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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-Q
☒ QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the Quarterly Period Ended September 30, 2024
Commission File No. 001-33037
PRIMIS FINANCIAL CORP.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Virginia
20-1417448
(State or other jurisdiction
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
of incorporation or organization)
1676 International Drive, Suite 900
McLean, Virginia 22102
(Address of principal executive offices) (zip code)
(703) 893-7400
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of each class:
Trading symbol
Name of each exchange on which registered:
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share
FRST
NASDAQ Global Market
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, 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:
Large accelerated filer ☐
Accelerated filer ☒
Smaller reporting company ☐
Non-accelerated filer ☐
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).
As of November 29, 2024, there were 24,722,734 shares of common stock, $0.01 par value, outstanding.
September 30, 2024
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PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1 - Financial Statements
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023
2
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income (Loss) and Comprehensive Income (Loss) for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023
3
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023
4
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023
6
Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
7
Item 2 - Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
39
Item 3 – Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk
57
Item 4 – Controls and Procedures
59
PART II - OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1 – Legal Proceedings
60
Item 1A – Risk Factors
Item 2 – Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
Item 3 – Defaults Upon Senior Securities
Item 4 – Mine Safety Disclosures
Item 5 – Other Information
Item 6 - Exhibits
61
Signatures
63
PRIMIS FINANCIAL CORP.CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(dollars in thousands, except per share amounts)
September 30,
December 31,
2024
2023
(unaudited)
ASSETS
Cash and cash equivalents:
Cash and due from financial institutions
$
10,854
1,863
Interest-bearing deposits in other financial institutions
66,420
75,690
Total cash and cash equivalents
77,274
77,553
Securities available-for-sale, at fair value (amortized cost of $264,151 and $255,891, respectively)
242,543
228,420
Securities held-to-maturity, at amortized cost (fair value of $9,162 and $10,839, respectively)
9,766
11,650
Loans held for sale, at fair value
96,897
57,691
Loans held for sale, at lower of cost or market
361,825
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Total loans held for sale
458,722
Loans held for investment, collateralizing secured borrowings
17,591
20,505
Loans held for investment
2,956,132
3,198,909
Less: allowance for credit losses
(51,132)
(52,209)
Net loans
2,922,591
3,167,205
Stock in Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) and Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB)
20,875
14,246
Bank premises and equipment, net
19,668
20,611
Assets held for sale
9,864
6,735
Operating lease right-of-use assets
10,465
10,646
Cloud computing arrangement assets, net
8,460
10,699
Goodwill
93,459
Intangible assets, net
985
1,958
Bank-owned life insurance
66,750
67,588
Deferred tax assets, net
25,582
22,395
Consumer Program derivative asset
7,146
10,806
Other assets
50,197
54,884
Total assets
4,024,347
3,856,546
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
Noninterest-bearing demand deposits
421,231
472,941
Interest-bearing deposits:
NOW accounts
748,833
773,028
Money market accounts
835,099
794,530
Savings accounts
873,810
783,758
Time deposits
427,458
445,898
Total interest-bearing deposits
2,885,200
2,797,214
Total deposits
3,306,431
3,270,155
Securities sold under agreements to repurchase
3,677
3,044
Secured borrowings
17,495
20,393
FHLB advances
165,000
30,000
Junior subordinated debt
9,867
9,830
Senior subordinated notes
85,941
85,765
Operating lease liabilities
11,704
11,686
Other liabilities
27,169
28,080
Total liabilities
3,627,284
3,458,953
Commitments and contingencies (See Note 9)
Stockholders' equity:
Preferred stock, $0.01 par value. Authorized 5,000,000 shares; no shares issued and outstanding
Common stock, $0.01 par value. Authorized 45,000,000 shares; 24,722,734 and 24,693,172 shares issued and outstanding at September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively
247
Additional paid in capital
314,066
313,548
Retained earnings
83,854
84,143
Accumulated other comprehensive loss
(17,145)
(21,777)
Total Primis stockholders' equity
381,022
376,161
Noncontrolling interests
16,041
21,432
Total stockholders' equity
397,063
397,593
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity
See accompanying notes to unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
PRIMIS FINANCIAL CORP.CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME (LOSS) AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)
(dollars in thousands, except per share amounts) (Unaudited)
For the Three Months Ended September 30,
For the Nine Months Ended September 30,
Interest and dividend income:
Interest and fees on loans
54,296
45,312
151,581
125,253
Interest and dividends on taxable securities
1,702
1,491
5,022
4,423
Interest and dividends on tax exempt securities
97
102
297
305
Interest and dividends on other earning assets
1,017
1,122
2,756
12,504
Total interest and dividend income
57,112
48,027
159,656
142,485
Interest expense:
Interest on deposits
25,351
21,576
72,987
61,403
Interest on other borrowings
3,738
2,121
8,524
8,096
Total interest expense
29,089
23,697
81,511
69,499
Net interest income
28,023
24,330
78,145
72,986
Provision for credit losses
7,511
1,616
17,138
11,231
Net interest income after provision for credit losses
20,512
22,714
61,007
61,755
Noninterest income:
Account maintenance and deposit service fees
1,468
1,534
4,722
4,215
Income from bank-owned life insurance
431
787
1,975
1,601
Mortgage banking income
6,803
4,922
18,779
14,435
Gain on sale of loans
217
307
268
Consumer Program derivative gains
79
2,033
3,392
15,233
Other noninterest income
501
231
1,266
578
Total noninterest income
9,282
9,724
30,441
36,330
Noninterest expenses:
Salaries and benefits
16,764
13,809
48,587
44,120
Occupancy expenses
1,248
1,633
3,988
4,671
Furniture and equipment expenses
1,823
1,537
5,288
4,966
Amortization of intangible assets
318
317
952
Virginia franchise tax expense
631
849
1,894
2,546
FDIC insurance assessment
545
820
1,744
2,254
Data processing expense
2,552
2,250
7,130
7,329
Marketing expense
449
377
1,407
1,467
Telephone and communication expense
330
356
1,149
Professional fees
2,914
1,118
7,255
3,055
Goodwill impairment
11,150
Fraud losses
267
2,719
Miscellaneous lending expenses
1,098
424
1,835
1,878
Other operating expenses
2,222
2,041
7,123
6,085
Total noninterest expenses
30,955
36,948
88,279
94,341
Income (loss) before income taxes
(1,161)
(4,510)
3,169
3,744
Income tax expense (benefit)
(304)
1,519
1,679
3,405
Net income (loss)
(857)
(6,029)
1,490
339
Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests
2,085
5,640
Net income (loss) attributable to Primis' common stockholders
1,228
Other comprehensive income (loss):
Unrealized gain (loss) on available-for-sale securities
7,601
(5,557)
5,863
(5,850)
Tax expense (benefit)
1,595
(1,167)
1,231
(1,229)
Other comprehensive income (loss)
6,006
(4,390)
4,632
(4,621)
Comprehensive income (loss)
7,234
(10,419)
11,762
(4,282)
Earnings (loss) per share, basic
0.05
(0.24)
0.29
0.01
Earnings (loss) per share, diluted
PRIMIS FINANCIAL CORP.CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITYFOR THE THREE AND NINE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2024 AND 2023
For the Three Months Ended September 30, 2024
Accumulated
Additional
Other
Common Stock
Paid in
Retained
Comprehensive
Noncontrolling
Shares
Amount
Capital
Earnings
Income (Loss)
Interests
Total
Balance - June 30, 2024
24,708,234
313,852
85,099
(23,151)
18,164
394,211
(2,085)
Other comprehensive income
Other net changes in noncontrolling interests
(38)
Dividends on common stock ($0.10 per share)
(2,473)
Stock option exercises
15,500
173
Restricted stock forfeited
(1,000)
Stock-based compensation expense
41
Balance - September 30, 2024
24,722,734
For the Three Months Ended September 30, 2023
Balance - June 30, 2023
24,690,064
246
312,976
103,281
(26,081)
390,422
Net loss
Other comprehensive loss
(2,469)
(3,300)
76
Balance - September 30, 2023
24,686,764
313,052
94,783
(30,471)
377,610
For the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2024
Balance - December 31, 2023
24,693,172
(5,640)
249
Dividends on common stock ($0.30 per share)
(7,419)
30,916
210
Repurchase of restricted stock
(354)
(4)
312
For the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2023
Balance - December 31, 2022
24,680,097
312,722
101,850
(25,850)
388,968
Net income
(7,406)
Shares retired to unallocated
(1,033)
8,000
85
Restricted stock granted
5,000
(5,300)
(12)
257
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PRIMIS FINANCIAL CORP.CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWSFOR THE NINE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2024 AND 2023
Operating activities:
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash and cash equivalents (used in) provided by operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization
6,723
6,954
Net amortization of premiums and (accretion of discounts)
(11)
(710)
Proceeds from sales of loans
76,194
Net change in mortgage loans held for sale
(42,783)
(21,554)
Net gains on mortgage banking
(18,779)
(14,435)
Net gains on sale of loans
(307)
(268)
Earnings on bank-owned life insurance
(1,272)
(1,571)
Gain on bank-owned life insurance death benefit
(703)
(30)
Gain on other investments
(393)
Deferred income tax benefit
(4,418)
(3,077)
Net change in fair value of loan derivative
3,660
(11,110)
Net (increase) decrease in other assets
18,549
(24,636)
Net increase (decrease) in other liabilities
(1,368)
10,842
Net cash and cash equivalents used in operating activities
54,032
(36,618)
Investing activities:
Purchases of securities available-for-sale
(34,170)
(10,487)
Proceeds from paydowns, maturities and calls of securities available-for-sale
25,380
23,496
Proceeds from paydowns, maturities and calls of securities held-to-maturity
1,518
Net (increase) decrease in FRB and FHLB stock
(6,629)
13,019
Net change in loans held for investment
(209,673)
(240,036)
Proceeds from bank-owned life insurance death benefit
3,264
873
Proceeds from sales of bank premise and equipment and assets held for sale
3,319
Purchases of bank premises and equipment, net
(1,405)
Purchases of other investments
288
Net cash and cash equivalents provided by (used in) investing activities
(216,358)
(213,022)
Financing activities:
Net increase in deposits
36,276
570,937
Cash dividends paid on common stock
Proceeds from exercised stock options
Proceeds from secured borrowings, net of repayments
(2,898)
29,649
Proceeds from (repayment of) short-term FHLB advances
135,000
(325,000)
Increase (decrease) in securities sold under agreements to repurchase
633
(2,607)
Net cash and cash equivalents provided by financing activities
162,047
265,646
Net change in cash and cash equivalents
(279)
16,006
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period
77,859
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period
93,865
Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information
Cash payments for:
Interest
80,491
66,148
Income taxes
42
3,908
Supplemental schedule of noncash activities:
Initial recognition of operating lease right-of-use assets
6,067
Loans held for investment transferred to loans held for sale, at lower of cost or market
8,755
1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Primis Financial Corp. (“Primis,” “we,” “us,” “our” or the “Company”) is the bank holding company for Primis Bank (“Primis Bank” or the “Bank”), a Virginia state-chartered bank which commenced operations on April 14, 2005. Primis Bank provides a range of financial services to individuals and small and medium-sized businesses.
