NASDAQ:OPRT Oportun Financial Q1 2026 Earnings Report $5.15 -0.07 (-1.36%) As of 11:22 AM Eastern This is a fair market value price provided by Massive. Learn more. ProfileEarnings HistoryForecast Oportun Financial EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.21Consensus EPS $0.21Beat/MissMet ExpectationsOne Year Ago EPSN/AOportun Financial Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$228.76 millionExpected Revenue$228.58 millionBeat/MissBeat by +$184.00 thousandYoY Revenue GrowthN/AOportun Financial Announcement DetailsQuarterQ1 2026Date5/7/2026TimeAfter Market ClosesConference Call DateThursday, May 7, 2026Conference Call Time5:00PM ETUpcoming EarningsOportun Financial's Q2 2026 earnings is estimated for Wednesday, August 5, 2026, based on past reporting schedules, with a conference call scheduled at 5:00 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)SEC FilingEarnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by Oportun Financial Q1 2026 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrMay 7, 2026 ShareLink copied to clipboard.Key Takeaways Neutral Sentiment: Doug Bland, who joined as CEO on April 20, said he supports the existing 2026 plan but will complete a deeper review before declaring a new strategy and is focused on disciplined execution. Positive Sentiment: Credit trends improved — Q1 annualized net charge-off was 12.65% and 30+ delinquency fell to 4.5% (Q2 30+ guided to 4.1%–4.2%); the company is deploying an upgraded underwriting model, V13, and new alternative data to improve through‑cycle credit performance. Positive Sentiment: Capital and liquidity strengthened — unrestricted cash rose to $130M, high‑cost corporate debt reduced by ~$100M to $135M, leverage down to 6.8x debt‑to‑equity, and recent ABS issuance at attractive sub‑6% yields lowered interest expense. Positive Sentiment: Product and portfolio actions to drive higher‑quality originations — Q1 originations fell 11% but management expects mid‑single‑digit growth in 2026; secured personal loans grew 12% YoY to 9% of the portfolio and management plans a H2 rollout of risk‑based pricing plus a phased payment‑protection product. Neutral Sentiment: Financials were mixed — sixth consecutive GAAP profitable quarter (net income $2.3M, adjusted EPS $0.21), revenue and adjusted EPS declined YoY, and management reiterated full‑year 2026 guidance (revenue $935M–$955M, annualized net charge‑off midpoint 11.9%, adjusted EPS $1.50–$1.65). AI Generated. May Contain Errors.Conference Call Audio Live Call not available Earnings Conference CallOportun Financial Q1 202600:00 / 00:00Speed:1x1.25x1.5x2xTranscript SectionsPresentationParticipantsPresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Welcome to Oportun Financial Corporation's First Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent background noise. After the speakers' remark, there will be a question and answer session. Today's call is being recorded. For opening remarks and introductions, I would like to turn the call over to Dorian Hare, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations. Mr. Hare, you may begin. Dorian HareSVP of Investor Relations at Oportun Financial Corporation00:00:29Thanks and hello everyone. With me to discuss Oportun's First Quarter 2026 results are Doug Bland, our Chief Executive Officer, and Paul Appleton, our Interim Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets. Kate Layton, Oportun's Chief Legal Officer, and Gaurav Rana, our Senior Vice President and General Manager of Lending will also join for the question and answer session. I remind everyone on the call or webcast that some of the remarks made today will include forward-looking statements related to our business, future results of operations and financial position, including projected adjusted ROE attainment and expected originations growth, planned products and services, business strategy, expense savings measures, and plans and objectives of management for future operations. Actual results may differ materially from those contemplated or implied by these forward-looking statements. We caution you not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Dorian HareSVP of Investor Relations at Oportun Financial Corporation00:01:29A more detailed discussion of the risk factors that could cause these results to differ materially are set forth in our earnings press release and in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the caption Risk Factors, including our upcoming Form 10-Q filing for the quarter ended March 31st, 2026. Any forward-looking statements that we make on this call are based on assumptions as of today. We undertake no obligation to update these statements as a result of new information or future events other as required by law. Also on today's call, we will present both GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures, which we believe can be useful measures for the period-to-period comparisons of our core business and which will provide useful information to investors regarding our financial condition and results of operations. Dorian HareSVP of Investor Relations at Oportun Financial Corporation00:02:19A full list of definitions can be found in our earnings materials available at the investor relations section of our website. Non-GAAP financial measures are presented in addition to and not as a substitute for financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP. A reconciliation of non-GAAP to GAAP financial measures is included in our earnings press release, our first quarter 2026 supplement, and the appendix section of the first quarter 2026 earnings presentation. All of which will be available at the investor relations section of our website at investor.oportun.com. In addition, this call is being webcast and an archived version will be available after the call, along with a copy of our prepared remarks. With that, I will now turn the call over to Doug. Doug BlandCEO at Oportun Financial Corporation00:03:06Thanks, Dorian. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us. I'm honored to be speaking with you for the first time as CEO of Oportun. I was drawn to Oportun because it stands out. A technology-driven platform with a critical mission and proven ability to responsibly improve the financial lives of people who are too often overlooked by traditional lenders. I also saw a business known for high-quality customer service uniquely positioned to seamlessly engage with both English and Spanish-speaking members across its retail contact center and mobile app. My initial meetings with team members across the company and with key stakeholders have only reinforced this view. I look forward to working with our team and board to strengthen the business, build deeper relationships with our members, and deliver long-term value for shareholders. I'm optimistic about what we can achieve together. Doug BlandCEO at Oportun Financial Corporation00:04:08I joined Oportun on April 20th so I've been in the role for less than three weeks. I'm not going to use my first earnings call to declare a new strategy before I've completed a deeper re-review. What I can say from my early assessment is that the team has made real progress strengthening the foundation of the business, particularly profitability, liquidity, and funding costs. While important work remains to improve through-cycle credit performance and rebuild a durable growth engine, the 2026 plan was already in motion before I arrived. Yet based on my review so far, I support reiterating the full-year guidance. I'll now hand it over to Paul for a review of how we are executing against our current strategy and our first quarter financial results. He will also provide our Q2 guidance while updating you on our full-year outlook. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:05:11Thank you, Doug, and good afternoon, everyone. I'd like to start by updating you on our strategic priorities, which include improving credit outcomes, strengthening business economics, and identifying high-quality originations. Starting with improving credit outcomes, we have remained in a tight credit posture, maintaining an emphasis on returning members amid an uncertain macroeconomic outlook for low and moderate-income households. Our annualized net charge-off rate was 12.65% in Q1 at the midpoint of our guidance range. In Q1, the proportion of originations to returning members was 79%, 16 percentage points higher than the 63% recorded in the prior year quarter. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:05:56Importantly, our Q1 30+ delinquency rate of 4.5% met the expectations we set on our February earnings call, down 38 basis points sequentially and 18 basis points year-over-year. We expect the second quarter 30+ delinquency rate to improve further to a range between 4.1% and 4.2%, which is 22 to 32 basis points lower than 2Q 2025 and 30 to 40 basis points lower sequentially than the first quarter. These proof points support our continued confidence that Q1's 12.65% annualized net charge-off rate should be the highest of 2026. We also mentioned on our February earnings call that a key focus this year is continuing to invest in our credit decisioning capabilities to accelerate model training, deployment, and effectiveness. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:06:50In Q2, we are introducing the latest iteration of our primary underwriting model, V13, which features an enhanced model architecture designed to better capture both long-term and more recent emerging trends. The model also incorporates now new alternative data sources to improve predictive power and reduce adverse selection risk. Turning to business economics, we remain committed to improving on full-year 2025 17.5% adjusted ROE and 6.8% GAAP ROE, making progress towards our objective of 20% to 28% GAAP ROEs on an annual basis. A key component of this is continuing our expense discipline. During Q1, total OPEX declined 1% year-over-year to $91 million, in line with a substantially flat expectation we set for the full-year. Another important part of our efforts to attain our ROE goal is exploring the launch of risk-based pricing. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:07:55As discussed on our last earnings call, this effort would reintroduce pricing above 36% for shorter-term loans and higher-risk segments, including some customers we're not able to approve today. We have made good progress with this initiative, including signing a letter of intent with a new bank partner. As a result, we continue to expect to roll this initiative out in the second half of the year. Last month, we launched another initiative, a payment protection offering that we expect will provide more certainty for our members and a positive financial contribution to Oportun in future years. Payment protection is an opt-in offering that members can elect during the loan application process, which provides protection against unforeseen events like involuntary unemployment, death, or disability by completely or partially paying off the loan. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:08:49The offering is currently available to loan applicants in several states, and in coordination with our bank partner, we expect to introduce the offering across most of our footprint in the coming months. Due to the phased rollout, we are currently assuming only a modest financial benefit from the payment protection initiative in our 2026 guidance. However, at scale, we see a potential for profit enhancements in future years due to lower credit losses on enrolled loans and fees earned. Lastly, regarding identifying high-quality originations, in Q1, originations declined by 11%. This was in line with our expectations, reflecting typical seasonality and the higher mix of returning borrowers I referenced a moment ago. We continue to expect to grow originations in the mid-single-digit percentage range this year. Expanding our secured personal loan portfolio secured by members autos remains a key pillar of our responsible growth strategy. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:09:50Partially offsetting the unsecured personal loan originations decline in Q1, secured personal loan originations grew 12% year-over-year, and the secured portfolio grew 30% year-over-year to $233 million. As a result, secured personal loans now represent 9% of our loan portfolio, up from 7% last year. Importantly, average losses on secured personal loans continue to run substantially lower than unsecured personal loans in the first quarter. Turning now to Q1 highlights on slide six. We recorded our sixth consecutive quarter of GAAP profitability with net income of $2.3 million and diluted EPS of $0.05 per share. We also generated adjusted net income of $10 million and adjusted EPS of $0.21 per share. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:10:42Total revenue of $229 million declined by $7.1 million or 3% year-over-year, which again was in line with our expectations and driven by the 11% year-over-year decline in originations I mentioned a moment ago. Net decrease in fair value was $86 million this quarter due to $85 million in net charge-offs. The net decrease in fair value was $13 million higher than the prior period, which benefited from a favorable $12 million mark-to-market adjustment on loans. First quarter interest expense was $48 million, down $9 million year-over-year. This improvement reflects recent balance sheet optimization initiatives that I'll share shortly. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:11:28Net revenue was $95 million, down $11 million year-over-year, as the impact of lower total revenue and fair value offset the benefit from lower interest expense. Operating expenses were $91 million, down $1.3 million or 1% year-over-year, reflecting continued cost discipline. Adjusted EBITDA, which excludes the impact of fair value mark-to-market adjustments on our loan portfolio and notes was $29 million in the first quarter. This reflects a year-over-year decrease of $4.2 million as lower total revenue and higher net charge-offs more than offset lower interest expense and adjusted operating expense. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:12:09Adjusted net income was $10 million, down $8.4 million year-over-year due to lower net revenue, partially offset by lower adjusted operating expense. Adjusted EPS declined year-over-year from $0.40 a share to $0.21 a share. Finally, GAAP net income of $2.3 million was similarly down $7.4 million year-over-year. Turning now to capital and liquidity, as shown on slide nine, we continue to strengthen our debt capital structure through continued balance sheet optimization by further reducing higher cost corporate debt, lowering our overall cost of capital and enhancing liquidity. I'm pleased with the progress we made deleveraging, ending the quarter with a 6.8x debt-to-equity ratio. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:12:57That's down from 7.6x a year ago and materially lower than the peak leverage of 8.7x we reported in 3Q 2024. The improvements achieved since then and through the end of the first quarter include consistent GAAP profitability at $69 million or 21% increase in shareholders equity and a $70 million or 30% reduction in our high cost corporate debt. Q1 interest expense was $48 million and that was $9 million or 16% lower than the prior year quarter supporting our sustained profitability. This was driven by corporate debt repayments as well as actions taken related to our ABS notes and warehouse facilities. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:13:42Also supporting our strong liquidity position, our cash flow has enabled us to continue to grow our unrestricted cash balance to $130 million as of the end of 1Q 2026, up $25 million from year-end 2025 and up $52 million year-over-year. With this strong cash position, we paid down another $30 million of high cost corporate debt following the end of the first quarter, lowering our remaining corporate debt principal balance to $135 million. Corporate debt repayments since the facility's October 2024 inception now total $100 million, reducing outstanding from the initial $235 million balance to $135 million, resulting in $15 million in annual run rate expense savings. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:14:33On the capital market side, we completed a $485 million ABS transaction at a 5.32% yield in February. Over the last 12 months, we have issued $1.9 billion in ABS bonds at sub 6% yields, demonstrating a sustained access to capital on favorable terms. Next, I'd like to turn to our updated guidance as shown on slide 10. While our member base remains resilient, inflation above Federal Reserve targets, uneven job creation, policy uncertainty and higher gas prices continue to create a cautious environment for low to moderate income consumers. We are particularly monitoring the impact of high fuel prices on our members, and while we have not seen any deterioration in our metrics as a result, we understand the pressure this can place on our customers if higher prices persist. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:15:29Consequently, our outlook prudently assumes we maintain a tight credit posture through the balance of the year. We remain well-positioned to adjust quickly as conditions evolve. Our outlook for the second quarter is total revenue of $227 million to $232 million, annualized net charge-off rate of 12.2% ±15 basis points, and adjusted EBITDA of $34 million to $39 million. At the midpoint, our Q2 revenue guidance implies a modest sequential increase from Q1 and a lesser year-over-year decline driven by higher originations from first quarter levels. Our Q2 annualized net charge-off rate midpoint guidance of 12.2% implies 45 basis points of sequential improvement from the first quarter, supported by the favorable 30+ delinquency trends I discussed earlier. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:16:25At the midpoint of $37 million, our Q2 adjusted EBITDA guidance implies strong sequential and a return to year-over-year growth of $5 million or 17%, driven primarily by lower interest expense along with ongoing operating expense discipline. We are fully reiterating our full-year 2026 guidance, including total revenue of $935 million to $955 million, annualized net charge-off rate of 11.9% ±50 basis points. Adjusted EBITDA of $150 million to $165 million. Adjusted net income of $74 million to $82 million and adjusted EPS of $1.50 to $1.65. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:17:12Our full-year 2026 guidance continues to be underpinned by our expectations for mid-single-digit originations growth, a 1% to 2% decline in average daily principal balance, a reduction in interest expense of at least 10%, and substantially flat operating expenses. Also, our full-year annualized net charge-off rate midpoint guidance of 11.9% continues to indicate slight year-over-year improvement. Midpoint growth of 16% in adjusted EPS and 6% in adjusted EBITDA, even amid macro uncertainty for low to moderate income consumers, reflects the resilience of both our members and our business model. Before I turn it back to Doug, let me conclude with a brief summary of our unit economics progress. Although our long-term targets are GAAP targets, I'll reference adjusted metrics because they remove non-recurring items and better reflect our future run rate. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:18:10As shown on slide 11, we generated 10.5% adjusted ROE during the first quarter. With ramping originations and lower credit losses embedded in our full-year guidance, we expect to improve on our first quarter adjusted ROE performance in the balance of the year and outpace last year's 17.5% adjusted ROE. I'm encouraged by the positive fundamentals we exhibited in Q1, particularly on a year-over-year improvement in cost of funds and operating expense efficiency. Our balance sheet optimization initiatives drove improvement in our cost of funds from 8.2% to 7.0%, a level well below our 8.0% target. An expense discipline-enabled improvement in our adjusted OPEX ratio from 13.3% to 12.7%, nearing our 12.5% target. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:19:05Our North Star remains delivering GAAP ROEs of 20% to 28% annually. We plan to achieve this by driving positive credit outcomes, growing the owned loan portfolio, and effectively managing operating expenses. We also intend to continue to drive our debt-to-equity leverage ratio this year towards our 6x target by reducing our debt outstanding and continuing to grow GAAP profitability. With that, Doug, back over to you. Doug BlandCEO at Oportun Financial Corporation00:19:36Thanks, Paul. To close, I'd like to emphasize that while Oportun's foundation is stronger than it was, we need to establish predictable outcomes that result in durable growth. My focus now is on disciplined execution, deeper assessment, and coming back to you on our second quarter earnings call with a clearer view of the path forward. I want to underscore that Oportun's mission to empower members to build a better future will continue. I see a tremendous opportunity to accelerate this mission. It's my focus to partner with our teams to determine ways to accomplish this. I'm energized by what's ahead. With that, operator, let's open it up for questions. Operator00:20:28Thank you. We will now be conducting a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star two if you would like to remove your questions from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. One moment please while we poll for questions. The first question comes from the line of Brendan McCarthy with Sidoti. Please go ahead. Brendan McCarthyEquity Research Analyst at Sidoti & Company, LLC00:21:06Great. Thanks, everybody, for taking my questions, and welcome, Doug. I just wanted to start off on the outlook here, originations down 11% year-over-year, and that makes sense considering your tighter underwriting position. How does the new risk-based pricing initiative fit into the 2026 guidance that calls for a mid-single digits increase for the year? Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:21:33Thanks, Brendan. I appreciate the question. When it comes to the risk-based pricing initiative, as I mentioned in my comments, we're making good progress rolling out that program. As you know, for most of Oportun's history, we did price above 36%. As we reintroduced this pricing regime, we certainly want to be thoughtful about how the glide path and what it looks like. For guidance, we've embedded a little bit of benefit in there for 2026 but just a small amount given we do want to test into it and the program is not live yet. Brendan McCarthyEquity Research Analyst at Sidoti & Company, LLC00:22:11Understood. I appreciate the color there. Looking at interest expense, it looks like a pretty steep year-over-year decline. If you annualize the Q1, it looks like you're trending well under that target for a 10% reduction in interest expense for full-year 2026. Do you see room there to boost margins over the course of the year? Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:22:37Possibly, yes. I see what you're looking at when you look at the run rate there. We're obviously pleased with the progress in paying down the corporate debt. As I mentioned in my comments, right, we're down $100 million from the initial balance of the corporate loan, and that's driving, you know, $15 million annualized interest expense run rate benefit. As I mentioned in the comments as well, we paid down another $30 million, right? That's included in that $100 million after the end of the quarter. Yeah, there may be a bit of opportunity there, especially given some of the ABS execution we've gotten recently. Brendan McCarthyEquity Research Analyst at Sidoti & Company, LLC00:23:13That makes sense. As a follow-up on leverage, Paul, I think you mentioned you're at about 6.8x leverage at this point. You're trending pretty quickly towards your 6.1x target. How can we think about your capital allocation, you know, maybe once you reach that target, how might capital allocation change going forward? Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:23:36Great question, Brendan. Thank you. Look, the capital allocation priorities we have right now are continuing to invest in possible growth and paying down the corporate debt, right? You know, the corporate debt, when we pay that down, that comes with a certain return, right? We know exactly the expense we're going to save, and the corporate debt does have a high price to it. We're at that 6.8x leverage you mentioned just now. As we said on our last earnings call, we do expect to trend towards that by the end of the year. For now, I think those are going to be our two continued priorities, and then we can look beyond that once we reach the target. Brendan McCarthyEquity Research Analyst at Sidoti & Company, LLC00:24:17That's great. Thanks, Paul. Thanks, Doug. That's all from me. I'll hop back in the queue. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:24:22Thank you, Brendan. Operator00:24:25Thank you. Next question comes from the line of Alek Labosky with Jefferies. Please go ahead. Aleksander LaboskyEquity Research Associate at Jefferies00:24:33Good afternoon, and thank you for taking my question. Welcome, Doug. I was just wondering if you've seen any changes to demand trends given the high fuel prices. Has this driven more borrowing kind of given cash constraints? Thank you. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:24:50In the first quarter, Alek, we continue to see demand outpace our originations so certainly continue to be robust demand in the market. Aleksander LaboskyEquity Research Associate at Jefferies00:25:04Great. Thank you. Then just a second question, just kind of thinking about the current mix of digital versus branch originations, just wondering if you plan to evaluate any changes moving forward, and how we should expect this to kind of trend in the future. Thank you. Gaurav RanaSVP and General Manager of Lending at Oportun Financial Corporation00:25:21Hey, Alek. This is Gaurav here. The trends that we have today you can expect that to continue through the course of the year. As Paul alluded, we're still guiding towards the mid-single digit growth in originations and we've lined up our marketing spend to grow accordingly to drive that growth. Aleksander LaboskyEquity Research Associate at Jefferies00:25:44Thanks. Operator00:25:49Thank you. A reminder to all the participants that you may press star and one to ask a question. Next question comes from the line of Brendan McCarthy with Sidoti. Please go ahead. Brendan McCarthyEquity Research Analyst at Sidoti & Company, LLC00:26:08Great. Thank you. Just a quick follow-up here on the net charge-off guidance. I think hitting the 11.9% midpoint for the full-year, it assumes a pretty nice step down in the net charge-off rate to an average of like 11.6% for the rest of the year. How confident are you that you can really hit that midpoint there? What specific credit indicators are you looking for? Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:26:36Thank you for the follow-up question, Brendan. As you know, the 12.65% net charge-off rate we reported in the first quarter was elevated, but we expected, right? It was the midpoint of our guidance, we achieved that. As we mentioned on prior earnings calls, the reason for that spike in the net charge-offs was due to the mix shift that we experienced in the first half of 2025, where new loan originations accounted for a greater share of the mix than they do now. We've shifted the mix back to returning borrowers. That's a positive tailwind for credit. You look at the guidance we set for second quarter, right? Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:27:18We're doing that very informed based on what we're seeing in roll rates, late-stage roll rates going into that will contribute to the second quarter charge-offs. The last and the third item that we see as a positive trend is the 30+ day delinquencies I mentioned in the comments where those are trending lower than the first quarter. I think all those signs point to a continued improvement as you no doubt have backed it in, right? When you put in the 12.65, the 12.2, and the 11.9 target for the full-year, that does imply, you know, we're at the 11 handle for the second half of the year, in line with our sort of 9% to 11% target. Brendan McCarthyEquity Research Analyst at Sidoti & Company, LLC00:28:04Got it. That's great. Thanks, Paul. That's all for me. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:28:07Thank you, Brendan. Operator00:28:10Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we have reached the end of question and answer session. I would now like to turn the floor over to Doug Bland, Chief Executive Officer, for closing comments. Doug BlandCEO at Oportun Financial Corporation00:28:22Thank you everyone for joining today's call. Before we close, I do want to say a special thanks to this team, in particular Kate, Paul, and Gaurav in terms of working through the transition that they've been through is even under best circumstances never easy and simple. I think the team has done an excellent job continuing to drive this business focused on discipline and you heard the results that they've been able to achieve during this quarter. I want to thank this team and look forward to working with them as we move forward. We appreciate the continued interest in Oportun by everyone and look forward to speaking with you again soon. Thank you. Operator00:29:16Thank you. This concludes our today's teleconference. You may disconnect your lines at this time. 