NASDAQ:FSBC Five Star Bancorp Q2 2024 Earnings Report $26.41 +0.21 (+0.80%) Closing price 04/17/2025 04:00 PM EasternExtended Trading$26.42 +0.02 (+0.06%) As of 04/17/2025 04:05 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 Polygon.io. Learn more. Earnings HistoryForecast Five Star Bancorp EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.51Consensus EPS N/ABeat/MissN/AOne Year Ago EPSN/AFive Star Bancorp Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$30.67 millionExpected RevenueN/ABeat/MissN/AYoY Revenue GrowthN/AFive Star Bancorp Announcement DetailsQuarterQ2 2024Date7/24/2024TimeN/AConference Call DateThursday, July 25, 2024Conference Call Time1:00PM ETUpcoming EarningsFive Star Bancorp's Q1 2025 earnings is scheduled for Monday, April 28, 2025, with a conference call scheduled on Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 1:00 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 Five Star Bancorp Q2 2024 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrJuly 25, 2024 ShareLink copied to clipboard.There are 6 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:02Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the 5 Star Bancorp's Second Quarter 2024 Earnings Webcast. Please note that this is a closed conference call, and you are encouraged to listen via the webcast. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity for those Before we get started, let me remind you that today's meeting will include some forward looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities laws. These forward looking statements relate to, among other things, current plans, expectations, events and industry trends that may affect the company's future operating results and financial position. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties, and future activities and results may differ materially from these expectations. Operator00:00:59For a more complete discussion of the risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from the company's forward looking statements, please see the company's annual report on Form 10 ks for the year ended December 31, 2022, and quarterly report on Form 10 Q for the quarter ending September 30, 2023, and in particular, the information set forth in Item 1A, Risk Factors in those reports. Please refer to Slide 2 of the presentation, which includes disclaimers regarding forward looking statements, industry data and non GAAP financial information included in the presentation. Reconciliations of non GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable GAAP figures are included in the appendix to the presentation. Please note this event is being recorded. At this time, I'd like to turn the conference call over to James Sethless, LiveStar Bancorp's President and CEO. Operator00:01:56Please go ahead. Speaker 100:01:58Thank you for joining us to review 5 Star Bancorp's financial results for the Q2 of 2024. Joining me today is Heather Luck, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Our comments today will refer to the financial information that was included in the earnings announcement released yesterday. To obtain a copy of the release, please visit our website at 5starbank.com and click on the Investor Relations tab. Our organic growth story continued in the 2nd quarter with the successful close of our public offering, resulting in the issuance of 3,967,500 additional shares of common stock with net proceeds of approximately $80,900,000 allowing us to continue our momentum in the San Francisco Bay Area. Speaker 100:02:55We added 5 more seasoned professionals to support this expansion and also continue to add new core deposit accounts and relationships as seen in the increase of non wholesale deposits of $118,300,000 during the 3 months ended June 30, 2024. Despite continued external headwinds, we maintain our ability to conservatively underwrite as evidenced by a 50% loan to value on commercial real estate, manage expenses with our 44% efficiency ratio and delivered value to our shareholders with our $0.20 per share dividend for the 1st and second quarters of 2024. The Q2 of 2024 exhibited continued execution of our growth strategy and efforts to position for future growth as evidenced by our earnings, expense management and balance sheet trends during the quarter. Additionally, we saw a positive turn in margin compression and loans, total assets and deposits have grown since prior periods. Our pipeline continues to remain solid at the end of the Q2 of 2024 within verticals we have historically operated in. Speaker 100:04:19As presented in the loan portfolio diversification slide, Loans held for investment increased during the quarter by $162,200,000 or 5 point 2 percent from the prior quarter, primarily relating to the purchase of loans with the consumer concentration of the loan portfolio, representing $73,300,000 of the increase. Total originations during the quarter were approximately $390,000,000 dollars while payoffs and paydowns were $72,800,000 $155,000,000 respectively. Asset quality continues to remain strong. Though non performing loans increased in the beginning of Q3 of 2023, they continued to represent only 0.06% of the portfolio at the end of the quarter. At the end of the second quarter, the allowance for credit losses totaled $35,400,000 We recorded a $2,000,000 provision credit losses during the quarter with loan growth and increases in net charge offs as the leading drivers. Speaker 100:05:37The allowance for credit losses to total loans held for investment was 1.08% atquarterend. Loans designated as substandard totaled approximately $1,900,000 at the end of the