As of September 30, 2024, Primis Bank had twenty-four full-service branches in Virginia and Maryland and also provided services to customers through certain online and mobile applications. The Company is headquartered in McLean, Virginia and has an administrative office in Glen Allen, Virginia and an operations center in Atlee, Virginia. Primis Mortgage Company (“PMC”), a residential mortgage lender headquartered in Wilmington, North Carolina, is a consolidated subsidiary of Primis Bank. Panacea Financial Holdings, Inc. (“PFH”), headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, is consolidated into the Company. PFH owns the rights to the Panacea Financial brand and its intellectual property and partners with the Bank to offer a suite of financial products and services for doctors, their practices, and ultimately the broader healthcare industry.
The accounting policies and practices of Primis and its subsidiaries conform to U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S. GAAP”) and to general practice within the banking industry. A discussion of the Company’s material accounting policies are located in our 2023 Consolidated Financial Statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023 (the “2023 Form 10-K”).
Principles of Consolidation
The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Primis and its subsidiaries Primis Bank, PMC and PFH. Significant inter-company accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. Primis consolidates subsidiaries in which it holds, directly or indirectly, more than 50 percent of the voting rights or where it exercises control. Entities where Primis holds 20 to 50 percent of the voting rights, or has the ability to exercise significant influence, or both, are accounted for under the equity method. Primis owns EVB Statutory Trust I (the “Trust”) which is an unconsolidated subsidiary and the junior subordinated debt owed to the Trust is reported as a liability of Primis. Primis consolidates PFH, as a result of the determination that it has a controlling financial interest over the entity as further described below.
We determine whether we have a controlling financial interest in an entity by first evaluating whether the entity is a voting interest entity or a variable interest entity (“VIE”) under U.S. GAAP. Voting interest entities are entities in which the total equity investment at risk is sufficient to enable the entity to finance itself independently and provides the equity holders with the obligation to absorb losses, the right to receive residual returns and the right to make decisions about the entity’s activities. We consolidate voting interest entities in which we have all, or at least a majority of, the voting interest. As defined in U.S. GAAP, VIEs are entities that lack one or more of the characteristics of a voting interest entity. A controlling financial interest in a VIE is present when an enterprise has both the power to direct the activities of the VIE that most significantly impact the VIE’s economic performance and an obligation to absorb losses or the right to receive benefits that could potentially be significant to the VIE. The enterprise with a controlling financial interest, known as the primary beneficiary, consolidates the VIE. The Company has investments in VIE’s for which we are not the primary beneficiary and, as such, are not included in our consolidated financial statements. The Company also has an investment in a VIE for which we are the primary beneficiary.
On December 21, 2023, PFH completed a $24.5 million Series B financing round led by a global venture capital firm. As part of the financing round, Primis acquired approximately 19% of PFH’s common stock for an immaterial purchase price due to previous operating losses in the Bank’s Panacea Financial Division. The Company performed an analysis and determined that PFH is a VIE because it lacks one or more of the characteristics of a voting interest entity. The Company’s
analysis further determined that it has a controlling financial interest in PFH due to the substantial historical activities between PFH and the Bank’s Panacea Financial Division coupled with the limited activities of PFH outside of its relationship with Primis as of December 31, 2023. Further, there are employees of Primis that have historically carried out substantially all of the activities of PFH. Accordingly, the Company determined it is the primary beneficiary of PFH and consolidated it as of December 31, 2023 and no circumstances have changed during the three or nine months ended September 30, 2024 that changed this prior determination.
Operating Segments
The Company, through its Bank subsidiary, provides a broad range of financial services. While the Company’s chief operating decision maker monitors the revenue streams of the various financial products and services, operations are managed and financial performance is evaluated on an organization-wide basis. Management has determined that the Company has two reportable operating segments: Primis Mortgage and Primis Bank, as discussed in Note 11 – Segment Information.
Basis of Presentation
The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and notes thereto have been prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP for interim financial information and instructions for Form 10-Q and follow general practice within the banking industry. Accordingly, the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements do not include all of the information and footnotes required by U.S. GAAP for complete financial statements. However, in the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting only of normal recurring accruals) necessary for a fair presentation of the results of the interim periods presented have been made. The results of operations for the interim periods are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the full year. For further information, refer to the consolidated financial statements and footnotes thereto included in the 2023 Form 10-K.
Reclassifications
In certain instances, amounts reported in the prior year annual audited consolidated financial statements or the interim condensed consolidated financial statements have been reclassified to conform to the current financial statement presentation.
Use of Estimates
The preparation of the consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from these estimates. Estimates that are particularly susceptible to change in the near term include: the determination of the allowance for credit losses, the fair value of investment securities, the credit impairment of investment securities, the mortgage banking derivatives, interest rate swap derivatives, Consumer Program derivative, the valuation of goodwill, and deferred tax assets. Management monitors and continually reassess these at each reporting period.
Disposition of the Life Premium Finance Division
On October 24, 2024, the Company entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with EverBank, N.A. (“EverBank”) for sale of the Company’s Life Premium Finance division (“LPF”). EverBank will acquire LPF from the Company, except for a subset of mostly fixed rate and rate-capped loans that will be retained by the Bank. All of the LPF operations, including its employees, will be assumed by EverBank as part of the transaction that is expected to result in a pre-tax gain of $4.5 million for the Company, net of advisory and legal fees, at the initial closing in the fourth quarter of 2024. EverBank will acquire approximately $370 million of loans from the division with the Bank providing interim servicing until the transition of the business at the final closing which is expected on January 31, 2025. Between the first and second closings, EverBank will purchase loans generated by the division in ordinary course at par. After the second closing, EverBank will service the Bank’s retained portfolio for the duration of the portfolio. On October 31, 2024, the Company closed on the initial sale of loans in which it sold $354 million of amortized cost of loans that were on its balance
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sheet as of September 30, 2024. The remaining amount of funded loans as of September 30, 2024 to be sold to EverBank are expected to be sold on or before the second closing as described previously.
The Company performed an analysis of the pending transaction as of September 30, 2024, under U.S. GAAP and determined that the criteria was met for the assets of LPF (primarily loans and accrued interest) that will be sold to EverBank to be reported as loans held for sale and assets held for sale (transferred from Loans Held for Investment and other assets, respectively, at the lower of cost or market value) in the condensed consolidated balance sheet as of September 30, 2024. The Company also assessed the pending sale of LPF to determine if it should be reported under U.S. GAAP as discontinued operations of the Company in the condensed consolidated financial statements as of and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, and determined that the criteria was not met for separate presentation as discontinued operations. Notwithstanding this conclusion, the Company has presented pro forma financial information highlighting the impact of the pending transaction to its balance sheet and income statements for certain periods as required by SEC regulation S-X in its Form 8-K filing on November 6, 2024.
Interest Rate Swaps
The Company is subject to interest rate risk exposure in the normal course of business through its core lending operations. Primarily to help mitigate interest rate risk associated with its loan portfolio, the Company entered into interest rate swaps in May and August 2023 with a large U.S. financial institution as the counterparty. Interest rate swaps are contractual agreements whereby one party pays a floating interest rate on a notional principal amount and receives a fixed-rate payment on the same notional principal, or vice versa, for a fixed period of time. Interest rate swaps change in value with movements in benchmark interest rates, such as Prime or the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”). Interest rate swaps subject the Company to market risk associated with changes in interest rates, changes in interest rate volatility, as well as the credit risk that the counterparty will fail to perform. The Company’s interest rate swaps are pay-fixed and receive-floating whereby the Company receives a variable rate of interest based on SOFR.
The Company’s interest rate swaps meet the definition of derivative instruments under ASC 815, Derivatives and Hedging, and are accounted for both initially and subsequently at their fair value. The Company assessed the derivative instruments at inception and determined they met the requirements under ASC 815 to be accounted for as fair value hedges. Fair value hedge relationships mitigate exposure to the change in fair value of the hedged risk in an asset, liability or firm commitment. The Company’s interest rate swaps are fair value hedges that are accounted for using the portfolio layer method, which allows the Company to hedge the interest rate risk of prepayable loans by designating as the hedged item a stated amount of two separate and distinct closed portfolios of consumer and commercial loans that are expected to be outstanding for the designated hedge periods. Under the fair value hedging model, gains or losses attributable to the change in fair value of the derivative instruments, as well as the gains and losses attributable to the change in fair value of the hedged items, are recognized in interest income in the same income statement line item with the hedged item in the period in which the change in fair value occurs. The corresponding adjustment to the hedged asset or liability are included in the basis of the hedged items, while the corresponding change in the fair value of the derivative instruments are recorded as an adjustment to other assets or other liabilities, as applicable. The Company presents interest rate swaps on the balance sheets on a net basis when a right of offset exists, based on transactions with a single counterparty and any cash collateral paid to and/or received from that counterparty are subject to legally enforceable master netting arrangements. As of September 30, 2024, the gross amounts of interest rate swap derivative assets and liabilities were $0.3 million and $0.9 million, respectively, and are recorded in other assets in the consolidated balance sheet.
