Ron Ohsberg
Analyst · Piper Sandler. Mark, over to you
Thank you, Ned. Good morning everyone and thank you for joining us on our call today. As Ned mentioned, net income was $20 million or $1.14 per diluted share for the second quarter, and this compared to $16.5 million or $0.94 for the first quarter. Net interest income amounted to $37.5 million, up by $2.4 million or 7% from the preceding quarter. The net interest margin was $2.71, up by 14 basis points. Net interest income benefited from PPP fees, which totaled $323,000 and had a two-basis point benefit to the margin. This compared to $819,000 and six basis points in the first quarter. We do not expect PPP fees to impact the margin in future periods, as an immaterial amount of PPP loans remains on June 30. Prepayment fee income was modest at $62,000 in the second quarter and $76,000 in the preceding quarter, having a zero-basis point impact to the margin. Excluding these -- both of these items, the margin increased by 17 basis points from $2.51 to $2.68. Average earning assets increased by $25 million. The yield on earning assets was 3.03% for the second quarter, up by 20 basis points. On the funding side, average in-market deposits rose by $151 million, while wholesale funding sources decreased by $82 million. The rate on interest-bearing liabilities increased by nine basis points to 0.42%. Noninterest income comprised 30% of total revenues in the second quarter and amounted to $15.9 million, down by $1.3 million or 8%. Wealth management revenues were $10.1 million, down by $465,000 or 4%. This included a decrease in asset-based revenues, which were down by $570,000 or 6% from the preceding quarter. The decrease was partially offset by an increase in transaction-based revenues of $105,000, largely due to higher tax servicing fee income. Tax fees are seasonal and concentrated in the first half of the year. The decrease in asset-based revenues correlated with a decrease in the average balance of assets under administration or AUA, which was down by $490 million or 7%. June 30 end of period, AUA balances totaled $6.7 billion, down by $843 million or 11% from March 31, largely due to market depreciation. Net new business was positive and was offset by routine client withdrawals. Our mortgage banking revenues totaled $2.1 million in the second quarter, down by $1.4 million or 41% from the first quarter. Mortgage loans sold, totaled $80 million in the second quarter, down by $50 million or 39%. Note however, that overall loan origination activity was strong and amounted to $350 million in the second quarter, up by $79 million or 29%. A higher percentage of loans are being placed into the portfolio, leading to lower sales gains. Market competition has also been compressing the sales yield as expected. Our mortgage origination pipeline at June 30 was $234 million, up by $24 million or 12% from $210 million at the end of March. Loan related derivative income was $669,000, up by $368,000 from the preceding quarter reflecting increased customer swap transactions. Regarding noninterest expenses these were down by $142,000 or 0.5% from the first quarter. Salaries and employee benefits expenses decreased by $621,000 or 3% in the second quarter, reflecting lower payroll taxes and a reduction in share-based compensation expenses. In addition, we benefited from higher deferred labor costs, which is a contra expense, and which was partially offset by higher mortgage commissions. Advertising and promotion expense was up $373,000 from the preceding quarter largely due to timing. Income tax expense was $5.3 million for the second quarter. The effective tax rate was 21.1%. We expect our full-year 2022 effective tax rate to be approximately 21.5%. Now turning to the balance sheet. Total loans were up by $196 million or 5% from March 31st and by $180 million or 4% from a year ago. Excluding PPP, loans increased by $207 million or 5% from Q1 and were up by $325 million or 8% from Q2 2021. In the second quarter, total commercial loans decreased by $14 million or 1%, which included a reduction in PPP loans of $11 million. Within this category CRE loans decreased by $19 million. Payments of $121 million were partially offset by a new loan volume of $102 million. C&I loans excluding PPP increased by $16 million. Residential loans increased by $188 million or 11% from March 31st. Originations for retention and portfolio were $268 million, up $99 million or 60%. And consumer loans were up by $21 million or 8% reflecting growth in home equity. Investment securities were up by $12 million or 1% from March 31st. Purchases of debt securities were partially offset by a temporary decline in fair value as well as routine pay downs and mortgage backed securities. End market deposits were down by $178 million or 4%. The decrease was concentrated in rate-sensitive institutional money market accounts and included seasonal withdrawals by municipalities in the higher end. End market deposits were up by $555 million or 14% from a year ago. Wholesale brokered deposits were up by $57 million in the second quarter and FHLB borrowings were up by $273 million. Total shareholders' equity amounted to $477 million on June 30, down by $37 million from the end of Q1. This was largely due to a temporary decrease in the fair value of available-for-sale securities. In the second quarter we repurchased 175,000 shares at an average price of $48.93 and a total cost of $8.6 million under our stock repurchase program, including third quarter repurchases we are at a total of 194,000 shares at an average price of $48.82 for a total of $9.5 million. We do not expect to go much higher than that. Washington Trust remains well capitalized. And our second quarter dividend declaration of $0.54 per share was paid on July 8th. Regarding asset quality, non-accruing loans were 0.28% of total loans compared to 0.29% on March 31st. Past due loans were 0.19% of total loans compared to 0.16%. At June 30, virtually all of these loans were residential and home equity. The allowance for credit losses on loans totaled $36.3 million or 81 basis points of total loans and provided NPL coverage of 293% as compared to $39.2 million or 92 basis points on March 31st. The second quarter provision for credit losses was a negative $3 million, compared to a $100,000 positive provision in the preceding quarter. This reflects continued low loss rates, solid asset and credit quality metrics as well as our current estimate of forecasted economic conditions. We had net recoveries of $10,000 in Q2 compared to net recoveries of $148,000 in Q1. This concludes my prepared remarks. And at this time, I will turn the call back to Ned.