Citizens Community Bancorp Inc. Reports Operating Results (10-K)

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Dec 23, 2010
Citizens Community Bancorp Inc. (CZWI, Financial) filed Annual Report for the period ended 2010-09-30.

Citizens Community Bancorp Inc. has a market cap of $19.3 million; its shares were traded at around $3.772 .

Highlight of Business Operations:

The Company is a Maryland corporation organized in 2004. The Company is a unitary savings and loan holding company and is subject to regulation by the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS). Our primary activities consist of holding the stock of our wholly-owned subsidiary bank, Citizens Community Federal, and providing consumer banking activities through the Bank. At September 30, 2010, we had approximately $594 million in total assets, $476 million in deposits, and $50 million in equity. Unless otherwise noted herein, all monetary amounts in this report, other than share and per share amounts, are stated in thousands.

Our total outstanding loans as of September 30, 2010, were $457,004, consisting of $262,691 in real estate loans, $189,677 in secure consumer loans, and $4,636 in unsecured consumer loans.

We offer a broad range of deposit products through our branches, including demand deposits, various savings and money-market accounts and certificates of deposit. Deposits are insured by the Deposit Insurance Fund of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) up to statutory limits. At September 30, 2010, our total deposits were $476,302, including interest-bearing deposits of $460,377 million and non-interest-bearing deposits of $15,925.

We are subject to increases in FDIC insurance premiums and special assessments by the FDIC, which will adversely affect our earnings. During 2008 and continuing in 2009, higher levels of bank failures have dramatically increased resolution costs of the FDIC and depleted the Deposit Insurance Fund. In addition, the FDIC instituted two temporary programs to further insure customer deposits at FDIC insured banks: deposit accounts now are insured up to $250,000 per customer (up from $100,000) and noninterest-bearing transactional accounts are currently fully insured (unlimited coverage), under the Transaction Account Guarantee (“TAG”) program. These programs have placed additional stress on the Deposit Insurance Fund. In order to maintain a strong funding position and restore reserve ratios of the Deposit Insurance Fund, the FDIC has increased assessment rates of the insured institutions. In addition, on November 12, 2009, the FDIC adopted a rule requiring banks to prepay three years worth of estimated deposit insurance premiums by December 31, 2009. We are generally unable to control the amount of premiums that we are required to pay for FDIC insurance. If additional bank or financial institution failures continue or increase, or if the cost of resolving prior failures exceeds expectations, we may be required to pay even higher FDIC premiums than the recently increased levels. These announced increases and any future increases or required prepayments of FDIC insurance premiums may adversely impact our earnings and financial condition.

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