HOME BANCSHARES INC - Quarter Report: 2021 September (Form 10-Q)

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC  20549

FORM 10-Q

(Mark One)

For the Quarterly Period Ended September 30, 2021

or

For the Transition period from            to           

Commission File Number:  000-51904

HOME BANCSHARES, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.    

Yes  ☑    No  ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files).

Yes  ☑   No  ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See definition of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act:  

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.  ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).    Yes  ☐     No  ☑

Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the registrant’s classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date.  

Common Stock Issued and Outstanding: 163,845,498 shares as of November 4, 2021.

CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Some of our statements contained in this document, including matters discussed under the caption “Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operation,” are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements relate to future events or our future financial performance and include statements about the competitiveness of the banking industry, potential regulatory obligations, our entrance and expansion into other markets, including through prospective or potential acquisitions, our other business strategies and other statements that are not historical facts. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of performance or results. When we use words like “may,” “plan,” “contemplate,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “intend,” “continue,” “expect,” “project,” “predict,” “estimate,” “could,” “should,” “would,” and similar expressions, you should consider them as identifying forward-looking statements, although we may use other phrasing. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties and are based on our beliefs and assumptions, and on the information available to us at the time that these disclosures were prepared. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties and may not be realized due to a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the following:

All written or oral forward-looking statements attributable to us are expressly qualified in their entirety by this Cautionary Note. Our actual results may differ significantly from those we discuss in these forward-looking statements. For other factors, risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from estimates and projections contained in these forward-looking statements, see the “Risk Factors” section of our Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on February 26, 2021.

PART I: FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Item 1: Financial Statements

Home BancShares, Inc.

Consolidated Balance Sheets

See Condensed Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

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Consolidated Statements of Income

See Condensed Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

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Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income

See Condensed Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

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Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity

See Condensed Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

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Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity

See Condensed Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

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Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

See Condensed Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

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Home BancShares, Inc.

Condensed Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

(Unaudited)

1.  Nature of Operations and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Nature of Operations

Home BancShares, Inc. (the “Company” or “HBI”) is a bank holding company headquartered in Conway, Arkansas. The Company is primarily engaged in providing a full range of banking services to individual and corporate customers through its wholly-owned community bank subsidiary – Centennial Bank (sometimes referred to as “Centennial” or the “Bank”).  The Bank has branch locations in Arkansas, Florida, South Alabama and New York City.  The Company is subject to competition from other financial institutions. The Company also is subject to the regulation of certain federal and state agencies and undergoes periodic examinations by those regulatory authorities.

A summary of the significant accounting policies of the Company follows:

Operating Segments

Operating segments are components of an enterprise about which separate financial information is available that is evaluated regularly by the chief operating decision maker in deciding how to allocate resources and in assessing performance.  The Bank is the only significant subsidiary upon which management makes decisions regarding how to allocate resources and assess performance. Each of the branches of the Bank provide a group of similar banking services, including such products and services as commercial, real estate and consumer loans, time deposits, checking and savings accounts. The individual bank branches have similar operating and economic characteristics.  While the chief decision maker monitors the revenue streams of the various products, services and branch locations, operations are managed, and financial performance is evaluated on a Company-wide basis.  Accordingly, all of the banking services and branch locations are considered by management to be aggregated into one reportable operating segment.

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 credit losses, the valuation of investment securities, the valuation of foreclosed assets and the valuations of assets acquired, and liabilities assumed in business combinations. In connection with the determination of the allowance for credit losses and the valuation of foreclosed assets, management obtains independent appraisals for significant properties.

Principles of Consolidation

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of HBI and its subsidiaries. Significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

Reclassifications

Various items within the accompanying consolidated financial statements for previous years have been reclassified to provide more comparative information. These reclassifications had no effect on net earnings or stockholders’ equity.

Interim financial information

The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements as of September 30, 2021 and 2020 have been prepared in condensed format, and therefore do not include all of the information and footnotes required by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America for complete financial statements.

The information furnished in these interim statements reflects all adjustments which are, in the opinion of management, necessary for a fair statement of the results for each respective period presented. Such adjustments are of a normal recurring nature. The results of operations in the interim statements are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for any other quarter or for the full year. The interim financial information should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company’s 2020 Form 10-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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New Accounting Pronouncements

The Company adopted ASU 2016-13, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments (“ASC 326”), effective January 1, 2020. The guidance replaces the incurred loss methodology with an expected loss methodology that is referred to as the current expected credit loss (“CECL”) methodology.  The measurement of expected credit losses under the CECL methodology is applicable to financial assets measured at amortized cost, including loan receivables and held-to-maturity debt securities. It also applies to off-balance sheet credit exposures not accounted for as insurance (loan commitments, standby letters of credits, financial guarantees, and other similar instruments) and net investments in leases recognized by a lessor in accordance with Topic 842 on leases. ASC 326 requires enhanced disclosures related to the significant estimates and judgments used in estimating credit losses as well as the credit quality and underwriting standards of a company’s portfolio.  In addition, ASC 326 made changes to the accounting for available-for-sale debt securities. One such change is to require credit losses to be presented as an allowance rather than as a write-down on available-for-sale debt securities management does not intend to sell or believes that it is more likely than not they will be required to sell.