The following table represents the carrying value of the portfolio layer method hedged assets and the cumulative fair value hedging adjustments included in the carrying value of the hedged assets as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023:
December 31, 2023
(dollars in thousands)
Amortized Cost Basis
Hedged Asset
Basis Adjustment
Fixed rate assets
843,197
250,525
525
946,185
248,906
(1,094)
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Recent Accounting Pronouncements
In November 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-07, Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures. This ASU expands current disclosure requirements primarily through enhanced disclosures about significant segment expenses. Specifically, the ASU (i) requires disclosure of significant segment expenses that are regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker (“CODM”), (ii) requires disclosure of an amount for other segment items by reportable segment and a description of its composition, (iii) requires providing in each interim period all current annual disclosures of a reportable segment’s profit or loss and assets, and (iv) allows an entity to provide additional measures of profit or loss used by the CODM in assessing performance and deciding how to allocate resources in addition to providing the measure for this that is most consistent with GAAP, (v) requires disclosure of the title and position of the CODM and an explanation of how the CODM uses reported measures of segment profit or loss in assessing segment performance and deciding how to allocate resources, and (vi) requires an entity that has a single reportable segment to provide all disclosures required by this ASU and Topic 280. This ASU is effective for the Company’s annual disclosures beginning for the year ended December 31, 2024 and its interim disclosures thereafter, with early adoption permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this ASU to its consolidated financial statement disclosures.
In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures. This ASU requires annual disclosure of certain information relating to the rate reconciliation, income taxes paid by jurisdiction, income (or loss) from continuing operations before income tax expense (or benefit) disaggregated between domestic and foreign, and income tax expense (or benefit) from continuing operations disaggregated by federal, state, and foreign. The ASU also eliminates certain requirements relating to unrecognized tax benefits and certain deferred tax disclosure relating to subsidiaries and corporate joint ventures. This ASU is effective for the Company’s annual disclosures beginning for the year ended December 31, 2025. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this ASU to its financial statement disclosures.
In March 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-01, Compensation - Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Scope Application of Profits Interest and Similar Awards. This ASU adds an illustrative example to clarify how an entity should determine whether a profits interest or similar award is within the scope of ASC 718. The amendments in this standard will be effective for the Company on January 1, 2025. The Company does not believe this standard will have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.
In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03, Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40). This ASU requires more disclosures about specific types of expenses included in the expense captions presented on the face of the income statement as well as disclosures about selling expenses, but does not change the requirements for the presentation of expenses on the face of the income statement. The amendments in this standard will be effective for the Company on January 1, 2027, and is required to be applied prospectively, with early adoption permitted. The Company does not believe this standard will have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.
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2. INVESTMENT SECURITIES
The amortized cost and fair value of available-for-sale investment securities and the related gross unrealized gains and losses recognized in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) were as follows (in thousands):
Amortized
Gross Unrealized
Fair
Cost
Gains
Losses
Value
Residential government-sponsored mortgage-backed securities
103,382
130
(11,232)
92,280
Obligations of states and political subdivisions
33,575
(3,010)
30,568
Corporate securities
16,000
(1,997)
14,003
Residential government-sponsored collateralized mortgage obligations
57,296
672
(1,135)
56,833
Government-sponsored agency securities
16,303
(2,027)
14,276
Agency commercial mortgage-backed securities
29,909
(2,956)
26,953
SBA pool securities
7,686
(65)
7,630
264,151
814
(22,422)
110,562
72
(13,826)
96,808
33,801
12
(3,733)
30,080
(1,952)
14,048
Collateralized loan obligations
5,018
(36)
4,982
35,927
175
(1,631)
34,471
16,267
(2,556)
13,711
34,059
(3,949)
30,110
4,257
(53)
4,210
255,891
265
(27,736)
The amortized cost, gross unrecognized gains and losses, allowance for credit losses and fair value of investment securities held-to-maturity were as follows (in thousands):
Gross Unrecognized
Allowance for
Credit Losses
8,066
(561)
7,507
(37)
1,482
181
(8)
(606)
9,162
9,040
(754)
8,286
2,391
(42)
2,349
219
(15)
204
(811)
10,839
Available-for-sale investment securities of $15.9 million and $34.2 million were purchased during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, respectively, and $5.5 million and $10.5 million were purchased during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, respectively. No held-to-maturity investments were purchased during the three
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months and nine ended September 30, 2024 and 2023. No investment securities were sold during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023.
The amortized cost and fair value of available-for-sale and held-to-maturity investment securities as of September 30, 2024, by contractual maturity, were as follows (in thousands). Investment securities not due at a single maturity date are shown separately.
Available-for-Sale
Held-to-Maturity
Fair Value
Due within one year
445
438
Due in one to five years
9,595
9,167
795
782
Due in five to ten years
38,255
34,044
724
700
Due after ten years
17,583
15,198
Investment securities with a carrying amount of approximately $151.4 million and $200.2 million at September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively, were pledged to secure public deposits, certain other deposits, a line of credit for advances from the FHLB of Atlanta, and repurchase agreements.
Management measures expected credit losses on held-to-maturity securities on a collective basis by major security type with each type sharing similar risk characteristics, and considers historical credit loss information that is adjusted for current conditions and reasonable and supportable forecasts. With regard to U.S. Treasury and residential mortgage-backed securities issued by the U.S. government, or agencies thereof, it is expected that the securities will not be settled at prices less than the amortized cost basis of the securities as such securities are backed by the full faith and credit of and/or guaranteed by the U.S. government. Accordingly, no allowance for credit losses has been recorded for these securities. With regard to securities issued by states and political subdivisions and other held-to-maturity securities, management considers (i) issuer bond ratings, (ii) historical loss rates for given bond ratings, (iii) whether issuers continue to make timely principal and interest payments under the contractual terms of the securities and (iv) internal forecasts. As of September 30, 2024, Primis did not have a material allowance for credit losses on held-to-maturity securities.
As of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, there were 156 and 134 investment securities available-for-sale, respectively, that were in an unrealized loss position. The unrealized losses related to investment securities available-for-sale as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, relate to changes in interest rates relative to when the investment securities were purchased, and do not indicate credit-related impairment. Primis performs quantitative analysis and if needed, a qualitative analysis in this determination. As a result of the Company’s analysis, none of the securities were
deemed to require an allowance for credit losses. Primis has the ability and intent to retain these securities for a period of time sufficient to recover all unrealized losses.
The following tables present information regarding investment securities available-for-sale and held-to-maturity in a continuous unrealized loss position as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023 by duration of time in a loss position (in thousands):
Less than 12 months
12 Months or More
Unrealized
value
86,188
1,565
27,479
(3,006)
29,044
8,887
15,723
(1,099)
24,610
26,954
4,129
(28)
2,519
6,648
14,581
(68)
187,142
(22,354)
201,723
Unrecognized
7,435
901
8,509
93,782
3,945
(19)
23,002
(3,714)
26,947
939
(61)
13,109
(1,891)
17,306
301
(1)
2,693
(52)
2,994
5,185
(81)
198,695
(27,655)
203,880
13
1,373
396
1,769
8,886
(807)
10,259
3. LOANS AND ALLOWANCE FOR CREDIT LOSSES
The following table summarizes the composition of our loan portfolio as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023 (in thousands):
Loans secured by real estate:
Commercial real estate - owner occupied (1)
463,848
455,397
Commercial real estate - non-owner occupied
609,743
578,600
Secured by farmland
4,356
5,044
Construction and land development
105,541
164,742
Residential 1-4 family
607,313
606,226
Multi-family residential
169,368
127,857
Home equity lines of credit
62,421
59,670
Total real estate loans
2,022,590
1,997,536
Commercial loans (2)
533,998
602,623
Paycheck Protection Program loans
1,941
2,023
Consumer loans
409,754
611,583
Total Non-PCD loans
2,968,283
3,213,765
PCD loans
5,440
5,649
Total loans held for investment
2,973,723
3,219,414
The accounting policy related to the allowance for credit losses is considered a critical policy given the level of estimation, judgment, and uncertainty in the levels of the allowance required to account for the expected losses in the loan portfolio and the material effect such estimation, judgment, and uncertainty can have on the consolidated financial results.
Consumer Program Loans
The Company has $179.7 million and $199.3 million of loans outstanding in the Consumer Program as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively, or 6% of our total gross loan portfolio as of each date. Loans in the Consumer Program are included within the Consumer Loans category disclosures in this footnote. As of September 30,
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2024, 33% of the loans were in a promotional period requiring no payment of interest on their loans with 81% of these promotional loan periods ending in the fourth quarter of 2024 through the third quarter of 2025. As of December 31, 2023, 45% of the loans were in a promotional period requiring no payment of interest on their loans with 70% of these promotional loan periods ending in the second half of 2024 through the first quarter of 2025.
Accrued Interest Receivable
Accrued interest receivable on loans totaled $22.4 million and $20.1 million at September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively, and is included in other assets in the consolidated balance sheets.
