TriCo Bancshares Reports Operating Results (10-Q)

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May 09, 2009
TriCo Bancshares (TCBK, Financial) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2009-03-31.

TriCo Bancshares is a bank holding company for Tri Counties Bank. The Bank conducts a commercial banking business including accepting demandsavings and time deposits and making commercial real estate and consumer loans. TriCo Bancshares has a market cap of $271.3 million; its shares were traded at around $17.19 with a P/E ratio of 17.8 and P/S ratio of 1.9. The dividend yield of TriCo Bancshares stocks is 3%. TriCo Bancshares had an annual average earning growth of 16.4% over the past 5 years.

Highlight of Business Operations:

Interest and Fee Income

Interest and fee income (FTE) for the first quarter of 2009 decreased $2,248,000

(7.2%) from the first quarter of 2008. The decrease was due to a 0.74% decrease

in the average yield on those interest-earning assets to 6.15% that was

partially offset by a $69,909,000 (3.9%) increase in average balances of

interest-earning assets to $1,887,121,000. The growth in interest-earning assets

was the result of a $45,379,000 increase in average balance of interest-earning

cash at Federal Reserve and other bank and a $30,993,000 (2.0%) increase in

average loan balances to $1,566,350 from the year-ago quarter. The decrease in

the average yield on interest-earning assets was primarily due to a 4.00%

decrease in the prime rate of lending from 7.25% at December 31, 2007 to 3.25%

at December 31, 2008. Interest rate floors in most of the Company's variable

rate loans mitigated the effect of the decrease in the prime rate of lending and

other variable rate indices during this period.



Interest Expense

Interest expense decreased $3,881,000 (39.7%) in the first quarter of 2009

compared to the prior year quarter. The decrease was primarily due to a 1.15%

decrease in the average rate paid on interest-bearing liabilities from 2.78% in

the first quarter of 2008 to 1.63% in the first quarter of 2009. The average

balance of interest-bearing liabilities was up $34,623,000 (2.5%) to

$1,441,816,000 in the quarter ended March 31, 2009 from the year-ago quarter.

The average rates paid for all categories of interest-bearing liabilities were

down except for the average rate paid on interest-bearing demand deposits.



Three months ended

March 31,

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2009 2008

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Yield on interest-earning assets 6.15% 6.89%

Rate paid on interest-bearing liabilities 1.63% 2.78%

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Net interest spread 4.52% 4.11%

Impact of all other net

noninterest-bearing funds 0.39% 0.63%

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Net interest margin 4.91% 4.74%

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Summary of Average Balances, Yields/Rates and Interest Differential

The following table presents, for the periods indicated, information regarding

the Company's consolidated average assets, liabilities and shareholders' equity,

the amounts of interest income from average interest-earning assets and

resulting yields, and the amount of interest expense paid on interest-bearing

liabilities. Average loan balances include nonperforming loans. Interest income

includes proceeds from loans on nonaccrual loans only to the extent cash

payments have been received and applied to interest income. Yields on securities

and certain loans have been adjusted upward to reflect the effect of income

thereon exempt from federal income taxation at the current statutory tax rate

(dollars in thousands).


For the three months ended

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March 31, 2009 March 31, 2008

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Interest Rates Interest Rates

Average Income/ Earned Average Income/ Earned

Balance Expense Paid Balance Expense Paid

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Assets:

Loans $1,566,350 $25,513 6.52% $1,535,357 $27,726 7.22%

Investment securities - taxable 252,431 3,083 4.89% 254,778 3,078 4.83%

Investment securities - nontaxable 22,609 417 7.38% 26,725 505 7.57%

Cash at Federal Reserve and other banks 45,731 22 0.19% 352 2 2.27%

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Total interest-earning assets 1,887,121 29,035 6.15% 1,817,212 31,311 6.89%

Other assets 162,072 171,454

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Total assets 2,049,193 1,988,666

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Liabilities and shareholders' equity:

Interest-bearing demand deposits 258,137 342 0.53% 218,487 87 0.16%

Savings deposits 408,749 893 0.87% 387,490 1,502 1.55%

Time deposits 655,343 3,967 2.42% 551,420 5,588 4.05%

Federal funds purchased - - - 103,565 812 3.14%

Other borrowings 78,349 242 1.24% 104,993 1,063 4.05%

Junior subordinated debt 41,238 440 4.27% 41,238 713 6.92%

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Total interest-bearing liabilities 1,441,816 5,884 1.63% 1,407,193 9,765 2.78%

Noninterest-bearing deposits 366,475 354,207

Other liabilities 38,776 33,817

Shareholders' equity 202,126 193,449

Total liabilities and shareholders' equity $2,049,193 $1,988,666

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Net interest spread(1) 4.52% 4.11%

Net interest income and interest margin(2) $23,151 4.91% $21,546 4.74%

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Nonperforming loans to total loans 2.19% 1.73%

Nonperforming assets to total assets 1.77% 1.41%

Allowance for loan losses/nonperforming loans 95% 100%




At March 31, At Minimum

- December 31, Regulatory

2009 2008 2008 Requirement

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Tier I Capital 11.42% 10.88% 11.17% 4.00%

Total Capital 12.68% 12.02% 12.42% 8.00%

Leverage ratio 10.86% 10.77% 11.09% 4.00%



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