[10-Q] PATHWARD FINANCIAL, INC. Quarterly Earnings Report
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Pathward Financial, Inc. reported stronger quarterly results for the three months ended December 31, 2025. Net income attributable to the parent rose to $35.2 million from $30.0 million a year earlier, and diluted EPS increased to $1.57 from $1.23.
Total assets reached $7.56 billion, with loans and leases growing to $4.98 billion and deposits to $6.35 billion. Net interest income was $119.3 million, down modestly from $125.3 million, but credit costs improved sharply as the provision for credit losses fell to $3.2 million from $18.7 million. The company returned capital through cash dividends of $0.05 per share and repurchased 651,804 shares for about $50.9 million.
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-Q
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the quarterly period ended December 31, 2025
or
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the transition period from to .
Commission File Number: 0-22140
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) | ||||
(Address of principal executive offices and Zip Code)
(877 ) 497-7497
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
| Title of each class | Trading Symbol(s) | Name of each exchange on which registered | ||||||
Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ☒ No ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to submit such files). Yes ☒ No ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer," "smaller reporting company," and "emerging growth company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act:
| ☒ | Accelerated filer | ☐ | |||||||||
| Non-accelerated filer | ☐ | Smaller reporting company | |||||||||
| Emerging growth company | |||||||||||
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ☐ No ☒
Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the issuer’s classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date.
| Class: | Outstanding at January 28, 2026: | ||||||||||
| Common Stock, $.01 par value | Shares | ||||||||||
| Nonvoting Common Stock, $.01 par value | 0 | Nonvoting shares | |||||||||
PATHWARD FINANCIAL, INC.
FORM 10-Q
Table of Contents
| Description | Page | |||||||
| PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION | ||||||||
| Item 1. | Financial Statements | 2 | ||||||
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition as of December 31, 2025 and September 30, 2025 | 2 | |||||||
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations for the Three Months Ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 | 3 | |||||||
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss) for the Three Months Ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 | 4 | |||||||
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity for the Three Months Ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 | 5 | |||||||
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Three Months Ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 | 6 | |||||||
Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements | 7 | |||||||
| Item 2. | Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations | 37 | ||||||
| Item 3. | Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk | 47 | ||||||
| Item 4. | Controls and Procedures | 50 | ||||||
| PART II - OTHER INFORMATION | ||||||||
| Item 1. | Legal Proceedings | 52 | ||||||
| Item 1A. | Risk Factors | 52 | ||||||
| Item 2. | Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds | 52 | ||||||
| Item 3. | Defaults Upon Senior Securities | 52 | ||||||
| Item 4. | Mine Safety Disclosures | 52 | ||||||
| Item 5. | Other Information | 52 | ||||||
| Item 6. | Exhibits | 53 | ||||||
SIGNATURES | 54 | |||||||
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PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1. Financial Statements.
PATHWARD FINANCIAL, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition
| (Dollars in thousands, except per share data) | December 31, 2025 | September 30, 2025 | |||||||||
| ASSETS | (Unaudited) | (Audited) | |||||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Securities available for sale, at fair value | |||||||||||
Securities held to maturity, at amortized cost (fair value $ | |||||||||||
| Federal Reserve Bank and Federal Home Loan Bank Stock, at cost | |||||||||||
| Loans held for sale | |||||||||||
| Loans and leases | |||||||||||
| Allowance for credit losses | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Accrued interest receivable | |||||||||||
| Premises, furniture, and equipment, net | |||||||||||
| Rental equipment, net | |||||||||||
| Goodwill and intangible assets | |||||||||||
| Other assets | |||||||||||
| Total assets | $ | $ | |||||||||
| LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY | |||||||||||
| LIABILITIES | |||||||||||
| Deposits | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Short-term borrowings | |||||||||||
| Long-term borrowings | |||||||||||
| Accrued expenses and other liabilities | |||||||||||
| Total liabilities | |||||||||||
| STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY | |||||||||||
Preferred stock, | |||||||||||
Common stock, $ | |||||||||||
Common stock, Nonvoting, $ | |||||||||||
| Additional paid-in capital | |||||||||||
| Retained earnings | |||||||||||
| Accumulated other comprehensive loss | ( | ( | |||||||||
Treasury stock, at cost, | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Total equity attributable to parent | |||||||||||
| Noncontrolling interest | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Total stockholders’ equity | |||||||||||
| Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity | $ | $ | |||||||||
See Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
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PATHWARD FINANCIAL, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations (Unaudited)
| Three Months Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
| (Dollars in thousands, except per share data) | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||
| Interest and dividend income: | |||||||||||
| Loans and leases, including fees | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Mortgage-backed securities | |||||||||||
| Other investments | |||||||||||
| Interest expense: | |||||||||||
| Deposits | |||||||||||
| FHLB advances and other borrowings | |||||||||||
| Net interest income | |||||||||||
| Provision for credit loss | |||||||||||
| Net interest income after provision for credit loss | |||||||||||
| Noninterest income: | |||||||||||
| Refund transfer product fees | |||||||||||
| Refund advance and other tax fee income | |||||||||||
| Card and deposit fees | |||||||||||
| Rental income | |||||||||||
| (Loss) on sale of securities | ( | ||||||||||
| Gain on divestitures | |||||||||||
| Secondary market revenue | |||||||||||
| Gain on sale of other | |||||||||||
| Other income | |||||||||||
| Total noninterest income | |||||||||||
| Noninterest expense: | |||||||||||
| Compensation and benefits | |||||||||||
| Refund transfer product expense | |||||||||||
| Refund advance expense | |||||||||||
| Card processing | |||||||||||
| Building and software | |||||||||||
| Operating lease equipment depreciation | |||||||||||
| Legal and consulting | |||||||||||
| Intangible amortization | |||||||||||
| Other expense | |||||||||||
| Total noninterest expense | |||||||||||
| Income before income tax expense | |||||||||||
| Income tax expense | |||||||||||
| Net income before noncontrolling interest | |||||||||||
| Net income attributable to noncontrolling interest | |||||||||||
| Net income attributable to parent | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Earnings per common share: | |||||||||||
| Basic | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Diluted | $ | $ | |||||||||
See Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
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PATHWARD FINANCIAL, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Unaudited)
| Three Months Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
| (Dollars in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||
| Net income before noncontrolling interest | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Other comprehensive income (loss): | |||||||||||
| Change in net unrealized gain (loss) on debt securities | ( | ||||||||||
| Net loss realized on debt securities | |||||||||||
| ( | |||||||||||
| Unrealized gain (loss) on currency translation | ( | ||||||||||
| Deferred income tax effect | ( | ||||||||||
| Total other comprehensive income (loss) | ( | ||||||||||
| Total comprehensive income (loss) | ( | ||||||||||
| Total comprehensive income attributable to noncontrolling interest | |||||||||||
| Comprehensive income (loss) attributable to parent | $ | $ | ( | ||||||||
See Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
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PATHWARD FINANCIAL, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders' Equity (Unaudited)
| Three Months Ended | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (Dollars in thousands, except per share data) | Common Stock | Additional Paid-in Capital | Retained Earnings | Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) | Treasury Stock | Total Pathward Financial, Inc. Stockholders’ Equity | Noncontrolling interest | Total Stockholders’ Equity | ||||||||||||||||||
| Balance, September 30, 2025 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | $ | |||||||||||||||
Cash dividends declared on common stock ($ | — | — | ( | — | — | ( | — | ( | ||||||||||||||||||
| Issuance of common stock due to restricted stock | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Repurchases of common stock | ( | ( | — | ( | ( | — | ( | |||||||||||||||||||
| Stock compensation | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Total other comprehensive income | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Net income | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net distribution to noncontrolling interest | — | — | — | — | — | — | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||||||
Balance, December 31, 2025 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | $ | |||||||||||||||
| Balance, September 30, 2024 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | $ | |||||||||||||||
Cash dividends declared on common stock ($ | — | — | ( | — | — | ( | — | ( | ||||||||||||||||||
| Repurchases of common stock | ( | ( | — | ( | ( | — | ( | |||||||||||||||||||
| Stock compensation | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Total other comprehensive loss | — | — | — | ( | — | ( | — | ( | ||||||||||||||||||
| Net income | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net distribution to noncontrolling interest | — | — | — | — | — | — | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||||||
Balance, December 31, 2024 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | $ | |||||||||||||||
See Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
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PATHWARD FINANCIAL, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (Unaudited)
| Three Months Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
| (Dollars in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||
| Cash flows from operating activities: | |||||||||||
| Net income before noncontrolling interest | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities: | |||||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization | |||||||||||
| Provision for credit loss | |||||||||||
| Provision for deferred taxes | |||||||||||
| Originations of loans held for sale | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Proceeds from sales of loans held for sale | |||||||||||
| Net change in loans held for sale | ( | ||||||||||
| Net realized (gain) on loans held for sale | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Net realized loss (gain) on securities available for sale | |||||||||||
| Net realized (gain) on divestitures | ( | ||||||||||
| Net realized (gain) on other | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Net change in accrued interest receivable | ( | ||||||||||
| Net change in other assets | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Net change in accrued expenses and other liabilities | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Stock compensation | |||||||||||
| Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities | ( | ||||||||||
| Cash flows from investing activities: | |||||||||||
| Purchases of securities available for sale | ( | ||||||||||
| Proceeds from sales of securities available for sale | |||||||||||
| Proceeds from maturities of and principal collected on securities available for sale | |||||||||||
| Proceeds from maturities of and principal collected on securities held to maturity | |||||||||||
| Purchases of Federal Reserve Bank and Federal Home Loan Bank stock | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Redemption of Federal Reserve Bank and Federal Home Loan Bank stock | |||||||||||
| Purchases of loans and leases | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Net change in loans and leases | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Purchases of premises, furniture, and equipment | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Purchases of rental equipment | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Proceeds from sales of rental equipment | |||||||||||
| Net change in rental equipment | |||||||||||
| Proceeds from surrender of bank-owned life insurance | |||||||||||
| Proceeds from divestitures, net of transaction costs | |||||||||||
| Proceeds from sale of other assets | |||||||||||
| Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities | ( | ||||||||||
| Cash flows from financing activities: | |||||||||||
| Net change in deposits | |||||||||||
| Net change in short-term borrowings | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Dividends paid on common stock | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Issuance of common stock due to restricted stock | |||||||||||
| Repurchases of common stock | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Investment by (distributions to) noncontrolling interest | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Net cash provided by financing activities | |||||||||||
| Effect of exchange rate changes on cash | ( | ||||||||||
| Net change in cash and cash equivalents | |||||||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of fiscal year | |||||||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents at end of fiscal period | $ | $ | |||||||||
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PATHWARD FINANCIAL, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (Unaudited)
| Three Months Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
| (Dollars in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||
| Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information: | |||||||||||
| Cash paid during the period for: | |||||||||||
| Interest | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Income taxes | |||||||||||
| Franchise and other taxes | |||||||||||
| Supplemental schedule of non-cash investing activities: | |||||||||||
| Transfers | |||||||||||
| Held for sale to loans and leases | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Loans and leases to held for sale | |||||||||||
| Loans and leases to rental equipment | |||||||||||
| Rental equipment to loan and leases | |||||||||||
See Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
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PATHWARD FINANCIAL, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
NOTE 1. BASIS OF PRESENTATION
The interim unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements contained herein should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2025 included in Pathward Financial, Inc.’s ("Pathward Financial" or the “Company") Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on November 25, 2025. Accordingly, footnote disclosures which would substantially duplicate the disclosures contained in the audited consolidated financial statements have been omitted.
The financial information of the Company included herein has been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) for interim financial reporting and has been prepared pursuant to the rules and regulations for reporting on Form 10-Q and Rule 10-01 of Regulation S-X. Such information reflects all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring adjustments) that are, in the opinion of management, necessary for a fair presentation of the financial position and results of operations for the periods presented. The results of the three months ended December 31, 2025 are not necessarily indicative of the results expected for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026.
Certain prior fiscal year amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current year financial statement presentation. These reclassifications did not impact previously reported net income, comprehensive income or the statement of financial condition.
NOTE 2. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND RECENTLY ADOPTED ACCOUNTING STANDARDS UPDATES ("ASU")
Significant accounting policies in effect and disclosed within the Company’s most recent audited consolidated financial statements as of September 30, 2025 remain substantially unchanged.
The following ASU became effective for the Company on October 1, 2025.
ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (ASC 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures. This ASU requires enhanced income tax disclosures primarily related to the rate reconciliation and income taxes paid information to provide further transparency surrounding the Company’s income tax position. The amendments in this ASU will result in disclosure only impacts that the Company will first apply for its annual reporting period ending September 30, 2026. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of such amendments to the relevant annual disclosures.
The following ASUs have been issued and are considered applicable to the Company, but have not yet been adopted.
ASU 2024-03, Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures. This ASU requires public entities to provide enhanced disaggregation of certain expense categories presented in the income statement to improve transparency and consistency in financial reporting. The new guidance aims to provide investors with more detailed information regarding the nature of a company’s expenses. The amendments will be effective for the Company beginning with the fiscal year ending September 30, 2027, and interim periods within that fiscal year. The amendments are to be applied retrospectively to all prior periods presented. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of such amendments to the consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
ASU 2025-05, Financial Instruments—Credit Losses (Topic 326) Measurement of Credit Losses for Accounts Receivable and Contract Assets. This ASU clarifies the measurement of expected credit losses for accounts receivable and contract assets arising from revenue transactions, aligning the application of Topic 326 with the revenue recognition guidance in Topic 606. The amendments are intended to reduce diversity in practice and improve the consistency of credit loss estimates across similar financial assets. The amendments will be effective for the Company beginning on October 1, 2026, and will apply to interim periods within the fiscal year ending September 30, 2027. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of such amendments to the consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
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ASU 2025-06, Intangibles—Goodwill and Other—Internal-Use Software (Subtopic 350-40). This ASU modernizes the accounting for internally used software by streamlining when costs may be capitalized and by enhancing disclosure and presentation requirements. The amendments will be effective for the Company beginning on October 1, 2028, and will apply to interim periods within the fiscal year ending September 30, 2029. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of such amendments to the consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
ASU 2025-07, Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815) and Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606). This ASU refines the scope of derivative accounting and clarifies the treatment of certain share-based noncash consideration received from customers. The amendments are intended to enhance clarity and consistency in applying derivative and revenue recognition guidance. The amendments will be effective for the Company beginning on October 1, 2027 and will apply to interim periods within the fiscal year ending September 30, 2028. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of such amendments to the consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
ASU 2025-08, Financial Instruments—Credit Losses (Topic 326): Purchased Loans This ASU changes the accounting for certain acquired loans by requiring entities to apply a “gross-up” approach at acquisition for purchased seasoned loans, recognizing an allowance for expected credit losses as part of the acquisition accounting rather than through a post-acquisition provision. The amendments are to be applied prospectively to loans acquired on or after the initial application date. The ASU will be effective for the Company on October 1, 2027. Early adoption is permitted but not expected to be exercised by the Company at this time.
