Central Bancompany (CBC) 2026年第三季度业绩电话会议：净息差达4.51%lg...

核心要点

• Central Bancompany公布2026年第三季度净利润为1.162亿美元，即每股收益0.48美元，资产收益率为2.27%。
• 净利息收入同比增加2000万美元，达到2.189亿美元。全额应税等值净息差上升12个基点至4.51%。
• 无息存款同比增长6%。管理层表示，在其以支票账户为核心的客户获取策略支持下，中单位数的年增长率是一个合理的长期预期。
• 信贷表现保持稳定，净冲销率为12个基点。管理层指出，商业不良资产的增加属于特定借款人的个案情况，而非整体投资组合的广泛趋势。
• 公司持有约20亿美元的过剩资本，相当于每股8.28美元，剩余股票回购授权额度为9600万美元。
• Central Bancompany预计将在2026年第四季度因终止其养老金计划而确认约2700万美元的非经常性税前收益。

关键财务数据

业务与运营表现

按环比折年率计算，贷款增长率为3%。若扣除其他消费贷款的持续下降，增长率约为4%。管理层表示，无论从毛额还是净额来看，商业贷款储备依然与上一季度一样强劲。

消费贷款投资组合继续从收益率较高的间接贷款转向住宅首套抵押贷款和住房股权抵押信贷额度。商业贷款被描述为正常运营，尽管某些市场的借款人活动有所放缓。

支付交易量同比增加。消费支付增长主要由借记卡和零售客户群拓宽所推动。由于费用水平过高，公司退出了包括礼品卡在内的几项小型业务，同时继续加大对商业支付的投资。

存款增长仍以支票账户为中心，而非高收益储蓄产品。个人消费存款占存款总额的50%以上，其中无息存款余额占相当大的比例。

由于密苏里州收取房产税，公共资金存款通常在9月达到季节性低点，并在第四季度点位数上升。管理层表示，第三季度到第四季度的平均公共资金余额总体持平，按平均余额计算，第一季度通常是最高的季度。

管理层展望

管理层认为净息差和净利息收入具备进一步增长的潜能。约7亿美元的固定利率贷款计划在第四季度重定价，管理层估计当前的再投资收益率比到期出清的利率高出约100个基点。

公司的内部模型显示2027年和2028年将带来额外的净利息收入机遇，但该分析基于静态资产负债表及9月30日的利率曲线。管理层强调，未来的利率走势和存款成本Beta系数仍存在不确定性。

关于贷款增长，管理层指出中单位数的扩张速度是恰当的长期预期。当市场竞争加剧或定价不太理性时，当前的增长速度可能会低于该水平。

公司预计将在2026年第四季度获得约2700万美元的非经常性税前养老金终止收益。目前尚未就如何配置这笔资金做出决定。

风险与关注领域

• 不确定的利率走势给存款成本和净息差带来了变数。管理层引用了以往加息环境中20%低段至中段的存款Beta系数作为其总体预期。
• 较高的利率导致某些市场的商业借款人活动和意愿有所放缓，尽管其他领域的强劲表现维持了整体储备的稳定。
• 本季度抵押贷款收入有所下降，但基于直接成本计算，发放业务仍保持盈利。
• 商业不良资产小幅增加。管理层将这一变化归因于特定个案，并表示尚未发现按投资组合或资产类别划分的广泛恶化。
• Central Bancompany仍保持轻微的资产敏感性。公司在季度末增加了现金流对冲，并正在考虑采取其他措施来减少利率波动的风险敞口。
• 由于管理层需要统筹考量股价估值、交易流动性、剩余回购授权额度以及潜在的并购机会，短期内股票回购可能依然有限。

分析师问答环节亮点

管理层表示，利率在更长时间内保持较高水平支持了公司的资产敏感型模式，但目前正在采取措施缓解这种敏感性。除了新增的现金流对冲外，证券投资组合也可用于管理利率风险敞口并捕获重定价机会。

在资本分配方面，管理层表示在34美元至35美元左右的股价水平上仍能看到价值，但不如交易价格在24美元至25美元左右时那么突出。因此，回购仍将是择机的，部分原因是为了避免降低股票的流动性。并购策略保持不变，未提供任何交易更新。

在信贷方面，管理层计划保持拨备覆盖率总体稳定，允许贷款增长推动拨备绝对余额适度增加。从信贷角度看，持续的消费贷款结构转变被认为略微有利。

公司确认浮动利率贷款总计约25亿美元，但管理层在电话会议中未透露以最优利率（Prime）和SOFR挂钩的贷款构成比例。

业绩电话会议完整文字记录

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管理层陈述

Operator

Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Central Bancompany Third Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call .[Operator Instructions] Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, John Ross, President and CEO. Please go ahead.

