Heartland Financial USA Inc. Reports Operating Results (10-Q)

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May 10, 2010
Heartland Financial USA Inc. (HTLF, Financial) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2010-03-31.

Heartland Financial Usa Inc. has a market cap of $297.35 million; its shares were traded at around $18.19 with a P/E ratio of 23.03 and P/S ratio of 1.16. The dividend yield of Heartland Financial Usa Inc. stocks is 2.2%. Heartland Financial Usa Inc. had an annual average earning growth of 0.3% over the past 10 years.

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Net income was $5.3 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2010, compared to $6.1 million for the first quarter of 2009. Net income available to common stockholders was $4.0 million, or $0.24 per diluted common share, for the quarter ended March 31, 2010, compared to $4.8 million, or $0.29 per diluted common share, for the first quarter of 2009. Return on average common equity was 6.83 percent and return on average assets was 0.41 percent for the first quarter of 2010, compared to 8.26 percent and 0.53 percent, respectively, for the same quarter in 2009.

Total loans and leases, exclusive of those covered by the FDIC loss share agreements, were $2.37 billion at March 31, 2010, compared to $2.33 billion at year-end 2009, an increase of $38.1 million or 7 percent annualized. The loan category experiencing the majority of this growth was commercial and commercial real estate loans, which primarily occurred at Dubuque Bank and Trust Company and Wisconsin Community Bank.

Total deposits were $3.04 billion at March 31, 2010, compared to $3.05 billion at year-end 2009, a decrease of $13.0 million or 2 percent annualized. The Heartland banks experiencing an increase in deposits during the first quarter of 2010 were New Mexico Bank & Trust, Arizona Bank & Trust and Minnesota Bank & Trust. Dubuque Bank and Trust experienced a decrease in total deposits as one large depositor shifted a large portion of its deposits into retail repurchase agreements with the bank. Deposit composition continued to improve during the first quarter of 2010, as demand and savings deposit balances increased and time deposits, exclusive of brokered deposits, decreased.

Net interest income on a tax-equivalent basis totaled $35.8 million during the first quarter of 2010, an increase of $3.7 million or 12 percent from the $32.1 million recorded during the first quarter of 2009. This increase occurred as Heartland s interest bearing liabilities repriced downward more quickly than its interest earning assets. Also contributing to this increase was a continued change in the composition of interest bearing liabilities as the percentage of average time deposits, which are typically the highest cost deposits, decreased from 44 percent of total average deposits during the first quarter of 2009 to 33 percent during the first quarter of 2010.

Even though average earning assets during the first quarter of 2010 were $200.5 million or 6 percent greater than during the first quarter of 2009, interest income, on a tax-equivalent basis, during the first quarter of 2010 remained consistent with the interest income earned during the first quarter of 2009 at $50.8 million. The composition of average earning assets continued to change as the percentage of loans, which are typically the highest yielding asset, to total average earning assets was 67 percent during the first quarter of 2010 compared to 72 percent during the first quarter of 2009.

Interest expense for the first quarter of 2010 was $15.0 million, a decrease of $3.7 million or 20 percent from $18.7 million in the first quarter of 2009, and a decrease of $1.4 million or 9 percent from $16.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2009. Interest rates paid on Heartland s deposits and borrowings were significantly lower during the first quarter of 2010 compared to the first and fourth quarters of 2009, and we anticipate further improvements in interest expense during the second quarter of 2010. Despite an increase in average interest bearing liabilities of $244.4 million or 8 percent for the quarter ended March 31, 2010, as compared to the same quarter in 2009, the average interest rates paid on Heartland s deposits and borrowings declined 68 basis points from 2.60 percent in 2009 to 1.92 percent in 2010. Approximately 31 percent of Heartland s certificate of deposit accounts will mature within the next six months at a weighted average rate of 1.71 percent.

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