ASU 2025-11, Interim Reporting (Topic 270) Narrow-Scope Improvements. This ASU clarifies when Topic 270 applies and enhances usability by (among other changes) specifying the form/content of interim financial statements, providing a comprehensive list of required interim disclosures, and introducing a disclosure principle for material events since the last annual period—without intending to significantly expand or reduce interim disclosure requirements. The amendments will be effective for the Company beginning with the fiscal year ending September 30, 2029, and interim periods within that fiscal year. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of such amendments to the consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
ASU 2025-12, Codification Improvements. This ASU is part of the Financial Accounting Standards Board's standing "evergreen" project and makes a broad set of technical corrections, clarifications, and other minor improvements across many Topics to make the Codification easier to understand and apply. The amendments will be effective for the Company beginning with the fiscal year ending September 30, 2028, and interim periods within that fiscal year. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of such amendments to the consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
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NOTE 3. SECURITIES
The amortized cost, gross unrealized gains and losses and estimated fair values of debt securities available for sale ("AFS") and held to maturity ("HTM") are presented below.
| (Dollars in thousands) | Amortized Cost | Gross Unrealized Gains | Gross Unrealized (Losses) | Fair Value | ||||||||||
| Debt Securities AFS | ||||||||||||||
| December 31, 2025 | ||||||||||||||
| Corporate securities | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | |||||||||
| SBA securities | ( | |||||||||||||
| Obligations of states and political subdivisions | ||||||||||||||
| Non-bank qualified obligations of states and political subdivisions | ( | |||||||||||||
| Asset-backed securities | ( | |||||||||||||
| Mortgage-backed securities | ( | |||||||||||||
| Total debt securities AFS | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | |||||||||
| September 30, 2025 | ||||||||||||||
| Corporate securities | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | |||||||||
| SBA securities | ( | |||||||||||||
| Obligations of states and political subdivisions | ||||||||||||||
| Non-bank qualified obligations of states and political subdivisions | ( | |||||||||||||
| Asset-backed securities | ( | |||||||||||||
| Mortgage-backed securities | ( | |||||||||||||
| Total debt securities AFS | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | |||||||||
| Debt Securities HTM | ||||||||||||||
| December 31, 2025 | ||||||||||||||
| Non-bank qualified obligations of states and political subdivisions | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | |||||||||
| Mortgage-backed securities | ( | |||||||||||||
| Total debt securities HTM | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | |||||||||
| September 30, 2025 | ||||||||||||||
| Non-bank qualified obligations of states and political subdivisions | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | |||||||||
| Mortgage-backed securities | ( | |||||||||||||
| Total debt securities HTM | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | |||||||||
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Gross unrealized losses and fair value, aggregated by investment category and length of time that individual securities have been in a continuous loss position, were as follows:
| LESS THAN 12 MONTHS | OVER 12 MONTHS | TOTAL | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (Dollars in thousands) | Fair Value | Gross Unrealized (Losses) | Fair Value | Gross Unrealized (Losses) | Fair Value | Gross Unrealized (Losses) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Debt Securities AFS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| December 31, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Corporate securities | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | ||||||||||||||||||
| SBA securities | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Non-bank qualified obligations of states and political subdivisions | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Asset-backed securities | ( | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mortgage-backed securities | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total debt securities AFS | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | |||||||||||||||||
| September 30, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Corporate securities | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | ||||||||||||||||||
| SBA securities | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Non-bank qualified obligations of states and political subdivisions | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Asset-backed securities | ( | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mortgage-backed securities | ( | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total debt securities AFS | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | |||||||||||||||||
| Debt Securities HTM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| December 31, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Non-bank qualified obligations of states and political subdivisions | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mortgage-backed securities | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total debt securities HTM | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | ||||||||||||||||||
| September 30, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Non-bank qualified obligations of states and political subdivisions | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mortgage-backed securities | ( | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total debt securities HTM | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | ( | ||||||||||||||||||
The decrease in the fair value of investment securities balances when comparing December 31, 2025 to September 30, 2025 was primarily driven by principal pay downs during the three months. At December 31, 2025, there were 144 debt securities AFS in an unrealized loss position. Management assessed each investment security with unrealized losses for credit loss by evaluating qualitative factors, including materiality of loss position as a percentage of book value, credit ratings, outstanding principal and interest payments, and changes in the underlying implicit or explicit guarantee of the security, and determined all unrealized losses on these securities were due to adverse market conditions and/or change in interest rates versus credit loss. As part of that assessment, management evaluated and concluded that it is more-likely-than-not that the Company will not be required and does not intend to sell any of the securities prior to recovery of the amortized cost. At December 31, 2025, there was no allowance for credit losses ("ACL") for debt securities AFS.
The amortized cost and fair value of debt securities by contractual maturity are shown below. Certain securities have call features which allow the issuer to call the security prior to maturity. Expected maturities may differ from contractual maturities in MBS because borrowers may have the right to call or prepay obligations with or without call or prepayment penalties. Therefore, MBS are not included in the maturity categories in the following maturity summary. The expected maturities of certain SBA securities may differ from contractual maturities because the borrowers may have the right to prepay the obligation. However, certain prepayment penalties may apply.
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| (Dollars in thousands) | December 31, 2025 | September 30, 2025 | |||||||||||||||
| Debt Securities AFS | Amortized Cost | Fair Value | Amortized Cost | Fair Value | |||||||||||||
| Due in one year or less | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||
| Due after one year through five years | |||||||||||||||||
| Due after five years through ten years | |||||||||||||||||
| Due after ten years | |||||||||||||||||
| Mortgage-backed securities | |||||||||||||||||
| Total debt securities AFS | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||
| Debt Securities HTM | |||||||||||||||||
| Due after ten years | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||
| Mortgage-backed securities | |||||||||||||||||
| Total debt securities HTM | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||
Federal Reserve Bank ("FRB") Stock. The Bank is required by federal law to subscribe to capital stock (divided into shares of $100 each) as a member of the FRB of Minneapolis with an amount equal to six per centum of the paid-up capital stock and surplus. One-half of the subscription is paid at time of application, and one-half is subject to call of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. FRB of Minneapolis stock held by the Bank totaled $19.7
Federal Home Loan Bank ("FHLB") Stock. The Company's borrowings from the FHLB are secured by specific investment securities. Such advances can be made pursuant to several different credit programs, each of which has its own interest rate and range of maturities.
The investments in the FHLB stock are required investments related to the Company's membership in and current borrowings from the FHLB of Des Moines. The investments in the FHLB of Des Moines could be adversely impacted by the financial operations of the FHLB and actions of their regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
The FHLB stock is carried at cost since it is generally redeemable at par value. The carrying value of the stock held at the FHLB was $4.6 million and $5.0 million at December 31, 2025 and at September 30, 2025, respectively.
These equity securities are ‘restricted’ in that they can only be sold back to the respective institution from which they were acquired or another member institution at par. Therefore, FRB and FHLB stocks are less liquid than other marketable equity securities, and the cost approximates fair value.
Equity Securities. The Company held $4.7 million and $3.8 million in marketable equity securities within other assets on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition at December 31, 2025 and September 30, 2025, respectively. The Company recognized zero and $0.1 million in unrealized losses on marketable equity securities during the three months ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. No such securities were sold during the three months ended December 31, 2025.
Non-marketable equity securities that are measured at fair value using net asset value ("NAV") as a practical expedient totaled $13.8 million and $13.2 million at December 31, 2025 and September 30, 2025, respectively. These securities are held within other assets on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition. The Company recognized zero and $0.3 million in unrealized gains during the three months ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. No such securities were sold during the three months ended December 31, 2025.
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Non-marketable equity securities without readily determinable fair value totaled $12.6 million and $12.0 million at December 31, 2025 and September 30, 2025, respectively, reflecting the Company's ownership interests in other entities through Pathward Venture Capital, LLC, a wholly-owned service corporation subsidiary of the Bank that was formed in 2017 for the purpose of making minority equity investments and other corporate investments. The Company recognized a $0.4 million gain on Visa shares which were carried at a cost basis of $0 during the three months ended December 31, 2024. This gain was recognized within the gain on sale of other on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations. There were no additional such securities sold during the three months ended December 31, 2025.
Equity Securities Impairment. The Company evaluates impairment for investments held at cost on at least an annual basis based on the ultimate recoverability of the par value. All other equity investments, including those under the equity method, are reviewed for other-than-temporary impairment on at least a quarterly basis. The Company recognized no
NOTE 4. LOANS AND LEASES, NET
Loans and leases consist of the following:
| (Dollars in thousands) | December 31, 2025 | September 30, 2025 | |||||||||
| Term lending | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Asset-based lending | |||||||||||
| Factoring | |||||||||||
| Lease financing | |||||||||||
| SBA/USDA | |||||||||||
| Other commercial finance | |||||||||||
| Commercial finance | |||||||||||
| Consumer finance | |||||||||||
| Tax services | |||||||||||
| Warehouse finance | |||||||||||
| Total loans and leases | |||||||||||
| Net deferred loan origination costs (fees) | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Total gross loans and leases | |||||||||||
| Allowance for credit losses | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Total loans and leases, net | $ | $ | |||||||||
During the three months ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company originated $1.04 billion and $853.1 million of commercial finance and consumer finance as held for sale, respectively.
The Company sold held for sale loans resulting in proceeds of $1.18 billion and a $4.2 million gain on sale during the three months ended December 31, 2025. The Company sold held for sale loans resulting in proceeds of $618.4 million and a $4.4 million gain on sale during the three months ended December 31, 2024. Gains and losses from the sale of loans and leases are included in secondary market revenue on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.
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Loans purchased and sold by portfolio segment, including participation interests, were as follows:
| Three Months Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
| (Dollars in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||
| Loans Purchased | |||||||||||
| Loans held for investment: | |||||||||||
| Commercial finance | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Warehouse finance | |||||||||||
| Total purchases | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Loans Sold | |||||||||||
| Loans held for sale: | |||||||||||
| Commercial finance | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Consumer finance | |||||||||||
| Total sales | $ | $ | |||||||||
Leasing Portfolio. The net investment in direct financing and sales-type leases was comprised of the following:
| (Dollars in thousands) | December 31, 2025 | September 30, 2025 | |||||||||
| Minimum lease payments receivable | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Unguaranteed residual assets | |||||||||||
| Unamortized initial direct costs | |||||||||||
| Unearned income | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Total net investment in direct financing and sales-type leases | $ | $ | |||||||||
The components of total lease income were as follows:
| Three Months Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
| (Dollars in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||
| Interest income - loans and leases | |||||||||||
| Interest income on net investments in direct financing and sales-type leases | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Leasing and equipment finance noninterest income | |||||||||||
| Lease income from operating lease payments | |||||||||||
Other(1) | |||||||||||
| Total leasing and equipment finance noninterest income | |||||||||||
| Total lease income | $ | $ | |||||||||
(1) Other leasing and equipment finance noninterest income consists of gains (losses) on sales of leased equipment, fees and service charges on leases and gains (losses) on sales of leases. | |||||||||||
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Undiscounted future minimum lease payments receivable for direct financing and sales-type leases, and a reconciliation to the carrying amount recorded at December 31, 2025 were as follows:
| (Dollars in thousands) | |||||
| 2026 | $ | ||||
| 2027 | |||||
| 2028 | |||||
| 2029 | |||||
| 2030 | |||||
| Thereafter | |||||
| Total undiscounted future minimum lease payments receivable for direct financing and sales-type leases | |||||
| Third-party residual value guarantees | |||||
| Total carrying amount of minimum lease payments for direct financing and sales-type leases | $ | ||||
The Company did not record any contingent rental income from direct financing and sales-type leases in the three months ended December 31, 2025.
A number of factors that have affected the economic environment over the past few years have continued into 2025, including economic uncertainty, inflation, geopolitical conflict and tensions, and increased interest rates, with the Federal Reserve beginning to lower the target federal funds rate at the end of 2024. Since early 2025, global markets and the U.S. economy have also experienced disruption and volatility resulting from tariffs and other policies of the U.S. administration. Management continues to evaluate the loan and lease portfolio in order to assess the impact on repayment sources and underlying collateral that could result in additional losses and the impact to our customers and businesses as a result of these factors impacting the economy and will refine its estimate as developments occur and more information becomes available.
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Activity in the allowance for credit losses by portfolio segment was as follows:
| (Dollars in thousands) | Beginning Balance | Provision (Reversal) | Charge-offs | Recoveries | Ending Balance | ||||||||||||
| Three Months Ended December 31, 2025 | |||||||||||||||||
| Allowance for credit losses: | |||||||||||||||||
| Term lending | $ | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | $ | ||||||||||
| Asset-based lending | |||||||||||||||||
| Factoring | ( | ||||||||||||||||
| Lease financing | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||
| SBA/USDA | ( | ||||||||||||||||
| Other commercial finance | |||||||||||||||||
| Commercial finance | ( | ||||||||||||||||
| Consumer finance | ( | ||||||||||||||||
| Tax services | ( | ||||||||||||||||
| Warehouse finance | ( | ||||||||||||||||
| Total loans and leases | ( | ||||||||||||||||
Unfunded commitments(1) | ( | ||||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | |||||||||||
| Three Months Ended December 31, 2024 | |||||||||||||||||
| Allowance for credit losses: | |||||||||||||||||
| Term lending | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | |||||||||||
| Asset-based lending | |||||||||||||||||
| Factoring | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||
| Lease financing | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||
| Insurance premium finance | ( | ||||||||||||||||
| SBA/USDA | ( | ||||||||||||||||
| Other commercial finance | ( | ||||||||||||||||
| Commercial finance | ( | ||||||||||||||||
| Consumer finance | ( | ||||||||||||||||
| Tax services | ( | ||||||||||||||||
| Warehouse finance | |||||||||||||||||
| Total loans and leases | ( | ||||||||||||||||
Unfunded commitments(1) | ( | ||||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | |||||||||||
(1) Reserve for unfunded commitments is recognized within other liabilities on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition. | |||||||||||||||||
Information on loans and leases that are deemed to be collateral dependent and are evaluated individually for the ACL was as follows:
| (Dollars in thousands) | December 31, 2025 | September 30, 2025 | |||||||||
| Term lending | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Asset-based lending | |||||||||||
| Factoring | |||||||||||
| Lease financing | |||||||||||
| SBA/USDA | |||||||||||
Commercial finance(1) | |||||||||||
| Total | $ | $ | |||||||||
(1) For commercial finance, collateral dependent financial assets have collateral in the form of cash, equipment, or other business assets. | |||||||||||
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Management has identified certain structured finance credits for alternative energy projects in which a substantial cash collateral account has been established to mitigate credit risk. Due to the nature of the transactions and significant cash collateral positions, these credits are evaluated individually. The balance of these pass rated cash collateral loans totaled $102.9 million and $107.7 million at December 31, 2025 and at September 30, 2025, respectively.
