Endeavor Bancorp Reports Net Income of $1.4 Million for the First Quarter of 2025; Highlighted by Loan and Deposit Growth and Net Interest Margin Expansion
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Endeavor Bancorp (OTCQX: EDVR) reported strong Q1 2025 financial results with net income of $1.36 million, or $0.32 per diluted share, marking significant growth from $1.08 million in Q4 2024 and $407,000 in Q1 2024.
Key highlights include:
- Net interest income increased to $7.0 million, up 7.6% from previous quarter
- Net interest margin expanded to 4.12%, up 15 basis points
- Total loans grew 4.6% to $597.8 million
- Total deposits increased 4.1% to $626.2 million
- Return on average equity reached 11.68%
The bank's strong performance was driven by loan growth, improved earning asset rates, and strategic investments in staff made throughout 2024. Non-performing loans decreased to 0.40% of the total loan portfolio, and the bank maintained strong capital ratios with a Tier 1 leverage ratio of 10.57%.
Positive
- Strong earnings growth with net income up 26% quarter-over-quarter
- Significant loan and deposit growth
- Improved net interest margin
- Decreased non-performing loans ratio
- Strong capital ratios maintained
Negative
- Increased provision for credit losses compared to previous quarter
- Higher non-interest expenses due to strategic investments
- Slight decrease in earning assets yield
News Market Reaction 1 Alert
On the day this news was published, EDVR declined 0.45%, reflecting a mild negative market reaction.
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SAN DIEGO, April 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Endeavor Bancorp (OTCQX: EDVR) (the “Company,” or “Bancorp”), the holding company for Endeavor Bank (the “Bank”), today reported net income of
Results for the first quarter of 2025 included a
“Endeavor’s first quarter performance marks a great start to the year, underscoring our continued commitment to delivering value to our shareholders and the businesses we serve,” stated Julie Glance, CFO. “We allocated significant resources toward growing the company and expanding our team in 2024, and our first quarter operating results demonstrate the positive impact of these investments on our earnings. We experienced meaningful growth in both loans and deposits, coupled with continued margin expansion. Net loans increased
Income Statement
Strong first quarter earnings were driven by loan growth and earning asset rates. Total interest income on loans and bank deposits and investments was
“The 15-basis point increase in our net interest margin during the first quarter of 2025, compared to the prior quarter, was primarily the result of strong loan growth, in addition to improving funding costs,” said Dan Yates, CEO. “In the current rate environment, we continue to actively manage our asset-liability mix to protect our net interest margin, while ensuring competitive loan and deposit pricing across our portfolio.”
The Company’s net interest margin increased 15 basis points to
Non-Interest income was
Non-Interest expense was
A significant portion of the annual board compensation will be paid in the second quarter of 2025 in contrast to 2024 in which the compensation was
The Company’s annualized return on average equity for the first quarter of 2025 was
Balance Sheet
Total assets increased by
“Our results for the first quarter emphasized the effort of our strong, experienced team, and our commitment to expanding our brand of business banking, which includes growing both sides of the balance sheet while maintaining strong credit quality,” said Steve Sefton, President. “Loan growth and new loan originations remained strong during the first quarter of 2025, as we continue to seek out high quality lending opportunities in our markets.”
Total loans outstanding increased
Total deposits increased
As a result of its participation in a reciprocal deposit placement network, the Bank accepted “reciprocal” deposits from other institutions, enabling the Bank to offer customers FDIC insurance on accounts in excess of the typical
Shareholders’ equity was
Capital
The Bank’s Tier 1 leverage ratio was
About Endeavor Bancorp
Endeavor Bancorp, the holding company for Endeavor Bank, is primarily owned and operated by Southern Californians for Southern California businesses and their owners. The bank’s focus is local: local decision-making, local board, local founders, local owners, and relationships with local clients in Southern California.
Headquartered in downtown San Diego in the Symphony Towers building, the Bank also operates a loan production and executive administration office in Carlsbad and a branch office in La Mesa. Endeavor Bank provides traditional business banking services across a broad spectrum of industries and specialties. Unique to the bank is its consultative banking approach that partners our business clients with Endeavor Bank’s senior management. Together, we build strategies and provide resources that solve problems, plan for the future, and help clients’ efforts to grow revenues and profits. Endeavor Bancorp trades on the OTCQX® Best Market under the symbol “EDVR.” Visit www.endeavor.bank for more information.
Endeavor Bank is rated by Bauer Financial as Five-Star "Superior" for strong financial performance, the top rating given by the independent bank rating firm. DepositAccounts.com awarded Endeavor Bank an A rating.
EDVR Shareholders
With many of our shareholders transferring their EDVR shares to their brokerage companies, along with ongoing trading taking place, Bancorp may not have the most current shareholder contact information. If you are an EDVR shareholder and would like to receive information via a more timely method, please complete the Shareholder Communication Preference Form on our website: https://www.bankendeavor.com/investor-relations so we can keep you updated on EDVR news, and invite you to various shareholder networking events throughout the year.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes “forward-looking statements,” as such term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are based on the current beliefs of the Company’s directors and executive officers (collectively, “Management”), as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to the Company’s Management. All statements regarding the Company’s business strategy and plans and objectives of Management of the Company for future operations, are forward-looking statements. When used in this press release, the words “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect” and “intend” and words or phrases of similar meaning, as they relate to the Company or the Company’s Management, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company’s expectations (“cautionary statements”) are loan losses, rapid and unanticipated deposit withdrawals, unavailability of sources of liquidity, additional regulatory requirements that may be imposed on community banks or banks generally, changes in interest rates, loss of key personnel, lower lending limits and capital than competitors, regulatory restrictions and oversight of the Company, the secure and effective implementation of technology, risks related to the local and national economy, the effect on customers, collateral value and property insurance markets of the recent wildfires in the Los Angeles metropolitan area and similar events in the future, changes in real estate values, the Company’s implementation of its business plans and management of growth, loan performance, interest rates, and regulatory matters, the effects of trade, monetary and fiscal policies, inflation, and changes in accounting policies and practices. Based upon changing conditions, if any one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or if any underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described as anticipated, believed, estimated, expected, or intended. The Company does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.
| SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA | |||||||||||
| (In thousands of dollars, except for ratios and per share amounts) | |||||||||||
| Unaudited | |||||||||||
| Three Months Ended | |||||||||||
| March 31, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | March 31, 2024 | |||||||||
| (Consolidated) | (Consolidated) | (Consolidated) | |||||||||
| SUMMARY OF OPERATIONS | |||||||||||
| Interest income | $ | 11,119 | $ | 10,754 | $ | 8,516 | |||||
| Interest expense | 4,106 | 4,236 | 3,488 | ||||||||
| Net interest income | 7,013 | 6,518 | 5,029 | ||||||||
| Provision for credit losses | 385 | 374 | 450 | ||||||||
| Net interest income after loss provision | 6,628 | 6,144 | 4,580 | ||||||||
| Non-interest income | 183 | 160 | 151 | ||||||||
| Non-interest expense | 4,864 | 4,752 | 4,139 | ||||||||
| Income before tax | 1,947 | 1,552 | 591 | ||||||||
| Federal income tax expense | 372 | 296 | 117 | ||||||||
| State income tax expense | 214 | 171 | 66 | ||||||||
| Net income | $ | 1,361 | $ | 1,084 | $ | 407 | |||||
| Core pretax earnings* | $ | 2,332 | $ | 1,926 | $ | 1,041 | |||||
| *excludes taxes and provision for loan losses | |||||||||||
| PER COMMON SHARE DATA | |||||||||||
| Number of shares outstanding (000s)* | 3,503 | 3,494 | 3,422 | ||||||||
| *Adjusted for May 2024 Stock Dividend | |||||||||||
| Earnings per share, basic | $ | 0.39 | $ | 0.31 | $ | 0.12 | |||||
| Earnings per share, diluted | $ | 0.32 | $ | 0.25 | $ | 0.10 | |||||
| Book Value per share | $ | 13.61 | $ | 13.17 | $ | 12.43 | |||||
| BALANCE SHEET DATA | |||||||||||
| Assets | $ | 704,564 | $ | 678,332 | $ | 565,881 | |||||
| Investments securities | 26,385 | 25,777 | 13,432 | ||||||||
| Total loans, net of unearned income | 597,846 | 571,817 | 443,203 | ||||||||
| Total deposits | 626,165 | 601,219 | 492,169 | ||||||||
| Borrowings | 26,721 | 26,697 | 27,090 | ||||||||
| Shareholders’ equity | 47,667 | 46,009 | 42,526 | ||||||||
| Loan to Deposit ratio | 95.48 | % | 95.11 | % | 90.05 | % | |||||
| Wholesale Deposits to Total Deposits | 8.90 | % | 10.10 | % | |||||||
| AVERAGE BALANCE SHEET DATA | |||||||||||
| Average assets | $ | 697,617 | $ | 660,748 | $ | 557,691 | |||||
| Average total loans, net of unearned income | 589,037 | 549,340 | 434,999 | ||||||||
| Average total deposits | 618,844 | 582,583 | 514,445 | ||||||||
| Average shareholders' equity | 47,256 | 46,117 | 43,247 | ||||||||
| ASSET QUALITY RATIOS | |||||||||||
| Net (charge-offs) recoveries | $ | - | $ | - | $ | - | |||||
| Net (charge-offs) recoveries to average loans | 0.00 | % | 0.00 | % | 0.74 | % | |||||
| Non-performing loans as a % of loans | 0.40 | % | 0.46 | % | 0.07 | % | |||||
| Non-performing assets as a % of assets | 0.34 | % | 0.38 | % | 0.05 | % | |||||
| Allowance for loan losses as a % of total loans | 1.36 | % | 1.37 | % | 1.45 | % | |||||
| Non-performing assets as a % of allowance for loan losses | 29.60 | % | 33.27 | % | 4.66 | % | |||||
| FINANCIAL RATIOS\STATISTICS | |||||||||||
| Annualized return on average equity | 11.68 | % | 9.35 | % | 3.79 | % | |||||
| Annualized return on average assets | 0.79 | % | 0.65 | % | 0.29 | % | |||||
| Net interest margin | 4.12 | % | 3.97 | % | 3.68 | % | |||||
| Efficiency ratio | 67.59 | % | 71.17 | % | 79.91 | % | |||||
| CAPITAL RATIOS | |||||||||||
| Tier 1 leverage ratio -- Bank | 10.57 | % | 10.90 | % | 12.18 | % | |||||
| Common equity tier 1 ratio -- Bank | 10.47 | % | 10.71 | % | 12.49 | % | |||||
| Tier 1 risk-based capital ratio -- Bank | 10.47 | % | 10.71 | % | 12.49 | % | |||||
| Total risk-based capital ratio --Bank | 11.65 | % | 11.90 | % | 13.69 | % | |||||
| TCE/TA * | 6.77 | % | 6.78 | % | 7.52 | % | |||||
| Tangible Book Value per Share | $ | 13.49 | $ | 13.20 | $ | 12.64 | |||||
| *Non-GAAP financial measure. | |||||||||||
| Unaudited financials 2025 | |||||||||||
Endeavor Bancorp Contact Information:
(858) 230.5185
Dan Yates, CEO
dyates@bankendeavor.com
(858) 230.4243
Steve Sefton, President
ssefton@bankendeavor.com
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