801
Wyoming Ave.,
West
Pittston, PA
|
Leased
|
West Pittston Branch
|
x
|
x
|
||||||
1598
Main St.,
Peckville,
PA
|
Leased
|
Peckville Branch
|
x
|
x
|
x
|
|||||
247
Wyoming Ave.,
Kingston,
PA
|
Leased
|
Kingston Branch
|
x
|
x
|
x
|
|||||
511
Scranton-Carbondale Hwy., Eynon, PA
|
Leased
|
Eynon Branch
|
x
|
x
|
x
|
|||||
400
S. Main St.,
Scranton,
PA
|
Owned
|
West Scranton Branch(2)
|
x
|
x
|
x
|
10
*All of
the owned properties are free of encumbrances
(1) Executive and administrative,
commercial lending, trust and asset management services are located at this
facility.
(2) This office has two automated teller
machines (ATMs).
(3) In addition, there is a banking
facility located in the Clarks Summit State Hospital. The office is
leased from the hospital under a lease-for-service-provided agreement with
service limited to employees and patients of the hospital.
(4) Executive, mortgage and
consumer lending, finance and operational offices are located in this
building. A portion of the building is leased to a non-related
entity.
The Bank
maintains several free-standing 24-hour ATMs located at the following locations
in Pennsylvania:
|
·
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139
Wyoming Ave., Scranton (former location of the Bank’s Scranton
branch)
|
|
·
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Marywood
University, 2300 Adams Ave., Nazareth and Regina Halls,
Scranton
|
|
·
|
Snö
Mountain Ski Resort, 1000 Montage Mountain Rd.,
Moosic
|
|
·
|
Shoppes
at Montage, 1035 Shoppes Blvd.,
Moosic
|
During
2009, the Company closed its Scranton branch office located at 139 Wyoming
Avenue, Scranton.
Other
real estate owned includes all foreclosed properties listed for
sale. Upon possession, foreclosed properties are recorded on the
Company’s balance sheet at the lower of cost or fair value.
The
nature of the Company’s business generates some litigation involving matters
arising in the ordinary course of business. However, in the opinion
of the Company after consulting with legal counsel, no legal proceedings are
pending, which, if determined adversely to the Company or the Bank, would have a
material effect on the Company’s undivided profits or financial
condition. No legal proceedings are pending other than ordinary
routine litigation incidental to the business of the Company and the
Bank. In addition, to management’s knowledge, no governmental
authorities have initiated or contemplated any material legal actions against
the Company or the Bank.
11
The
common stock of the Company is traded on the over-the-counter bulletin board
under the symbol “FDBC.” Shareholders requesting information about
the Company’s common stock may contact:
Salvatore
R. DeFrancesco, Jr., Treasurer
Fidelity
D & D Bancorp, Inc.
Blakely
and Drinker Sts.
Dunmore,
PA 18512
(570)
342-8281
The
following table lists the quarterly cash dividends paid per share and the range
of high and low bid prices for the Company’s common stock based on information
obtained from on-line published sources. Such over-the-counter prices
do not include retail mark-ups, markdowns or commissions:
2009 Prices
|
Dividends
|
2008 Prices
|
Dividends
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
High
|
Low
|
paid
|
High
|
Low
|
paid
|
|||||||||||||||||||
1st
Quarter
|
$
|
26.50
|
$ | 19.50 | $ | 0.25 | $ | 31.00 | $ | 25.20 | $ | 0.25 | ||||||||||||
2nd
Quarter
|
$
|
24.00 | $ | 18.40 | $ | 0.25 | $ | 30.00 | $ | 27.00 | $ | 0.25 | ||||||||||||
3rd
Quarter
|
$ | 22.00 | $ | 18.35 | $ | 0.25 | $ | 33.50 | $ | 29.00 | $ | 0.25 | ||||||||||||
4th
Quarter
|
$ | 19.00 | $ | 14.60 | $ | 0.25 | $ | 28.75 | $ | 21.75 | $ | 0.25 |
Dividends
are determined and declared by the Board of Directors of the
Company. The Company expects to continue to pay cash dividends in the
future; however, future dividends are dependent upon earnings, financial
condition, capital needs and other factors of the Company. For a
further discussion of regulatory capital requirements see Note 14, “Regulatory
Matters”, contained within the notes to the consolidated financial statements,
incorporated by reference in Part II, Item 8.
The
Company has established a dividend reinvestment plan (DRP) for its
shareholders. The plan provides shareholders with a convenient and
economical method of investing cash dividends payable upon their common stock
and the opportunity to make voluntary optional cash payments to purchase
additional shares of the Company’s common stock. Participants pay no
brokerage commissions or service charges when they acquire additional shares of
common stock through the plan. The administrator may purchase shares
directly from the Company, in the open market, in negotiated transactions, or
using a combination of these methods.
The
Company had approximately 1,307 shareholders at December 31, 2009 and 1,287
shareholders as of February 28, 2010. The number of
shareholders is the actual number of individual shareholders of
record. Each security depository is considered a single shareholder
for purposes of determining the approximate number of shareholders.
Securities
authorized for issuance under equity compensation plans
The
information required under this section is incorporated by reference herein, to
the information presented in the Company’s definitive Proxy Statement for its
2010 Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be filed with the SEC.
12
Performance
graph
The
following graph and table compare the cumulative total shareholder return on the
Company’s common stock against the cumulative total return of the NASDAQ
Composite and the SNL index of greater than $500 million in-asset banks traded
on the OTC-BB and Pink Sheet (the SNL index) for the period of five fiscal years
commencing January 1, 2005, and ending December 31, 2009. As of
December 31, 2009, the SNL index consisted of 136 banks. The graph
illustrates the cumulative investment return to shareholders, based on the
assumption that a $100 investment was made on December 31, 2004, in each of: the
Company’s common stock, the NASDAQ Composite and the SNL index. All
cumulative total returns are computed assuming the reinvestment of dividends
into the applicable securities. The shareholder return shown on the
graph and table below is not necessarily indicative of future
performance:
Period Ending
|
|||||||||||||||||||
Index
|
12/31/04
|
12/31/05
|
12/31/06
|
12/31/07
|
12/31/08
|
12/31/09
|
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Fidelity
D & D Bancorp, Inc.
|
100.00 | 125.47 | 114.21 | 100.04 | 96.48 | 59.32 | |||||||||||||
NASDAQ
Composite
|
100.00 | 101.37 | 111.03 | 121.92 | 72.49 | 104.31 | |||||||||||||
SNL
> $500M OTC-BB and Pink Sheet Banks
|
100.00 | 106.42 | 116.77 | 107.59 | 78.07 | 66.75 |
13
Set forth
below are our selected consolidated financial and other data. This
financial data is derived in part from, and should be read in conjunction with,
the Company’s consolidated financial statements and related
footnotes:
2009
|
2008
|
2007
|
2006
|
2005
|
||||||||||||||||
Balance sheet data:
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Total
assets
|
$ | 556,017,271 | $ | 575,718,997 | $ | 587,412,555 | $ | 562,317,988 | $ | 544,060,698 | ||||||||||
Total
investment securities
|
76,529,998 | 84,187,579 | 122,984,160 | 100,410,736 | 97,678,573 | |||||||||||||||
Net
loans
|
423,124,054 | 436,207,460 | 421,424,379 | 417,199,048 | 403,144,095 | |||||||||||||||
Loans
available-for-sale
|
1,221,365 | 84,000 | 827,250 | 122,000 | 428,584 | |||||||||||||||
Total
deposits
|
458,994,458 | 433,311,932 | 425,708,361 | 410,334,595 | 379,498,640 | |||||||||||||||
Short-term
borrowings
|
16,533,107 | 38,129,704 | 39,656,354 | 33,656,150 | 28,772,997 | |||||||||||||||
Long-term
debt
|
32,000,000 | 52,000,000 | 62,708,677 | 62,536,210 | 83,704,188 | |||||||||||||||
Total
shareholders' equity
|
45,674,547 | 48,960,651 | 55,191,294 | 51,611,863 | 48,846,029 | |||||||||||||||
Operating data for the year
ended:
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Total
interest income
|
$ | 29,909,273 | $ | 33,961,434 | $ | 35,279,357 | $ | 33,529,710 | $ | 29,020,261 | ||||||||||
Total
interest expense
|
10,796,854 | 14,684,133 | 17,660,075 | 16,361,109 | 11,720,986 | |||||||||||||||
Net
interest income
|
19,112,419 | 19,277,301 | 17,619,282 | 17,168,601 | 17,299,275 | |||||||||||||||
Provision
(credit) for loan losses
|
5,050,000 | 940,000 | (60,000 | ) | 325,000 | 830,000 | ||||||||||||||
Net
interest income after provision (credit) for loan losses
|
14,062,419 | 18,337,301 | 17,679,282 | 16,843,601 | 16,469,275 | |||||||||||||||
Other-than-temporary
impairment
|
(3,300,094 | ) | (435,665 | ) | - | - | - | |||||||||||||
Other
income
|
5,461,281 | 5,013,966 | 5,205,215 | 4,522,138 | 4,150,502 | |||||||||||||||
Other
operating expense
|
19,241,125 | 18,210,683 | 16,636,760 | 15,878,376 | 14,561,968 | |||||||||||||||
(Loss)
income before income taxes
|
(3,017,519 | ) | 4,704,919 | 6,247,737 | 5,487,363 | 6,057,809 | ||||||||||||||
(Credit)
provision for income taxes
|
(1,617,314 | ) | 1,068,971 | 1,636,165 | 1,362,080 | 1,466,112 | ||||||||||||||
Net
(loss) income
|
$ | (1,400,205 | ) | $ | 3,635,948 | $ | 4,611,572 | $ | 4,125,283 | $ | 4,591,697 | |||||||||
Per share data:
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Net
(loss) income per share, basic
|
$ | (0.67 | ) | $ | 1.76 | $ | 2.23 | $ | 2.01 | $ | 2.26 | |||||||||
Net
(loss) income per share, diluted
|
$ | (0.67 | ) | $ | 1.76 | $ | 2.23 | $ | 2.01 | $ | 2.25 | |||||||||
Dividends
declared
|
$ | 2,078,171 | $ | 2,068,680 | $ | 1,921,533 | $ | 1,801,361 | $ | 1,624,263 | ||||||||||
Dividends
per share
|
$ | 1.00 | $ | 1.00 | $ | 0.93 | $ | 0.88 | $ | 0.80 | ||||||||||
Book
value per share
|
$ | 21.69 | $ | 23.73 | $ | 26.62 | $ | 25.09 | $ | 23.95 | ||||||||||
Weighted-average
shares outstanding *
|
2,080,507 | 2,068,851 | 2,066,683 | 2,047,975 | 2,031,211 | |||||||||||||||
Shares
outstanding *
|
2,105,860 | 2,062,927 | 2,072,929 | 2,057,433 | 2,039,639 | |||||||||||||||
Ratios:
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Return
on average assets
|
-0.25 | % | 0.62 | % | 0.80 | % | 0.73 | % | 0.86 | % | ||||||||||
Return
on average equity
|
-2.91 | % | 6.81 | % | 8.65 | % | 8.31 | % | 9.64 | % | ||||||||||
Net
interest margin
|
3.71 | % | 3.60 | % | 3.34 | % | 3.31 | % | 3.51 | % | ||||||||||
Efficiency
ratio
|
72.51 | % | 72.98 | % | 71.61 | % | 71.67 | % | 65.99 | % | ||||||||||
Expense
ratio
|
2.37 | % | 2.25 | % | 2.01 | % | 2.02 | % | 1.93 | % | ||||||||||
Allowance
for loan losses to loans
|
1.75 | % | 1.08 | % | 1.13 | % | 1.29 | % | 1.46 | % | ||||||||||
Dividend
payout ratio
|
N/M | ** | 56.90 | % | 41.67 | % | 43.67 | % | 35.37 | % | ||||||||||
Equity
to assets
|
8.21 | % | 8.50 | % | 9.40 | % | 9.18 | % | 8.98 | % | ||||||||||
Equity
to deposits
|
9.95 | % | 11.30 | % | 12.96 | % | 12.58 | % | 12.87 | % |
*
|
The
number of shares and the weighted-average number of shares outstanding
prior to 2006, have been adjusted to reflect the effect of a 10% stock
dividend paid on February 15,
2006.
|
**
|
The
result of this calculation is not
meaningful.
|
14
Critical
accounting policies
The
presentation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP 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 relates
to the determination of the allowance for loan losses. Management
believes that the allowance for loan losses at December 31, 2009 is adequate and
reasonable. Given the subjective nature of identifying and valuing
loan losses, it is likely that well-informed individuals could make different
assumptions, and could, therefore calculate a materially different allowance
value. While management uses available information to recognize
losses on loans, changes in economic conditions may necessitate revisions in the
future. In addition, various regulatory agencies, as an integral part
of their examination process, periodically review the Company’s allowance for
loan losses. Such agencies may require the Company to recognize
adjustments to the allowance based on their judgment of information available to
them at the time of their examination.
Another
material estimate is the calculation of fair values of the Company’s investment
securities. Except for the Company’s investment in corporate bonds,
consisting of pooled trust preferred securities, fair values on the other
investment securities are determined by prices provided by a third-party vendor,
who is a provider of financial market data, analytics and related services to
financial institutions. For the pooled trust preferred securities,
management was unable to obtain readily attainable and realistic pricing from
market traders due to a lack of active market participants and therefore
management has determined the market for these securities to be
inactive. In order to determine the fair value of the pooled trust
preferred securities, management relied on the use of an income valuation
approach (present value technique) that maximizes the use of relevant observable
inputs and minimizes the use of unobservable inputs, the results of which are
more representative of fair value than the market approach valuation technique
used for the other investment securities.
Based on
experience, management is aware that estimated fair values of investment
securities tend to vary among valuation services. Accordingly, when
selling investment securities, price quotes may be obtained from more than one
source. As described in Notes 1 and 3 of the consolidated financial
statements, the majority of the Company’s investment securities are classified
as available-for-sale (AFS). AFS securities are carried at fair value
on the consolidated balance sheets, with unrealized gains and losses, net of
income tax, reported separately within shareholders’ equity through accumulated
other comprehensive income (loss).
The fair
value of residential mortgage loans, classified as AFS, is obtained from the
Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) or the Federal Home Loan Bank
(FHLB). Generally, the market to which the Company sells mortgages it
originates for sale is restricted and price quotes from other sources are not
typically obtained. On occasion, the Company may transfer loans from
the loan and lease portfolio to loans AFS. Under these rare
circumstances, pricing may be obtained from other entities and the loans are
transferred at the lower of cost or market value and simultaneously
sold. For a further discussion on the accounting treatment of AFS
loans, see the section entitled “Loans available-for-sale,” contained within
management’s discussion and analysis. As of December 31, 2009 and
2008, loans classified as AFS consisted of residential mortgages.
All
significant accounting policies are contained in Note 1, “Nature of Operations
and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies”, within the notes to
consolidated financial statements and incorporated by reference in Part II, Item
8.
The
following discussion and analysis presents the significant changes in the
financial condition and in the results of operations of the Company as of
December 31, 2009 and December 31, 2008 and for each of the years then
ended. This discussion should be read in conjunction with the
consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in Part II, Item 8
of this report.
Comparison
of Financial Condition as of December 31, 2009
and 2008 and Results of
Operations for each of the Years then Ended
Financial
Condition
Overview
The
national economy by some estimates may be improving, but the state of the
housing, real estate markets and capital markets continue to feel the downward
pressure of the recession-stricken financial environment that began its downward
spiral over a year ago. Capital constraints and asset quality
concerns will restrict asset growth. The sluggish recovery has
suppressed the availability of commercial and consumer credit, continued to
contain residential real estate at relatively low values, propelled the rate of
home foreclosures and sustained a level of unemployment not seen for
decades. In an effort to stimulate the economy, among other things,
the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) has not adjusted the short-term federal
funds rate which had remained near zero percent during 2009. While
lower rates certainly do help funding costs, their effect can be unfavorable to
floating-rate asset yields and re-financed fixed-rate assets thereby pressuring
margins. The shape of the interest rate yield curve continued to be
positively sloped throughout 2009 but the interest rate environment was
considerably lower in 2009 compared to 2008. The shape of the yield
curve may present opportunities. However the local economy is not
insulated from the disruptions, volatility and slow recovery that has negatively
impacted the national economy and that situation will continue to require the
Company, like all banks, to operate in a difficult, financially unstable
economic landscape. The management team and steering committees of
the Company are prepared to address the issues at hand and will implement
strategies to navigate through these uncertain times.
15
Consolidated
assets decreased $19,702,000, or 3%, during the year ended December 31, 2009 to
$556,017,000. The decline was the result of decreased total
borrowings of $41,597,000, or 46%, and a decrease in total shareholders’ equity
of $3,286,000, or 7%, partially offset by a 6%, or $25,682,000 increase in
deposits. The decline in borrowings resulted from a combination of
deposit growth and balance sheet de-leveraging. Shareholders' equity
declined due to the net loss recorded for the year ended December 31, 2009 and
the declaration of cash dividends plus the reduction in intrinsic value from
expiration of the cash flow hedge.
The
following table is a comparison of condensed balance sheet accounts and
percentage to total assets at December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007 (dollars in
thousands):
2009
|
2008
|
2007
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
Amount
|
Percent
|
Amount
|
Percent
|
Amount
|
Percent
|
|||||||||||||||||||
Assets:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cash
and cash equivalents
|
$ | 8,328 | 1.5 | % | $ | 12,771 | 2.2 | % | $ | 10,409 | 1.8 | % | ||||||||||||
Investment
securities
|
76,530 | 13.8 | 84,188 | 14.6 | 122,984 | 20.9 | ||||||||||||||||||
Federal
Home Loan Bank Stock
|
4,781 | 0.9 | 4,781 | 0.8 | 3,303 | 0.6 | ||||||||||||||||||
Loans
and leases, net
|
424,345 | 76.3 | 436,291 | 75.8 | 422,252 | 71.9 | ||||||||||||||||||
Bank
premises and equipment
|
15,362 | 2.8 | 16,056 | 2.8 | 12,965 | 2.2 | ||||||||||||||||||
Life
insurance cash surrender value
|
9,117 | 1.6 | 8,808 | 1.5 | 8,489 | 1.4 | ||||||||||||||||||
Other
assets
|
17,554 | 3.1 | 12,824 | 2.3 | 7,011 | 1.2 | ||||||||||||||||||
Total
assets
|
$ | 556,017 | 100.0 | % | $ | 575,719 | 100.0 | % | $ | 587,413 | 100.0 | % | ||||||||||||
Liabilities:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total
deposits
|
$ | 458,994 | 82.6 | % | $ | 433,312 | 75.3 | % | $ | 425,708 | 72.5 | % | ||||||||||||
Short-term
borrowings
|
16,533 | 3.0 | 38,130 | 6.6 | 39,656 | 6.7 | ||||||||||||||||||
Long-term
debt
|
32,000 | 5.8 | 52,000 | 9.0 | 62,709 | 10.7 | ||||||||||||||||||
Other
liabilities
|
2,815 | 0.4 | 3,316 | 0.6 | 4,149 | 0.7 | ||||||||||||||||||
Total
liabilities
|
510,342 | 91.8 | 526,758 | 91.5 | 532,222 | 90.6 | ||||||||||||||||||
Shareholders'
equity
|
45,675 | 8.2 | 48,961 | 8.5 | 55,191 | 9.4 | ||||||||||||||||||
Total
liabilities and shareholders' equity
|
$ | 556,017 | 100.0 | % | $ | 575,719 | 100.0 | % | $ | 587,413 | 100.0 | % |
A
comparison of net changes in selected balance sheet categories as of December
31, are as follows:
Earning
|
Short-term
|
Other
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Assets
|
%
|
assets*
|
%
|
Deposits
|
%
|
borrowings
|
%
|
borrowings
|
%
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2009
|
$ | (19,701,726 | ) | (3 | ) | $ | (26,475,299 | ) | (5 | ) | $ | 25,682,526 | 6 | $ | (21,596,597 | ) | (57 | ) | $ | (20,000,000 | ) | (38 | ) | |||||||||||||||||
2008
|
(11,693,558 | ) | (2 | ) | (22,808,541 | ) | (4 | ) | 7,603,571 | 2 | (1,526,650 | ) | (4 | ) | (10,708,677 | ) | (17 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2007
|
25,094,567 | 4 | 26,073,807 | 5 | 15,373,766 | 4 | 6,000,204 | 18 | 172,467 | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2006
|
18,257,290 | 3 | 21,202,050 | 4 | 30,835,955 | 8 | 4,883,153 | 17 | (21,167,978 | ) | (25 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2005
|
7,385,560 | 1 | 2,784,580 | 1 | 13,883,305 | 4 | (21,761,049 | ) | (43 | ) | 12,585,000 | 18 |
16
Deposits
The Bank
is a community-based commercial financial institution, member FDIC, which offers
a variety of deposit products with varying ranges of interest rates and
terms. Deposit products include savings, clubs, interest-bearing
checking (NOW), money market, non-interest bearing checking (DDAs) and
certificates of deposit accounts. Certificates of deposit accounts,
or CDs, are deposits with stated maturities which can range from seven days to
ten years. The flow of deposits is significantly influenced by
general economic conditions, changes in prevailing interest rates, pricing and
competition. To determine deposit product interest rates, the Company
considers local competition, spreads to earning-asset yields, liquidity position
and rates charged for alternative sources of funding such as borrowings which
include repurchase agreements. Though the Company tends to experience
intense competition for deposits, more so during this prolonged low
interest-rate environment, the interest rate setting strategy also includes
consideration of the Company’s balance sheet structure and cost effective
strategies that are mindful of the current economic landscape.
The
following table represents the components of total deposits as of December 31,
2009 and 2008 (dollars in thousands):
2009
|
2008
|
|||||||||||||||
Amount
|
Percent
|
Amount
|
Percent
|
|||||||||||||
Money
market
|
$ | 91,488 | 19.9 |
%
|
$ | 96,738 | 22.3 | % | ||||||||
NOW
|
62,031 | 13.5 | 50,124 | 11.6 | ||||||||||||
Savings
and clubs
|
86,335 | 18.8 | 41,326 | 9.5 | ||||||||||||
Certificates
of deposit
|
139,502 | 30.5 | 173,681 | 40.1 | ||||||||||||
CDARS
|
8,748 | 1.9 | - | - | ||||||||||||
Total
interest-bearing
|
388,104 | 84.6 | 361,869 | 83.5 | ||||||||||||
Non-interest
bearing
|
70,890 | 15.4 | 71,443 | 16.5 | ||||||||||||
Total
deposits
|
$ | 458,994 | 100.0 |
%
|
$ | 433,312 | 100.0 | % |
During
the first quarter of 2009, the Company began to use the Certificate of Deposit
Account Registry Service (CDARS) reciprocal program to obtain FDIC insurance
protection for customers who have large deposits that at times exceed the FDIC
maximum amount of $250,000. In the CDARS program, deposits with
varying terms and interest rates, originated in the Company’s own markets, are
exchanged for deposits of other financial institutions that are members in the
CDARS network. By placing these deposits in other participating
institutions, the deposits of our customers are fully insured by the
FDIC. In return for deposits placed with network institutions, the
Company receives from network institutions deposits that are approximately equal
in amount and contain similar terms as those placed for our
customers. Deposits the Company receives, or reciprocal deposits,
from other institutions are considered brokered deposits by regulatory
definitions. As of December 31, 2009, CDARS represented $8,748,000,
or 2%, of total deposits.
Total
deposits increased $25,682,000, or 6%, during 2009 to
$458,994,000. The increase stems from growth in savings and clubs of
$45,009,000 and NOW accounts of $11,907,000, partially offset by declines in CDs
including CDARS of $25,431,000, net and money market accounts of
$5,250,000. Generally, deposits are obtained from consumers and
businesses within the communities that surround the Company’s 11 branch offices
and all deposits are insured by the FDIC up to the full extent permitted by
law. In an effort to grow and retain core deposits, the Company
introduced innovative options to its variety of deposit
products. Most notably, in 2009 the Company created special savings
account offerings tailored to the needs of both business and non-business
customers. This creativity resulted in savings account balances that
more than doubled by the end of 2009 compared to December 31,
2008. The Company’s niche is developing, promoting and bringing
creative deposit-related ideas to the market during times that are best suited
for the customer and for the Company. This in conjunction with
superior customer service contributed to the overall net increase in
deposits.
Including
CDARS, the maturity distribution of certificates of deposit at December 31, 2009
is as follows (dollars in thousands):
Three months
|
Three to six
|
Six to twelve
|
Over twelve
|
|||||||||||||||||
or less
|
months
|
months
|
months
|
Total
|
||||||||||||||||
CDs
of $100,000 or more
|
$ | 19,883 | $ | 5,197 | $ | 7,992 | $ | 21,867 | $ | 54,939 | ||||||||||
CDs
of less than $100,000
|
17,817 | 8,157 | 17,980 | 40,609 | 84,563 | |||||||||||||||
CDARS
|
- | 740 | 4,088 | 3,920 | 8,748 | |||||||||||||||
Total
CDs
|
$ | 37,700 | $ | 14,094 | $ | 30,060 | $ | 66,396 | $ | 148,250 |
17
Including
CDARS, approximately 55% of the CDs are scheduled to mature within one
year. Renewing CDs may re-price to lower or higher market rates
depending on the direction of interest rate movements, the shape of the yield
curve, competition, the rate profile of the maturing accounts and depositor
preference for alternative products. To help reduce the negative
impact of the unpredictable interest rate environment, management deployed
strategies that diversified the deposit mix across the entire continuum of new
and existing deposit products.
Short-term
borrowings
In
addition to deposits, other funding sources available to the Company are
overnight funds purchased from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh (FHLB),
fed funds purchased from correspondent banks and repurchase agreements with
individuals, businesses and public entities. The Company uses
overnight funding for asset growth, deposit run-off and short-term liquidity
needs.
Repurchase
agreements are non-insured interest-bearing liabilities that have a perfected
security interest in qualified investments of the Company. The FDIC
Depositor Protection Act of 2009 requires banks to provide a perfected security
interest to the purchasers of uninsured repurchase
agreements. Repurchase agreements are offered through a sweep
product. A sweep account is designed to ensure that on a daily basis,
an attached DDA is adequately funded and excess funds are transferred, or swept,
into an interest-bearing overnight repurchase agreement account. Due
to the constant flow of funds in to and out of the sweep product, their balances
tend to be somewhat volatile, mimicking the likes of a DDA deposit account.
Customer liquidity is the typical cause for variances in repurchase agreements,
which during 2009 declined $3,665,000 from $11,412,000 at December 31, 2008 to
$7,747,000 as of December 31, 2009.
Overnight
borrowings and repurchase agreements are included with short-term borrowings on
the consolidated balance sheets. For a further discussion on
short-term borrowings, see Note 7, “Short-Term Borrowings”, contained in the
notes to consolidated financial statements in Part II, Item 8.
Long-term
debt
Long-term
debt consists of borrowings from the FHLB. The weighted-average rate
in effect on funds borrowed at December 31, 2009 was 5.11% compared to 5.35% as
of December 31, 2008. The 2009 weighted-average rate was 61 basis
points below the tax-equivalent yield of 5.72% earned from the Company’s
portfolio of average interest-earning assets for the year ended December 31,
2009. Rates on the $32,000,000 balances of long-term advances are
currently fixed but are structured to adjust quarterly should market interest
rates increase beyond the issues’ original or strike
rates. Significant prepayment penalties are attached to the
borrowings thereby creating a disincentive from paying off the higher cost
advances. However, in the event underlying market rates drift above
the rates currently paid on these borrowings, the fixed-rate would convert to a
floating rate advance and at that time, the Company would have the option to
repay or to renegotiate the converted advance rate. During the third
quarter of 2009, $10,000,000 of convertible select advances with a
weighted-average interest rate of 6.12%, scheduled to mature in 2010, were paid
off. At the time of pay-off, the Company incurred $505,000 of
prepayment interest costs that are included as a component of interest expense
in the consolidated statement of income for the year ended December 31,
2009. This deleveraging allowed the Company access to higher
available liquidity and to strengthen regulatory capital ratios. Due
to the relatively high-costing nature of these advances, the strategy was
immediately accretive to future earnings. As of December 31, 2009,
the Company had the ability to borrow an additional $138,346,000 from the
FHLB.
Investments
The
Company’s investment policy is designed to complement its lending activities,
generate a favorable return without incurring undue interest rate and credit
risk, manage interest rate sensitivity, provide monthly cash flow and manage
liquidity at acceptable levels. In establishing investment
strategies, the Company considers its business, growth or restructuring plans,
the economic environment, the interest rate sensitivity position, the types of
securities held, permissible purchases, credit quality, maturity and re-pricing
terms, call or average-life intervals and investment
concentrations. The policy prescribes permissible investment
categories that meet the policy standards and management is responsible for
structuring and executing the specific investment purchases within these policy
parameters. Management buys and sells investment securities from
time-to-time depending on market conditions, business trends, liquidity needs,
capital levels and structuring strategies. Investment security
purchases provide a way to quickly invest excess liquidity in order to generate
additional earnings. The Company generally earns a positive interest
spread by assuming interest rate risk and using deposits and/or borrowings to
purchase securities with longer maturities.
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At the
time of purchase, management classifies investment securities into one of three
categories: trading, available-for-sale (AFS) or held-to-maturity
(HTM). To date, management has not purchased any securities for
trading purposes. Most of the securities purchased are classified as
AFS even though there is no immediate intent to sell them. The AFS
designation affords management the flexibility to sell securities and position
the balance sheet in response to capital levels, liquidity needs or changes in
market conditions. Securities AFS are carried at their net fair
values in the consolidated balance sheets with an adjustment to shareholders’
equity, net of tax, presented under the caption “Accumulated other comprehensive
income (loss).” As of December 31, 2009, AFS debt securities were
recorded with an unrealized net loss of $14,038,000 while equity securities were
recorded with an unrealized net gain of $107,000. Investment
securities designated as HTM represent debt securities that the Company has the
ability and intent to hold until maturity and are carried at amortized
cost. As of December 31, 2009 and December 31, 2008, the
aggregate fair value of securities HTM exceeded their respective aggregate
amortized cost by $56,000 and $31,000, respectively.
As of
December 31, 2009, the carrying value of investment securities totaled
$76,530,000, or 14% of total assets, compared to $84,187,000, or 15% of total
assets at December 31, 2008. At December 31, 2009, approximately 19%
of the carrying value of the investment portfolio was comprised of U.S.
Government Sponsored Enterprise residential mortgage-backed securities (MBS –
GSE residential) that amortize and provide monthly cash flow. Agency
Government Sponsored Enterprise (Agency – GSE) securities, municipal general
obligations and corporate bonds comprised 43%, 30% and 7%, respectively, of the
investment portfolio at December 31, 2009.
A
comparison of total investment securities as of December 31
follows:
2009
|
2008
|
|||||||||||||||
Amount
|
Percent
|
Amount
|
Percent
|
|||||||||||||
Agency
- GSE
|
$ | 33,132,301 | 43.3 | % | $ | 43,507,359 | 51.7 |
%
|
||||||||
MBS
- GSE residential
|
14,456,037 | 18.9 | 12,438,721 | 14.8 | ||||||||||||
State
& municipal subdivisions
|
23,270,289 | 30.4 | 17,552,729 | 20.8 | ||||||||||||
Pooled
trust preferred securities
|
5,241,844 | 6.8 | 10,260,196 | 12.2 | ||||||||||||
Equity
securities - financial services
|
429,527 | 0.6 | 428,574 | 0.5 | ||||||||||||
Total
|
$ | 76,529,998 | 100.0 | % | $ | 84,187,579 | 100.0 | % |
The
distribution of debt securities by stated maturity date at December 31, 2009 is
as follows:
One year
|
One
through
|
Five
through
|
More than
|
|||||||||||||||||
or less
|
five years
|
ten years
|
ten years
|
Total
|
||||||||||||||||
Agency
- GSE
|
$ | - | $ | - | $ | 6,939,700 | $ | 26,192,601 | $ | 33,132,301 | ||||||||||
MBS
- GSE residential
|
- | 46,579 | 487,049 | 13,922,409 | 14,456,037 | |||||||||||||||
State
& municipal subdivisions
|
- | - | 592,410 | 22,677,879 | 23,270,289 | |||||||||||||||
Pooled
trust preferred securities
|
- | - | - | 5,241,844 | 5,241,844 | |||||||||||||||
Total
debt securities
|
$ | - | $ | 46,579 | $ | 8,019,159 | $ | 68,034,733 | $ | 76,100,471 |
The
tax-equivalent yield on debt securities by stated maturity date at December 31,
2009 is as follows:
One
year
|
One
through
|
Five
through
|
More
than
|
|||||||||||||||||
or less
|
five years
|
ten years
|
ten years
|
Total
|
||||||||||||||||
Agency
- GSE
|
- | % | - | % | 3.32 | % | 5.02 | % | 4.67 | % | ||||||||||
MBS
- GSE residential
|
- | 6.00 | 6.04 | 4.76 | 4.81 | |||||||||||||||
State
& municipal subdivisions
|
- | - | 5.60 | 6.22 | 6.21 | |||||||||||||||
Pooled
trust preferred securities
|
- | - | - | 1.69 | 1.69 | |||||||||||||||
Total
debt securities
|
- | % | 6.00 | % | 3.65 | % | 4.54 | % | 4.46 | % |
In the
above table, the book yields on state & municipal subdivisions were adjusted
to a tax-equivalent basis using the corporate federal tax rate of
34%. In addition, average yields on securities AFS are based on
amortized cost and do not reflect unrealized gains or losses.
Uncertainty
continues to prevail in the financial markets which has increased the volatility
in fair value estimates for the securities in the Company’s investment
portfolio. Other than pooled trust preferred securities, fair values
of the Company’s investment securities have improved since year-end
2008. Management believes fair value changes are due mainly to the
interest rate environment, instability in the capital markets, limited trading
activity and illiquid conditions in the financial markets, not deterioration in
the creditworthiness of the issuers. Nearly all of the securities in
the portfolio have fixed rates or have predetermined scheduled rate changes, and
many have call features that allow the issuer to call the security at par before
its stated maturity without penalty. As of December 31, 2009, the
debt securities with unrealized losses have depreciated 25.9% compared to 27.4%
at December 31, 2008. The most significant component of the
$14.0 million net unrealized loss in the AFS debt securities portfolio was $13.6
million from the Company’s investments in corporate bonds consisting of
collateralized debt obligation (CDO) securities that are backed by pooled trust
preferred securities issued by banks, thrifts and insurance
companies.
