Cornerstone Community Bancorp
10/19/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 10/19/2021 06:34
Cornerstone Community Bancorp Reports Financial Results for the Third Quarter Ended September 30, 2021
RED BLUFF, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cornerstone Community Bancorp (OTC Pink: CRSB) announced today its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2021.
The Company reported record net income of $2,085,000 for the three months ended September 30, 2021 compared to net income of $1,236,000 for the same period last year. Diluted earnings per share were $1.38 for the three months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $0.81 for the same period last year.
The return on average assets for the three months ended September 30, 2021 was 1.53% and the return on average equity was 23.52%. The tax-equivalent net interest margin was 3.66% for the three months ended September 30, 2021 compared to 2.99% for the same period last year and the efficiency ratio was 39.07% for the three months ended September 30, 2021 compared to 52.81% for the same period last year.
For the nine months ended September 30, 2021, the Company reported net income of $5,948,000 compared to net income of $2,567,000 for the same period last year. Diluted earnings per share were $3.96 for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to $1.68 for the same period last year.
The return on average assets for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 was 1.48% and the return on average equity was 23.98%.
President and CEO, Jeff Finck stated, "We posted record profits in the third quarter as loan and deposit totals continued to grow at a solid pace."
Net Interest Income
Net interest income increased to $4,756,000 for the quarter ended September 30, 2021 compared to $3,376,000 for the same quarter last year. For the nine months ended September 30, 2021, net interest income increased to $13,212,000 compared to $9,371,000 for the same period last year.
Provision for credit losses
Provision for credit losses were $400,000 for the quarter ended September 30, 2021 compared to no provision for the same quarter last year. For the nine months ended September 30, 2021, the Company recorded a $900,000 provision for credit losses compared to $1,600,000 for the same period last year.
Non-Interest Income
Non-interest income for the quarter ended September 30, 2021 was $714,000 compared to $296,000 for the quarter ended September 30, 2020. For the nine months ended September 30, 2021, non-interest income was $2,013,000 compared to $894,000 for the same period last year.
Non-Interest Expense
Non-interest expense was $2,137,000 for the quarter ended September 30, 2021 compared to $1,939,000 for the same period last year. For the nine months ended September 30, 2021, non-interest expense was $5,965,000 compared to $5,247,000 for the same period last year.
Balance Sheet
Total loans, net of unearned income at September 30, 2021 were $388.5 million compared to $342.4 million at September 30, 2020.
Total deposits were $500.1 million at September 30, 2021 compared to total deposits of $371.5 million at September 30, 2020.
Credit Quality
The allowance for loan losses was $4,909,000, or 1.26% of loans, net of unearned income at September 30, 2021, compared to $4,009,000, or 1.17% of loans, net of unearned income at September 30, 2020. There were no nonperforming assets at September 30, 2021 and September 30, 2020.
Capital
At September 30, 2021, shareholders' equity totaled $35.5 million compared to $28.9 million at September 30, 2020. Book value was $24.37 per share at September 30, 2021 compared to $19.38 per share at September 30, 2020.
About Cornerstone Community Bancorp
Cornerstone Community Bancorp, a bank holding company headquartered in Red Bluff, California, serves the Red Bluff and Redding communities through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Cornerstone Community Bank with a headquarters office in Red Bluff and two banking offices in Redding. The Bank provides commercial banking services to small and mid-size businesses, including professional service firms, real estate developers and investors and not-for-profit organizations and to their owners and other individuals. Additional information about the Bank is available on its website at www.bankcornerstone.com
Forward-Looking Statements
This release may contain certain forward-looking statements that are based on management's current expectations regarding economic, legislative, and regulatory issues that may impact Cornerstone Community Bancorp's earnings in future periods. Forward-looking statements can be identified by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. They often include the words "believe," "expect," "intend," "estimate" or words of similar meaning, or future or conditional verbs such as "will," "would," "should," "could" or "may." Factors that could cause future results to vary materially from current management expectations include, but are not limited to, natural disasters (such as wildfires and earthquakes), pandemics such as COVID-19 and the economic impact caused directly by the disease and by government responses thereto, general economic conditions, economic uncertainty in the United States and abroad, changes in interest rates, deposit flows, real estate values, costs or effects of acquisitions, competition, changes in accounting principles, policies or guidelines, legislation or regulation (including the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act of 2017 and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act of 2021), interruptions of utility service in our markets for sustained periods, and other economic, competitive, governmental, regulatory and technological factors (including external fraud and cybersecurity threats) affecting Cornerstone Community Bancorp's operations, pricing, products and services. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made.Except as required by law, Cornerstone Community Bancorp does not undertake to update forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent circumstances or events.
| CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY BANCORP | |||||||||||||||
| CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (UNAUDITED) | |||||||||||||||
| (Dollars in Thousands) | |||||||||||||||
|
09/30/21 |
06/30/21 |
03/31/21 |
12/31/20 |
09/30/20 |
|||||||||||
| ASSETS | |||||||||||||||
| Cash and due from banks |
$ |
4,765 |
$ |
5,450 |
$ |
5,417 |
$ |
3,811 |
$ |
5,455 |
|||||
| Federal funds sold |
2,600 |
2,256 |
5,761 |
14,166 |
5,045 |
||||||||||
| Interest-bearing deposits |
24,636 |
28,549 |
68,283 |
77,045 |
62,110 |
||||||||||
| Investment securities |
110,470 |
75,258 |
52,084 |
50,336 |
50,699 |
||||||||||
| Loans held for sale |
- |
- |
1,102 |
- |
- |
||||||||||
| Loans, net of unearned income |
388,532 |
390,748 |
382,253 |
332,176 |
342,416 |
||||||||||
| Allowance for loan losses |
(4,909 |
) |
(4,509 |
) |
(4,409 |
) |
(4,009 |
) |
(4,009 |
) |
|||||
| Loans, net |
383,623 |
386,239 |
377,844 |
328,167 |
338,407 |
||||||||||
| Premises and equipment, net |
13,567 |
13,013 |
12,767 |
11,581 |
10,992 |
||||||||||
| Other assets |
14,863 |
14,972 |
13,974 |
12,724 |
12,577 |
||||||||||
| Total assets |
$ |
554,524 |
$ |
525,737 |
$ |
537,232 |
$ |
497,830 |
$ |
485,285 |
|||||
| LIABILITIES | |||||||||||||||
| Deposits: | |||||||||||||||
| Demand noninterest-bearing |
$ |
141,734 |
$ |
126,107 |
$ |
126,481 |
$ |
108,147 |
$ |
103,824 |
|||||
| Demand interest-bearing |
131,964 |
126,724 |
122,506 |
108,097 |
104,819 |
||||||||||
| Money market and savings |
150,149 |
150,086 |
163,232 |
146,655 |
87,035 |
||||||||||
| Time deposits of less than $100,000 |
13,180 |
13,393 |
15,812 |
15,418 |
21,103 |
||||||||||
| Time deposits of $100,000 or more |
63,111 |
56,993 |
57,299 |
55,021 |
54,695 |
||||||||||
| Total deposits |
500,138 |
473,303 |
485,330 |
433,338 |
371,476 |
||||||||||
| Borrowings and other obligations |
5,000 |
5,000 |
5,000 |
15,000 |
78,136 |
||||||||||
| Subordinated debentures |
11,715 |
11,709 |
11,703 |
16,645 |
4,923 |
||||||||||
| Interest payable and other liabilities |
2,151 |
1,933 |
3,776 |
2,763 |
1,854 |
||||||||||
| Total liabilities |
519,004 |
491,945 |
505,809 |
467,746 |
456,389 |
||||||||||
| SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY | |||||||||||||||
| Common stock |
14,814 |
14,771 |
14,681 |
14,584 |
15,462 |
||||||||||
| Retained Earnings |
21,084 |
18,999 |
17,183 |
15,136 |
13,077 |
||||||||||
| Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) |
(378 |
) |
22 |
(441 |
) |
364 |
357 |
||||||||
| Total shareholders' equity |
35,520 |
33,792 |
31,423 |
30,084 |
28,896 |
||||||||||
| Total liabilities and shareholders' equity |
$ |
554,524 |
$ |
525,737 |
$ |
537,232 |
$ |
497,830 |
$ |
485,285 |
|||||
| Total equity / total assets |
6.41 |
% |
6.43 |
% |
5.85 |
% |
6.04 |
% |
5.95 |
% |
|||||
| Book value per share |
$ |
24.37 |
$ |
23.22 |
$ |
21.65 |
$ |
20.87 |
$ |
19.38 |
|||||
| Shares outstanding |
1,457,591 |
1,455,091 |
1,451,091 |
1,441,241 |
1,491,041 |
| CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY BANCORP | |||||||||||||||
| CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS (UNAUDITED) | |||||||||||||||
| (Dollars in Thousands) | |||||||||||||||
|
Three months ended |
Nine months ended |