quarter, which is unchanged from the end of the previous quarter. During the 2nd quarter, deposits increased by $193,900,000 or 6.56 percent as compared to the previous quarter. Non interest bearing deposits as a percent of total deposits at the end of the second quarter decreased slightly from 26.2 percent to 26.2 percent from 27.7% at the end of the previous quarter. As noted earlier, we are pleased we had a net non wholesale deposit inflows for the 3 months ended June 30, 2024. Speaker 100:06:38Our ability to grow deposit accounts supports our differentiated customer centric model that our customers trust and value as seen through the mix of high dollar accounts and the duration of certain customer relationships. We believe we had a reliable core deposit base. To offer more detail on our deposit our deposit composition, I want to highlight that deposit relationships totaling at least $5,000,000 constituted approximately 60% of total deposits and the average age of these accounts was approximately 8 years. Local agency depositors accounted for approximately 22% of deposits as of June 30, 2024. Overall deposit balances have increased when compared to the prior quarter. Speaker 100:07:34Wholesale deposits, which we defined as broker deposits and public time deposits, increased by 75,500,000 dollars Non wholesale deposits increased by $118,300,000 driven by a $110,000,000 increase in non wholesale interest bearing deposits and an $8,300,000 increase in non interest bearing deposits. Speaker 200:08:01Cost of total deposits was Speaker 100:08:012 47 basis points during the 2nd quarter, a decrease of 6 basis points from the 1st quarter. We continue to be well capitalized with all capital ratios well above regulatory thresholds for the quarter. The additional common stock issued through the public offering that closed in April of 2024 is noticeable in our capital ratios for the Q2. Our common equity Tier 1 ratio increased from 9.13% to 11.28 percent between March 31, 2024 and June 30, 2024. On July 18, our Board declared a cash dividend of $0.20 per share on the company's floating common stock expected to be paid on August 12, 2024 to shareholders of record as of August 5, 2024. Speaker 100:09:01On that note, I will hand it over to Heather to discuss the results of operations. Heather? Speaker 300:09:07Thank you, James, and hello, everyone. Net income for the quarter was $10,800,000 return on average assets was 1.23 percent and return on average equity was 11.72%. Average loan yield for the quarter was 5.83 percent, representing an increase of 12 basis points over the prior quarter. Our net interest margin was 3.39 percent for the quarter, while net interest margin for the prior quarter was 3.14 percent, with loan growth at higher yields and decreased reliance on wholesale deposits as the primary drivers. As a result of changes in interest rates and other factors, our other comprehensive income was $200,000 during the 3 months ended June 30, 2024, as unrealized losses, net of tax effect, decreased on available for sale debt securities from $12,400,000 as of March 31 to $12,200,000 as of June 30, 2024. Speaker 300:10:17Non interest income decreased to $1,600,000 in the 2nd quarter from $1,800,000 in the previous quarter, due primarily to a reduction in gains from distributions received on equity investments and venture backed funds during the 3 months ended June 30. Non interest expense grew by $800,000 in the 3 months ended June 30 compared to the 3 months ended March 31, primarily due to increases in commissions related to higher loan production, travel, conferences and professional membership fees and sponsorships and donations during the quarter. Now that we've discussed the overall results of operations, I will now hand it back to James to provide some closing remarks. Speaker 100:11:14Thank you, Heather. I want to thank everyone for joining us as we discussed 2nd quarter results. 5 Star Bank has a reputation built on trust, be to serve and certainty of execution, which support our client success. Our financial performance is the result of a truly differentiated customer experience, which continues to power the demand for 5 Star Bank's relationship based services. We attribute sustained success to our prudent business model and treating customers with an empathetic spirit, understanding and care. Speaker 100:11:52We are very proud to have earned the trust of those we serve, including our shareholders. As we continue to lean into 2024, we are guided by continued focus on shareholder value as we monitor market conditions. We are confident in the company's resilience in any environment and remain focused on the future and our long term strategy. We will continue to execute on our organic growth and disciplined business practices, which we believe will benefit our customers, employees, community and shareholders. We appreciate your time today. Speaker 100:12:31This concludes today's presentation. Now Heather and I will be happy to take any questions that you might have. Operator00:12:48Our first question today comes from Andrew Terrell from Stephens. Please go ahead with your question. Speaker 400:12:57Hey, good morning. Speaker 100:12:59Hey, good morning, Andrew. Speaker 400:13:01Maybe just to start off, can you talk a little bit about the consumer loan purchase in the quarter, what these loans were specifically? What kind of the yield and the credit profile looks like there? And then just more broadly talk about the strategy behind it, particularly kind of considering the recent capital raise and what it feels like as a ramping kind of organic growth profile? Speaker 