Federal regulations provide for the classification of loans and other assets such as debt and equity securities considered by the Bank's primary regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (the "OCC"), to be of lesser quality as “substandard,” “doubtful” or “loss.” The loan classification and risk rating definitions are as follows:
Pass - A pass asset is of sufficient quality in terms of repayment, collateral and management to preclude a special mention or an adverse rating.
Watch - A watch asset is generally a credit performing well under current terms and conditions but with identifiable weakness meriting additional scrutiny and corrective measures. Watch is not a regulatory classification but can be used to designate assets that are exhibiting one or more weaknesses that deserve management’s attention. These assets are of better quality than special mention assets.
Special Mention - A special mention asset is a credit with potential weaknesses deserving management’s close attention and, if left uncorrected, may result in deterioration of the repayment prospects for the asset. Special mention assets are not adversely classified and do not expose an institution to sufficient risk to warrant adverse classification. Special mention is a temporary status with aggressive credit management required to garner adequate progress and move to watch or higher.
The adverse classifications are as follows:
Substandard - A substandard asset is inadequately protected by the net worth and/or repayment ability or by a weak collateral position. Assets so classified will have well-defined weaknesses creating a distinct possibility the Bank will sustain some loss if the weaknesses are not corrected. Loss potential does not have to exist for an asset to be classified as substandard.
Doubtful - A doubtful asset has weaknesses similar to those classified substandard, with the degree of weakness causing the likely loss of some principal in any reasonable collection effort. Due to pending factors, the asset’s classification as loss is not yet appropriate.
Loss - A loss asset is considered uncollectible and of such little value that the asset’s continuance on the Bank’s balance sheet is no longer warranted. This classification does not necessarily mean an asset has no recovery or salvage value leaving room for future collection efforts.
Loans and leases, or portions thereof, are generally charged off when collection of principal becomes doubtful. Typically, this is associated with a delay or shortfall in payments of 120 days or more for consumer credit products and leases, and 90 days or more for commercial finance loans. Action is taken to charge off electronic return originator ("ERO") loans if such loans have not been collected by the end of June and refund advance loans if such loans have not been collected by the end of the calendar year. The Company individually evaluates loans and leases that do not share similar risk characteristics with other financial assets, which generally means loans and leases identified as modifications or loans and leases on nonaccrual status.
The Company recognizes that concentrations of credit may naturally occur and may take the form of a large volume of related loans and leases to an individual, a specific industry, or a geographic location. Credit concentration is a direct, indirect, or contingent obligation that has a common bond where the aggregate exposure equals or exceeds a certain percentage of the Company’s Tier 1 Capital plus the allowable Allowance for Credit Losses.
The Company has various portfolios of consumer finance and tax services loans that present unique risks that are statistically managed. Due to the unique risks associated with these portfolios, the Company monitors other credit quality indicators in its evaluation of the appropriateness of the ACL on these portfolios, and as such, these loans are not included in the asset classification table below. The outstanding balances of consumer finance loans and tax services loans were $132.0 million and $62.0 million at December 31, 2025, respectively, and $93.3 million and $2.5 million at September 30, 2025, respectively.
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The amortized cost basis of loans and leases by asset classification and year of origination was as follows:
| Amortized Cost Basis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (Dollars in thousands) | Term Loans and Leases by Origination Year | Revolving Loans and Leases | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| December 31, 2025 | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | Prior | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Term lending | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pass | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Watch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special mention | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Doubtful | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current period charge-offs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Asset-based lending | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pass | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Watch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special mention | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Substandard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Doubtful | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current period charge-offs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Factoring | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pass | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Watch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Substandard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current period charge-offs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lease financing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pass | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Watch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special mention | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Substandard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Doubtful | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| SBA/USDA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pass | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Watch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special mention | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Substandard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Total | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current period charge-offs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other commercial finance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pass | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Substandard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Pass | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Pass | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Watch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Special mention | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Substandard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Doubtful | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current period charge-offs | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Amortized Cost Basis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (Dollars in thousands) | Term Loans and Leases by Origination Year | Revolving Loans and Leases | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| September 30, 2025 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | Prior | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Term lending | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pass | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Watch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special mention | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Doubtful | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Pass | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Watch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special mention | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Total | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Factoring | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pass | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Watch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special mention | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Total | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Pass | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Watch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Doubtful | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Insurance premium finance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current period charge-offs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SBA/USDA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pass | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Watch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Pass | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Watch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Total | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current period charge-offs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Warehouse finance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pass | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Pass | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Watch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Special mention | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Substandard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Doubtful | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current period charge-offs | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
Past due loans and leases were as follows:
| Accruing and Nonaccruing Loans and Leases | Nonperforming Loans and Leases | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (Dollars in thousands) | 30-59 Days Past Due | 60-89 Days Past Due | > 89 Days Past Due | Total Past Due | Current | Total Loans and Leases Receivable | > 89 Days Past Due and Accruing | Nonaccrual Balance | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| December 31, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loans held for sale | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Term lending | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Asset-based lending | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Factoring | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lease financing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SBA/USDA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other commercial finance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial finance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Consumer finance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tax services | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Warehouse finance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total loans and leases held for investment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total loans and leases | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| September 30, 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loans held for sale | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Term lending | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Factoring | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Other commercial finance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial finance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Consumer finance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tax services | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Warehouse finance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total loans and leases held for investment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total loans and leases | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nonaccrual loans and leases by year of origination were as follows:
| Amortized Cost Basis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (Dollars in thousands) | Term Loans and Leases by Origination Year | Revolving Loans and Leases | Total | Nonaccrual with No ACL | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| December 31, 2025 | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | Prior | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Term lending | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Asset-based lending | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Factoring | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Total nonaccrual loans and leases | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Amortized Cost Basis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (Dollars in thousands) | Term Loans and Leases by Origination Year | Revolving Loans and Leases | Total | Nonaccrual with No ACL | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| September 30, 2025 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | Prior | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Term lending | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Total nonaccrual loans and leases | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Loans and leases that are 90 days or more delinquent and accruing by year of origination were as follows:
| Amortized Cost Basis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (Dollars in thousands) | Term Loans and Leases by Origination Year | Revolving Loans and Leases | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| December 31, 2025 | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | Prior | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Loans held for sale | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Term lending | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SBA/USDA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Total loans and leases held for investment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total 90 days or more delinquent and accruing | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Amortized Cost Basis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (Dollars in thousands) | Term Loans and Leases by Origination Year | Revolving Loans and Leases | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| September 30, 2025 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | Prior | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Loans held for sale | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Total loans and leases held for investment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total 90 days or more delinquent and accruing | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
Certain loans and leases 90 days or more past due as to interest or principal continue to accrue because they are (1) well-secured and in the process of collection or (2) consumer loans exempt under regulatory rules from being classified as nonaccrual until later delinquency, usually 120 days past due.
The following table provides the average recorded investment in nonaccrual loans and leases:
| Three Months Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
| (Dollars in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||
| Term lending | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Asset-based lending | |||||||||||
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| SBA/USDA | |||||||||||
| Other commercial finance | |||||||||||
| Commercial finance | |||||||||||
| Total loans and leases | $ | $ | |||||||||
The recognized interest income on the Company's nonaccrual loans and leases for the three months ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 was not significant.
Modifications made to borrowers experiencing financial difficulty during the three months ended December 31, 2025 were $2.6 million in the commercial finance loan portfolio. The types of modifications granted were term extensions. Modifications made to borrowers experiencing financial difficulty during the three months ended December 31, 2024 were $3.3 million in the commercial finance loan portfolio.
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During the three months ended December 31, 2025, the Company had $1.0 million of commercial finance loans where a modification was granted in the previous 12 months in which there was a payment default. As of December 31, 2025, $1.0 million of modifications granted during the current three month period were in the 60-89 days past due category. During the three months ended December 31, 2024, the Company had $1.4 million of commercial finance loans where a modification was granted in the previous 12 months in which there was a payment default. As of December 31, 2024, no modifications granted during the three months ended December 31, 2024 were in the 60-89 days past due category.
NOTE 5. EARNINGS PER COMMON SHARE ("EPS")
The Company has granted restricted share awards with dividend rights that are considered to be participating securities. Accordingly, a portion of the Company’s earnings is allocated to those participating securities in the earnings per share calculation under the two-class method. Basic EPS is computed using the two-class method by dividing income available to common stockholders after the allocation of dividends and undistributed earnings to the participating securities by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding for the period. Diluted EPS is calculated using the more dilutive of the two-class method or the treasury stock method. Diluted EPS reflects the potential dilution that could occur if securities or other contracts to issue common stock were exercised, and is computed after giving consideration to the weighted average dilutive effect upon vesting of performance share units ("PSUs") and restricted stock grants, and after the allocation of earnings to the participating securities. Antidilutive securities are disregarded in earnings per share calculations. Diluted EPS shown below reflects the two-class method, as diluted EPS under the two-class method was more dilutive than under the treasury stock method.
A reconciliation of net income and common stock share amounts used in the computation of basic and diluted earnings per share is presented below.
| Three Months Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
| (Dollars in thousands, except per share data) | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||
| Basic income per common share: | |||||||||||
| Net income attributable to Pathward Financial, Inc. | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Dividends and undistributed earnings allocated to participating securities | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Basic net earnings available to common stockholders | |||||||||||
| Undistributed earnings allocated to nonvested restricted stockholders | |||||||||||
| Reallocation of undistributed earnings to nonvested restricted stockholders | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Diluted net earnings available to common stockholders | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Total weighted-average basic common shares outstanding | |||||||||||
Effect of dilutive securities(1) | |||||||||||
| PSUs | |||||||||||
| Total effect of dilutive securities | |||||||||||
| Total weighted-average diluted common shares outstanding | |||||||||||
| Net earnings per common share: | |||||||||||
| Basic earnings per common share | $ | $ | |||||||||
Diluted earnings per common share(2) | $ | $ | |||||||||
(1) Represents the effect of the assumed vesting of PSUs and restricted stock, as applicable, utilizing the treasury stock method.
(2) Excluded from the computation of diluted earnings per share for the three months ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively, were 31,682 and 100,406 weighted average shares of nonvested restricted stock because their inclusion would be anti-dilutive.
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NOTE 6. RENTAL EQUIPMENT, NET
Rental equipment consists of the following:
| (Dollars in thousands) | December 31, 2025 | September 30, 2025 | |||||||||
| Computers and IT networking equipment | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Motor vehicles and other | |||||||||||
| Other furniture and equipment | |||||||||||
| Solar panels and equipment | |||||||||||
| Total | |||||||||||
| Accumulated depreciation | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Unamortized initial direct costs | |||||||||||
| Net book value | $ | $ | |||||||||
Future minimum lease payments expected to be received for operating leases at December 31, 2025 were as follows:
| (Dollars in thousands) | |||||
| Remaining in 2026 | $ | ||||
| 2027 | |||||
| 2028 | |||||
| 2029 | |||||
| 2030 | |||||
| Thereafter | |||||
| Total | $ | ||||
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NOTE 7. GOODWILL AND INTANGIBLE ASSETS
The Company held a total of $297.9 million of goodwill at December 31, 2025. The recorded goodwill is a result of multiple business combinations that occurred from 2015 to 2018. There have been no changes to the carrying amount of goodwill during the three months ended December 31, 2025.
The changes in the carrying amount of the Company’s intangible assets were as follows:
| (Dollars in thousands) | Trademark(1) | Customer Relationships(2) | All Others(3) | Total | ||||||||||
| September 30, 2025 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||
| Amortization during the period | ( | ( | ( | ( | ||||||||||
| December 31, 2025 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||
| Gross carrying amount | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||
| Accumulated amortization | ( | ( | ( | ( | ||||||||||
| Accumulated impairment | ( | ( | ( | |||||||||||
| December 31, 2025 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||
| September 30, 2024 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||
| Amortization during the period | ( | ( | ( | ( | ||||||||||
| Write-offs and disposals during the period | ( | ( | ||||||||||||
| December 31, 2024 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||
| Gross carrying amount | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||
| Accumulated amortization | ( | ( | ( | ( | ||||||||||
| Accumulated impairment | ( | ( | ( | |||||||||||
| December 31, 2024 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||
(1) Book amortization period of 5 -15 years. Amortized using the straight line and accelerated methods.
(2) Book amortization period of 10 -30 years. Amortized using the accelerated method.
(3) Book amortization period of 3 -20 years. Amortized using the straight line method.
The estimated amortization expense of intangible assets assumes no activities, such as acquisitions, which would result in additional amortizable intangible assets. Estimated amortization expense of intangible assets in the remaining nine months of fiscal 2026 and subsequent fiscal years at December 31, 2025 was as follows:
| (Dollars in thousands) | |||||
| Remaining in 2026 | $ | ||||
| 2027 | |||||
| 2028 | |||||
| 2029 | |||||
| 2030 | |||||
| Thereafter | |||||
| Total anticipated intangible amortization | $ | ||||
There were no
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NOTE 8. OPERATING LEASE RIGHT-OF-USE ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
Operating lease right-of-use ("ROU") assets, included in , were $22.0 million and $22.7 million at December 31, 2025 and September 30, 2025, respectively.
Operating lease liabilities, included in , were $23.2 million and $24.0 million at December 31, 2025 and September 30, 2025, respectively.