19
Quarterly,
management performs a review of the investment portfolio to determine the cause
of declines in the fair value of each security. The Company uses
inputs provided by independent third parties to determine the fair value of its
investment securities portfolio. Inputs provided by the third party
are reviewed and corroborated by management. Evaluations of the
causes of the unrealized losses are performed to determine whether impairment is
temporary or other-than-temporary. Considerations such as the
Company’s intent and ability to hold the securities to maturity, recoverability
of the invested amounts over the intended holding period, the length of time and
the severity in pricing decline below cost, the interest rate environment,
receipts of amounts contractually due and whether or not there is an active
market for the security, for example, are applied, along with the financial
condition of the issuer for management to make a realistic judgment of the
probability that the Company will be unable to collect all amounts (principal
and interest) due in determining whether a security is other-than-temporarily
impaired. If a decline in value is deemed to be other-than-temporary,
the amortized cost of the security is reduced by the credit impairment amount
and a corresponding charge to earnings is recognized. If at the time
of sale, call or maturity the proceeds exceed the security’s amortized cost, the
impairment charge may be fully or partially recovered.
The
Company owns 13 tranches of pooled trust preferred securities
(PreTSLs). The market for these securities and other issues of
PreTSLs at December 31, 2009 was not active. The inactivity was
evidenced first by a significant widening of the bid-ask spread in the brokered
markets in which PreTSLs trade, then by a significant decrease in the volume of
trades relative to historical levels and the lack of a new-issue market since
2007. There are currently very few market participants who are
willing and/or able to transact for these securities. Given the
conditions in the debt markets today and the absence of observable transactions
in the secondary and new issue markets, management has made the following
observations and has determined:
|
·
|
The
few observable transactions and market quotations that were available were
not reliable for purposes of determining fair value at December 31,
2009,
|
|
·
|
An
income valuation approach (present value technique) that maximizes the use
of relevant observable inputs and minimizes the use of unobservable inputs
are equally or more representative of fair value than the market approach
valuation technique, and
|
|
·
|
The
PreTSLs securities are classified within “Level 3” (as defined in current
accounting guidance and explained in Note 12, “Fair Value of Financial
Instruments and Derivatives” of the consolidated financial statements) of
the fair value hierarchy because significant adjustments are required to
determine fair value at the measurement date. The valuations of
the Company’s PreTSLs were prepared by an independent third party and
corroborated by management. The approach to determine fair
value involved the following:
|
o
|
Data
about the issue structure as defined in the indenture and the underlying
collateral were collected,
|
o
|
The
credit quality of the collateral is estimated using issuer-specific
probability of default
values,
|
o
|
The
default probabilities also considered the potential for 50% correlation
among issuers within the same industry (e.g. banks with other banks) and
30% correlation between industries (e.g. banks vs.
insurance),
|
o
|
The
loss given default, or amount of cash lost to the investor when a debt
asset defaults, was assumed to be 100% (no recovery) based upon Moody’s
research. This replicates the historically high default loss
levels on trust preferred
instruments,
|
o
|
The
cash flows were forecast for the underlying collateral and applied to each
tranche to determine the resulting distribution among the
securities. This ascertains which investors are paid and which
investors incur losses. Thus, these cash flow projections
capture the credit risk,
|
o
|
The
expected cash flows utilize no prepayments and were discounted utilizing
three-month LIBOR as the risk-free rate for the base case and then added a
300bp liquidity premium as the discount rate to calculate the present
value of the security,
|
o
|
The
effective discount rates on an overall basis range from 9.84% to 341.92%
and are highly dependent upon the credit quality of the collateral, the
relative position of the tranche within the capital structure of the
security and the prepayment assumptions,
and
|
o
|
The
calculations were modeled in several thousand scenarios using a Monte
Carlo engine to establish a distribution of intrinsic values and the
average was used for valuation
purposes.
|
20
Based on
the technique described, the Company determined that as of December 31, 2009,
the fair value of five PreTSL securities: VII, IX, XV, XVI and XXV had declined
$8,014,000 in total below their amortized cost basis and since the present value
of the security’s expected cash flows were insufficient to recover the entire
amortized cost basis, the securities are deemed to have experienced credit
related other-than-temporary impairment in the amount of $3,300,000 which was
charged to current earnings as a component of other income in the consolidated
statement of income for the year ended December 31, 2009. This
compares to $436,000 of impairment charges recorded for the year ended December
31, 2008. There were no other-than-temporary impairment charges
recorded in 2007. The Company closely monitors the pooled trust
preferred securities market and performs collateral sufficiency and cash flow
analyses on a quarterly basis. Future analyses could yield results
that may indicate further impairment has occurred and would therefore require
additional write-downs and corresponding other-than-temporary charges to current
earnings.
Federal
Home Loan Bank Stock
Investment
in FHLB stock is required for membership in the organization and is carried at
cost since there is no market value available. The amount the Company
is required to invest is dependent upon the relative size of outstanding
borrowings the Company has with the FHLB. Excess stock is typically
repurchased from the Company at par if the level of borrowings declines to a
predetermined level. In addition, the Company normally earns a return
or dividend on the amount invested. In order to preserve its capital
level, in December 2008 the FHLB announced that it had suspended the payment of
dividends and excess capital stock repurchasing. That decision was
based on the FHLB’s analysis and consideration of certain negative market trends
and the impact those trends will have on their financial
condition. Based on the financial results of the FHLB for the
year-ended December 31, 2009 and 2008, management believes that the suspension
of both the dividend payments and excess capital stock repurchase is temporary
in nature. Management further believes that the FHLB will continue to
be a primary source of wholesale liquidity for both short- and long-term funding
and has concluded that its investment in FHLB stock is not
other-than-temporarily impaired. There can be no assurance, however,
that future negative changes to the financial condition of the FHLB may not
require the Company to recognize an impairment charge with respect to such
holdings. The Company will continue to monitor the financial
condition of the FHLB and assess its future ability to resume normal dividend
payments and stock redemption activities.
Loans
and leases
The
Company originates commercial and industrial (commercial) and commercial real
estate (CRE) loans, residential mortgages, consumer, home equity and
construction loans. The relative volume of originations is dependent
upon customer demand, current interest rates and the perception and duration of
future interest levels. As part of the overall strategy to serve the
business community in which it operates, the Company is focused on developing
and implementing products and services to the broad spectrum of businesses that
operate in our marketplace. The Company’s goals center on building
relationships by providing credit and non-credit products and services,
continuing to diversify its loan portfolio and utilizing participations to
reduce risk in larger credit transactions. Especially in today’s economy,
the Company, in providing credit to existing and new customers, has implemented
policies and procedures to reduce the associated risk. The risks
associated with interest rates are being managed by utilizing floating versus
long-term fixed rates and exploring programs where we can match our cost of
funds.
Gross
loans and leases decreased $10,255,000, or 2%, from $440,953,000 at December 31,
2008, to $430,698,000 at December 31, 2009. Gross loans represented
77% of total assets at December 31, 2009 and December 31, 2008,
respectively.
In 2009,
the Company originated $32,686,000 of commercial and CRE loans, $13,809,000 of
residential mortgage loans and $20,602,000 of consumer loans. This
compares to $47,864,000, $23,111,000 and $21,354,000, respectively, in
2008. Included in mortgage loans is $8,307,000 of real estate
construction lines in 2009 and $9,476,000 in 2008. In addition for
2009, the Company originated lines of credit in the amounts of $35,296,000 for
commercial borrowers and $13,260,000 in home equity and other consumer lines of
credit.
The
Company’s origination, for portfolio, activity declined 27% in 2009 compared to
2008. Because of the low interest rate environment, borrowers’ sentiment was to
procure and refinance to low, fixed-rate mortgage loans; an activity that
dominated housing lending throughout 2009. To manage interest rate
risk, the Company sells these loans into the secondary market rather than for
portfolio retention. The decline in the commercial and CRE
originations was due to weak economic conditions and the related strict
underwriting practices that the Company employs to help ensure against possible
future losses.
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Commercial and commercial
real estate loans:
For 2009
the Company further implemented the concept of reinforcing and building
relationships. Commercial lenders have become relationship managers and
have the knowledge to deal with loans, deposits and referrals to other areas of
the bank such as trust and asset management. The commercial and CRE loan
portfolio increased to $263,514,000 from $245,480,000, or 7%, during 2009.
Deposits associated with lending, whether they are retail or commercial, have
benefited from the emphasis on relationships and not just loans.
Residential
real estate loans:
Residential
real estate loans declined $27,509,000, or 28%, to $71,001,000 in
2009. During the first quarter of 2009, the Company transferred
$10,838,000 of residential mortgage loans to the AFS portfolio, which were
simultaneously sold. From time-to-time, management will evaluate the
composition of the residential loan portfolio and based upon liquidity needs,
interest rate risk and other considerations may transfer loans to the AFS
portfolio, at the lower of cost or market value. The balance of the
residential real estate mortgage decline is mostly from net pay-downs during
2009 as borrowers’ desire, during this low-rate environment, is to re-finance
their existing mortgage and home equity debt into new lower rate mortgage
loans. Operating in a lower interest rate environment throughout 2009
that continues into 2010, the Company expects continued prepayment and refinance
activity from its mortgage banking services, albeit on a much smaller
scale.
Consumer
loans:
Despite
reduced origination, compared to December 31, 2008, the consumer loan
portfolio remained relatively unchanged as of December 31, 2009. The
Company’s success in the development and implementation of promotional campaigns
for prime-based home equity lines of credit, which customers find to be
attractive in low interest rate environments, resulted in more lines, more line
usage and lower installment balances. This in addition to a new
relationship with an automobile dealership during the latter part of 2008 helped
stabilize the size of the consumer loan portfolio.
Real estate construction
loans:
Real
estate construction loans decreased $1,302,000, or 11%, at December 31, 2009
compared to December 31, 2008. These loans fund residential and
commercial construction projects and then convert to a residential mortgage or
to a commercial real estate loan usually within one year from the origination
date. Generally, the converted loans will bear similar terms as the
terms during the construction period.
Direct financing
leases:
The
balance represents tax-free leasing arrangements provided to municipal
customers. The Company has not originated new direct finance leasing
and for the past several years, the activity represented scheduled
run-off.
A
comparison of domestic loans at December 31, for the five previous periods is as
follows:
2009
|
2008
|
2007
|
2006
|
2005
|
||||||||||||||||
Real
estate:
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Commercial
|
$ | 186,726,196 | $ | 164,772,236 | $ | 143,596,397 | $ | 158,446,052 | $ | 158,566,841 | ||||||||||
Residential
|
71,001,298 | 98,510,562 | 116,978,378 | 112,742,692 | 103,920,613 | |||||||||||||||
Construction
|
10,125,354 | 11,426,978 | 10,703,249 | 13,369,712 | 14,198,858 | |||||||||||||||
Commercial
and industrial
|
76,787,809 | 80,707,756 | 72,461,485 | 59,767,164 | 57,721,756 | |||||||||||||||
Consumer
|
85,689,831 | 85,091,205 | 81,998,093 | 77,729,520 | 74,070,328 | |||||||||||||||
Direct
financing leases
|
367,169 | 443,957 | 511,178 | 588,211 | 650,348 | |||||||||||||||
Gross
loans
|
430,697,657 | 440,952,694 | 426,248,780 | 422,643,351 | 409,128,744 | |||||||||||||||
Less:
|
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Allowance
for loan losses
|
7,573,603 | 4,745,234 | 4,824,401 | 5,444,303 | 5,984,649 | |||||||||||||||
Net
loans
|
$ | 423,124,054 | $ | 436,207,460 | $ | 421,424,379 | $ | 417,199,048 | $ | 403,144,095 | ||||||||||
Loans
available-for-sale
|
$ | 1,221,365 | $ | 84,000 | $ | 827,250 | $ | 122,000 | $ | 428,584 |
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A
comparison of gross loans by percent at year-end for the five previous periods
is as follows:
2009
|
2008
|
2007
|
2006
|
2005
|
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Real
estate:
|
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Commercial
|
43.3 | % | 37.4 | % | 33.7 | % | 37.5 | % | 38.8 | % | ||||||||||
Residential
|
16.5 | 22.3 | 27.5 | 26.7 | 25.4 | |||||||||||||||
Construction
|
2.4 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 3.2 | 3.5 | |||||||||||||||
Commercial
and industrial
|
17.8 | 18.3 | 17.0 | 14.1 | 14.1 | |||||||||||||||
Consumer
|
19.9 | 19.3 | 19.2 | 18.4 | 18.1 | |||||||||||||||
Direct
financing leases
|
0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |||||||||||||||
Gross
loans
|
100.0 | % | 100.0 | % | 100.0 | % | 100.0 | % | 100.0 | % |
The
following table sets forth the maturity distribution of select components of the
loan portfolio at December 31, 2009. Excluded from the table are
residential real estate loans, consumer loans and direct financing leases
(dollars in thousands):
One year
|
One to five
|
More than
|
||||||||||||||
or less
|
years
|
five years
|
Total
|
|||||||||||||
Commercial
and CRE
|
$ | 27,130 | $ | 50,854 | $ | 185,530 | $ | 263,514 | ||||||||
Real
estate construction
|
10,125 | - | - | 10,125 | ||||||||||||
Total
|
$ | 37,255 | $ | 50,854 | $ | 185,530 | $ | 273,639 |
Real
estate construction loans are included in the one-year or less category since,
by their nature, these loans are converted into residential and CRE loans within
one year from the date the real estate construction loan was
consummated. Upon conversion, the residential and CRE loans would
normally mature after five years.
The
following table sets forth the greater than one year sensitivity changes in
interest rates for performing commercial and CRE loans at December 31, 2009
(dollars in thousands):
One to five
|
More than
|
|||||||||||
years
|
five years
|
Total
|
||||||||||
Fixed
interest rate
|
$ | 33,564 | $ | 37,822 | $ | 71,386 | ||||||
Variable
interest rate
|
81,718 | 53,186 | 134,904 | |||||||||
Total
|
$ | 115,282 | $ | 91,008 | $ | 206,290 |
Non-refundable
fees or costs associated with all loan originations are
deferred. Using the principal reduction method, the deferral is
released as charges or credits to loan interest income over the life of the
loan.
There are
no concentrations of loans to a number of borrowers engaged in similar
activities exceeding 10% of total loans that are not otherwise disclosed as a
category in the tables above. There are no concentrations of loans
that, if resulted in a loss, would have a material adverse effect on the
business of the Company. The Company’s loan portfolio does not have a
material concentration within a single industry or group of related industries
that is vulnerable to the risk of a near-term severe negative business
impact.
Loans
available-for-sale
Upon
origination, certain residential mortgages are classified as AFS. In
the event market rates increase, fixed-rate loans and adjustable-rate loans not
immediately scheduled to re-price would no longer produce yields consistent with
the current market. In a declining interest rate environment, the
Company would be exposed to prepayment risk and, as rates on adjustable-rate
loans decrease, interest income would be negatively
affected. Consideration is given to the Company’s current liquidity
position and projected future liquidity needs. To better manage
interest rate and prepayment risk, loans meeting these conditions may be
classified as AFS. The carrying value of loans AFS is at the lower of
cost or estimated fair value. If the fair values of loans AFS fall
below their original cost, the difference is written down and charged to current
earnings. Any subsequent appreciation in the portfolio is credited to
current earnings but only to the extent of previous
write-downs.
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Loans AFS
as of December 31, 2009 were $1,221,000 with a corresponding fair value of
$1,233,000 compared to $84,000 and $85,000, respectively, at December 31,
2008. During 2009, the Company originated $87,896,000 of residential
mortgages AFS, compared to $14,754,000 in 2008. The higher volume in
2009 was a function of the low interest rate environment which spawned refinance
activity of existing home debt. During 2009, residential mortgage
loans with principal balances of $98,213,000 were sold into the secondary market
and recognized net gains of approximately $1,060,000, compared to $46,969,000
and $261,000, respectively during 2008. Included in the 2009 sale was
$10,838,000 of residential mortgage loans transferred from the loan and lease
portfolio during the first quarter of 2009 compared to $28,103,000 in the early
part of 2008. The Company does not expect residential mortgage loan
origination activity to continue at the 2009 pace.
The
Company retains mortgage servicing rights (MSRs) on loans sold into the
secondary market. MSRs are retained so that the Company can continue
the personal relationships it has established with its customers. At
December 31, 2009 and 2008, the servicing portfolio balance of sold residential
mortgage loans was $157,516,000 and $95,856,000, respectively.
Allowance
for loan losses
Management
continually evaluates the credit quality of the Company’s loan portfolio and
performs a formal review of the adequacy of the allowance for loan losses (the
allowance) on a quarterly basis. The allowance reflects management’s
best estimate of the amount of credit losses in the loan
portfolio. Management’s judgment is based on the evaluation of
individual loans, past experience, the assessment of current economic conditions
and other relevant factors including the amounts and timing of cash flows
expected to be received on impaired loans. Those estimates may be
susceptible to significant change. The provision for loan losses
represents the amount necessary to maintain an appropriate
allowance. Loan losses are charged directly against the allowance
when loans are deemed to be uncollectible. Recoveries from previously
charged-off loans are added to the allowance when received.
Management
applies two primary components during the loan review process to determine
proper allowance levels. The two components are a specific loan loss
allocation for loans that are deemed impaired and a general loan loss allocation
for those loans not specifically allocated. The methodology to
analyze the adequacy of the allowance for loan losses is as
follows:
|
§
|
identification
of specific impaired loans by loan
category;
|
|
§
|
specific
loans that could have potential
loss;
|
|
§
|
calculation
of specific allowances where required for the impaired loans based on
collateral and other objective and quantifiable
evidence;
|
|
§
|
determination
of homogenous pools by loan category and eliminating the impaired
loans;
|
|
§
|
application
of historical loss percentages (three-year average) to pools to determine
the allowance allocation; and
|
|
§
|
application
of qualitative factor adjustment percentages to historical losses for
trends or changes in the loan portfolio. Qualitative factor
adjustments include:
|
|
o
|
levels
of and trends in delinquencies and non-accrual
loans;
|
|
o
|
levels
of and trends in charge-offs and
recoveries;
|
|
o
|
trends
in volume and terms of loans;
|
|
o
|
changes
in risk selection and underwriting
standards;
|
|
o
|
changes
in lending policies, procedures and
practices;
|
|
o
|
experience,
ability and depth of lending
management;
|
|
o
|
national
and local economic trends and conditions;
and
|
|
o
|
changes
in credit concentrations.
|
Allocation
of the allowance for different categories of loans is based on the methodology
as explained above. A key element of the methodology to determine the
allowance is the Company’s credit risk evaluation process, which includes credit
risk grading of individual commercial loans. Commercial loans are
assigned credit risk grades based on the Company’s assessment of conditions that
affect the borrower’s ability to meet its contractual obligations under the loan
agreement. That process includes reviewing borrowers’ current
financial information, historical payment experience, credit documentation,
public information and other information specific to each individual
borrower. Upon review, the commercial loan credit risk grade is
revised or reaffirmed as the case may be. The credit risk grades may
be changed at any time management feels an upgrade or downgrade may be
warranted. The credit risk grades for the commercial loan portfolio
are taken into account in the reserve methodology and loss factors are applied
based upon the credit risk grades. The loss factors applied are based
upon the Company’s historical experience as well as what we believe to be best
practices and common industry standards. Historical
experience reveals there is a direct correlation between the credit risk grades
and loan charge-offs. The changes in allocations in the commercial
loan portfolio from period to period are based upon the credit risk grading
system and from periodic reviews of the loan and lease portfolios.
Each
quarter, management performs an assessment of the allowance and the provision
for loan losses. The Company’s Special Assets Committee meets
quarterly and the applicable lenders discuss each relationship under review and
reach a consensus on the appropriate estimated loss amount based on current
accounting guidelines. The Special Assets Committee’s focus is on
ensuring the pertinent facts are considered and the reserve amounts pursuant to
the accounting principles are reasonable. The assessment process
includes the review of all loans on a non-accruing basis as well as a review of
certain loans to which the lenders or the Company’s Credit Administration
function have assigned a criticized or classified risk rating.
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Total
charge-offs net of recoveries for the twelve months ending December 31, 2009,
were $2,221,000, compared to $1,019,000 in the twelve months of
2008. The higher level of charge-offs recorded in the year primarily
resulted from the write-down of impaired loans to current fair
value. Commercial real estate loan net charge-offs of $842,000 were
recorded during the twelve months ending December 31, 2009 versus $547,000 at
December 31, 2008. Commercial and industrial loan net charge-offs
were $948,000 for the twelve months ending December 31, 2009 compared to net
charge-offs of $107,000 in the same period of 2008. Residential real
estate loan net charge-offs totaled $9,000 for the twelve months ending December
31, 2009 compared to $45,000 in the like period of 2008. Consumer
loan net charge-offs of $422,000 were recorded during the twelve months ending
December 31, 2009 versus $320,000 at December 31, 2008. For a
discussion on the provision for loan losses, see the “Provision for loan
losses,” located in the results of operations section of management’s discussion
and analysis contained herein.
The
allowance for loan losses was $7,574,000 at December 31, 2009, an increase of
$2,829,000 from December 31, 2008. The increase in the allowance was
primarily driven by a migration of commercial loan credit risk ratings from pass
to classified status, higher loan charge-offs, and a generally weaker economic
outlook.
Management
believes that the current balance in the allowance for loan losses of $7,574,000
is sufficient to withstand the identified potential credit quality issues that
may arise and others unidentified but inherent to the
portfolio. Potential problem loans are those where there is known
information that leads management to believe repayment of principal and/or
interest is in jeopardy and the loans are currently neither on non-accrual
status nor past due 90 days or more. Given continuing pressure on
property values and the generally uncertain economic backdrop, there could be
additional instances which become identified in future periods that may require
additional charge-offs and/or increases to the allowance. At December
31, 2009 the ratio of the allowance for loans losses was increased to 1.75%
of loans compared to 1.08% at December 31, 2008. The 30-89
day past due loans at December 31, 2009 were $5,173,000 compared to $1,858,000
at December 31, 2008. The increase in the 30-89 day past due loans
can be attributed to a general decline in economic conditions, along with rising
unemployment and diminishing real estate values, each having an impact on
borrowers’ ability to make their payments in a timely fashion.
The
following table sets forth the activity in the allowance for loan losses and
certain key ratios for the periods indicated (dollars in
thousands):
2009
|
2008
|
2007
|
2006
|
2005
|
||||||||||||||||
Balance
at beginning of period
|
$ | 4,745 | $ | 4,824 | $ | 5,444 | $ | 5,985 | $ | 5,988 | ||||||||||
Charge-offs:
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Real
estate:
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Commercial
|
844 | 565 | - | 31 | 463 | |||||||||||||||
Residential
|
9 | 45 | 90 | 109 | 21 | |||||||||||||||
Commercial
and industrial
|
983 | 168 | 376 | 630 | 614 | |||||||||||||||
Consumer
|
433 | 351 | 256 | 285 | 288 | |||||||||||||||
Lease
financing
|
- | - | - | - | 8 | |||||||||||||||
Total
|
2,269 | 1,129 | 722 | 1,055 | 1,394 | |||||||||||||||
Recoveries:
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Real
estate:
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Commercial
|
2 | 18 | 2 | 27 | 275 | |||||||||||||||
Residential
|
- | - | 125 | 1 | 11 | |||||||||||||||
Commercial
and industrial
|
35 | 61 | 16 | 37 | 120 | |||||||||||||||
Consumer
|
11 | 31 | 19 | 124 | 155 | |||||||||||||||
Total
|
48 | 110 | 162 | 189 | 561 | |||||||||||||||
Net
charge-offs
|
2,221 | 1,019 | 560 | 866 | 833 | |||||||||||||||
Provision
(credit) for loan losses
|
5,050 | 940 | (60 | ) | 325 | 830 | ||||||||||||||
Balance
at end of period
|
$ | 7,574 | $ | 4,745 | $ | 4,824 | $ | 5,444 | $ | 5,985 | ||||||||||
Net
charge-offs to average net loans outstanding
|
0.51 | % | 0.24 | % | 0.13 | % | 0.21 | % | 0.22 | % | ||||||||||
Allowance
for loan losses to net charge-offs
|
3.41 | x | 4.66 | x | 8.62 | x | 6.29 | x | 7.18 | x | ||||||||||
Allowance
for loan losses to total loans
|
1.75 | % | 1.08 | % | 1.13 | % | 1.29 | % | 1.46 | % | ||||||||||
Loans
30 - 89 days past due and accruing
|
$ | 5,173 | $ | 1,858 | $ | 4,698 | $ | 2,571 | $ | 1,609 | ||||||||||
Loans
90 days or more past due and accruing
|
$ | 555 | $ | 604 | $ | 26 | $ | 81 | $ | 197 | ||||||||||
Non-accruing
loans
|
$ | 12,329 | $ | 3,493 | $ | 3,811 | $ | 3,358 | $ | 9,453 | ||||||||||
Allowance
for loan losses to loans 90 days or more past due and
accruing
|
13.65 | x | 7.85 | x | 189.41 | x | 67.54 | x | 30.39 | x | ||||||||||
Allowance
for loan losses to non-accruing loans
|
0.61 | x | 1.36 | x | 1.27 | x | 1.62 | x | 0.63 | x | ||||||||||
Allowance
for loan losses to non-performing loans
|
0.59 | x | 1.16 | x | 1.26 | x | 1.58 | x | 0.62 | x | ||||||||||
Average
net loans
|
$ | 432,642 | $ | 416,438 | $ | 419,586 | $ | 412,523 | $ | 385,800 |
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The
allowance for loan losses can generally absorb losses throughout the loan and
lease portfolios. However, in some instances an allocation is made
for specific loans or groups of loans. Allocation of the allowance
for loan losses for different categories of loans is based on the methodology
used by the Company, as previously explained. The changes in the
allocations from year-to-year are based upon year-end reviews of the loan and
lease portfolios.
Allocation
of the allowance among major categories of loans for the past five years is
summarized in the following table. This table should not be
interpreted as an indication that charge-offs in future periods will occur in
these amounts or proportions, or that the allocation indicates future charge-off
trends. The portion of the allowance designated as unallocated is
within the Company’s policy guidelines.
2009
|
%
|
2008
|
%
|
2007
|
%
|
2006
|
%
|
2005
|
%
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Category
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Real
estate:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Commercial
|
$ | 4,045,046 | 53.3 | % | $ | 1,930,511 | 40.7 | % | $ | 1,989,267 | 41.2 | % | $ | 2,586,967 | 47.5 | % | $ | 2,969,168 | 49.6 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
Residential
|
880,401 | 11.6 | 710,981 | 15.0 | 636,899 | 13.2 | 578,117 | 10.6 | 595,092 | 9.9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Construction
|
72,105 | 1.0 | 67,141 | 1.4 | 52,634 | 1.1 | 59,617 | 1.1 | 59,953 | 1.0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Commercial
and industrial
|
1,639,872 | 21.7 | 929,548 | 19.6 | 990,105 | 20.5 | 962,903 | 17.7 | 1,066,782 | 17.8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consumer
|
840,660 | 11.1 | 973,356 | 20.5 | 960,505 | 19.9 | 1,157,091 | 21.2 | 1,180,175 | 19.7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Direct
financing leases
|
- | - | 6,837 | 0.1 | 9,355 | 0.2 | 14,058 | 0.3 | 14,828 | 0.3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Unallocated
|
95,519 | 1.3 | 126,860 | 2.7 | 185,636 | 3.9 | 85,550 | 1.6 | 98,651 | 1.7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total
|
$ | 7,573,603 | 100.0 | % | $ | 4,745,234 | 100.0 | % | $ | 4,824,401 | 100.0 | % | $ | 5,444,303 | 100.0 | % | $ | 5,984,649 | 100.0 | % |
The
allocation of the allowance for the commercial loan portfolio which is comprised
of commercial real estate loans and commercial and industrial loans, accounted
for approximately 75%, or $5,685,000 of the total allowance for loan losses at
December 31, 2009. Collateral values were prudently calculated to
provide a conservative and realistic value supporting these
loans. The allocations to the other categories of loans are adequate
compared to the actual three-year historical net charge-offs. Approximately
$793,000, or 11%, of the allowance is specifically allocated to individual
impaired loans.
Non-performing
assets
The
Company defines non-performing assets as accruing loans past due 90 days or
more, non-accrual loans, troubled debt restructured loans (TDRs), other real
estate owned (ORE), repossessed assets and non-accrual investment
securities. As of December 31, 2009, non-performing assets
represented 2.58% of total assets compared to 0.96% at December 31,
2008.
The
following table sets forth non-performing assets at December 31 (dollars in
thousands):
2009
|
2008
|
2007
|
2006
|
2005
|
||||||||||||||||
Net
loans, including loans available-for-sale
|
$ | 424,345 | $ | 436,291 | $ | 422,252 | $ | 417,321 | $ | 403,573 | ||||||||||
Loans
past due 90 days or more and accruing
|
$ | 555 | $ | 604 | $ | 26 | $ | 81 | $ | 197 | ||||||||||
Non-accrual
loans
|
12,329 | 3,493 | 3,811 | 3,358 | 9,453 | |||||||||||||||
Total
non-performing loans
|
12,884 | 4,097 | 3,837 | 3,439 | 9,650 | |||||||||||||||
Restructured
loans
|
- | - | - | - | - | |||||||||||||||
Other
real estate owned
|
887 | 1,451 | 107 | 197 | - | |||||||||||||||
Non-accrual
securities
|
583 | - | - | - | - | |||||||||||||||
Repossessed
assets
|
- | - | - | - | 19 | |||||||||||||||
Total
non-performing assets
|
$ | 14,354 | $ | 5,548 | $ | 3,944 | $ | 3,636 | $ | 9,669 | ||||||||||
Non-accrual
loans to net loans
|
2.91 | % | 0.80 | % | 0.90 | % | 0.80 | % | 2.34 | % | ||||||||||
Non-performing
loans to net loans
|
3.04 | % | 0.94 | % | 0.91 | % | 0.82 | % | 2.39 | % | ||||||||||
Non-performing
assets to total assets
|
2.58 | % | 0.96 | % | 0.67 | % | 0.65 | % | 1.78 | % |
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The
composition of non-performing loans as of December 31, 2009 is as follows
(dollars in thousands):
Gross
|
Past due 90
|
Non-
|
Total non-
|
% of
|
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loan
|
days or more
|
accrual
|
performing
|
gross
|
||||||||||||||||
balances
|
and still accruing
|
loans
|
loans
|
loans
|
||||||||||||||||
Real
estate:
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Commercial
|
$ | 186,726 | $ | 103 | $ | 7,382 | $ | 7,485 | 4.01 | % | ||||||||||
Residential
|
71,001 | 387 | 3,865 | 4,253 | 5.99 | % | ||||||||||||||
Construction
|
10,125 | - | - | - | - | |||||||||||||||
Commercial
and industrial
|
76,788 | 12 | 726 | 738 | 0.96 | % | ||||||||||||||
Consumer
|
85,690 | 52 | 355 | 408 | 0.48 | % | ||||||||||||||
Direct
financing leases
|
367 | - | - | - | - | |||||||||||||||
Total
|
$ | 430,698 | $ | 555 | $ | 12,329 | $ | 12,884 | 2.99 | % |
In the
review of loans for both delinquency and collateral sufficiency, management
concluded that there were a number of loans that lacked the ability to repay in
accordance with contractual terms. The decision to place loans or
leases on a non-accrual status is made on an individual basis after considering
factors pertaining to each specific loan. The commercial loans are
placed on non-accrual status when management has determined that payment of all
contractual principal and interest is in doubt or the loan is past due 90 days
or more as to principal and interest, unless well-secured and in the process of
collection. Consumer loans secured by real estate and residential
mortgage loans are placed on non-accrual status at 120 days past due as to
principal and interest, and, unsecured consumer loans are charged-off when the
loan is 90 days or more past due as to principal and
interest. Securities are placed on non-accrual status when principal
has been impaired and the receipt of cash interest has
ceased. Uncollected accrued interest is reversed and charged against
interest income when loans and securities are placed on non-accrual
status.
The
majority of the increase non-performing assets for the period is attributed to
non-accruing commercial business loans, non-accruing real estate loans in the
process of foreclosure and non-accruing investment securities. During the period
$583,000 of corporate bonds consisting of pooled trust preferred securities were
moved to non-accrual status. There were no non-accrual securities prior to
2009. For a further discussion the Company’s securities portfolio,
see Note 3, “Investment Securities”, within the notes to the consolidated
financial statements, and incorporated by reference in Part II, Item 8, and the
section entitled, “Investments”, contained within management’s discussion and
analysis. Most of the non-accruing loans are collateralized, thereby
mitigating the Company’s potential for loss. In 2008, non-performing
loans were $4,097,000 and $12,884,000 at year-end 2009. The increase
occurred mainly in the commercial loan portfolio as several local borrowers were
unable to meet their contractual repayment obligations as a result of the
weakened economic conditions. Action plans for the resolution of each
of the Company’s non-performing loans have been developed, monitored and are
periodically updated as needed. There were no repossessed assets at
December 31, 2009 or 2008. ORE at December 31, 2009 consisted of
three properties which are listed for sale with realtors. ORE at
year-end 2008, consisted of four properties. The non-accrual
loans aggregated $12,329,000 at December 31, 2009 and were $3,493,000 at
December 31, 2008. During 2009, approximately $12,492,000 of loans
were placed in non-accrual status. These were partially offset by
reductions or payoffs of $1,131,000, charge-offs of $1,979,000, $469,000 of
transfers to ORE and $77,000 of loans that returned to performing
status. Loans past due 90 days or more and accruing totaled $555,000
at December 31, 2009 compared to $604,000, at December 31,
2008. The percentage of non-performing assets to total assets
was 2.58% at December 31, 2009, an increase from 0.96% at December 31, 2008,
primarily due to the transfer of loans and investments to non-performing
status. Non-performing loans to net loans were 3.04% at December 31,
2009, and 0.94% at December 31, 2008.
Repossessed
assets consist of previously financed vehicles
held-for-sale. Subsequent to the loan or lease maturity, the borrower
or lessee defaulted on their contract and the Company repossessed the
unit. Repossessed assets are sold through either a private or public
sale and any deficiency balance from the sale of the asset is charged to the
allowance for loan losses. There were no repossessed assets or
troubled debt restructured loans at December 31, 2009 or December 31,
2008.
Payments
received on non-accrual loans are recognized on a cash
basis. Payments are first applied against the outstanding principal
balance, then to the recovery of any charged-off loan amounts. Any
excess is treated as a recovery of interest income. During 2009, the
Company collected approximately $31,000 of interest income recognized on the
cash basis. If the non-accrual loans that were outstanding as of
December 31, 2009 had been performing in accordance with their original terms,
the Company would have recognized interest income with respect to such loans of
$365,000 for the year ended December 31, 2009.