John Ross

Thank you, operator. Good morning, and thank you for joining us for Central Bancompany, Third Quarter 2026 Earnings Call. With me in the room today is our Chief Financial Officer, James Ciroli, Chief Customer Officer, Dan West; and Chief Credit Officer, Eric Hallgren. As a reminder, I'd like to point out that the discussion today is subject to the same forward-looking considerations outlined on Page 4 of our press release.

I'd like to share 2 notable Central Bancompany promotions before we dive into the third quarter financials. Matt Adams, who joined us 19 years ago and most recently served as our senior lender in Oklahoma, has been elevated to CEO of that region. Brandy Bryant, who has been with us for over 28 years and has most recently served as a market CEO and has been promoted to the newly created position of Head of Consumer and Small Business Lending, a strategic focus for our company. Congratulations, Brandy on your well-deserved new roles.

Now moving on to financials. We are pleased to report net income of $116.2 million in the third quarter or $0.48 per share, which resulted in a return on assets of 2.27%. The Net interest income of $218.9 million this quarter, up $20 million from the prior year quarter. We posted 4.51% FTE net interest margin, up 12 basis points from the prior year quarter. The cost of deposits was down 8 basis points from the same quarter last year reflecting the rate cuts we had late last year.

While we have been disciplined in our deposit pricing and expect that to continue, the unusual turbulence of the current rate environment introduces uncertainty and time will tell as to our deposit cost beta from here. Irrespective, we remain well positioned for higher interest rates. Our core fee income grew 4% year-over-year or 8% excluding mortgage.

While mortgage revenues have declined this quarter, we are pleased that originations remain profitable on a direct cost basis. Turning to expenses. Our FTE efficiency ratio for the quarter was 45.4%. Overall, expenses remain well controlled. As we have disclosed previously, we are in the process of terminating our pension plan, which was frozen in 2018 -- we have now contracted the associated termination payments and expect to record a nonrecurring pretax gain of approximately $27 million in the fourth quarter.

As for credit, it again remained benign with just 12 basis points of net charge-offs in the quarter. Lastly, our capital levels remain well above target with $2 billion of excess capital or $8.28 per share. We repurchased a minimal amount of shares during the quarter and still have $96 million of repurchase authority remaining.

We see value in the shares at current levels as outlined in our deck, but we will continue to be opportunistic with our repurchases in light of our limited authorization. With that, I'd like to open the line for questions. Operator?

Operator

[Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Ryan Kenny with Morgan Stanley.

分析师问答

Ryan Kenny

So maybe just starting out on the payments business, you highlighted the increase in transaction activity. Can you talk a bit about what you're doing to drive growth in payments and also to much degree does the payments business bring in low-cost deposits.

James Ciroli

Thanks, Ryan. This is Jim. I didn't sure I got all of that. But -- so yes, happy to try to be more transparent on the payment business, payment volumes are up nicely on a year-over-year basis. And we're deeply committed to that business as well. Let me turn it over to Dan West use for what are some of the things that we're doing in that area to maximize our payments.

Daniel Westhues

Yes. On the consumer side, we run a pretty modest credit card portfolio, but then our debit card portfolio is really what's driving the payments volume -- that goes directly with the growth in our retail base. So as we grow the retail base, that payment area grows. -- we did exit a few small areas, gift cards a few things like that, which are kind of in those numbers, but the expenses that we're on with that were too high. So on the commercial side, we're continually very active in trying to grow that business within our own existing base.

James Ciroli

And continue to make investments there.

Ryan Kenny

And the noninterest-bearing deposits in the quarter were up nicely 6% year-over-year. And can you impact what's driving the growth that you're seeing in noninterest-bearing balances? And how is alien do you think that growth can be given higher rates?

John Ross

The -- great question, Ryan. So the 6% is kind of consistent with our long-term trend. And I would remind you and I know you're new to the story, so maybe this isn't as much of a reminder. We really focus on our customer acquisition on checking accounts and not high-yield savings. We're not trying to buy money. We're trying to bring new customers in, on the checking account side. And so it's -- I don't think it's a surprise to see the 6% number for us. I think some number in the mid-single digits range is where we should expect to be year in and year out across a pretty long horizon. Dan, anything to add there?

