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DALLAS, April 20, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Triumph Bancorp, Inc. (Nasdaq: TBK) (“Triumph” or the “Company”) today announced earnings and operating results for the first quarter of 2020.

As part of how we measure our results, we use certain non-GAAP financial measures to ascertain performance.  These non-GAAP financial measures are reconciled in the section labeled “Metrics and non-GAAP financial reconciliation” at the end of this press release.

2020 First Quarter Highlights and Recent Developments

• For the first quarter of 2020, net loss available to common stockholders was $4.5 million. Diluted losses per share were $0.18. 
   
• On January 1, 2020, we adopted Accounting Standard Update 2016-13, “Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments,” commonly referred to as the Current Expected Credit Losses (“CECL”) model.
   
• For the quarter ended March 31, 2020, we recorded $20.3 million of total credit loss expense. $17.4 million  of this is recorded as credit loss expense related to our loan portfolio summarized as follows:
   
  • Significant deterioration in our macroeconomic forecasts to reflect expected economic impact of COVID-19 resulted in approximately $10.5 million of credit loss expense.
     
  • $3.0 million of credit loss expense is due to net loan growth of $126.0 million and changes in the mix of our total loan portfolio. Net charge offs were $1.5 million and the change in specific reserves was $2.3 million.
     
  • The adoption of CECL on January 1, 2020, increased the ACL by $0.3 million.
     
  • Our ACL as a percentage of loans held for investment increased 34 basis points during the quarter to 1.04% at March 31, 2020.
     
• For the quarter ended March 31, 2020, we recorded in other noninterest expense $2.9 million of credit loss expense related to off balance sheet commitments to lend to reserve for the contractual term of the commitments considering our economic forecast of future conditions. Total unfunded commitments subject to the reserve as of March 31, 2020 were $596.1 million. This includes a $105.3 million increase in unsettled liquid credit balances at the end of the period that created approximately $1.6 million of credit expense for the quarter.
   
• Net interest margin (“NIM”) was 5.63% for the quarter ended March 31, 2020. 
   
• Total loans held for investment increased $126.0 million, or 3.0%, to $4.321 billion at March 31, 2020. Excluding premium finance loans, loan growth totaled $227.1 million. Average loans for the quarter decreased $88.6 million, or 2.1%, to $4.046 billion.
   
• The total dollar value of invoices purchased by Triumph Business Capital for the quarter ended March 31, 2020 was $1.451 billion with an average invoice size of $1,651. The transportation average invoice size for the quarter was $1,481.
   
• For the quarter ended March 31, 2020, TriumphPay processed 504,250 invoices paying 44,568 distinct carriers a total of $530.8 million.
   
• During the quarter ended March 31, 2020, we repurchased 871,319 shares into treasury stock under our stock repurchase program at an average price of $40.81, for a total of $35.6 million, effectively completing the $50.0 million stock repurchase program authorized by our board of directors on October 16, 2019.
   
• On April 20, 2020, the Company entered into an agreement to sell the assets (the “Disposal Group”) of Triumph Premium Finance (“TPF”) and exit its premium finance line of business. The decision to sell TPF was made during the three months ended March 31, 2020, and at March 31, 2020, the carrying amount of the Disposal Group, primarily consisting of $98.3 million of premium finance loans, was transferred to assets held for sale.

Balance Sheet

Total loans held for investment increased $126.0 million, or 3.0%, during the first quarter to $4.321 billion at March 31, 2020. The commercial finance portfolio increased $135.1 million, or 10.8%, to $1.386 billion, the national lending portfolio increased $61.2 million, or 7.2%, to $911.6 million, and the community banking portfolio decreased $70.3 million, or 3.4%, to $2.023 billion during the quarter.

Total deposits were $3.682 billion at March 31, 2020, a decrease of $107.9 million, or 2.8%, in the first quarter of 2020.  Non-interest-bearing deposits accounted for 23% of total deposits and non-time deposits accounted for 60% of total deposits at March 31, 2020. 

Net Interest Income

We earned net interest income for the quarter ended March 31, 2020 of $62.5 million compared to $66.4 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2019.

Yields on loans for the quarter ended March 31, 2020 were down 26 bps from the prior quarter to 7.22%. The average cost of our total deposits was 1.05% for the quarter ended March 31, 2020 compared to 1.15% for the quarter ended December 31, 2019. 

Asset Quality

Non-performing assets were 1.09% of total assets at March 31, 2020 compared to 0.87% of total assets at December 31, 2019.  The ratio of past due to total loans increased to 1.99% at March 31, 2020 from 1.74% at December 31, 2019. We recorded total net charge-offs of $1.5 million, or 0.04% of average loans, for the quarter ended March 31, 2020 compared to net charge-offs of $3.2 million, or 0.08% of average loans, for the quarter ended December 31, 2019. 