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Bank
premises and equipment, net
Net of
accumulated depreciation and disposals, premises and equipment decreased
$695,000. The Company purchased premises and equipment or transferred assets
from construction in process, a component of other assets in the consolidated
balance sheet, of approximately $908,000 in total during 2009 compared to
$4,489,000 in 2008. The 2008 amount includes construction and completion of the
Company’s West Scranton branch expansion project. There were no
expansion projects in 2009.
Foreclosed
assets
held-for-sale
Other Real Estate
Owned
ORE was
$887,000 at December 31, 2009 consisting of three properties, all of which were
listed for sale with realtors. At December 31, 2008 ORE consisted of four
properties at an aggregate value of $1,451,000.
Cash
surrender value of bank owned life insurance
The
Company maintains bank owned life insurance (BOLI) for a chosen group of
employees, namely its officers, where the Company is the owner and sole
beneficiary of the policies. BOLI is classified as a non-interest earning asset.
Increases in the cash surrender value are recorded as components of non-interest
income. The BOLI is profitable from the appreciation of the cash surrender
values of the pool of insurance and its tax-free advantage to the Company. This
profitability is used to offset a portion of current and future employee benefit
costs. The BOLI can be liquidated if necessary with associated tax costs.
However, the Company intends to hold this pool of insurance, because it provides
income that enhances the Company’s capital position. Therefore, the Company has
not provided for deferred income taxes on the earnings from the increase in cash
surrender value.
Other
assets
Other
assets increased 61% to $14,416,000 as of December 31, 2009 from $8,930,000 at
December 31, 2008. The increase was caused predominately by the recent federal
mandate that banks pre-fund their three-year estimated FDIC insurance premium.
The prepaid FDIC insurance premium will be released as a charge to earnings over
the next three years. Contributing to the increase in other assets was
additional deferred tax assets from current year impairment losses in the
securities AFS portfolio. Partially offsetting these increases was a reduction
in the carrying amount of the Company’s derivative contract which expired in the
fourth quarter of 2009. For a further discussion on the Company’s
derivative contract, see Note 12, “Fair Value of Financial Instruments and
Derivatives” of the consolidated financial statements, in Part II, Item
8.
Results of
Operations
Earnings
Summary
The
Company’s results of operations depend primarily on net interest
income. Net interest income is the difference between interest income
and interest expense. Interest income is generated from yields on
interest-earning assets, which consist principally of loans and investment
securities. Interest expense is incurred from rates paid on
interest-bearing liabilities, which consist of deposits and
borrowings. Net interest income is determined by the Company’s
interest rate spread (the difference between the yields earned on its
interest-earning assets and the rates paid on its interest-bearing liabilities)
and the relative amounts of interest-earning assets and interest-bearing
liabilities. The interest rate spread is significantly impacted by:
changes in interest rates and market yield curves and their related impact on
cash flows; the composition and characteristics of interest-earning assets and
interest-bearing liabilities; differences in the maturity and re-pricing
characteristics of assets compared to the maturity and re-pricing
characteristics of the liabilities that fund them and by the competition in our
marketplace.
The
Company’s profitability is also affected by the level of non-interest income and
expenses, provision for loan losses and provision for income
taxes. Non-interest income consists mostly of service charges on the
Bank’s deposit and loan products, trust and asset management service fees,
increases in the cash surrender value of the bank owned life insurance, net
gains or losses from the sales of loans, securities and foreclosed properties
held-for-sale, write-down to market value of foreclosed properties held-for-sale
and from credit related other-than-temporary impairment charges from investment
securities. Non-interest expense consists of compensation and related
employee benefit expenses, occupancy, equipment, data processing, advertising,
marketing, professional fees, insurance and other operating
overhead.
The
Company’s profitability is significantly affected by general economic and
competitive conditions, changes in market interest rates, government policies
and actions of regulatory authorities. The Company’s loan portfolio
is comprised principally of commercial and commercial real estate
loans. The properties underlying the Company’s mortgages are
concentrated in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Credit risk, which
represents the possibility of the Company not recovering amounts due from its
borrowers, is significantly related to local economic conditions in the areas
where the properties are located as well as the Company’s underwriting
standards. Economic conditions affect the market value of the
underlying collateral as well as the levels of adequate cash flow and revenue
generation from income-producing commercial properties.
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Overview
For the
year ended 2009, the Company incurred a net loss of $1,400,000, or $0.67 per
diluted share, compared to net income of $3,636,000, or $1.76 per share, for the
year ended December 31, 2008. For the year ended December 31, 2009,
the Company’s return on average assets (ROA) and return on average shareholders’
equity (ROE) were -0.25% and -2.91% compared to 0.62% and 6.81%, respectively,
for the year ended December 31, 2008. The current year included a
non-operating, non-cash, after-tax charge of $2,178,000 related to
other-than-temporary impairment in the Company’s security AFS portfolio compared
to $288,000 for the year ended December 31, 2008. In addition, during
2009, the Company recorded a provision for loan losses in the amount of
$5,050,000 compared to $940,000 in 2008. The provision for loan
losses in 2009 was recorded to reinforce and fund the allowance for loan losses
for heightened credit risks from a weakened economy and declining real estate
values as well as an increase in the commercial real estate loan
portfolio. Further contributing to the lower net income was lower net
interest income of $165,000 and $1,030,000, or 6%, of higher non-interest
expenses. During 2009, the Company paid off long-term debt and
incurred $505,000 of prepayment interest costs which are included as a component
of interest expense in the consolidated income statement for the year ended
December 31, 2009. Higher FDIC insurance premiums contributed to the
increase in non-interest expense in 2009 compared to 2008. The
decline in ROA and ROE was caused by the decrease in net
income.
29
Net
interest income
The
following table sets forth a comparison of average balances of assets and
liabilities and their related net tax equivalent yields and rates for 2009, 2008
and 2007 (dollars in thousands):
2009
|
2008
|
2007
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Average
|
Yield /
|
Average
|
Yield /
|
Average
|
Yield /
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
balance
|
Interest
|
rate
|
balance
|
Interest
|
rate
|
balance
|
Interest
|
rate
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Assets
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Interest
earning assets
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Interest-bearing
deposits
|
$ | 562 | $ | 1 | 0.10 | % | $ | 233 | $ | 3 | 1.36 | % | $ | 184 | $ | 9 | 4.81 | % | ||||||||||||||||||
Investments:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Agency
- GSE
|
36,842 | 1,769 | 4.80 | 49,034 | 2,576 | 5.25 | 34,682 | 1,724 | 4.97 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MBS
- GSE residential
|
11,072 | 618 | 5.58 | 35,294 | 1,833 | 5.19 | 51,781 | 2,540 | 4.91 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
State
and municipal
|
24,278 | 1,610 | 6.63 | 15,813 | 1,014 | 6.41 | 12,267 | 780 | 6.36 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other
|
25,988 | 475 | 1.83 | 25,967 | 1,252 | 4.82 | 17,487 | 1,175 | 6.72 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total
investments
|
98,180 | 4,472 | 4.56 | 126,108 | 6,675 | 5.29 | 116,217 | 6,219 | 5.35 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Loans:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Commercial
and CRE
|
261,842 | 15,829 | 6.05 | 231,721 | 15,869 | 6.85 | 220,968 | 16,458 | 7.45 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consumer
|
65,916 | 4,559 | 6.92 | 71,089 | 4,872 | 6.85 | 68,395 | 4,625 | 6.76 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Residential
real estate
|
104,481 | 5,787 | 5.54 | 117,547 | 6,985 | 5.94 | 134,869 | 8,360 | 6.20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Direct
financing leases
|
403 | 25 | 6.12 | 477 | 29 | 6.15 | 549 | 34 | 6.16 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total
loans
|
432,642 | 26,200 | 6.06 | 420,834 | 27,755 | 6.60 | 424,781 | 29,477 | 6.94 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Federal
funds sold
|
4,603 | 11 | 0.25 | 3,342 | 91 | 2.73 | 1,948 | 103 | 5.28 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total
interest-earning assets
|
535,987 | 30,684 | 5.72 | % | 550,517 | 34,524 | 6.27 | % | 543,130 | 35,808 | 6.59 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Non-interest
earning assets
|
29,289 | 33,301 | 32,328 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total
Assets
|
$ | 565,276 | $ | 583,818 | $ | 575,458 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Liabilities
and shareholders' equity
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Interest-bearing
liabilities
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deposits:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Savings
|
$ | 53,690 | $ | 404 | 0.75 | % | $ | 38,425 | $ | 331 | 0.86 | % | $ | 41,055 | $ | 511 | 1.24 | % | ||||||||||||||||||
NOW
|
62,090 | 197 | 0.32 | 59,130 | 616 | 1.04 | 67,489 | 1,837 | 2.72 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MMDA
|
106,115 | 1,624 | 1.53 | 93,465 | 2,460 | 2.63 | 84,000 | 3,658 | 4.35 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CDs
< $100,000
|
101,286 | 3,217 | 3.18 | 98,410 | 4,052 | 4.12 | 94,420 | 4,173 | 4.42 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CDs
> $100,000
|
63,436 | 2,435 | 3.84 | 80,389 | 3,638 | 4.53 | 66,998 | 3,168 | 4.73 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Clubs
|
1,687 | 19 | 1.14 | 1,764 | 21 | 1.19 | 1,908 | 23 | 1.21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total
interest-bearing deposits
|
388,304 | 7,896 | 2.03 | 371,583 | 11,118 | 2.99 | 355,870 | 13,370 | 3.76 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Repurchase
agreements
|
8,743 | 28 | 0.32 | 12,074 | 103 | 0.85 | 19,580 | 465 | 2.38 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Borrowed
funds
|
45,979 | 2,873 | 6.25 | 74,530 | 3,463 | 4.65 | 71,573 | 3,825 | 5.34 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total
interest-bearing liabilities
|
443,026 | 10,797 | 2.44 | % | 458,187 | 14,684 | 3.20 | % | 447,023 | 17,660 | 3.95 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Non-interest
bearing deposits
|
70,285 | 67,717 | 70,606 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Non-interest
bearing liabilities
|
3,828 | 4,503 | 4,499 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total
liabilities
|
517,139 | 530,407 | 522,128 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shareholders'
equity
|
48,137 | 53,411 | 53,330 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total
liabilities and shareholders'
equity
|
$ | 565,276 | $ | 583,818 | $ | 575,458 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Net
interest income
|
$ | 19,887 | $ | 19,840 | $ | 18,148 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Net
interest spread
|
3.28 |
%
|
|
3.07 |
%
|
|
2.64 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Net
interest margin
|
3.71 |
%
|
|
3.60 |
%
|
|
3.34 | % |
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In the preceding table, interest income
was adjusted to a tax-equivalent basis, using the corporate federal tax rate of
34%, to recognize the income from tax-exempt interest-earning assets as if the
interest was taxable. This treatment allows a uniform comparison
between yields on interest-earning assets. Loans include loans AFS
and non-accrual loans but exclude the allowance for loan
losses. Securities include non-accrual securities. Average
balances are based on amortized cost and do not reflect net unrealized gains or
losses. Net interest margin is calculated by dividing net interest
income by total average interest-earning assets.
Changes
in net interest income are a function of both changes in interest rates and
changes in volume of interest-earning assets and interest-bearing
liabilities. The following table presents the extent to which changes
in interest rates and changes in volumes of interest-earning assets and
interest-bearing liabilities have affected the Company’s interest income and
interest expense during the periods indicated. Information is
provided in each category with respect to (1) the changes attributable to
changes in volume (changes in volume multiplied by the prior period rate), (2)
the changes attributable to changes in interest rates (changes in rates
multiplied by prior period volume) and (3) the net change. The
combined effect of changes in both volume and rate has been allocated
proportionately to the change due to volume and the change due to
rate. Tax-exempt income was not converted to a tax-equivalent basis
on the rate/volume analysis (dollars in thousands):
Years ended December 31,
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
2009 compared to 2008
|
2008 compared to 2007
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Increase (decrease) due to
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Volume
|
Rate
|
Total
|
Volume
|
Rate
|
Total
|
|||||||||||||||||||
Interest
income:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Loans
and leases:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Residential
real estate
|
$ | (744 | ) | $ | (454 | ) | $ | (1,198 | ) | $ | (1,040 | ) | $ | (336 | ) | $ | (1,376 | ) | ||||||
Commercial
and CRE
|
1,912 | (1,992 | ) | (80 | ) | 766 | (1,305 | ) | (539 | ) | ||||||||||||||
Consumer
|
(362 | ) | 45 | (317 | ) | 178 | 66 | 244 | ||||||||||||||||
Total
loans and leases
|
806 | (2,401 | ) | (1,595 | ) | (96 | ) | (1,575 | ) | (1,671 | ) | |||||||||||||
Investment
securities, interest-bearing deposits and Federal funds
sold
|
(1,159 | ) | (1,298 | ) | (2,457 | ) | 564 | (211 | ) | 353 | ||||||||||||||
Total
interest income
|
(353 | ) | (3,699 | ) | (4,052 | ) | 468 | (1,786 | ) | (1,318 | ) | |||||||||||||
Interest
expense:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deposits:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Certificates
of deposit greater than $100,000
|
(700 | ) | (503 | ) | (1,203 | ) | 611 | (141 | ) | 470 | ||||||||||||||
Other
|
790 | (2,809 | ) | (2,019 | ) | 81 | (2,803 | ) | (2,722 | ) | ||||||||||||||
Total
deposits
|
90 | (3,312 | ) | (3,222 | ) | 692 | (2,944 | ) | (2,252 | ) | ||||||||||||||
Other
interest-bearing liabilities
|
(1,525 | ) | 860 | (665 | ) | (206 | ) | (518 | ) | (724 | ) | |||||||||||||
Total
interest expense
|
(1,435 | ) | (2,452 | ) | (3,887 | ) | 486 | (3,462 | ) | (2,976 | ) | |||||||||||||
Net
interest income
|
$ | 1,082 | $ | (1,247 | ) | $ | (165 | ) | $ | (18 | ) | $ | 1,676 | $ | 1,658 |
The
interest rate yield curve remained positively sloped in 2009, but at
unprecedented low levels. The FOMC has not adjusted the short-term federal funds
rate which has remained near zero percent during 2009. Similarly, at
3.25%, the national prime interest rate remained constant throughout
2009. National prime is a benchmark rate banks use to set rates on
various lending and other interest-sensitive products. Operating in a
very low interest rate environment will continue to present challenges in the
coming year for all banks. In today’s markets, funding longer-termed
assets with shorter-termed liabilities solely for higher spread is not a prudent
means of managing interest rate risk as this strategy is detrimental to future
earnings when rates begin to rise and asset duration
lengthens. Therefore, operating in this low interest rate environment
will continue to suppress significant asset growth.
While
national prime has remained at 3.25% throughout 2009, the weighted-average
national prime rate decreased 184 basis points, from 5.09%, in
2008. The effect of this decrease has been to exert extreme downward
pressure on yields of the Company’s interest-earning assets. With
rate-cutting beginning in January 2008, this pressure existed with increasing
momentum throughout 2009. The Company was able to more than offset
this pressure by periodically adjusting rates on its interest-bearing
deposits. In response to the swift downward shift in rates, the
Company’s asset / liability committee assessed, among other things,
the impact the interest rate movements have had on its earning
assets. Where necessary, rate adjustments to interest-bearing
deposits and repurchase agreements were implemented and high-costing long-term
wholesale funding sources were paid off, all of which helped minimize the effect
rate changes have had on net interest income. The committee meets
frequently and has successfully implemented rate setting strategies to help
mitigate the interest rate risk inherent in the balance sheet and has been able
to preserve its net interest margin to acceptable levels.
As market
rates fell along with national prime, loan originations, renewing commercial and
residential loans and lines of credit continued to price below the average 2009
portfolio yields. In addition, the decrease in the Treasury yields
and other capital market rates, which largely began during the second half of
2008, has had and could continue to have an unfavorable impact on the Company’s
total 2009 and 2010 investment portfolio yield. The relative and
predominantly lower interest rate environment of 2008 and 2009 had a negative
impact on the Company’s interest-earning assets. Total interest
income declined 12%, or $4,052,000 from $33,961,000 in 2008 to $29,909,000 in
2009 and further caused the tax-equivalent yield on earning assets to decrease
55 basis points. The Company should continue to experience a period
of sliding yields on its interest-earning assets during 2010, in what has become
a sustained low interest rate environment.
31
Interest
expense decreased $3,887,000, or 26%, from $14,684,000 in 2008 to $10,797,000 in
2009. The lower interest rate environment that has dominated the
economy over the last two years required the Company to periodically reduce
offering rates on both its deposit and repurchase agreement
products. Though the Company recorded a net increase in average
interest-bearing deposits, interest expense on deposits declined by $3,223,000
in 2009 compared to 2008 caused by a 96 basis point decline on rates
paid. The effect of the $16,721,000 net increase in average
interest-bearing deposits was an additional $90,000 in interest
expense. In an effort to maintain reasonable interest rate spreads to
its earning-assets, the Company’s asset / liability committee reduced rates paid
on CDs as well as rates paid on transactional deposits. In today’s
environment, rates on CD’s should naturally price lower as they
mature. Whether or not the Company can continue to reduce rates on
deposits that are currently priced at unprecedented low levels, to maintain its
interest rate spread will be predicated on the interest rate environment,
liquidity position and competition. Interest expense on borrowings,
including repurchase agreements, declined $665,000 during 2009, mostly from the
$31,882,000 decline in average balances. During 2009, the Company
paid off $10,000,000 of high-costing long-term debt and incurred $505,000 of
prepayment interest costs that are included as a component of interest expense
in the consolidated statement of income for the year ended December 31,
2009.
The
resulting performance that the mix of the Company’s interest-sensitive assets
and liabilities and the varying effects the severity of the yield curve slope
has had during 2009, combined with the early pay off of high-costing long-term
debt, caused net interest income to decrease $165,000, or 1%, from $19,277,000
in 2008 to $19,112,000 in 2009. On a tax-equivalent basis, the net
interest rate spread increased 21 basis points from 3.07% to 3.28% and the
tax-equivalent margin improved 11 basis points, from 3.60% in 2008 to 3.71% in
2009, respectively.
Provision
for loan losses
The
provision for loan losses represents the necessary amount to charge against
current earnings, the purpose of which is to increase the allowance for loan
losses to a level that represents management’s best estimate of known and
inherent losses in the Company’s loan portfolio. Management
continuously reviews the risks inherent in the loan and lease
portfolio. Loans and leases determined to be uncollectible are
charged-off against the allowance for loan losses. The required
amount of the provision for loan losses, based upon the adequate level of the
allowance for loan losses, is subject to ongoing analysis of the loan
portfolio. The Company’s Special Asset Committee meets periodically
to review problem loans and leases. The committee is comprised of
management, including the chief risk officer, loan workout officers and
collection personnel. The committee reports quarterly to the Credit
Administration Committee of the Board of Directors.
Provisions
for loan losses of $5,050,000 were made for the year ended December 31,
2009. In 2008, provisions of $940,000 were made. The
$5,050,000 provision for loan losses was recorded due to credit quality
deterioration ensuing from the declines in economic conditions during
2009. This increase in the provision compared to 2008 was due to the
increased levels of credit downgrades, net charge-offs, and an increase in the
level of non-performing loans. A portion was also allocated to safeguard against
possible future losses due to weaker economic conditions.
Other
income
For the
year ended December 31, 2009, total other income was $2,417,000, or 53%, less
than the $4,578,000 recorded during the year ended December 31,
2008. In 2009, a non-cash other-than-temporary impairment (OTTI)
charge of $3,300,000 was recorded compared to $436,000 recorded for the year
ended December 31, 2008. For both years, the OTTI charges were
related to the Company’s investment in pooled trust preferred
securities. The carrying values of these securities were written down
to their fair values as management has deemed the impairment to be
other-than-temporary. For a further discussion on the Company’s
investment in pooled trust preferred securities see Note 3, “Investment
Securities”, within the notes to the consolidated financial statements, and
incorporated by reference in Part II, Item 8, and the section entitled,
“Investments”, contained within management’s discussion and
analysis. Service charges on deposit related accounts declined
$271,000, or 9%, in 2009 compared to 2008. This decline was the
result of lower volumes of overdraft transactions. Further
contributing to the decline in other income in 2009, the Company wrote down to
fair value, the carrying amount of its investment in two foreclosed assets
held-for-sale by a total of $178,000. There were no similar
write-downs in 2008. The assets represent two commercial real estate
properties acquired in foreclosure during 2008. The current year
subsequent write-downs were based on sales indications received by the Company
that were less than the carrying value of the properties. Partially
offsetting these declines in other income were increased gains from mortgage
banking services which increased by $799,000 in the year-over-year comparison
and higher levels of loan and financial services fee income.
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Other
expenses
For the
year ended December 31, 2009, other operating expenses grew $1,030,000, or 6%,
from $18,211,000 for the year ended December 31, 2008 to $19,241,000 for the
2009 year. The higher operating expenses include a $1,046,000
increase in FDIC insurance premiums, or nearly nine times the 2008
assessment. With the requirement for the FDIC to shore up the
insurance reserve, the Company expects to continue to incur relatively high FDIC
insurance premiums over the next several years. In conjunction with
the Company’s branch expansion project in 2008, depreciation on premises and
equipment increased $305,000, or 6%, from a full year of
expense. Partially offsetting the increased FDIC premiums and branch
expansion related expenses were lower employee salary and benefit costs and less
expenses from advertising. The reduced salary and benefits is from
fewer full-time equivalent employees in 2009 compared to 2008. The
decline in advertising was due to expansion projects and the related promotion
costs consummated in 2008 that did not recur in 2009. Other expenses
also increased by higher collection and ORE expenses associated with more legal,
maintenance and other costs associated with the property foreclosure
process.
The
ratios of non-interest expense less non-interest income to average assets
(expense ratio) at December 31, 2009 and 2008 were 2.37% and 2.25%,
respectively. The overhead expense ratio, which excludes OTTI and
gains from securities sales, drifted upward due mostly to lower average assets
and to a lesser extent, higher net non-interest expenses.
As the
Company enters 2010, management expects certain expenses to rise above or remain
at above-normal, inflationary-only prone increases. In 2009, the
Company’s FDIC costs, grew nearly nine times the 2008 level. In 2010,
the Company will continue to experience high premiums and does not expect these
coverage costs to recede in the near future. In addition, the
deterioration of real estate values, a lackluster environment for commercial
business expansion and the potential for contraction of existing businesses and
those whose operations have been negatively affected by the current economic
climate, could result in additional legal costs associated with collection
efforts as well as higher maintenance costs for existing and potentially more
properties acquired in foreclosure. The management team of the
Company is poised to minimize losses and expenses associated with these
activities, however there is no assurance that such activity will not
occur.
Provision
for income taxes
The
Company’s pre tax loss in 2009 compared to pretax income in 2008 was the cause
of a credit for income taxes in 2009 compared to a provision for income taxes in
2008.
Comparison
of Financial Condition as of December 31, 2008
and 2007 and Results of
Operations for each of the Years then Ended
Financial
Condition
Overview
Consolidated
assets decreased $11,694,000, or 2%, during the year ended December 31, 2008 to
$575,719,000. The decline was the result of decreases in total
borrowings of $12,235,000, or 12%, and a decrease in total shareholders’ equity
of $6,231,000 partially offset by a 2%, or $7,604,000 increase in deposits. The
decline in shareholders’ equity was primarily from increased unrealized net
losses in the securities AFS portfolio, the declaration of cash dividends and
the repurchase of the Company’s capital stock (treasury
stock). During 2008, the carrying amount of the investment portfolios
declined by $38,797,000, or 32%, while the loan portfolios increased
$14,040,000, or 3% to $436,291,000 as of December 31, 2008. Other
increases included premises and equipment, the net deferred tax asset, bank
owned life insurance, FHLB stock, the carrying value of the derivative contract
and prepaid expenses. Cash increased $2,362,000 since
2007.
Deposits
Total
deposits increased $7,604,000, or 2%, during 2008 to
$433,312,000. The growth in deposits was mostly from increases in
money markets of $8,846,000 and DDAs of $6,647,000, or 10% each, partially
offset by declines in NOW and certificates of deposit accounts of $4,571,000 and
$4,519,000, respectively. The majority of the increase in DDAs was
from a temporary deposit from a corporate trust account which had since been
withdrawn. The West Scranton branch office, that had opened during
the third quarter of 2008 and the related bank-wide promotions, superior
customer service, increased deposit business from our existing and new
commercial customers all contributed to the net increase in
deposits. The continued increases in money market accounts that the
Company had experienced were from success in our deposit-gathering strategies in
conjunction with promotional interest rates tailored to depositors’
needs. We attributed the decline in certificate of deposit accounts
to the lower and highly volatile interest rate environment that existed at
December 31, 2008 when compared to the prior year.
Short-term
borrowings
During
2008, repurchase agreements declined to $9,092,000 from $20,504,000 at December
31, 2007. At December 31, 2008 and 2007, sweep accounts represented
93% and 62%, respectively, of total repurchase agreements. The low
interest rate environment had caused our customers to seek higher rates in
alternative products and as such the balances in the term-repurchase agreements
declined by about 91%.
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Long-term
debt
The
weighted-average rate in effect on funds borrowed at December 31, 2008, was
5.35% compared to 5.26% as of December 31, 2007. The 2008
weighted-average rate was 92 basis points below the tax-equivalent yield of
6.27% on the Company’s portfolio of average interest-earning assets for the year
ended December 31, 2008. Rates on $42,000,000 of the total long-term
advances were fixed but would adjust quarterly had market rates increased beyond
the issues’ original or strike rates. Significant prepayment
penalties are attached to the borrowings which thereby created a significant
disincentive from paying off the relatively high cost
advances. However, in the event that the underlying market rates
drifted above the rates that were paid on these borrowings, the FHLB rate would
have converted to a floating rate and the Company would have had the option, at
that time, to repay or to renegotiate the converted advance
rate. During December 2008, a $10,000,000 capped floating-rate
long-term advance was paid off early.
Investments
As of
December 31, 2008 and December 31, 2007, the aggregate fair value of securities
HTM exceeded their respective aggregate amortized cost by $31,000 and $33,000,
respectively. Total investments decreased $38,797,000 in 2008,
including an $11,893,000 decline in the market value of AFS
investments. During 2008, the Company sold approximately $48.4
million of MBS – GSE residential and Agency – GSE securities, the proceeds of
which were used to pay-down long-term debt, fund loan growth and fund the
expansion of the Company’s branch network. The carrying value of
investment securities, at December 31, 2008, was $84,188,000, or 15% of total
assets compared to $122,984,000, or 21%, as of December 31, 2007.
The
tax-equivalent yield on debt securities by stated maturity date at December 31,
2008, was as follows:
One year
|
One through
|
Five through
|
More than
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or less
|
five years
|
ten years
|
ten years
|
Total
|
||||||||||||||||
Agency
- GSE
|
- | % | - | % | 5.07 | % | 5.87 | % | 5.74 | % | ||||||||||
MBS
- GSE residential
|
- | - | 6.01 | 5.44 | 5.45 | |||||||||||||||
State
& municipal subdivisions
|
- | - | 5.47 | 5.90 | 5.83 | |||||||||||||||
Pooled
trust preferred securities
|
- | - | - | 4.00 | 4.00 | |||||||||||||||
Total
debt securities
|
- | % | - | % | 5.21 | % | 5.35 | % | 5.34 | % |
Loans
and leases
Gross
loans and leases increased $14,704,000, or 3%, from $426,249,000 at December 31,
2007, to $440,953,000 at December 31, 2008. Gross loans represented
77% and 73% of total assets at December 31, 2008 and December 31, 2007,
respectively.
In 2008,
the Company originated $47,864,000 of commercial loans, $23,111,000 of
residential mortgage loans and $21,354,000 of consumer loans. This
compares to $32,919,000, $24,032,000 and $28,062,000, respectively, in
2007. Included in mortgage loans is $9,476,000 of real estate
construction lines in 2008 and $12,515,000 in 2007. In addition for
2008, the Company originated lines of credit in the amounts of $50,664,000 for
commercial borrowers and $11,866,000 in home equity and other consumer lines of
credit.
The
Company’s origination activity increased 9% in 2008 over 2007 despite operating
in a very difficult economy. Only the residential real estate
portfolio recorded a decline compared to 2007 which was more than offset by
growth in commercial lending. A new senior lender was hired which
enabled the Company to grow its commercial and CRE portfolio.
Commercial and Commercial
Real Estate Loans:
Originations
in commercial and commercial real estate were relatively strong, as they fully
exceeded scheduled principal curtailments and pre-payments, which thereby
resulted in a commercial loan increase of $29,422,000 to $245,480,000 from
$216,058,000, or 14% during 2008. During most of 2008, the Company
bolstered the origination activities in the commercial loan
business. Commercial lending successfully restructured its team of
commercial loan officers led by the experienced newly hired senior
lender. This team had effectively penetrated our markets and
successfully developed new business relationships and re-kindled relationships
with our existing commercial customer base.
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Residential
Real Estate Loans:
Residential
real estate loans declined $18,468,000, or 16%, to $98,511,000 in
2008. In the beginning of 2008, the Company transferred approximately
$28,103,000 to the loans AFS portfolio. The loans were subsequently
sold. Excluding this transfer, the residential real estate loan
portfolio would have grown $6,900,000 as origination activity exceeded
maturities and pay-downs.
Consumer
Loans:
Though
consumer loan originations were lower in 2008 compared to 2007, this sector
increased $3,093,000, or 4%, during the year. The increase was mainly
from lower principal pay-downs and increased draw activity from customers who
accessed their home equity available credit. During 2008, the Company
established a new relationship with a local automobile dealership which provided
increased origination activity in consumer lending.
Real Estate Construction
Loans:
Real
estate construction loans increased $724,000, or 7%, at December 31, 2008
compared to December 31, 2007. The increase in 2008 was caused by
more commercial construction projects that had not yet converted to permanent
financing.
Loans
available-for-sale
Loans AFS
at December 31, 2008 were $84,000 with a corresponding fair value of $85,000
compared to $827,000 and $843,000, respectively, at December 31,
2007. During 2008, residential mortgages with principal balances of
$46,969,000 were sold into the secondary market and recognized net gains of
approximately $261,000. Included in the sale were $28,103,000 of
residential loans transferred from the loan and lease portfolio.
At
December 31, 2008 and 2007, the servicing portfolio balance of sold residential
mortgage loans was $95,856,000 and $61,023,000, respectively.
Allowance
for loan losses
Total
charge-offs, net of recoveries, for the year ended December 31, 2008, were
$1,019,000, compared to $560,000 in 2007. The majority of the increase occurred
in the commercial portfolio and was attributable to non-performing loan
dispositions and write-downs before transfers to ORE. Combined
consumer loan and lease financing net charge-offs increased from $237,000 at
December 31, 2007 to $320,000 through December 31, 2008. Commercial
loan net charge-offs were $358,000 for the year 2007 compared to $654,000 for
2008. Mortgage loans showed net charge-offs of $45,000 in 2008
compared to net recoveries of $35,000 in 2007.
Non-performing
assets
The
majority of non-performing assets for the period were attributed to non-accruing
commercial business loans and non-accruing real estate loans in the process of
foreclosure. Most of these loans were collateralized, thereby
mitigating the Company’s potential for loss. In 2007, non-performing
loans were $3,837,000 compared to $4,097,000 at year-end 2008. There
were no repossessed assets at December 31, 2008 or 2007. ORE at
December 31, 2008 consisted of four properties of which one had an agreement to
sell pending at that time. ORE at year-end 2007 consisted of one
property which was subsequently sold. The Special Assets Committee
had developed specific action plans for each of the Company’s non-performing
loans. During 2008, several of those plans were brought to a
conclusion resulting in repayments of non-performing loans. The
non-accrual loans aggregated $3,493,000 at December 31, 2008, a reduction of
$318,000 from year-end 2007. During 2008, approximately $4,946,000 of
loans were placed in non-accrual status. These were partially offset
by reductions or payoffs of $2,426,000, charge-offs of $916,000, $1,562,000 of
transfers to ORE and $360,000 of loans that returned to performing
status. Loans past due 90 days or more and accruing totaled $604,000
at December 31, 2008 compared to $26,000, at December 31, 2007. The
majority of the increase was attributable to one residential mortgage migrating
to the over 90 day category. Non-accrual loans were reduced by 8% to
$3,493,000. The ORE balance rose from $107,000 to
$1,450,000. This sizeable increase was a result of the collections
process as the collateral securing non-accruing loans was taken in the
foreclosure process. These three items comprise the non-performing
assets of $5,548,000 at December 31, 2008. The percentage of
non-performing assets to total assets was 0.96% at December 31, 2008, an
increase from 0.67% at December 31, 2007, primarily due to the aforementioned
ORE increase. Non-performing loans to net loans were 0.94% at
December 31, 2008, and 0.91% at December 31, 2007. The 30-89 day past
due loans at December 31, 2008 were $1,858,000 reduced from $4,698,000 at
December 31, 2007. Contributing to the reduction was the repayment of
previously delinquent loans and others which had been brought
current.
During
2008, the Company collected approximately $311,000 of interest income recognized
on the cash basis. If the non-accrual loans that were outstanding as
of December 31, 2008 had been performing in accordance with their original
terms, the Company would have recognized interest income with respect to such
loans of $250,000 for the year ended December 31, 2008.
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Bank
premises and equipment, net
Net of
accumulated depreciation and disposals, premises and equipment increased
$3,091,000. During 2008, the Company purchased or transferred from
construction in process approximately $4,489,000 compared to $3,293,000 in
2007. The increase was principally from the construction and
completion of the Company’s West Scranton branch expansion project.
Foreclosed
assets
held-for-sale
Other real estate
owned
ORE was
$1,451,000 at December 31, 2008 consisting of four properties, one of which was
under an agreement to be sold. The three remaining properties were
listed for sale with a realtor. The one residential property which
was owned at year end 2007 was sold.
Other
assets
Other
assets more than doubled in 2008 to $8,930,000 compared to 2007. The
increase was caused predominately by the increase in the net deferred tax asset
of $4,046,000 as a result of additional unrealized losses in the
securities AFS portfolio. Also contributing to the increase in other
assets was an increase in the fair value of the Company’s derivative
contract.
Results of
Operations
Earnings
Summary
Net
income for the year ended December 31, 2008 was $3,636,000, compared to
$4,612,000 for the year ended December 31, 2007. During the same
periods, diluted earnings per common share was $1.76 and $2.23,
respectively. For the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company’s
return on average assets (ROA) and return on average shareholders’ equity (ROE)
were 0.62% and 6.81% compared to 0.80% and 8.65%, respectively, for the year
ended December 31, 2007. 2008 included a non-operating, non-cash,
after-tax charge of $288,000 related to an other-than-temporary impairment
(OTTI) in the Company’s security AFS portfolio that did not occur in
2007. In addition, during 2008, the Company recorded a provision for
loan losses in the amount of $940,000 compared to a credit for loan losses of
$60,000 in 2007. The provision for loan losses in 2008 was recorded
in anticipation of credit quality deterioration ensuing from accelerated
declines in economic conditions during the fourth quarter of 2008, in addition
to growth in the commercial loan portfolio. Further contributing to
the lower net income were lower non-interest interest income and higher
non-interest expenses. These items were partially offset by an
improvement in net interest income of $1,658,000, or 9%, to
$19,277,000 in 2008 compared to $17,619,000 in 2007. The decline in
ROA and ROE was caused by the decrease in net income.