The Company adopted ASC 326 using the modified retrospective method for loans and off-balance-sheet (“OBS”) credit exposures.  Results for reporting periods beginning after January 1, 2020 are presented under ASC 326 while prior period amounts continue to be reported in accordance with previously applicable GAAP.  The Company recorded a one-time cumulative-effect adjustment to the allowance for credit losses of $44.0 million which was recognized through a $32.5 million adjustment to retained earnings, net of tax. This adjustment brought the beginning balance of the allowance for credit losses to $146.1 million  as of January 1, 2020.  In addition, the Company recorded a $15.5 million reserve on unfunded commitments which was recognized through an $11.5 million adjustment to retained earnings, net of tax.

The Company adopted ASC 326 using the prospective transition approach for financial assets purchased with credit deterioration (“PCD”) that were previously classified as purchased credit impaired (“PCI”) and accounted for under ASC 310-30.  In 2019, the Company reevaluated its loan pools of purchased loans with deteriorated credit quality. These loans pools related specifically to acquired loans from the Heritage, Liberty, Landmark, Bay Cities, Bank of Commerce, Premier Bank, Stonegate and Shore Premier Finance acquisitions. At acquisition, a portion of these loans was recorded as purchased credit impaired loans on a pool by pool basis. Through the reevaluation of these loan pools, management determined that estimated losses for purchase credit impaired loans should be processed against the credit mark of the applicable pools.  The remaining non-accretable mark was then moved to accretable mark to be recognized over the remaining weighted average life of the loan pools.  The projected losses for these loans were less than the total credit mark.  As such, the remaining $107.6 million of loans in these pools along with the $29.3 million in accretable yield was deemed to be immaterial and was reclassified out of the purchased credit impaired loans category.  As of December 31, 2019, the Company no longer held any purchased loans with deteriorated credit quality. Therefore, the Company did not have any PCI loans upon adoption on of ASC 326 as of January 1, 2020.

The Company has purchased loans, some of which have experienced more than insignificant credit deterioration since origination.  PCD loans are recorded at the amount paid. An allowance for credit losses is determined using the same methodology as other loans. The initial allowance for credit losses determined on a collective basis is allocated to individual loans. The sum of the loan’s purchase price and allowance for credit losses becomes its initial amortized cost basis. The difference between the initial amortized cost basis and the par value of the loan is a noncredit discount or premium, which is amortized into interest income over the life of the loan. Subsequent changes to the allowance for credit losses are recorded through the provision for credit loss.

The Company adopted ASC 326 using the prospective transition approach for debt securities for which other-than-temporary impairment had been recognized prior to January 1, 2020. As of December 31, 2019, the Company did not have any other-than-temporarily impaired investment securities. Therefore, upon adoption of ASC 326, the Company determined than an allowance for credit losses on available-for-sale securities was not deemed material. However, the Company evaluated the investment portfolio during the first quarter of 2020 and determined that an $842,000 provision for credit losses was necessary. No additional provision was deemed necessary during the remaining quarters of 2020 or the first three quarters of 2021. See Note 3 for further discussion.

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The following table illustrates the impact of the adoption of ASC 326 on the Company’s 2020 consolidated balance sheet.

Revenue Recognition

Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers ("ASC Topic 606"), establishes principles for reporting information about the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising from the entity's contracts to provide goods or services to customers. The core principle requires an entity to recognize revenue to depict the transfer of goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration that it expects to be entitled to receive in exchange for those goods or services recognized as performance obligations are satisfied. The majority of our revenue-generating transactions are not subject to ASC Topic 606, including revenue generated from financial instruments, such as our loans, letters of credit, investment securities and mortgage lending income, as these activities are subject to other GAAP discussed elsewhere within our disclosures. Descriptions of our significant revenue-generating activities that are within the scope of ASC Topic 606, which are presented in our income statements as components of non-interest income are as follows:

Earnings per Share

Basic earnings per share is computed based on the weighted-average number of shares outstanding during each year.  Diluted earnings per share is computed using the weighted-average shares and all potential dilutive shares outstanding during the period.  The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted earnings per share (“EPS”) for the following periods:

As of September 30, 2020, options to purchase 3.3 million shares of common stock with a weighted average exercise price of $19.56 were excluded from the computation of diluted earnings per share as the majority of the options had an exercise price which was greater than the average market price of the common stock.