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|
09/30/21 |
06/30/21 |
09/30/20 |
09/30/21 |
09/30/20 |
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| INTEREST INCOME | |||||||||||||||
| Loans |
$ |
4,772 |
$ |
4,379 |
$ |
3,695 |
$ |
13,602 |
$ |
10,663 |
|||||
| Federal funds sold |
- |
1 |
1 |
3 |
22 |
||||||||||
| Investment securities |
360 |
217 |
161 |
739 |
333 |
||||||||||
| Other |
35 |
53 |
33 |
120 |
123 |
||||||||||
| Total interest income |
5,167 |
4,650 |
3,890 |
14,464 |
11,141 |
||||||||||
| INTEREST EXPENSE | |||||||||||||||
| Deposits: | |||||||||||||||
| Interest-bearing demand |
46 |
45 |
51 |
138 |
126 |
||||||||||
| Money market and savings |
96 |
93 |
79 |
276 |
384 |
||||||||||
| Time deposits |
107 |
114 |
198 |
345 |
789 |
||||||||||
| Other |
162 |
159 |
186 |
493 |
471 |
||||||||||
| Total interest expense |
411 |
411 |
514 |
1,252 |
1,770 |
||||||||||
| Net interest income |
4,756 |
4,239 |
3,376 |
13,212 |
9,371 |
||||||||||
| Provision for credit losses |
400 |
100 |
- |
900 |
1,600 |
||||||||||
| Net interest income after provision for credit losses |
4,356 |
4,139 |
3,376 |
12,312 |
7,771 |
||||||||||
| NON-INTEREST INCOME | |||||||||||||||
| Service charges on deposit accounts |
62 |
59 |
49 |
179 |
167 |
||||||||||
| Gain on sale of loans |
396 |
135 |
- |
1,231 |
186 |
||||||||||
| Gain (loss) on sale of other real estate owned |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
||||||||||
| Gain (loss) on sale of securities |
- |
- |
91 |
(45 |
) |
91 |
|||||||||
| Other non-interest income |
256 |
228 |
156 |
648 |
450 |
||||||||||
| Total non-interest income |
714 |
422 |
296 |
2,013 |
894 |
||||||||||
| OPERATING EXPENSES | |||||||||||||||
| Salaries and benefits |
1,048 |
968 |
979 |
2,695 |
2,310 |
||||||||||
| Premises and fixed assets |
212 |
199 |
200 |
590 |
709 |
||||||||||
| Other |
877 |
848 |
760 |
2,680 |
2,228 |
||||||||||
| Total operating expenses |
2,137 |
2,015 |
1,939 |
5,965 |
5,247 |
||||||||||
| Income before income taxes |
2,933 |
2,546 |
1,733 |
8,360 |
3,418 |
||||||||||
| Income taxes |
848 |
730 |
497 |
2,412 |
851 |
||||||||||
| NET INCOME |
$ |
2,085 |
$ |
1,816 |
$ |
1,236 |
$ |
5,948 |
$ |
2,567 |
|||||
| EARNINGS PER SHARE | |||||||||||||||
| Basic earnings per share |
$ |
1.43 |
$ |
1.25 |
$ |
0.83 |
$ |
4.09 |
$ |
1.73 |
|||||
| Diluted earnings per share |
$ |
1.38 |
$ |
1.20 |
$ |
0.81 |
$ |
3.96 |
$ |
1.68 |
|||||
| Average common shares outstanding |
1,456,531 |
1,453,915 |
1,491,041 |
1,452,768 |
1,485,661 |
||||||||||
| Average common and equivalent shares outstanding |
1,512,738 |
1,510,621 |
1,522,872 |
1,503,150 |
1,526,516 |
||||||||||
| PERFORMANCE MEASURES | |||||||||||||||
| Return on average assets |
1.53 |
% |
1.35 |
% |
1.05 |
% |
1.48 |
% |
0.85 |
% |
|||||
| Return on average equity |
23.52 |
% |
22.17 |
% |
17.36 |
% |
23.98 |
% |
12.49 |
% |
|||||
| Tax-equivalent net interest margin |
3.66 |
% |
3.33 |
% |
2.99 |
% |
3.48 |
% |
3.28 |
% |
|||||
| Efficiency ratio |
39.07 |
% |
43.23 |
% |
52.81 |
% |
39.18 |
% |
51.12 |
% |
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Jeffrey P. Finck
President & CEO
530.222.1460
Patrick E. Phelan
Chief Financial Officer
530.222.1460
Source: Cornerstone Community Bancorp