Net
interest income
The slope
of the yield curve returned to a more normal, positive slope in 2008 compared to
2007, but at unprecedented low levels. In several efforts to
stimulate a recessing economy, the FOMC reduced short-term interest rates seven
times during 2008, in intervals ranging from 25 to 75 basis points, sometimes
occurring twice in a single month. In response to these actions, the
national prime rate also decreased during 2008. National prime, the
benchmark rate banks use to set rates on various lending and other interest
sensitive products, decreased seven times for a total decrease of 400 basis
points from 7.25% at December 31, 2007 to 3.25% at December 31,
2008.
While
national prime decreased 400 basis points, the weighted-average national prime
rate decreased to 5.09% in 2008 compared to 8.05% in 2007. The effect
of this average decrease was to exert extreme downward pressure on yields of the
Company’s interest-earning assets. With rate cutting beginning in
January 2008, this pressure existed with increasing momentum throughout all of
2008. The Company was able to more than offset this pressure by
periodically adjusting rates on its interest-bearing deposits. Where
necessary, rate adjustments to interest-bearing deposit and repurchase
agreements were implemented and wholesale funding sources were utilized, all of
which helped minimize the effect rate changes had on net interest
income. The Company’s ALM committee met frequently and successfully
implemented rate setting strategies to mitigate the interest rate risk inherent
in the balance sheet and was able to preserve its net interest margin while
always mindful of our customers’ needs.
As
expected the relative and predominantly lower interest rate environment of 2008
continued to have a negative impact on the Company’s interest-earning
assets. Total interest income declined 4%, or $1,318,000 from
$35,279,000 in 2007 to $33,961,000 in 2008 and further caused the tax-equivalent
yield on earning assets to decrease 32 basis points. Interest expense
decreased $2,976,000, or 17%, from $17,660,000 in 2007 to $14,684,000 in
2008. Though the Company recorded a net increase in average
interest-bearing liabilities, due to deposit growth, interest expense on
deposits declined by almost $3,000,000 in 2008 compared to 2007 caused by a 77
basis point decline on rates paid. The effect of the $15,713,000
increase in average interest-bearing deposits was an additional $692,000 in
interest expense. In an effort to maintain reasonable interest rate
spreads to its earning-assets, throughout 2008 the Company’s asset / liability
committee has reduced rates paid on CDs as well as rates paid on transactional
deposits. Interest expense on borrowings, including repurchase
agreements, declined $724,000 during 2008, mostly from lower
rates.
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As a
result of the mix of the Company’s interest-sensitive assets and liabilities and
the varying effects the severity of the yield curve slope had during 2008, net
interest income increased $1,658,000, or 9%, from $17,619,000 in 2007 to
$19,277,000 in 2008. On a tax-equivalent basis, the net interest rate
spread increased 43 basis points from 2.64% to 3.07% and the tax-equivalent
margin improved 26 basis points, from 3.34% in 2007 to 3.60% in 2008,
respectively. The improvement in spread and margin were due largely
to lower rates paid on interest-bearing liabilities and more net interest
income.
Provision
for loan losses
Provisions
for loan losses of $940,000 were made for the year ended December 31,
2008. In 2007, the Company did not need to make provisions and
reduced the allowance for loan losses due to a reduced level of internally
criticized and classified loans. The $940,000 provision for loan
losses was recorded for anticipated credit quality deterioration, ensuing from
accelerated declines in economic conditions during the fourth quarter of 2008,
together with providing for over $30 million of commercial loan growth
throughout 2008. The provision increase occurred to reinforce and
fund the allowance for loan losses balance as of December 31, 2008 to safeguard
against possible future losses. The allowance for loan losses was
$4,745,000 at December 31, 2008, and was $4,824,000 at December 31,
2007.
Other
income
For the
year ended December 31, 2008, total other income was $4,578,000, $627,000, or
12% less than the $5,205,000 recorded during the year ended December 31,
2007. In 2008, a non-cash OTTI charge of $436,000 was
recorded. There was no similar charge in 2007. The OTTI
charge was related to the Company’s investment in a pooled preferred term
security and a common stock equity position in FNMA. The carrying
values of these securities were written down to their fair values during the
third and fourth quarters of 2008 as management had deemed the impairment to be
other-than-temporary. Service charges on deposit related accounts
declined $106,000, or 4%, in 2008 compared to 2007. Most of this
decline was the result of lower volumes of overdraft
transactions. During 2008, the Company recorded net losses from the
disposal of premises and equipment of $36,000 compared to net gains of $98,000
recorded in 2007, or an adverse impact of approximately $134,000. The
loss in 2008 was from the disposal of unused, obsolete capital equipment while
in 2007 gains included the sales of two commercial facilities previously leased
to non-related third parties. Further contributing to the
non-interest income decline in 2008 were the gains recorded from the sale of
foreclosed properties in 2007 of $144,000 compared to $43,000 in
2008. Partially offsetting these adverse changes in non-interest
income were: $101,000 more gains from the sales of residential mortgages into
the secondary market; fees earned from the Company’s trust services business and
an increase in the cash surrender value of BOLI.
Other
expense
For the
year ended December 31, 2008, other operating expenses grew $1,574,000, or 9%,
from $16,637,000 for the year ended December 31, 2007. Merit and
performance-based incentive increases, branch expansion and the related employee
benefits, health care, and wider participation in the Company’s 401(k) plan
caused salaries and employee benefit costs to rise $1,164,000, or 13%, for the
twelve months ended December 31, 2008 compared to the same period in
2007. Occupancy related expenses, a component of premises and
equipment, increased $95,000, or 3%, due to a full year of depreciation and
amortization on the Green Ridge branch relocation and the 2008 opening of the
West Scranton branch. Branch expansion activities also included more
advertising and marketing, up $33,000, or 5%, and other increased overhead
including: office supplies, postage, data processing and FDIC
premiums. Other expenses were also increased by higher collection and
ORE expenses associated with more legal and foreclosure costs.
The
ratios of non-interest expense less non-interest income to average assets
(expense ratio) at December 31, 2008 and 2007 were 2.25% and 2.01%,
respectively. The overhead expense ratio of the Company drifted
upward due to higher non-interest expenses.
Provision
for income taxes
Income
before provision for income taxes in 2008 decreased $1,543,000 from
2007. The effective federal income tax rate was 22.7% and 26.2% for
the years ending December 31, 2008 and 2007, respectively. The
decrease in the effective tax rate is attributable to the decrease in pre-tax
income.
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Off-Balance Sheet
Arrangements and Contractual Obligations
The
Company is a party to financial instruments with off-balance sheet risk in the
normal course of business in order to meet the financing needs of its customers
and in connection with the overall interest rate management
strategy. These instruments involve, to a varying degree, elements of
credit, interest rate and liquidity risk. In accordance with GAAP,
these instruments are either not recorded in the consolidated financial
statements or are recorded in amounts that differ from the notional
amounts. Such instruments primarily include lending commitments,
lease obligations and derivative instruments. For a further
discussion on the Company’s derivative instrument, see Note 1, “Nature of
Operations and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies”, and Note 12, “Fair
Value of Financial Instruments and Derivatives”, contained within the notes to
consolidated financial statements in Part II, Item 8.
Lending
commitments include commitments to originate loans and commitments to fund
unused lines of credit. Commitments to extend credit are agreements
to lend to a customer as long as there is no violation of any condition
established in the contract. Commitments generally have fixed
expiration dates or other termination clauses and may require payment of a
fee. Since some of the commitments are expected to expire without
being drawn upon, the total commitment amounts do not necessarily represent
future cash requirements.
In
addition to lending commitments, the Company has contractual obligations related
to operating lease commitments. Operating lease commitments are
obligations under various non-cancelable operating leases on buildings and land
used for office space and banking purposes.
The
following table presents, as of December 31, 2009, the Company’s significant
determinable contractual obligations and significant commitments by payment
date. The payment amounts represent those amounts contractually due
to the recipient, excluding interest (dollars in thousands):
Over one
|
Over three
|
|||||||||||||||||||
One year
|
year through
|
years through
|
Over
|
|||||||||||||||||
or less
|
three years
|
five years
|
five years
|
Total
|
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Contractual obligations:
|
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Certificates
of deposit *
|
$ | 81,854 | $ | 54,794 | $ | 10,015 | $ | 1,587 | $ | 148,250 | ||||||||||
Long-term
debt
|
11,000 | 5,000 | - | 16,000 | 32,000 | |||||||||||||||
Repurchase
agreements
|
7,747 | - | - | - | 7,747 | |||||||||||||||
Operating
leases
|
357 | 695 | 670 | 3,493 | 5,215 | |||||||||||||||
Significant commitments:
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Letters
of credit
|
2,169 | 6,105 | - | 772 | 9,046 | |||||||||||||||
Loan
commitments **
|
17,652 | - | - | - | 17,652 | |||||||||||||||
Total
|
$ | 120,779 | $ | 66,594 | $ | 10,685 | $ | 21,852 | $ | 219,910 |
*
|
Includes
certificates in the CDARS
program.
|
**
|
Available
credit to borrowers in the amount of $61,713 is excluded from the above
table since, by its nature, the borrowers may not have the need for
additional funding, and, therefore, the credit may or may not be disbursed
by the Company.
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Related Party
Transactions
Information
with respect to related parties is contained in Note 15, “Related Party
Transactions”, within the notes to the consolidated financial statements, and
incorporated by reference in Part II, Item 8.
Impact of Accounting
Standards and Interpretations
Information
with respect to the impact of accounting standards is contained in Note 18,
“Recent Accounting Pronouncements”, within the notes to the consolidated
financial statements, and incorporated by reference in Part II, Item
8.
Impact of Inflation and
Changing Prices
The
consolidated financial statements and notes thereto presented herein have been
prepared in accordance with GAAP, which requires the measurement of the
Company’s financial condition and results of operations in terms of historical
dollars without considering the changes in the relative purchasing power of
money over time due to inflation. The impact of inflation is
reflected in the increased cost of our operations. Unlike industrial
businesses, most all of the Company’s assets and liabilities are monetary in
nature. As a result, interest rates have a greater impact on our
performance than do the effects of general levels of inflation as interest rates
do not necessarily move in the same direction or, to the same extent, as the
price of goods and services.
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Capital
Resources
The
Company is subject to various regulatory capital requirements administered by
the federal banking agencies. Failure to meet minimum capital
requirements can initiate certain mandatory and possible additional
discretionary actions by regulators that, if undertaken, could have a direct
material effect on the Company’s financial statements. Under capital
adequacy guidelines and the regulatory framework for prompt corrective action,
the Company must meet specific capital guidelines that involve quantitative
measures of the Company’s assets, liabilities and certain off-balance-sheet
items as calculated under regulatory accounting practices. The
Company’s capital amounts and classification are also subject to qualitative
judgments by the regulators about components, risk-weightings and other
factors.
Under
these guidelines, assets and certain off-balance sheet items are assigned to
broad risk categories, each with prescribed risk weightings. The
appropriate risk-weighting, pursuant to regulatory guidelines, required an
increase in the weights applied to securities that are rated below investment
grade, thereby inflating the total risk-weighted assets. The
resulting capital ratios represent capital as a percentage of total
risk-weighted assets and certain off-balance sheet items. The
guidelines require all banks and bank holding companies to maintain a minimum
ratio of total risk-based capital to total risk-weighted assets (Total Risk
Adjusted Capital) of 8%, including Tier I capital to total risk-weighted assets
(Tier I Capital) of 4% and Tier I capital to average total assets (Leverage
Ratio) of at least 4%. Additional information with respect to capital
requirements is contained in Note 14, “Regulatory Matters”, within the notes to
the consolidated financial statements, and incorporated by reference in Part II,
Item 8.
During
the second quarter of 2008, the Company’s Board of Directors announced its
intent to initiate a capital stock repurchase program covering up to 50,000
shares of its outstanding capital stock. The repurchased shares would
become treasury stock and could be available for issuance under the Company’s
various stock-based compensation, employee stock purchase and dividend
reinvestment (DRP) plans and for general corporate purposes. The
repurchases may be made from time-to-time in open-market transactions, subject
to availability, pursuant to safe harbor rule 10b-18 under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934. Management has suspended repurchase-plan
activity as a prudent means, in light of the current economic pressures on
banking, to preserve and grow the Company’s capital base. Since the
program’s inception, the Company has reacquired at $27.83 per share and reissued
at $21.11 per share 17,500 shares to participants in the Company’s
DRP.
In
January 2010, the DRP was amended to authorize and issue not more than 300,000
shares of common stock of the Company. The DRP provides shareholders with
a convenient and economical method of investing cash dividends payable upon the
common stock and the opportunity to make voluntary optional cash payments to
purchase additional shares of the Company’s common stock. Participants pay
no brokerage commissions or service charges when they acquire additional shares
of common stock through the DRP. In addition, until further notice and
action of the Company’s Board of Directors, shareholders who participate in the
DRP may use their cash dividends and optional cash payments to purchase
additional shares of stock directly from the Company at 90% of the fair market
value of the common stock on the investment date. To the extent that
additional shares are purchased directly from the Company under the DRP, the
Company will receive additional funds for its general corporate purposes.
Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Form S-3, Registration Statement No.
333-152806 was filed with the SEC on January 25, 2010.
During
the year-ended December 31, 2009, total shareholders' equity decreased
$3,240,000, or 9%, due principally from the recorded net loss, the declaration
of cash dividends and the expiration of the Company’s cash flow hedge and the
related adjustment for its remaining intrinsic value. Conversely,
shareholders’ equity was enhanced by stock issued from the Company’s Employee
Stock Purchase and Dividend Reinvestment Plans. The Company’s primary
source (use) of capital during the previous five years has been from the
retention of equity in undistributed earnings of the Bank, as reflected
below:
Net
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Cash dividends
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Earnings
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(loss) income
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declared
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retained
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2009
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$ | (1,400,205 | ) | $ | 2,078,171 | $ | (3,478,376 | ) | ||||
2008
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3,635,948 | 2,068,680 | 1,567,268 | |||||||||
2007
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4,611,572 | 1,921,533 | 2,690,039 | |||||||||
2006
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4,125,283 | 1,801,361 | 2,323,922 | |||||||||
2005
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4,591,697 | 1,624,263 | 2,967,434 |
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As of
December 31, 2009, the Company reported a net unrealized loss of $9,194,000, net
of tax, from the securities AFS portfolio including $6,126,000 of non-credit
related OTTI recorded in 2009 compared to a net unrealized loss of $8,831,000 as
of December 31, 2008. Other than the Company’s investment in
corporate bonds consisting of pooled trust preferred securities, the unrealized
loss position has improved from December 31, 2008. However, the
prolonged economic slump has created uncertainty and in certain circumstances
illiquidity in the financial and capital markets and has had a sizable negative
impact on the fair value estimates for securities in banks’ investment
portfolios. Management believes these changes are due mainly to
liquidity problems in the financial markets and to a lesser extent the
deterioration in the creditworthiness of the issuers. Nonetheless,
there is no assurance that future unrealized losses will not be recognized on
the Company’s portfolio of investment securities. Additional
information with respect to the investment portfolio and a discussion on the
related decline in fair value, is contained in Note 3, “Investment Securities”,
within the notes to the consolidated financial statements, and incorporated by
reference in Part II, Item 8, and the section entitled, “Investments”, in
management’s discussion and analysis.
Liquidity
Liquidity
management ensures that adequate funds will be available to meet customers’
needs for borrowings, deposit withdrawals and maturities and normal operating
expenses of the Company. Current sources of liquidity are cash and
cash equivalents, asset maturities and pay-downs within one year, loans and
investments AFS, growth of core deposits, growth of repurchase agreements,
increases of other borrowed funds from correspondent banks and issuance of
capital stock. Although regularly scheduled investment and loan
payments are a dependable source of daily funds, the sales of both loans and
investments AFS, deposit activity and investment and loan prepayments are
significantly influenced by general economic conditions and the interest rate
environment. During a declining interest rate environment,
prepayments from interest-sensitive assets tend to accelerate and provide
significant liquidity which can be used to invest in other interest-earning
assets but at lower market rates. Conversely, in a period of rising
interest rates, prepayments from interest-sensitive assets tend to decelerate
causing cash flow from mortgage loans and the MBS – GSE residential securities
portfolio to decrease. Rising interest rates may also cause deposit
inflow to accelerate and be invested at higher market interest
rates. The Company closely monitors activity in the capital markets
and takes appropriate action to ensure that the liquidity levels are adequate
for funding, investing and operating activities.
During
the year ended December 31, 2009, the Company used approximately $4.4 million of
cash. During this period, the Company’s operations provided
approximately $11.8 million, primarily from the sales of mortgages AFS net of
originations. Included in the sales were approximately $10.8 million
of residential mortgage loans that were transferred to the loan AFS
portfolio. Cash provided by investing activities was generated from
the sales of securities and ORE properties. The combined $12.7
million generated from operations and financing along with deposit growth from
financing activities was used to pay cash dividends, reduce overnight borrowings
and de-leverage the balance sheet by the pay down and non-renewal of long-term
debt.
As of
December 31, 2009, the Company maintained $8,328,000 in cash and cash
equivalents and $77,043,000 of investments and loans AFS. In
addition, as of December 31, 2009, the Company had approximately $138,346,000
available to borrow from the FHLB, $30,000,000 available from other
correspondent banks and $960,000 from the Discount Window of the Federal Reserve
Bank. This combined total of $254,677,000 represented 46% of total
assets at December 31, 2009. Management believes this level of
liquidity to be strong and adequate to support current
operations. Included in the $30,000,000 availability from
correspondent banks is $20,000,000 from one bank whose credit facility expired
on January 1, 2010. The correspondent bank provides liquidity to the
Company in the form of short-term overnight borrowings. In February
2010, the Company renewed the relationship for $15,000,000. The
$5,000,000 reduction of available funds from this relationship will not have a
significant effect on the Company’s liquidity position. For a
discussion on the Company’s significant determinable contractual obligations and
significant commitments, see “Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements and Contractual
Obligations,” above.
In
October 2008, the FDIC announced the Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program
(TLGP) to strengthen confidence and encourage liquidity in the banking
system. Among other things, this new program provides full deposit
insurance coverage for non-interest bearing deposit transaction accounts in
FDIC-insured institutions regardless of the dollar amount. To protect
its depositors, the Company decided to participate the Transaction Account
Guarantee (TAG) component of the TLGP. Under the TAG, all depositors
who hold funds in non-interest bearing accounts, or interest-bearing accounts
with an interest rate of 0.50% or less, including the Lawyers Trust Accounts,
have a temporary unlimited guarantee from the FDIC which was originally
scheduled to expire on December 31, 2009. To assure an orderly phase
out of the TAG component of the TLGP, the FDIC has extended the program, on a
voluntary basis to June 30, 2010. Participation in the extended
program required the assessment of a higher premium – from 15 to 25 basis points
depending on pre-determined risk factors assigned to financial
institutions. To protect the deposit base, the Company opted to
extend its participation in the TAG program. Under the program,
through June 30, 2010, all noninterest-bearing transaction accounts will
continue to be fully guaranteed by the FDIC for the entire account
balance. The Company, rated with the lowest tier 1 risk factor, was
assessed 15 basis points and as a result will incur $42,000 of additional FDIC
premiums to voluntarily participate in the TAG extension
program. Coverage under the TAG program is in addition to and
separate from coverage available under the FDIC’s general deposit insurance
rules, which insures accounts up to $250,000 until the end of 2013, unless
extended.
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Management of interest rate
risk and market risk analysis
The
Company is subject to the interest rate risks inherent in its lending, investing
and financing activities. Fluctuations of interest rates will impact
interest income and interest expense along with affecting market values of all
interest-earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities, except for those
assets or liabilities with a short term remaining to
maturity. Interest rate risk management is an integral part of the
asset/liability management process. The Company has instituted
certain procedures and policy guidelines to manage the interest rate risk
position. Those internal policies enable the Company to react to
changes in market rates to protect net interest income from significant
fluctuations. The primary objective in managing interest rate risk is
to minimize the adverse impact of changes in interest rates on net interest
income along with creating an asset/liability structure that maximizes
earnings.
Asset/Liability
Management. One major objective of the Company when managing
the rate sensitivity of its assets and liabilities is to stabilize net interest
income. The management of and authority to assume interest rate risk
is the responsibility of the Company’s Asset/Liability Committee (ALCO), which
is comprised of senior management and members of the board of
directors. ALCO meets quarterly to monitor the relationship of
interest sensitive assets to interest sensitive liabilities. The
process to review interest rate risk is a regular part of managing the
Company. Consistent policies and practices of measuring and reporting
interest rate risk exposure, particularly regarding the treatment of
non-contractual assets and liabilities, are in effect. In addition,
there is an annual process to review the interest rate risk policy with the
board of directors which includes limits on the impact to earnings from shifts
in interest rates.
Interest Rate Risk
Measurement. Interest rate risk is monitored through the use
of three complementary measures: static gap analysis, earnings at risk
simulation and economic value at risk simulation. While each of the
interest rate risk measurements has limitations, collectively, they represent a
reasonably comprehensive view of the magnitude of interest rate risk in the
Company and the distribution of risk along the yield curve, the level of risk
through time and the amount of exposure to changes in certain interest rate
relationships.
Static Gap. The
ratio between assets and liabilities re-pricing in specific time intervals is
referred to as an interest rate sensitivity gap. Interest rate
sensitivity gaps can be managed to take advantage of the slope of the yield
curve as well as forecasted changes in the level of interest rate
changes.
To manage
this interest rate sensitivity gap position, an asset/liability model commonly
known as cumulative gap analysis is used to monitor the difference in the volume
of the Company’s interest sensitive assets and liabilities that mature or
re-price within given time intervals. A positive gap (asset
sensitive) indicates that more assets will re-price during a given period
compared to liabilities, while a negative gap (liability sensitive) has the
opposite effect. The Company employs computerized net interest income
simulation modeling to assist in quantifying interest rate risk
exposure. This process measures and quantifies the impact on net
interest income through varying interest rate changes and balance sheet
compositions. The use of this model assists the ALCO to gauge the
effects of the interest rate changes on interest-sensitive assets and
liabilities in order to determine what impact these rate changes will have upon
the net interest spread. At December 31, 2009 the Company maintained
a one-year cumulative gap of positive $35.1 million, or 6.3%, of total
assets. The effect of this positive gap position provided a mismatch
of assets and liabilities which may expose the Company to interest rate risk
during periods of falling interest rates. Conversely, in an
increasing interest rate environment, net interest income could be positively
impacted because more assets than liabilities will re-price upward during the
one-year period.
Certain
shortcomings are inherent in the method of analysis discussed above and
presented in the next table. Although certain assets and liabilities
may have similar maturities or periods of re-pricing, they may react in
different degrees to changes in market interest rates. The interest
rates on certain types of assets and liabilities may fluctuate in advance of
changes in market interest rates, while interest rates on other types of assets
and liabilities may lag behind changes in market interest
rates. Certain assets, such as adjustable-rate mortgages, have
features which restrict changes in interest rates on a short-term basis and over
the life of the asset. In the event of a change in interest rates,
prepayment and early withdrawal levels may deviate significantly from those
assumed in calculating the table. The ability of many borrowers to
service their adjustable-rate debt may decrease in the event of an interest rate
increase.
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The
following table reflects the re-pricing of the balance sheet or “gap” position
at December 31, 2009 (dollars in thousands):
Three months
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Three to
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One to
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Over
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or less
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twelve months
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three years
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three years
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Total
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Cash
and cash equivalents
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$ | 117 | $ | - | $ | - | $ | 8,211 | $ | 8,328 | ||||||||||
Investment
securities (1)(2)
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16,665 | 2,005 | 24,022 | 38,619 | 81,311 | |||||||||||||||
Loans
(2)
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133,949 | 53,600 | 105,175 | 131,621 | 424,345 | |||||||||||||||
Fixed
and other assets
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- | 9,117 | - | 32,916 | 42,033 | |||||||||||||||
Total
assets
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$ | 150,731 | $ | 64,722 | $ | 129,197 | $ | 211,367 | $ | 556,017 | ||||||||||
Total
cumulative assets
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$ | 150,731 | $ | 215,453 | $ | 344,650 | $ | 556,017 | ||||||||||||
Non-interest-bearing transaction
deposits (3)
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$ | - | $ | 7,090 | $ | 19,495 | $ | 44,306 | $ | 70,891 | ||||||||||
Interest-bearing
transaction deposits
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63,917 | - | 66,621 | 109,315 | 239,853 | |||||||||||||||
Certificates
of deposit
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38,439 | 43,415 | 54,814 | 11,583 | 148,251 | |||||||||||||||
Repurchase
agreements
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7,747 | - | - | - | 7,747 | |||||||||||||||
Short-term
borrowings
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8,786 | - | - | - | 8,786 | |||||||||||||||
Long-term
debt
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- | 11,000 | - | 21,000 | 32,000 | |||||||||||||||
Other
liabilities
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- | - | - | 2,815 | 2,815 | |||||||||||||||
Total
liabilities
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$ | 118,889 | $ | 61,505 | $ | 140,930 | $ | 189,019 | $ | 510,343 | ||||||||||
Total
cumulative liabilities
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$ | 118,889 | $ | 180,394 | $ | 321,324 | $ | 510,343 | ||||||||||||
Interest
sensitivity gap
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$ | 31,842 | $ | 3,217 | $ | (11,733 | ) | $ | 22,348 | |||||||||||
Cumulative
gap
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$ | 31,842 | $ | 35,059 | $ | 23,326 | $ | 45,674 | ||||||||||||
Cumulative
gap to total assets
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5.7 | % | 6.3 | % | 4.2 | % | 8.2 | % |
(1)
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Includes
FHLB stock and the net unrealized gains/losses on available-for-sale
securities.
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(2)
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Investments
and loans are included in the earlier of the period in which interest
rates were next scheduled to adjust or the period in which they are
due. In addition, loans were included in the periods in which
they are scheduled to be repaid based on scheduled
amortization. For amortizing loans and MBS – GSE residential,
annual prepayment rates are assumed reflecting historical experience as
well as management’s knowledge and experience of its loan
products.
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(3)
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The
Company’s demand and savings accounts were generally subject to immediate
withdrawal. However, management considers a certain amount of
such accounts to be core accounts having significantly longer effective
maturities based on the retention experiences of such deposits in changing
interest rate environments. The effective maturities presented
are the recommended maturity distribution limits for non-maturing deposits
based on historical deposit
studies.
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Earnings at Risk and Economic Value
at Risk Simulations. The Company recognizes that more
sophisticated tools exist for measuring the interest rate risk in the balance
sheet that extend beyond static re-pricing gap analysis. Although it
will continue to measure its re-pricing gap position, the Company utilizes
additional modeling for identifying and measuring the interest rate risk in the
overall balance sheet. The ALCO is responsible for focusing on
“earnings at risk” and “economic value at risk”, and how both relate to the
risk-based capital position when analyzing the interest rate risk.
Earnings at
Risk. Earnings at risk simulation measures the change in net
interest income and net income should interest rates rise and
fall. The simulation recognizes that not all assets and liabilities
re-price one-for-one with market rates (e.g., savings rate). The ALCO
looks at “earnings at risk” to determine income changes from a base case
scenario under an increase and decrease of 200 basis points in interest rate
simulation models.
Economic Value at Risk.
Earnings at risk simulation measures the short-term risk in the balance
sheet. Economic value (or portfolio equity) at risk measures the
long-term risk by finding the net present value of the future cash flows from
the Company’s existing assets and liabilities. The ALCO examines this
ratio quarterly utilizing an increase and decrease of 200 basis points in
interest rate simulation models. The ALCO recognizes that, in some
instances, this ratio may contradict the “earnings at risk” ratio.
The
following table illustrates the simulated impact of an immediate 200 basis
points upward or downward movement in interest rates on net interest income, net
income and the change in the economic value (portfolio equity). This
analysis assumed that interest-earning asset and interest-bearing liability
levels at December 31, 2009 remained constant. The impact of the rate
movements was developed by simulating the effect of the rate change over a
twelve-month period from the December 31, 2009 levels:
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Rates +200
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Rates -200
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Earnings
at risk:
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Percent
change in:
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Net
interest income
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3.9 | % | 0.4 | % | ||||
Net
income
|
14.3 | 1.0 | ||||||
Economic
value at risk:
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Percent
change in:
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Economic
value of equity
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(42.0 | ) | (2.0 | ) | ||||
Economic
value of equity as a percent of total assets
|
(3.5 | ) | (0.2 | ) |
Economic
value has the most meaning when viewed within the context of risk-based
capital. Therefore, the economic value may normally change beyond the
Company’s policy guideline for a short period of time as long as the risk-based
capital ratio (after adjusting for the excess equity exposure) is greater than
10%. At December 31, 2009, the Company’s risk-based capital ratio was
11.4%.
The table
below summarizes estimated changes in net interest income over a twelve-month
period beginning January 1, 2010, under alternate interest rate scenarios using
the income simulation model described above (dollars in thousands):
Net interest
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$
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%
|
||||||||||
income
|
variance
|
variance
|
||||||||||
Change in interest rates
|
||||||||||||
+200
basis points
|
$ | 21,637 | $ | 803 | 1.3 | % | ||||||
+100
basis points
|
21,015 | 181 | 1.6 | |||||||||
Flat
rate
|
20,834 | - | - | |||||||||
-100
basis points
|
21,086 | 252 | 3.1 | |||||||||
-200
basis points
|
20,912 | 78 | 5.1 |
Simulation
models require assumptions about certain categories of assets and
liabilities. The models schedule existing assets and liabilities by
their contractual maturity, estimated likely call date or earliest re-pricing
opportunity. MBS – GSE residential securities and amortizing loans
are scheduled based on their anticipated cash flow including estimated
prepayments. For investment securities, the Company uses a
third-party service to provide cash flow estimates in the various rate
environments. Savings, money market and interest-bearing checking
accounts do not have stated maturities or re-pricing terms and can be withdrawn
or re-price at any time. This may impact the margin if more expensive
alternative sources of deposits are required to fund loans or deposit
runoff. Management projects the re-pricing characteristics of these
accounts based on historical performance and assumptions that it believes
reflect their rate sensitivity. The model reinvests all maturities,
repayments and prepayments for each type of asset or liability into the same
product for a new like term at current product interest rates provided by
management. As a result, the mix of interest-earning assets and
interest bearing-liabilities is held constant.
Derivative Financial
Instruments. As part of the Company’s overall interest rate
risk strategy, the Company has adopted a policy whereby the Company may
periodically use derivative instruments to minimize significant fluctuations in
earnings caused by interest rate volatility. This interest rate risk
management strategy entails the use of interest rate floors, caps and swaps that
when utilized would be reflected in the scenarios for earnings and economic
value at risk and the net interest income in the two immediately preceding
tables. For a further discussion on the Company’s derivative
contract, see Note 1, “Nature of Operations and Summary of Significant
Accounting Policies”, and Note 12, “Fair Value of Financial Instruments and
Derivatives”, contained within the notes to consolidated financial statements in
Part II, Item 8.
Supervision and
Regulation
The
following is a brief summary of the regulatory environment in which the Company
and the Bank operate and is not designed to be a complete discussion of all
statutes and regulations affecting such operations, including those statutes and
regulations specifically mentioned herein. Changes in the laws and
regulations applicable to the Company and the Bank can affect the operating
environment in substantial and unpredictable ways. We cannot
accurately predict whether legislation will ultimately be enacted, and if
enacted, the ultimate effect that legislation or implementing regulations would
have on our financial condition or results of operations. While
banking regulations are material to the operations of the Company and the Bank,
it should be noted that supervision, regulation and examination of the Company
and the Bank are intended primarily for the protection of depositors, not
shareholders.
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Recent
Legislation and Rulemaking
Emergency
Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of
2009. In response to the financial crises affecting the banking system
and financial markets and going concern threats to investment banks and other
financial institutions, on October 3, 2008, the Emergency Economic Stabilization
Act of 2008 (the “EESA”) was signed into law and subsequently amended by the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 on February 17, 2009. Under the
authority of the EESA, as amended, the United States Department of the Treasury
(the “Treasury”) created the Troubled Asset Relief Program (“TARP”) Capital
Purchase Program and through this program invested in financial institutions by
purchasing preferred stock and warrants to purchase either common stock or
additional shares of preferred stock. As of December 31, 2009, the Treasury will
not make additional investments under the TARP Capital Purchase Program but is
considering continuing a similar program for banks under $10 billion in assets
under a different program.
The EESA,
as amended, also included a provision for a temporary increase in FDIC insurance
coverage from $100,000 to $250,000 per depositor through December 31, 2009. In
May 2009, Congress extended the increased coverage until December 31, 2013.
After that time, the per depositor coverage will return to
$100,000.
FDIC Rulemaking.
On November 26, 2008, the FDIC issued the final rule regarding the
Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program enabling the FDIC to temporarily provide a
100% guarantee of the senior debt of all FDIC-insured institutions and their
holding companies under the Debt Guarantee Program as well as deposits in
non-interest bearing transaction deposit accounts under the Transaction Account
Guarantee Program. Coverage under the Debt Guarantee Program and the Transaction
Account Guarantee Program was available until November 12, 2008 without charge
and thereafter at a cost of 75 basis points per annum for senior unsecured debt
and 10 basis points per annum for non-interest bearing transaction deposits.
Institutions may continue to participate in the Transaction Account Guarantee
Program until June 30, 2010.
On
November 12, 2009, the Board of Directors of the FDIC adopted rulemaking that
requires insured institutions to prepay their estimated quarterly risk-based
assessments for the fourth quarter of 2009 and for all of 2010, 2011 and
2012. Each institution recorded the entire amount of its prepaid assessment
as a prepaid expense (asset) as of December 31, 2009. As of December
31, 2009, and each quarter thereafter, each institution records an expense
(charge to earnings) for its regular quarterly assessment for the quarter and an
offsetting credit to the prepaid assessment until the asset is
exhausted. Once the asset is exhausted, the institution records an
accrued expense payable each quarter for the assessment payment, which will be
paid in arrears to the FDIC at the end of the following quarter. If
the prepaid assessment is not exhausted by December 30, 2014, any remaining
amount will be returned to the depository institution. The FDIC also voted to
adopt a uniform three-basis point increase in assessment rates effective on
January 1, 2011.