Non-Interest Income and Expense

We earned non-interest income for the quarter ended March 31, 2020 of $7.5 million compared to $8.7 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2019.

For the quarter ended March 31, 2020, non-interest expense totaled $57.7 million, which included $2.9 million of credit loss expense for off balance sheet commitments to lend. Credit loss expense for off balance sheet commitments to lend had a 420 basis point impact on our efficiency ratio this quarter. Non-interest expense for the quarter ended December 31, 2019 was $52.7 million.

Conference Call Information

Aaron P. Graft, Vice Chairman and CEO and Bryce Fowler, CFO will review the quarterly results in a conference call for investors and analysts beginning at 7:00 a.m. Central Time on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. Todd Ritterbusch, Chief Lending Officer, will also be available for questions.

To participate in the live conference call, please dial 1-855-940-9472 (Canada: 1-855-669-9657) and request to be joined into the Triumph Bancorp, Inc. call.  A simultaneous audio-only webcast may be accessed via the Company's website at www.triumphbancorp.com through the Investor Relations, News & Events, Webcasts and Presentations links, or through a direct link here at: https://services.choruscall.com/links/tbk200421.html. An archive of this conference call will subsequently be available at this same location on the Company’s website.  

About Triumph

Triumph Bancorp, Inc. (Nasdaq: TBK) is a financial holding company headquartered in Dallas, Texas.  Triumph offers a diversified line of community banking, national lending, and commercial finance products through its bank subsidiary, TBK Bank, SSB. www.triumphbancorp.com

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements. Any statements about our expectations, beliefs, plans, predictions, forecasts, objectives, assumptions or future events or performance are not historical facts and may be forward-looking. You can identify forward-looking statements by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “believes,” “expects,” “could,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “seeks,” “likely,” “intends,” “plans,” “pro forma,” “projects,” “estimates” or “anticipates” or the negative of these words and phrases or similar words or phrases that are predictions of or indicate future events or trends and that do not relate solely to historical matters. You can also identify forward-looking statements by discussions of strategy, plans or intentions. Forward-looking statements involve numerous risks and uncertainties and you should not rely on them as predictions of future events. Forward-looking statements depend on assumptions, data or methods that may be incorrect or imprecise and we may not be able to realize them. We do not guarantee that the transactions and events described will happen as described (or that they will happen at all). The following factors, among others, could cause actual results and future events to differ materially from those set forth or contemplated in the forward-looking statements: business and economic conditions generally and in the bank and non-bank financial services industries, nationally and within our local market areas; the impact of COVID-19 on our business, including the impact of the actions taken by governmental authorities to try and contain the virus or address the impact of the virus on the United States economy (including, without limitation, the CARES Act), and the resulting effect of all of such items on our operations, liquidity and capital position, and on the financial condition of our borrowers and other customers; our ability to mitigate our risk exposures; our ability to maintain our historical earnings trends; changes in management personnel; interest rate risk; concentration of our products and services in the transportation industry; credit risk associated with our loan portfolio; lack of seasoning in our loan portfolio; deteriorating asset quality and higher loan charge-offs; time and effort necessary to resolve nonperforming assets; inaccuracy of the assumptions and estimates we make in establishing reserves for probable loan losses and other estimates; risks related to the integration of acquired businesses and any future acquisitions; our ability to successfully identify and address the risks associated with our possible future acquisitions, and the risks that our prior and possible future acquisitions make it more difficult for investors to evaluate our business, financial condition and results of operations, and impairs our ability to accurately forecast our future performance; lack of liquidity; fluctuations in the fair value and liquidity of the securities we hold for sale; impairment of investment securities, goodwill, other intangible assets or deferred tax assets; our risk management strategies; environmental liability associated with our lending activities; increased competition in the bank and non-bank financial services industries, nationally, regionally or locally, which may adversely affect pricing and terms; the accuracy of our financial statements and related disclosures; material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting; system failures or failures to prevent breaches of our network security; the institution and outcome of litigation and other legal proceedings against us or to which we become subject; changes in carry-forwards of net operating losses; changes in federal tax law or policy; the impact of recent and future legislative and regulatory changes, including changes in banking, securities and tax laws and regulations, such as the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Dodd-Frank Act”) and their application by our regulators; governmental monetary and fiscal policies; changes in the scope and cost of FDIC, insurance and other coverages; failure to receive regulatory approval for future acquisitions; and increases in our capital requirements.

