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

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Nov 09, 2010
Heartland Financial USA Inc. (HTLF, Financial) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2010-09-30.

Heartland Financial Usa Inc. has a market cap of $279.8 million; its shares were traded at around $17.09 with a P/E ratio of 16.8 and P/S ratio of 1.1. The dividend yield of Heartland Financial Usa Inc. stocks is 2.3%. 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 $6.9 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2010, compared to $3.5 million for the third quarter of 2009. Net income available to common stockholders was $5.6 million, or $0.34 per diluted common share, for the quarter ended September 30, 2010, compared to $2.2 million, or $0.13 per diluted common share, for the third quarter of 2009. Return on average common equity was 8.76 percent and return on average assets was 0.55 percent for the third quarter of 2010, compared to 3.54 percent and 0.22 percent, respectively, for the same quarter in 2009.

Net income recorded for the first nine months of 2010 was $17.3 million, compared to $14.2 million recorded during the first nine months of 2009. Net income available to common stockholders was $13.4 million, or $0.81 per diluted common share, for the nine months ended September 30, 2010, compared to $10.4 million, or $0.64 per diluted common share, earned during the first nine months of 2009. Return on average common equity was 7.32 percent and return on average assets was 0.45 percent for the first nine months of 2010, compared to 5.81 percent and 0.37 percent, respectively, for the same period in 2009.

Total loans and leases, exclusive of those covered by the FDIC loss share agreements, were $2.36 billion at September 30, 2010, compared to $2.33 billion at year-end 2009, an increase of $30.4 million or 2 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. The level of nonperforming loans, exclusive of those covered under loss sharing agreements, increased to $85.2 million at September 30, 2010, from $78.1 million at December 31, 2009.

Total deposits were $3.07 billion at September 30, 2010, compared to $3.05 billion at year-end 2009, an increase of $23.3 million or 1 percent annualized. The composition of Heartland's deposits continued to improve during the first nine months of 2010, as demand deposits increased $121.3 million or 35 percent annualized since year-end 2009. Time deposits as a percent of total deposits decreased to 30 percent at September 30, 2010, from 34 percent at year-end 2009.

On a tax-equivalent basis, interest income in the third quarter of 2010 was $51.5 million compared to $53.0 million in the third quarter of 2009, a decrease of $1.5 million or 3 percent. For the first nine months of 2010, interest income on a tax-equivalent basis was $153.8 million compared to $155.4 million during the same period in 2009, a decrease of $1.6 million or 1 percent. The $106.3 million or 3 percent growth in average earning assets during the third quarter of 2010 and the $172.9 million or 5 percent growth in average earning assets during the first nine months of 2010 compared to the same periods in 2009 was offset by the impact of a decrease in the average interest rate earned on these assets. 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 66 percent during the first nine months of 2010 compared to 70 percent during the first nine months of 2009.

Interest expense for the third quarter of 2010 was $13.6 million, a decrease of $3.7 million or 22 percent from $17.3 million in the third quarter of 2009. On a nine-month comparative basis, interest expense decreased $11.1 million or 21 percent to $43.0 million during 2010 from $54.1 million during 2009. Despite an increase in average interest bearing liabilities of $43.2 million or 1 percent for the quarter ended September 30, 2010, as compared to the same quarter in 2009, the average interest rates paid on Heartland's deposits and borrowings declined 51 basis points to 1.74 percent in 2010 from 2.25 percent in 2009. For the nine-month comparative period, average interest bearing liabilities increased $156.2 million or 5 percent while the average interest rate paid on these liabilities was 1.83 percent in 2010 compared to 2.43 percent in 2009, a 60 basis point decrease. The opportunity for continued downward repricing of maturing certificates of deposit has begun to diminish. The amount of certificates of deposit maturing over the next six months is $261.3 million, or 28 percent of total certificates of deposit, at a weighted average rate of 1.26 percent. For the next twelve months, the amount of certificates of deposit maturing is $447.8 million, or 49 percent of total certificates of deposit, at a weighted average rate of 1.77 percent. Additionally, Heartland believes that the rates currently paid on its non-maturity deposits are effectively approaching a floor and that it will have less flexibility to pay lower rates on these deposits in the future.

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