100:13:23Sure. These loans were originated by Bankers Health Group, BHG. Their credit profile is very strong. I think I'm going to say mid-seven fifty FICO's. These are to professional individuals throughout the United States. Speaker 100:13:43We've been involved with BHG for several years now and have had a really strong credit experience with loans that we purchased from them. We're buying them, Andrew, at an 8.25% yield. That was kind of the average yield for purchases in Q2. And they've been operating like this for several years now, very strong franchise. A lot of banks throughout the United States utilize them. Speaker 100:14:15We first got into it by wanting to make sure that we had appropriate coverage for our small business loans from a CRA perspective. And that's expanded given our very favorable credit experience with them. So it's a shot in the arm. Certainly, we're not going to rely on it in terms of overall growth of the loan portfolio, but it's additive and it's coming on at a nice margin, nice rate, nice yield, and we like the credit characteristics. Speaker 400:14:51Yes, understood. Okay. And was the purchase made, do you have kind of a specific timing throughout the quarter? Just trying to get a better sense. I mean loan yields were up 12 basis points in the quarter and they in the quarter here obviously helps that. Speaker 400:15:06Just trying to get a sense of whether there's some carry forward in the loan yields into 3Q? Speaker 100:15:11Yes, you'll see that. It was pretty much done the last half of the quarter. And so I think that will carry forward into Q3 of 2024. We'll be looking at maybe doing some more of that, but time will tell. But certainly it will carry forward in terms of overall and impacting positively overall loan yields. Speaker 100:15:45Now there's a lot of other things that's affecting our loan yields too. That's loans that we're booking outside of that BHG purchase have rates from 7.5% to 8.25% also. Speaker 200:15:56And we Speaker 100:15:56had a pretty strong quarter for loan originations outside of this, what I would call a wholesale play. And we're also seeing some pay downs of the portfolio, lower rates being paid off. And so we're overall that's really pushing loan yields up as you can see in our Q2 numbers. Speaker 400:16:21Yes, got it. Okay. And then last for me really quickly, just the SBA gain on sale income picked up this quarter. I was hoping you could just maybe update us as to what you're seeing within that business. Is this kind of lift upward in 2Q durable and then just overall kind of expectations? Speaker 100:16:43Yes, we don't expect it to be durable. In fact, we've kind of trimmed the sales of the origination function. So with our expectations about gains on a go forward basis are certainly less in Q3 and Q4 that we saw in the first half of the year. So we're we've diminished the import of that business. We're still an active lender, but we're not going to be originating any near the levels of volumes we've had historically. Speaker 100:17:20And so we our efforts from a loan origination perspective are really what we're doing on in the Bay Area and what we're doing in all our other verticals in terms of putting on credit. So gain on sales will definitely diminish. You're probably running from $50,000,000 to $100,000 for the remainder of the year on a monthly basis. Operator00:17:55And our next question comes from Gary Tenner from D. A. Davidson. Please go ahead with your question. Speaker 500:18:01Thanks. Good morning. First off, I wanted to ask about the expense run rate, decent quarter over quarter pickup. It doesn't look like there was anything particularly unusual in the numbers. So I was curious for your thoughts for the back half of the year here. Speaker 300:18:21Yes. So, I was a little short, I think, whenever we did our estimate, we had a few more events and just overall conferences that we attended in Q2. So that drove our expenses a little higher. So I think for the run rate for the rest of the year, if you can add about $250,000 per quarter to what we incurred in Q2, I think that will be a good run rate for the rest of the year. We do have some exciting things happening in Q3. Speaker 300:18:48We will do our big celebration for our grand opening of our San Francisco branch in September. So we'll have that as an added expense and then some employee celebrations and things like that. So I think $250,000,000 would be a good run rate each quarter of an additional expense. Speaker 500:19:05Okay. Appreciate it. And then on the deposit side, you talked about the split between kind of the net growth in non wholesale deposits, which was positive for the quarter. But obviously, the loan growth will uppace that. Speaker 400:19:21So I'm just trying to Speaker 500:19:23get a sense of kind of your target comfort level on wholesale funding percentage, where you are right now? And I guess similar question around the loan deposit ratio, which is a little over 100% right now. Speaker 100:19:37Sure. We'll continue to lean into wholesale deposits as a source of funding. We did put on a $75,000,000 broker deposit towards the end of the quarter. We're going to and we do anticipate rates declining. So that particular type of funding may be more attractive as we look at the remainder of the year. Speaker 100:20:05But it is a tool. We could Gary, if we wanted to, we could have a loan deposit ratio that's significantly less than what it is right now because we have the availability to do so. We're trying to make sure that we act prudently, really try to protect our margin, and then but also make sure we have appropriate liquidity