While forward-looking statements reflect our good-faith beliefs, they are not guarantees of future performance. All forward-looking statements are necessarily only estimates of future results. Accordingly, actual results may differ materially from those expressed in or contemplated by the particular forward-looking statement, and, therefore, you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such statements. Further, any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made, and we undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which the statement is made or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events or circumstances, except as required by applicable law. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" and the forward-looking statement disclosure contained in Triumph’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 11, 2020.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

This press release includes certain non‐GAAP financial measures intended to supplement, not substitute for, comparable GAAP measures. Reconciliations of non‐GAAP financial measures to GAAP financial measures are provided at the end of this press release.

The following table sets forth key metrics used by Triumph to monitor our operations. Footnotes in this table can be found in our definitions of non-GAAP financial measures at the end of this document.

 

Unaudited consolidated balance sheet as of:

 

Unaudited consolidated statement of income:

 

Earnings per share:

 

Loans held for investment summarized as of:

Our total loans held for investment portfolio consists of traditional community bank loans as well as commercial finance product lines focused on businesses that require specialized financial solutions and national lending product lines that further diversify our lending operations.

Commercial finance loans are further summarized below:
 

National lending loans are further summarized below:

Additional information pertaining to our loan portfolio, summarized for the quarters ended:

Information pertaining to our factoring segment, which includes only factoring originated by our Triumph Business Capital subsidiary, summarized as of and for the quarters ended:

Deposits summarized as of:

Net interest margin summarized for the three months ended:

Loan balance totals include respective nonaccrual assets.
Net interest spread is the yield on average interest earning assets less the rate on interest bearing liabilities.
Net interest margin is the ratio of net interest income to average interest earning assets.
Average rates have been annualized.

 

Metrics and non-GAAP financial reconciliation:

1) Triumph uses certain non-GAAP financial measures to provide meaningful supplemental information regarding Triumph's operational performance and to enhance investors' overall understanding of such financial performance.  The non-GAAP measures used by Triumph include the following:

• “Adjusted diluted earnings per common share” is defined as adjusted net income available to common stockholders divided by adjusted weighted average diluted common shares outstanding.  Excluded from net income available to common stockholders are material gains and expenses related to merger and acquisition-related activities, including divestitures, net of tax. In our judgment, the adjustments made to net income available to common stockholders allow management and investors to better assess our performance in relation to our core net income by removing the volatility associated with certain acquisition-related items and other discrete items that are unrelated to our core business.  Weighted average diluted common shares outstanding are adjusted as a result of changes in their dilutive properties given the gain and expense adjustments described herein.
   
• "Tangible common stockholders' equity" is defined as common stockholders' equity less goodwill and other intangible assets.
   
• "Total tangible assets" is defined as total assets less goodwill and other intangible assets.
   
• "Tangible book value per share" is defined as tangible common stockholders' equity divided by total common shares outstanding. This measure is important to investors interested in changes from period-to-period in book value per share exclusive of changes in intangible assets.
   
• "Tangible common stockholders' equity ratio" is defined as the ratio of tangible common stockholders' equity divided by total tangible assets. We believe that this measure is important to many investors in the marketplace who are interested in relative changes from period-to period in common equity and total assets, each exclusive of changes in intangible assets.
   
• "Return on Average Tangible Common Equity" is defined as net income available to common stockholders divided by average tangible common stockholders' equity.
   
• "Adjusted efficiency ratio" is defined as non-interest expenses divided by our operating revenue, which is equal to net interest income plus non-interest income. Also excluded are material gains and expenses related to merger and acquisition-related activities, including divestitures. In our judgment, the adjustments made to operating revenue and non-interest expense allow management and investors to better assess our performance in relation to our core operating revenue by removing the volatility associated with certain acquisition-related items and other discrete items that are unrelated to our core business.
   
• "Adjusted net non-interest expense to average total assets" is defined as non-interest expenses net of non-interest income divided by total average assets. Excluded are material gains and expenses related to merger and acquisition-related activities, including divestitures.  This metric is used by our management to better assess our operating efficiency. 

2) Performance ratios include discount accretion on purchased loans for the periods presented as follows:

3) Asset quality ratios exclude loans held for sale, except for non-performing assets to total assets.

4) Past due ratio has been revised to exclude nonaccrual loans with contractual payments less than 30 days past due.

5) Beginning January 1, 2020, the allowance for credit losses was calculated in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification Topic 326, “Financial Instruments – Credit Losses” (“ASC 326”).  

6) Current quarter ratios are preliminary.

Source: Triumph Bancorp, Inc.

Investor Relations:
Luke Wyse
Senior Vice President, Finance & Investor Relations
lwyse@tbkbank.com
214-365-6936

Media Contact:
Amanda Tavackoli
Senior Vice President, Marketing & Communication
atavackoli@tbkbank.com
214-365-6930

 

Source: Triumph Bancorp, Inc.