Daniel Westhues

No, exactly what you said. And then year-over-year, even our think consumer deposit base, it's over 50% of the base and the noninterest-bearing is a big portion of that. That's what we focus on. And year-over-year, it continues to grow even with seasonality.

Operator

Our next question comes from the line of Christopher McGratty with KBW.

Christopher McGratty

Great. Jim, maybe a question for you on the debate of margin in NII dollars. I guess, who you stand its modest balance sheet growth, but the NIM continues to go up obviously, you're well positioned for this environment. Maybe you could unpack the outlook for margins and balance sheet growth.

John Ross

Yes, I appreciate the question. And I think it's 1 of the key questions for us. So it's a great it's a great thing to focus on because we put on Page 5 within the slide deck, a couple of things we thought would be helpful. So in the upper right-hand part of that slide, we talk about what our fixed loan repricing looks like on a go-forward basis. So fourth quarter, we've got $700 million rolling off -- and next year, we got $2.2 million of loans rolling off. Those are all rolling off at pretty much a 6 flat rate.

And when we're investing, we're improving I think we're improving yields around 100 basis points as we're reinvesting that fixed rate book into where we currently stand. Now there's a couple of other things going on in there, largely you'll notice that we're continuing to see declines in our other consumer portfolio. That's largely indirect lending. Those are a little bit higher yielding, maybe a little bit more credit loss content. And those are really being replaced with residential first mortgages and some -- and we saw nice HELOC growth in our loans this past quarter.

So there's a little bit of a mix shift going on in the consumer side from a from a commercial side, it's business as usual. So we continue to think there's a nice opportunity to expand margin coming from the left-hand side of the balance sheet. When you look at the right-hand side of the balance sheet, the time will tell, and we're not really sure what rates were declining last year.

Now they're increasing. So we're not really sure what the forward look on rates is going to be. We've always done an incredible job here at Central of managing our deposit costs because we compete on service and not on price. But even in rising rate environments, we've seen kind of a mid- to low 20s type of a beta, and that's kind of our expectation. So -- and then finally, I'd throw securities in there where 1 quarter ago, we'd say there wasn't a bunch of repricing opportunity within our securities book. There is a significant repricing opportunity within our securities book, and we added those to Page 5 as well. And then on the bottom right corner on Page 5.

We kind of show -- we give you an analysis that we've given you before, which is a static portfolio. So we're not taking any credit for loan growth or deposit growth in that static curve and full disclosure, it's a September 30 curve where rates were a little bit higher than where they are today. But you can see where we expect to have net interest income in '27 and '28 relative to our projections -- for 2026 in those 2 numbers.

So you can see what our own internal models are telling us, again, with those 2 assumptions, static curve, static balance sheet. And I think the conclusions are correct. There's additional opportunity for that net interest margin and net interest income to grind higher.

Unknown Executive

I'd just say 1 quick thing because Chris put out a report that basically says the NIM and or as a return on handle common equity. And I think Jim was saying, well, we're going to have NIM that's higher. We're going to have a balance sheet that continues to grow on our house historically. And so those will both do well. But the only thing I would add to your report is -- we don't look at -- we look at return on tangible common equity obviously.

But what we look at internally is net income less a capital charge for the capital required to generate that income to put that loan growth in context of the capital that it consumes to do it. We call that shareholder value added and those components that Jim referred to -- will trend higher based on our strategy.

Christopher McGratty

Great. And as the follow-up, you talked about the gain from the pension termination. I think in the past, Jim, you've taken some proceeds and done some modest retool into the book, the balance sheet. I guess, a, is that another option -- and then b, maybe more broadly for the team, any change in M&A conversations. What's available?

Unknown Executive

I'll take on the first part of that, and I'll pass it over to James for the second part of that. So we just locked in as James mentioned in his prepared remarks, we just locked this in last week. So we've not made any decisions as to whether there's something that's the right thing to do, that's prudent from a business strategy to do that would spend that in any way. I'd say we're probably less focused on that aspect than just looking at what's the right thing to do for our business and what's going to set us up for success in the future. We've not made any decisions.

James Ciroli

Higher rates create opportunity as far as to look at Yes. On the M&A side, I would just say you followed the story closely. So I think you and the community is broadly familiar with the strategy we're prosecuting against. We continue to prosecute against it, and we have no updates for you at this time.

Operator

And our next question comes from the line of Matthew Olney with Stephens.