to fund the loans that have come on. Historically, we've operated at less than 100% loan to deposit ratio and we're looking to kind of target 95% loan to deposit ratio and we could get there tomorrow if we chose to, but we're really just trying to grow our core deposits and we've been successful in that. But we just we need to continue to stay at it and hopefully we'll see some more visibility of that in Q3 and Q4. Speaker 500:21:09Great. Thanks very much. Operator00:21:13And our next question comes from Woody Ray from KBW. Please go ahead with your question. Speaker 200:21:19Hey, thanks for taking my question. Wanted to start on the deposit growth you saw with the Bay Area team. I mean, it was really strong in the quarter. Could you just sort of walk through the traction you're getting in those markets and how you expect growth to trend in the back half of the year in the Bay Area? Speaker 100:21:43Well, we expect it to be similar or even higher than it was in Q2 rolling into Q3 and Q4. We've added a lot more talent and some pretty big producers, historically big producers at their previous financial institutions. So we kind of like where we're going in terms of the traction that we're getting within the Bay Area. It's still in San Francisco proper, I'm going to say throughout the Bay Area, although you could argue there's down in San Jose in the South Bay, it's pretty stable, but it's still pretty much in turmoil. And that just creates opportunities for us. Speaker 100:22:27The conversion that JPM Chase had in the Q2, I think it was over the Memorial Day weekend, Woody from the old FRB platform into the Chase's platform that didn't go necessarily well from what we hear from our prospects. And so we think that we'll be able to continue to take advantage of that transition. And especially since we've hired a lot of folks or ex First Republic folks who have deep relationships, We're very excited about where we think we can take growth in that market and we're spending a lot of time down there personally. Our grand opening is going to be the last week of September for our offices, which is in the Downtown Financial District of San Francisco. Lot of outreach is going on right now and it's exciting times for us down there. Speaker 200:23:35That's great to hear. Any commentary on the loan growth trends you're seeing in those markets? Speaker 100:23:42Let's see. We've had in terms of the teams that we brought in total loan commitments of what was that Sarah? $85,000,000 $85,000,000 total loan commitments. Now that's not all outstanding, but that's what we're seeing. We do expect for that operation to be a net contributor to liquidity of the overall entity. Speaker 100:24:08And with our pipelines in terms of our deposit pipelines down there are very strong and our loan pipeline down there is very strong. So we're excited about the good work that our new team members are putting in down there and it's just a great group of new clients that we're bringing on and it's awfully exciting to see that market traction down there. Our leader down there, DJ Kurtsey is doing a great job and we appreciate what the whole team is doing down there. Speaker 200:24:49Yes. That's great to hear. Maybe shifting over to the margin, it took a pretty sizable step up in the second quarter. Just what's the outlook for the Q3? Just trying to get a sense of what the pull through could be in the Q3 if we see another step up in the Q3 just what the expectation Speaker 100:25:11is? I think it's going to kind of moderate a little bit. So we're going to we're thinking $340,000,000 to $345,000,000 as we for the Q3. Hopefully, we'll be able to do better than that, but that's what our sense of it is right now. And we'll just have to see how that goes. Speaker 100:25:32In terms of our margin. It is impacted by a greater reliance or a greater outstanding of wholesale deposits because you're fundamentally getting those deposits right on the marginal cost, which is right now about 5.25. So the extent that we do more of that will have an impact on our margin. But we hope that our core deposit generation will accelerate in the Q3. But that's our sense of it right now, Woody, is 3.40 to 3.45. Speaker 200:26:13All right. Thanks for taking my question. Good luck with the grand opening. Speaker 100:26:17Thank you. Speaker 300:26:17Thank you. Operator00:26:38Ladies and gentlemen, at this time, I'm showing no additional questions. I'd like to turn the floor back over to management for any closing remarks. Speaker 100:26:48Great. Thank you. 5 Star Bancorp is on a continued path of growth as we execute on strategic initiatives, which include growing our verticals and geographies while attracting and retaining talent, our people, technology, operating efficiencies, conservative underwriting practices and expense management have also contributed to the successes we share with our employees and shareholders. These successes include numerous ratings and awards. In the first half of twenty twenty four, we were recognized with the 2024 Greater Sacramento Economic Council Sustainability Award and 2023 Raymond James Community Cup Bankers Cup. Speaker 100:27:34Cup. And additionally, we were listed among S&P Global Markets Intelligence 2023 Top 20 Best Performing Community Banks in the nation. Our company leadership was also recognized in the first half of twenty twenty four with the Sacramento Business Journal Women Who Mean Business Award, a Sacramento Business Journal C Suite Award, a National Association of Women Business Owners Outstanding Women Leadership Executive Board, an Independent Community Bankers of America 40 Under 40 Emerging Community Bank Leaders Award. 