The decreases in lease ROU assets and liabilities relate to normal amortization and lease payments made during the three months ended December 31, 2025.
Undiscounted future minimum operating lease payments and a reconciliation to the amount recorded as operating lease liabilities at December 31, 2025 were as follows:
| (Dollars in thousands) | |||||
| Remaining in 2026 | $ | ||||
| 2027 | |||||
| 2028 | |||||
| 2029 | |||||
| 2030 | |||||
| Thereafter | |||||
| Total undiscounted future minimum lease payments | |||||
| Discount | ( | ||||
| Total operating lease liabilities | $ | ||||
The weighted-average discount rate and remaining lease term for operating leases were as follows:
| December 31, 2025 | September 30, 2025 | ||||||||||
| Weighted-average discount rate | % | % | |||||||||
| Weighted-average remaining lease term (years) | |||||||||||
The components of total lease costs for operating leases were as follows:
| Three Months Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
| (Dollars in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||
| Lease expense | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Short-term and variable lease cost | |||||||||||
| Sublease income | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Total lease cost for operating leases | $ | $ | |||||||||
NOTE 9. STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
Repurchase of Common Stock. The Company's Board of Directors authorized a share repurchase program to repurchase up to 7,000,000 shares of the Company's outstanding common stock on or before September 30, 2028. During the three months ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company repurchased 651,804 and 701,860 shares, respectively, as part of the share repurchase program.
Under the repurchase program, repurchased shares were retired and designated as authorized but unissued shares. The Company accounts for repurchased shares using the par value method under which the repurchase price is credited to paid-in capital up to the par value of those shares. When the repurchase price is greater than the original issue proceeds, the excess is charged to retained earnings. As of December 31, 2025, 4,286,012 shares of common stock remained available for repurchase.
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For the three months ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company also repurchased 51,068 and 66,446 shares, or $3.5 million and $4.6 million, of common stock, respectively, in settlement of employee tax withholding obligations due upon the vesting of restricted stock.
Retirement of Treasury Stock. The Company accounts for the retirement of repurchased shares, including treasury stock, using the par value method under which the repurchase price is charged to paid-in capital up to the amount of the original proceeds of those shares. When the repurchase price is greater than the original issue proceeds, the excess is charged to retained earnings. The Company retired 70,215 and zero shares of common stock held in treasury during the three months ended December 31, 2025 and 2024.
NOTE 10. STOCK COMPENSATION
The Pathward Financial, Inc. 2023 Omnibus Incentive Plan permits the granting of various types of awards including but not limited to nonvested (restricted) shares and PSUs to certain officers and directors of the Company. Awards may be granted by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors based on the performance of the award recipients or other relevant factors.
Shares have previously been granted each year to executives and senior leadership members under the applicable Company incentive plan. In addition, beginning in fiscal year 2025, awards were made to certain employees as time-vesting restricted stock units settleable in shares ("RSUs"). These shares and RSUs generally vest at various times ranging from immediately to three years based on circumstances at time of grant. The grant date fair value is determined based on the fair market value of the Company’s stock on the grant date, determined in accordance with applicable accounting standards. Director shares are issued to the Company’s directors, and these shares have historically vested from immediately to up to one year from the grant date.
The Company also grants selected executives PSU awards. The vesting of these awards is contingent on meeting company-wide performance goals, including earnings per share and total shareholder return. The awards generally vest over a period of three years and have payout levels ranging from a threshold of 50 % to a maximum of 200 %. Upon vesting, each PSU earned is converted into one share of common stock.
The fair value of the PSUs (other than PSUs subject to a market condition) is determined by the dividend-adjusted fair value on the grant date for those awards subject to a performance condition. For those PSUs subject to a market condition, a simulation valuation is performed.
Finally, awards of shares or RSUs may be made at other times during the fiscal year for new hire, promotion, or retention awards.
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The following tables show the activity of share awards (including shares of restricted stock subject to vesting, fully-vested restricted stock, RSUs and PSUs) granted, exercised or forfeited under all of the Company's incentive plans during the three months ended December 31, 2025.
| Number of Shares | Weighted Average Fair Value at Grant | |||||||
| Restricted Stock Awards | ||||||||
| Nonvested shares outstanding, September 30, 2025 | $ | |||||||
| Granted | ||||||||
| Vested | ( | |||||||
| Forfeited or expired | ||||||||
| Nonvested shares outstanding, December 31, 2025 | $ | |||||||
| RSUs | ||||||||
| Nonvested shares outstanding, September 30, 2025 | $ | |||||||
| Granted | ||||||||
| Vested | ( | |||||||
| Forfeited or expired | ( | |||||||
| Nonvested shares outstanding, December 31, 2025 | $ | |||||||
| PSUs | ||||||||
| PSUs outstanding, September 30, 2025 | $ | |||||||
| Granted | ||||||||
Adjustment for performance achievement(1) | ||||||||
| Vested | ( | |||||||
| Forfeited or expired | ||||||||
| PSUs outstanding, December 31, 2025 | $ | |||||||
(1) The final performance was assessed after September 30, 2025, resulted in an achievement greater than target, and an additional 15,901 shares were allocated to the participants in the plan.
Compensation expense for share-based awards is recorded over the vesting period at the fair value of the award at the time of the grant. The fair value of nonvested (restricted) shares and PSUs granted under the Company’s incentive plans is equal to the fair market value of the underlying stock at the grant date, adjusted for dividends where applicable. The Company has elected to record forfeitures as they occur.
The Company recognized total stock-based compensation expense of $2.9 million and $1.6 million for the three months ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. This expense is recorded primarily within compensation and benefits on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.
As of December 31, 2025, stock-based compensation expense not yet recognized in income totaled $16.9 million, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted average remaining period of 1.97 years.
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NOTE 11. INCOME TAXES
The Company recorded an income tax expense of $7.2 million for the three months ended December 31, 2025, resulting in an effective tax rate of 16.9 %, compared to an income tax expense of $6.0 million, or an effective tax rate of 16.6 %, for the three months ended December 31, 2024. The Company’s effective tax rate was lower than the U.S. statutory rate of 21% primarily because of the effect of investment tax credits during fiscal year 2026. The Company's effective tax rate in the future will depend in part on actual investment tax credits generated from qualified renewable energy property.
The table below compares the income tax expense components for the periods presented.
| Three Months Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
| (Dollars in thousands) | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||
| Provision at statutory rate | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Tax-exempt income | ( | ( | |||||||||
| State income taxes | |||||||||||
| Interim period effective rate adjustment | |||||||||||
| Tax credit investments, net - federal | ( | ( | |||||||||
| 162(m) disallowance | |||||||||||
| Other, net | ( | ( | |||||||||
| Income tax expense | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Effective tax rate | % | % | |||||||||
NOTE 12. REVENUE FROM CONTRACTS WITH CUSTOMERS
Topic 606 applies to all contracts with customers unless such revenue is specifically addressed under existing guidance. The table below presents the Company’s revenue by operating segment. For additional descriptions of the Company’s operating segments, including additional financial information and the underlying management accounting process, see Note 13. Segment Reporting to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
| (Dollars in thousands) | Consumer | Commercial | Corporate Services/Other | Consolidated Company | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Three Months Ended December 31, | 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Net interest income (expense)(1) | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Noninterest income: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Refund transfer product fees | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Refund advance and other tax fee income(1) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rental income(1) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(Loss) on sale of securities(1) | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gain on divestitures(1) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gain on sale of other(1) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Total noninterest income | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Revenue | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(1) These revenues are not within the scope of Topic 606. Additional details are included in other footnotes to the accompanying financial statements. The scope of Topic 606 explicitly excludes net interest income as well as many other revenues for financial assets and liabilities, including loans, leases, and securities. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Following is a discussion of key revenues within the scope of Topic 606. The Company provides services to customers that have related performance obligations that must be completed to recognize revenue. Revenues are generally recognized immediately upon the completion of the service or over time as services are performed. Any services performed over time generally require that the Company renders services each period; therefore, the Company measures progress in completing these services based upon the passage of time. Revenue from contracts with customers did not generate significant contract assets and liabilities for the three months ended December 31, 2025.
Refund Transfer Product Fees. Refund transfer fees are specific to the Partner Solutions business line and reflect product fees offered by the Company through third-party tax preparers and tax preparation software providers where the Company acts as the partnering financial institution. A refund transfer allows a taxpayer to pay tax preparation and filing fees directly from their federal or state government tax refund, with the remainder of the refund being disbursed in accordance with the terms and conditions of the taxpayer agreement, which may include satisfaction of other disbursement obligations before going directly to the taxpayer via check, direct deposit, or prepaid card. Refund transfer fees are recognized by the Company immediately after the taxpayer's refund has been disbursed in accordance with the contract and are based on standalone pricing included within the terms and conditions. Certain expenses to tax preparation software providers are netted with refund transfer fee income as the Company is considered the agent in these contractual relationships. All refund transfer fees are recorded within the Consumer reporting segment.
Card and Deposit Fees. Card fees relate to the Partner Solutions business line and consist of income from prepaid cards and merchant services, including interchange fees from prepaid cards processed through card association networks, merchant services and other card related services. Interchange rates are generally set by card association networks based on transaction volume and other factors. Since interchange fees are generated by cardholder activity, the Company recognizes the income as transactions occur. Fee income for merchant services and other card related services reflect account management and transaction fees charged to merchants for processing card association network transactions. The associated income is recognized as transactions occur or as services are performed. For the Company's internally managed prepaid card programs, fees are based on standalone pricing within the terms and conditions of the cardholder agreement. The Company is considered the principal of these relationships resulting in all fee income being presented on a gross basis within the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations. For the Company's sponsorship prepaid card programs where a third-party is considered the Program Manager, the fees are based on standalone pricing within the terms and conditions of the Program Agreement. For these relationships, the Company is considered the agent and certain expenses with the Program Manager, networks and associations are netted with card fee revenue. All card fee income is included in the Consumer reporting segment.
Deposit fees relate to the Partner Solutions and Commercial Finance business lines and consist of income from banking and deposit-related services, including account services, overdraft protection, and wire transfers. Fee income for account services is recognized over the course of the month as the performance obligation is satisfied. Fee income for overdraft protection and wire transfers is recognized at the point in time when such event occurs. For partner solutions, the fees for account services and overdraft protection are based on standalone pricing within the terms and conditions of the Program Agreement with the sponsorship partner. For these relationships, the Company is considered the agent and certain expenses with the partner are netted with deposit fee revenue. For Commercial Finance, fees for wire transfers are based on standalone pricing within the terms and conditions of the customer deposit agreement. Bank and deposit fees for the Partner Solutions and Commercial Finance business lines are included in the Consumer and Commercial reporting segments, respectively. Also included within Card and Deposit Fees for the Consumer reporting segment are monthly servicing fees the Company recognizes for custodial deposits. This fee income is for services the Bank performs to maintain records of cardholder funds placed at one or more third-party banks insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC"). The servicing fee is typically reflective of the effective federal funds rate ("EFFR").
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NOTE 13. SEGMENT REPORTING
An operating segment is generally defined as a component of a business for which discrete financial information is available and whose results are reviewed by the chief operating decision-maker ("CODM") to appropriately allocate entity resources and evaluate performance. The Company has identified the CODM to be the Chief Executive Officer of Pathward Financial, Inc.
Operating segments are aggregated into reportable segments if certain criteria are met. The Company reports its results of operations through the following three business segments: Consumer, Commercial, and Corporate Services/Other. The Company evaluated the listed operating segments based on their business processes, consumers, and variety of economic characteristics. The Partner Solutions business line is reported in the Consumer segment. The Commercial Finance business line is reported in the Commercial segment. The Corporate Services/Other segment includes certain shared services as well as treasury related functions such as the investment portfolio, warehouse finance, wholesale deposits, and borrowings.
The CODM reviews the performance and aggregates resources based on various factors but primarily through the evaluation of income (loss) before income tax expense. The significant expenses that have been deemed meaningful to the segments and regularly reported to the CODM are summarized below. These expenses are directly attributable to each of the three business segments. Shared services are an area of focus for the Company and as such, the table below includes the significant selling, general, and administrative ("SG&A") allocations of such shared services.
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The following table presents segment data for the Company:
| (Dollars in thousands) | Consumer | Commercial | Corporate Services/Other | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Three Months Ended December 31, | 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest and dividend income | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | $ | ( | $ | $ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest expense | ( | ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest income (expense) | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Provision for (reversal of) credit loss | ( | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Expenses included in the Other Expenses line represent insignificant expenses to the various operating segments such as marketing, data processing, meals and travel, communications, office supplies, seminars and training, dues and subscriptions, regulatory expense, bank service charges, fraud and program losses, charitable giving, and intangible amortization that are included in income (loss) before income tax expense.
In addition, interest expense includes intercompany interest paid through allocations to appropriately fund each of the operating segments. Management uses funds transfer pricing methodology to allocate the inter-segment interest appropriately, and as such, has determined the allocation to properly represent the interest rate environment at the Company.
NOTE 14. FAIR VALUE OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring the fair value of assets and liabilities using a hierarchy system and requires disclosures about fair value measurement. It clarifies that fair value is the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants in the market in which the reporting entity transacts.
The fair value hierarchy is as follows:
Level 1 Inputs - Valuation is based upon quoted prices for identical instruments traded in active markets that the Company has the ability to access at measurement date.
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Level 2 Inputs - Valuation is based upon quoted prices for similar instruments in active markets, quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in markets that are not active and model-based valuation techniques for which significant assumptions are observable in the market.
Level 3 Inputs - Valuation is generated from model-based techniques that use significant assumptions not observable in the market and are used only to the extent that observable inputs are not available. These unobservable assumptions reflect the Company’s own estimates of assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability.
Debt Securities AFS and HTM. Debt securities AFS are recorded at fair value on a recurring basis and debt securities HTM are carried at amortized cost.
The fair value of debt securities AFS, categorized primarily as Level 2, is recorded using prices obtained from independent asset pricing services that are based on observable transactions, but not quoted markets. Management reviews the prices obtained from independent asset pricing services for unusual fluctuations and compares to current market trading activity.
Equity Securities. Marketable equity securities and certain non-marketable equity securities are recorded at fair value on a recurring basis. The fair values of marketable equity securities are determined by obtaining quoted prices on nationally recognized securities exchanges (Level 1 inputs).