Matt Olney

Just want to go back to the loan growth discussion, and I'm curious what you're hearing from your commercial borrowers today with respect to higher rates and investors are just concerned that higher rates are going to ultimately lead to some demand destruction at some point. So I'd be curious what you're hearing with conversations with some of your commercial borrowers and higher rates and future demand.

John Ross

Yes. So I appreciate the question, Matt. As you know, and you can see in our numbers, we grew loans at a 3% linked quarter annualized basis. If you back out the other consumer decline, which has been declining for several quarters, that actual linked quarter annualized growth is about 4%, which I'd say normally over a long period of time, kind of mid-single digits growth for our loan portfolio is, I think, the right expectation. So 4% seems right to us when environments are a little bit more competitive and a little bit more irrational at times.

I think we'll underperform averages, and I think that 4% is consistent with that expectation. Looking at where our pipelines are. I'd say our pipeline we continue to be encouraged by our commercial loan pipeline. From a gross basis and a net basis, they're as strong as they were a quarter ago. So I think we continue to be optimistic in terms of being able to grow from here in the right way.

But Eric, what else should I add to that?

Eric Hallgren

I think certainly, given kind of the rate environment and the outlook, we're seeing a little bit of moderation in certain markets in terms of just borrower activity and appetite as they look forward into the next year. But I think the beauty of our franchise is diversity in the makeup of those markets because where certain communities may soften a bit, we're seeing really strong activity in other markets. So to Jim's point on that basis, our pipeline looks to be at the same levels it has over the last several quarters. So we're hopeful and optimistic that, that momentum will continue as we look into the end of the year.

Matt Olney

Okay. Appreciate the color on that. And then just as a follow-up, -- you mentioned on that Slide 5, your assumptions and the static balance sheet and the impact to higher rates it feels like it's a nice place to be given kind of the market expectations now at higher rates. But I'm curious kind of moving into the future, what are some strategies that we could expect from the bank down the road if and when you guys do think about moderating your asset sensitivity? What are some strategies you guys would probably focus on

John Ross

Matt, that's a very prescient question because I would tell you that when you look at our Q, where we make the interest rate risk disclosures, and you'll see that we're still slightly asset sensitive. And it's not lost on us that this higher for longer rate environment is something that benefits our business model.

So beginning last quarter, and we're going to continue to look at this. We did put on a cash flow hedge at the very end of the quarter that's designed to moderate that asset sensitivity back a little bit. And I think that now in the rate cycle, it is probably the right time to think about are there means that we can take that are prudent and reduce our exposure a little bit to potential rate volatility.

I think Jim mentioned, it's kind of a crazy environment where a year ago, we were looking at 3 successive rate cuts. And now we're looking at a rate hike that just happened, probably another 1 happens in December and something early next year. So with this period of rate uncertainty -- and I think it's probably better if we can take some of that asset sensitivity off the table, and that's what we're going to look at. We do some of that through our securities portfolio as well. And on Page 5, we kind of dimension what we think the repricing opportunity is over time with that portfolio.

Operator

And our next question comes from the line of Nathan Race with Piper Sandler.

Nathan Race

Just going back to the capital discussion. -- just going back to the capital discussion. Curious how you guys are thinking about maybe stepping up on buybacks until we see an acquisition announcement just how you're thinking about maybe greater buybacks going forward just to provide a more kind of consistent comprehensive total return to shareholders versus kind of just balancing the float that's out there.

Unknown Executive

That's a great question. And I appreciate you mentioning the float at the end. Look, I would say that when you think about the value of our excess capital, $8.28 of that per share, and the opportunity to earn an even higher return. We mentioned this on Slide 13 as well as what we were just talking about in the -- with Matt on the previous question about the higher for longer rate.

I don't think the benefits are yet fully reflected in our stock price from either of those. And also I'd add, when you look at our performance relative to the people that we compare ourselves to, which is a high-performing peer group. We think there is some unrecognized value that there is still value at $34, $35 a share. but it's not as great as it was at $24, $25 a share.

So we're not as aggressive with our buyback. We're also concerned about managing the value that we think continues to exist in the stock and balancing that off against the float that we have. wasn't even a year ago that we went public. So we're just always kind of a little bit tepid a little bit reluctant to go out there aggressively and buy that back.

And we only have $100 million authorization -- and so we want to make sure that we pick our spots and pick them in the right places, if we are going to take action on that on spending that authorization.