5 Star Bank continues to be a driving force of economic development, a trusted resource for our customers and a committed advocate for our communities. We look forward to speaking with you again in October to discuss earnings for the Q3 of 2024. Speaker 100:28:31Have a great day and thank you for listening. Operator00:28:36Ladies and gentlemen, that does conclude today's conference call and presentation. We thank you for joining. 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There are 6 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:02Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the 5 Star Bancorp's Second Quarter 2024 Earnings Webcast. Please note that this is a closed conference call, and you are encouraged to listen via the webcast. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity for those Before we get started, let me remind you that today's meeting will include some forward looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities laws. These forward looking statements relate to, among other things, current plans, expectations, events and industry trends that may affect the company's future operating results and financial position. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties, and future activities and results may differ materially from these expectations. Operator00:00:59For a more complete discussion of the risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from the company's forward looking statements, please see the company's annual report on Form 10 ks for the year ended December 31, 2022, and quarterly report on Form 10 Q for the quarter ending September 30, 2023, and in particular, the information set forth in Item 1A, Risk Factors in those reports. Please refer to Slide 2 of the presentation, which includes disclaimers regarding forward looking statements, industry data and non GAAP financial information included in the presentation. Reconciliations of non GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable GAAP figures are included in the appendix to the presentation. Please note this event is being recorded. At this time, I'd like to turn the conference call over to James Sethless, LiveStar Bancorp's President and CEO. Operator00:01:56Please go ahead. Speaker 100:01:58Thank you for joining us to review 5 Star Bancorp's financial results for the Q2 of 2024. Joining me today is Heather Luck, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Our comments today will refer to the financial information that was included in the earnings announcement released yesterday. To obtain a copy of the release, please visit our website at 5starbank.com and click on the Investor Relations tab. Our organic growth story continued in the 2nd quarter with the successful close of our public offering, resulting in the issuance of 3,967,500 additional shares of common stock with net proceeds of approximately $80,900,000 allowing us to continue our momentum in the San Francisco Bay Area. Speaker 100:02:55We added 5 more seasoned professionals to support this expansion and also continue to add new core deposit accounts and relationships as seen in the increase of non wholesale deposits of $118,300,000 during the 3 months ended June 30, 2024. Despite continued external headwinds, we maintain our ability to conservatively underwrite as evidenced by a 50% loan to value on commercial real estate, manage expenses with our 44% efficiency ratio and delivered value to our shareholders with our $0.20 per share dividend for the 1st and second quarters of 2024. The Q2 of 2024 exhibited continued execution of our growth strategy and efforts to position for future growth as evidenced by our earnings, expense management and balance sheet trends during the quarter. Additionally, we saw a positive turn in margin compression and loans, total assets and deposits have grown since prior periods. Our pipeline continues to remain solid at the end of the Q2 of 2024 within verticals we have historically operated in. Speaker 100:04:19As presented in the loan portfolio diversification slide, Loans held for investment increased during the quarter by $162,200,000 or 5 point 2 percent from the prior quarter, primarily relating to the purchase of loans with the consumer concentration of the loan portfolio, representing $73,300,000 of the increase. Total originations during the quarter were approximately $390,000,000 dollars while payoffs and paydowns were $72,800,000 $155,000,000 respectively. Asset quality continues to remain strong. Though non performing loans increased in the beginning of Q3 of 2023, they continued to represent only 0.06% of the portfolio at the end of the quarter. At the end of the second quarter, the allowance for credit losses totaled $35,400,000 We recorded a $2,000,000 provision credit losses during the quarter with loan growth and increases in net charge offs as the leading drivers. Speaker 100:05:37The allowance for credit losses to total loans held for investment was 1.08% atquarterend. Loans designated as substandard totaled approximately $1,900,000 at the end of the quarter, which is unchanged from the end of the previous quarter. During the 2nd quarter, deposits increased by $193,900,000 or 6.56 percent as compared to the previous quarter. Non interest bearing deposits as a percent of total deposits at the end of the second quarter decreased slightly from 26.2 percent to 26.2 percent from 27.7% at the end of the previous quarter. As noted earlier, we are pleased we had a net non wholesale deposit inflows for the 3 months ended June 30, 2024. Speaker 100:06:38Our ability to grow deposit