Derivatives. The Bank's use of derivatives is limited to the Consumer Lending Programs. Under these Programs, the Bank has an agreement with a third party to originate consumer loans that are included in the Bank's held for investment or held for sale portfolios. The third party provides a target return to the Company on the portfolio of loans retained by the Bank and all interest received from borrowers on such loans above the target return and after all charge-offs have been covered is paid to the third party as excess interest and servicing. The primary drivers of the derivative value include the Company's ability to settle the loans at par value and the third party partners' rights of first refusal to purchase loans that the Company intends to sell. The Company estimates the fair value of the derivative instrument using a market approach considering primarily the average interest rate on the underlying loans and the credit spread relative to the risk-free rate in order to validate that the value of the loans is in excess of par and thus the derivative could be settled by either party at no cost. The Company considers this derivative instrument to be within Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy, as it utilizes inputs from sales or securitization transactions involving similar loans. As of December 31, 2025 and September 30, 2025, the Company determined the derivatives had no fair value, respectively, thus eliminating the need for further disclosures regarding Level 3 inputs as outlined in ASC 820.
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The following table summarizes the fair values of debt securities AFS and equity securities as they are measured at fair value on a recurring basis.
| (Dollars in thousands) | Total | Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | ||||||||||
| December 31, 2025 | ||||||||||||||
| Debt securities AFS | ||||||||||||||
| Corporate securities | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||
| SBA securities | ||||||||||||||
| Obligations of states and political subdivisions | ||||||||||||||
| Non-bank qualified obligations of states and political subdivisions | ||||||||||||||
| Asset-backed securities | ||||||||||||||
| Mortgage-backed securities | ||||||||||||||
| Total debt securities AFS | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||
Common equities and mutual funds(1) | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||
Non-marketable equity securities(2) | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||
| September 30, 2025 | ||||||||||||||
| Debt securities AFS | ||||||||||||||
| Corporate securities | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||
| SBA securities | ||||||||||||||
| Obligations of states and political subdivisions | ||||||||||||||
| Non-bank qualified obligations of states and political subdivisions | ||||||||||||||
| Asset-backed securities | ||||||||||||||
| Mortgage-backed securities | ||||||||||||||
| Total debt securities AFS | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||
Common equities and mutual funds(1) | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||
Non-marketable equity securities(2) | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||
(1) Equity securities at fair value are included within other assets on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition at December 31, 2025 and September 30, 2025.
(2) Consists of certain non-marketable equity securities that are measured at fair value using NAV as a practical expedient and are excluded from the fair value hierarchy.
Loans and Leases. The Company does not record loans and leases at fair value on a recurring basis. However, if a loan or lease is individually evaluated for risk of credit loss and repayment is expected to be solely provided by the values of the underlying collateral, the Company measures fair value on a nonrecurring basis. Fair value is determined by the fair value of the underlying collateral less estimated costs to sell. The fair value of the collateral is determined based on the internal estimates and/or assessment provided by third-party appraisers and the valuation relies on discount rates ranging from 3 % to 29 %.
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The following table summarizes the assets of the Company that are measured at fair value in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition on a nonrecurring basis:
| (Dollars in thousands) | Total | Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | ||||||||||
| December 31, 2025 | ||||||||||||||
| Loans and leases, net individually evaluated for credit loss | ||||||||||||||
| Commercial finance | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||
| Total loans and leases, net individually evaluated for credit loss | ||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||
| September 30, 2025 | ||||||||||||||
| Loans and leases, net individually evaluated for credit loss | ||||||||||||||
| Commercial finance | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||
| Total loans and leases, net individually evaluated for credit loss | ||||||||||||||
| Total | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||
| Quantitative Information About Level 3 Fair Value Measurements | |||||||||||||||||
| (Dollars in thousands) | Fair Value at December 31, 2025 | Fair Value at September 30, 2025 | Valuation Technique | Unobservable Input | Range of Inputs | ||||||||||||
| Loans and leases, net individually evaluated for credit loss | $ | $ | Market approach | Appraised values(1) | |||||||||||||
(1) The Company generally relies on external appraisers to develop this information. Management reduced the appraised value by estimating selling costs and other inputs in a range of 3 % to 29 %.
Management discloses the estimated fair value of financial instruments, including assets and liabilities on and off the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition, for which it is practicable to estimate fair value. These fair value estimates were made at December 31, 2025 and September 30, 2025 based on relevant market information and information about financial instruments. Fair value estimates are intended to represent the price at which an asset could be sold or a liability could be settled. However, since there is no active market for certain financial instruments of the Company, the estimates of fair value are subjective in nature, involve uncertainties, and include matters of significant judgment. Changes in assumptions as well as tax considerations could significantly affect the estimated values. Accordingly, the aggregate fair value estimates are not intended to represent the underlying value of the Company, on either a going concern or a liquidation basis.
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The following tables present the carrying amount and estimated fair value of the financial instruments held by the Company:
| December 31, 2025 | |||||||||||||||||
| (Dollars in thousands) | Carrying Amount | Estimated Fair Value | Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | ||||||||||||
| Financial assets | |||||||||||||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
| Debt securities available for sale | |||||||||||||||||
| Debt securities held to maturity | |||||||||||||||||
Common equities and mutual funds(1) | |||||||||||||||||
Non-marketable equity securities(1)(2) | |||||||||||||||||
| Loans held for sale | |||||||||||||||||
| Loans and leases | |||||||||||||||||
| Federal Reserve Bank and Federal Home Loan Bank stocks | |||||||||||||||||
| Accrued interest receivable | |||||||||||||||||
| Financial liabilities | |||||||||||||||||
| Deposits | |||||||||||||||||
| Overnight federal funds purchased | |||||||||||||||||
| Other short- and long-term borrowings | |||||||||||||||||
| Accrued interest payable | |||||||||||||||||
(1) Equity securities at fair value are included within other assets on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition at December 31, 2025.
(2) Includes certain non-marketable equity securities that are measured at fair value using NAV per share (or its equivalent) as a practical expedient and are excluded from the fair value hierarchy.
| September 30, 2025 | |||||||||||||||||
| (Dollars in thousands) | Carrying Amount | Estimated Fair Value | Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | ||||||||||||
| Financial assets | |||||||||||||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
| Debt securities available for sale | |||||||||||||||||
| Debt securities held to maturity | |||||||||||||||||
Common equities and mutual funds(1) | |||||||||||||||||
Non-marketable equity securities(1)(2) | |||||||||||||||||
| Loans held for sale | |||||||||||||||||
| Loans and leases | |||||||||||||||||
| Federal Reserve Bank and Federal Home Loan Bank stocks | |||||||||||||||||
| Accrued interest receivable | |||||||||||||||||
| Financial liabilities | |||||||||||||||||
| Deposits | |||||||||||||||||
| Overnight federal funds purchased | |||||||||||||||||
| Other short- and long-term borrowings | |||||||||||||||||
| Accrued interest payable | |||||||||||||||||
(1) Equity securities at fair value are included within other assets on the Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition at September 30, 2025.
(2) Includes certain non-marketable equity securities that are measured at fair value using NAV per share (or its equivalent) as a practical expedient and are excluded from the fair value hierarchy.
NOTE 15. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
Management has evaluated subsequent events that occurred after December 31, 2025. During this period, up to the filing date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, management did not identify any material subsequent events that would require recognition or disclosure in our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements as of or for the quarter ended December 31, 2025.
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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
PATHWARD FINANCIAL, INC. ("Pathward Financial" or the "Company" or "us") and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Pathward®, National Association ("Pathward®, N.A" or "Pathward" or "the Bank") may from time to time make written or oral “forward-looking statements,” including statements contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, the Company’s other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), the Company’s reports to stockholders, and other communications by the Company and Pathward, N.A, which are made in good faith by the Company pursuant to the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
You can identify forward-looking statements by words such as “may,” “hope,” “will,” “should,” “expect,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “believe,” “estimate,” “predict,” “potential,” “continue,” “could,” “future,” "target," or the negative of those terms, or other words of similar meaning or similar expressions. You should carefully read statements that contain these words because they discuss our future expectations or state other “forward-looking” information. These forward-looking statements are based on information currently available to us and assumptions about future events, and include statements with respect to the Company’s beliefs, expectations, estimates, and intentions, which are subject to significant risks and uncertainties, and are subject to change based on various factors, some of which are beyond the Company’s control. Such risks, uncertainties and other factors may cause our actual growth, results of operations, financial condition, cash flows, performance and business prospects and opportunities to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these forward-looking statements. Such statements address, among others, the following subjects: future operating results, including our performance expectations; progress on key strategic initiatives; expected results of our partnerships; impacts of our improved data analytics, underwriting, and monitoring processes; expected nonperforming loan resolutions and net charge-off rates; the performance of our securities portfolio; the impact of card balances related to government stimulus programs; customer retention; loan and other product demand; new products and services; credit quality; the level of net charge-offs and the adequacy of the allowance for credit losses; and technology. The following factors, among others, could cause the Company's financial performance and results of operations to differ materially from the expectations, estimates, and intentions expressed in such forward-looking statements: maintaining our executive management team; expected growth opportunities may not be realized or may take longer to realize than expected; our ability to successfully implement measures designed to reduce expenses and increase efficiencies; changes in trade, monetary, and fiscal policies and laws, including actual changes in interest rates and the Fed Funds rate and changes in international trade policies, tariffs and treaties affecting imports and exports, and their related impacts on macroeconomic conditions, customer behavior, funding costs and loan and securities portfolios; changes in tax laws; trade disputes, barriers to trade or the emergence of trade restrictions; the strength of the United States' economy, and the local economies in which the Company operates; adverse developments in the financial services industry generally such as bank failures, responsive measures to mitigate and manage such developments, related supervisory and regulatory actions and costs, and related impacts on customer behavior; inflation, market, and monetary fluctuations; our liquidity and capital positions, including the sufficiency of our liquidity; the timely and efficient development of new products and services offered by the Company or its strategic partners, as well as risks (including reputational and litigation) attendant thereto, and the perceived overall value and acceptance of these products and services by users; the Bank's ability to maintain its Durbin Amendment exemption; the risks of dealing with or utilizing third parties, including, in connection with the Company’s prepaid card and tax refund advance businesses, the risk of reduced volume of refund advance loans as a result of reduced customer demand for or usage of the Bank’s strategic partners’ refund advance products; our relationship with, and any actions which may be initiated by, our regulators, and any related increases in compliance and other costs; changes in financial services laws and regulations, including laws and regulations relating to the tax refund industry; technological changes, including, but not limited to, the protection of our electronic systems and information; the impact of acquisitions and divestitures; litigation risk; the growth of the Company’s business, as well as expenses related thereto; continued maintenance by the Bank of its status as a well-capitalized institution; changes in consumer borrowing, spending, and saving habits; losses from fraudulent or illegal activity; technological risks and developments and cyber threats, attacks, or events; the success of the Company at maintaining its high quality asset level and managing and collecting assets of borrowers in default should problem assets increase; and the potential adverse effects of unusual and infrequently occurring events, including the impact on financial markets from geopolitical conflicts and tensions, weather-related disasters, or public health events, such as pandemics, and any governmental or societal responses thereto.
The foregoing list of factors is not exclusive. We caution you not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q speak only as of the date hereof. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to us or any person acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained or referred to in this section. Additional discussions of factors affecting the Company’s business and prospects are reflected under the caption “Risk Factors” and in other sections of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Company’s fiscal year ended September 30, 2025, and in the Company's other filings made with the SEC. The Company expressly disclaims any intent or obligation to update, revise, or clarify any forward-looking statements, whether written or oral, that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the Company or its subsidiaries, whether as a result of new information, changed circumstances, or future events or for any other reason.
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GENERAL
Pathward Financial, a registered bank holding company that has elected to be a financial holding company, is a Delaware corporation. Pathward Financial's principal assets are all the issued and outstanding shares of the Bank, a chartered national bank, the accounts of which are insured up to applicable limits by the FDIC as administrator of the Deposit Insurance Fund. Unless the context otherwise requires, references herein to the Company include Pathward Financial and the Bank, and all direct or indirect subsidiaries of Pathward Financial on a consolidated basis.
The Company’s common stock trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “CASH.”
The following discussion focuses on the consolidated financial condition of the Company at December 31, 2025, compared to September 30, 2025, and the consolidated results of operations for the three months ended December 31, 2025 and 2024. This discussion should be read in conjunction with the Company’s consolidated financial statements, and notes thereto, for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2025 and the related management's discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations contained in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2025.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Financial Highlights for the 2026 Fiscal First Quarter
All highlights are compared to the same fiscal quarter in the prior year period.
•Total revenue for the first quarter was $173.1 million. Net interest income on commercial finance loans increased $9.2 million reflecting the ongoing balance sheet optimization strategy.
•New loan originations during the quarter increased from $1.38 billion to $1.89 billion, driven by increases in consumer and commercial finance. The increase in consumer loan originations was primarily due to the new contract announced during fiscal 2025 and growth with current partners.
•Annualized return on average assets was 1.87% and return on average tangible equity was 26.72%, both improvements over the prior year period.
•The Company repurchased 651,804 shares of common stock at an average share price of $72.07. As of December 31, 2025, there were 4,286,012 shares available for repurchase under the current common stock share repurchase program.
FINANCIAL CONDITION
At December 31, 2025, the Company’s total assets increased to $7.56 billion compared to $7.17 billion at September 30, 2025, primarily due to growth of $317.9 million in loans and leases and $210.6 million in cash and cash equivalents, partially offset by reductions of $91.5 million in loans held for sale, $18.7 million in other assets and $17.8 million in debt securities AFS.
Total cash and cash equivalents were $331.2 million at December 31, 2025, increasing from $120.6 million at September 30, 2025. The Company maintains its cash investments primarily in interest-bearing overnight deposits with the FHLB of Des Moines and the FRB. At December 31, 2025, the Company did not have any federal funds sold.
The Company's investment security balances at December 31, 2025 totaled $1.34 billion, as compared to $1.36 billion at September 30, 2025, due to maturities and principal pay downs. The Company’s portfolio of securities customarily consists primarily of MBS, which have expected lives much shorter than the stated final maturity, non-bank qualified obligations of states and political subdivisions, which mature in approximately 15 years or less, and other tax exempt municipal mortgage related pass through securities which have average lives much shorter than their stated final maturities. During the three months ended December 31, 2025, the Company made no purchases of investment securities.
