NASDAQ:RBB RBB Bancorp Q1 2025 Earnings Report $26.22 +0.19 (+0.73%) Closing price 10/1/2026 04:00 PM EasternExtended Trading$26.22 0.00 (0.00%) As of 10/1/2026 04:10 PM Eastern Extended trading is trading that happens on electronic markets outside of regular trading hours. This is a fair market value extended hours price provided by Massive. Learn more. ProfileEarnings HistoryForecast RBB Bancorp EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.13Consensus EPS $0.38Beat/MissMissed by -$0.25One Year Ago EPSN/ARBB Bancorp Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$28.46 millionExpected Revenue$28.98 millionBeat/MissMissed by -$520.00 thousandYoY Revenue GrowthN/ARBB Bancorp Announcement DetailsQuarterQ1 2025Date4/28/2025TimeAfter Market ClosesConference Call DateTuesday, April 29, 2025Conference Call Time2:00PM ETUpcoming EarningsRBB Bancorp's Q3 2026 earnings is estimated for Monday, October 19, 2026, based on past reporting schedules, with a conference call scheduled on Tuesday, October 20, 2026 at 2:00 PM ET. Check back for transcripts, audio, and key financial metrics as they become available.Conference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckPress Release (8-K)Quarterly Report (10-Q)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by RBB Bancorp Q1 2025 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrApril 29, 2025ShareShareShare This ReportLink copied to clipboard.Key Takeaways RBB Bancorp reported Q1 net income of $2.3 million (down to $0.13 per share) after taking a $6.7 million provision for credit losses, while reducing non-performing assets by 20% and net exposure by 32% to $50.6 million. The bank achieved strong loan growth and margin expansion, with loans held for investment up $90 million (12% annualized) and a net interest margin rising 12 bps to 2.88%, driven by lower deposit costs. Noninterest income declined by $4.34 million due to lower gains on loan sales, while noninterest expenses increased $0.87 million from seasonal compensation, data processing and legal fees but are expected to normalize. Total deposits grew 8% annualized to $3.14 billion, shifting toward money market and CD products, and the bank’s capital ratios remain comfortably above well-capitalized thresholds, supporting potential share repurchases. Longtime CEO David Morris announced his retirement after 15 years, handing leadership to President Johnny Lean, while remaining on the board to guide the resolution of remaining non-performing assets. AI Generated. May Contain Errors.Conference Call Audio Live Call not available Earnings Conference CallRBB Bancorp Q1 202500:00 / 00:00Speed:1x1.25x1.5x2xTranscript SectionsPresentationParticipantsPresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Good day everyone, and welcome to the RBB Bancorp Q1 2025 earnings call. At this time, all participants have been placed on a listen-only mode, and we will open the floor for your questions and comments after the presentation. It is now my pleasure to turn the floor over to your host, Rebeca Rico. Ma'am, the floor is yours. Rebeca RicoAVP and Financial Analyst at RBB Bancorp00:00:21Thank you, Matthew. Good day everyone, and thank you for joining us to discuss RBB Bancorp results for the Q1 of 2025. With me today are Johnny Lee, David Morris, Lynn Hopkins, and Johnny Lee. David, Johnny, and Lynn will briefly summarize the results, which can be found in the earnings press release and investor presentation that are available on our investor relations website, and then we'll open up the call to your questions. I would ask that everyone please refer to the disclaimer regarding forward-looking statements in the investor presentation and the company's SEC filings. Now I'd like to turn over the call to RBB Bancorp's Chief Executive Officer, David Morris. David? David MorrisCEO at RBB Bancorp00:01:07Thank you, Rebeca. Good day everyone, and thank you for joining us today. Q1 net income declined to $2.3 million or $0.13 per share as we took decisive strategic action to address our non-performing assets. We reduced our non-performing assets by 20% and our net exposure to non-performing loans by 32% to $51 million. To accomplish this, we sold $18 million of loans, recognized provisions of $6.7 million, and received paydowns of $1.8 million. We believe the provisions we have taken over the last few quarters have addressed the vast majority of potential losses in our non-performing loans. As we said last quarter, we are focusing on resolving our non-performing loans as quickly as possible while minimizing the impact of earnings and capital, and we think our actions in the Q1 helped accomplish this. David MorrisCEO at RBB Bancorp00:02:14We continue to work through our remaining non-performing assets and expect to be able to report additional progress in the coming quarters. We did downgrade a $5.3 million New York CRE loan to non-performing in the Q1 after the largest tenant moved out. While unfortunate, we feel relatively confident that it will be resolved without any loss of principal as the borrower is actively working to fill the vacancy and has also listed the property for sale. A recently completed appraisal on the property indicates an LTV of about 85%. Now I'll hand it over to Johnny to talk about happier subjects like loan growth and margin expansion. Johnny? Johnny LeePresident at RBB Bancorp00:03:07Thank you, David. As David mentioned, in addition to making good progress resolving our troubled loans, we have strong loan growth in the Q1, another quarter of net expansion. Loans helped our investment grow by $90 million or 12% on an annualized basis, driven by the continued execution of our growth initiatives. Growth in commercial SBA and SFR balances more than offset the decline in C&D loans. We have seen especially strong results from our in-house mortgage origination business, which, despite the rare environment, originated $112 million in mortgages in the Q1. These contribute nicely to our total Q1 loan originations of $201 million at a blended yield of 6.77%, which will continue to support our asset yields and margins going forward. Johnny LeePresident at RBB Bancorp00:04:02Our pipelines remain full, so we expect to continue to see loan growth, though likely at a more moderate pace than we experienced in the Q1. Net interest margin increased 12 basis points to 2.88% due primarily to a 29 basis point decline in the cost of our interest-bearing deposits, which drove a 17 basis point decline in our overall cost of fund. We expect some incremental decreases in funding costs from here, but likely at a slower pace than we've seen since the peak in the Q3 last year. It's worth highlighting that since that time, we've reduced the cost of deposits by 50 basis points and the total cost of funds by 42 basis points. With that, I'll hand it over to Lynn to talk about the results in more detail. Lynn. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:04:50Thank you, Johnny. Please feel free to refer to the investor presentation we've provided as I share my comments on the company's Q1 of 2025 financial performance. Slide three of our investor presentation has a summary of our Q1 results. As David mentioned, net income was $2.3 million or $0.13 per diluted share. Q1 results were negatively impacted by a $6.7 million pre-tax provision for credit losses as we worked to address several non-performing assets. Net interest income before the provision increased for the third consecutive quarter to $26.2 million. We are optimistic that lower future provisions and the redeployment of capital previously tied up in non-performing assets will result in increasing net interest income after provisions in the coming quarters. