Republic First Bancorp Inc. Reports Operating Results (10-Q)

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Nov 10, 2009
Republic First Bancorp Inc. (FRBK, Financial) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2009-09-30.

REPUBLIC FST BC is a two-bank holding company. Its wholly-owned subsidiaries, FirstRepublic Bank, and Republic First Bank of Delaware, offer banking services to individuals and businesses throughout the Greater Philadelphia, Delaware and South Jersey area. They provide banking services through the Banks and do not presently engage in any activities other than these bankinga ctivities. Republic First Bancorp Inc. has a market cap of $43.9 million; its shares were traded at around $4.12 with and P/S ratio of 1.5. Republic First Bancorp Inc. had an annual average earning growth of 3% over the past 10 years.

Highlight of Business Operations:

Assets increased $471,000 to $952.5 million at September 30, 2009, compared to $952.0 million at December 31, 2008. This increase reflected a $42.6 million increase in cash and cash equivalents, a $19.1 million increase in investment securities, and a $10.5 million increase in premises and equipment offset by a $77.6 million decrease in loans receivable.

Investment securities available-for-sale are investments which may be sold in response to changing market and interest rate conditions, and for liquidity and other purposes. The Company s investment securities available-for-sale consist primarily of U.S. Government Agency issued mortgage-backed securities, municipal securities, corporate bonds, and bank pooled trust preferred securities. Available-for-sale securities totaled $102.1 million at September 30, 2009, compared to $83.0 million at year-end 2008. At September 30, 2009 and December 31, 2008, the portfolio had net unrealized losses of $818,000 and $2.2 million, respectively.

Cash and due from banks, interest bearing deposits and federal funds sold comprise this category which consists of the Company s most liquid assets. The aggregate amount in these three categories increased by $42.6 million, to $77.0 million at September 30, 2009, from $34.4 million at December 31, 2008, primarily reflecting a $34.7 million increase in cash and due from banks.

Other real estate owned amounted to $10.8 million at September 30, 2009 compared to $8.6 million at December 31, 2008, primarily reflecting two transfers related to loans of $4.1 million, partially offset by write-downs totaling $1.4 million and proceeds from sales totaling $361,000.

Total deposits increased by $84.5 million to $823.6 million at September 30, 2009 from $739.2 million at December 31, 2008. Average transaction account balances increased $87.4 million, or 25.4%, to $431.0 million in the third quarter of 2009. Period end time deposits decreased $12.6 million, or 3.2%, to $381.1 million at September 30, 2009, compared to $393.7 million at the prior year-end.

The Company reported net income of $185,000, or $0.02 per diluted share, for the three months ended September 30, 2009, compared to a $1.5 million net income, or $0.14 per diluted share, for the comparable prior year period. There was a $2.8 million, or 20.8%, decrease in total interest income, reflecting a 101 basis point decrease in the yield on average loans outstanding while interest expense decreased $2.0 million, driven by a 110 basis point decrease in the rate on average interest-bearing deposits outstanding. Net interest income for the three months ended September 30, 2009 decreased $813,000 compared to the quarter ended September 30, 2008. The provision for loan losses in the third quarter of 2009 increased to $150,000, compared to $43,000 in the third quarter of 2008, primarily reflecting an increase in specific reserves on impaired loans. Non-interest income decreased to $250,000 in third quarter 2009 compared to $672,000 in third quarter 2008. Non-interest expenses increased $692,000 to $6.7 million compared to $6.0 million in the third quarter of 2008, primarily due to a $775,000 increase in salaries and employee benefits expense. Return on average assets and average equity was 0.08% and 1.02% respectively, in the third quarter of 2009 compared to 0.65% and 7.76% respectively for the same period in 2008.

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