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2.  Business Combinations

Acquisition of LH-Finance

On February 29, 2020, the Company completed the acquisition of LH-Finance, the marine lending division of People’s United Bank, N.A. The Company paid a purchase price of approximately $421.2 million in cash. LH-Finance provides direct consumer financing for United States Coast Guard (“USCG”) registered high-end sail and power boats. Additionally, LH-Finance provides inventory floor plan lines of credit to marine dealers, primarily those selling USCG documented vessels.

Including the purchase accounting adjustments, as of the acquisition date, LH-Finance had approximately $409.1 million in total assets, including $407.4 million in total loans, which resulted in goodwill of $14.6 million being recorded.

The acquired portfolio of loans is now housed in the Shore Premier Finance (“SPF”) division.  The SPF division of Centennial is responsible for servicing the acquired loan portfolio and originating new loan production. In connection with this acquisition, Centennial opened a loan production office in Baltimore, Maryland.

Future Acquisition of Happy Bancshares, Inc.

On September 15, 2021, the Company and Centennial entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Agreement”) with Happy Bancshares, Inc., a Texas corporation (“Happy”), and its wholly-owned bank subsidiary, Happy State Bank, a Texas banking association (“HSB”), under which the Company and Centennial will acquire Happy and HSB. The Agreement, as amended on October 18, 2021, provides that, in a series of transactions, an acquisition subsidiary of the Company will merge into Happy and Happy will merge into the Company, with the Company as the surviving entity (collectively, the “Merger”). As soon as reasonably practicable following the Merger, HSB will merge into Centennial, with Centennial as the surviving entity.

Under the terms of the Agreement, as amended, the Company will issue approximately 42.3 million shares of its common stock to the shareholders of Happy upon the completion of the Merger, for a purchase price of approximately $1.02 billion, valued based on the volume-weighted average closing price per share of the Company’s common stock as reported on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (“Nasdaq”) for the 20 consecutive trading day period ending on November 1, 2021. No cash consideration will be paid in connection with the Merger, except that holders of outstanding shares of Happy common stock at the time of the Merger will receive cash payments in lieu of any fractional shares of Company common stock to which they are otherwise entitled in connection with the Merger. In addition, the Company expects to pay an aggregate of up to approximately $11.0 million in cash in cancellation of certain stock appreciation rights issued by Happy that remain outstanding at the time of the Merger.  

Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Agreement, as amended, at the effective time of the Merger (the “Effective Time”), each outstanding share of common stock of Happy will be converted into the right to receive, without interest, 2.17 shares of the Company’s common stock (the “Merger Consideration”). Each unvested restricted share of Happy common stock outstanding at the Effective Time will fully vest and be converted into the right to receive the Merger Consideration. In addition, at the Effective Time, each outstanding option to purchase Happy common stock will be cancelled and converted into the right to receive the number of whole shares of the Company’s common stock, together with any cash in lieu of fractional shares, equal to the product of (i) the number of shares of Happy common stock subject to the option, multiplied by (ii) the excess, if any, of the Merger Consideration value over the exercise price of the option, less applicable tax withholdings, divided by (iii) the Company’s Average Closing Price (defined below). Similarly, each stock appreciation right of Happy outstanding at the Effective Time will be cancelled and converted into the right to receive a cash payment, without interest, equal to the product of (i) the number of shares of Happy common stock subject to the stock appreciation right, multiplied by (ii) the excess, if any, of the Merger Consideration value over the grant price of the stock appreciation right, less applicable tax withholdings. For purposes of these calculations, the Merger Consideration value will be determined using a volume-weighted average closing price of the Company’s common stock as reported on Nasdaq over the 20 consecutive trading day period ending on the third business day prior to the closing of the Merger (“the Company’s Average Closing Price”), multiplied by 2.17.

The Merger is expected to close during the first quarter of 2022, and is subject to the approval of the shareholders of the Company and Happy, regulatory approvals, and other conditions set forth in the Agreement. 

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3.  Investment Securities

  The following table summarizes the amortized cost and fair value of securities available-for-sale and the corresponding amounts of gross unrealized gains and losses recognized in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss):

Assets, principally investment securities, having a carrying value of approximately $1.17 billion and $1.08 billion at September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively, were pledged to secure public deposits, as collateral for repurchase agreements, and for other purposes required or permitted by law. Investment securities pledged as collateral for repurchase agreements totaled approximately $141.0 million and $168.9 million at September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively.

The amortized cost and estimated fair value of securities classified as available-for-sale at September 30, 2021, by contractual maturity, are shown below. Expected maturities could differ from contractual maturities because issuers may have the right to call or prepay obligations with or without call or prepayment penalties. Securities not due at a single maturity date are shown separately.