accounts supports our differentiated customer centric model that our customers trust and value as seen through the mix of high dollar accounts and the duration of certain customer relationships. We believe we had a reliable core deposit base. To offer more detail on our deposit our deposit composition, I want to highlight that deposit relationships totaling at least $5,000,000 constituted approximately 60% of total deposits and the average age of these accounts was approximately 8 years. Local agency depositors accounted for approximately 22% of deposits as of June 30, 2024. Overall deposit balances have increased when compared to the prior quarter. Speaker 100:07:34Wholesale deposits, which we defined as broker deposits and public time deposits, increased by 75,500,000 dollars Non wholesale deposits increased by $118,300,000 driven by a $110,000,000 increase in non wholesale interest bearing deposits and an $8,300,000 increase in non interest bearing deposits. Speaker 200:08:01Cost of total deposits was Speaker 100:08:012 47 basis points during the 2nd quarter, a decrease of 6 basis points from the 1st quarter. We continue to be well capitalized with all capital ratios well above regulatory thresholds for the quarter. The additional common stock issued through the public offering that closed in April of 2024 is noticeable in our capital ratios for the Q2. Our common equity Tier 1 ratio increased from 9.13% to 11.28 percent between March 31, 2024 and June 30, 2024. On July 18, our Board declared a cash dividend of $0.20 per share on the company's floating common stock expected to be paid on August 12, 2024 to shareholders of record as of August 5, 2024. Speaker 100:09:01On that note, I will hand it over to Heather to discuss the results of operations. Heather? Speaker 300:09:07Thank you, James, and hello, everyone. Net income for the quarter was $10,800,000 return on average assets was 1.23 percent and return on average equity was 11.72%. Average loan yield for the quarter was 5.83 percent, representing an increase of 12 basis points over the prior quarter. Our net interest margin was 3.39 percent for the quarter, while net interest margin for the prior quarter was 3.14 percent, with loan growth at higher yields and decreased reliance on wholesale deposits as the primary drivers. As a result of changes in interest rates and other factors, our other comprehensive income was $200,000 during the 3 months ended June 30, 2024, as unrealized losses, net of tax effect, decreased on available for sale debt securities from $12,400,000 as of March 31 to $12,200,000 as of June 30, 2024. Speaker 300:10:17Non interest income decreased to $1,600,000 in the 2nd quarter from $1,800,000 in the previous quarter, due primarily to a reduction in gains from distributions received on equity investments and venture backed funds during the 3 months ended June 30. Non interest expense grew by $800,000 in the 3 months ended June 30 compared to the 3 months ended March 31, primarily due to increases in commissions related to higher loan production, travel, conferences and professional membership fees and sponsorships and donations during the quarter. Now that we've discussed the overall results of operations, I will now hand it back to James to provide some closing remarks. Speaker 100:11:14Thank you, Heather. I want to thank everyone for joining us as we discussed 2nd quarter results. 5 Star Bank has a reputation built on trust, be to serve and certainty of execution, which support our client success. Our financial performance is the result of a truly differentiated customer experience, which continues to power the demand for 5 Star Bank's relationship based services. We attribute sustained success to our prudent business model and treating customers with an empathetic spirit, understanding and care. Speaker 100:11:52We are very proud to have earned the trust of those we serve, including our shareholders. As we continue to lean into 2024, we are guided by continued focus on shareholder value as we monitor market conditions. We are confident in the company's resilience in any environment and remain focused on the future and our long term strategy. We will continue to execute on our organic growth and disciplined business practices, which we believe will benefit our customers, employees, community and shareholders. We appreciate your time today. Speaker 100:12:31This concludes today's presentation. Now Heather and I will be happy to take any questions that you might have. Operator00:12:48Our first question today comes from Andrew Terrell from Stephens. Please go ahead with your question. Speaker 400:12:57Hey, good morning. Speaker 100:12:59Hey, good morning, Andrew. Speaker 400:13:01Maybe just to start off, can you talk a little bit about the consumer loan purchase in the quarter, what these loans were specifically? What kind of the yield and the credit profile looks like there? And then just more broadly talk about the strategy behind it, particularly kind of considering the recent capital raise and what it feels like as a ramping kind of organic growth profile? Speaker 100:13:23Sure. These loans were originated by Bankers Health Group, BHG. Their credit profile is very strong. I think I'm going to say mid-seven fifty FICO's. These are to professional individuals throughout the United States. Speaker 100:13:43We've been involved with BHG for several years now and have had a really strong credit experience with loans that we purchased from them. We're buying them, Andrew, at an 8.25% yield. That was kind of the average yield for purchases in Q2. And they've been operating like this for several