Financial
Services Regulatory Relief Act of 2006. This federal act amends
several federal banking laws to reduce redundant and costly regulatory
burden. Among its many provisions, the act allows the payment of
interest on certain reserve balances of depository institutions that are held at
the Federal Reserve beginning in year 2011, requires banking regulatory agencies
to streamline reports of condition and clarifies the authority of home and host
state regulators with respect to supervision of interstate
branches. The act was signed into law in October 2006.
Federal Deposit
Insurance Reform Act of 2005 and the Federal Deposit Insurance Reform Conforming
Amendments Act of 2005. These federal acts were
signed into law in February 2006 to amend the Federal Deposit Insurance
Act. These laws enact FDIC and banking industry deposit insurance
reform proposals by amendments including: increasing the coverage for retirement
accounts to $250,000 and indexing the coverage limit for retirement accounts to
inflation as with the general deposit insurance coverage limit; merging the Bank
Insurance Fund (BIF) and the Savings Association Insurance Fund (SAIF) into a
new fund, the Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF); establishing a percentage range
within which the FDIC Board of Directors may set the FDIC’s Designated Reserve
Ratio (DRR); allowing the FDIC to manage the pace at which the DRR varies within
this range; eliminating the restrictions on premium rates based on the DRR and
granting the FDIC Board the discretion to price deposit insurance according to
risk for all insured institutions at all times.
Sarbanes-Oxley
Act of 2002. In July, 2002, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was
enacted. The stated goals of the Act are to increase corporate
responsibility, to provide for enhanced penalties for accounting and auditing
improprieties at publicly traded companies, and to protect investors by
improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures pursuant to the
securities laws.
The Act
is the most far-reaching U.S. securities legislation enacted in
decades. The Act generally applies to all companies, both U.S. and
non-U.S., that file or are required to file periodic reports with the Securities
and Exchange Commission under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934.
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The Act
includes very specific additional disclosure requirements and corporate
governance rules, requires the SEC and securities exchanges to adopt extensive
additional disclosure, corporate governance and other related rules and mandates
further studies of certain issues by the SEC. The Act adds new
obligations and restrictions on directors and senior executives of public
companies, such as requiring certification of financial statements, and new
audit committee procedures. The Act represents significant federal
involvement in matters traditionally left to state regulatory systems such as
the regulation of the accounting profession, and to state corporate law such as
the relationship between a board of directors and management and between a board
of directors and its committees.
USA PATRIOT Act
of 2001. The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing
Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA
PATRIOT Act) was signed into law in October 2001. The USA PATRIOT Act
broadened the application of anti-money laundering regulations to apply to
additional types of financial institutions, such as broker-dealers, and
strengthened the ability of the U.S. government to detect and prosecute
international money laundering and the financing of terrorism. The
principal provisions of Title III of the USA PATRIOT Act require that regulated
financial institutions, including banks: (1) establish an anti-money laundering
program that includes training and audit components; (2) comply with regulations
regarding the verification of the identity of any person seeking to open an
account; (3) take additional required precautions with regard to non-U.S. owned
accounts; and (4) perform certain verification and certification of money
laundering risk for their foreign correspondent banking relationships. The USA
PATRIOT Act also expanded the conditions under which funds in a U.S. inter-bank
account may be subject to forfeiture and increased the penalties for violation
of anti-money laundering regulations. Failure of a financial
institution to comply with the USA PATRIOT Act’s requirements could have serious
legal and reputational consequences for the institution. The Bank has
adopted policies, procedures and controls to address compliance with the
requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act under the existing regulations and will
continue to revise and update its policies, procedures and controls to reflect
changes required by the USA PATRIOT Act and implementing
regulations.
As part
of the USA PATRIOT Act, Congress adopted the International Money Laundering
Abatement and Financial Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001 (IML Act). The IML
Act amended the Bank Secrecy Act and adopted certain additional measures that
increase the obligation of financial institutions, including the Bank, to
identify their customers, watch for and report upon suspicious transactions,
respond to requests for information by federal banking regulatory authorities
and law enforcement agencies, and share information with other financial
institutions. The Secretary of the Treasury has adopted several
regulations to implement these provisions. The Bank is also barred
from dealing with foreign “shell” banks. In addition, the IML Act
expands the circumstances under which funds in a bank account may be
forfeited. The IML Act also amended the Bank Holding Company Act and
the Bank Merger Act to require the federal banking regulatory authorities to
consider the effectiveness of a financial institution’s anti-money laundering
activities when reviewing an application to expand operations. The
Bank has in place a Bank Secrecy Act compliance program.
Gramm-Leach-Bliley
Act of 1999. This law authorized cross-industry affiliations
between banks, securities firms, insurance companies and other financial service
providers. This was landmark legislation that repealed the
Glass-Steagall Act which since the 1930’s had prohibited such
affiliations. Among other provisions, the Act provided new authority
for banks and created a revised framework for regulating affiliated financial
services institutions.
Regulation W.
Transactions between a bank and its “affiliates” are quantitatively
and qualitatively restricted under the Federal Reserve Act. The
Federal Deposit Insurance Act applies Sections 23A and 23B to insured
nonmember banks in the same manner and to the same extent as if they were
members of the Federal Reserve System. In 2002, the Federal Reserve
Board issued Regulation W, which became effective in
2003. Regulation W codifies prior regulations under Sections 23A
and 23B of the Federal Reserve Act and interpretative guidance with respect to
affiliate transactions.
Regulation W
incorporates the exemption from the affiliate transaction rules but expands the
exemption to cover the purchase of any type of loan or extension of credit from
an affiliate. Affiliates of a bank include, among other entities, the
Bank’s holding company and companies that are under common control with the
Bank. The Company is considered to be an affiliate of the
Bank.
Future
Federal and State Legislation and Rulemaking
From
time-to-time, various types of federal and state legislation have been proposed
that could result in additional regulations and restrictions on the business of
the Company and the Bank. We cannot predict whether legislation will
be adopted, or if adopted, how the new laws would affect our
business. As a consequence, we are susceptible to legislation that
may increase the cost of doing business. Management believes that the
effect of any current legislative proposals on the liquidity, capital resources
and the results of operations of the Company and the Bank will be
minimal.
It is
possible that there will be regulatory proposals which, if implemented, could
have a material effect upon our liquidity, capital resources and results of
operations. In addition, the general cost of compliance with numerous
federal and state laws does have, and in the future may have, a negative impact
on our results of operations. As with other banks, the status of the
financial services industry can affect the Bank. Consolidations of
institutions are expected to continue as the financial services industry seeks
greater efficiencies and market share. Bank management believes that
such consolidations may enhance the Bank’s competitive position as a community
bank.
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Future
Outlook
Based
upon the uncertain economic outlook that has affected the financial and capital
markets, the uncertainty in the housing and real estate arena, deterioration in
asset and collateral values, tightened credit, high rate of foreclosures, high
unemployment and the inability to predict when and by how much interest rates
will change and whether rates will continue to fall or begin to rise, the
Company recognizes that there are challenges ahead. The Company is
prepared to meet these challenges and feels future earnings will be
significantly impacted by its ability to react to changes in the interest
rates.
The
Company will continue to monitor interest rate sensitivity of its
interest-earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities to minimize any adverse
effects on future earnings. The Company’s commitment to remain a
community based organization is very strong. Our intention is to
cautiously grow while increasing our base of core deposits and maintain
risk-based regulatory capital ratios above “well capitalized”
limits. Review and implementation of policies and procedures along
with adding innovative products and services will continue. These
steps are designed to provide our customers with confidence that the Company is
doing everything possible to maximize their banking experience which in turn
will increase shareholder value.
The
information required by 7A is set forth at Item 7, under “Liquidity” and
“Management of interest rate risk and market risk analysis,” contained within
management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of
operations and incorporated herein by reference.
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Report
Of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Board of
Directors and Shareholders
Fidelity
D & D Bancorp, Inc.:
We have
audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Fidelity D & D
Bancorp, Inc. and Subsidiary as of December 31, 2009 and 2008 and the related
consolidated statements of income, changes in shareholders’ equity and cash
flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2009.
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management.
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based
on our audits.
We
conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company
Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan
and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial
statements are free of material misstatement. The Company is not required to
have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over
financial reporting. Our audit included consideration of internal control over
financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are
appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an
opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial
reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes
examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in
the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and
significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall
financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a
reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our
opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly,
in all material respects, the financial position of Fidelity D & D Bancorp,
Inc. and Subsidiary as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, and the results of their
operations and their cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period
ended December 31, 2009 in conformity with accounting principles generally
accepted in the United States of America.
/s/ ParenteBeard LLC
|
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ParenteBeard
LLC
|
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Wilkes-Barre,
Pennsylvania
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March
5, 2010
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47
FIDELITY
D & D BANCORP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARY
Consolidated
Balance Sheets
As of
December 31, 2009 and 2008
2009
|
2008
|
|||||||
Assets:
|
||||||||
Cash
and due from banks
|
$ | 8,173,199 | $ | 12,335,905 | ||||
Interest-bearing
deposits with financial institutions
|
154,755 | 435,242 | ||||||
Total
cash and cash equivalents
|
8,327,954 | 12,771,147 | ||||||
Available-for-sale
securities
|
75,821,292 | 83,278,132 | ||||||
Held-to-maturity
securities
|
708,706 | 909,447 | ||||||
Federal
Home Loan Bank stock
|
4,781,100 | 4,781,100 | ||||||
Loans
and leases, net (allowance for loan losses of
|
||||||||
$7,573,603
in 2009; $4,745,234 in 2008)
|
423,124,054 | 436,207,460 | ||||||
Loans
available-for-sale (fair value $1,233,345 in
|
||||||||
2009;
$85,312 in 2008)
|
1,221,365 | 84,000 | ||||||
Bank
premises and equipment, net
|
15,361,810 | 16,056,362 | ||||||
Cash
surrender value of bank owned life insurance
|
9,117,156 | 8,807,784 | ||||||
Other
assets
|
14,415,582 | 8,929,917 | ||||||
Accrued
interest receivable
|
2,250,855 | 2,443,141 | ||||||
Foreclosed
assets held-for-sale
|
887,397 | 1,450,507 | ||||||
Total
assets
|
$ | 556,017,271 | $ | 575,718,997 | ||||
Liabilities:
|
||||||||
Deposits:
|
||||||||
Interest-bearing
|
$ | 388,103,880 | $ | 361,869,281 | ||||
Non-interest-bearing
|
70,890,578 | 71,442,651 | ||||||
Total
deposits
|
458,994,458 | 433,311,932 | ||||||
Accrued
interest payable and other liabilities
|
2,815,159 | 3,316,710 | ||||||
Short-term
borrowings
|
16,533,107 | 38,129,704 | ||||||
Long-term
debt
|
32,000,000 | 52,000,000 | ||||||
Total
liabilities
|
510,342,724 | 526,758,346 | ||||||
Shareholders'
equity:
|
||||||||
Preferred
stock authorized 5,000,000 shares with no par
|
||||||||
value;
none issued
|
- | - | ||||||
Capital
stock, no par value (10,000,000 shares authorized;
|
||||||||
shares
issued and outstanding; 2,105,860 in 2009; and
|
||||||||
2,075,182
shares issued and 2,062,927 shares outstanding
|
||||||||
in
2008)
|
19,982,677 | 19,410,306 | ||||||
Treasury
stock, at cost (no shares in 2009; 12,255 shares in 2008)
|
- | (351,665 | ) | |||||
Retained
earnings
|
34,886,265 | 38,126,250 | ||||||
Accumulated
other comprehensive loss
|
(9,194,395 | ) | (8,224,240 | ) | ||||
Total
shareholders' equity
|
45,674,547 | 48,960,651 | ||||||
Total
liabilities and shareholders' equity
|
$ | 556,017,271 | $ | 575,718,997 |
See notes
to consolidated financial statements
48
FIDELITY
D & D BANCORP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARY
Consolidated
Statements of Income
For the
years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007
2009
|
2008
|
2007
|
||||||||||
Interest
income:
|
||||||||||||
Loans
and leases:
|
||||||||||||
Taxable
|
$ | 25,521,742 | $ | 27,194,191 | $ | 28,765,640 | ||||||
Nontaxable
|
447,802 | 370,097 | 469,389 | |||||||||
Interest-bearing
deposits with financial institutions
|
589 | 3,173 | 8,865 | |||||||||
Investment
securities:
|
||||||||||||
U.S.
government agency and corporations
|
2,387,192 | 4,408,437 | 4,264,152 | |||||||||
States
and political subdivisions (nontaxable)
|
1,072,027 | 648,000 | 498,335 | |||||||||
Other
securities
|
468,604 | 1,246,403 | 1,170,063 | |||||||||
Federal
funds sold
|
11,317 | 91,133 | 102,913 | |||||||||
Total
interest income
|
29,909,273 | 33,961,434 | 35,279,357 | |||||||||
Interest
expense:
|
||||||||||||
Deposits
|
7,895,576 | 11,118,194 | 13,369,992 | |||||||||
Securities
sold under repurchase agreements
|
27,959 | 102,577 | 465,391 | |||||||||
Other
short-term borrowings and other
|
34,602 | 276,407 | 504,972 | |||||||||
Long-term
debt
|
2,838,717 | 3,186,955 | 3,319,720 | |||||||||
Total
interest expense
|
10,796,854 | 14,684,133 | 17,660,075 | |||||||||
Net
interest income
|
19,112,419 | 19,277,301 | 17,619,282 | |||||||||
Provision
for loan losses
|
5,050,000 | 940,000 | (60,000 | ) | ||||||||
Net
interest income after provision for loan losses
|
14,062,419 | 18,337,301 | 17,679,282 | |||||||||
Other
income:
|
||||||||||||
Service
charges on deposit accounts
|
2,630,190 | 2,901,156 | 3,007,365 | |||||||||
Fees
and other service charges
|
1,940,912 | 1,818,901 | 1,797,253 | |||||||||
Gain
(loss) on sale or disposal of:
|
||||||||||||
Loans
|
1,059,876 | 260,940 | 159,441 | |||||||||
Investment
securities
|
10,695 | 25,428 | 79 | |||||||||
Premises
and equipment
|
(43,027 | ) | (35,658 | ) | 97,518 | |||||||
Foreclosed
assets held-for-sale
|
40,195 | 43,199 | 143,559 | |||||||||
Write-down
of foreclosed assets held-for-sale
|
(177,560 | ) | - | - | ||||||||
Impairment
losses on investment securities:
|
||||||||||||
Other-than-temporary
impairment on investment securities
|
(12,050,257 | ) | (435,665 | ) | - | |||||||
Non-credit
related losses on investment securities not expected
|
||||||||||||
to
be sold (recognized in other comprehensive income/(loss))
|
8,750,163 | - | - | |||||||||
Net
impairment losses on investment securities recognized in
earnings
|
(3,300,094 | ) | (435,665 | ) | - | |||||||
Total
other income
|
2,161,187 | 4,578,301 | 5,205,215 | |||||||||
Other
expenses:
|
||||||||||||
Salaries
and employee benefits
|
9,763,430 | 9,869,866 | 8,705,698 | |||||||||
Premises
and equipment
|
3,556,862 | 3,251,453 | 3,156,372 | |||||||||
Advertising
|
524,868 | 717,685 | 684,732 | |||||||||
Other
|
5,395,965 | 4,371,679 | 4,089,958 | |||||||||
Total
other expenses
|
19,241,125 | 18,210,683 | 16,636,760 | |||||||||
(Loss)
income before income taxes
|
(3,017,519 | ) | 4,704,919 | 6,247,737 | ||||||||
(Credit)
provision for income taxes
|
(1,617,314 | ) | 1,068,971 | 1,636,165 | ||||||||
Net
(loss) income
|
$ | (1,400,205 | ) | $ | 3,635,948 | $ | 4,611,572 | |||||
Per
share data:
|
||||||||||||
Net
(loss) income - basic
|
$ | (0.67 | ) | $ | 1.76 | $ | 2.23 | |||||
Net
(loss) income - diluted
|
$ | (0.67 | ) | $ | 1.76 | $ | 2.23 | |||||
Dividends
|
$ | 1.00 | $ | 1.00 | $ | 0.93 |
See notes
to consolidated financial statements
49
FIDELITY
D & D BANCORP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARY
Consolidated
Statements of Changes in Shareholders' Equity
For the
years ended December 30, 2009, 2008 and 2007
Accumulated
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
other
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Capital
stock
|
Treasury
stock
|
Retained
|
comprehensive
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shares
|
Amount
|
Shares
|
Amount
|
earnings
|
income
(loss)
|
Total
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
Balance,
December 31, 2006
|
2,057,433 | $ | 18,702,537 | - | $ | - | $ | 33,874,118 | $ | (964,792 | ) | $ | 51,611,863 | |||||||||||||||
Total
comprehensive income:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Net
income
|
4,611,572 | 4,611,572 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Change
in net unrealized holding losses
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
on
available-for-sale securities, net of
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
reclassification
adjustment and tax effects
|
(16,258 | ) | (16,258 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Change
in cash flow hedge intrinsic value
|
384,824 | 384,824 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comprehensive
income
|
4,980,138 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Issuance
of common stock through Employee Stock
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Purchase
Plan
|
2,266 | 67,820 | 67,820 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dividends
reinvested through Dividend
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Reinvestment
Plan
|
13,230 | 437,145 | 437,145 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stock-based
compensation expense
|
15,861 | 15,861 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cash
dividends declared
|
(1,921,533 | ) | (1,921,533 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Balance,
December 31, 2007
|
2,072,929 | $ | 19,223,363 | - | $ | - | $ | 36,564,157 | $ | (596,226 | ) | $ | 55,191,294 | |||||||||||||||
Total
comprehensive loss:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Net
income
|
3,635,948 | 3,635,948 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Change
in net unrealized holding losses
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
on
available-for-sale securities, net of
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
reclassification
adjustment and tax effects
|
(7,848,766 | ) | (7,848,766 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Change
in cash flow hedge intrinsic value
|
220,752 | 220,752 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comprehensive
loss
|
(3,992,066 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Issuance
of common stock through Employee
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stock
Purchase Plan
|
2,253 | 57,891 | 57,891 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dividends
reinvested through Dividend
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Reinvestment
Plan
|
2,745 | 78,770 | (5,175 | ) | 73,595 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Stock-based
compensation expense
|
129,052 | 129,052 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Purchase
of treasury stock
|
(15,000 | ) | (430,435 | ) | (430,435 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Cash
dividends declared
|
(2,068,680 | ) | (2,068,680 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Balance,
December 31, 2008
|
2,075,182 | $ | 19,410,306 | (12,255 | ) | $ | (351,665 | ) | $ | 38,126,250 | $ | (8,224,240 | ) | $ | 48,960,651 | |||||||||||||
Cumulative
effect of change in accounting principle
|
|
350,720 | (350,720 | ) | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Total
comprehensive loss:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Net
loss
|
(1,400,205 | ) | (1,400,205 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Change
in net unrealized holding losses
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
on
available-for-sale securities, net of
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
reclassification
adjustment and tax effects
|
5,762,165 | 5,762,165 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Non-credit
related impairment losses on
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
investment
securities not expected to
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
be
sold, net of tax effects
|
(5,775,107 | ) | (5,775,107 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Change
in cash flow hedge intrinsic value
|
(606,493 | ) | (606,493 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comprehensive
loss
|
(2,019,640 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Issuance
of common stock through Employee Stock
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Purchase
Plan
|
1,701 | 40,569 | 40,569 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Purchase
of treasury stock
|
(2,500 | ) | (56,505 | ) | (56,505 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dividends
reinvested through Dividend
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Reinvestment
Plan
|
28,977 | 527,294 | 14,755 | 408,170 | (112,329 | ) | 823,135 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Stock-based
compensation expense
|
4,508 | 4,508 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cash
dividends declared
|
(2,078,171 | ) | (2,078,171 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Balance,
December 30, 2009
|
2,105,860 | $ | 19,982,677 | - | $ | - | $ | 34,886,265 | $ | (9,194,395 | ) | $ | 45,674,547 |
See notes
to consolidated financial statements
50
FIDELITY
DEPOSIT & DISCOUNT BANCORP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARY
Consolidated
Statements of Cash Flows
For the
years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007
2009
|
2008
|
2007
|
||||||||||
Cash
flows from operating activities:
|
||||||||||||
Net
(loss) income
|
$ | (1,400,205 | ) | $ | 3,635,948 | $ | 4,611,572 | |||||
Adjustments
to reconcile net (loss) income to net cash provided by
|
||||||||||||
operating
activities:
|
||||||||||||
Depreciation,
amortization and accretion
|
1,603,459 | 611,429 | 1,130,274 | |||||||||
Provision
(credit) for loan losses
|
5,050,000 | 940,000 | (60,000 | ) | ||||||||
Deferred
income tax (benefit) expense
|
(1,776,033 | ) | (2,941 | ) | 78,838 | |||||||
Stock-based
compensation expense
|
4,508 | 129,052 | 15,861 | |||||||||
Loss
from investment in limited partnership
|
40,961 | 80,400 | 80,400 | |||||||||
Proceeds
from sale of loans available-for-sale
|
98,391,716 | 47,230,437 | 16,399,530 | |||||||||
Originations
of loans available-for-sale
|
(87,896,403 | ) | (14,754,219 | ) | (16,945,339 | ) | ||||||
Write-down
of foreclosed assets held-for-sale
|
177,560 | - | - | |||||||||
Increase
in cash surrender value of life insurance
|
(309,372 | ) | (319,121 | ) | (310,702 | ) | ||||||
Net
gain on sale of loans
|
(1,059,876 | ) | (260,940 | ) | (159,441 | ) | ||||||
Net
gain on sale of investment securities
|
(10,695 | ) | (25,428 | ) | (79 | ) | ||||||
Net
gain on sale of foreclosed assets held for sale
|
(40,195 | ) | (43,199 | ) | (143,559 | ) | ||||||
Loss
(gain) on disposal of equipment
|
43,027 | 35,658 | (97,518 | ) | ||||||||
Other-than-temporary
impairment on securities
|
3,300,094 | 435,665 | - | |||||||||
Change
in:
|
||||||||||||
Accrued
interest receivable
|
(26,435 | ) | 48,394 | 1,880 | ||||||||
Other
assets
|
(3,797,337 | ) | (1,122,487 | ) | (8,933 | ) | ||||||
Accrued
interest payable and other liabilities
|
(499,931 | ) | (829,539 | ) | (29,680 | ) | ||||||
Net
cash provided by operating activities
|
11,794,843 | 35,789,109 | 4,563,104 | |||||||||
Cash
flows from investing activities:
|
||||||||||||
Held-to-maturity
securities:
|
||||||||||||
Proceeds
from maturities, calls and principal pay-downs
|
200,697 | 237,303 | 421,096 | |||||||||
Available-for-sale
securities:
|
||||||||||||
Proceeds
from sale
|
5,075,325 | 48,402,457 | 3,818,914 | |||||||||
Proceeds
from maturities, calls and principal pay-downs
|
39,348,330 | 31,969,469 | 12,001,895 | |||||||||
Purchases
|
(39,614,223 | ) | (53,111,087 | ) | (38,399,150 | ) | ||||||
Net
(increase) decrease in FHLB stock
|
- | (1,478,200 | ) | 492,200 | ||||||||
Net
increase in loans and leases
|
(3,890,584 | ) | (48,759,407 | ) | (4,517,367 | ) | ||||||
Acquisition
of bank premises and equipment
|
(1,068,538 | ) | (3,950,934 | ) | (2,939,866 | ) | ||||||
Proceeds
from sale of bank premises and equipment
|
2,323 | 600 | 453,186 | |||||||||
Proceeds
from sale of foreclosed assets held-for-sale
|
893,677 | 262,406 | 584,088 | |||||||||
Net
cash provided by (used in) investing activities
|
947,007 | (26,427,393 | ) | (28,085,004 | ) | |||||||
Cash
flows from financing activities:
|
||||||||||||
Net
increase in deposits
|
25,682,526 | 7,603,571 | 15,373,765 | |||||||||
Net
(decrease) increase in short-term borrowings
|
(21,596,597 | ) | (1,526,650 | ) | 6,000,204 | |||||||
Proceeds
from issuance of long-term debt advances
|
- | - | 20,000,000 | |||||||||
Repayments
of long-term debt
|
(20,000,000 | ) | (10,708,677 | ) | (19,827,533 | ) | ||||||
Purchase
of treasury stock
|
(56,505 | ) | (430,435 | ) | - | |||||||
Proceeds
from employee stock purchase plan
|
40,569 | 57,891 | 67,820 | |||||||||
Dividends
paid, net of dividends reinvested
|
(1,255,036 | ) | (1,995,085 | ) | (1,484,388 | ) | ||||||
Net
cash (used in) provided by financing activities
|
(17,185,043 | ) | (6,999,385 | ) | 20,129,868 | |||||||
Net
(decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents
|
(4,443,193 | ) | 2,362,331 | (3,392,032 | ) | |||||||
Cash
and cash equivalents, beginning
|
12,771,147 | 10,408,816 | 13,800,848 | |||||||||
Cash
and cash equivalents, ending
|
$ | 8,327,954 | $ | 12,771,147 | $ | 10,408,816 |
See notes
to consolidated financial statements
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FIDELITY
D & D BANCORP, INC.
AND
SUBSIDIARY
NOTES
TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
1.
|
NATURE
OF OPERATIONS AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING
POLICIES
|
PRINCIPLES
OF CONSOLIDATION
The
accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Fidelity
D & D Bancorp, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary, The Fidelity Deposit
and Discount Bank (the Bank) (collectively, the Company). All significant
inter-company balances and transactions have been eliminated in
consolidation.
NATURE
OF OPERATIONS
The
Company provides a full range of basic financial services to individuals, small
businesses and corporate customers. Its primary market area is Lackawanna
and Luzerne Counties, Pennsylvania. The Company's primary deposit products are
demand deposits and interest-bearing time and savings accounts. It offers a full
array of loan products to meet the needs of retail and commercial customers. The
Company is subject to regulation by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(FDIC) and the Pennsylvania Department of Banking.
USE
OF ESTIMATES
The
preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles
generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make
estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and
liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of
the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses
during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those
estimates.
Material
estimates that are particularly susceptible to significant change relate to the
determination of the allowance for loan losses, the valuation of investment
securities, the determination of and the amount of impairment in the securities
portfolios and the related realization of the deferred tax assets on the
allowance for loan losses and valuations of investment securities.
In
connection with the determination of the allowance for loan losses, management
generally obtains independent appraisals for significant properties. While
management uses available information to recognize losses on loans, further
reductions in the carrying amounts of loans may be necessary based on changes in
economic conditions. In addition, regulatory agencies, as an integral part of
their examination process, periodically review the estimated losses on loans.
Such agencies may require the Company to recognize additional losses based on
their judgments about information available to them at the time of their
examination. Because of these factors, it is reasonably possible that the
estimated losses on loans may change materially in the near term. However, the
amount of the change that is reasonably possible cannot be
estimated.
The
Company’s investment securities are comprised of a variety of financial
instruments. The fair values of these securities are subject to various risks
including changes in the interest rate environment and general economic
conditions including illiquid conditions in the capital markets. Due to the
increased level of these risks and their potential impact on the fair values of
the securities, it is possible that the amounts reported in the accompanying
financial statements could materially change in the near term including changes
caused by other-than-temporary impairment, the recovery of which may not occur
until maturity. Credit-related impairment is included as a component of
non-interest income in the consolidated income statements while non-credit
related impairment is charged to other comprehensive income, net of
tax.
SIGNIFICANT
GROUP CONCENTRATION OF CREDIT RISK
The
Company originates commercial, consumer, and mortgage loans to customers
primarily located in Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties of Pennsylvania. Although
the Company has a diversified loan portfolio, a substantial portion of its
debtors’ ability to honor their contracts is dependent on the economic sector in
which the Company operates. The loan portfolio does not have any significant
concentrations from one industry or customer.
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HELD-TO-MATURITY
SECURITIES
Debt
securities, for which the Company has the positive intent and ability to hold to
maturity, are reported at cost. Premiums and discounts are amortized or
accreted, as a component of interest income over the life of the related
security as an adjustment to yield using the interest method.
TRADING
SECURITIES
Debt and
equity securities held principally for resale in the near-term, or trading
securities, are recorded at their fair values. Unrealized gains and losses are
included in other income. The Company did not have any investment securities
held for trading purposes during 2009, 2008 or 2007.
AVAILABLE-FOR-SALE
SECURITIES
Available-for-sale
(AFS) securities consist of debt and equity securities not classified as either
held-to-maturity securities or trading securities and are reported at fair
value. Premiums and discounts are amortized or accreted as a component of
interest income over the life of the related security as an adjustment to yield
using the interest method. Unrealized holding gains and losses, including
non-credit related other-than-temporary impairment (OTTI), on AFS securities are
reported as a separate component of shareholders’ equity, net of deferred income
taxes, until realized. The net unrealized holding gains and losses are a
component of accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income. Gains and losses
from sales of securities AFS are determined using the specific identification
method. Credit related OTTI is recorded as a reduction of the amortized cost of
the impaired security. Net gains and losses from sales of securities and credit
related OTTI are recorded as a component of other income in the consolidated
statements of income.
FEDERAL
HOME LOAN BANK STOCK
The
Company, is a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank system, and as such is
required to maintain an investment in capital stock of the Federal Home Loan
Bank of Pittsburgh (FHLB). The amount the Company is required to invest is
dependent upon the relative size of outstanding borrowings the Company has with
the FHLB. Based on redemption provisions of the FHLB, the stock has no quoted
market value and is carried at cost. In December 2008, in order to preserve
capital, the FHLB declared a suspension on the redemption of its stock and
ceased payment of quarterly dividends. Management reviews for impairment based
on the ultimate recoverability of the cost basis in the FHLB stock. Based on the
financial results of the FHLB for the year-ended December 31, 2009 and 2008,
management believes that the suspension of both the dividend payments and excess
capital stock redemptions is temporary in nature.
LOANS
Loans
that management has the intent and ability to hold for the foreseeable future or
until maturity or payoff are stated at face value, net of unamortized loan fees
and costs and the allowance for loan losses. Interest on residential real estate
loans is recorded on an amortized schedule. Commercial loan interest is accrued
on the principal balance on an actual day basis. Interest on consumer loans is
determined using the simple interest method.
Loans are
generally placed on non-accrual status when principal or interest is past due 90
days or more. When a loan is placed on non-accrual status, all interest
previously accrued but not collected is charged against current earnings. Any
payments received on non-accrual loans are applied, first to the outstanding
loan amounts, then to the recovery of any charged-off loan amounts. Any excess
is treated as a recovery of lost interest.
LOANS
AVAILABLE-FOR-SALE
Loans
originated and intended for sale in the secondary market are carried at the
lower of cost or estimated fair value in the aggregate. Net unrealized losses
are recognized through a valuation allowance by charges to income. Unrealized
gains are recognized but only to the extent of previous
write-downs.
ALLOWANCE
FOR LOAN LOSSES
The
allowance for loan losses is established through a provision for loan losses.
The allowance represents an amount which, in management’s judgment, will be
adequate to absorb losses on existing loans and leases that may become
uncollectible. Management’s judgment in determining the adequacy of the
allowance is based on evaluations of the collectability of the loans. These
evaluations take into consideration such factors as changes in the nature and
volume of the loan portfolio, current economic conditions that may affect the
borrower’s ability to pay, collateral value, overall portfolio quality and
review of specific loans for impairment. Management applies two primary
components during the loan review process to determine proper allowance levels;
a specific loan loss allocation for loans that are deemed impaired; and a
general loan loss allocation for those loans not specifically allocated based on
historical charge-off history and qualitative factor adjustments for trends or
changes in the loan portfolio. Delinquencies, changes in lending polices, local
economic conditions are some of the items used for the qualitative factor
adjustments. Loans considered uncollectible are charged against the allowance.
Recoveries on loans previously charged off are added to the
allowance.
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A loan is
considered impaired when, based on current information and events, it is
probable that the Company will be unable to collect the scheduled payments in
accordance with the contractual terms of the loan. Factors considered in
determining impairment include payment status, collateral value and the
probability of collecting payments when due. The significance of payment delays
and/or shortfalls is determined on a case by case basis. All circumstances
surrounding the loan are taken into account. Such factors include the length of
the delinquency, the underlying reasons and the borrower’s prior payment record.
Impairment is measured on these loans on a loan by loan basis.
LEASES
Financing
of equipment was provided to municipal customers under lease arrangements
accounted for as direct financing leases. Income earned is based on a constant
periodic return on the net investment in the lease.
TRANSFER
OF FINANCIAL ASSETS
Transfers
of financial assets are accounted for as sales, when control over the assets has
been surrendered. Control over transferred assets is deemed to be surrendered
when (1) the assets have been isolated from the Company—put presumptively beyond
the reach of the transferor and its creditors, even in bankruptcy or other
receivership, (2) the transferee obtains the right (free of conditions that
constrain it from taking advantage of that right) to pledge or exchange the
transferred assets, and (3) the Company does not maintain effective control over
the transferred assets through an agreement to repurchase them before their
maturity or the ability to unilaterally cause the holder to return specific
assets.
LOAN
FEES
Nonrefundable
loan origination fees and certain direct loan origination costs are recognized
as a component of interest income over the life of the related loans as an
adjustment to yield. The unamortized balance of these fees and costs are
included as part of the loan balance to which it relates.
BANK
PREMISES AND EQUIPMENT
Land is
carried at cost. Bank premises and equipment are stated at cost less accumulated
depreciation. Depreciation is computed on the straight-line method over the
estimated useful lives of the assets. Leasehold improvements are amortized over
the shorter of the term of the lease or the estimated useful lives of the
improved property.
BANK
OWNED LIFE INSURANCE
The
Company is the owner and sole beneficiary of bank owned life insurance (BOLI)
policies on certain employees. The earnings from the BOLI are recognized as a
component of other income in the consolidated statements of income. The BOLI is
an asset that can be liquidated, if necessary, with tax cost consequences.
However, the Company intends to hold these policies and, accordingly, the
Company has not provided for deferred income taxes on the earnings from the
increase in the cash surrender value.
FORECLOSED
ASSETS HELD-FOR-SALE
Foreclosed
assets held-for-sale are carried at the lower of cost or fair value less cost to
sell. Losses from the acquisition of property in full and partial satisfaction
of debt are treated as credit losses. Routine holding costs are included in
other operating expenses. Write-downs for subsequent declines in value are
recorded in other income as a component of gain or loss on sale of foreclosed
assets held-for-sale. Gains or losses are recorded when the properties are
sold.