Nonaccrual and Past Due Loans
Loans are considered past due if the required principal and interest payments have not been received as of the date such payments were due. Loans are placed on nonaccrual status when, in management’s opinion, the borrower may be unable to meet payment obligations as they become due, as well as when required by regulatory provisions. In determining whether or not a borrower may be unable to meet payment obligations for each class of loans, we consider the borrower’s debt service capacity through the analysis of current financial information, if available, and/or current information with regards to our collateral position. Regulatory provisions would typically require the placement of a loan on nonaccrual status if (i) principal or interest has been in default for a period of 90 days or more unless the loan is both well secured and in the process of collection or (ii) full payment of principal and interest is not expected. Loans may be placed on nonaccrual status regardless of whether or not such loans are considered past due. When interest accrual is discontinued, all unpaid accrued interest is reversed. Interest income on nonaccrual loans is recognized only to the extent that cash payments are received in excess of principal due. A loan may be returned to accrual status when all the principal and interest amounts contractually due are brought current and future principal and interest amounts contractually due are reasonably assured, which is typically evidenced by a sustained period (at least six months) of repayment performance by the borrower.
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The following tables present the aging of the recorded investment in past due loans by class of loans held for investment as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023 (in thousands):
30 - 59
60 - 89
90
Days
Loans Not
Past Due
or More
Loans
Commercial real estate - owner occupied
45
4,021
4,066
459,782
28,440
581,303
662
675
104,866
2,424
975
1,538
4,937
602,376
Multi- family residential
99
169,269
287
67
398
752
61,669
Commercial loans
979
1,083
1,900
3,962
530,036
1,713
1,886
55
5,146
2,867
238
8,251
401,503
37,462
5,699
9,907
53,068
2,915,215
118
5,322
5,817
53,186
2,920,537
75
294
455,103
1,155
577,445
26
143
169
164,573
1,850
838
1,376
4,064
602,162
416
378
556
1,350
58,320
40
588
1,203
1,831
600,792
18
1,714
1,732
291
3,805
2,093
310
6,208
605,375
7,385
4,040
5,378
16,803
3,196,962
2,061
128
1,241
3,430
2,219
9,446
4,168
6,619
20,233
3,199,181
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The amortized cost, by class, of loans and leases on nonaccrual status as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, were as follows (in thousands):
90 Days
Less Than
Nonaccrual With
Nonaccrual
No Credit
Loss Allowance
441
4,462
653
404
403
134
1,868
805
168
2,068
135
674
912
8,193
4,897
13,090
7,348
1,334
6,231
14,424
8,682
469
688
480
23
1,437
2,813
571
1,127
576
1,779
207
634
944
3,664
4,190
7,854
6,282
4,905
9,095
7,523
There were $1.7 million of Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) loans greater than 90 days past due and still accruing as of both September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively.
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The following table presents nonaccrual loans as of September 30, 2024 by class and year of origination (in thousands):
Revolving
Converted
2022
2021
2020
Prior
To Term
4,252
263
553
2,012
561
69
1,120
383
928
649
108
53
544
314
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Total non-PCD nonaccruals
316
1,097
907
8,302
683
Total nonaccrual loans
9,636
Interest received on nonaccrual loans was $0.2 million and $0.4 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, respectively, and zero and $0.01 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, respectively.
Modifications Provided to Borrowers Experiencing Financial Difficulty
The Bank determines that a borrower may be experiencing financial difficulty if the borrower is currently delinquent on any of its debt, or if the Bank is concerned that the borrower may not be able to perform in accordance with the current terms of the loan agreement in the foreseeable future. Many aspects of the borrower’s financial situation are assessed when determining whether they are experiencing financial difficulty, particularly as it relates to commercial borrowers due to the complex nature of the loan structure, business/industry risk and borrower/guarantor structures. Concessions may include the reduction of an interest rate at a rate lower than current market rates for a new loan with similar risk, extension of the maturity date, reduction of accrued interest, or principal forgiveness. When evaluating whether a concession has been granted, the Bank also considers whether the borrower has provided additional collateral or guarantors and whether such additions adequately compensate the Bank for the restructured terms, or if the revised terms are consistent with those currently being offered to new loan customers.
The assessments of whether a borrower is experiencing financial difficulty at the time a concession has been granted is subjective in nature and management’s judgment is required when determining whether the concession results in a modification that is accounted for as a new loan or a continuation of the existing loan under U.S. GAAP.
Although each occurrence is unique to the borrower and is evaluated separately, for all portfolio segments, loans modified as a result of borrowers experiencing financial difficulty are typically modified through reductions in interest rates, reductions in payments, changing the payment terms from principal and interest to interest only, and/or extensions in term maturity.
For the three months ended September 30, 2024, two commercial loans with a total of $1.3 million in amortized cost were modified to borrowers experiencing financial difficulty, representing 0.24% of the commercial loan segment. One of these two loans, with $40 thousand in amortized cost was modified to $627 in principal payments over 83 months compared to its original $845 payments over a 60 month term. The other modification, totaling $1.2 million was modified under a
forbearance agreement, to monthly payments of $8 thousand through its June 2026 maturity. Total contractual payments, prior to this modification, for the third quarter 2024, would have been $57 thousand.
Additionally, during the three months ended September 30, 2024, the Company also modified two non-owner occupied commercial real estate loans totaling $28.8 million in amortized cost, representing 4.7% of that loan segment. One of these loans had an amortized cost balance of $28.4 million and was restructured to allow for the extension of its interest only period for an additional 24 months. Prior to this restructure total principal and interest payments received during the quarter would have been $1.6 million, but due to the restrurcture the Company only received $0.3 million in interest only payments. The other restructured loan with $404 thousand in amortized cost included an extension of interest-only payments for an additional 18 months. This loan was originally scheduled to mature in March 2024 with payment due on the entire principal balance.
One existing modification made during the nine months ended September 30, 2024, with a total $108 thousand in amortized cost and representing 0.02% of the residential 1-4 family segment, has had two 30–59 day payment delinquencies in the last three months, however the loan is current in principal payments under the modified terms as of September 30, 2024. The modification was an interest rate concession and the Company collected $4 thousand during the quarter, but if the concession was not made the Company would have collected $5 thousand. Another modification occurred during the nine months ending September 30, 2024 of one loan with $32 thousand in amortized cost representing 0.02% of the residential 1-4 family segment. This loan, which has paid as agreed during the third quarter 2024, was modified from its original 8.5% interest rate to a fixed 6% interest rate for a 5-year term. Total contractual payments, prior to modification, for the third quarter 2024 would have been $714.
The following table depicts the amortized cost basis as of September 30, 2024, of the performance of loans that have been modified to borrowers experiencing financial difficulty in the last 12 months and returned to contractual payments ($ in thousands):
Payment Status
Current
30-59 days past due
60-89 days past due
90 days or more
410
88
226
636
The allowance for credit losses incorporates an estimate of lifetime expected credit losses and is recorded on each asset upon asset origination or acquisition. The starting point for the estimate of the allowance for credit losses is historical loss information, which includes losses from modifications of receivables to borrowers experiencing financial difficulty. Because the effect of most modifications made to borrowers experiencing financial difficulty is already included in the allowance for credit losses because of the measurement methodologies used to estimate the allowance, a change to the allowance for credit losses is generally not recorded upon modification. Occasionally, the Company modifies certain loans by providing principal forgiveness. When principal forgiveness is provided, the amortized cost basis of the loan is written off against the allowance. The amount of the principal forgiveness is deemed to be uncollectible; therefore, that portion of the loan is written off, resulting in a reduction of the amortized cost basis and a corresponding adjustment to the allowance for credit losses.
If it is determined that a modified loan (or portion of a loan) has subsequently been deemed uncollectible, the loan (or a portion of the loan) is written off. At that time, the amortized cost basis of the loan is reduced by the uncollectible amount and the allowance for credit losses is adjusted by the same amount.
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Credit Quality Indicators
Through its system of internal controls, Primis evaluates and segments loan portfolio credit quality using regulatory definitions for Special Mention, Substandard and Doubtful. Special Mention loans are considered to be criticized. Substandard and Doubtful loans are considered to be classified.
Special Mention loans are loans that have a potential weakness that deserve management’s close attention. If left uncorrected, these potential weaknesses may result in deterioration of the repayment prospects for the loan or of the institution’s credit position.
Substandard loans may be inadequately protected by the current net worth and paying capacity of the obligor or of the collateral pledged if any. Loans so classified have a well-defined weakness or weaknesses that jeopardize the liquidation of the debt. They are characterized by the distinct possibility that the institution will sustain some loss if the deficiencies are not corrected.
Doubtful loans have all the weaknesses inherent in those classified as Substandard, with the added characteristic that the weaknesses make collection or liquidation in full, on the basis of currently existing facts, conditions, and values, highly questionable or improbable. Primis had no loans classified as Doubtful as of September 30, 2024 or December 31, 2023.
In monitoring credit quality trends in the context of assessing the appropriate level of the allowance for credit losses on loans, we monitor portfolio credit quality by the weighted-average risk grade of each class of loan.