years now, very strong franchise. A lot of banks throughout the United States utilize them. Speaker 100:14:15We first got into it by wanting to make sure that we had appropriate coverage for our small business loans from a CRA perspective. And that's expanded given our very favorable credit experience with them. So it's a shot in the arm. Certainly, we're not going to rely on it in terms of overall growth of the loan portfolio, but it's additive and it's coming on at a nice margin, nice rate, nice yield, and we like the credit characteristics. Speaker 400:14:51Yes, understood. Okay. And was the purchase made, do you have kind of a specific timing throughout the quarter? Just trying to get a better sense. I mean loan yields were up 12 basis points in the quarter and they in the quarter here obviously helps that. Speaker 400:15:06Just trying to get a sense of whether there's some carry forward in the loan yields into 3Q? Speaker 100:15:11Yes, you'll see that. It was pretty much done the last half of the quarter. And so I think that will carry forward into Q3 of 2024. We'll be looking at maybe doing some more of that, but time will tell. But certainly it will carry forward in terms of overall and impacting positively overall loan yields. Speaker 100:15:45Now there's a lot of other things that's affecting our loan yields too. That's loans that we're booking outside of that BHG purchase have rates from 7.5% to 8.25% also. Speaker 200:15:56And we Speaker 100:15:56had a pretty strong quarter for loan originations outside of this, what I would call a wholesale play. And we're also seeing some pay downs of the portfolio, lower rates being paid off. And so we're overall that's really pushing loan yields up as you can see in our Q2 numbers. Speaker 400:16:21Yes, got it. Okay. And then last for me really quickly, just the SBA gain on sale income picked up this quarter. I was hoping you could just maybe update us as to what you're seeing within that business. Is this kind of lift upward in 2Q durable and then just overall kind of expectations? Speaker 100:16:43Yes, we don't expect it to be durable. In fact, we've kind of trimmed the sales of the origination function. So with our expectations about gains on a go forward basis are certainly less in Q3 and Q4 that we saw in the first half of the year. So we're we've diminished the import of that business. We're still an active lender, but we're not going to be originating any near the levels of volumes we've had historically. Speaker 100:17:20And so we our efforts from a loan origination perspective are really what we're doing on in the Bay Area and what we're doing in all our other verticals in terms of putting on credit. So gain on sales will definitely diminish. You're probably running from $50,000,000 to $100,000 for the remainder of the year on a monthly basis. Operator00:17:55And our next question comes from Gary Tenner from D. A. Davidson. Please go ahead with your question. Speaker 500:18:01Thanks. Good morning. First off, I wanted to ask about the expense run rate, decent quarter over quarter pickup. It doesn't look like there was anything particularly unusual in the numbers. So I was curious for your thoughts for the back half of the year here. Speaker 300:18:21Yes. So, I was a little short, I think, whenever we did our estimate, we had a few more events and just overall conferences that we attended in Q2. So that drove our expenses a little higher. So I think for the run rate for the rest of the year, if you can add about $250,000 per quarter to what we incurred in Q2, I think that will be a good run rate for the rest of the year. We do have some exciting things happening in Q3. Speaker 300:18:48We will do our big celebration for our grand opening of our San Francisco branch in September. So we'll have that as an added expense and then some employee celebrations and things like that. So I think $250,000,000 would be a good run rate each quarter of an additional expense. Speaker 500:19:05Okay. Appreciate it. And then on the deposit side, you talked about the split between kind of the net growth in non wholesale deposits, which was positive for the quarter. But obviously, the loan growth will uppace that. Speaker 400:19:21So I'm just trying to Speaker 500:19:23get a sense of kind of your target comfort level on wholesale funding percentage, where you are right now? And I guess similar question around the loan deposit ratio, which is a little over 100% right now. Speaker 100:19:37Sure. We'll continue to lean into wholesale deposits as a source of funding. We did put on a $75,000,000 broker deposit towards the end of the quarter. We're going to and we do anticipate rates declining. So that particular type of funding may be more attractive as we look at the remainder of the year. Speaker 100:20:05But it is a tool. We could Gary, if we wanted to, we could have a loan deposit ratio that's significantly less than what it is right now because we have the availability to do so. We're trying to make sure that we act prudently, really try to protect our margin, and then but also make sure we have appropriate liquidity to fund the loans that have come on. Historically, we've operated at less than 100% loan to deposit ratio and we're looking to kind of target 95% loan to deposit ratio and we could get there tomorrow if we chose to, but we're really just trying to grow our core deposits and we've been successful in that. But we just we need to continue to stay at it and hopefully we'll see some more visibility of that in Q3 and Q4. Speaker 500:21:09Great. Thanks very much. Operator00:21:13And our next question comes from Woody Ray from