STOCK
OPTIONS
The
Company has two stock-based compensation plans, which are described more fully
in Note 9, “Stock Plans”. The Company accounts for these plans under the
recognition and measurement accounting principles, which requires the cost of
share-based payment transactions be recognized in the financial statements. The
stock compensation accounting guidance requires that compensation cost for all
stock awards be calculated and recognized over the employees’ service period,
generally defined as the vesting period. Compensation cost is recognized on a
straight-line basis over the requisite service period for the entire award. The
Company uses the Black-Sholes model to estimate the fair value of stock
options.
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TRUST
AND FINANCIAL SERVICE FEES
Trust and
financial service fees are recorded on the cash basis, which is not materially
different from the accrual basis.
ADVERTISING
COSTS
Advertising
costs are charged to expense as incurred.
FAIR
VALUE OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
The
carrying value of short-term financial instruments, as listed below,
approximates their fair value. These instruments generally have limited credit
exposure, no stated or short-term maturities and carry interest rates that
approximate market:
|
·
|
Cash
and cash equivalents;
|
|
·
|
Non-interest
bearing deposit accounts;
|
|
·
|
Savings,
NOW and money market accounts;
|
|
·
|
Short-term
borrowings and
|
|
·
|
Accrued
interest
|
Securities: With the exception
of pooled trust preferred securities, fair values on the other investment
securities are determined by prices provided by a third-party vendor, who is a
provider of financial market data, analytics and related services to financial
institutions. The fair values of pooled trust preferred securities is determined
based on a present value technique (income valuation) as described in Note 3,
“Investment Securities”.
Loans and leases: The fair
value of loans and leases are estimated by the net present value of the future
expected cash flows discounted at the current offering rates.
Loans available-for-sale: For
loans available-for-sale, the fair value is estimated using rates currently
offered for similar loans and is typically obtained from the Federal National
Mortgage Association (FNMA) or the Federal Home Loan of Pittsburgh
(FHLB).
Certificates of deposit: The
fair values of certificate of deposit accounts are based on discounted cash
flows using rates which approximate the rates we offer for deposits of similar
maturities.
Long-term debt: Fair value is
estimated using the rates currently offered for similar borrowings.
Cash flow hedge: The carrying
amount of interest rate contracts are based on pricing provided by a third party
who considers observable interest rates, forward yield curves at commonly quoted
intervals and volatility.
INCOME
TAXES
Deferred
tax assets and liabilities are reflected at currently enacted income tax rates
applicable to the period in which the deferred tax assets or liabilities are
expected to be realized or settled. As changes in tax laws or rates are enacted,
deferred tax assets and liabilities are adjusted through the provision for
income taxes.
DERIVATIVE
INSTRUMENTS
As part
of its asset/liability management program, from time-to-time the Company will
utilize interest rate floors, caps or swaps to reduce its sensitivity to
interest rate fluctuations. These are derivative instruments which are recorded
as assets or liabilities in the consolidated balance sheets at fair value.
Changes in the fair values of derivatives are reported in the consolidated
income statements or other comprehensive income (OCI) depending on the use of
the derivative and whether the instrument qualifies for hedge accounting. The
key criterion for hedge accounting is that the hedged relationship must be
highly effective in achieving offsetting changes in those cash flows that are
attributable to the hedged risk, both at inception of the hedge and on an
ongoing basis.
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Derivatives
that qualify for hedge accounting treatment are designated as either: a hedge of
the fair value of a recognized asset or liability or of an unrecognized firm
commitment (a fair value hedge) or a hedge of a forecasted transaction or the
variability of cash flows to be received or paid related to a recognized asset
or liability (a cash flow hedge). To date, the Company has only entered into a
cash flow hedge. For cash flow hedges, changes in the fair values of the
derivative instruments are reported in OCI to the extent the hedge is effective.
The gains and losses on derivative instruments that are reported in OCI are
reflected in the consolidated income statements in the periods in which the
results of operations are impacted by the variability of the cash flows of the
hedged item. Generally, net interest income is increased or decreased by amounts
receivable or payable with respect to the derivatives which qualify for hedge
accounting. At inception of the hedge, the Company establishes the method it
uses for assessing the effectiveness of the hedging derivative and the
measurement approach for determining the ineffective aspect of the hedge. The
ineffective portion of the hedge, if any, is recognized currently in the
consolidated statements of income. The Company excludes the time value
expiration of the hedge when measuring ineffectiveness.
CASH
FLOWS
For
purposes of reporting cash flows, cash and cash equivalents includes cash on
hand, amounts due from banks and interest-bearing deposits with financial
institutions.
For the
years ended December 31, 2009, 2008, and 2007, the Company paid interest of
$11,522,000, $15,030,000 and $18,306,000, respectively. For the years ended
December 31, 2009, 2008, and 2007, the Company paid income taxes of $675,000,
$1,250,000 and $1,500,000, respectively.
Transfers
from loans to foreclosed assets held-for-sale amounted to $470,000, $1,564,000
and $352,000 in 2009, 2008, and 2007, respectively. Transfers from loans to
loans available-for-sale amounted to $11,454,000 and $31,472,000 in 2009 and
2008, respectively. There were no transfers from loans to loans
available-for-sale in 2007. Expenditures for construction in process, a
component of other assets in the consolidated balance sheets, are included in
acquisition of premises and equipment.
OTHER
COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)
The
components of other comprehensive income (loss) and related tax effects are as
follows:
2009
|
2008
|
2007
|
||||||||||
Unrealized
holding gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities
|
$ | 8,741,249 | $ | (11,866,642 | ) | $ | (24,554 | ) | ||||
Loan
reclassification adjustment for gains realized in income
|
(10,695 | ) | (25,428 | ) | (79 | ) | ||||||
Non-credit
related impairment losses on investment securities
|
(8,750,163 | ) | - | - | ||||||||
Net
unrealized losses
|
(19,609 | ) | (11,892,070 | ) | (24,633 | ) | ||||||
Tax
effect
|
6,667 | 4,043,304 | 8,375 | |||||||||
Net
of tax amount
|
(12,942 | ) | (7,848,766 | ) | (16,258 | ) | ||||||
Change
in cash flow hedge intrinsic value
|
(606,493 | ) | 220,752 | 384,824 | ||||||||
Total
|
$ | (619,435 | ) | $ | (7,628,014 | ) | $ | 368,566 |
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The
components of accumulated other comprehensive loss consisted of:
2009
|
2008
|
2007
|
||||||||||
Unrealized
holding losses on available-for-sale securities
|
$ | (3,068,568 | ) | $ | (8,830,733 | ) | $ | (981,967 | ) | |||
Non-credit
related impairment losses on investment securities
|
(6,125,827 | ) | - | - | ||||||||
Cash
flow hedge intrinsic value
|
- | 606,493 | 385,741 | |||||||||
Accumulated
other comprehensive loss
|
$ | (9,194,395 | ) | $ | (8,224,240 | ) | $ | (596,226 | ) |
2.
|
CASH
|
The
Company is required by the Federal Reserve Bank to maintain average reserve
balances based on a percentage of deposits. The amounts of those
reserve requirements on December 31, 2009 and 2008 were $600,000
and $594,000, respectively.
Deposits
with any one financial institution are insured up to $250,000. From
time-to-time, the Company may maintain cash and cash equivalents with certain
other financial institutions in excess of the insured amount.
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3.
|
INVESTMENT
SECURITIES
|
Amortized
cost and fair value of investment securities at December 31, 2009 and 2008 are
as follows (dollars in thousands):
2009
|
||||||||||||||||
Gross
|
Gross
|
|||||||||||||||
Amortized
|
unrealized
|
unrealized
|
Fair
|
|||||||||||||
cost
|
gains
|
losses
|
value
|
|||||||||||||
Held-to-maturity
securities:
|
||||||||||||||||
MBS
- GSE residential
|
$ | 709 | $ | 56 | $ | - | $ | 765 | ||||||||
Available-for-sale
securities:
|
||||||||||||||||
Agency
- GSE
|
$ | 34,205 | $ | 4 | $ | 1,077 | $ | 33,132 | ||||||||
Obligations
of states and
|
||||||||||||||||
political
subdivisions
|
23,013 | 394 | 137 | 23,270 | ||||||||||||
Corporate
bonds:
|
||||||||||||||||
Pooled
trust preferred securities
|
18,794 | - | 13,552 | 5,242 | ||||||||||||
MBS
- GSE residential
|
13,418 | 401 | 71 | 13,748 | ||||||||||||
Total
debt securities
|
89,430 | 799 | 14,837 | 75,392 | ||||||||||||
Equity
securities - financial services
|
322 | 121 | 14 | 429 | ||||||||||||
Total
available-for-sale securities
|
$ | 89,752 | $ | 920 | $ | 14,851 | $ | 75,821 |
2008
|
||||||||||||||||
Gross
|
Gross
|
|||||||||||||||
Amortized
|
unrealized
|
unrealized
|
Fair
|
|||||||||||||
cost
|
gains
|
losses
|
value
|
|||||||||||||
Held-to-maturity
securities:
|
||||||||||||||||
MBS
- GSE residential
|
$ | 909 | $ | 31 | $ | - | $ | 940 | ||||||||
Available-for-sale
securities:
|
||||||||||||||||
Agency
- GSE
|
$ | 45,824 | $ | 134 | $ | 2,451 | $ | 43,507 | ||||||||
Obligations
of states and
|
||||||||||||||||
political
subdivisions
|
18,009 | 97 | 553 | 17,553 | ||||||||||||
Corporate
bonds:
|
||||||||||||||||
Pooled
trust preferred securities
|
21,415 | - | 11,155 | 10,260 | ||||||||||||
MBS
- GSE residential
|
11,088 | 442 | - | 11,530 | ||||||||||||
Total
debt securities
|
96,336 | 673 | 14,159 | 82,850 | ||||||||||||
Equity
securities - financial services
|
322 | 122 | 16 | 428 | ||||||||||||
Total
available-for-sale
|
$ | 96,658 | $ | 795 | $ | 14,175 | $ | 83,278 |
Most of
the Company’s debt securities are pledged to secure trust funds, public
deposits, repurchase agreements, other short-term borrowings, Federal Reserve
Bank of Philadelphia Discount Window borrowings and certain other deposits as
required by law. Agency – GSE securities pledged on repurchase
agreements are under the Company’s control.
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The
amortized cost and fair value of debt securities at December 31, 2009 by
contractual maturity are shown below (dollars in thousands):
Amortized
|
Fair
|
|||||||
cost
|
value
|
|||||||
Held-to-maturity
securities:
|
||||||||
MBS
- GSE residential
|
$ | 709 | $ | 765 | ||||
Available-for-sale
securities:
|
||||||||
Debt
securities:
|
||||||||
Due
in one year or less
|
$ | - | $ | - | ||||
Due
after one year through five years
|
- | - | ||||||
Due
after five years through ten years
|
7,590 | 7,532 | ||||||
Due
after ten years
|
68,422 | 54,112 | ||||||
Total
debt securities
|
76,012 | 61,644 | ||||||
MBS
- GSE residential
|
13,418 | 13,748 | ||||||
Total
available-for-sale debt securities
|
$ | 89,430 | $ | 75,392 |
Expected
maturities will differ from contractual maturities because issuers and borrowers
may have the right to call or repay obligations with or without call or
prepayment penalty. Agency – GSE and municipal securities are
included based on their original stated maturity. MBS – GSE
residential, which are based on weighted-average lives and subject to monthly
principal pay-downs, are listed in total.
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The
following table presents the fair value and gross unrealized losses of
investments aggregated by investment type, the length of time and the number of
securities that have been in a continuous unrealized loss position at December
31, 2009 and 2008 (dollars in thousands):
Less
than 12 months
|
More
than 12 months
|
Total
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
Fair
|
Unrealized
|
Fair
|
Unrealized
|
Fair
|
Unrealized
|
|||||||||||||||||||
value
|
losses
|
value
|
losses
|
value
|
losses
|
|||||||||||||||||||
December
31, 2009:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Agency
- GSE
|
$ | 21,090 | $ | 291 | $ | 5,038 | $ | 786 | $ | 26,128 | $ | 1,077 | ||||||||||||
Obligations
of states and political subdivisions
|
3,534 | 115 | 2,600 | 22 | 6,134 | 137 | ||||||||||||||||||
Corporate
bonds:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pooled
trust preferred securities
|
- | - | 5,242 | 13,552 | 5,242 | 13,552 | ||||||||||||||||||
MBS
– GSE residential
|
5,055 | 71 | - | - | 5,055 | 71 | ||||||||||||||||||
Subtotal,
debt securities
|
29,679 | 477 | 12,880 | 14,360 | 42,559 | 14,837 | ||||||||||||||||||
Equity
securities - financial services
|
114 | 10 | 46 | 4 | 160 | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
Total
temporarily impaired securities
|
$ | 29,793 | $ | 487 | $ | 12,926 | $ | 14,364 | $ | 42,719 | $ | 14,851 | ||||||||||||
Number
of securities
|
23 | 17 | 40 | |||||||||||||||||||||
December
31, 2008:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Agency
- GSE
|
$ | 12,506 | $ | 1,878 | $ | 5,145 | $ | 573 | $ | 17,651 | $ | 2,451 | ||||||||||||
Obligations
of states and political subdivisions
|
8,154 | 496 | 1,455 | 57 | 9,609 | 553 | ||||||||||||||||||
Corporate
bonds:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pooled
trust preferred securities
|
2,235 | 2,352 | 8,025 | 8,803 | 10,260 | 11,155 | ||||||||||||||||||
MBS
- GSE residential
|
17 | - | - | - | 17 | - | ||||||||||||||||||
Subtotal,
debt securities
|
22,912 | 4,726 | 14,625 | 9,433 | 37,537 | 14,159 | ||||||||||||||||||
Equity
securities - financial services
|
- | - | 60 | 16 | 60 | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
Total
securities Total temporarily impaired securities
|
$ | 22,912 | $ | 4,726 | $ | 14,685 | $ | 9,449 | $ | 37,597 | $ | 14,175 | ||||||||||||
Number
of securities
|
20 | 22 | 42 |
As of
December 31, 2009 the debt securities with unrealized losses have depreciated
25.9% compared to 27.4% at December 31, 2008. Management
believes that the cause of the unrealized losses is related to changes in
interest rates, instability in the capital markets or the limited trading
activity due to illiquid debt market conditions and is not directly related to
credit quality, which is consistent with its past experience. Nearly all of the securities in the
portfolio have fixed rates or have predetermined scheduled rate changes, and
many have call features that allow the issuer to call the security at par before
its stated maturity without penalty.
Management
conducts a formal review of investment securities on a quarterly basis for the
presence of other-than-temporary-impairment (OTTI). The accounting
guidance related to OTTI, adopted in 2009, requires the Company to assess
whether OTTI is present when the fair value of a debt security is less than its
amortized cost at the balance sheet date. Under these circumstances,
OTTI is considered to have occurred if: (1) the entity has intent to sell
the security; (2) more likely than not the entity will be required to sell
the security before recovery of its amortized cost basis; or (3) the
present value of expected cash flows is not sufficient to recover the entire
amortized cost.
The newly
adopted guidance requires that credit-related OTTI be recognized in earnings
while non-credit related OTTI on securities not expected to be sold be
recognized in other comprehensive income (OCI). Non-credit related
OTTI is based on other factors effecting market conditions, including
illiquidity. Presentation of OTTI is made in the consolidated
statements of income on a gross basis with an offset for the amount of
non-credit related OTTI recognized in OCI. Non-credit related OTTI
recognized in earnings prior to April 1, 2009 has been reclassified from
retained earnings to accumulated OCI as a cumulative effect
adjustment.
The
Company’s OTTI evaluation process also follows the guidance set forth in topics
related to debt and equity securities. The guidance set forth in
these pronouncements require the Company to take into consideration current
market conditions, fair value in relationship to cost, extent and nature of
changes in fair value, issuer rating changes and trends, volatility of earnings,
current analysts’ evaluations, all available information relevant to the
collectability of debt securities, the ability and intent to hold investments
until a recovery of fair value, which may be maturity, and other factors when
evaluating for the existence of OTTI. This guidance also eliminates
the requirement that a holder’s best estimate of cash flows is based upon those
that a market participant would use. Instead, the guidance requires
that OTTI be recognized as a realized loss through earnings when there has been
an adverse change in the holder’s expected cash flows such that the full amount
(principal and interest) will probably not be received. This
requirement is consistent with the impairment model in the guidance for
accounting for debt and equity securities.
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For all
security types discussed below where no OTTI is considered necessary at December
31, 2009, the Company applied the criteria provided in the recognition and
presentation of OTTI guidance. That is, management has no intent to
sell the securities and no conditions were identified by management that more
likely than not would require the Company to sell the securities before recovery
of their amortized cost basis.
Agency - GSE and MBS - GSE
residential
Agency –
GSE and MBS – GSE residential securities consist of medium and long-term notes
issued by Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC), Federal
National Mortgage Association (FNMA), Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) and
Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA). These securities
have interest rates that are largely fixed-rate issues, have varying mid- to
long-term maturity dates and have contractual cash flows guaranteed by the U.S.
government or agencies of the U.S. government. In the latter half of
2008, the U.S. Government provided substantial liquidity to FNMA and FHLMC to
bolster their creditworthiness.
Obligations of states and
political subdivisions
The
municipal securities are bank qualified, general obligation bonds rated as
investment grade by various credit rating agencies and have fixed rates of
interest with mid- to long-term maturities. Fair values of these
securities are highly driven by interest rates. Management performs
ongoing credit quality reviews on these issues.
In all of
the above security types, the decline in fair value is attributable to changes
in interest rates and not credit quality. As such, no OTTI is
considered necessary for these securities as of December 31, 2009.
Pooled trust preferred
securities
A Pooled
Trust Preferred Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO) is a type of investment
security collateralized by trust preferred securities (TPS) issued by banks,
insurance companies and real estate investment trusts (REITs). The
primary collateral type is a TPS issued by a bank. A TPS is a
hybrid security with both debt and equity characteristics such as the ability to
voluntarily defer interest payments for up to 20 consecutive
quarters. A TPS is considered a junior security in the capital
structure of the issuer.
There are
various tranches or investment classes issued by
the CDO with the most senior tranche having the lowest yield but
the most protection from credit losses compared to other tranches
that are subordinate. Losses are generally allocated from the lowest
tranche with the equity component holding the most risk and then subordinate
tranches in reverse order up to the senior tranche. The allocation of
losses is defined in the indenture when the CDO was formed.
Unrealized
losses in the pooled trust preferred securities (PreTSLs) were caused mainly by
the following factors: (1) collateral deterioration due to bank failures
and credit concerns across the banking sector; (2) widening of credit
spreads and (3) illiquidity in the market. The Company’s review
of these securities, in accordance with the previous discussion, determined that
in 2009 credit-related OTTI be recorded on five holdings of these securities all
of which are in the AFS securities portfolio.
The
following table summarizes the amount of credit-related OTTI recognized in
earnings under the new guidance for 2009 and the amount of credit- and
non-credit related OTTI recognized in earnings under the former guidance for
2008 by security during the periods indicated (dollars in
thousands):
Twelve
months ended
|
||||||||
December 31,
|
||||||||
2009
|
2008
|
|||||||
Pooled
trust preferred securities:
|
||||||||
PreTSL
VII, Mezzanine
|
$ | 674 | $ | 430 | ||||
PreTSL
IX, B1, B3
|
690 | - | ||||||
PreTSL
XV, B1
|
154 | - | ||||||
PreTSL
XVI, C
|
1,275 | - | ||||||
PreTSL
XXV, C1
|
507 | - | ||||||
Equity
securities
|
- | 6 | ||||||
Total
|
$ | 3,300 | $ | 436 |
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The
following table is a tabular roll-forward of the amount of credit-related OTTI
recognized in earnings (dollars in thousands):
Twelve
months ended
|
||||||||||||
December 31, 2009
|
||||||||||||
HTM
|
AFS
|
Total
|
||||||||||
Beginning
balance of credit-related OTTI
|
$ | - | $ | (429 | ) | $ | (429 | ) | ||||
Reduction
- cumulative effect of accounting change
|
- | 531 | 531 | |||||||||
Additions
for credit-related OTTI
|
||||||||||||
not
previously recognized
|
- | (2,626 | ) | (2,626 | ) | |||||||
Additional
credit-related OTTI
|
||||||||||||
previously
recognized when there
|
||||||||||||
is
no intent to sell before recovery
|
||||||||||||
of
amortized cost basis
|
- | (674 | ) | (674 | ) | |||||||
Ending
balance of credit-related OTTI
|
$ | - | $ | (3,198 | ) | $ | (3,198 | ) |
To
determine the ending balance of credit-related OTTI, the Company used discounted
present value cash flow analysis and compared the results with the bond’s face
value. The analysis considered the following assumptions: the
discount rate which equated to the discount margin for each tranche (credit
spread) at the time of purchase which was then added to the appropriate
three-month libor forward rate obtained from the forward libor curve; historical
average default rates obtained from the FDIC for U.S. Banks and Thrifts for the
period spanning 1988 to 1991 increased by a factor of three and rolled forward
to project a rate of default of approximately one-third; the default rate was
reduced by the actual deferrals / defaults experienced in all preferred term
securities for the full year 2008 and the first nine months of 2009; the
remaining 10% estimated default rate was then stratified with higher default
rates occurring in the beginning regressing to normal in 2011 with an estimated
15% recovery by way of a two year lag; and no prepayments with receipt of
principal at maturity. The present value of PreTSL VII as modeled
resulted in cash flow of $777,000 as of April 1, 2009, or approximately $224,000
below the bond’s face value of $1,001,000. Upon adoption, the
recognition and presentation of OTTI guidance in the second quarter of 2009, and
as a result of the credit-related OTTI determination, the $531,000 non-credit
related portion of OTTI that existed prior to April 1, 2009, or $351,000 after
tax, was reclassified from retained earnings to OCI as a cumulative effect
adjustment.
Two of
the Company’s initial mezzanine holdings (PreTSLs IV and V) are now senior
tranches and the remaining holdings are mezzanine tranches. As of
December 31, 2009, none of the pooled trust preferred securities were investment
grade. At the time of initial issue, the subordination in the
Company’s tranches ranged in size from approximately 8.0% to 25.2% of the total
principal amount of the respective securities and no more than 5% of any pooled
trust preferred security consisted of a security issued by any one bank and 4%
for insurance companies. As of December 31, 2009, management
estimates the subordination in the Company’s tranches ranging from 0% to 19.0%
of the current performing collateral. During the fourth quarter of
2009, PreTSLs VII, XV, XVI and XXV with a combined book value of $3.6 million
and corresponding fair value of $0.6 million were placed on non-accrual
status. Each of these securities have impairment of principal and
interest was “paid-in-kind”. Each of the other issues will be
evaluated quarterly for the presence of these two conditions and placed on
non-accrual status if necessary.
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The
following table provides additional information with respect to the Company’s
pooled trust preferred securities as of December 31, 2009:
|
Current
|
Actual
|
Excess
|
Effective
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
number
|
deferrals
|
subordination (2)
|
subordination (3)
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
of
|
Actual
|
and
defaults
|
as a
% of
|
as a
% of
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Moody's
/
|
banks
/
|
deferrals
|
as a
% of
|
Excess
|
current
|
current
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Book
|
Fair
|
Unrealized
|
Fitch
|
insurance
|
and
defaults
|
current
|
subordination
|
performing
|
performing
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deal
|
Class
|
value
|
value
|
loss
|
ratings (1)
|
companies
|
$(000)
|
collateral
|
$(000)
|
collateral
|
collateral
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pre
TSL IV
|
Mezzanine
|
$ | 609,971 | $ | 440,643 | $ | (169,328 | ) |
Ca
/ CCC
|
6 / - | 18,000 | 27.1 | 9,760 | 19.0 | 33.1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pre
TSL V
|
Mezzanine
|
276,694 | 167,566 | (109,128 | ) |
Ba3
/ C
|
4 / - | 18,950 | 43.1 |
None
|
N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pre
TSL VII
|
Mezzanine
|
431,869 | 219,403 | (212,466 | ) |
Ca
/ C
|
19 / - | 142,000 | 62.6 |
None
|
N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pre
TSL IX
|
B-1,B-3
|
2,810,338 | 1,101,100 | (1,709,238 | ) |
Ca
/ C
|
49 / - | 126,510 | 28.1 |
None
|
N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pre
TSL XI
|
B-3
|
2,391,182 | 965,000 | (1,426,182 | ) |
Ca
/ C
|
65 / - | 114,250 | 19.0 |
None
|
N/A | 9.4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pre
TSL XV
|
B-1
|
1,359,562 | 296,737 | (1,062,825 | ) |
Ca
/ C
|
63 / 9 | 141,050 | 23.6 |
None
|
N/A | 1.6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pre
TSL XVI
|
C
|
1,289,741 | 65,122 | (1,224,619 | ) |
Ca
/ C
|
49 / 7 | 182,270 | 31.7 |
None
|
N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pre
TSL XVII
|
C
|
1,001,574 | 91,012 | (910,562 | ) |
Ca
/ C
|
50 / 7 | 95,840 | 19.9 |
None
|
N/A | 7.7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pre
TSL XVIII
|
C
|
1,003,885 | 123,578 | (880,307 | ) |
Ca
/ C
|
66 / 14 | 134,640 | 19.9 |
None
|
N/A | 7.6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pre
TSL XIX
|
C
|
2,537,026 | 477,461 | (2,059,565 | ) |
Ca
/ C
|
60 / 14 | 115,000 | 16.4 |
None
|
N/A | 11.6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pre
TSL XXIV
|
B-1
|
2,198,696 | 499,473 | (1,699,223 | ) |
Caa3
/ CC
|
80 / 13 | 309,300 | 29.4 |
None
|
N/A | 15.7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pre
TSL XXV
|
C-1
|
506,673 | 2,128 | (504,545 | ) |
Ca
/ C
|
64 / 9 | 271,600 | 31.0 |
None
|
N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pre
TSL XXVII
|
B
|
2,376,455 | 792,621 | (1,583,834 | ) |
Caa3
/ B
|
42 / 7 | 69,300 | 21.0 | 10,833 | 4.2 | 25.4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
$ | 18,793,666 | $ | 5,241,844 | $ | (13,551,822 | ) |
(1) All
ratings have been updated through February 12, 2010.
(2) Excess
subordination represents the excess (if any) of the amount of performing
collateral over the given class of bonds.
(3) Effective
subordination represents the estimated percentage of the performing collateral
that would need to defer or default at the next payment in order to
trigger a loss of principal or interest. This differs from excess
subordination in that it considers the effect of excess interest earned on the
performing collateral.
For a
further discussion on the fair value of the Company’s financial instruments, see
Note 12, “Fair Value of Financial Instruments and Derivatives”.
Gross
realized gains and losses on sales of available-for-sale securities, determined
using specific identification of the securities were as follows:
2009
|
2008
|
2007
|
||||||||||
Gross
realized gain
|
$ | 84,989 | $ | 113,070 | $ | 18,853 | ||||||
Gross
realized loss
|
74,294 | 87,642 | 18,774 | |||||||||
Net
gain
|
$ | 10,695 | $ | 25,428 | $ | 79 |
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4.
|
LOANS
AND LEASES
|
The
classifications of loans and leases at December 31, 2009 and 2008 are summarized
as follows:
2009
|
2008
|
|||||||
Real
estate:
|
||||||||
Commercial
|
$ | 186,726,196 | $ | 164,772,236 | ||||
Residential
|
71,001,298 | 98,510,562 | ||||||
Construction
|
10,125,354 | 11,426,978 | ||||||
Commercial
and industrial
|
76,787,809 | 80,707,756 | ||||||
Consumer
|
85,689,831 | 85,091,205 | ||||||
Direct
financing leases
|
367,169 | 443,957 | ||||||
Total
|
430,697,657 | 440,952,694 | ||||||
Less:
|
||||||||
Allowance
for loan losses
|
7,573,603 | 4,745,234 | ||||||
Loans
and leases, net
|
$ | 423,124,054 | $ | 436,207,460 |
Net
deferred loan costs of $495,000 and $629,000 have been added to the carrying
values of loans at December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
The
Company services real estate loans for investors in the secondary mortgage
market which are not included in the accompanying consolidated balance
sheets. The approximate amount of mortgages serviced amounted to
$157,516,000 as of December 31, 2009 and $95,856,000 as of December
31, 2008.
Information
related to impaired and past due loans as of December 31 is as
follows:
2009
|
2008
|
|||||||
At
December 31:
|
||||||||
Non-accrual
loans
|
$ | 12,329,337 | $ | 3,493,169 | ||||
Other
impaired loans
|
20,312 | 186,774 | ||||||
Total
impaired loans
|
$ | 12,349,649 | $ | 3,679,943 | ||||
Amount
of impaired loans that have a specific allowance
|
$ | 5,635,548 | $ | 2,571,851 | ||||
Amount
of impaired loans with no specific allowance
|
6,714,101 | 1,108,092 | ||||||
Allowance
for impaired loans
|
793,267 | 630,093 | ||||||
Accruing
loans that are contractually past due as to principal or
interest:
|
||||||||
Past
due 90 days or more
|
554,806 | 604,140 | ||||||
Past
due 30-89 days
|
5,173,394 | 1,858,481 | ||||||
During
the year ended December 31:
|
||||||||
Average
investment in impaired loans
|
7,951,402 | 4,372,742 | ||||||
Interest
income recognized on impaired loans
|
41,645 | 327,063 | ||||||
Interest
income recognized on impaired loans (cash basis)
|
31,495 | 310,899 |
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Information
related to the changes in the allowance for loan losses as of December 31 is as
follows:
2009
|
2008
|
2007
|
||||||||||
Balance,
beginning
|
$ | 4,745,234 | $ | 4,824,401 | $ | 5,444,303 | ||||||
Recoveries
|
47,495 | 109,703 | 161,861 | |||||||||
Provision
(credit) for loan losses
|
5,050,000 | 940,000 | (60,000 | ) | ||||||||
Losses
charged to allowance
|
(2,269,126 | ) | (1,128,870 | ) | (721,763 | ) | ||||||
Balance,
ending
|
$ | 7,573,603 | $ | 4,745,234 | $ | 4,824,401 |
5.
|
BANK
PREMISES AND EQUIPMENT
|
Components
of bank premises and equipment at December 31, 2009 and 2008 are summarized as
follows:
2009
|
2008
|
|||||||
Land
|
$ | 2,072,048 | $ | 2,072,048 | ||||
Bank
premises
|
9,686,913 | 9,683,614 | ||||||
Furniture,
fixtures and equipment
|
10,228,790 | 10,096,550 | ||||||
Leasehold
improvements
|
4,836,002 | 4,820,202 | ||||||
Total
|
26,823,753 | 26,672,414 | ||||||
Less
accumulated depreciation and amortization
|
11,461,943 | 10,616,052 | ||||||
Bank
premises and equipment, net
|
$ | 15,361,810 | $ | 16,056,362 |
Depreciation
expense, which includes amortization of leasehold improvements, was $1,557,000,
$1,362,000 and $1,297,000 for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007,
respectively.
The
Company leases its Green Ridge, Scranton, West Pittston, Moosic, Kingston,
Peckville, Clarks Summit and Eynon branches under the terms of operating
leases. Rental expense was $401,000 in 2009, $392,000 in 2008 and
$435,000 in 2007. In 2009, the Company closed its Wyoming Ave.,
Scranton branch but continues to pay monthly lease payments under an operating
lease agreement that expires in 2024. The Company is searching for a
tenant to fill the vacant space to help offset the rental cost. In
2008, the Company closed its Pittston branch. The future minimum
rental payments at December 31, 2009 under these leases are as
follows:
Year ending December 31
|
Amount
|
|||
2010
|
$ | 357,415 | ||
2011
|
359,717 | |||
2012
|
335,018 | |||
2013
|
334,950 | |||
2014
|
334,950 | |||
2015
and thereafter
|
3,492,839 | |||
Total
|
$ | 5,214,889 |
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6.
|
DEPOSITS
|
At
December 31, 2009, the scheduled maturities of certificates of deposit including
certificates reciprocated in the Certificate of Deposit Account Registry Service
(CDARS) program are as follows:
2010
|
$ | 81,854,344 | 55.2 | % | ||||
2011
|
30,453,680 | 20.6 | ||||||
2012
|
24,339,350 | 16.4 | ||||||
2013
|
3,461,321 | 2.3 | ||||||
2014
|
6,553,909 | 4.4 | ||||||
2015
and thereafter
|
1,587,304 | 1.1 | ||||||
$ | 148,249,908 | 100.0 | % |
Excluding
the $8,748,000 through CDARS, certificate of deposit accounts of $100,000 or
more aggregated $54,941,000 and $74,250,000 at December 31, 2009 and 2008,
respectively. Certificate of deposit accounts of $250,000 or more
aggregated $20,641,000 and $35,108,000 at December 31, 2009 and 2008,
respectively.
Investment
securities with a fair value of $35,253,000 and letters of credit with a
notional amount of $255,000 as of December 31, 2009 were pledged as
collateral to secure public deposits and trust funds.
7.
|
SHORT-TERM
BORROWINGS
|
Short-term
borrowings at December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007 are as follows:
2009
|
2008
|
2007
|
||||||||||
Overnight
borrowings
|
$ | 8,573,000 | $ | 25,668,000 | $ | 18,950,000 | ||||||
Securities
sold under repurchase agreements
|
7,746,597 | 11,411,939 | 20,504,408 | |||||||||
Demand
note, U.S. Treasury
|
213,510 | 1,049,765 | 201,946 | |||||||||
Total
|
$ | 16,533,107 | $ | 38,129,704 | $ | 39,656,354 |
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The
maximum and average amounts of short-term borrowings outstanding and related
interest rates for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007 are as
follows:
Maximum
|
Weighted-
|
|||||||||||||||
outstanding
|
average
|
|||||||||||||||
at
any
|
Average
|
rate during
|
Rate
at
|
|||||||||||||
month end
|
outstanding
|
the year
|
year-end
|
|||||||||||||
2009
|
||||||||||||||||
Overnight
borrowings
|
$ | 29,133,000 | $ | 4,896,685 | 0.66 | % | 0.65 | % | ||||||||
Repurchase
agreements
|
10,130,515 | 8,743,015 | 0.32 | % | 0.30 | % | ||||||||||
Demand
note, U.S. Treasury
|
985,663 | 525,807 | 0.00 | % | 0.00 | % | ||||||||||
Total
|
$ | 40,249,178 | $ | 14,165,507 | ||||||||||||
2008
|
||||||||||||||||
Overnight
borrowings
|
$ | 29,960,000 | $ | 12,314,584 | 2.13 | % | 0.62 | % | ||||||||
Repurchase
agreements
|
17,210,316 | 12,074,345 | 0.85 | % | 0.33 | % | ||||||||||
Demand
note, U.S. Treasury
|
1,049,765 | 509,715 | 1.85 | % | 0.00 | % | ||||||||||
Total
|
$ | 48,220,081 | $ | 24,898,644 | ||||||||||||
2007
|
||||||||||||||||
Overnight
borrowings
|
$ | 30,795,000 | $ | 8,781,767 | 5.17 | % | 4.24 | % | ||||||||
Repurchase
agreements
|
21,678,303 | 19,579,632 | 2.38 | % | 1.94 | % | ||||||||||
Demand
note, U.S. Treasury
|
1,057,677 | 523,018 | 6.19 | % | 3.60 | % | ||||||||||
Total
|
$ | 53,530,980 | $ | 28,884,417 |
Overnight
borrowings may include Fed funds purchased from correspondent banks and open
repurchase agreements with the FHLB. Securities sold under agreements
to repurchase (repurchase agreements) are non-insured interest-bearing
liabilities that have a perfected security interest in qualified investment
securities of the Company. Repurchase agreements are reflected at the
amount of cash received in connection with the transaction. The
carrying value of the underlying qualified investment securities was
approximately $10,151,000, $11,866,000 and $22,000,000 at December 31, 2009,
2008 and 2007, respectively. The Company may be required to provide
additional collateral based on the fair value of the underlying
securities. The U. S. Treasury demand note is generally repaid within
1 to 90 days.