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The following table presents weighted-average risk grades for all loans, by class and year of origination/renewal as of September 30, 2024 (in thousands):
Pass
27,800
56,688
80,453
61,030
15,007
200,318
3,589
8,353
453,238
Special Mention
3,968
Substandard
6,432
6,642
Doubtful
61,240
210,718
Current period gross charge offs
Weighted average risk grade
3.31
3.51
3.42
3.43
3.17
3.48
3.46
3.74
3.45
Commercial real estate - nonowner occupied
17,083
33,132
59,405
117,779
45,736
298,941
2,677
3,669
578,422
2,954
28,367
146,146
301,895
3.93
3.49
3.16
4.13
3.84
3.68
3.20
2.80
592
68
86
2,710
371
121
3,953
3,113
4.00
N/A
4.17
3.07
4.08
19,974
29,903
35,762
10,273
8,612
822
105,407
8,746
3.03
3.70
3.67
3.05
4.01
3.36
3.47
30,114
36,036
168,609
138,508
38,900
181,136
5,894
3,536
602,733
609
2,578
3,971
36,299
169,162
38,916
184,323
4,097
3.12
3.10
3.08
3.04
3.66
3.79
453
21,746
32,433
17,296
72,341
5,117
579
149,965
18,438
684
281
965
50,871
73,025
860
3.00
3.72
3.91
3.32
3.98
4.65
456
345
473
3,037
55,913
142
60,501
32
31
1,178
642
1,889
3,105
57,123
784
3.94
5.52
66,284
94,575
185,499
33,562
4,408
22,983
91,785
6,729
505,825
22,267
3,417
25,685
1,130
2,488
94,579
207,766
33,945
4,583
24,114
95,890
6,837
543
926
3.21
3.27
3.83
3.73
3.33
21
1,047
894
2.17
2.00
2.09
188,912
18,885
166,897
22,461
612
3,162
7,105
657
408,691
46
109
52
577
323
954
18,941
167,533
22,784
3,210
740
7,812
9,779
718
87
19,136
4.02
3.35
3.99
2.58
PCD
1,983
1,985
1,472
350,849
270,519
742,172
465,292
123,236
817,689
178,588
25,378
8,195
630
20,062
3.15
3.58
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The following table presents weighted-average risk grades for all loans, by class and year of origination/renewal as of December 31, 2023 (in thousands):
2019
42,262
97,259
61,316
17,914
23,675
191,674
4,054
6,503
444,657
5,368
95
5,058
5,372
61,535
23,770
202,100
3.52
3.44
3.38
3.37
3.54
3.97
19,474
65,355
119,065
42,781
37,446
282,497
1,847
5,856
574,321
1,529
2,750
4,279
44,310
285,247
1,170
3.09
3.95
3.64
2.86
3.50
361
98
3,333
607
155
4,564
3,813
3.81
4.04
3.11
32,496
41,304
72,337
512
2,478
13,912
727
163,767
14,887
3.06
3.40
3.29
3.41
37,097
163,464
148,845
40,697
56,117
148,066
3,293
2,499
600,078
1,036
511
1,547
585
160
3,328
488
4,601
165,085
40,737
56,277
151,905
2,987
572
198
770
3.25
3.62
8,105
21,404
17,738
6,925
68,238
3,360
619
126,933
637
924
68,875
906
4.63
521
487
417
48
3,012
52,923
856
58,336
111
1,131
1,223
3,087
54,165
3.01
155,238
269,011
50,804
5,683
2,370
30,240
78,984
7,104
599,434
114
1,180
1,315
212
56
1,874
51,187
5,916
2,540
31,463
80,164
1,240
1,597
2,854
2.97
3.26
3.14
1,087
936
294,825
277,640
25,695
916
89
3,661
6,998
368
610,192
831
479
1,328
294,833
278,471
26,174
3,725
2,379
7,910
621
11,866
2.59
3.55
5.81
2,842
1,295
1,512
4.66
582,826
925,077
502,061
129,125
129,606
770,751
155,215
24,753
3,554
1,638
16,694
3.28
3.22
3.59
Revolving loans that converted to term during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 were as follows (in thousands):
For the three months ended September 30, 2024
For the nine months ended September 30, 2024
1,545
369
429
322
Total loans
2,000
2,296
There were no foreclosed residential real estate property held as of both September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023. The recorded investment in consumer mortgage loans collateralized by residential real estate property that are in the process of foreclosure was $0.2 million and $0.8 million as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively.
Allowance For Credit Losses – Loans
The allowance for credit losses on loans is a contra-asset valuation account, calculated in accordance with ASC 326 that is deducted from the amortized cost basis of loans to present the net amount expected to be collected. The amount of the allowance represents management's best estimate of current expected credit losses on loans considering available information, from internal and external sources, relevant to assessing collectability over the loans' contractual terms, adjusted for expected prepayments when appropriate.
In calculating the allowance for credit losses, most loans are segmented into pools based upon similar characteristics and risk profiles. For allowance modeling purposes, our loan pools include but are not limited to (i) commercial real estate - owner occupied, (ii) commercial real estate - non-owner occupied, (iii) construction and land development, (iv) commercial, (v) agricultural loans, (vi) residential 1-4 family and (vii) consumer loans. We periodically reassess each pool to ensure the loans within the pool continue to share similar characteristics and risk profiles and to determine whether further segmentation is necessary. For each loan pool, we measure expected credit losses over the life of each loan utilizing
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a combination of inputs: (i) probability of default, (ii) probability of attrition, (iii) loss given default and (iv) exposure at default. Internal data is supplemented by, but not replaced by, peer data when required, primarily to determine the probability of default input. The various pool-specific inputs may be adjusted for current macroeconomic assumptions. Significant macroeconomic variables utilized in our allowance models include, among other things, (i) Virginia Gross Domestic Product, (ii) Virginia House Price Index, and (iii) Virginia unemployment rates.
Management qualitatively adjusts allowance model results for risk factors that are not considered within our quantitative modeling processes but are nonetheless relevant in assessing the expected credit losses within our loan pools. Qualitative factor (“Q-Factor”) adjustments are driven by key risk indicators that management tracks on a pool-by-pool basis.
In some cases, management may determine that an individual loan exhibits unique risk characteristics which differentiate the loan from other loans within our loan pools. In such cases, the loans are evaluated for expected credit losses on an individual basis and excluded from the collective evaluation.
The following tables present details of the allowance for credit losses on loans segregated by loan portfolio segment as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, calculated in accordance with ASC 326 (in thousands).
Commercial
Home
Real Estate
Construction
Equity
Owner
Non-owner
Secured by
and Land
1-4 Family
Multi-Family
Lines Of
Consumer
Occupied
Farmland
Development
Residential
Credit
Modeled expected credit losses
4,556
4,076
935
6,099
1,150
536
4,387
19,038
40,778
Q-factor and other qualitative adjustments
701
133
614
692
2,899
Specific allocations
526
2,246
600
3,797
286
7,455
5,398
7,023
1,068
6,502
1,764
5,679
22,835
51,132
3,981
5,024
745
4,559
1,144
332
4,493
20,098
40,378
274
798
29
384
379
446
1,246
3,588
581
5,990
1,672
8,243
4,255
5,822
1,129
4,938
1,590
364
6,320
26,088
52,209
No allowance for credit losses has been recognized for PPP loans as such loans are fully guaranteed by the SBA.
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Activity in the allowance for credit losses by class of loan for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023 is summarized below (in thousands):
Home Equity
Three Months Ended September 30, 2024
Allowance for credit losses:
Beginning balance
4,892
5,459
890
5,926
2,035
6,124
25,251
51,574
Provision (recovery)
475
1,564
(5)
178
(271)
191
117
5,007
(321)
Charge offs
(580)
(7,840)
(8,420)
Recoveries
467
Ending balance
Three Months Ended September 30, 2023
5,067
9,439
1,286
4,452
1,993
326
7,016
1,932
38,541
(355)
(1,923)
(110)
1,250
(230)
44
(797)
3,752
(17)
(183)
(3)
(2)
(486)
(3,844)
(4,511)
110
105
216
4,712
7,443
1,174
5,217
1,763
6,201
7,029
1,915
35,862
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2024
1,112
1,201
(10)
1,562
174
189
14,092
(1,386)
(926)
(19,136)
(20,062)
1,791
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2023
5,558
7,147
4,091
2,201
329
7,853
3,895
2,072
34,544
(846)
(309)
1,719
(438)
123
10,715
(157)
(755)
(1,776)
(7,956)
(10,675)
112
162
375
762
Generally, a commercial loan, or a portion thereof, is charged-off when it is determined, through the analysis of any available current financial information with regards to the borrower, that the borrower is incapable of servicing unsecured debt, there is little or no prospect for near term improvement and no realistic strengthening action of significance is pending or, in the case of secured debt, when it is determined, through analysis of current information with regards to our collateral position, that amounts due from the borrower are in excess of the calculated current fair value of the collateral. Losses on installment loans are recognized in accordance with regulatory guidelines. All other consumer loan losses are recognized when delinquency exceeds 120 cumulative days with the exception of the Consumer Program loans that are charged-off once they become 90 days past due.
The following table presents loans that were evaluated for expected credit losses on an individual basis and the related specific allocations, by loan portfolio segment as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023 (in thousands):
Loan
Specific
Balance
Allocations
6,300
5,404
28,771
2,024
2,695
866
923
892
290
1,934
2,930
6,002
Total non-PCD loans
44,987
7,169
18,724
6,571
50,427
24,373
The following table presents a breakdown between loans that were evaluated on an individual basis and identified as collateral dependent loans and non-collateral dependent loans, by loan portfolio segment and their collateral value as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023 (in thousands):
Non
Collateral
Dependent
Assets (1)
4,275
5,986
30,332
1,365
1,292
1,338
65
2,866
3,512
867
925
891
289
2,188
2,097
393
42,711
15,577
Collateral value
55,850
30,907
(1) loan balances are presented net of SBA guarantees
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4. DERIVATIVES
Consumer Program Derivative
The Company has a derivative instrument in connection with its agreement with a third-party that originates loans that are held on the Company’s balance sheet. The third-party provides credit support and reimbursement for lost interest under the agreement and the Company provides performance fees to the third-party on performing loans. Specifically, a portion of the originated loans are originated with a promotional period where interest accrues on the loans but is not owed to the Company unless and until the loan begins to amortize. If the borrower prepays the principal on the loan prior to the end of the promotional period the accrued interest is waived, but becomes due to the Company from the third-party under the agreement. This expected payment of waived interest to the Company along with performance fees due to the third-party comprise the value of the derivative. The fair value of the derivative instrument was an asset of $7.1 million and $10.8 million as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively. The underlying cash flows were $7.8 million and $12.4 million as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively. The Company calculates the fair value of this derivative using a discounted cash flow model using inputs that are inherently judgmental and reflect management’s best estimates of the assumptions a market participant would use to calculate the fair value. The most significant inputs and assumptions in determining the value of the derivative are noted below ($ in thousands).