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Through the Bank, the Company owns stock in the FHLB due to the Bank’s membership and participation in this banking system as well as stock in the FRB. The FHLB requires a level of stock investment based on a pre-determined formula. The Company’s investment in these stocks was $24.3 million at December 31, 2025 and $24.7 million at September 30, 2025, as redemptions were partially offset by purchases of FHLB membership stock during the three months ended December 31, 2025.
Loans held for sale at December 31, 2025 totaled $88.0 million, decreasing from $179.4 million at September 30, 2025. This decrease was primarily driven by the sale of more than half of the held for sale consumer finance portfolio in October 2025, partially offset by an increase in SBA/USDA loans held for sale at December 31, 2025 compared to September 30, 2025.
Total gross loans and leases totaled $4.98 billion at December 31, 2025, as compared to $4.66 billion at September 30, 2025. The increase was due to increases in the commercial finance, seasonal tax services, and seasonal consumer finance portfolios, partially offset by a slight decrease in the warehouse finance portfolio. See Note 4. Loans and Leases, Net to the “Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements” of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
Commercial finance loans, which comprised 83% of the Company's loan and lease portfolio, totaled $4.15 billion at December 31, 2025, reflecting an increase of $223.2 million, or 6%, from September 30, 2025. The increase was primarily driven by increases of $204.2 million in term lending and $36.1 million in asset-based lending, partially offset by decreases in lease financing, other commercial finance, and factoring.
Total end-of-period deposits increased 8% to $6.35 billion at December 31, 2025, compared to $5.89 billion at September 30, 2025, primarily driven by increases in noninterest-bearing deposits of $458.6 million and in money market deposits of $5.9 million, partially offset by a decrease in savings deposits of $1.4 million.
The Company's total borrowings decreased from $42.5 million at September 30, 2025 to $33.5 million at December 31, 2025, primarily driven by a decrease in short-term borrowings of $9.0 million as the Company used total deposits to fund loans and leases and investment balances. The Company's short-term borrowings fluctuate on a daily basis due to the nature of a portion of its noninterest-bearing deposit base.
At December 31, 2025, the Company’s stockholders’ equity totaled $853.7 million, a decrease of $3.7 million, from $857.5 million at September 30, 2025. The decrease was primarily attributable to a decrease in retained earnings, partially offset by a decrease in accumulated other comprehensive loss. The Company and Bank remained above the federal regulatory minimum capital requirements at December 31, 2025, and continued to be classified as well-capitalized, and in good standing with the regulatory agencies. See “Liquidity and Capital Resources” for further information.
Noninterest-bearing Checking Deposits. The Company may hold negative balances associated with cardholder programs in the Partner Solutions business line that are included within noninterest-bearing deposits on the Company's Condensed Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition. Negative balances can relate to any of the following payments functions:
–Prefundings: The Company deploys funds to cards prior to receiving cash (typically 2-3 days) where the prefunding balance is netted at a pooled partner level utilizing ASC 210-20.
–Discount fundings: The Company funds cards in alignment to expected breakage values on the card. Consumers may spend more than is estimated. These discounts are netted at a pooled partner level using ASC 210-20. The majority of these discount fundings relate to a small number of partners and are analyzed on an ongoing basis.
–Demand Deposit Account ("DDA") overdrafts: Certain programs offered allow cardholders traditional DDA overdraft protection services whereby cardholders can spend a limited amount in excess of their available card balance. When overdrawn, these accounts are re-classed as loans on the balance sheet within the Consumer Finance category.
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The Company meets the Right of Set off criteria in ASC 210-20, Balance Sheet - Offsetting, for all payments negative deposit balances with the exception of DDA overdrafts. The following table summarizes the Company's negative deposit balances within the Partner Solutions business line:
| (Dollars in thousands) | December 31, 2025 | September 30, 2025 | |||||||||
| Noninterest-bearing deposits | $ | 6,366,126 | $ | 5,886,873 | |||||||
| Prefunding | (264,059) | (245,841) | |||||||||
| Discount funding | (8,531) | (3,501) | |||||||||
| DDA overdrafts | (15,345) | (17,977) | |||||||||
| Noninterest-bearing checking, net | $ | 6,078,191 | $ | 5,619,554 | |||||||
Custodial Deposits. The Bank utilizes a custodial deposit transference structure for certain prepaid and deposit programs whereby the Bank, acting as custodian of cardholder funds, places a portion of such cardholder funds that are not needed to support near term settlement at one or more third-party banks insured by the FDIC (each, a “Program Bank”). Accounts opened at Program Banks are established in the Bank’s name as custodian, for the benefit of the Bank’s cardholders. The Bank remains the issuer of all cards and holder of all accounts under the applicable cardholder agreements and has sole custodial control and transaction authority over the accounts opened at Program Banks.
The Bank maintains the records of each cardholder’s deposits maintained at Program Banks. Program Banks undergo robust due diligence prior to becoming a Program Bank and are also subject to continuous monitoring.
As of December 31, 2025, the Company managed $1.05 billion of customer deposits at other banks in its capacity as custodian. These deposits provide the Company with the ability to earn servicing fee income, typically reflective of the EFFR.
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
The following tables present, for the periods indicated, the Company’s total dollar amount of interest income from average interest-earning assets and the resulting yields, as well as the interest expense on average interest-bearing liabilities, expressed both in dollars and rates. The balances presented in the tables below are calculated on a daily average basis. Tax-equivalent adjustments have been made in yields on interest-bearing assets and net interest margin ("NIM"). Nonaccruing loans and leases have been included in the table as loans or leases carrying a zero yield.
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| 2025 | 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| (Dollars in thousands) | Average Outstanding Balance | Interest Earned / Paid | Yield / Rate(1) | Average Outstanding Balance | Interest Earned / Paid | Yield / Rate(1) | |||||||||||||||||
| Interest-earning assets: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cash and fed funds sold | $ | 275,336 | $ | 1,799 | 2.59 | % | $ | 239,614 | $ | 2,258 | 3.74 | % | |||||||||||
| Mortgage-backed securities | 1,122,081 | 7,812 | 2.76 | % | 1,309,926 | 8,986 | 2.72 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Tax-exempt investment securities | 107,375 | 734 | 3.43 | % | 120,707 | 845 | 3.52 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Asset-backed securities | 136,468 | 1,747 | 5.08 | % | 188,163 | 2,604 | 5.49 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Other investment securities | 173,376 | 1,355 | 3.10 | % | 234,087 | 1,815 | 3.07 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Total investments | 1,539,300 | 11,648 | 3.05 | % | 1,852,883 | 14,250 | 3.10 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Commercial finance | 4,109,353 | 83,833 | 8.09 | % | 3,687,369 | 74,612 | 8.03 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Consumer finance | 199,184 | 9,457 | 18.84 | % | 316,402 | 22,341 | 28.01 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Tax services | 45,053 | (40) | (0.35) | % | 36,785 | 132 | 1.43 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Warehouse finance | 644,467 | 14,525 | 8.94 | % | 603,824 | 14,764 | 9.70 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Total loans and leases | 4,998,057 | 107,775 | 8.56 | % | 4,644,380 | 111,849 | 9.55 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Total interest-earning assets | 6,812,693 | $ | 121,222 | 7.07 | % | 6,736,877 | $ | 128,357 | 7.57 | % | |||||||||||||
| Noninterest-earning assets | 645,462 | 629,600 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Total assets | $ | 7,458,155 | $ | 7,366,477 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Interest-bearing liabilities: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interest-bearing checking | $ | 944 | $ | — | 0.08 | % | $ | 685 | $ | — | 0.21 | % | |||||||||||
| Savings | 44,018 | 4 | 0.03 | % | 45,469 | 3 | 0.03 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Money markets | 212,420 | 169 | 0.31 | % | 180,104 | 385 | 0.85 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Time deposits | 2,636 | 6 | 0.91 | % | 4,208 | 3 | 0.25 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Wholesale deposits | 2,687 | 27 | 4.02 | % | 26,892 | 384 | 5.67 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Total interest-bearing deposits (a) | 262,705 | 206 | 0.31 | % | 257,358 | 775 | 1.19 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Overnight fed funds purchased | 98,240 | 1,047 | 4.23 | % | 131,337 | 1,670 | 5.05 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Subordinated debentures | 19,805 | 357 | 7.15 | % | 19,702 | 355 | 7.14 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Other borrowings | 13,661 | 274 | 7.95 | % | 13,661 | 306 | 8.89 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Total borrowings | 131,706 | 1,678 | 5.06 | % | 164,700 | 2,331 | 5.62 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Total interest-bearing liabilities | 394,411 | 1,884 | 1.90 | % | 422,058 | 3,106 | 2.92 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Noninterest-bearing deposits (b) | 5,911,161 | — | — | % | 5,823,877 | — | — | % | |||||||||||||||
| Total deposits and interest-bearing liabilities | 6,305,572 | $ | 1,884 | 0.12 | % | 6,245,935 | $ | 3,106 | 0.20 | % | |||||||||||||
| Other noninterest-bearing liabilities | 320,242 | 335,839 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Total liabilities | 6,625,814 | 6,581,774 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Shareholders' equity | 832,341 | 784,703 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Total liabilities and shareholders' equity | $ | 7,458,155 | $ | 7,366,477 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net interest income and net interest rate spread including noninterest-bearing deposits | $ | 119,338 | 6.95 | % | $ | 125,251 | 7.37 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Net interest margin | 6.95 | % | 7.38 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
| Tax-equivalent effect | 0.01 | % | 0.01 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
Net interest margin, tax-equivalent(2) | 6.96 | % | 7.39 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
| Total cost of deposits (a+b) | 6,173,866 | 206 | 0.01 | % | 6,081,235 | 775 | 0.05 | % | |||||||||||||||
(1) Tax rate used to arrive at the TEY for the three months ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 was 21%. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
(2) Net interest margin expressed on a fully-taxable-equivalent basis ("net interest margin, tax-equivalent") is a non-GAAP financial measure. The tax-equivalent adjustment to net interest income recognizes the estimated income tax savings when comparing taxable and tax-exempt assets and adjusting for federal and state exemption of interest income. The Company believes that it is a standard practice in the banking industry to present net interest margin expressed on a fully taxable equivalent basis and, accordingly, believes the presentation of this non-GAAP financial measure may be useful for peer comparison purposes. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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General
The Company reported net income of $35.2 million, or $1.57 per diluted share, for the three months ended December 31, 2025, compared to net income of $30.0 million, or $1.23 per diluted share, for the three months ended December 31, 2024.
Net Interest Income
Net interest income for the first quarter of fiscal 2026 was $119.3 million, which was a decrease of 5% compared to the same quarter in fiscal 2025.
The Company’s average interest-earning assets for the first quarter of fiscal 2026 increased by $75.8 million to $6.81 billion compared to the same quarter in fiscal 2025, primarily due to increases in average outstanding balances in total loan and lease balances partially offset by decreases in securities investment balances. The first quarter average outstanding balance of loans and leases increased $353.7 million compared to the same quarter of the prior fiscal year, due to increases in the commercial finance, warehouse finance, and tax services portfolios, partially offset by a decrease in the consumer finance portfolio.
Fiscal 2026 first quarter NIM decreased to 6.95% from 7.38% in the first fiscal quarter of 2025. The overall reported tax-equivalent yield (“TEY”) on average interest-earning assets decreased 50 basis points to 7.07% compared to the prior year quarter. The yield on the loan and lease portfolio was 8.56% compared to 9.55% for the comparable period last year and the TEY on the securities portfolio was 3.05% compared to 3.10% over that same period. The decreases in NIM, the TEY on average interest-earning assets, and the yield on the loan and lease portfolio was primarily driven by the sale of more than half of the held for sale consumer finance portfolio in October 2025 that was accounted for using a gross accounting methodology, and therefore, recorded at higher yields with offsetting entries not included in net interest income.
The Company's cost of funds for all deposits and borrowings averaged 0.12% during the fiscal 2026 first quarter, as compared to 0.20% during the prior year quarter. The Company's overall cost of deposits was 0.01% in the fiscal first quarter of 2026, as compared to 0.05% during the prior year quarter.
Provision for Credit Loss
The Company recognized a provision for credit losses of $3.2 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2025, compared to provision for credit losses of $18.7 million for the comparable period in the prior fiscal year. The period-over-period decrease in provision for credit losses was primarily due to decreases in provision for credit losses in the commercial finance portfolio of $7.4 million, consumer finance portfolio of $5.3 million, and the tax services portfolio of $2.7 million. The commercial finance decrease in provision for credit losses was primarily driven by net recoveries recognized during the current period as compared to net charge-offs recognized in the prior year period. The consumer finance decrease in provision for credit losses was primarily driven by a reduction in loan balances stemming from the aforementioned consumer finance portfolio sale in October 2025. The decrease in the tax services portfolio provision for credit losses was driven by net recoveries recognized during the current period as compared to net charge-offs recognized during the prior year period. The Company recognized net recoveries of $2.2 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2025, compared to net charge-offs of $16.3 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2024. Net recoveries attributable to the seasonal tax services and commercial finance portfolios for the quarter ended December 31, 2025 were $2.5 million and $1.3 million, respectively, while net charge-offs of $1.5 million were recognized in the consumer finance portfolio. Net charge-offs attributable to the commercial finance, consumer finance, and tax services portfolios for the same quarter of the prior year were $8.1 million, $7.7 million, and $0.5 million, respectively.
Noninterest Income
Fiscal 2026 first quarter noninterest income decreased 6% to $53.8 million, compared to $57.4 million for the same period of the prior year. The decrease in noninterest income when comparing the current period to the same period of the prior year was primarily driven by decreases in rental income, other income, and gain on sale of other, partially offset by an increase in card and deposit fee income. Additionally, during the prior year period, the Company recognized a $16.4 million gain on divestiture which was almost completely offset by a loss on sale of securities of $15.7 million.
Servicing fee income on custodial deposits totaled $3.4 million during the 2026 fiscal first quarter, compared to $4.5 million for the same period of the prior year. For the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2025, servicing fee income on custodial deposits totaled $2.6 million. The year-over-year decrease in servicing fee income on custodial deposit balances held at partner banks was due to a reduction in rates following reductions in the EFFR. The
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sequential quarter increase in servicing fee income on custodial deposit balances held at partner banks was due to higher quarterly average deposits balances held at partner banks.