At
December 31, 2009, the Company had approximately $138,346,000 available to
borrow from the FHLB, $30,000,000 from correspondent banks and approximately
$960,000 that it could borrow at the Discount Window from the Federal Reserve
Bank of Philadelphia. There were no outstanding borrowings from the
Federal Reserve Bank Discount Window at December 31, 2009, 2008 or
2007.
8.
|
LONG-TERM
DEBT
|
Long-term
debt consists of outstanding advances from the FHLB of $32,000,000 and
$52,000,000 as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. These
advances are secured by blanket liens on all real estate and commercial and
industrial loans with a combined weighted valuation, for collateral purposes, of
$179,174,000 as of September 30, 2009 that was in effect as of December 31,
2009.
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At
December 31, 2009, the maturities and weighted-average interest rates of
long-term debt are as follows:
Year ending December 31,
|
Amount
|
Rate
|
||||||
2010
|
$ | 11,000,000 | 5.59 | % | ||||
2013
|
5,000,000 | 3.61 | ||||||
2016
|
16,000,000 | 5.26 | ||||||
Total
|
$ | 32,000,000 | 5.11 | % |
All of
the long-term debt outstanding as of December 31, 2009 consisted of convertible
select FHLB advances that have fixed interest rates but may adjust quarterly
should market rates increase beyond the issues’ original or strike
rates. Significant prepayment penalties attached to the borrowings is
a deterrent from paying off the high cost advances. However, in the
event underlying market rates rise above the rates currently paid on these
borrowings, the FHLB rate will convert to a floating rate and the Company has
the option at that time to repay or to renegotiate the converted
advance. During 2009, the Company paid off $20,000,000 of FHLB
advances; $10,000,000 of which was scheduled to mature in 2010.
9.
|
STOCK
PLANS
|
The
Company has two stock-based compensation plans (the stock option
plans). The stock option plans were shareholder-approved and permit
the grant of share-based compensation awards to its directors, key officers and
certain other employees. The Company believes that these stock option
plans better align the interest of its directors, key officers and employees
with the interest of its shareholders. The Company further believes
that the granting of share-based awards under the provisions of the stock option
plans is necessary to retain the knowledge base, continuity and expertise of its
directors, key officers and employees. In the stock option plans,
directors, key officers and certain other employees are eligible to be awarded
stock options to purchase the Company’s common stock at the fair market value on
the date of grant.
The
Company established the 2000 Independent Directors Stock Option Plan (the
Directors Plan) and reserved 55,000 shares of its un-issued capital stock for
issuance to its directors. In the Directors Plan, no stock options
were awarded during 2009 or 2008 and 17,500 options were awarded in
2007. As of December 31, 2009, there were 27,400 unexercised stock
options outstanding under this plan.
The
Company has also established the 2000 Stock Incentive Plan (the Incentive Plan)
and reserved 55,000 shares of its un-issued capital stock for issuance to key
officers and certain other employees. In the Incentive Plan, no stock
options were awarded during 2009, and 2,000 and 5,000 stock options were granted
in 2008 and 2007, respectively. As of December 31, 2009, there were
10,190 unexercised stock options outstanding under this plan.
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A summary
of the status of the Company’s stock option plans as of December 31, 2009,
December 31, 2008 and December 31, 2007 and changes during the periods are
presented in the following table:
Weighted-
|
||||||||||||
Weighted-
|
average
|
|||||||||||
average
|
remaining
|
|||||||||||
exercise
|
contractual
|
|||||||||||
Options
|
price
|
term (yrs)
|
||||||||||
Outstanding
and exercisable, December 31, 2006
|
20,680 | $ | 32.64 | 4.3 | ||||||||
Granted
|
22,500 | 28.90 | ||||||||||
Exercised
|
- | - | ||||||||||
Forfeited
|
- | - | ||||||||||
Outstanding
and exercisable, December 31, 2007
|
43,180 | 30.69 | 6.8 | |||||||||
Granted
|
2,000 | 26.90 | ||||||||||
Exercised
|
- | - | ||||||||||
Forfeited
|
(2,200 | ) | 31.85 | |||||||||
Outstanding
and exercisable, December 31, 2008
|
42,980 | 30.46 | 6.1 | |||||||||
Granted
|
- | - | ||||||||||
Exercised
|
- | - | ||||||||||
Forfeited
|
(5,390 | ) | 31.61 | |||||||||
Outstanding,
December 31, 2009
|
37,590 | $ | 30.29 | 5.6 | ||||||||
Exercisable,
December 31, 2009
|
37,590 | $ | 30.29 |
In the
above table, the weighted-average exercise price includes options with exercise
prices ranging from $26.05 to $36.59. Also in the above table,
options that are fully vested are included in the amounts that are exercisable
as of December 31, 2009.
As of
December 31, 2009 and 2008, no intrinsic value (stock options with fair values
that exceeded their exercise or strike price) existed. The intrinsic
value as of December 31, 2007 was $1,200.
Under the
stock option plans, options are granted with an exercise price equal to the
market price of the Company’s stock at the date of grant. The awards
vest based on six months of continuous service from the date of grant and have
10-year contractual terms. Generally, all shares that are granted
become fully vested.
The
Company does not have stock options that are traded on organized capital
exchanges. As such, the estimated fair value of options awarded under
its stock option plans is determined, on the date of grant, using the
Black-Scholes Option Pricing Valuation Model (the model). There were
no options granted in 2009. For the options granted in 2008 and 2007,
the model incorporated the following assumptions:
2008
|
2007
|
|||||||
Expected
volatility
|
26.31 | % | 25.36 | % | ||||
Expected
dividend
|
3.72 | % | 3.46 | % | ||||
Risk-free
interest rate
|
2.77 | % | 3.57 | % | ||||
Expected
term
|
5.25
years
|
5.25
years
|
The
expected volatility was determined based on the daily five-year historical
volatility of the Company’s stock. Management believes the five-year
historical volatility measurement closely resembles the fluctuation of its stock
value under most economic conditions and cycles. Because of the
relatively short vesting period, the model assumes that all options granted will
fully vest. The risk-free rate is for the period within the expected
term of the options based on the U.S. Treasury yield curve. The
Company used the simplified method to determine the term in which options are
expected to be outstanding. The Company does not have sufficient
historical share option exercise experience upon which to estimate expected term
and therefore used the simplified method.
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The
following tables illustrate stock-based compensation expense recognized during
the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007 and the unrecognized
stock-based compensation expense as of December 31 of the corresponding year-end
dates. Stock-based compensation expense is a component of salaries and employee
benefits in the consolidated income statements:
2009
|
2008
|
2007
|
||||||||||
Stock-based
compensation expense:
|
||||||||||||
Director's
Plan
|
$ | - | $ | 90,550 | $ | 6,925 | ||||||
Incentive
Plan
|
- | 35,562 | 1,978 | |||||||||
Total
|
$ | - | $ | 126,112 | $ | 8,903 |
2009
|
2008
|
2007
|
||||||||||
Unrecognized
stock-based compensation expense:
|
||||||||||||
Director's
Plan
|
$ | - | $ | - | $ | 90,550 | ||||||
Incentive
Plan
|
- | - | 25,872 | |||||||||
Total
|
$ | - | $ | - | $ | 116,422 |
The
following table summarizes the per share weighted-average fair value of options
granted:
2008
|
2007
|
|||||||||||||||
Weighted-
|
Weighted-
|
|||||||||||||||
Options
|
average
grant
|
Options
|
average
grant
|
|||||||||||||
granted
|
date fair value
|
granted
|
date fair value
|
|||||||||||||
Director's
Plan
|
- | $ | - | 17,500 | $ | 5.57 | ||||||||||
Incentive
Plan
|
2,000 | 4.85 | 5,000 | 5.57 | ||||||||||||
Total
|
2,000 | $ | 4.85 | 22,500 | $ | 5.57 |
There
were no options granted in 2009 and as of December 31, 2009 there were no
unvested options.
In
addition to the two stock option plans, the Company has established the 2002
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the ESPP) and has reserved 110,000 shares of its
un-issued capital stock for issuance under the plan. The plan was
designed to promote broad-based employee ownership of the Company’s
stock. Under the ESPP, employees use automatic payroll withholdings
to purchase the Company’s capital stock at a discounted price based on the fair
market value of the capital stock on either the commencement date or termination
date. At December 31, 2009, 12,271 shares have been issued under the
ESPP. The ESPP is considered a compensatory plan and as such, is
required to comply with the provisions of authoritative accounting
guidance. The Company recognizes compensation expense on its ESPP on
the date the shares are purchased. For the years ended December 31,
2009, 2008 and 2007, compensation expense related to the ESPP approximated
$5,000, $3,000 and $7,000, respectively, and is included as a component of
salaries and employee benefits in the consolidated statements of
income. For the year ended December 31, 2010, the Company expects to
issue approximately 4,754 shares and recognize compensation expense of
$7,000.
The
Company also established the dividend reinvestment plan (the DRP) for its
shareholders. The plan is designed to avail the Company’s stock at no
transactional cost to its shareholders. Cash dividends paid to
shareholders who are enrolled in the DRP plus voluntary cash deposits received
are used to purchase shares either directly from the Company, from shares that
become available in the open market or from the Company’s previously acquired
treasury stock. The Company has reserved 300,000 shares of its
un-issued capital stock for issuance under the DRP. Until further
notice and action of the Company’s Board of Directors, additional shares of
stock purchased directly from the Company through the DRP are issued at 90% of
fair value as of the investment date. As of December 31, 2009, there were
200,353 shares available for future issuance.
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10.
|
INCOME
TAXES
|
Pursuant
to the accounting guidelines related to income taxes, the Company has evaluated
its material tax positions as of December 31, 2009 and 2008. Under
the “more-likely-than-not” threshold guidelines, the Company believes no
significant uncertain tax positions exist, either individually or in the
aggregate, that would give rise to the non-recognition of an existing tax
benefit. In periods subsequent to December 31, 2009, determinations
of potentially adverse material tax positions will be evaluated to determine
whether an uncertain tax position may have previously existed or has been
originated. In the event an adverse tax position is determined to
exist, penalty and interest will be accrued, in accordance with the Internal
Revenue Service guidelines, and will be recorded as a component of other
expenses in the Company’s consolidated statements of income.
As of
December 31, 2009, there were no unrecognized tax benefits that, if recognized,
would significantly affect the Company’s effective tax rate. Also, as
of December 31, 2009, there were no penalties and interest recognized in the
consolidated statements of income as a result of management’s evaluation of
whether an uncertain tax position may exist nor does the Company foresee a
change in its material tax positions that would give rise to the non-recognition
of an existing tax benefit during the forthcoming twelve months. Tax
returns filed with the Internal Revenue Service are subject to review by law
under a three-year statute of limitations. The Company has not
received notification from the IRS regarding adverse tax issues from tax returns
filed for tax years 2006, 2007 or 2008. The Company has not yet filed
its income tax return for the year ended December 31, 2009.
The
following temporary differences gave rise to the deferred tax asset (liability)
at December 31, 2009 and 2008:
2009
|
2008
|
|||||||
Deferred
tax assets:
|
||||||||
Allowance
for loan losses
|
$ | 2,575,024 | $ | 1,613,380 | ||||
Unrealized
losses on available-for-sale securities
|
4,736,506 | 4,549,165 | ||||||
Deferred
interest from non-accrual assets
|
463,780 | 269,278 | ||||||
Other-than-temporary
impairment on available-for-sale securities
|
1,089,484 | 148,126 | ||||||
Stock-based
compensation
|
45,905 | 45,905 | ||||||
Retirement
settlement reserve
|
57,861 | 32,365 | ||||||
Other
|
208,537 | 121,013 | ||||||
Total
|
9,177,097 | 6,779,232 | ||||||
Deferred
tax liabilities:
|
||||||||
Depreciation
|
(466,933 | ) | (272,108 | ) | ||||
Loan
fees and costs
|
(603,736 | ) | (510,858 | ) | ||||
Other
|
(307,284 | ) | (160,496 | ) | ||||
Total
|
(1,377,953 | ) | (943,462 | ) | ||||
Deferred
tax asset, net
|
$ | 7,799,144 | $ | 5,835,770 |
The
(credit) provision for income taxes for the years ended December 31 are as
follows:
2009
|
2008
|
2007
|
||||||||||
Current
|
$ | 158,719 | $ | 1,071,912 | $ | 1,557,327 | ||||||
Deferred
|
(1,776,033 | ) | (2,941 | ) | 78,838 | |||||||
Total
(credit) provision for income taxes
|
$ | (1,617,314 | ) | $ | 1,068,971 | $ | 1,636,165 |
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The
reconciliation between the expected statutory income tax and the actual
provision for income taxes is as follows:
2009
|
2008
|
2007
|
||||||||||
Expected
provision at the statutory rate
|
$ | (1,025,956 | ) | $ | 1,599,672 | $ | 2,124,231 | |||||
Tax-exempt
income
|
(511,488 | ) | (371,360 | ) | (348,903 | ) | ||||||
Nondeductible
interest expense
|
45,713 | 41,542 | 47,385 | |||||||||
Bank
owned life insurance
|
(105,186 | ) | (108,501 | ) | (105,639 | ) | ||||||
Nondeductible
other expenses and other, net
|
25,409 | 25,319 | 36,792 | |||||||||
Low
income housing credits
|
(45,806 | ) | (117,701 | ) | (117,701 | ) | ||||||
Actual
(credit) provision for income taxes
|
$ | (1,617,314 | ) | $ | 1,068,971 | $ | 1,636,165 |
11.
|
RETIREMENT
PLAN
|
The
Company has a defined contribution profit sharing 401(k) plan covering
substantially all of its employees. The plan is subject to the
provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
(ERISA). Contributions to the plan approximated $357,000 in 2009,
$351,000 in 2008 and $292,000 in 2007.
12.
|
FAIR
VALUE OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS AND
DERIVATIVES
|
The
following table represents the carrying amount and estimated fair value of the
Company’s financial instruments as of December 31 (dollars in
thousands):
2009
|
2008
|
|||||||||||||||
Carrying
|
Estimated
|
Carrying
|
Estimated
|
|||||||||||||
amount
|
fair value
|
amount
|
fair value
|
|||||||||||||
Financial
assets:
|
||||||||||||||||
Cash
and cash equivalents
|
$ | 8,328 | $ | 8,328 | $ | 12,771 | $ | 12,771 | ||||||||
Held-to-maturity
securities
|
709 | 765 | 910 | 940 | ||||||||||||
Available-for-sale
securities
|
75,821 | 75,821 | 83,278 | 83,278 | ||||||||||||
FHLB
Stock
|
4,781 | 4,781 | 4,781 | 4,781 | ||||||||||||
Loans
and leases
|
423,124 | 420,908 | 436,207 | 438,838 | ||||||||||||
Loans
available-for-sale
|
1,221 | 1,233 | 84 | 85 | ||||||||||||
Accrued
interest
|
2,251 | 2,251 | 2,443 | 2,443 | ||||||||||||
Financial
liabilities:
|
||||||||||||||||
Deposit
liabilities
|
458,994 | 453,264 | 433,312 | 436,011 | ||||||||||||
Short-term
borrowings
|
16,533 | 16,533 | 38,130 | 38,130 | ||||||||||||
Long-term
debt
|
32,000 | 35,017 | 52,000 | 57,230 | ||||||||||||
Accrued
interest
|
665 | 665 | 1,390 | 1,390 | ||||||||||||
On-balance
sheet derivative instrument:
|
||||||||||||||||
Cash
flow hedge
|
- | - | 636 | 636 |
The
expanded accounting guidelines for fair value measurements was adopted by the
Company in 2008. The guidelines establish a framework for measuring
fair value and enhance disclosures about fair value measurements. The
guidelines of fair value reporting instituted a valuation hierarchy for
disclosure of the inputs used to measure fair value. This hierarchy
prioritizes the inputs into three broad levels as follows:
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Level 1
inputs are quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or
liabilities;
Level 2
inputs are quoted prices for similar assets and liabilities in active markets;
quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are
not active; or inputs that are observable for the asset or liability, either
directly or indirectly through market corroboration, for substantially the full
term of the financial instrument;
Level 3
inputs are unobservable inputs based on our own assumptions to measure assets
and liabilities at fair value. Level 3 pricing for securities may
also include unobservable inputs based upon broker-traded
transactions. A financial asset or liability’s classification within
the hierarchy is determined based on the lowest level input that is significant
to the fair value measurement.
The
Company uses fair value to measure certain assets and, if necessary, liabilities
on a recurring basis when fair value is the primary measure for
accounting. This is done for AFS securities, loans AFS and
derivatives. Fair value is used on a non-recurring basis to measure
certain assets when adjusting carrying values to market values, such as impaired
loans.
The
following tables illustrate the financial instruments measured at fair value on
a recurring basis segregated by hierarchy fair value levels as of December 31,
2009 and December 31, 2008 (dollars in thousands):
Fair value measurements at December 31, 2009:
|
||||||||||||||||
Total carrying
|
Quoted prices
|
Significant other
|
Significant
|
|||||||||||||
value at
|
in active markets
|
observable inputs
|
unobservable inputs
|
|||||||||||||
|
December
31, 2009
|
(Level
1)
|
(Level
2)
|
(Level
3)
|
||||||||||||
Assets:
|
||||||||||||||||
Available-for-sale
securities:
|
||||||||||||||||
Agency
- GSE
|
$ | 33,132 | $ | - | $ | 33,132 | $ | - | ||||||||
Obligations
of states and political subdivisions
|
23,270 | - | 23,270 | - | ||||||||||||
Corporate
bonds:
|
||||||||||||||||
Pooled
trust preferred securities
|
5,242 | - | - | 5,242 | ||||||||||||
MBS
- GSE residential
|
13,748 | - | 13,748 | - | ||||||||||||
Equity
securities - financial services
|
429 | 429 | - | - | ||||||||||||
Total
available-for-sale securities
|
75,821 | 429 | 70,150 | 5,242 | ||||||||||||
Loans
available-for-sale
|
1,221 | - | 1,221 | - | ||||||||||||
Total
|
$ | 77,042 | $ | 429 | $ | 71,371 | $ | 5,242 |
Fair value measurements at December 31, 2008:
|
||||||||||||||||
Total carrying
|
Quoted prices
|
Significant other
|
Significant
|
|||||||||||||
value at
|
in active markets
|
observable inputs
|
unobservable inputs
|
|||||||||||||
|
December
31, 2008
|
(Level
1)
|
(Level
2)
|
(Level
3)
|
||||||||||||
Assets:
|
||||||||||||||||
Available-for-sale
securities:
|
||||||||||||||||
Agency
- GSE
|
$ | 43,507 | $ | - | $ | 43,507 | $ | - | ||||||||
Obligations
of states and political subdivisions
|
17,553 | - | 17,553 | - | ||||||||||||
Corporate
bonds:
|
||||||||||||||||
Pooled
trust preferred securities
|
10,260 | - | - | 10,260 | ||||||||||||
MBS
- GSE residential
|
11,530 | - | 11,530 | - | ||||||||||||
Equity
securities - financial services
|
428 | 428 | - | - | ||||||||||||
Total
available-for-sale securities
|
83,278 | 428 | 72,590 | 10,260 | ||||||||||||
Loans
available-for-sale
|
84 | - | 84 | - | ||||||||||||
Derivative
instrument
|
636 | - | 636 | - | ||||||||||||
Total
|
$ | 83,998 | $ | 428 | $ | 73,310 | $ | 10,260 |
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Equity
securities in the AFS portfolio are measured at fair value using quoted market
prices for identical assets and are classified within Level 1 of the valuation
hierarchy. Other than the Company’s investment in corporate bonds,
consisting of pooled trust preferred securities, all other debt securities in
the AFS portfolio are measured at fair value using market quotations provided by
a third-party vendor, who is a provider of financial market data, analytics and
related services to financial institutions. The Company’s pooled
trust preferred securities include both observable and unobservable inputs to
determine fair value and, therefore, are considered Level 3
inputs. In 2009, the accounting guidance related to fair value
measurement was further expanded and provides guidance on estimating fair value
when the volume and level of activity for an asset or liability have
significantly decreased in relation to normal market activity such as is the
case with the Company’s investment in pooled trust preferred
securities. The requirements of fair value measurement also call for
additional disclosures on fair value measurements and provide additional
guidance on circumstances that may indicate that a transaction is not
orderly.
For a
further discussion on the fair value determination of the Company’s investment
in pooled trust preferred securities, see Note 3, “Investment
Securities”.
Loans AFS
are measured for fair value from quotes received through secondary market
sources, i.e., FNMA or FHLB, who provide pricing for similar assets with similar
terms in actively traded markets. In the above table, loans AFS
reflect the carrying value which is the lower of cost or market
value. Derivative instruments, included in other assets, are measured
at fair value from pricing provided by a third party who considers observable
interest rates, forward yield curves at commonly quoted intervals and
volatility.
The
following table illustrates the changes in Level 3 financial instruments
measured at fair value on a recurring basis for the years ended December 31,
2009 and December 31, 2008 (dollars in thousands):
As of and for the
|
As of and for the
|
|||||||
twelve months ended
|
twelve months ended
|
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December 31, 2009
|
December 31, 2008
|
|||||||
Assets:
|
||||||||
Balance
at beginning of period
|
$ | 10,260 | $ | 16,335 | ||||
Realized
/ unrealized losses:
|
||||||||
in
earnings
|
(3,300 | ) | (430 | ) | ||||
in
comprehensive income loss
|
(2,397 | ) | (9,958 | ) | ||||
Purchases,
sales, issuances and settlements, amortization and accretion,
net
|
679 | 4,313 | ||||||
Balance
at end of period
|
$ | 5,242 | $ | 10,260 |
The
following table illustrates the financial instruments measured at fair value on
a nonrecurring basis segregated by hierarchy fair value levels (dollars in
thousands):
Fair value measurement at December 31, 2009
|
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Quoted prices in
|
Significant other
|
Significant other
|
||||||||||||||
Total carrying value
|
active markets
|
observable inputs
|
unobservable inputs
|
|||||||||||||
at December 31, 2009
|
(Level 1)
|
(Level 2)
|
(Level 3)
|
|||||||||||||
Impaired
loans
|
$ | 4,842 | $ | 15 | $ | 4,447 | $ | 380 |
Fair value measurement at December 31, 2008
|
||||||||||||||||
Quoted prices in
|
Significant other
|
Significant other
|
||||||||||||||
Total carrying value
|
active markets
|
observable inputs
|
unobservable inputs
|
|||||||||||||
at December 31, 2008
|
(Level 1)
|
(Level 2)
|
(Level 3)
|
|||||||||||||
Impaired
loans
|
$ | 1,942 | $ | 12 | $ | 1,136 | $ | 794 |
Impaired
loans that are collateral dependent are written down to fair value through the
establishment of specific reserves. Techniques used to value the
collateral that secures the impaired loan include: quoted market prices for
identical assets classified as Level 1 inputs; observable inputs, employed by
certified appraisers, for similar assets classified as Level 2
inputs. In cases where valuation techniques included inputs that are
unobservable or are based on estimates and assumptions developed by management,
with significant adjustments from the best information available under each
circumstance, the asset valuations are classified as Level 3
inputs.
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Financial Instruments with
Off-Balance Sheet Risk
The
Company is a party to financial instruments with off-balance sheet risk in the
normal course of business to meet the financing needs of its
customers. These financial instruments include commitments to extend
credit and standby letters of credit. Those instruments involve, to
varying degrees, elements of credit risk in excess of the amount recognized in
the balance sheet. The contract or notional amounts of those
instruments reflect the extent of the Company’s involvement in particular
classes of financial instruments. Because of the nature of these
instruments, the fair value of these off-balance sheet items are not
material.
As of
December 31, 2009 and 2008, the notional amount of the Company’s financial
instruments with off-balance sheet risk were as follows (dollars in
thousands):
2009
|
2008
|
|||||||
Off-balance
sheet financial instruments:
|
||||||||
Commitments
to extend credit
|
$ | 79,365 | $ | 93,992 | ||||
Standby
letters of credit
|
9,046 | 3,968 |
Commitments
to Extend Credit and Standby Letters of Credit
The
Company’s exposure to credit loss from nonperformance by the other party to the
financial instruments for commitments to extend credit and standby letters of
credit is represented by the contractual amount of those
instruments. The Company uses the same credit policies in making
commitments and conditional obligations as it does for on-balance sheet
instruments.
Commitments
to extend credit are legally binding agreements to lend to
customers. Commitments generally have fixed expiration dates or other
termination clauses and may require payment of fees. Since
commitments may expire without being drawn upon, the total commitment amounts do
not necessarily represent future liquidity requirements. The Company
evaluates each customer’s credit-worthiness on a case-by-case
basis. The amount of collateral obtained, if considered necessary by
the Company on extension of credit, is based on management’s credit assessment
of the customer.
Financial
standby letters of credit are conditional commitments issued by the Company to
guarantee performance of a customer to a third party. Those
guarantees are issued primarily to support public and private borrowing
arrangements, including commercial paper, bond financing, and similar
transactions. The Company’s performance under the guarantee is
required upon presentation by the beneficiary of the financial standby letter of
credit. The credit risk involved in issuing letters of credit is
essentially the same as that involved in extending loan facilities to
customers. The Company was not required to recognize any liability in
connection with the issuance of these financial standby letters of
credit.
The
following table summarizes outstanding financial letters of credit as of
December 31, 2009 (dollars in thousands):
Less than
|
One to five
|
Over five
|
||||||||||||||
one year
|
years
|
years
|
Total
|
|||||||||||||
Secured
by:
|
||||||||||||||||
Collateral
|
$ | 1,696 | $ | 6,020 | $ | 772 | $ | 8,488 | ||||||||
Bank
lines of credit
|
386 | 80 | - | 466 | ||||||||||||
2,082 | 6,100 | 772 | 8,954 | |||||||||||||
Unsecured
|
87 | 5 | - | 92 | ||||||||||||
Total
|
$ | 2,169 | $ | 6,105 | $ | 772 | $ | 9,046 |
The
Company has not incurred losses on its commitments in 2009, 2008 or
2007.
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Interest
Rate Floors, Caps and Swaps
As part
of the Company’s overall interest rate risk management strategy, the Company has
adopted a policy whereby it may periodically use derivative instruments to
minimize significant fluctuations in earnings caused by interest rate
volatility. This interest rate risk management strategy entails the
use of interest rate floors, caps and swaps. During the fourth
quarter of 2006, the Company entered into a three-year interest rate floor
derivative agreement on $20,000,000 notional value of its prime-based loan
portfolio. The transaction required the payment of a premium by the
Company to the seller for the right to receive payments in the event national
prime drops below a pre-determined level (strike rate), essentially converting
floating rate loans to fixed rate loans when prime drops below the contractual
strike rate. When purchased, the Company recorded an asset
representing the fair value of the hedge. The Company has designated
this agreement as a cash flow hedge pursuant to the current accounting
principles. Accordingly, the change in the fair value of the
instrument related to the hedge’s intrinsic value, or approximately ($606,000)
in 2009, $221,000 in 2008 and $385,000 in 2007 is recorded as a component of OCI
in the consolidated statement of changes in shareholders’ equity and the portion
of the change in fair value related to the time value expiration, or
approximately $29,000, $25,000 and $169,000 for the years ended December 31,
2009, 2008 and 2007 respectively, is recorded in the consolidated income
statements as a reduction of interest income. No gain or loss has
been recognized in earnings due to hedge ineffectiveness as of December 31,
2009, 2008 and 2007. The contract expired in the fourth quarter of
2009 and the Company was not required to reclassify any amount from OCI to
earnings. As of December 31, 2008, the fair value of the derivative
contract approximated $635,000 and was recorded as a component of other assets
in the consolidated balance sheet.
The use
of derivative instruments exposes the Company to credit risk in the event of
non-performance by the agreement’s counterparty to the derivative
instrument. In the event of default by the counterparty, the Company
would be subject to an economic loss that corresponds to the cost to replace the
agreement. The Company controls the credit risk associated with the
derivative instrument by engaging counterparties with high credit ratings,
establishing counterparty exposure limits and monitoring
procedures.
13.
|
EARNINGS
PER SHARE
|
Basic
earnings (loss) per share (EPS) is computed by dividing income (loss) available
to common shareholders by the weighted-average number of common shares
outstanding for the period. Diluted EPS is computed in the same
manner as basic EPS but reflects the potential dilution that could occur if
stock options to issue additional common stock were exercised, which would then
result in additional stock outstanding to share in or dilute the earnings of the
Company. The Company maintains two share-based compensation plans
that may generate additional potentially dilutive common
shares. Generally, dilution would occur if Company-issued stock
options were exercised and converted into common stock. There were no
potentially dilutive shares outstanding as of December 31, 2009 and 20 and 386
potentially dilutive shares outstanding as of December 31, 2008 and 2007,
respectively.
In the
computation of diluted EPS, the Company uses the treasury stock method to
determine the dilutive effect of its granted but unexercised stock
options. Under this method, the assumed proceeds received from shares
issued, in a hypothetical stock option exercise, are assumed to be used to
purchase treasury stock. Pursuant to the accounting guidance for
earnings per share, proceeds include: proceeds from the exercise of outstanding
stock options; compensation cost for future service that the Company has not yet
recognized; and any “windfall” tax benefits that would be credited directly to
shareholders’ equity when the grant generates a tax deduction (or a reduction in
proceeds if there is a charge to equity). For a further discussion on
the Company’s stock plans, see Note 9, “Stock Plans”, above.
The
following data illustrates the data used in computing earnings per share and the
effects on income and the weighted-average number of shares of potentially
dilutive common stock for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and
2007:
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2009
|
2008
|
2007
|
||||||||||
Basic EPS:
|
||||||||||||
Net
(loss) income available to common shareholders
|
$ | (1,400,205 | ) | $ | 3,635,948 | $ | 4,611,572 | |||||
Weighted-average
common shares outstanding
|
2,080,507 | 2,068,851 | 2,066,683 | |||||||||
Basic
EPS
|
$ | (0.67 | ) | $ | 1.76 | $ | 2.23 | |||||
Diluted EPS:
|
||||||||||||
Net
(loss) income available to common shareholders
|
$ | (1,400,205 | ) | $ | 3,635,948 | $ | 4,611,572 | |||||
Weighted-average
common shares outstanding
|
2,080,507 | 2,068,851 | 2,066,683 | |||||||||
Diluted
potential common shares
|
- | 20 | 386 | |||||||||
Weighted-average
common shares and dilutive potential shares outstanding
|
2,080,507 | 2,068,871 | 2,067,069 | |||||||||
Diluted
EPS
|
$ | (0.67 | ) | $ | 1.76 | $ | 2.23 |
14.
|
REGULATORY
MATTERS
|
The
Company (on a consolidated basis) and the Bank are subject to various regulatory
capital requirements administered by the federal banking
agencies. Failure to meet minimum capital requirements can initiate
certain mandatory and possible additional discretionary actions by regulators
that, if undertaken, could have a direct material effect on the Company’s and
the Bank’s financial statements. Under capital adequacy guidelines
and the regulatory framework for prompt corrective action, the Company and the
Bank must meet specific capital guidelines that involve quantitative measures of
their assets, liabilities and certain off-balance-sheet items as calculated
under regulatory accounting practices. The capital amounts and
classification are also subject to qualitative judgments by the regulators about
components, risk-weightings and other factors. Prompt corrective
action provisions are not applicable to bank holding companies.
Under
these guidelines, assets and certain off-balance sheet items are assigned to
broad risk categories, each with appropriate weights. The resulting
capital ratios represent capital as a percentage of total risk-weighted
assets. For the Company in 2009, the appropriate risk-weighting
pursuant to regulatory guidelines, required a gross-up in the risk-weighting of
securities that were rated below investment grade, thus significantly inflating
the total risk-weighted assets. This requirement had an adverse
impact on the total capital and Tier I capital ratios in 2009 compared to
2008. The guidelines require all banks and bank holding companies to
maintain a minimum ratio of total risk-based capital to total risk-weighted
assets (Total Risk Adjusted Capital) of 8%, including Tier I capital to total
risk-weighted assets (Tier I Capital) of 4% and Tier I capital to average total
assets (Leverage Ratio) of at least 4%. As of December 31, 2009, the
Company and the Bank met all capital adequacy requirements to which it was
subject.
To be
categorized as well capitalized, the Company and the Bank must maintain minimum
total risk-based, Tier I risk-based and Tier I leverage ratios as set forth in
the following table. The Company’s and the Bank’s actual capital
amounts and ratios are also presented in the table. No amounts were
deducted from capital for interest-rate risk in either 2009 or
2008.