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:05:45As Johnny mentioned, we had another quarter of net interest margin expansion, our third in a row, primarily driven by the decrease in the cost of deposits. Our spot rate on deposits on March 31 was 3.06%, or 7 basis points below the average of 3.13% for the Q1. Costs are likely to continue to decrease, but at a more measured pace in future quarters. Funding costs also included the Q1 maturity of $150 million of low-cost FHLB term advances, which were largely replaced with $110 million of FHLB advances with an average rate of 3.88%. Non-interest income declined by $434,000 to $2.3 million in the Q1 due to lower gain on sale of loans and other income that was partially offset by higher fees and servicing income. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:06:44Q1 non-interest expenses increased by $873,000 to $18.5 million due to a seasonal increase in comp and benefits, higher data processing fees, and an increase in legal and professional expenses. We expect comp and benefit expenses to normalize next quarter and for legal and professional expenses to trend down from here. Turning to credit, the provision for credit losses was $6.7 million compared to $6 million in the prior quarter. The Q1 provision was due to an increase in specific reserves of $2.8 million, net charge-offs of $2.6 million, and an increase in general reserves of $1.3 million due mainly to loan growth. The increase in specific reserves relates mostly to two lending relationships. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:07:35Net charge-offs included $1.2 million related to an $8.8 million loan that was moved to REO and subsequently sold, and $1.4 million related to a bulk sale of $10.8 million of underperforming SFR mortgages, of which $6.5 million were on non-accrual at year-end. Slide five and six have additional color on our loan portfolio and yields. The loan portfolio yield was stable from the Q4 at 6.03%. Slide seven has details about our $1.5 billion residential mortgage portfolio, which remains stable and consists of well-secured non-QM mortgages primarily in New York and California, with an average LTV of 55%. Slides nine through twelve have details on asset quality, some of which David has already covered in detail. NPLs decreased $20.7 million, or 25%, to $60.4 million and represent 1.92% of loans held for investment at quarter end. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:08:42With the increase in specific reserves to $9.7 million, our net exposure to MPLs decreased 32% to $50.6 million. Substandard loans decreased $24 million and totaled $76.4 million at the end of the Q1. The decrease was primarily due to $11.7 million in loan sales, transfers to REO totaling $12.8 million, of which $8.8 million was subsequently sold, and payoffs and paydowns totaling $5.4 million. These decreases were partially offset by downgrades of two loans totaling $6.2 million. Of the total substandard loans at March 31st, $16 million were on accrual status. The ratio of our allowance for loan losses to total loans held for investment increased by 9 basis points to 1.65%, inclusive of the specific reserves, while the coverage ratio of our allowance for loan losses to non-performing loans increased to 86%, up from 68%. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:09:58When we exclude specific reserves and individually reviewed loans, the ratio of allowance for loan losses to loans held for investment was up one basis point to 1.36% at the end of the Q1. Slide thirteen has details about our deposit franchise. Total deposits increased at an 8% annualized rate from the Q4 to $3.14 billion, with growth in money market accounts and CDs more than offsetting a decline in non-interest-bearing accounts. Our tangible book value per share increased to $24.63. Our capital ratios remain strong, with all capital ratios above regulatory well-capitalized levels. Now I'd like to hand it back over to David and Johnny for a few closing remarks. David MorrisCEO at RBB Bancorp00:10:52Thank you, Lynn. As this is my last earnings call here at RBB, I want to take a moment to express my gratitude to all of our employees, customers, the board, and our shareholders. We have had our share of challenges over the last few years but have not lost sight of our goal to be the bank of choice for Asian Americans nationwide. I've enjoyed the friendships I've built since joining RBB over 15 years ago, and I look forward to continuing to be of service on our board of directors. Johnny. Johnny LeePresident at RBB Bancorp00:11:31Thank you, David, and thank you for your years of leadership and contributions to the world of business. We are particularly grateful for all the work you have done over the last year to work through our non-performing assets, and we look forward to your continued input and guidance as a member of the board of directors. With that, we are happy to take your questions. Operator, please open up the call. Operator00:11:54Certainly. Everyone at this time will be conducting a question-and-answer session. If you have any questions or comments, please press star one on your phone at this time. We do ask that while posing your question, please pick up your handset if you're listening on speakerphone to provide optimum sound quality. Once again, if you have any questions or comments, please press star one on your phone. Your first question is coming from Brendan Nosal from Hovde Group. Your line is live. Brendan NosalAnalyst at Hovde Group00:12:25Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Hope you're doing well. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:12:28Yes, thank you. Brendan NosalAnalyst at Hovde Group00:12:30Maybe just starting off here on capital, we'd just love to get your thoughts, your updated thoughts that is on potential for share purchase at some point this year. It feels like you're getting a better line of sight toward asset quality resolution and made progress this quarter. Capital ratios are strong, and obviously the pricing for a buyback would remain pretty attractive. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:12:52Thank you, and thanks for starting with that. I think we all can recognize that with our current share price and our capital ratios, a buyback is one of the best uses of our excess capital. We are working hard to put a buyback in place and hope to have more to report to everyone soon. Brendan NosalAnalyst at Hovde Group00:13:13Okay, thanks for that, Lynn. Maybe moving over to a couple of dynamics within the margin. Maybe just first, when during the quarter exactly did that FHLB roll from the lower cost to the higher cost one, just to get a sense of how much that is embedded in this quarter's margin. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:13:33I probably could answer that a couple of different ways. It's fully priced into our March net interest margin, and I would say our March net interest margin is a little bit below the whole quarter's average. Obviously, the FHLB advances at $150 million are just a fraction of our total funding base, even though they needed to come up into the mid to high threes. Brendan NosalAnalyst at Hovde Group00:14:03Okay. All right, that's helpful. Last one from me before I step back here. Just wanted to hit on the interplay of the margin and non-accruals for a minute. Can you just give us a sense of how much margin drag you're currently experiencing from the non-accrual base at the moment? Thanks. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:14:22I don't know that I translated it completely into basis points, but there is certainly a drag on our net interest margin. Last year, when we were reversing our interest income, when we were placing them on non-accrual, those were expensive. I think when we look at just $20 million able to come back onto accrual status at 6%, it's about $1.2 million in the year. That's probably how I would look at it, and we have $60 million more to go. Brendan NosalAnalyst at Hovde Group00:15:03Yeah, yeah. All right, fantastic. Thanks for taking the questions. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:15:08Yeah, no, thank you. Operator00:15:11Thank you. Your next question is coming from Matthew Clark from Piper Sandler. Your line is live. Matthew ClarkManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Piper Sandler00:15:18Hey, good morning, everyone. Just on the staying on the margin, did you have any kind of outsized interest recoveries in the quarter from unloading some of these problem loans? Just trying to get a sense if there was any outsized reversals in the quarter. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:15:48Fair question. The short answer is no. We tried to, I think, articulate that in the earnings, I think, release. For this quarter, the resolution of the non-performing assets did not result in the recapture of any interest income with the loans being sold and then also a couple of them moving to REO. Matthew ClarkManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Piper Sandler00:16:20Okay. What is your appetite for doing more of these problem loan sales at this stage? David MorrisCEO at RBB Bancorp00:16:30Okay. We believe we want to keep all of our options open. However, we believe that we're well reserved for future write-offs, if any. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:16:46Yeah. I think they were—let me add—I think we were opportunistic in the sales that occurred in the Q1. Obviously, we took some charge-offs associated with them. One was it's a unique property. We would have had operating costs. We took the opportunity to get that closed by quarter end. I think having the opportunity to approach a bulk sale where a majority of them had been on non-accrual at year-end, and then we were able to fold in some other less desirable SFRs and, again, get it done by quarter end helped move it forward. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:17:29I think for what's left, we believe that we're adequately reserved for what we would need to do to take action, and we are open to sales, working with the borrowers to return them to accrual status if that was a possibility, but do look to add them back to being performing assets or redeploying the money into earning assets. Matthew ClarkManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Piper Sandler00:17:59Okay. Just on the tariff war, have you all—I know it's probably still a little early, but have you made—have you done any work to try to ring-fence or quantify what exposure you might have from kind of an import-export perspective and maybe even from an indirect perspective? David MorrisCEO at RBB Bancorp00:18:21Yeah, I'm happy with this, Johnny. Yes, we have reached out to our top 10 customers just to do a health check, if you will. So far, yeah, we do not observe any potential financial impacts at this time. Obviously, there is still uncertainty here with the changing sort of terms associated with the tariffs and how it is going to be applied and everything. So far, yes, we do not observe any potential financial impact. Also, just want to keep in mind that our overall C&I, trade finance mix of the loan to our total portfolio in loan portfolio is contributing currently about 4% only. Again, that is roughly the income mix of our overall loan portfolio at this time. Matthew ClarkManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Piper Sandler00:19:20Okay. Okay. The last one for me, just on the gain on sale this quarter, a little light. Maybe speak to the weakness there and your outlook if you could. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:19:32You want me to start? David MorrisCEO at RBB Bancorp00:19:33Yeah, you can start. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:19:34Sure. I'll start. Loan sales were a little bit lower in the first quarter. We did take the opportunity to keep some of it on the balance sheet. I believe that there's a little bit of a pipeline building on SBA that has larger gains. I think our outlook is that it would return to more normalized levels that we at least saw in the Q4. David MorrisCEO at RBB Bancorp00:20:07Yeah. Matthew ClarkManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Piper Sandler00:20:07Okay. Perfect. Thank you. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:20:10Yeah. Does anybody want to add? David MorrisCEO at RBB Bancorp00:20:11Oh, no, no. I want to add a comment on the SBA side. We did have a new hire right at the beginning of January. Yeah, it is coming online. We do expect a higher volume of SBA loans being funded in Q2. Matthew ClarkManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Piper Sandler00:20:31Great. Thanks again. Operator00:20:34Thank you. Your next question is coming from Andrew Terrell from Stephens. Your line is live. Andrew TerrellAnalyst at Stephens00:20:42Hey, good afternoon. Good morning. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:20:46Hi. Andrew TerrellAnalyst at Stephens00:20:46Hey, I wanted to ask on just I heard some of the comments early on. It sounds like expectations around loan growth are still generally positive, maybe at a slower pace relative to a pretty strong quarter here in the Q1. I wanted to shift to the deposits and just get a sense on expectations around ability to core fund that expected loan growth, the sensitivity around the 100% loan to deposit ratio, if any. I also wanted to drill down a bit on if you have any color on the non-interest-bearing deposit trends. It looks like off a bit towards the end of the period. Any color as to what drove the NIB rotation this quarter? Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:21:29Sure. I'll start and you can add. Good question, Andrew. Thank you. With respect to the non-interest-bearing deposits, I think some of it was seasonal business activities we observed. We did observe some migration into higher-yielding money market and CD product. I think we did observe some of that in the Q1. We did have a successful CD campaign in the first quarter that we were able to reduce our reliance on wholesale funding a little bit when you consider FHLB advances and our brokered funds. I think that we foresee success in being able to fund our loan growth organically. Again, our reliance on wholesale funding, I think, is modest. We have some room there to the extent that loan growth remains at the similar levels. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:22:41We still remain focused on C&I production, how we can bring in some additional non-interest-bearing deposits, but that will take a lot longer time period. Andrew TerrellAnalyst at Stephens00:22:56Got it. Thank you. Thank you, Lynn. I appreciate it. Also, just do you have the weighted average? It looks like the FHLB that you added in the quarter had varying maturities. Do you have the weighted average term or the range of terms there? Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:23:12Sure. $130 million of them are puttable advances with the longest final terms at seven years. However, the put options at the FHLB side range from, I'm thinking, June until September this year. Pretty short on the FHLB's call option side of things with final maturities at three, four, and seven years. Andrew TerrellAnalyst at Stephens00:23:52I got it. Okay. I appreciate it. Yeah, I just want to say, David, it's been a pleasure speaking with you on these quarterly calls for a while now. Congratulations. David MorrisCEO at RBB Bancorp00:24:03Okay. Thanks. Thanks. Operator00:24:08Thank you. Once again, everyone, if you have any questions or comments, please press star, then one on your phone. Your next question is coming from Kelly Motta from KBW. Your line is live. Kelly MottaManaging Director and Equity Research Analyst at KBW00:24:20Hi. Thank you so much for the question. I just, again, want to echo those sentiments of, "David, it's been a pleasure working with you, and congrats on a well-deserved retirement, and congrats again, Johnny, on the upcoming role." I guess with the credit, I apologize if you've addressed this at this point, but in terms of the workout, I know you talked a bit about your approach to the sales. I'm just wondering in terms of the timeframe of this workout. I think originally you were hopeful that would be completed by mid this year. It feels like that might get pushed out a bit. Do you have any sense in terms of the timeframe in your ability to work out these credits, understanding that there's a lot of parties, insurance involved, etc.? David MorrisCEO at RBB Bancorp00:25:13Yeah. Kelly, thanks for the question. It is really hard for us to tell exactly when the NPLs are going to come off our balance sheet and to decrease it down to our normal baseline. However, we believe that by the H2 of 2025, that could be our target. NPLs will continue to be lumpy through 2025. It's going to continue to be out there and so forth. We are making steady progress on all of these right now. We're making steady progress, and we expect to see more to go off in the Q2. Kelly MottaManaging Director and Equity Research Analyst at KBW00:25:58Got it. That's really helpful. I appreciate the color on the trade finance and the C&I component. I know it's relatively small, but digging in a little further, I believe a lot of those factories in China have shifted production during the last Trump administration. Do you have any ballpark as to your exposure to China versus some other countries, given you're a Chinese American bank and might get lumped into that narrative with that niche there? Just trying to understand what the actual exposure might be. Johnny LeePresident at RBB Bancorp00:26:44Kelly, that's a good question. All I can say is right now, as of today, all we know is that there's that 10% baseline, right, that impacts all countries. For me personally, I separate into two buckets: one that's U.S., China, and U.S., revenue world. Right now, U.S., China, I mean, the China tariffs obviously is up to, what, 145%. Revenue world, they're still based on 10%. Additionally, there will be, obviously, depending on the trade balance between U.S. and those respective countries, there will be different tariffs potentially be applied to them. Right now, it's at a pause. It remains to be seen how that's all going to play out. Obviously, it impacts different industries or different types of businesses that get impacted somewhat differently. It remains to be played out. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:27:42Kelly, in addition to Johnny's comments, our loan portfolio, the 4% we mentioned, about $120 million in trade finance, the portion that's China-specific versus other countries or markets where they might have taken action, I don't think we have that exactly broken down within that category. Again, I think anecdotally with the reach-out, we're not identifying anything at this point. Johnny LeePresident at RBB Bancorp00:28:18Right. Yeah. Nothing at this point. In fact, our existing borrowers are all very seasoned. Obviously, they've either made preparations in advance already or they have contingency plans put in place as this all plays out. Kelly MottaManaging Director and Equity Research Analyst at KBW00:28:37Got it. Last question for me. It sounds like, again, there's a lot of optimism about the loan growth pipeline. Obviously, not as strong as what was a really strong Q1, but wondering if you could provide some insight as to the composition of that pipeline, either if there's any particular markets that are particularly strong that you're seeing or which categories the pipeline is weighted to. David MorrisCEO at RBB Bancorp00:29:08Sure. If I can answer that. Our pipeline remains strong. It's pretty much still primarily contributed by our CRE loans and single-family residence. However, our C&I are starting to pick up. That takes time. Because of the new hires that we have recently since the beginning of this year, I do expect that to incrementally contribute to that pipeline. At this time, the pipeline is predominantly made up of CRE, MFRs, and SFRs primarily, even though SFR is a relatively small mix of the loan. I think we're gaining very good momentum on SBA loans as well. Kelly MottaManaging Director and Equity Research Analyst at KBW00:29:54Thank you so much. I'll step back. Operator00:29:59Thank you. Your next question is coming from Tim Coffey from Janney. Your line is live. Timothy CoffeyManaging Director and Associate Director of Depository Research at Janney Montgomery Scott00:30:06Thank you. Thanks for the opportunity to ask a question or two here. Lynn, apologies if this has already been discussed, but I have a question about non-interest expenses going forward. I heard the comments you made in the prepared remarks. Is it reasonable to think that expenses could look a little bit like they did the H2 of last year versus the H1 of last year? Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:30:35Yes. I think that's reasonable. I think we are still looking at our OpEx ratio to be around the 180% of average assets. We do think they were a bit elevated in the Q1, kind of as I talked about in our prepared remarks, especially with salary benefits moderating down. I think there's opportunity in OpEx to also trend down. Timothy CoffeyManaging Director and Associate Director of Depository Research at Janney Montgomery Scott00:31:12How much of the additive to expenses are the new hires and the lending side going to be, if at all? Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:31:22It's a little hard to say in the sense that you have people coming in that are new and in charge of certain things, but then we're also rationalizing the expense in other places. I don't think it's a direct add. I would just stick with the idea that we would estimate our operating expense run rate to be in kind of $17.5 million-$18 million, maybe with some puts and takes. Timothy CoffeyManaging Director and Associate Director of Depository Research at Janney Montgomery Scott00:31:51Okay. All right. Those are my questions. Thank you. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:31:55Thanks, Tim. Operator00:31:58Thank you. That concludes our Q&A session. I'll now hand the conference back to our host for closing remarks. Please go ahead. David MorrisCEO at RBB Bancorp00:32:07Once again, thank you for joining us today. We look forward to speaking to many of you in the coming days and weeks. Have a great day. Operator00:32:16Thank you. Everyone, this concludes today's event. You may disconnect at this time and have a wonderful day. Thank you for your participation.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesRebeca RicoAVP and Financial AnalystDavid MorrisCEOJohnny LeePresidentLynn HopkinsCFOAnalystsBrendan NosalAnalyst at Hovde GroupMatthew ClarkManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Piper SandlerAndrew TerrellAnalyst at StephensKelly MottaManaging Director and Equity Research Analyst at KBWTimothy CoffeyManaging Director and Associate Director of Depository Research at Janney Montgomery ScottPowered by Earnings DocumentsSlide DeckPress Release(8-K)Quarterly report(10-Q) RBB Bancorp Earnings HeadlinesRBB Bancorp to Report Third Quarter 2026 Financial ResultsOctober 1 at 8:30 AM | globenewswire.comAnalyzing RBB Bancorp (NASDAQ:RBB) & Woori Bank (NYSE:WF)September 28, 2026 | americanbankingnews.comThe investigation Porter spent tens of thousands to documentPorter Stansberry flew the Porter and Co. team 3,300 miles to Dublin to investigate a 17-year investing experiment called Project Prophet - and documented everything on film. 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PresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Good day everyone, and welcome to the RBB Bancorp Q1 2025 earnings call. At this time, all participants have been placed on a listen-only mode, and we will open the floor for your questions and comments after the presentation. It is now my pleasure to turn the floor over to your host, Rebeca Rico. Ma'am, the floor is yours. Rebeca RicoAVP and Financial Analyst at RBB Bancorp00:00:21Thank you, Matthew. Good day everyone, and thank you for joining us to discuss RBB Bancorp results for the Q1 of 2025. With me today are Johnny Lee, David Morris, Lynn Hopkins, and Johnny Lee. David, Johnny, and Lynn will briefly summarize the results, which can be found in the earnings press release and investor presentation that are available on our investor relations website, and then we'll open up the call to your questions. I would ask that everyone please refer to the disclaimer regarding forward-looking statements in the investor presentation and the company's SEC filings. Now I'd like to turn over the call to RBB Bancorp's Chief Executive Officer, David Morris. David? David MorrisCEO at RBB Bancorp00:01:07Thank you, Rebeca. Good day everyone, and thank you for joining us today. Q1 net income declined to $2.3 million or $0.13 per share as we took decisive strategic action to address our non-performing assets. We reduced our non-performing assets by 20% and our net exposure to non-performing loans by 32% to $51 million. To accomplish this, we sold $18 million of loans, recognized provisions of $6.7 million, and received paydowns of $1.8 million. We believe the provisions we have taken over the last few quarters have addressed the vast majority of potential losses in our non-performing loans. As we said last quarter, we are focusing on resolving our non-performing loans as quickly as possible while minimizing the impact of earnings and capital, and we think our actions in the Q1 helped accomplish this. David MorrisCEO at RBB Bancorp00:02:14We continue to work through our remaining non-performing assets and expect to be able to report additional progress in the coming quarters. We did downgrade a $5.3 million New York CRE loan to non-performing in the Q1 after the largest tenant moved out. While unfortunate, we feel relatively confident that it will be resolved without any loss of principal as the borrower is actively working to fill the vacancy and has also listed the property for sale. A recently completed appraisal on the property indicates an LTV of about 85%. Now I'll hand it over to Johnny to talk about happier subjects like loan growth and margin expansion. Johnny? Johnny LeePresident at RBB Bancorp00:03:07Thank you, David. As David mentioned, in addition to making good progress resolving our troubled loans, we have strong loan growth in the Q1, another quarter of net expansion. Loans helped our investment grow by $90 million or 12% on an annualized basis, driven by the continued execution of our growth initiatives. Growth in commercial SBA and SFR balances more than offset the decline in C&D loans. We have seen especially strong results from our in-house mortgage origination business, which, despite the rare environment, originated $112 million in mortgages in the Q1. These contribute nicely to our total Q1 loan originations of $201 million at a blended yield of 6.77%, which will continue to support our asset yields and margins going forward. Johnny LeePresident at RBB Bancorp00:04:02Our pipelines remain full, so we expect to continue to see loan growth, though likely at a more moderate pace than we experienced in the Q1. Net interest margin increased 12 basis points to 2.88% due primarily to a 29 basis point decline in the cost of our interest-bearing deposits, which drove a 17 basis point decline in our overall cost of fund. We expect some incremental decreases in funding costs from here, but likely at a slower pace than we've seen since the peak in the Q3 last year. It's worth highlighting that since that time, we've reduced the cost of deposits by 50 basis points and the total cost of funds by 42 basis points. With that, I'll hand it over to Lynn to talk about the results in more detail. Lynn. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:04:50Thank you, Johnny. Please feel free to refer to the investor presentation we've provided as I share my comments on the company's Q1 of 2025 financial performance. Slide three of our investor presentation has a summary of our Q1 results. As David mentioned, net income was $2.3 million or $0.13 per diluted share. Q1 results were negatively impacted by a $6.7 million pre-tax provision for credit losses as we worked to address several non-performing assets. Net interest income before the provision increased for the third consecutive quarter to $26.2 million. We are optimistic that lower future provisions and the redeployment of capital previously tied up in non-performing assets will result in increasing net interest income after provisions in the coming quarters. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:05:45As Johnny mentioned, we had another quarter of net interest margin expansion, our third in a row, primarily driven by the decrease in the cost of deposits. Our spot rate on deposits on March 31 was 3.06%, or 7 basis points below the average of 3.13% for the Q1. Costs are likely to continue to decrease, but at a more measured pace in future quarters. Funding costs also included the Q1 maturity of $150 million of low-cost FHLB term advances, which were largely replaced with $110 million of FHLB advances with an average rate of 3.88%. Non-interest income declined by $434,000 to $2.3 million in the Q1 due to lower gain on sale of loans and other income that was partially offset by higher fees and servicing income. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:06:44Q1 non-interest expenses increased by $873,000 to $18.5 million due to a seasonal increase in comp and benefits, higher data processing fees, and an increase in legal and professional expenses. We expect comp and benefit expenses to normalize next quarter and for legal and professional expenses to trend down from here. Turning to credit, the provision for credit losses was $6.7 million compared to $6 million in the prior quarter. The Q1 provision was due to an increase in specific reserves of $2.8 million, net charge-offs of $2.6 million, and an increase in general reserves of $1.3 million due mainly to loan growth. The increase in specific reserves relates mostly to two lending relationships. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:07:35Net charge-offs included $1.2 million related to an $8.8 million loan that was moved to REO and subsequently sold, and $1.4 million related to a bulk sale of $10.8 million of underperforming SFR mortgages, of which $6.5 million were on non-accrual at year-end. Slide five and six have additional color on our loan portfolio and yields. The loan portfolio yield was stable from the Q4 at 6.03%. Slide seven has details about our $1.5 billion residential mortgage portfolio, which remains stable and consists of well-secured non-QM mortgages primarily in New York and California, with an average LTV of 55%. Slides nine through twelve have details on asset quality, some of which David has already covered in detail. NPLs decreased $20.7 million, or 25%, to $60.4 million and represent 1.92% of loans held for investment at quarter end. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:08:42With the increase in specific reserves to $9.7 million, our net exposure to MPLs decreased 32% to $50.6 million. Substandard loans decreased $24 million and totaled $76.4 million at the end of the Q1. The decrease was primarily due to $11.7 million in loan sales, transfers to REO totaling $12.8 million, of which $8.8 million was subsequently sold, and payoffs and paydowns totaling $5.4 million. These decreases were partially offset by downgrades of two loans totaling $6.2 million. Of the total substandard loans at March 31st, $16 million were on accrual status. The ratio of our allowance for loan losses to total loans held for investment increased by 9 basis points to 1.65%, inclusive of the specific reserves, while the coverage ratio of our allowance for loan losses to non-performing loans increased to 86%, up from 68%. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:09:58When we exclude specific reserves and individually reviewed loans, the ratio of allowance for loan losses to loans held for investment was up one basis point to 1.36% at the end of the Q1. Slide thirteen has details about our deposit franchise. Total deposits increased at an 8% annualized rate from the Q4 to $3.14 billion, with growth in money market accounts and CDs more than offsetting a decline in non-interest-bearing accounts. Our tangible book value per share increased to $24.63. Our capital ratios remain strong, with all capital ratios above regulatory well-capitalized levels. Now I'd like to hand it back over to David and Johnny for a few closing remarks. David MorrisCEO at RBB Bancorp00:10:52Thank you, Lynn. As this is my last earnings call here at RBB, I want to take a moment to express my gratitude to all of our employees, customers, the board, and our shareholders. We have had our share of challenges over the last few years but have not lost sight of our goal to be the bank of choice for Asian Americans nationwide. I've enjoyed the friendships I've built since joining RBB over 15 years ago, and I look forward to continuing to be of service on our board of directors. Johnny. Johnny LeePresident at RBB Bancorp00:11:31Thank you, David, and thank you for your years of leadership and contributions to the world of business. We are particularly grateful for all the work you have done over the last year to work through our non-performing assets, and we look forward to your continued input and guidance as a member of the board of directors. With that, we are happy to take your questions. Operator, please open up the call. Operator00:11:54Certainly. Everyone at this time will be conducting a question-and-answer session. If you have any questions or comments, please press star one on your phone at this time. We do ask that while posing your question, please pick up your handset if you're listening on speakerphone to provide optimum sound quality. Once again, if you have any questions or comments, please press star one on your phone. Your first question is coming from Brendan Nosal from Hovde Group. Your line is live. Brendan NosalAnalyst at Hovde Group00:12:25Hey, good afternoon, everybody. Hope you're doing well. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:12:28Yes, thank you. Brendan NosalAnalyst at Hovde Group00:12:30Maybe just starting off here on capital, we'd just love to get your thoughts, your updated thoughts that is on potential for share purchase at some point this year. It feels like you're getting a better line of sight toward asset quality resolution and made progress this quarter. Capital ratios are strong, and obviously the pricing for a buyback would remain pretty attractive. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:12:52Thank you, and thanks for starting with that. I think we all can recognize that with our current share price and our capital ratios, a buyback is one of the best uses of our excess capital. We are working hard to put a buyback in place and hope to have more to report to everyone soon. Brendan NosalAnalyst at Hovde Group00:13:13Okay, thanks for that, Lynn. Maybe moving over to a couple of dynamics within the margin. Maybe just first, when during the quarter exactly did that FHLB roll from the lower cost to the higher cost one, just to get a sense of how much that is embedded in this quarter's margin. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:13:33I probably could answer that a couple of different ways. It's fully priced into our March net interest margin, and I would say our March net interest margin is a little bit below the whole quarter's average. Obviously, the FHLB advances at $150 million are just a fraction of our total funding base, even though they needed to come up into the mid to high threes. Brendan NosalAnalyst at Hovde Group00:14:03Okay. All right, that's helpful. Last one from me before I step back here. Just wanted to hit on the interplay of the margin and non-accruals for a minute. Can you just give us a sense of how much margin drag you're currently experiencing from the non-accrual base at the moment? Thanks. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:14:22I don't know that I translated it completely into basis points, but there is certainly a drag on our net interest margin. Last year, when we were reversing our interest income, when we were placing them on non-accrual, those were expensive. I think when we look at just $20 million able to come back onto accrual status at 6%, it's about $1.2 million in the year. That's probably how I would look at it, and we have $60 million more to go. Brendan NosalAnalyst at Hovde Group00:15:03Yeah, yeah. All right, fantastic. Thanks for taking the questions. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:15:08Yeah, no, thank you. Operator00:15:11Thank you. Your next question is coming from Matthew Clark from Piper Sandler. Your line is live. Matthew ClarkManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Piper Sandler00:15:18Hey, good morning, everyone. Just on the staying on the margin, did you have any kind of outsized interest recoveries in the quarter from unloading some of these problem loans? Just trying to get a sense if there was any outsized reversals in the quarter. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:15:48Fair question. The short answer is no. We tried to, I think, articulate that in the earnings, I think, release. For this quarter, the resolution of the non-performing assets did not result in the recapture of any interest income with the loans being sold and then also a couple of them moving to REO. Matthew ClarkManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Piper Sandler00:16:20Okay. What is your appetite for doing more of these problem loan sales at this stage? David MorrisCEO at RBB Bancorp00:16:30Okay. We believe we want to keep all of our options open. However, we believe that we're well reserved for future write-offs, if any. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:16:46Yeah. I think they were—let me add—I think we were opportunistic in the sales that occurred in the Q1. Obviously, we took some charge-offs associated with them. One was it's a unique property. We would have had operating costs. We took the opportunity to get that closed by quarter end. I think having the opportunity to approach a bulk sale where a majority of them had been on non-accrual at year-end, and then we were able to fold in some other less desirable SFRs and, again, get it done by quarter end helped move it forward. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:17:29I think for what's left, we believe that we're adequately reserved for what we would need to do to take action, and we are open to sales, working with the borrowers to return them to accrual status if that was a possibility, but do look to add them back to being performing assets or redeploying the money into earning assets. Matthew ClarkManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Piper Sandler00:17:59Okay. Just on the tariff war, have you all—I know it's probably still a little early, but have you made—have you done any work to try to ring-fence or quantify what exposure you might have from kind of an import-export perspective and maybe even from an indirect perspective? David MorrisCEO at RBB Bancorp00:18:21Yeah, I'm happy with this, Johnny. Yes, we have reached out to our top 10 customers just to do a health check, if you will. So far, yeah, we do not observe any potential financial impacts at this time. Obviously, there is still uncertainty here with the changing sort of terms associated with the tariffs and how it is going to be applied and everything. So far, yes, we do not observe any potential financial impact. Also, just want to keep in mind that our overall C&I, trade finance mix of the loan to our total portfolio in loan portfolio is contributing currently about 4% only. Again, that is roughly the income mix of our overall loan portfolio at this time. Matthew ClarkManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Piper Sandler00:19:20Okay. Okay. The last one for me, just on the gain on sale this quarter, a little light. Maybe speak to the weakness there and your outlook if you could. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:19:32You want me to start? David MorrisCEO at RBB Bancorp00:19:33Yeah, you can start. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:19:34Sure. I'll start. Loan sales were a little bit lower in the first quarter. We did take the opportunity to keep some of it on the balance sheet. I believe that there's a little bit of a pipeline building on SBA that has larger gains. I think our outlook is that it would return to more normalized levels that we at least saw in the Q4. David MorrisCEO at RBB Bancorp00:20:07Yeah. Matthew ClarkManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Piper Sandler00:20:07Okay. Perfect. Thank you. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:20:10Yeah. Does anybody want to add? David MorrisCEO at RBB Bancorp00:20:11Oh, no, no. I want to add a comment on the SBA side. We did have a new hire right at the beginning of January. Yeah, it is coming online. We do expect a higher volume of SBA loans being funded in Q2. Matthew ClarkManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Piper Sandler00:20:31Great. Thanks again. Operator00:20:34Thank you. Your next question is coming from Andrew Terrell from Stephens. Your line is live. Andrew TerrellAnalyst at Stephens00:20:42Hey, good afternoon. Good morning. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:20:46Hi. Andrew TerrellAnalyst at Stephens00:20:46Hey, I wanted to ask on just I heard some of the comments early on. It sounds like expectations around loan growth are still generally positive, maybe at a slower pace relative to a pretty strong quarter here in the Q1. I wanted to shift to the deposits and just get a sense on expectations around ability to core fund that expected loan growth, the sensitivity around the 100% loan to deposit ratio, if any. I also wanted to drill down a bit on if you have any color on the non-interest-bearing deposit trends. It looks like off a bit towards the end of the period. Any color as to what drove the NIB rotation this quarter? Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:21:29Sure. I'll start and you can add. Good question, Andrew. Thank you. With respect to the non-interest-bearing deposits, I think some of it was seasonal business activities we observed. We did observe some migration into higher-yielding money market and CD product. I think we did observe some of that in the Q1. We did have a successful CD campaign in the first quarter that we were able to reduce our reliance on wholesale funding a little bit when you consider FHLB advances and our brokered funds. I think that we foresee success in being able to fund our loan growth organically. Again, our reliance on wholesale funding, I think, is modest. We have some room there to the extent that loan growth remains at the similar levels. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:22:41We still remain focused on C&I production, how we can bring in some additional non-interest-bearing deposits, but that will take a lot longer time period. Andrew TerrellAnalyst at Stephens00:22:56Got it. Thank you. Thank you, Lynn. I appreciate it. Also, just do you have the weighted average? It looks like the FHLB that you added in the quarter had varying maturities. Do you have the weighted average term or the range of terms there? Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:23:12Sure. $130 million of them are puttable advances with the longest final terms at seven years. However, the put options at the FHLB side range from, I'm thinking, June until September this year. Pretty short on the FHLB's call option side of things with final maturities at three, four, and seven years. Andrew TerrellAnalyst at Stephens00:23:52I got it. Okay. I appreciate it. Yeah, I just want to say, David, it's been a pleasure speaking with you on these quarterly calls for a while now. Congratulations. David MorrisCEO at RBB Bancorp00:24:03Okay. Thanks. Thanks. Operator00:24:08Thank you. Once again, everyone, if you have any questions or comments, please press star, then one on your phone. Your next question is coming from Kelly Motta from KBW. Your line is live. Kelly MottaManaging Director and Equity Research Analyst at KBW00:24:20Hi. Thank you so much for the question. I just, again, want to echo those sentiments of, "David, it's been a pleasure working with you, and congrats on a well-deserved retirement, and congrats again, Johnny, on the upcoming role." I guess with the credit, I apologize if you've addressed this at this point, but in terms of the workout, I know you talked a bit about your approach to the sales. I'm just wondering in terms of the timeframe of this workout. I think originally you were hopeful that would be completed by mid this year. It feels like that might get pushed out a bit. Do you have any sense in terms of the timeframe in your ability to work out these credits, understanding that there's a lot of parties, insurance involved, etc.? David MorrisCEO at RBB Bancorp00:25:13Yeah. Kelly, thanks for the question. It is really hard for us to tell exactly when the NPLs are going to come off our balance sheet and to decrease it down to our normal baseline. However, we believe that by the H2 of 2025, that could be our target. NPLs will continue to be lumpy through 2025. It's going to continue to be out there and so forth. We are making steady progress on all of these right now. We're making steady progress, and we expect to see more to go off in the Q2. Kelly MottaManaging Director and Equity Research Analyst at KBW00:25:58Got it. That's really helpful. I appreciate the color on the trade finance and the C&I component. I know it's relatively small, but digging in a little further, I believe a lot of those factories in China have shifted production during the last Trump administration. Do you have any ballpark as to your exposure to China versus some other countries, given you're a Chinese American bank and might get lumped into that narrative with that niche there? Just trying to understand what the actual exposure might be. Johnny LeePresident at RBB Bancorp00:26:44Kelly, that's a good question. All I can say is right now, as of today, all we know is that there's that 10% baseline, right, that impacts all countries. For me personally, I separate into two buckets: one that's U.S., China, and U.S., revenue world. Right now, U.S., China, I mean, the China tariffs obviously is up to, what, 145%. Revenue world, they're still based on 10%. Additionally, there will be, obviously, depending on the trade balance between U.S. and those respective countries, there will be different tariffs potentially be applied to them. Right now, it's at a pause. It remains to be seen how that's all going to play out. Obviously, it impacts different industries or different types of businesses that get impacted somewhat differently. It remains to be played out. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:27:42Kelly, in addition to Johnny's comments, our loan portfolio, the 4% we mentioned, about $120 million in trade finance, the portion that's China-specific versus other countries or markets where they might have taken action, I don't think we have that exactly broken down within that category. Again, I think anecdotally with the reach-out, we're not identifying anything at this point. Johnny LeePresident at RBB Bancorp00:28:18Right. Yeah. Nothing at this point. In fact, our existing borrowers are all very seasoned. Obviously, they've either made preparations in advance already or they have contingency plans put in place as this all plays out. Kelly MottaManaging Director and Equity Research Analyst at KBW00:28:37Got it. Last question for me. It sounds like, again, there's a lot of optimism about the loan growth pipeline. Obviously, not as strong as what was a really strong Q1, but wondering if you could provide some insight as to the composition of that pipeline, either if there's any particular markets that are particularly strong that you're seeing or which categories the pipeline is weighted to. David MorrisCEO at RBB Bancorp00:29:08Sure. If I can answer that. Our pipeline remains strong. It's pretty much still primarily contributed by our CRE loans and single-family residence. However, our C&I are starting to pick up. That takes time. Because of the new hires that we have recently since the beginning of this year, I do expect that to incrementally contribute to that pipeline. At this time, the pipeline is predominantly made up of CRE, MFRs, and SFRs primarily, even though SFR is a relatively small mix of the loan. I think we're gaining very good momentum on SBA loans as well. Kelly MottaManaging Director and Equity Research Analyst at KBW00:29:54Thank you so much. I'll step back. Operator00:29:59Thank you. Your next question is coming from Tim Coffey from Janney. Your line is live. Timothy CoffeyManaging Director and Associate Director of Depository Research at Janney Montgomery Scott00:30:06Thank you. Thanks for the opportunity to ask a question or two here. Lynn, apologies if this has already been discussed, but I have a question about non-interest expenses going forward. I heard the comments you made in the prepared remarks. Is it reasonable to think that expenses could look a little bit like they did the H2 of last year versus the H1 of last year? Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:30:35Yes. I think that's reasonable. I think we are still looking at our OpEx ratio to be around the 180% of average assets. We do think they were a bit elevated in the Q1, kind of as I talked about in our prepared remarks, especially with salary benefits moderating down. I think there's opportunity in OpEx to also trend down. Timothy CoffeyManaging Director and Associate Director of Depository Research at Janney Montgomery Scott00:31:12How much of the additive to expenses are the new hires and the lending side going to be, if at all? Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:31:22It's a little hard to say in the sense that you have people coming in that are new and in charge of certain things, but then we're also rationalizing the expense in other places. I don't think it's a direct add. I would just stick with the idea that we would estimate our operating expense run rate to be in kind of $17.5 million-$18 million, maybe with some puts and takes. Timothy CoffeyManaging Director and Associate Director of Depository Research at Janney Montgomery Scott00:31:51Okay. All right. Those are my questions. Thank you. Lynn HopkinsCFO at RBB Bancorp00:31:55Thanks, Tim. Operator00:31:58Thank you. That concludes our Q&A session. I'll now hand the conference back to our host for closing remarks. Please go ahead. David MorrisCEO at RBB Bancorp00:32:07Once again, thank you for joining us today. We look forward to speaking to many of you in the coming days and weeks. Have a great day. Operator00:32:16Thank you. Everyone, this concludes today's event. You may disconnect at this time and have a wonderful day. Thank you for your participation.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesRebeca RicoAVP and Financial AnalystDavid MorrisCEOJohnny LeePresidentLynn HopkinsCFOAnalystsBrendan NosalAnalyst at Hovde GroupMatthew ClarkManaging Director and Senior Research Analyst at Piper SandlerAndrew TerrellAnalyst at StephensKelly MottaManaging Director and Equity Research Analyst at KBWTimothy CoffeyManaging Director and Associate Director of Depository Research at Janney Montgomery ScottPowered by