Noninterest Expense
Noninterest expense was $127.2 million for the fiscal 2026 first quarter, as compared to $127.8 million for the same quarter last year. The marginal decrease was primarily attributable to reductions in card processing expense, other expense, and operating and lease equipment depreciation, partially offset by increases in compensation and benefits, building and software, and legal and consulting expense.
Card processing expense is primarily driven by rate-related agreements with Partner Solutions relationships. The amount of expense paid under those agreements is based on an agreed upon rate index that varies depending on the deposit levels, floor rates, market conditions, and other performance conditions. Generally, this rate index is based on a percentage of the EFFR and reprices immediately upon a change in the EFFR. Approximately 66% of the deposit portfolio was subject to these rate-related processing expenses during the fiscal 2026 first quarter. For the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2025, contractual, rate-related processing expenses were $23.8 million, as compared to $24.9 million for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2025 and $25.6 million for the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2024.
Income Tax Expense
The Company recorded an income tax expense of $7.2 million, representing an effective tax rate of 16.9%, for the fiscal 2026 first quarter, compared to an income tax expense of $6.0 million, representing an effective tax rate of 16.6%, for the first quarter last fiscal year. The current quarter increase in income tax expense compared to the prior year quarter was primarily due to the increase in income.
The Company originated $19.7 million in renewable energy leases during the fiscal 2026 first quarter, resulting in $5.2 million in total net investment tax credits. During the first quarter of fiscal 2025, the Company originated $9.3 million in renewable energy leases resulting in $3.2 million in total net investment tax credits. Investment tax credits related to renewable energy leases are recognized ratably based on income throughout each fiscal year.
Asset Quality
Generally, when a loan or lease becomes delinquent 90 days or more or when the collection of principal or interest becomes doubtful, the Company will place the loan or lease on a nonaccrual status and, as a result, previously accrued interest income on the loan or lease is reversed against current income. The loan or lease will generally remain on a non-accrual status until six months of good payment history has been established or management believes the financial status of the borrower has been significantly restored. Certain relationships in the table below are over 90 days past due and still accruing. The Company considers these relationships as being in the process of collection. Consumer finance and tax services loans are generally not placed on nonaccrual status, but are instead written off when the collection of principal and interest become doubtful.
Loans and leases, or portions thereof, are generally charged-off when collection of principal becomes doubtful. Typically, this is associated with a delay or shortfall in payments of 120 days or more for consumer credit products and leases and 90 days or more for commercial finance loans. Action is taken to charge off ERO loans if such loans have not been collected by the end of June and refund advance loans if such loans have not been collected by the end of the calendar year. The Company individually evaluates loans and leases that do not share similar risk characteristics with other financial assets, which generally means loans and leases identified as modifications or loans and leases on nonaccrual status.
The Company believes that the level of allowance for credit losses at December 31, 2025 was appropriate and reflected probable losses related to these loans and leases; however, there can be no assurance that all loans and leases will be fully collectible or that the present level of the allowance will be adequate in the future. See the section below titled “Allowance for Credit Losses” for further information.
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The table below sets forth the amounts and categories of the Company's nonperforming assets.
| (Dollars in thousands) | December 31, 2025 | September 30, 2025 | |||||||||
| Nonperforming Loans and Leases | |||||||||||
| Nonaccruing loans and leases: | |||||||||||
| Commercial finance | $ | 96,781 | $ | 81,416 | |||||||
| Total nonaccruing loans and leases | 96,781 | 81,416 | |||||||||
| Accruing loans and leases delinquent 90 days or more: | |||||||||||
| Loans held for sale | 235 | 1,521 | |||||||||
| Commercial finance | 11,447 | 12,900 | |||||||||
| Consumer finance | 602 | 826 | |||||||||
Tax services(1) | — | 2,477 | |||||||||
| Total accruing loans and leases delinquent 90 days or more | 12,284 | 17,724 | |||||||||
| Total nonperforming loans and leases | 109,065 | 99,140 | |||||||||
| Other Assets | |||||||||||
| Nonperforming operating leases | 2,386 | 2,571 | |||||||||
| Total other assets | 2,386 | 2,571 | |||||||||
| Total nonperforming assets | $ | 111,451 | $ | 101,711 | |||||||
| Total as a percentage of total assets | 1.47 | % | 1.42 | % | |||||||
(1) Certain tax services loans do not bear interest. | |||||||||||
The Company's nonperforming assets at December 31, 2025 were $111.5 million, representing 1.47% of total assets, compared to $101.7 million, or 1.42% of total assets at September 30, 2025. The increase in the nonperforming assets as a percentage of total assets at December 31, 2025 compared to September 30, 2025, was driven by an increase in nonperforming loans in the commercial finance portfolio, partially offset by decreases in the tax services and consumer finance portfolios.
The Company's nonperforming loans and leases at December 31, 2025 were $109.1 million, representing 2.15% of total gross loans and leases, compared to $99.1 million, or 2.05% of total gross loans and leases at September 30, 2025.
Classified Assets. Federal regulations provide for the classification of certain loans, leases, and other assets such as debt and equity securities considered by the Bank's primary regulator, the OCC, to be of lesser quality as “substandard,” “doubtful” or “loss,” with each such classification dependent on the facts and circumstances surrounding the assets in question. An asset is considered “substandard” if it is inadequately protected by the current net worth and paying capacity of the obligor or of the collateral pledged, if any. “Substandard” assets include those characterized by the “distinct possibility” that the Bank will sustain “some loss” if the deficiencies are not corrected. Assets classified as “doubtful” have all of the weaknesses inherent in those classified “substandard,” with the added characteristic that the weaknesses present make “collection or liquidation in full,” on the basis of currently existing facts, conditions and values, “highly questionable and improbable.” Assets classified as “loss” are those considered “uncollectible” and of such minimal value that their continuance as assets without the establishment of a specific loss reserve is not warranted.
General allowances represent loss allowances which have been established to recognize the inherent risk associated with lending activities, but which, unlike specific allowances, have not been allocated to particular problem assets. When assets are classified as “loss,” the Bank is required either to establish a specific allowance for losses equal to 100% of that portion of the asset so classified or to charge off such amount. The Bank’s determinations as to the classification of its assets and the amount of its valuation allowances are subject to review by its regulatory authorities, which may order the establishment of additional general or specific loss allowances.
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On the basis of management’s review of its loans, leases, and other assets, at December 31, 2025, the Company had classified loans and leases of $286.9 million as substandard, $10.2 million as doubtful and none as loss. At September 30, 2025, the Company classified loans and leases of $244.9 million as substandard, $13.7 million as doubtful and none as loss.
Allowance for Credit Losses. The ACL represents management’s estimate of current credit losses expected to be incurred by the loan and lease portfolio over the life of each financial asset as of the balance sheet date. The Company individually evaluates loans and leases that do not share similar risk characteristics with other financial assets, which generally means loans and leases identified as modifications or loans and leases on nonaccrual status. All other loans and leases are evaluated collectively for credit loss. A reserve for unfunded credit commitments such as letters of credit and binding unfunded loan commitments is recorded in other liabilities on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition.
Individually evaluated loans and leases are a key component of the ACL. Generally, the Company measures credit loss on individually evaluated loans based on the fair value of the collateral less estimated selling costs, as the Company considers these financial assets to be collateral dependent. If an individually evaluated loan or lease is not collateral dependent, credit loss is measured at the present value of expected future cash flows discounted at the loan or lease initial effective interest rate.
The Company's ACL totaled $58.8 million at December 31, 2025, an increase compared to $53.3 million at September 30, 2025. The increase in the ACL at December 31, 2025, when compared to September 30, 2025, was primarily due to a $2.6 million increase in the allowance related to the consumer finance portfolio, a $1.9 million increase in the allowance related to the commercial finance portfolio, and a $1.1 million increase in the allowance related to the tax services portfolio.
The following table presents the Company's ACL as a percentage of its total loans and leases.
| As of the Period Ended | |||||||||||||||||
| December 31, 2025 | September 30, 2025 | June 30, 2025 | March 31, 2025 | December 31, 2024 | |||||||||||||
| Commercial finance | 1.16 | % | 1.18 | % | 1.27 | % | 1.10 | % | 1.18 | % | |||||||
| Consumer finance | 6.85 | % | 6.88 | % | 11.69 | % | 12.04 | % | 10.84 | % | |||||||
| Tax services | 1.71 | % | — | % | 81.32 | % | 60.35 | % | 1.75 | % | |||||||
| Warehouse finance | 0.10 | % | 0.10 | % | 0.10 | % | 0.10 | % | 0.10 | % | |||||||
| Total loans and leases | 1.18 | % | 1.14 | % | 2.23 | % | 2.30 | % | 1.63 | % | |||||||
| Total loans and leases excluding tax services | 1.17 | % | 1.14 | % | 1.60 | % | 1.57 | % | 1.63 | % | |||||||
The Company's ACL as a percentage of total loans and leases increased to 1.18% at December 31, 2025 from 1.14% at September 30, 2025 and decreased from 1.63% at December 31, 2024. The year-over-year decrease in the total loans and leases coverage ratio was primarily driven by the decrease in the ACL related to the decrease in the consumer finance portfolio due to the aforementioned loan sale within the consumer finance portfolio that occurred in October 2025.
CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND ESTIMATES
The Company’s financial statements are prepared in accordance with GAAP. The financial information contained within these financial statements is, to a significant extent, based on approximate measures of the financial effects of transactions and events that have already occurred. Management has identified its critical accounting policies, which are those policies that, in management's view, are most important in the portrayal of our financial condition and results of operations. These policies involve complex and subjective decisions and assessments. Some of these estimates may be uncertain at the time they are made, could change from period to period, and could have a material impact on the financial statements. A discussion of the Company’s critical accounting policies and estimates can be found in the Company's Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2025. There were no significant changes to these critical accounting policies and estimates during the first three months of fiscal 2026.
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LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES
The Company’s primary sources of funds are deposits, derived principally through its Partner Solutions business line, borrowings, principal and interest payments on loans and leases and mortgage-backed securities, and maturing investment securities. In addition, the Company utilizes wholesale deposit sources to provide temporary funding when necessary or when favorable terms are available. While scheduled loan repayments and maturing investments are relatively predictable, deposit flows and early loan repayments are influenced by the level of interest rates, general economic conditions and competition. The Company uses its capital resources principally to meet ongoing commitments to fund maturing certificates of deposit and loan commitments, to maintain liquidity, and to meet operating expenses.
At December 31, 2025, the Company had unfunded loan and lease commitments of $1.30 billion. Management believes that loan repayment and other sources of funds will be adequate to meet its foreseeable short- and long-term liquidity needs. The liquidity sources as of December 31, 2025 include $331.2 million in cash and cash equivalents and $1.05 billion in custodial deposits. When factoring in additional resources, such as the Federal Home Loan Bank, the Federal Reserve Discount Window and other unsecured funding and wholesale options, the Company has over $3.66 billion in total available liquidity as of December 31, 2025. Due to the characteristics of the Company's deposit portfolio, uninsured deposits remained less than 15% of total deposits during the fiscal 2026 first quarter and below the Company's available liquidity.
The Company and the Bank are required to comply with the regulatory capital rules administered by federal banking agencies (the "Capital Rules"). Under the Capital Rules and the regulatory framework for prompt corrective action, the Company and Bank must meet specific capital guidelines that involve quantitative measures of the Company’s and Bank’s assets, liabilities and certain off-balance-sheet items as calculated under regulatory accounting practices. The Company’s and Bank’s capital amounts and classifications are also subject to qualitative judgments by regulators about components, risk weightings, and other factors.
The Capital Rules require the Company and the Bank to maintain minimum ratios (set forth in the table below) of total risk-based capital and Tier 1 capital (as defined in the regulations) to risk-weighted assets (as defined), and a leverage ratio consisting of Tier 1 capital (as defined) to average assets (as defined). At December 31, 2025, the Company and the Bank exceeded federal regulatory minimum capital requirements to be classified as well-capitalized under the prompt corrective action requirements. The Company and the Bank took the AOCI opt-out election; under the rule, non-advanced approach banking organizations were given a one-time option to exclude certain AOCI components.
The table below includes certain non-GAAP financial measures that are used by investors, analysts and bank regulatory agencies to assess the capital position of financial services companies. Management reviews these measures along with other measures of capital as part of its financial analyses and has included this non-GAAP financial information, and corresponding reconciliation to total equity.
| Company | Bank | Minimum to be Adequately Capitalized Under Prompt Corrective Action Provisions | Minimum to be Well Capitalized Under Prompt Corrective Action Provisions | |||||||||||
| December 31, 2025 | ||||||||||||||
| Tier 1 leverage capital ratio | 9.51 | % | 9.84 | % | 4.00 | % | 5.00 | % | ||||||
| Common equity Tier 1 capital ratio | 12.02 | 12.67 | 4.50 | 6.50 | ||||||||||
| Tier 1 capital ratio | 12.26 | 12.67 | 6.00 | 8.00 | ||||||||||
| Total capital ratio | 13.67 | 13.73 | 8.00 | 10.00 | ||||||||||
| September 30, 2025 | ||||||||||||||
| Tier 1 leverage capital ratio | 9.79 | % | 10.00 | % | 4.00 | % | 5.00 | % | ||||||
| Common equity Tier 1 capital ratio | 12.70 | 13.23 | 4.50 | 6.50 | ||||||||||
| Tier 1 capital ratio | 12.95 | 13.23 | 6.00 | 8.00 | ||||||||||
| Total capital ratio | 14.27 | 14.19 | 8.00 | 10.00 | ||||||||||
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The following table provides a reconciliation of the amounts included in the table above for the Company.