Unknown Executive

Once we do a deal, get more flow out there, the dynamic will change, but it will also always be balanced against the M&A opportunity set going forward. So it's limited in the near term. And I think we've gotten favorable feedback on that from investors because we don't want to kill the liquidity in the stock that exists by what we're doing. So that's kind of how we gave to going for now.

Nathan Race

Yes. That's really helpful. Just 1 kind of housekeeping question as a follow-up. Jim, I think floating rate loans are about $2.5 billion. And can you just remind me of the mix between prime and [indiscernible] within that $2.5 billion? Just trying to get a sense for how much of the move up in SOFR ahead of the Fed rate hike at September benefit loan yield as we kind of think about forward rate expectations on the short curve.

Unknown Executive

I'm going to have to get back to you, Nate. That's -- I understand the question. It's a very good question, but I'm going to have to get back to you on the mix.

Nathan Race

Okay. But the $2.5 billion is still kind of the right number on the floating rate side of things?

Unknown Executive

Yes.

Operator

Next question comes from the line of Brandon Berman with Bank of America.

Brandon Berman

I wanted to start on the deposit side. And I was wondering if you could sort of help unpack, I believe there's some seasonality with the public deposit portfolio. I believe it drops in September and then grows in the fourth quarter. Can you just talk about the movers on the deposit cost side, understanding that deposit beta uncertainty still exists, but understanding what the potential impact could be from public deposit growth in the fourth quarter.

Unknown Executive

Yes. So you're absolutely right. I'd say it troughs in September. Let's unpack that a little bit by going back to what really drives that seasonality, and it's really in the state of Missouri, and we have a very special relationship with the state of Missouri. But in the state of Missouri, tax payments or do property tax payments or do in December. So while it troughs in September, what we'll see on an average basis, comparing third quarter -- or fourth quarter typically in a year, is that average is flattish. But on a spot basis, that will go up. And our highest quarter from an average basis is going to be the first quarter which is kind of interesting actually because the -- on a spot basis, the deposits kind of move around the different pockets within the state but they stay kind of within the state pockets.

And then from March 31 throughout the rest of the year until collections resume again at the end of the year, the various places where the state collects the money and then distribute that out to its agencies in the agency spending down throughout the year.

So that's the seasonality you see we've put something together on Page 9 of the slide deck that helps dimension the cost of those, and you can see why we're focused on those because as we look at our total deposit costs period over period on period, the change in costs is often driven by just what's going on in this portfolio where our cost of deposits is not extremely high, but higher than where they are in the consumer and commercial books. So hopefully, I've to mention what we expect in terms of the seasonality of those of those changes.

I would also point out going from Q2 to Q3-- not only do we see some seasonal declines in the public fund deposits because the trough in September, but we typically see a small seasonal decline in our consumer deposits as well. Got you.

Brandon Berman

And then as a follow-up and just more of a housekeeping item. The increase in commercial nonperformers this quarter, were those still primarily related to the isolated borrower or borrowers you discussed last quarter? Or was there something else that led to the increase?

Unknown Executive

Yes. I'll turn that over to Eric. But look, I would point out that when I see nonperforming assets going up, albeit small numbers and delinquencies going down, delinquent commercial delinquencies have been such low numbers for the past couple of quarters that I really -- I think that's kind of the law of small numbers. We're seeing increases that are not significant, but numbers that are bouncing around the bottom. But Eric, how would you answer that?

Eric Hallgren

Yes, Brandon. So the increase that we saw is really kind of situational and specific to certain commercial situations -- we haven't really observed a thematic shift in the portfolio or any specific asset class that gives us a real concern. And despite a fairly modest adjustment and level relative to our balance sheet on nonperforming assets, excuse me, we remain pretty convicted in kind of the positioning of the portfolio as well as the indication of credit risk that we see going forward and don't see anything shifting or dramatically changing in the near term.

Unknown Executive

Last thing I'd add to that is that we're trying to keep the allowance coverage ratio to the loan portfolio stable and let loan growth drive an increase -- a small increase in the absolute level of the allowance, which you're seeing, even though, as I elaborated earlier, we are having a small positive from a credit perspective, mix shift on the consumer side.

Operator

Thank you. I'm showing no further questions. So with that, I'll hand the call back over to President and CEO, John Ross, for any closing remarks.

John Ross

Thank you, operator. We were pleased to deliver another short quarter and appreciate everyone taking the time to join us this morning. Thanks again, and we will talk to you in the new year.

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for participating. This does conclude today's program, and you may now disconnect. RECONNECT

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