Alan White
Analyst · KBW. Please go ahead
Great. Thanks, Darren. Quarter 2, 2016 had an ROE of 66 -- 0.66% driven by an elevated provision substantially due to the loan that Jeremy was referring to a one-time charge-off that we had. Let me just stop there and give you a little background. That loan originated in 2014. We had it on our books for about 18 months. It was amortizing monthly. Never missed a payment. Around the 1st of May, we got some intelligence that we might have some issues on documentation. As we began to investigate that documentation, we suspected fraud. On 15th of May, when they did not make the payment, we called the note. We demanded payment from the borrower and the guarantors. On or around June 15, we sued the company and we sued the guarantors. So this has moved pretty fast. About 30 days ago they received service and we're in the process of aggressively suing them and going after collection of our debt from that standpoint. So this is a big surprise for us. I want to assure you that there are no other surprises if you look at our loan quality. We are about a 11.46% in classified loans. That’s down from 14% in the first quarter. Our past dues are way less than 1%. Our total nonperforming assets to total assets is 0.20%. Our total nonperforming loans to total loans is 0.33%. When you look at our energy credits, we’re down to 4.2% of total loans, our energy. That’s $233 million, 34% of that is stocks, bonds, and cash. We’ve paid down in this quarter $15 million in the energy side. That all came off -- basically off a classified loans. They reduced from $38 million to $28 million. So we feel good about where our energy portfolio is. We do not have any national shared credits and we continue to monitor that and to do well. And we do not see any contagion in our other markets. So that’s a little bit about our portfolio that might be help you have a little better feeling about what happened and it was a surprise and it surprised all of us, but we’re visibly trying to collect it. Our interest margin for the quarter was 3.83 after purchase accounting. That’s quite good. We still remain in that 3.60, 3.80 of range on our net interest margin, which is strong. Our loan growth for the quarter was about 5.5% annually. That excludes the warehouse loan and the stock loan line at Hilltop Securities. If you look at where we're year-to-date, we’re 15% annualized year-to-date. We still think we’re going to end the year in that 10% range that I had been telling you all along. So we still feel good about our growth. Our actual top line went up from $1.6 billion to $1.8 billion in the quarter, $200 million increase. That’s primarily real estate commitments that we made and we anticipate they will fund up. So we feel like we had a pretty good month or pretty good quarter in loan growth, especially with the increase in our unfunded commitments. Our noninterest bearing deposits still remain very strong at 0.32%. We’re operating 63 branches. We did dispose of a branch in The Woodlands, in the third -- in the second quarter and currently we've five new branches planned over the next year, that will be coming on. As far as PrimeLending, we had a really good quarter. June was the best month we’ve ever had at Prime. Our loan volume increased to $4.2 billion for the quarter, up 8% over this time last year. Purchase volume was 79% in the quarter versus our -- in the industry which is about 54%. So, we are a strong purchase lender. When the MBA comes out and tells you it's going from a three and three to three and six, part of that’s going to be purchase and we’re going to get our share of that. So, that’s good news for us. Our gain on sales margin actually improved from quarter one -- quarter two, '15 and quarter one. We have a committee, an optimization team that works on fees and rates and they’ve done a really good job of keeping that net gain on sale margin in there, and we’re doing very well. Our overall market share is 0.81% in quarter two. Low rates have fueled the industry volume growth through refinancing, but PrimeLending has continued to improve its purchase business. Our purchase market share is up 8 basis points to 1.19% of the total market. We continue to see -- receive nice recognition from the industry. They were recently named Above Average originator or jumbo loans, both residential mortgage loans by Moody's, which is very well thought of and as well we rank number two in Fortune's best workplace in finance and insurance. So, we’re proud of that. Hilltop Securities continues to make good progress after integration costs. They made $19.1 million pre-tax income in quarter two, which is a great improvement. Pre-tax margins continue to improve including integration. Over the last five quarters, this is nothing, but get better. Our capital markets is doing well. Our clearing is really starting to show good results and that’s been well received, because that’s going to generate more deposits for us that we can use in the bank side and we continue to had strengthened the TBA housing business and the public finance business. So the business lines drove about a 25% increase in net revenue in the second quarter versus second quarter of '15. That’s what we’ve been looking for. Our compensation to net revenue ratio was 58% in quarter two compared to 72.8%. So you can see there is a significant reduction. There has been a reduction in staff, which has reduced compensation and with the increased revenues and shift to the revenue mix, we’re seeing good results from there. National Lloyds, it's been spring and that’s our time where we have our most difficult seasons. We had storms in April and May and continued to mirror last year's first quarter activity, bit an earlier than anticipated, the end of spring storms after an early start, allowed a strong finish in June that resulted in a loss and LAE ratio of 19.1% versus last year, where it was 102.3%. So we’re coming out of that and coming out of in good shape. Quarter two is seasonally the toughest weather in Texas with LAE ratio of 96.1% is below the averages. Quarter two average over -- below the average over the last three years. The expense ratio is 33.9%, remain relatively flat to quarter two, '15, which is a result of continued process improvement and reduction in variable expenses. Direct premiums declined year-over-year to $42.7 million in quarter two, compared to $46.6 million in quarter two '15. This has continued because of the efforts by management and past initiatives to lower geographic concentrations and risk and offset by moderate increases in rates. So this is the design by us and the results are showing less risk in trying to flatten us out a little bit. So, overall the companies had a good quarter. If we could take that one item out of there, we had a great quarter. And we will continue to progress as we’ve done. So with that, I will turn it over to John.