KBW. Please go ahead with your question. Speaker 200:21:19Hey, thanks for taking my question. Wanted to start on the deposit growth you saw with the Bay Area team. I mean, it was really strong in the quarter. Could you just sort of walk through the traction you're getting in those markets and how you expect growth to trend in the back half of the year in the Bay Area? Speaker 100:21:43Well, we expect it to be similar or even higher than it was in Q2 rolling into Q3 and Q4. We've added a lot more talent and some pretty big producers, historically big producers at their previous financial institutions. So we kind of like where we're going in terms of the traction that we're getting within the Bay Area. It's still in San Francisco proper, I'm going to say throughout the Bay Area, although you could argue there's down in San Jose in the South Bay, it's pretty stable, but it's still pretty much in turmoil. And that just creates opportunities for us. Speaker 100:22:27The conversion that JPM Chase had in the Q2, I think it was over the Memorial Day weekend, Woody from the old FRB platform into the Chase's platform that didn't go necessarily well from what we hear from our prospects. And so we think that we'll be able to continue to take advantage of that transition. And especially since we've hired a lot of folks or ex First Republic folks who have deep relationships, We're very excited about where we think we can take growth in that market and we're spending a lot of time down there personally. Our grand opening is going to be the last week of September for our offices, which is in the Downtown Financial District of San Francisco. Lot of outreach is going on right now and it's exciting times for us down there. Speaker 200:23:35That's great to hear. Any commentary on the loan growth trends you're seeing in those markets? Speaker 100:23:42Let's see. We've had in terms of the teams that we brought in total loan commitments of what was that Sarah? $85,000,000 $85,000,000 total loan commitments. Now that's not all outstanding, but that's what we're seeing. We do expect for that operation to be a net contributor to liquidity of the overall entity. Speaker 100:24:08And with our pipelines in terms of our deposit pipelines down there are very strong and our loan pipeline down there is very strong. So we're excited about the good work that our new team members are putting in down there and it's just a great group of new clients that we're bringing on and it's awfully exciting to see that market traction down there. Our leader down there, DJ Kurtsey is doing a great job and we appreciate what the whole team is doing down there. Speaker 200:24:49Yes. That's great to hear. Maybe shifting over to the margin, it took a pretty sizable step up in the second quarter. Just what's the outlook for the Q3? Just trying to get a sense of what the pull through could be in the Q3 if we see another step up in the Q3 just what the expectation Speaker 100:25:11is? I think it's going to kind of moderate a little bit. So we're going to we're thinking $340,000,000 to $345,000,000 as we for the Q3. Hopefully, we'll be able to do better than that, but that's what our sense of it is right now. And we'll just have to see how that goes. Speaker 100:25:32In terms of our margin. It is impacted by a greater reliance or a greater outstanding of wholesale deposits because you're fundamentally getting those deposits right on the marginal cost, which is right now about 5.25. So the extent that we do more of that will have an impact on our margin. But we hope that our core deposit generation will accelerate in the Q3. But that's our sense of it right now, Woody, is 3.40 to 3.45. Speaker 200:26:13All right. Thanks for taking my question. Good luck with the grand opening. Speaker 100:26:17Thank you. Speaker 300:26:17Thank you. Operator00:26:38Ladies and gentlemen, at this time, I'm showing no additional questions. I'd like to turn the floor back over to management for any closing remarks. Speaker 100:26:48Great. Thank you. 5 Star Bancorp is on a continued path of growth as we execute on strategic initiatives, which include growing our verticals and geographies while attracting and retaining talent, our people, technology, operating efficiencies, conservative underwriting practices and expense management have also contributed to the successes we share with our employees and shareholders. These successes include numerous ratings and awards. In the first half of twenty twenty four, we were recognized with the 2024 Greater Sacramento Economic Council Sustainability Award and 2023 Raymond James Community Cup Bankers Cup. Speaker 100:27:34Cup. And additionally, we were listed among S&P Global Markets Intelligence 2023 Top 20 Best Performing Community Banks in the nation. Our company leadership was also recognized in the first half of twenty twenty four with the Sacramento Business Journal Women Who Mean Business Award, a Sacramento Business Journal C Suite Award, a National Association of Women Business Owners Outstanding Women Leadership Executive Board, an Independent Community Bankers of America 40 Under 40 Emerging Community Bank Leaders Award. 5 Star Bank continues to be a driving force of economic development, a trusted resource for our customers and a committed advocate for our communities. We look forward to speaking with you again in October to discuss earnings for the Q3 of 2024. Speaker 100:28:31Have a great day and thank you for listening. Operator00:28:36Ladies and gentlemen, that does conclude today's conference call and presentation. We thank you for joining. You may now disconnect your lines.Read morePowered by