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To be well capitalized
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
For capital
|
under prompt corrective
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
Actual
|
adequacy purposes
|
action provisions
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
Amount
|
Ratio
|
Amount
|
Ratio
|
Amount
|
Ratio
|
|||||||||||||||||||
As
of December 31, 2009:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total
capital (to risk-weighted assets)
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consolidated
|
$ | 61,568,720 | 11.4 | % | $ |
≥43,085,677
|
≥8.0 | % | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||
Bank
|
$ | 61,170,729 | 11.4 | % | $ | ≥43,075,958 | ≥8.0 | % | $ | ≥53,844,947 | ≥10.0 | % | ||||||||||||
Tier
I capital (to risk-weighted assets)
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consolidated
|
$ | 54,778,019 | 10.2 | % | $ | ≥21,542,839 | ≥4.0 | % | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||
Bank
|
$ | 54,429,494 | 10.1 | % | $ | ≥21,537,979 | ≥4.0 | % | $ | ≥32,306,968 | ≥6.0 | % | ||||||||||||
Tier
I capital (to average assets)
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consolidated
|
$ | 54,778,019 | 9.8 | % | $ | ≥22,380,403 | ≥4.0 | % | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||
Bank
|
$ | 54,429,494 | 9.7 | % | $ | ≥22,363,361 | ≥4.0 | % | $ | ≥27,954,202 | ≥5.0 | % | ||||||||||||
As
of December 31, 2008:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total
capital (to risk-weighted assets)
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consolidated
|
$ | 61,929,662 | 13.6 | % | $ | ≥36,323,088 | ≥8.0 | % | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||
Bank
|
$ | 61,552,250 | 13.6 | % | $ | ≥36,313,495 | ≥8.0 | % | $ | ≥45,391,868 | ≥10.0 | % | ||||||||||||
Tier
I capital (to risk-weighted assets)
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consolidated
|
$ | 57,136,680 | 12.6 | % | $ | ≥18,161,544 | ≥4.0 | % | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||
Bank
|
$ | 56,806,892 | 12.5 | % | $ | ≥18,156,747 | ≥4.0 | % | $ | ≥27,235,121 | ≥6.0 | % | ||||||||||||
Tier
I capital (to average assets)
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consolidated
|
$ | 57,136,680 | 10.0 | % | $ | ≥22,934,915 | ≥4.0 | % | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||
Bank
|
$ | 56,806,892 | 9.9 | % | $ | ≥22,918,851 | ≥4.0 | % | $ | ≥28,648,563 | ≥5.0 | % |
The Bank
can pay dividends to the Company equal to the Bank’s retained earnings which
approximated $45,722,000 at December 31, 2009. However, such
dividends are limited due to the capital requirements discussed
above.
15.
|
RELATED
PARTY TRANSACTIONS
|
During
the ordinary course of business, loans are made to executive officers,
directors, greater than 5% shareholders and associates of such
persons. These transactions are executed on substantially the same
terms and at the rates prevailing at the time for comparable transactions with
others. These loans do not involve more than the normal risk of
collectability or present other unfavorable features. A summary of
loan activity with officers, directors, associates of such persons and
shareholders who own more than 5% of the Company’s outstanding shares is as
follows:
2009
|
2008
|
2007
|
||||||||||
Balance,
beginning
|
$ | 8,053,604 | $ | 7,665,710 | $ | 9,028,873 | ||||||
Adjustments
for loans to individuals no longer
|
||||||||||||
officers,
directors, associates, or greater than
|
||||||||||||
5%
shareholders
|
- | - | (1,254,485 | ) | ||||||||
Additions
|
531,239 | 1,696,194 | 1,261,950 | |||||||||
Collections
|
(1,755,988 | ) | (1,308,300 | ) | (1,370,628 | ) | ||||||
Balance,
ending
|
$ | 6,828,855 | $ | 8,053,604 | $ | 7,665,710 |
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Aggregate
loans to directors and associates exceeding 2.5% of shareholders’ equity
included in the table above are as follows:
2009
|
2008
|
2007
|
||||||||||
Number
of persons
|
2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
Balance,
beginning
|
$ | 7,578,162 | $ | 7,196,079 | $ | 7,349,167 | ||||||
Additions
|
106,044 | 1,090,044 | 793,049 | |||||||||
Collections
|
(1,079,090 | ) | (707,961 | ) | (946,137 | ) | ||||||
Balance,
ending
|
$ | 6,605,116 | $ | 7,578,162 | $ | 7,196,079 |
As of
December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, deposits from executive officers, directors
and associates of such persons approximated $6,919,000, $9,000,000 and
$8,100,000, respectively.
16.
|
QUARTERLY
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
(UNAUDITED)
|
The
following is a summary of quarterly results of operations for the years ended
December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007 (dollars in thousands, except per share
data):
First
|
Second
|
Third
|
Fourth
|
|||||||||||||||||
quarter
|
quarter
|
quarter
|
quarter
|
Total
|
||||||||||||||||
2009
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Interest
income
|
$ | 7,827 | $ | 7,456 | $ | 7,454 | $ | 7,173 | $ | 29,910 | ||||||||||
Interest
expense
|
(3,002 | ) | (2,715 | ) | (3,033 | ) | (2,047 | ) | (10,797 | ) | ||||||||||
Net
interest income
|
4,825 | 4,741 | 4,421 | 5,126 | 19,113 | |||||||||||||||
Provision
for loan losses
|
(425 | ) | (300 | ) | (3,125 | ) | (1,200 | ) | (5,050 | ) | ||||||||||
Gain
on sale of investment securities
|
- | - | - | 11 | 11 | |||||||||||||||
Other-than-temporary
impairment
|
(326 | ) | (1 | ) | (2,432 | ) | (542 | ) | (3,301 | ) | ||||||||||
Other
income
|
1,639 | 1,459 | 1,139 | 1,213 | 5,450 | |||||||||||||||
Other
expenses
|
(4,662 | ) | (4,739 | ) | (5,109 | ) | (4,731 | ) | (19,241 | ) | ||||||||||
Income
(loss) before taxes
|
1,051 | 1,160 | (5,106 | ) | (123 | ) | (3,018 | ) | ||||||||||||
(Provision)
credit for income taxes
|
(226 | ) | (248 | ) | 1,895 | 197 | 1,618 | |||||||||||||
Net
income (loss)
|
$ | 825 | $ | 912 | $ | (3,211 | ) | $ | 74 | $ | (1,400 | ) | ||||||||
Net
income (loss) per share
|
$ | 0.40 | $ | 0.44 | $ | (1.55 | ) | $ | 0.04 | $ | (0.67 | ) |
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First
|
Second
|
Third
|
Fourth
|
|||||||||||||||||
quarter
|
quarter
|
quarter
|
quarter
|
Total
|
||||||||||||||||
2008
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Interest
income
|
$ | 8,745 | $ | 8,613 | $ | 8,419 | $ | 8,184 | $ | 33,961 | ||||||||||
Interest
expense
|
(4,198 | ) | (3,670 | ) | (3,540 | ) | (3,276 | ) | (14,684 | ) | ||||||||||
Net
interest income
|
4,547 | 4,943 | 4,879 | 4,908 | 19,277 | |||||||||||||||
Provision
for loan losses
|
- | (125 | ) | (130 | ) | (685 | ) | (940 | ) | |||||||||||
Gain
on sale of investment securities
|
1 | 7 | 17 | - | 25 | |||||||||||||||
Other-than-temporary
impairment
|
- | - | (403 | ) | (33 | ) | (436 | ) | ||||||||||||
Other
income
|
1,295 | 1,259 | 1,231 | 1,204 | 4,989 | |||||||||||||||
Other
expenses
|
(4,393 | ) | (4,445 | ) | (4,673 | ) | (4,699 | ) | (18,210 | ) | ||||||||||
Income
before taxes
|
1,450 | 1,639 | 921 | 695 | 4,705 | |||||||||||||||
Provision
for income taxes
|
(361 | ) | (435 | ) | (180 | ) | (93 | ) | (1,069 | ) | ||||||||||
Net
income
|
$ | 1,089 | $ | 1,204 | $ | 741 | $ | 602 | $ | 3,636 | ||||||||||
Net
income per share
|
$ | 0.52 | $ | 0.59 | $ | 0.35 | $ | 0.30 | $ | 1.76 |
First
|
Second
|
Third
|
Fourth
|
|||||||||||||||||
quarter
|
quarter
|
quarter
|
quarter
|
Total
|
||||||||||||||||
2007
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Interest
income
|
$ | 8,632 | $ | 8,684 | $ | 8,892 | $ | 9,071 | $ | 35,279 | ||||||||||
Interest
expense
|
(4,328 | ) | (4,362 | ) | (4,470 | ) | (4,500 | ) | (17,660 | ) | ||||||||||
Net
interest income
|
4,304 | 4,322 | 4,422 | 4,571 | 17,619 | |||||||||||||||
Credit
for loan losses
|
- | - | 60 | - | 60 | |||||||||||||||
Other
income
|
1,214 | 1,329 | 1,309 | 1,354 | 5,206 | |||||||||||||||
Other
expenses
|
(4,113 | ) | (4,087 | ) | (4,189 | ) | (4,248 | ) | (16,637 | ) | ||||||||||
Income
before taxes
|
1,405 | 1,564 | 1,602 | 1,677 | 6,248 | |||||||||||||||
Provision
for income taxes
|
(361 | ) | (405 | ) | (424 | ) | (446 | ) | (1,636 | ) | ||||||||||
Net
income
|
$ | 1,044 | $ | 1,159 | $ | 1,178 | $ | 1,231 | $ | 4,612 | ||||||||||
Net
income per share
|
$ | 0.51 | $ | 0.56 | $ | 0.57 | $ | 0.59 | $ | 2.23 |
17.
|
CONTINGENCIES
|
The
nature of the Company’s business generates litigation involving matters arising
in the ordinary course of business. However, in the opinion of
management of the Company after consulting with the Company’s legal counsel, no
legal proceedings are pending, which, if determined adversely to the Company or
the Bank, would have a material effect on the Company’s shareholders’ equity or
results of operations. No legal proceedings are pending other than
ordinary routine litigation incident to the business of the Company and the
Bank. In addition, to management’s knowledge, no government
authorities have initiated or contemplated any material legal actions against
the Company or the Bank.
18.
|
RECENT
ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
|
On July
1, 2009, the Company adopted new accounting guidance related to U.S.
GAAP. This guidance establishes the Financial Accounting Standards
Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification (ASC), or FASB ASC, as the source
of authoritative U.S GAAP recognized by the FASB to be applied by
non-governmental entities. Rules and interpretive releases of the SEC
under authority of federal securities laws are also sources of authoritative
U.S. GAAP for SEC registrants. FASB will no longer issue new
standards in the form of Statements, FASB Staff Positions or Emerging Issues
Task Force Abstracts. Instead, it will issue Accounting Standards
Updates (ASUs), which will serve to update the FASB ASC, provide background
information about the guidance and provide the basis for conclusions on the
changes to the FASB ASC. The FASB ASC is not intended to change U.S.
GAAP or any requirements of the SEC. Contents in each topic are
organized first by subtopic, then section and finally
paragraph. The paragraph level is the only level that contains
substantive content. FASB suggests that all citations begin with “FASB
ASC.” This guidance is effective for interim periods ending after
September 15, 2009.
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In 2009,
the Company adopted the new accounting guidance related to fair value
measurements. The topic of fair value measurement was expanded to
provide guidance on estimating fair value when the volume and level of activity
for an asset or liability have significantly decreased in relation to normal
market activity. The requirements of fair value measurement also call
for additional disclosures on fair value measurements and provide additional
guidance on circumstances that may indicate that a transaction is not
orderly. The recent accounting guidance requires disclosure of
qualitative and quantitative information about the fair value of all financial
instruments on a quarterly basis, including methods and significant assumptions
used to estimate fair value during the period. These disclosures were
previously only required annually. The adoption of this guidance had
no effect on how the Company accounts for these instruments.
In 2009,
the Company adopted the new accounting guidance related to recognition and
presentation of other-than-temporary impairment. This recent accounting guidance
amends the recognition guidance for other-than-temporary impairments of debt
securities and expands the financial statement disclosures for
other-than-temporary impairment losses on debt and equity
securities. The recent guidance replaced the “intent and ability”
indication in current guidance by specifying that (a) if a company does not have
the intent to sell a debt security prior to recovery and (b) it is more likely
than not that it will not have to sell the debt security prior to recovery, the
security would not be considered other-than-temporarily impaired unless there is
a credit loss. When an entity does not intend to sell the security,
and it is more likely than not, the entity will not have to sell the security
before recovery of its cost basis, it will recognize the credit component of an
other-than-temporary impairment of a debt security in earnings and the remaining
portion in other comprehensive income. For held-to-maturity debt
securities, the amount of an other-than-temporary impairment recorded in other
comprehensive income for the non-credit portion of a previous
other-than-temporary impairment should be amortized prospectively over the
remaining life of the security on the basis of the timing of future estimated
cash flows of the security. For available-for-sale and
held-to-maturity debt securities that management has no intent to sell and
believes that it more-likely-than-not will not be required to sell prior to
recovery, only the credit loss component of the impairment is recognized in
earnings, while the non-credit loss is recognized in accumulated other
comprehensive income. The credit loss component recognized in
earnings is identified as the amount of principal cash flows not expected to be
received over the remaining term of the security as projected based on cash flow
projections. See Note 3, “Investment Securities” for the impact this
guidance had on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
In 2009,
the Company adopted the new accounting guidance related to disclosures about
derivative instruments. The recent accounting guidance provides
requirements on the disclosures of derivative instruments and hedging
activities. The guidance requires qualitative disclosures about
objectives and strategies for using derivatives, quantitative disclosures about
fair value amounts of gains and losses on derivative instruments, and
disclosures about credit-risk-related contingent features in derivative
agreements. The new accounting guidance did not have an impact on the
Company’s consolidated financial statements.
In 2009,
the Company adopted the new accounting guidance related to the determination of
the useful life of intangible assets. The new accounting guidance
provides factors that should be considered in developing renewal or extension
assumptions used to determine the useful life of a recognized intangible
asset. The intent of this new guidance is to improve the consistency
between the useful life of a recognized intangible asset and the period of
expected cash flows, particularly as used to measure fair value in business
combinations. The adoption of this new guidance is immaterial as it
relates to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
In
2009, the Company adopted the new accounting guidance related to reporting on
subsequent events. The new accounting guidance establishes standards
under which an entity shall recognize and disclose events that occur after a
balance sheet date but before the related financial statements are issued or are
available to be issued. The adoption of the new accounting guidance
had no impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
In 2010,
the Company will adopt the new accounting guidance related to transfers and
servicing and the accounting for transfers of financial assets. The
standard will eliminate the concept of qualifying special purpose entities, will
provide guidance as to when a portion of a transferred financial asset can be
evaluated for sale accounting, provides additional guidance with regard to
accounting for transfers of financial assets and requires additional
disclosures. The adoption of the new accounting guidance is not
expected to have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial
statements.
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In 2010,
the Company will adopt the amended accounting guidance related to fair value
measurements which will require new disclosures and clarify some existing
disclosure requirements about fair value measurement as set forth in previous
guidance. The objective is to improve these disclosures and, thus,
increase the transparency in financial reporting. Specifically, an
entity will be required to disclose separately the amounts of significant
transfers in and out of Level 1 and Level 2 fair value measurements and describe
the reasons for the transfers; and in the reconciliation for fair value
measurements using significant unobservable inputs, a reporting entity should
present separately information about purchases, sales, issuances, and
settlements. The amended guidance will also clarify the requirements
of the following existing disclosures: for purposes of reporting fair value
measurement for each class of assets and liabilities, a reporting entity needs
to use judgment in determining the appropriate classes of assets and
liabilities; and a reporting entity should provide disclosures about the
valuation techniques and inputs used to measure fair value for both recurring
and nonrecurring fair value measurements. The new guidance is
effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15,
2009, except for the disclosures about purchases, sales, issuances, and
settlements in the roll forward of activity in Level 3 fair value measurements.
Those disclosures are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15,
2010, and for interim periods within those fiscal years.
19.
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PARENT
COMPANY ONLY
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The
following is the condensed financial information for Fidelity D & D Bancorp,
Inc. on a parent company only basis (dollars in thousands):
Condensed Balance
Sheets
December 31,
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2009
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2008
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Assets:
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Cash
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$ | 47 | $ | 2 | ||||
Investment
in subsidiary
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45,256 | 48,561 | ||||||
Securities
available-for-sale
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429 | 428 | ||||||
Other
assets
|
10 | 10 | ||||||
Total
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$ | 45,742 | $ | 49,001 | ||||
Liabilities
and shareholders' equity:
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Liabilities
|
$ | 67 | $ | 40 | ||||
Shareholders'
equity
|
45,675 | 48,961 | ||||||
Total
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$ | 45,742 | $ | 49,001 |
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Condensed Income
Statements
Years ended December 31,
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2009
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2008
|
2007
|
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Income:
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Equity
in undistributed earnings of subsidiary
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$ | (2,684 | ) | $ | 1,337 | $ | 3,163 | |||||
Dividends
from subsidiary
|
1,439 | 2,580 | 1,613 | |||||||||
Other
income
|
19 | 16 | 13 | |||||||||
Total
(loss) income
|
(1,226 | ) | 3,933 | 4,789 | ||||||||
Operating
expenses
|
258 | 446 | 267 | |||||||||
(Loss)
income before taxes
|
$ | (1,484 | ) | $ | 3,487 | $ | 4,522 | |||||
Credit
for income taxes
|
84 | 149 | 90 | |||||||||
Net
(loss) income
|
$ | (1,400 | ) | $ | 3,636 | $ | 4,612 |
Condensed Statements of Cash
Flows
Years
ended December 31,
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2009
|
2008
|
2007
|
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Cash
flows from operating activities:
|
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Net
(loss) income
|
$ | (1,400 | ) | $ | 3,636 | $ | 4,612 | |||||
Adjustments
to reconcile net (loss) income to net cash used in
operations:
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Equity
in earnings of subsidiary
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1,245 | (3,917 | ) | (4,777 | ) | |||||||
Stock-based
compensation expense
|
5 | 129 | 16 | |||||||||
Deferred
income tax benefit
|
- | (43 | ) | (3 | ) | |||||||
Changes
in other assets and liabilities, net
|
27 | (17 | ) | (10 | ) | |||||||
Net
cash used in operating activities
|
(123 | ) | (212 | ) | (162 | ) | ||||||
Cash
flows provided by investing activities:
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Dividends
received from subsidiary
|
1,439 | 2,580 | 1,613 | |||||||||
Purchases
of securities available-for-sale
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- | - | (50 | ) | ||||||||
Net
cash provided by investing activities
|
1,439 | 2,580 | 1,563 | |||||||||
Cash
flows from financing activities:
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Dividends
paid, net of dividend reinvestment
|
(1,255 | ) | (1,995 | ) | (1,484 | ) | ||||||
Purchase
of treasury stock
|
(57 | ) | (430 | ) | - | |||||||
Withholdings
to purchase capital stock
|
41 | 57 | 68 | |||||||||
Net
cash used in financing activities
|
(1,271 | ) | (2,368 | ) | (1,416 | ) | ||||||
Net
increase (decrease) in cash
|
45 | - | (15 | ) | ||||||||
Cash,
beginning
|
2 | 2 | 17 | |||||||||
Cash,
ending
|
$ | 47 | $ | 2 | $ | 2 |
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None.
As of the
end of the period covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K, an evaluation was
carried out by the Company’s management, with the participation of its Interim
President and Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer, of the
effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in
Rule 13a-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Based on
such evaluation, the Interim President and Chief Executive Officer and the Chief
Financial Officer concluded that the Company’s disclosure controls and
procedures are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in
the reports the Company files or furnishes under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods
specified in the SEC’s rules and regulations, and are operating in an effective
manner. The SEC has extended the deadline for non-accelerated filers,
such as the Company, for an auditor attestation on internal control over
financial reporting to fiscal years ending after June 15,
2010. Furthermore, the Company made no changes in its internal
controls over financial reporting or in other factors that materially affected,
or are reasonably likely to materially affect, these controls during the last
fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2009.
Management’s
Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
Management
of the Company is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal
control over financial reporting. The Company’s internal control over
financial reporting is a process designed under the supervision of the Company’s
Interim President and Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer,
and implemented in conjunction with management and other personnel, to provide
reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the
preparation of the Company’s consolidated financial statements for external
purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles.
There are
inherent limitations in the effectiveness of any internal control, including the
possibility of human error and the circumvention or overriding of
controls. Accordingly, even effective internal control can provide
only reasonable assurance with respect to financial statement
preparation. Further, because of changes in conditions, the
effectiveness of internal control may vary over time.
Management
assessed the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial
reporting as of December 31, 2009. This assessment was based on
criteria for effective internal control over financial reporting described in
“Internal Control – Integrated Framework,” issued by the Committee of Sponsoring
Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). Based on this
assessment, management determined that, as of December 31, 2009, the
Company maintained effective internal control over financial
reporting.
This
annual report does not include an attestation report of the Company’s registered
public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial
reporting. Management’s report was not subject to attestation by the
Company’s registered public accounting firm pursuant to temporary rules of the
SEC that permit the Company to provide only management’s report in this annual
report.
None.
The
information required under Items 401 and 407(c)(3), (d)(4) and (d)(5) of
Regulation S-K is incorporated by reference herein, to the information presented
in the Company’s definitive Proxy Statement for its 2010 Annual Meeting of
Shareholders to be filed with the SEC.
Section
16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance
The
information required under this section is incorporated by reference herein, to
the information presented in the Company’s definitive Proxy Statement for its
2010 Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be filed with the SEC.
84
Code
of Ethics
The
Company adopted a written code of ethics that applies to our directors, officers
and employees, including our chief executive officer and chief financial
officer, which is available on our website at http://www.bankatfidelity.com
through the Investor Relations link and then under the heading “Governance
Documents.” In addition, copies of our code of ethics will be
provided to shareholders upon written request to Fidelity D & D Bancorp,
Inc., Blakely and Drinker Streets, Dunmore, PA 18512 at no charge.
The
information required by this Item is incorporated by reference herein, to the
information presented in the Company’s definitive Proxy Statement for its 2010
annual meeting of shareholders to be filed with the SEC.
The
information required by this Item is incorporated by reference herein, to the
information presented in the Company’s definitive Proxy Statement for its 2010
annual meeting of shareholders to be filed with the SEC.
The
information required by this Item, relating to transactions with management and
others, certain business relationships and indebtedness of management, is set
forth above in Footnote No. 15 “Related Party Transactions”, of Part
II, Item 8 “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data”, and is also
incorporated by reference herein to the information presented in the Company’s
definitive Proxy Statement for its 2010 annual meeting of shareholders to be
filed with the SEC.
The
information required by this Item is incorporated by reference herein, to the
information presented in the Company’s definitive Proxy Statement for its 2010
annual meeting of shareholders to be filed with the SEC.
(a)
|
(1)
Financial Statements - The following financial statements are
included by reference in Part II, Item 8
hereof:
|
Report of
Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Consolidated
Balance Sheets
Consolidated
Statements of Income
Consolidated
Statements of Changes in Shareholders’ Equity
Consolidated
Statements of Cash Flows
Notes to
Consolidated Financial Statements
(2)
|
Financial
Statement Schedules
|
Financial
Statement Schedules are omitted because the required information is either not
applicable, the data is not significant or the required information is shown in
the respective financial statements or in the notes thereto or elsewhere
herein.
(3)
|
Exhibits
|
The
following exhibits are filed herewith or incorporated by reference as a part of
this Form 10-K:
3(i) Amended and
Restated Articles of Incorporation of Registrant. Incorporated by
reference to Annex B of the Proxy Statement/Prospectus included in Registrant’s
Amendment 4 to its Registration Statement No. 333-90273 on Form S-4, filed with
the SEC on April 6, 2000.
3(ii) Amended and
Restated Bylaws of Registrant. Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3(ii)
to Registrant’s Form 8-K filed with the SEC on November 21, 2007.
*10.1 1998
Independent Directors Stock Option Plan of The Fidelity Deposit and Discount
Bank, as assumed by Registrant. Incorporated by reference to
Exhibit 10.1 to Registrant’s Registration Statement No. 333-90273 on Form S-4,
filed with the SEC on November 3, 1999.
85
*10.2 1998 Stock
Incentive Plan of The Fidelity Deposit and Discount Bank, as assumed by
Registrant. Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 of Registrant’s
Registration Statement No. 333-90273 on Form S-4, filed with the SEC on November
3, 1999.
*10.3 Registrant’s
2000 Dividend Reinvestment Plan. Incorporated by reference to
Exhibit 4 to Registrant’s Registration Statement No. 333-45668 on Form S-1,
filed with the SEC on September 12, 2000 and as amended by Pre-Effective
Amendment No. 1 on October 11, 2000, by Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 on May
30, 2001, by Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 on July 7, 2005, by Registration
Statement No. 333-152806 on Form S-3 filed on August 6, 2008 and by
Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 on January 25, 2010.
*10.4 Registrant’s
2000 Independent Directors Stock Option Plan. Incorporated by
reference to Exhibit 4.3 to Registrant’s Registration Statement No. 333-64356 on
Form S-8 filed with the SEC on July 2, 2001.
*10.5 Amendment,
dated October 2, 2007, to the Registrant’s 2000 Independent Directors Stock
Option Plan. Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to
Registrant’s Form 8-K filed with the SEC on October 4, 2007.
*10.6 Registrant’s
2000 Stock Incentive Plan. Incorporated by reference to
Exhibit 4.4 to Registrant’s Registration Statement No. 333-64356 on Form S-8
filed with the SEC on July 2, 2001.
*10.7 Amendment,
dated October 2, 2007, to the Registrant’s 2000 Stock Incentive
Plan. Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to
Registrant’s Form 8-K filed with the SEC on October 4, 2007.
*10.8 Registrant’s
2002 Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Incorporated by reference
to Exhibit 4.4 to Registrant’s Registration Statement No. 333-113339 on Form S-8
filed with the SEC on March 5, 2004.
*10.9 Change of
Control Agreements with Salvatore R. DeFrancesco, Registrant and The
Fidelity Deposit and Discount Bank, dated March 21,
2006. Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.2 to
Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on March 27,
2006.
*10.10 Amended and
Restated Executive Employment Agreement between Fidelity D & D Bancorp,
Inc., The Fidelity Deposit and Discount Bank and Steven C. Ackmann, dated July
11, 2007. Incorporated by
reference to Exhibit 10.1 to Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with
the SEC on July 13, 2007.
*10.11 Executive
Employment Agreement between Fidelity D & D Bancorp, Inc., The Fidelity
Deposit and Discount Bank and Timothy P.
O’Brien, dated January 3, 2008. Incorporated by reference to
Exhibit 10.1 to Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on
January 10, 2008.
*10.12 Executive
Employment Agreement between Fidelity D & D Bancorp, Inc., The Fidelity
Deposit and Discount Bank and Daniel J.
Santaniello, dated February 28, 2008. Incorporated by
reference to Exhibit 10.1 to Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with
the SEC on March 3, 2008.
*10.13 Release
Agreement between Steven C. Ackmann, Registrant and The Fidelity Deposit and
Discount Bank, dated August 31, 2009. Incorporated by
reference to Exhibit 99.1 to Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with
the SEC on September 8, 2009.
*10.14 Consulting
Agreement between Steven C. Ackmann, former President and Chief Executive
Officer of the Registrant and The Fidelity Deposit and Discount Bank, and The
Fidelity Deposit and Discount Bank, dated September 1, 2009. Incorporated by
reference to Exhibit 99.2 to Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with
the SEC on September 8, 2009.
11 Statement
regarding computation of earnings per share. Included herein
in Note 13 “Earnings per Share”, contained within the notes to consolidated
financial statements, and incorporated herein by reference.
12 Statement
regarding computation of ratios. Included herein in Item 6,
“Selected Financial Data.”
13 Annual Report
to Shareholders. Incorporated by reference to the 2009 Annual
Report to Shareholders filed with the SEC on Form ARS.
14 Code of
Ethics. Incorporated by reference to the 2003 Annual Report to
Shareholders on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 29, 2004.
21
Subsidiaries of the Registrant.
23
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
31.1
Rule 13a-14(a) Certification of Principal Executive Officer, filed
herewith.
31.2
Rule 13a-14(a) Certification of Principal Financial Officer, filed
herewith.
86
32.1
Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section
1350, as adopted
pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, filed
herewith.
32.2
Certification of Principal Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section
1350, as adopted
pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, filed
herewith.
(b)
|
The
exhibits required to be filed by this Item are listed under Item 15(a) 3,
above.
|
(c)
|
Not
applicable.
|
*
Management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.
87
Pursuant
to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities and Exchange Act of
1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by
the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
FIDELITY
D & D BANCORP, INC.
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(Registrant)
|
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Date:
March 5, 2010
|
By:
|
/s/ Patrick
J. Dempsey
|
|
Patrick
J. Dempsey,
|
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Interim
President and Chief Executive Officer
|
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Date:
March 5, 2010
|
By:
|
/s/
Salvatore
R. DeFrancesco, Jr.
|
|
Salvatore
R. DeFrancesco, Jr.,
|
|||
Treasurer
and Chief Financial
Officer
|
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, this report has
been signed below by the following person on behalf of the registrant and in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.
DATE
|
|||
By:
|
/s/ Patrick
J. Dempsey
|
March
5, 2010
|
|
Patrick
J. Dempsey, Interim President and Chief
|
|||
Executive
Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors
|
|||
By:
|
/s/
Salvatore
R. DeFrancesco, Jr.
|
March
5, 2010
|
|
Salvatore
R. DeFrancesco, Jr., Treasurer
|
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and
Chief Financial Officer
|
|||
By:
|
/s/
John
T. Cognetti
|
March
5, 2010
|
|
John
T. Cognetti, Secretary and Director
|
|||
By:
|
/s/
Michael
J. McDonald
|
March
5, 2010
|
|
Michael
J. McDonald, Vice Chairman
|
|||
of
the Board of Directors and Director
|
|||
By:
|
/s/
David
L. Tressler
|
March
5, 2010
|
|
David
L. Tressler, Director
|
|||
By:
|
/s/
Mary
E. McDonald
|
March
5, 2010
|
|
Mary
E. McDonald, Assistant Secretary and Director
|
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By:
|
/s/
Brian
J. Cali
|
March
5, 2010
|
|
Brian
J. Cali, Director
|
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Page
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3(i)
Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of Registrant.
Incorporated by reference to Annex B of the Proxy
Statement/Prospectus included in Registrant’s Amendment 4 to its
Registration Statement No. 333-90273 on Form S-4, filed with the SEC on
April 6, 2000.
|
*
|
|
3(ii)
Amended and Restated Bylaws of Registrant. Incorporated by
reference to Exhibit 3(ii) to Registrant’s Form 8-K filed with the SEC on
November 21, 2007.
|
*
|
|
10.1 1998
Independent Directors Stock Option Plan of The Fidelity Deposit and
Discount Bank, as assumed by Registrant. Incorporated by reference
to Exhibit 10.1 to Registrant’s Registration Statement No. 333-90273 on
Form S-4, filed with the SEC on November 3, 1999.
|
*
|
|
10.2 1998
Stock Incentive Plan of The Fidelity Deposit and Discount Bank, as assumed
by Registrant. Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 of
Registrant’s Registration Statement No. 333-90273 on Form S-4, filed with
the SEC on November 3, 1999.
|
*
|
|
10.3
Registrant’s 2000 Dividend Reinvestment
Plan. Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4 to
Registrant’s Registration Statement No. 333-45668 on Form S-1, filed with
the SEC on September 12, 2000 and as amended by Pre-Effective Amendment
No. 1 on October 11, 2000, by Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 on May 30,
2001, by Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 on July 7, 2005 and by
Registration Statement No. 333-152806 on Form S-3 filed on August 6,
2008 and by Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 on January 25, 2010
.
|
*
|
|
10.4
Registrant’s 2000 Independent Directors Stock Option Plan.
Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 to Registrant’s
Registration Statement No. 333-64356 on Form S-8 filed with the SEC on
July 2, 2001.
|
*
|
|
10.5
Amendment, dated October 2, 2007, to the Registrant’s 2000 Independent
Directors Stock Option Plan. Incorporated by reference
to Exhibit 10.2 to Registrant’s Form 8-K filed with the SEC on October 4,
2007.
|
*
|
|
10.6
Registrant’s 2000 Stock Incentive Plan. Incorporated by reference
to Exhibit 4.4 to Registrant’s Registration Statement No. 333-64356 on
Form S-8 filed with the SEC on July 2, 2001.
|
*
|
|
10.7
Amendment, dated October 2, 2007, to the Registrant’s 2000 Stock Incentive
Plan. Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to
Registrant’s Form 8-K filed with the SEC on October 4,
2007.
|
*
|
|
10.8
Registrant’s 2002 Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Incorporated by
reference to Exhibit 4.5 to Registrant’s Registration Statement No.
333-113339 on Form S-8 filed with the SEC on March 5,
2004.
|
*
|
|
10.9 Change
of Control Agreements with Salvatore R. DeFrancesco, Registrant and The
Fidelity Deposit and Discount Bank, dated March 21, 2006. Incorporated by
reference to Exhibit 99.2 to Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed
with the SEC on March 27, 2006.
|
*
|
|
10.10
Amended and Restated Executive Employment Agreement between Fidelity D
& D Bancorp, Inc., The Fidelity Deposit and Discount Bank and Steven
C. Ackmann, dated July 11, 2007. Incorporated by
reference to Exhibit 10.1 to Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed
with the SEC on July 13, 2007.
|
*
|
89
10.11
Executive Employment Agreement between Fidelity D & D Bancorp, Inc.,
The Fidelity Deposit and Discount Bank and Timothy P. O’Brien, dated
January 3, 2008. Incorporated by reference to Exhibit
10.1 to Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on
January 10, 2008.
|
*
|
|
10.12
Executive Employment Agreement between Fidelity D & D Bancorp, Inc.,
The Fidelity Deposit and Discount Bank and Daniel J. Santaniello, dated
February 28, 2008. Incorporated by reference to Exhibit
10.1 to Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on
March 3, 2008.
|
*
|
|
*10.13
Release Agreement between Steven C. Ackmann, Registrant and The Fidelity
Deposit and Discount Bank, dated August 31, 2009. Incorporated
by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K
filed with the SEC on September 8, 2009.
|
*
|
|
*10.14
Consulting Agreement between Steven C. Ackmann, former President and Chief
Executive Officer of the Registrant and The Fidelity Deposit and Discount
Bank, and The Fidelity Deposit and Discount Bank, dated September 1,
2009. Incorporated
by reference to Exhibit 99.2 to Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K
filed with the SEC on September 8, 2009.
|
*
|
|
11
Statement regarding computation of earnings per share. Included
herein Note 13, “Earnings per Share”, contained within the Notes to
Consolidated Financial Statements, and incorporated herein by
reference.
|
76
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12
Statement regarding computation of ratios. Included herein in Item
6, “Selected Financial Data”.
|
14
|
|
13 Annual
Report to Shareholders. Incorporated by reference to the 2009
Annual Report to Shareholders filed with the SEC on Form
ARS.
|
*
|
|
14 Code of
Ethics. Incorporated by reference to the 2003 Annual Report to
Shareholders on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 29,
2004.
|
*
|
|
21
Subsidiaries of the Registrant.
|
91
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23
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
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31.1
Rule 13a-14(a) Certification of Principal Executive
Officer.
|
93
|
|
|
||
31.2
Rule 13a-14(a) Certification of Principal Financial
Officer.
|
94
|
|
|
||
32.1
Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section
1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of
2002.
|
95
|
|
32.2
Certification of Principal Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section
1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of
2002.
|
96
|
*Incorporated
by Reference
90