Weighted
Low
High
Remaining cumulative charge-offs
54,153
57,546
n/a
Remaining cumulative promotional prepayments
34,118
62,353
42,549
Average life (years)
0.6
Discount rate
4.04%
15.39%
Average
25,661
35,334
41,085
75,086
49,716
1.0
4.63%
14.64%
Mortgage Banking Derivatives and Financial Instruments
The Company enters into IRLCs (“interest rate lock commitments”) to originate residential mortgage loans held for sale, at specified interest rates and within a specified period of time (generally between 30 and 90 days), with borrowers who have applied for a loan and have met certain credit and underwriting criteria. The IRLCs are adjusted for estimated costs to originate the loan as well as the probability that the mortgage loan will fund within the terms of the IRLC (the pullthrough rate). Estimated costs to originate include loan officer commissions and overrides. The pullthrough rate is estimated on changes in market conditions, loan stage, and actual borrower behavior using a historical analysis of IRLC closing rates. The Company obtains an analysis from a third party on a monthly basis to support the reasonableness of the pullthrough estimate.
Best efforts and mandatory forward loan sale commitments are commitments to sell individual mortgage loans using both best efforts and mandatory delivery at a fixed price to an investor at a future date. Forward loan sale commitments that are mandatory delivery are accounted for as derivatives and carried at fair value, determined as the amount that would be necessary to settle the derivative financial instrument at the balance sheet date. Forward loan sale commitments that are best efforts are not derivatives but can be and have been accounted for at fair value, determined in a similar manner to those that are mandatory delivery. Forward loan sale commitments are recorded on the balance sheet as derivative assets
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and derivative liabilities with changes in their fair values recorded in mortgage banking income in the statement of operations.
The key unobservable inputs used in determining the fair value of IRLCs are as follows as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023:
Average pullthrough rates
85.3
%
77.2
Average costs to originate
1.32
1.36
The following summarizes derivative and non-derivative financial instruments as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023:
Notional
Derivative financial instruments:
Derivative assets (1)
65,032
Derivative liabilities
(1) Pullthrough rate adjusted
Non-derivative financial instruments:
Best efforts assets
145
12,355
611
23,077
200
62,250
91
4,677
The notional amounts of mortgage loans held for sale not committed to investors was $45.3 million and $46.2 million as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively.
The Company has exposure to credit loss in the event of contractual non-performance by its trading counterparties in derivative instruments that the Company uses in its rate risk management activities. The Company manages this credit risk by selecting only counterparties that the Company believes to be financially strong, spreading the risk among multiple counterparties, by placing contractual limits on the amount of unsecured credit extended to any single counterparty and by entering into netting agreements with counterparties, as appropriate.
5. FAIR VALUE
ASC 820 establishes a fair value hierarchy which requires an entity to maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value. The standard describes three levels of inputs that may be used to measure fair value:
Level 1: Quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical assets or liabilities in active markets that the entity has the ability to access as of the measurement date
Level 2: Significant other observable inputs other than Level 1 prices such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities; quoted prices in markets that are not active; or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data
Level 3: Significant unobservable inputs that reflect a reporting entity’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability
Assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis are summarized below:
Fair Value Measurements Using
Significant
Quoted Prices in
Active Markets for
Observable
Unobservable
Total at
Identical Assets
Inputs
(Level 1)
(Level 2)
(Level 3)
Assets:
Available-for-sale securities
Loans held for sale
Consumer Program derivative
Mortgage banking financial assets
Mortgage banking derivative assets
598,794
589,965
8,829
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Interest rate swaps
547,593
536,085
11,508
Liabilities:
Mortgage banking derivative liabilities
Assets measured at fair value on a non-recurring basis are summarized below:
Collateral dependent loans
Fair Value of Financial Instruments
The carrying amount, estimated fair values and fair value hierarchy levels of financial instruments were as follows (in thousands) for the periods indicated:
Carrying
Hierarchy Level
Financial assets:
Cash and cash equivalents
Level 1
Securities available-for-sale
Level 2
Securities held-to-maturity
Stock in Federal Reserve Bank and Federal Home Loan Bank
Preferred investment in mortgage company
3,005
Level 2 and 3
2,786,734
3,068,663
Level 3
Interest rate swaps, net
Financial liabilities:
Demand deposits and NOW accounts
1,170,064
1,245,969
Money market and savings accounts
1,708,909
1,578,288
427,112
443,765
8,943
9,039
85,701
84,513
565
Carrying amount is the estimated fair value for cash and cash equivalents, loans held for sale, mortgage banking financial assets and liabilities, mortgage banking derivative assets and liabilities, Consumer Program derivative, interest rate swaps, demand deposits, savings accounts, money market accounts, FHLB advances, secured borrowings and securities sold under agreements to repurchase.
Fair value of junior subordinated debt and senior subordinated notes are based on current rates for similar financing. Carrying amount of Federal Reserve Bank and FHLB stock is a reasonable estimate of fair value as these securities are not readily marketable and are based on the ultimate recoverability of the par value. The fair value of off-balance-sheet items is not considered material. Fair value of net loans, time deposits, junior subordinated debt, and senior subordinated notes are measured using the exit-price notion. The net loans that use level 2 inputs are related to the portfolio of loans underlying our interest rate swaps as previously discussed in “Note 1 – Accounting Policies”.
6. LEASES
The Company leases certain premises under operating leases. In recognizing lease right-of-use assets and related liabilities, we account for lease and non-lease components (such as taxes, insurance, and common area maintenance costs) separately as such amounts are generally readily determinable under our lease contracts. As of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the Company had operating lease liabilities totaling $11.7 million and $11.7 million, respectively, and right-of-use assets totaling $10.5 million and $10.6 million, respectively, reflected in our condensed consolidated balance sheets related to these leases. We do not currently have any financing leases. For the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, our net operating lease costs were $0.5 million and $0.7 million, respectively, and for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, our net operating lease costs were $1.6 million and $1.9 million, respectively. These net operating lease costs are reflected in occupancy expenses on our condensed consolidated statements of income (loss) and comprehensive income (loss).
The following table presents other information related to our operating leases:
For the Nine Months Ended
September 30, 2023
Other information:
Weighted-average remaining lease term - operating leases, in years
6.6
7.2
Weighted-average discount rate - operating leases
4.0
3.9
The following table summarizes the maturity of remaining lease liabilities:
As of
Lease payments due:
489
2025
2,191
2026
2,183
2027
2,173
2028
2,104
Thereafter
Total lease payments
13,415
Less: imputed interest
(1,711)
Lease liabilities
As of September 30, 2024, the Company did not have any operating lease that has not yet commenced that will create additional lease liabilities and right-of-use assets for the Company.
7. DEBT AND OTHER BORROWINGS
Other borrowings can consist of FHLB convertible advances, FHLB of Atlanta overnight advances, FHLB advances maturing within one year, federal funds purchased, Federal Reserve Board Discount Window, secured borrowings and securities sold under agreements to repurchase (“repo”) that mature within one year, which are secured transactions with customers. The balance in repo accounts as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023 was $3.7 million and $3.0 million, respectively.
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As of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, we had pledged callable agency securities, residential government-sponsored mortgage-backed securities and collateralized mortgage obligations with a carrying value of $7.0 million and $6.8 million, respectively, to customers who require collateral for overnight repurchase agreements and deposits.
As of September 30, 2024, Primis Bank had lendable collateral value in the form of residential 1-4 family mortgages, HELOCs, commercial mortgage loans, and investment securities supporting borrowing capacity of approximately $565.9 million from the FHLB, of which the Company has used $165.0 million.
In June 2023, the Bank began participating in the Federal Reserve discount window borrowing program. As of September 30, 2024, the Bank had borrowing capacity of $752.0 million within the program and has not borrowed under the program.
In 2017, the Company assumed $10.3 million of trust preferred securities that were issued on September 17, 2003 and placed through a trust in a pooled underwriting totaling approximately $650 million. As of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, there was $10.3 million outstanding, net of approximately $0.4 million and $0.5 million of debt issuance costs as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively. As of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the interest rate payable on the trust preferred securities was 8.55% and 8.59%, respectively. As of September 30, 2024, all of the trust preferred securities qualified as Tier 1 capital.
On January 20, 2017, Primis completed the sale of $27.0 million of its fixed-to-floating rate senior Subordinated Notes due 2027. Interest is currently payable at an annual floating rate equal to three-month CME Term SOFR plus a tenor spread adjustment of 0.26% until maturity or early redemption. As of September 30, 2024, 40% of these Notes qualified as Tier 2 capital.
On August 25, 2020, Primis completed the sale of $60.0 million of its fixed-to-floating rate Subordinated Notes due 2030. Interest is payable at an initial annual fixed rate of 5.40% and after September 1, 2025, at a floating rate equal to a benchmark rate, which is expected to be Three-Month Term SOFR, plus a spread of 531 basis points. As of September 30, 2024, all of these notes qualified as Tier 2 capital.
As of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the remaining unamortized debt issuance costs related to the senior Subordinated Notes totaled $1.1 million and $1.2 million, respectively.