Standardized Approach(1) | |||||||||||
| (Dollars in thousands) | December 31, 2025 | September 30, 2025 | |||||||||
| Total stockholders' equity | $ | 853,712 | $ | 857,454 | |||||||
| Adjustments: | |||||||||||
| LESS: Goodwill, net of associated deferred tax liabilities | 284,815 | 285,158 | |||||||||
| LESS: Certain other intangible assets | 17,746 | 18,077 | |||||||||
| LESS: Net deferred tax assets from operating loss and tax credit carry-forwards | 5,877 | 5,733 | |||||||||
| LESS: Net unrealized (losses) on available for sale securities | (133,516) | (143,190) | |||||||||
| LESS: Noncontrolling interest | (823) | (591) | |||||||||
| ADD: Adoption of Accounting Standards Update 2016-13 | — | 1,788 | |||||||||
Common Equity Tier 1(1) | 679,613 | 694,055 | |||||||||
| Long-term borrowings and other instruments qualifying as Tier 1 | 13,661 | 13,661 | |||||||||
| Tier 1 minority interest not included in common equity Tier 1 capital | (437) | (307) | |||||||||
| Total Tier 1 capital | 692,837 | 707,409 | |||||||||
| Allowance for credit losses | 59,687 | 52,455 | |||||||||
| Subordinated debentures, net of issuance costs | 19,821 | 19,796 | |||||||||
| Total capital | $ | 772,345 | $ | 779,660 | |||||||
| (1) Capital ratios were determined using the Basel III capital rules that became effective on January 1, 2015. Basel III revised the definition of capital, increased minimum capital ratios, and introduced a minimum common equity tier 1 capital ratio; those changes were fully phased in through the end of 2021. | |||||||||||
The Company and the Bank have been required to maintain a capital conservation buffer above the minimum risk-based capital requirements in order to avoid certain limitations on capital distributions, stock repurchases and discretionary bonus payments to executive officers. The capital conservation buffer is exclusively composed of Common Equity Tier 1 capital, and it applies to each of the three risk-based capital ratios but not the leverage ratio. The required Common Equity Tier 1 risk-based, Tier 1 risk-based and total risk-based capital ratios with the buffer are currently 7.0%, 8.5% and 10.5%, respectively.
Based on current and expected continued profitability and subject to continued access to capital markets, we believe that the Company and the Bank will continue to meet the capital conservation buffer of 2.5% in addition to required minimum capital ratios.
CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS
See "Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations-Contractual Obligations" in the Company’s Form 10-K for its fiscal year ended September 30, 2025 for a summary of our contractual obligations as of September 30, 2025. There were no material changes outside the ordinary course of our business in contractual obligations from September 30, 2025 through December 31, 2025.
Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk.
The Company derives a portion of its income from the excess of interest collected over interest paid. The rates of interest the Company earns on assets and pays on liabilities generally are established contractually for a period of time. Market interest rates change over time. Accordingly, the Company’s results of operations, like those of most financial institutions, are impacted by changes in interest rates and the interest rate sensitivity of its assets and liabilities.
The Company monitors and measures its exposure to changes in interest rates in order to comply with applicable government regulations and risk policies established by the Board of Directors, and in order to preserve stockholder value. In monitoring interest rate risk, the Company analyzes assets and liabilities based on characteristics including size, coupon rate, repricing frequency, maturity date, likelihood of prepayment, and deposit behaviors.
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The Company’s primary objective for its investment portfolio is to provide a source of liquidity for the Company. In addition, the investment portfolio may be used in the management of the Company’s interest rate risk profile. The investment policy generally calls for funds to be invested among various categories of security types and maturities based upon the Company’s need for liquidity, desire to achieve a proper balance between minimizing risk while maximizing yield, the need to provide collateral for borrowings, and the need to fulfill the Company’s asset/liability management goals.
The Company believes that its portfolio of longer duration deposits generated from its Partner Solutions business line provides a stable and profitable funding vehicle. A portion of the Company’s deposit balances are subject to variable card processing expenses, derived from contractual agreements with certain Partner Solutions partners tied to a rate index, typically the EFFR. These costs reprice immediately upon a change in the applicable rate index.
The Bank, acting as custodian of cardholder funds, places a portion of such cardholder funds at one or more third-party banks insured by the FDIC (each, a “Program Bank”). These custodial deposits earn recordkeeping service fee income, typically reflective of the EFFR.
The Board of Directors and relevant government regulations establish limits on the level of acceptable interest rate risk at the Company, to which management adheres. There can be no assurance, however, that, in the event of an adverse change in interest rates, the Company’s efforts to limit interest rate risk will be successful.
Interest Rate Risk (“IRR”)
Overview. The Company's IRR analysis is designed to compare income and economic valuation simulations in market scenarios designed to alter the direction, magnitude and speed of interest rate changes, as well as the slope of the yield curve. This analysis may not represent all impacts driven by changes in the interest rate environment, such as certain other card fee income and expense line items tied to card processing expense derived from contractual agreements with certain Partner Solutions partners and servicing fees the Company recognizes from custodial deposits. The Company does not currently engage in trading activities to control IRR although it may do so in the future, if deemed necessary, to help manage IRR.
Earnings at risk and economic value analysis. As a continuing part of its financial strategy, the Bank considers methods of managing an asset/liability mismatch consistent with maintaining acceptable levels of net interest income. In order to monitor IRR, the Company has created an Asset/Liability Committee whose principal responsibilities are to assess the Bank’s asset/liability mix and implement strategies that will enhance income while managing the Bank’s vulnerability to changes in interest rates.
The Company uses two approaches to model IRR: Earnings at Risk (“EAR analysis”) and Economic Value of Equity (“EVE analysis”). Under EAR analysis, net interest income is calculated for each interest rate scenario and compared to the net interest income forecast in the base case over a one-year minimum time horizon. The results are affected by projected rates, prepayments, caps and floors. Management exercises its best judgment in making assumptions regarding events that management can influence, such as non-contractual deposit re-pricing, as well as events outside of management's control, such as customer behavior on loan and deposit activity and the effect that competition has on both lending and deposit pricing. These assumptions are subjective and, as a result, net interest income simulation results will differ from actual results due to the timing, magnitude, and frequency of interest rate changes, changes in market conditions, customer behavior and management strategies, among other factors. The Company performs various sensitivity analyses on assumptions of deposit attrition, loan prepayments, and asset re-pricing, as well as market-implied forward rates and various likely and extreme interest rate scenarios, including rapid and gradual interest rate ramps, rate shocks and yield curve twists.
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The EAR analysis used in the following table reflects the required analysis used no less than quarterly by management. It models basis point parallel shifts in market interest rates over the next one-year period. The following table shows the results of the scenarios as of December 31, 2025 and September 30, 2025:
| Net Sensitive Earnings at Risk | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Change in Interest Income/Expense for a given change in interest rates | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Over/(Under) Base Case Parallel Shift | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| (Dollars in Thousands) | Book Value | -200 | -100 | Base | +100 | +200 | |||||||||||||||||
| Balances as of December 31, 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total interest income | 6,736,345 | 413,496 | 430,892 | 457,104 | 493,583 | 530,513 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total interest expense | 272,203 | 611 | 631 | 629 | 2,196 | 4,080 | |||||||||||||||||
| Net interest income | 412,885 | 430,261 | 456,475 | 491,387 | 526,433 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Percentage change from base | -9.5 | % | -5.7 | % | — | % | 7.6 | % | 15.3 | % | |||||||||||||
| Balances as of September 30, 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total interest income | 6,309,960 | 415,683 | 433,904 | 462,434 | 494,959 | 527,497 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total interest expense | 276,393 | 813 | 915 | 1,317 | 3,226 | 5,138 | |||||||||||||||||
| Net interest income | 414,870 | 432,989 | 461,117 | 491,733 | 522,359 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Percentage change from base | -10.0 | % | -6.1 | % | — | % | 6.6 | % | 13.3 | % | |||||||||||||
The EAR analysis reported at December 31, 2025, shows that changes in market interest rates have a larger impact on total interest income than total interest expense. IRR is a snapshot in time. The Company’s business and deposits are predictably cyclical on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis. The Company’s static IRR results could vary depending on which day of the week the month ends, primarily related to payroll processing and timing of when certain programs are prefunded and when the funds are received.
Under EVE analysis, the economic value of financial assets, liabilities and off-balance sheet instruments is derived under each rate scenario. The economic value of equity is calculated as the difference between the estimated market value of assets and liabilities, net of the impact of off-balance sheet instruments.
The EVE analysis used in the following table reflects the required analysis used no less than quarterly by management. It models immediate basis point parallel shifts in market interest rates. The following table shows the results of the scenario as of December 31, 2025 and September 30, 2025:
| Economic Value Sensitivity | ||||||||||||||
| Standard (Parallel Shift) | ||||||||||||||
| Economic Value of Equity at Risk % | ||||||||||||||
| -200 | -100 | +100 | +200 | |||||||||||
| Balances as of December 31, 2025 | ||||||||||||||
| Percentage change from base | -8.2 | % | -3.5 | % | 2.7 | % | 4.7 | % | ||||||
| Balances as of September 30, 2025 | ||||||||||||||
| Percentage change from base | -6.5 | % | -2.6 | % | 1.6 | % | 2.8 | % | ||||||
The EVE at risk reported at December 31, 2025 shows that the economic value of equity position is expected to benefit from rising interest rates due to the large amount of noninterest-bearing funding.
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Item 4. Controls and Procedures.
EVALUATION OF DISCLOSURE CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Management, under the direction of its Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, is responsible for maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "1934 Act")) that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in reports filed or submitted under the 1934 Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in SEC rules and forms and that such information is accumulated and communicated to management, including the Company's Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures.
In connection with the preparation of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, management evaluated the Company's disclosure controls and procedures. The evaluation was performed under the direction of the Company's Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer to determine the effectiveness, as of December 31, 2025, of the design and operation of the Company's disclosure controls and procedures. Based upon that evaluation, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that, as of December 31, 2025, the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures were not designed effectively to ensure timely alerting of material information relating to the Company required to be included in the Company's periodic SEC filings. The conclusion was reached as a result of the material weakness in internal control over financial reporting described in Item 9A of Amendment No. 1 to the Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the year ended September 30, 2024 filed with the SEC on August 29, 2025.
Notwithstanding the conclusion by our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of December 31, 2025, and notwithstanding the material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting, management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, believes that the consolidated financial statements included in this Form 10-Q fairly present, in all material respects, the Company's consolidated financial position, results of operations, and cash flows as of and for the periods presented, in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
INHERENT LIMITATIONS ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CONTROLS
Any control system, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable (not absolute) assurance that its objectives will be met. Furthermore, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, have been detected. Further, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations in a cost-effective control system, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that misstatements due to error or fraud will not occur or that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within the Company have been detected.
REMEDIATION PLAN AND STATUS
The material weakness cannot be considered remediated until applicable controls have been designed, implemented, have operated for a sufficient period of time and management has concluded, through testing, that these controls are operating effectively. Although we have not remediated these control deficiencies as of December 31, 2025, management, under the oversight of the Audit Committee, has made and continues to make progress towards remediation.
As part of our commitment to strengthening our internal control over financial reporting, management has taken certain measures including the following to remediate the material weakness:
•The Company engaged a third-party technical accounting consultant to assist with the identification, assessment and accounting and financial reporting impacts for certain consumer lending program agreements in the Consumer Solutions business; and
•Designed and implemented a control enhancement over the periodic review and validation of accounting policies and accounting treatment for certain consumer lending program agreements in the Consumer Solutions business to ensure both the initial and continuing compliance with relevant U.S. GAAP, including determining if engagement of a third-party technical accounting consultant is necessary.
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We believe that the actions outlined above will remediate the material weakness once a sufficient period of time has passed for management to conclude, through testing, that these controls are operating effectively. We will continue to assess the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting and have taken steps to remediate the material weakness as expeditiously as possible.
CHANGES IN INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING
Management conducted an evaluation of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting to determine whether any changes occurred during the three months ended December 31, 2025 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting. Based on this evaluation, management concluded that, as of the end of the period covered by this report, other than described above, there have not been any changes in the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the 1934 Act) during the fiscal first quarter to which this report relates that have materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company's internal control over financial reporting.
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PART II - OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1. Legal Proceedings.
There are no material pending legal proceedings to which we are a party or to which any of our properties are subject. There are no material proceedings known to us to be contemplated by any governmental authority. We are involved in a variety of litigation matters in the ordinary course of our business and anticipate that we will become involved in new litigation matters in the future.
Item 1A. Risk Factors.
A description of our risk factors can be found in "Item 1A. Risk Factors" included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2025. There were no material changes to those risk factors during the three months ended December 31, 2025.
Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds.
(a) None.
(b) None.
(c) Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities.
The Company's Board of Directors authorized a 7,000,000 share repurchase program that was publicly announced on August 25, 2023 and is scheduled to expire September 30, 2028. The table below sets forth information regarding repurchases of our common stock during the fiscal 2026 first quarter.
| Period | Total Number of Shares Purchased(1) | Average Price Paid per Share(1)(2) | Total Number of Shares Purchased As Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs | Maximum Number Of Shares that may yet be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs | ||||||||||
| October 1 to 31 | 412,318 | $ | 73.33 | 395,240 | 4,542,576 | |||||||||
| November 1 to 30 | 227,525 | 69.43 | 202,805 | 4,339,771 | ||||||||||
| December 1 to 31 | 63,029 | 72.71 | 53,759 | 4,286,012 | ||||||||||
| Total | 702,872 | 651,804 | ||||||||||||
(1) All shares not purchased as part of the Company's publicly announced repurchase program were acquired in satisfaction of the tax withholding obligations of holders of restricted stock unit awards, which vested during the quarter.
(2) The average price paid per share is calculated on a trade date basis for all open market transactions and excludes commissions and other transaction expenses.
Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities.
Not applicable.
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures.
Not applicable.
Item 5. Other Information.
Adoption or Termination of Trading Arrangements by Directors and Executive Officers
During the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2025, none of our directors or officers (as defined in Rule 16a-1(f) of the 1934 Act) informed us of the adoption termination
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Item 6. Exhibits.
| Exhibit Number | Description | ||||
31.1 | Section 302 certification of Chief Executive Officer. | ||||
31.2 | Section 302 certification of Chief Financial Officer. | ||||
32.1 | Section 906 certification of Chief Executive Officer. | ||||
32.2 | Section 906 certification of Chief Financial Officer. | ||||
| 101 | The following financial information from the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended December 31, 2025 formatted in Inline Extensible Business Reporting Language (iXBRL) includes: (i) Cover Page, (ii) Condensed Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition, (iii) Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations, (iv) Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income, (v) Condensed Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders' Equity, (vi) Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows, and (vii) Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements, tagged in summary and in detail. | ||||
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101). | ||||
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PATHWARD FINANCIAL, INC.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
PATHWARD FINANCIAL, INC. | ||||||||
Date: February 5, 2026 | By: | /s/ Brett L. Pharr | ||||||
Brett L. Pharr, | ||||||||
Chief Executive Officer and Director | ||||||||
Date: February 5, 2026 | By: | /s/ Gregory A. Sigrist | ||||||
Gregory A. Sigrist, | ||||||||
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | ||||||||
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