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Sign up for Earnings360's daily newsletter to receive timely earnings updates on Oportun Financial and other key companies, straight to your email. Email Address About Oportun FinancialOportun Financial (NASDAQ:OPRT) (NASDAQ: OPRT) is a financial technology company that provides consumer lending products aimed at serving the underbanked and credit-invisible population in the United States. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, Oportun operates a digital platform that enables borrowers to access credit through unsecured personal installment loans, secured credit-builder loans and a proprietary mobile wallet. The company leverages machine learning and alternative data sources to assess creditworthiness, extending financial services to customers with limited or no traditional credit history. The company’s core offerings include fixed-term installment loans designed to help individuals cover unexpected expenses, consolidate debt or build credit. In addition to its flagship personal loan product, Oportun issues secured credit cards and credit-builder loans that allow customers to establish or improve their credit profile through on-time repayments. Oportun’s digital application process and automated underwriting engine support rapid decisioning, while its nationwide network of customer service centers provides bilingual support for English and Spanish speakers. Founded in 2005 by entrepreneur Raul Vazquez, who serves as chairman and chief executive officer, Oportun has focused on financial inclusion from its inception. The company launched the Oportun Community Foundation to promote financial education and literacy programs in underserved communities. Over time, Oportun expanded its footprint and now serves customers in more than two dozen states across the U.S., with a particular emphasis on regions with high concentrations of Hispanic and immigrant populations. 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PresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Welcome to Oportun Financial Corporation's First Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent background noise. After the speakers' remark, there will be a question and answer session. Today's call is being recorded. For opening remarks and introductions, I would like to turn the call over to Dorian Hare, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations. Mr. Hare, you may begin. Dorian HareSVP of Investor Relations at Oportun Financial Corporation00:00:29Thanks and hello everyone. With me to discuss Oportun's First Quarter 2026 results are Doug Bland, our Chief Executive Officer, and Paul Appleton, our Interim Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets. Kate Layton, Oportun's Chief Legal Officer, and Gaurav Rana, our Senior Vice President and General Manager of Lending will also join for the question and answer session. I remind everyone on the call or webcast that some of the remarks made today will include forward-looking statements related to our business, future results of operations and financial position, including projected adjusted ROE attainment and expected originations growth, planned products and services, business strategy, expense savings measures, and plans and objectives of management for future operations. Actual results may differ materially from those contemplated or implied by these forward-looking statements. We caution you not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Dorian HareSVP of Investor Relations at Oportun Financial Corporation00:01:29A more detailed discussion of the risk factors that could cause these results to differ materially are set forth in our earnings press release and in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the caption Risk Factors, including our upcoming Form 10-Q filing for the quarter ended March 31st, 2026. Any forward-looking statements that we make on this call are based on assumptions as of today. We undertake no obligation to update these statements as a result of new information or future events other as required by law. Also on today's call, we will present both GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures, which we believe can be useful measures for the period-to-period comparisons of our core business and which will provide useful information to investors regarding our financial condition and results of operations. Dorian HareSVP of Investor Relations at Oportun Financial Corporation00:02:19A full list of definitions can be found in our earnings materials available at the investor relations section of our website. Non-GAAP financial measures are presented in addition to and not as a substitute for financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP. A reconciliation of non-GAAP to GAAP financial measures is included in our earnings press release, our first quarter 2026 supplement, and the appendix section of the first quarter 2026 earnings presentation. All of which will be available at the investor relations section of our website at investor.oportun.com. In addition, this call is being webcast and an archived version will be available after the call, along with a copy of our prepared remarks. With that, I will now turn the call over to Doug. Doug BlandCEO at Oportun Financial Corporation00:03:06Thanks, Dorian. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us. I'm honored to be speaking with you for the first time as CEO of Oportun. I was drawn to Oportun because it stands out. A technology-driven platform with a critical mission and proven ability to responsibly improve the financial lives of people who are too often overlooked by traditional lenders. I also saw a business known for high-quality customer service uniquely positioned to seamlessly engage with both English and Spanish-speaking members across its retail contact center and mobile app. My initial meetings with team members across the company and with key stakeholders have only reinforced this view. I look forward to working with our team and board to strengthen the business, build deeper relationships with our members, and deliver long-term value for shareholders. I'm optimistic about what we can achieve together. Doug BlandCEO at Oportun Financial Corporation00:04:08I joined Oportun on April 20th so I've been in the role for less than three weeks. I'm not going to use my first earnings call to declare a new strategy before I've completed a deeper re-review. What I can say from my early assessment is that the team has made real progress strengthening the foundation of the business, particularly profitability, liquidity, and funding costs. While important work remains to improve through-cycle credit performance and rebuild a durable growth engine, the 2026 plan was already in motion before I arrived. Yet based on my review so far, I support reiterating the full-year guidance. I'll now hand it over to Paul for a review of how we are executing against our current strategy and our first quarter financial results. He will also provide our Q2 guidance while updating you on our full-year outlook. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:05:11Thank you, Doug, and good afternoon, everyone. I'd like to start by updating you on our strategic priorities, which include improving credit outcomes, strengthening business economics, and identifying high-quality originations. Starting with improving credit outcomes, we have remained in a tight credit posture, maintaining an emphasis on returning members amid an uncertain macroeconomic outlook for low and moderate-income households. Our annualized net charge-off rate was 12.65% in Q1 at the midpoint of our guidance range. In Q1, the proportion of originations to returning members was 79%, 16 percentage points higher than the 63% recorded in the prior year quarter. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:05:56Importantly, our Q1 30+ delinquency rate of 4.5% met the expectations we set on our February earnings call, down 38 basis points sequentially and 18 basis points year-over-year. We expect the second quarter 30+ delinquency rate to improve further to a range between 4.1% and 4.2%, which is 22 to 32 basis points lower than 2Q 2025 and 30 to 40 basis points lower sequentially than the first quarter. These proof points support our continued confidence that Q1's 12.65% annualized net charge-off rate should be the highest of 2026. We also mentioned on our February earnings call that a key focus this year is continuing to invest in our credit decisioning capabilities to accelerate model training, deployment, and effectiveness. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:06:50In Q2, we are introducing the latest iteration of our primary underwriting model, V13, which features an enhanced model architecture designed to better capture both long-term and more recent emerging trends. The model also incorporates now new alternative data sources to improve predictive power and reduce adverse selection risk. Turning to business economics, we remain committed to improving on full-year 2025 17.5% adjusted ROE and 6.8% GAAP ROE, making progress towards our objective of 20% to 28% GAAP ROEs on an annual basis. A key component of this is continuing our expense discipline. During Q1, total OPEX declined 1% year-over-year to $91 million, in line with a substantially flat expectation we set for the full-year. Another important part of our efforts to attain our ROE goal is exploring the launch of risk-based pricing. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:07:55As discussed on our last earnings call, this effort would reintroduce pricing above 36% for shorter-term loans and higher-risk segments, including some customers we're not able to approve today. We have made good progress with this initiative, including signing a letter of intent with a new bank partner. As a result, we continue to expect to roll this initiative out in the second half of the year. Last month, we launched another initiative, a payment protection offering that we expect will provide more certainty for our members and a positive financial contribution to Oportun in future years. Payment protection is an opt-in offering that members can elect during the loan application process, which provides protection against unforeseen events like involuntary unemployment, death, or disability by completely or partially paying off the loan. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:08:49The offering is currently available to loan applicants in several states, and in coordination with our bank partner, we expect to introduce the offering across most of our footprint in the coming months. Due to the phased rollout, we are currently assuming only a modest financial benefit from the payment protection initiative in our 2026 guidance. However, at scale, we see a potential for profit enhancements in future years due to lower credit losses on enrolled loans and fees earned. Lastly, regarding identifying high-quality originations, in Q1, originations declined by 11%. This was in line with our expectations, reflecting typical seasonality and the higher mix of returning borrowers I referenced a moment ago. We continue to expect to grow originations in the mid-single-digit percentage range this year. Expanding our secured personal loan portfolio secured by members autos remains a key pillar of our responsible growth strategy. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:09:50Partially offsetting the unsecured personal loan originations decline in Q1, secured personal loan originations grew 12% year-over-year, and the secured portfolio grew 30% year-over-year to $233 million. As a result, secured personal loans now represent 9% of our loan portfolio, up from 7% last year. Importantly, average losses on secured personal loans continue to run substantially lower than unsecured personal loans in the first quarter. Turning now to Q1 highlights on slide six. We recorded our sixth consecutive quarter of GAAP profitability with net income of $2.3 million and diluted EPS of $0.05 per share. We also generated adjusted net income of $10 million and adjusted EPS of $0.21 per share. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:10:42Total revenue of $229 million declined by $7.1 million or 3% year-over-year, which again was in line with our expectations and driven by the 11% year-over-year decline in originations I mentioned a moment ago. Net decrease in fair value was $86 million this quarter due to $85 million in net charge-offs. The net decrease in fair value was $13 million higher than the prior period, which benefited from a favorable $12 million mark-to-market adjustment on loans. First quarter interest expense was $48 million, down $9 million year-over-year. This improvement reflects recent balance sheet optimization initiatives that I'll share shortly. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:11:28Net revenue was $95 million, down $11 million year-over-year, as the impact of lower total revenue and fair value offset the benefit from lower interest expense. Operating expenses were $91 million, down $1.3 million or 1% year-over-year, reflecting continued cost discipline. Adjusted EBITDA, which excludes the impact of fair value mark-to-market adjustments on our loan portfolio and notes was $29 million in the first quarter. This reflects a year-over-year decrease of $4.2 million as lower total revenue and higher net charge-offs more than offset lower interest expense and adjusted operating expense. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:12:09Adjusted net income was $10 million, down $8.4 million year-over-year due to lower net revenue, partially offset by lower adjusted operating expense. Adjusted EPS declined year-over-year from $0.40 a share to $0.21 a share. Finally, GAAP net income of $2.3 million was similarly down $7.4 million year-over-year. Turning now to capital and liquidity, as shown on slide nine, we continue to strengthen our debt capital structure through continued balance sheet optimization by further reducing higher cost corporate debt, lowering our overall cost of capital and enhancing liquidity. I'm pleased with the progress we made deleveraging, ending the quarter with a 6.8x debt-to-equity ratio. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:12:57That's down from 7.6x a year ago and materially lower than the peak leverage of 8.7x we reported in 3Q 2024. The improvements achieved since then and through the end of the first quarter include consistent GAAP profitability at $69 million or 21% increase in shareholders equity and a $70 million or 30% reduction in our high cost corporate debt. Q1 interest expense was $48 million and that was $9 million or 16% lower than the prior year quarter supporting our sustained profitability. This was driven by corporate debt repayments as well as actions taken related to our ABS notes and warehouse facilities. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:13:42Also supporting our strong liquidity position, our cash flow has enabled us to continue to grow our unrestricted cash balance to $130 million as of the end of 1Q 2026, up $25 million from year-end 2025 and up $52 million year-over-year. With this strong cash position, we paid down another $30 million of high cost corporate debt following the end of the first quarter, lowering our remaining corporate debt principal balance to $135 million. Corporate debt repayments since the facility's October 2024 inception now total $100 million, reducing outstanding from the initial $235 million balance to $135 million, resulting in $15 million in annual run rate expense savings. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:14:33On the capital market side, we completed a $485 million ABS transaction at a 5.32% yield in February. Over the last 12 months, we have issued $1.9 billion in ABS bonds at sub 6% yields, demonstrating a sustained access to capital on favorable terms. Next, I'd like to turn to our updated guidance as shown on slide 10. While our member base remains resilient, inflation above Federal Reserve targets, uneven job creation, policy uncertainty and higher gas prices continue to create a cautious environment for low to moderate income consumers. We are particularly monitoring the impact of high fuel prices on our members, and while we have not seen any deterioration in our metrics as a result, we understand the pressure this can place on our customers if higher prices persist. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:15:29Consequently, our outlook prudently assumes we maintain a tight credit posture through the balance of the year. We remain well-positioned to adjust quickly as conditions evolve. Our outlook for the second quarter is total revenue of $227 million to $232 million, annualized net charge-off rate of 12.2% ±15 basis points, and adjusted EBITDA of $34 million to $39 million. At the midpoint, our Q2 revenue guidance implies a modest sequential increase from Q1 and a lesser year-over-year decline driven by higher originations from first quarter levels. Our Q2 annualized net charge-off rate midpoint guidance of 12.2% implies 45 basis points of sequential improvement from the first quarter, supported by the favorable 30+ delinquency trends I discussed earlier. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:16:25At the midpoint of $37 million, our Q2 adjusted EBITDA guidance implies strong sequential and a return to year-over-year growth of $5 million or 17%, driven primarily by lower interest expense along with ongoing operating expense discipline. We are fully reiterating our full-year 2026 guidance, including total revenue of $935 million to $955 million, annualized net charge-off rate of 11.9% ±50 basis points. Adjusted EBITDA of $150 million to $165 million. Adjusted net income of $74 million to $82 million and adjusted EPS of $1.50 to $1.65. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:17:12Our full-year 2026 guidance continues to be underpinned by our expectations for mid-single-digit originations growth, a 1% to 2% decline in average daily principal balance, a reduction in interest expense of at least 10%, and substantially flat operating expenses. Also, our full-year annualized net charge-off rate midpoint guidance of 11.9% continues to indicate slight year-over-year improvement. Midpoint growth of 16% in adjusted EPS and 6% in adjusted EBITDA, even amid macro uncertainty for low to moderate income consumers, reflects the resilience of both our members and our business model. Before I turn it back to Doug, let me conclude with a brief summary of our unit economics progress. Although our long-term targets are GAAP targets, I'll reference adjusted metrics because they remove non-recurring items and better reflect our future run rate. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:18:10As shown on slide 11, we generated 10.5% adjusted ROE during the first quarter. With ramping originations and lower credit losses embedded in our full-year guidance, we expect to improve on our first quarter adjusted ROE performance in the balance of the year and outpace last year's 17.5% adjusted ROE. I'm encouraged by the positive fundamentals we exhibited in Q1, particularly on a year-over-year improvement in cost of funds and operating expense efficiency. Our balance sheet optimization initiatives drove improvement in our cost of funds from 8.2% to 7.0%, a level well below our 8.0% target. An expense discipline-enabled improvement in our adjusted OPEX ratio from 13.3% to 12.7%, nearing our 12.5% target. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:19:05Our North Star remains delivering GAAP ROEs of 20% to 28% annually. We plan to achieve this by driving positive credit outcomes, growing the owned loan portfolio, and effectively managing operating expenses. We also intend to continue to drive our debt-to-equity leverage ratio this year towards our 6x target by reducing our debt outstanding and continuing to grow GAAP profitability. With that, Doug, back over to you. Doug BlandCEO at Oportun Financial Corporation00:19:36Thanks, Paul. To close, I'd like to emphasize that while Oportun's foundation is stronger than it was, we need to establish predictable outcomes that result in durable growth. My focus now is on disciplined execution, deeper assessment, and coming back to you on our second quarter earnings call with a clearer view of the path forward. I want to underscore that Oportun's mission to empower members to build a better future will continue. I see a tremendous opportunity to accelerate this mission. It's my focus to partner with our teams to determine ways to accomplish this. I'm energized by what's ahead. With that, operator, let's open it up for questions. Operator00:20:28Thank you. We will now be conducting a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star two if you would like to remove your questions from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. One moment please while we poll for questions. The first question comes from the line of Brendan McCarthy with Sidoti. Please go ahead. Brendan McCarthyEquity Research Analyst at Sidoti & Company, LLC00:21:06Great. Thanks, everybody, for taking my questions, and welcome, Doug. I just wanted to start off on the outlook here, originations down 11% year-over-year, and that makes sense considering your tighter underwriting position. How does the new risk-based pricing initiative fit into the 2026 guidance that calls for a mid-single digits increase for the year? Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:21:33Thanks, Brendan. I appreciate the question. When it comes to the risk-based pricing initiative, as I mentioned in my comments, we're making good progress rolling out that program. As you know, for most of Oportun's history, we did price above 36%. As we reintroduced this pricing regime, we certainly want to be thoughtful about how the glide path and what it looks like. For guidance, we've embedded a little bit of benefit in there for 2026 but just a small amount given we do want to test into it and the program is not live yet. Brendan McCarthyEquity Research Analyst at Sidoti & Company, LLC00:22:11Understood. I appreciate the color there. Looking at interest expense, it looks like a pretty steep year-over-year decline. If you annualize the Q1, it looks like you're trending well under that target for a 10% reduction in interest expense for full-year 2026. Do you see room there to boost margins over the course of the year? Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:22:37Possibly, yes. I see what you're looking at when you look at the run rate there. We're obviously pleased with the progress in paying down the corporate debt. As I mentioned in my comments, right, we're down $100 million from the initial balance of the corporate loan, and that's driving, you know, $15 million annualized interest expense run rate benefit. As I mentioned in the comments as well, we paid down another $30 million, right? That's included in that $100 million after the end of the quarter. Yeah, there may be a bit of opportunity there, especially given some of the ABS execution we've gotten recently. Brendan McCarthyEquity Research Analyst at Sidoti & Company, LLC00:23:13That makes sense. As a follow-up on leverage, Paul, I think you mentioned you're at about 6.8x leverage at this point. You're trending pretty quickly towards your 6.1x target. How can we think about your capital allocation, you know, maybe once you reach that target, how might capital allocation change going forward? Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:23:36Great question, Brendan. Thank you. Look, the capital allocation priorities we have right now are continuing to invest in possible growth and paying down the corporate debt, right? You know, the corporate debt, when we pay that down, that comes with a certain return, right? We know exactly the expense we're going to save, and the corporate debt does have a high price to it. We're at that 6.8x leverage you mentioned just now. As we said on our last earnings call, we do expect to trend towards that by the end of the year. For now, I think those are going to be our two continued priorities, and then we can look beyond that once we reach the target. Brendan McCarthyEquity Research Analyst at Sidoti & Company, LLC00:24:17That's great. Thanks, Paul. Thanks, Doug. That's all from me. I'll hop back in the queue. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:24:22Thank you, Brendan. Operator00:24:25Thank you. Next question comes from the line of Alek Labosky with Jefferies. Please go ahead. Aleksander LaboskyEquity Research Associate at Jefferies00:24:33Good afternoon, and thank you for taking my question. Welcome, Doug. I was just wondering if you've seen any changes to demand trends given the high fuel prices. Has this driven more borrowing kind of given cash constraints? Thank you. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:24:50In the first quarter, Alek, we continue to see demand outpace our originations so certainly continue to be robust demand in the market. Aleksander LaboskyEquity Research Associate at Jefferies00:25:04Great. Thank you. Then just a second question, just kind of thinking about the current mix of digital versus branch originations, just wondering if you plan to evaluate any changes moving forward, and how we should expect this to kind of trend in the future. Thank you. Gaurav RanaSVP and General Manager of Lending at Oportun Financial Corporation00:25:21Hey, Alek. This is Gaurav here. The trends that we have today you can expect that to continue through the course of the year. As Paul alluded, we're still guiding towards the mid-single digit growth in originations and we've lined up our marketing spend to grow accordingly to drive that growth. Aleksander LaboskyEquity Research Associate at Jefferies00:25:44Thanks. Operator00:25:49Thank you. A reminder to all the participants that you may press star and one to ask a question. Next question comes from the line of Brendan McCarthy with Sidoti. Please go ahead. Brendan McCarthyEquity Research Analyst at Sidoti & Company, LLC00:26:08Great. Thank you. Just a quick follow-up here on the net charge-off guidance. I think hitting the 11.9% midpoint for the full-year, it assumes a pretty nice step down in the net charge-off rate to an average of like 11.6% for the rest of the year. How confident are you that you can really hit that midpoint there? What specific credit indicators are you looking for? Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:26:36Thank you for the follow-up question, Brendan. As you know, the 12.65% net charge-off rate we reported in the first quarter was elevated, but we expected, right? It was the midpoint of our guidance, we achieved that. As we mentioned on prior earnings calls, the reason for that spike in the net charge-offs was due to the mix shift that we experienced in the first half of 2025, where new loan originations accounted for a greater share of the mix than they do now. We've shifted the mix back to returning borrowers. That's a positive tailwind for credit. You look at the guidance we set for second quarter, right? Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:27:18We're doing that very informed based on what we're seeing in roll rates, late-stage roll rates going into that will contribute to the second quarter charge-offs. The last and the third item that we see as a positive trend is the 30+ day delinquencies I mentioned in the comments where those are trending lower than the first quarter. I think all those signs point to a continued improvement as you no doubt have backed it in, right? When you put in the 12.65, the 12.2, and the 11.9 target for the full-year, that does imply, you know, we're at the 11 handle for the second half of the year, in line with our sort of 9% to 11% target. Brendan McCarthyEquity Research Analyst at Sidoti & Company, LLC00:28:04Got it. That's great. Thanks, Paul. That's all for me. Paul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital Markets at Oportun Financial Corporation00:28:07Thank you, Brendan. Operator00:28:10Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we have reached the end of question and answer session. I would now like to turn the floor over to Doug Bland, Chief Executive Officer, for closing comments. Doug BlandCEO at Oportun Financial Corporation00:28:22Thank you everyone for joining today's call. Before we close, I do want to say a special thanks to this team, in particular Kate, Paul, and Gaurav in terms of working through the transition that they've been through is even under best circumstances never easy and simple. I think the team has done an excellent job continuing to drive this business focused on discipline and you heard the results that they've been able to achieve during this quarter. I want to thank this team and look forward to working with them as we move forward. We appreciate the continued interest in Oportun by everyone and look forward to speaking with you again soon. Thank you. Operator00:29:16Thank you. This concludes our today's teleconference. You may disconnect your lines at this time. Thank you for your participation.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesDorian HareSVP of Investor RelationsDoug BlandCEOGaurav RanaSVP and General Manager of LendingPaul AppletonInterim CFO, Treasurer, and Head of Capital MarketsAnalystsAleksander LaboskyEquity Research Associate at JefferiesBrendan McCarthyEquity Research Analyst at Sidoti & Company, LLCPowered by