Secured Borrowings
The Company transferred $23.4 million in principal balance of loans to another financial institution in 2023 that were accounted for as secured borrowings and transferred another $1.1 million under the same agreement during the three months ended March 31, 2024. The balance of secured borrowings was $17.5 million and $20.4 million as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively, and the remaining amortized cost balance of the underlying loans was $17.6 million and $20.5 million, respectively. None of the loans underlying the secured borrowings were past due 30 days or greater or on nonaccrual as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023 and were all internally rated as “pass” loans as presented in our “credit quality indicators” section of “Note 3 – Loans and Allowance for Credit Losses”. The loans were included in our allowance for credit losses process and an allowance was calculated on the loans as part of their inclusion in a pool with other loans with similar credit risk characteristics. There were no charge-offs of the loans underlying the secured borrowings during the three or nine months ended September 30, 2024. The underlying loans collateralize the borrowings and cannot be sold or pledged by the Company.
8. STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION
The 2017 Equity Compensation Plan (the “2017 Plan”) has a maximum number of 750,000 shares reserved for issuance. The purpose of the 2017 Plan is to promote the success of the Company by providing greater incentives to employees, non-employee directors, consultants and advisors to associate their personal financial interests with the long-
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term financial success of the Company, including its subsidiaries, and with growth in stockholder value, consistent with the Company’s risk management practices.
A summary of stock option activity for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 follows:
Aggregate
Remaining
Intrinsic
Exercise
Contractual
Price
Term
(in thousands)
Options outstanding, beginning of period
54,800
11.49
1.7
64
Exercised
(19,000)
Options outstanding, end of period
35,800
11.73
1.2
Exercisable at end of period
There was no stock-based compensation expense associated with stock options for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023. As of September 30, 2024, we do not have any unrecognized compensation expense associated with the stock options.
A summary of time vested restricted stock awards for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 follows:
Grant-Date
Per Share
Unvested restricted stock outstanding, beginning of period
40,300
13.59
2.3
Vested
(16,800)
14.70
Forfeited
9.79
Unvested restricted stock outstanding, end of period
22,500
12.93
2.2
Stock-based compensation expense for time vested restricted stock awards totaled $0.1 million for both the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023 and $0.3 million and $0.2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively. As of September 30, 2024, unrecognized compensation expense associated with restricted stock awards was $0.2 million, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 2.2 years.
A summary of performance-based restricted stock units (the “Units”) for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 follows:
Unvested Units outstanding, beginning of period
244,710
11.77
3.1
(11,916)
12.24
(9,334)
10.67
Unvested Units outstanding, end of period
223,460
11.81
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These Units are subject to service and performance conditions. These Units vest based on the achievement of both conditions. Achievement of the performance condition will be determined at the end of the five-year performance period (the “Performance Period”) by evaluating the: 1) Company’s adjusted earnings per share compound annual growth measured for the Performance Period and 2) performance factor achieved. Payouts between performance levels will be determined based on straight line interpolation.
The Company recognized no stock-based compensation expense during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023 as a result of the probability of a portion of the Units vesting because it is not probable that these Units will vest. The potential unrecognized compensation expense associated with these Units was $4.2 million and $4.4 million as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively.
9. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Financial Instruments with Off-Balance Sheet Risk
Primis is a party to financial instruments with off-balance sheet risk in the normal course of business to meet the financing needs of its customers. These financial instruments include commitments to extend credit, standby letters of credit and guarantees of credit card accounts. These instruments involve elements of credit and funding risk in excess of the amount recognized in the consolidated balance sheets. Letters of credit are written conditional commitments issued by Primis to guarantee the performance of a customer to a third party. The credit risk involved in issuing letters of credit is essentially the same as that involved in extending loans to customers. The Company had letters of credit outstanding totaling $9.8 million and $9.6 million as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively.
Our exposure to credit loss in the event of nonperformance by the other party to the financial instruments for commitments to extend credit and letters of credit is based on the contractual amount of these instruments. We use the same credit policies in making commitments and conditional obligations as we do for on-balance sheet instruments. Unless noted otherwise, we do not require collateral or other security to support financial instruments with credit risk.
Allowance For Credit Losses - Off-Balance-Sheet Credit Exposures
The allowance for credit losses on off-balance sheet credit exposures is a liability account, calculated in accordance with ASC 326, representing expected credit losses over the contractual period for which we are exposed to credit risk resulting from a contractual obligation to extend credit. No allowance is recognized if we have the unconditional right to cancel the obligation. Off-balance sheet credit exposures primarily consist of amounts available under outstanding lines of credit and letters of credit detailed above. For the period of exposure, the estimate of expected credit losses considers both the likelihood that funding will occur and the amount expected to be funded over the estimated remaining life of the commitment or other off-balance sheet exposure. The likelihood and expected amount of funding are based on historical utilization rates. The amount of the allowance represents management's best estimate of expected credit losses on commitments expected to be funded over the contractual life of the commitment. Estimating credit losses on amounts expected to be funded uses the same methodology as described for loans in “Note 3 - Loans and Allowance for Credit Losses”, as if such commitments were funded. The allowance for credit losses on off-balance-sheet credit exposures is reflected in other liabilities in our consolidated balance sheets.
The following table details activity in the allowance for credit losses on off-balance-sheet credit exposures:
Balance as of January 1
1,579
1,416
Credit loss expense
(452)
(391)
Balance as of September 30
1,025
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Commitments
Commitments to extend credit are agreements to lend to a customer as long as there is no violation of any condition established in the contract. Commitments are made predominately for adjustable rate loans, and generally have fixed expiration dates of up to three months or other termination clauses and usually require payment of a fee. Since many of the commitments may expire without being completely drawn upon, the total commitment amounts do not necessarily represent future cash requirements. We evaluate each customer’s creditworthiness on a case-by-case basis.
We had $121.6 million of loan commitments outstanding as of September 30, 2024, all of which contractually expire within thirty years.
As of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, we had unfunded lines of credit and undisbursed construction loan funds totaling $397.7 million and $473.1 million, respectively, not all of which will ultimately be drawn. Almost all of our unfunded lines of credit and undisbursed construction loan funds are variable rate. The amount of certificate of deposit accounts maturing in less than one year was $380.6 million as of September 30, 2024, including $75.0 million of brokered CDs. Management anticipates that funding requirements for these commitments can be met in the normal course of business.
Primis also had commitments on the subscription agreements entered into for investments in non-marketable equity securities of $1.0 million and $1.6 million as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively.
10. EARNINGS PER SHARE
The following is a reconciliation of the denominators of the basic and diluted earnings per share (“EPS”) computations (amounts in thousands, except per share data):
Income
(Numerator)
(Denominator)
Basic EPS
24,696
Effect of dilutive stock options and unvested restricted stock
Diluted EPS
24,720
For the three months ended September 30, 2023
24,642
24,684
24,710
For the nine months ended September 30, 2023
24,636
The Company had 19,000 anti-dilutive options as of September 30, 2024 and 114,650 anti-dilutive options as of September 30, 2023.
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11. SEGMENT INFORMATION
The Company's management reporting process measures the performance of its operating segment based on internal operating structure, which is subject to change from time to time. As of September 30, 2024, the Company operates two reportable segments for management reporting purposes as discussed below:
Primis Bank. This segment specializes in providing financing services to businesses in various industries and deposit-related services to businesses, consumers and other customers. The primary source of revenue for this segment is net interest income from the origination of loans.
Primis Mortgage. This segment specializes in originating mortgages in a majority of the U.S. The primary source of revenue for this segment is noninterest income and the origination and sale of mortgage loans.
The following table provides financial information for the Company's reportable segments. The information provided under the caption “Primis Bank” includes operations not considered to be reportable segments and/or general operating expenses of the Company, and includes the parent company (which includes PFH) and elimination adjustments to reconcile the results of the operating segment to the consolidated financial statements prepared in conformity with GAAP.
As of and for the three months ended September 30, 2024
As of and for the nine months ended September 30, 2024
Primis Mortgage
Primis Bank
Consolidated
Consolidated Company
($ in thousands)
Interest income
1,589
55,523
4,018
155,638
Interest expense
26,434
74,127
Noninterest income
7,018
2,264
19,176
11,265
Noninterest expense
6,436
24,519
17,642
70,637
Income before income taxes
2,171
(3,332)
5,552
(2,383)
Income tax expense
519
(823)
1,330
349
1,652
(2,509)
4,222
(2,732)
110,902
3,913,445
As of and for the three months ended September 30, 2023
As of and for the nine months ended September 30, 2023
47,154
1,971
140,514
23,457
71,015
4,932
4,792
14,463
21,867
5,108
31,840
15,366
78,975
697
(5,207)
2,676
1,345
270
3,135
523
(6,552)
(459)
66,384
3,772,475
3,838,859
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ITEM 2 - MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
Management’s discussion and analysis is presented to aid the reader in understanding and evaluating the financial condition and results of operations of Primis. This discussion and analysis should be read with the condensed consolidated financial statements, the footnotes thereto, and the other financial data included in this report and in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023. Results of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 are not necessarily indicative of results that may be attained for any other period. The emphasis of this discussion will be on the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023 for the consolidated statements of income (loss) and comprehensive income (loss). For the consolidated balance sheets, the emphasis of this discussion will be the balances as of September 30, 2024 compared to December 31, 2023. This discussion and analysis contains statements that may be considered “forward-looking statements” as defined in, and subject to the protections of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. See the following section for additional information regarding forward-looking statements.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Statements and financial discussion and analysis contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q that are not statements of historical fact constitute forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are not historical facts and are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about our industry, management’s beliefs and certain assumptions made by management, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and beyond our control. Accordingly, we caution you that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks, assumptions and uncertainties that are difficult to predict. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable as of the date made, actual results may prove to be materially different from the results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. The words “believe,” “may,” “forecast,” “should,” “anticipate,” “contemplate,” “estimate,” “expect,” “project,” “predict,” “intend,” “continue,” “would,” “could,” “hope,” “might,” “assume,” “objective,” “seek,” “plan,” “strive” or similar words, or the negatives of these words, identify forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause our actual results to differ materially from the expectations of future results we express or imply in any forward-looking statements. In addition to the Risk Factors contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, as well as the Risk Factors previously disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, and the other reports we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, factors that could contribute to those differences include, but are not limited to:
Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of performance or results and should not be relied upon as representing management’s views as of any subsequent date. A forward-looking statement may include a statement of the assumptions or bases underlying the forward-looking statement. We believe we have chosen these assumptions or bases in good faith and that they are reasonable. We caution you, however, that assumptions or bases almost always vary from actual results, and the differences between assumptions or bases and actual results can be material. When considering forward-looking statements, you should refer to the risk factors and other cautionary statements in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and in our periodic and current reports filed with the SEC for specific factors that could cause our actual results to be different from those expressed or implied by our forward-looking statements. These statements speak only as of the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (or an earlier date to the extent applicable). Except as required by applicable law, we undertake no obligation to update publicly these statements in light of new information or future events.
OVERVIEW
Primis Financial Corp. (“Primis,” “we,” “us,” “our” or the “Company”) is the bank holding company for Primis Bank (“Primis Bank” or the “Bank”), a Virginia state-chartered bank which commenced operations on April 14, 2005. Primis Bank provides a range of financial services to individuals and small and medium-sized businesses. As of September 30, 2024, Primis Bank had twenty-four full-service branches in Virginia and Maryland and also provides services to customers through certain online and mobile applications. Twenty-two full-service retail branches are in Virginia and two full-service retail branches are in Maryland. The Company is headquartered in McLean, Virginia and has an administrative office in Glen Allen, Virginia and an operations center in Atlee, Virginia. Primis Mortgage Company, a residential mortgage lender headquartered in Wilmington, North Carolina, is a consolidated subsidiary of Primis Bank. PFH is a consolidated subsidiary of Primis and owns the rights to the Panacea Financial brand and its intellectual property and partners with the Bank to offer a suite of financial products and services for doctors, their practices, and ultimately the broader healthcare industry.
While Primis Bank offers a wide range of commercial banking services, it focuses on making loans secured primarily by commercial real estate and other types of secured and unsecured commercial loans to small and medium-sized businesses in a number of industries, as well as loans to individuals for a variety of purposes. Primis Bank invests in real estate-related securities, including collateralized mortgage obligations and agency mortgage backed securities. Primis Bank’s principal sources of funds for loans and investing in securities are deposits and, to a lesser extent, borrowings. Primis Bank offers a broad range of deposit products, including checking (NOW), savings, money market accounts and certificates of deposit. Primis Bank actively pursues business relationships by utilizing the business contacts of its senior management, other bank officers and its directors, thereby capitalizing on its knowledge of its local market areas.
Current Economic Environment
U.S. economic growth accelerated in 2024, with Real Gross Domestic Product growing by an annualized 1.6% in the first quarter, 3% in the second quarter and another 2.8% in the third quarter. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics, the rate of unemployment has increased from 3.7% at 2023 year end to 4.1% in in September 2024. The Federal
Reserve (the “Fed”) raised interest rates 500 bps from May of 2022 through July 2023, a pace that has not been experienced in more than 40 years. However, during the third quarter of 2024 the Fed lowered interest rates by 50 basis points, easing monetary policy for the first time in four years and bringing the target range to 4.75% to 5.00% as of September 30, 2024. Inflation, while beginning to show signs of moderating, fell to 2.4% in September 2024 but still remains higher than the Fed’s long term target rate of 2.0% and the Fed appears committed to maintaining high rates until inflation is back at their target rate. The Fed has indicated that future rate adjustments will continue to be data-dependent.
Despite the current quarter rate cut, we continue to operate in a high rate environment that is continuing to put strong margin pressure on us and all banks. The cost of deposits has increased alongside the Fed rate increases since 2022 and will continue to remain above historical low loan rates that borrowers locked-in during the years prior to the rate hikes noted above. Loan growth in the current rate environment will benefit from the continued higher rates and should assist in partially offsetting growth in deposit costs that have accumulated. Margin pressures for us, and the industry as a whole, is likely to remain until multiple future rate cuts occur.
FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
Net Income
Three-Month Comparison. Net income available to common shareholders for the three months ended September 30, 2024 totaled $1.2 million, or $0.05 basic and diluted earnings per share, compared to a net loss of $6.0 million, or $0.24 basic and diluted earnings per share for the three months ended September 30, 2023. The increase in net income during the three months ended September 30, 2024 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2023 was driven primarily by $3.7 million higher net interest income, $6.0 million lower noninterest expense, partially offset by $0.4 million lower noninterest income, and $5.9 million higher provision for credit losses on loans. The net interest income increase was
driven by higher average interest earning balances and higher yields on those balances and the decrease in noninterest expenses was driven by the goodwill impairment charge in 2023 compared to the current year. Additional details of the changes in net income will be discussed in the remaining sections of this Results of Operations section.
Nine-Month Comparison. Net income available to common shareholders for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 totaled $7.1 million, or $0.29 basic and diluted earnings per share, compared to $0.3 million, or $0.01 basic and diluted earnings per share for the nine months ended September 30, 2023. The results reflect an increase in net interest income of $5.2 million, a decrease in noninterest expense of $6.1 million and noncontrolling interests of $5.6 million offset by a decline of $5.9 million in noninterest income and higher provision of $5.2 million. Net interest margin increases were driven by higher average loan balances and yields and the increase in noncontrolling interests were related to losses attributable to other stockholders of an entity that we are required to consolidated under U.S. GAAP in which we own approximately 19%. Noninterest income declines were driven by lower Consumer Program derivative income and noninterest expense decreases also included the goodwill impairment charge in the prior year compared to the current year as discussed above for the three months ended. Additional details of the changes in net income will be discussed in the remaining sections of this Results of Operations section.
Net Interest Income
Our operating results depend primarily on our net interest income, which is the difference between interest and dividend income on interest-earning assets such as loans and investments, and interest expense on interest-bearing liabilities such as deposits and borrowings.
Three-Month Comparison. Net interest income was $28.0 million for the three months ended September 30, 2024, compared to $24.3 million for the three months ended September 30, 2023. Our net interest margin for the three months ended September 30, 2024 was 2.97%, compared to 2.70% for the three months ended September 30, 2023. Margin increased by 27 basis points as a result of growth in yield on interest earning assets outpacing the growth in rates paid on interest bearing liabilities by 24 basis points, partially offset by growth in average interest earning assets. Net interest income grew $3.7 million, driven by $9.1 million in interest income growth primarily as a result of loan growth at higher rates compared to the prior year. The higher lending rates were fueled by an increase in benchmark rates since 2022 resulting in new loans at higher rates replacing maturing and paid off loans at lower rates. The cost of interest bearing liabilities increased primarily due to benchmark interest rate increases in all deposits and growth of $78 million in average deposits and growth of $119 million in average borrowings that were utilized for funding of the average loan growth that outpaced deposit growth in the quarter.
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The following table details average balances of interest-earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities, the amount of interest earned/paid on such assets and liabilities, and the yield/rate for the periods indicated:
Average Balance Sheets and Net Interest Margin
Analysis For the Three Months Ended
Income/
Yield/
Expense
Rate
(Dollar amounts in thousands)
Assets
Interest-earning assets:
98,110
6.44
55,775
6.21
Loans, net of deferred fees (1) (2)
3,324,157
52,707
6.31
3,193,236
44,439
Investment securities
242,631
1,799
2.95
234,601
1,593
2.69
Other earning assets
83,405
4.85
93,159
4.78
Total earning assets
3,748,303
6.06
3,576,771
5.33
Allowance for credit losses
(49,966)
(37,262)
Total non-earning assets
293,681
305,300
3,992,018
3,844,809
Liabilities and stockholders' equity
Interest-bearing liabilities:
NOW and other demand accounts
748,202
4,630
2.46
806,339
4,460
2.19
859,988
7,432
850,892
6,555
866,375
8,918
4.10
703,809
6,760
425,238
4,371
4.09
460,961
3,801
2,899,803
2,822,001
Borrowings
238,994
6.22
119,797
7.02
Total interest-bearing liabilities
3,138,797
3.69
2,941,798
Noninterest-bearing liabilities:
Demand deposits
421,908
472,485
36,527
39,303
3,597,232
3,453,586
Primis common stockholders' equity
377,314
391,223
Noncontrolling interest
17,472
394,786
Interest rate spread
2.37
2.13
Net interest margin
2.70
Nine-Month Comparison. Net interest income was $78.1 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, compared to $73.0 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2023. Our net interest margin for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 was 2.85%, compared to 2.61% for the nine months ended September 30, 2023. Our interest margin increased by 24 basis points as a result of yields on interest earning assets outpacing rates on interest bearing liabilities by 18 basis points and less average assets during the year compared to the same period last year. This resulted in a $5.2 million increase in net interest income driven by a $24.3 million increase in interest income on loans in the current year compared to last year, partially offset by $11.6 million more interest costs on deposits and $9.7 million less income on other earning assets. Higher lending rates fueled by an increase in benchmark rates and the redeployment of excess cash into higher yielding assets drove interest income. The cost of interest bearing liabilities increased primarily due to increases in rates on all interest-bearing liabilities as a result of benchmark interest rate increases, partially offset by a 1% decrease in average interest-bearing liabilities. The interest on other earning assets declined alongside a decline in average other interest bearing assets as a result of our decision to sweep excess cash off balance sheet beginning at the end of second quarter of 2023. We had raised approximately $1.0 billion in interest bearing deposits in our digital platform during
the first six months of 2023 and that amount earned interest for six of the nine months ended September 30, 2023, but most of that cash was swept off of our balance sheet during the nine months ended September 30, 2024 or redeployed to other earning assets such as investment securities and loans.
Analysis For the Nine Months Ended
80,530
4,017
6.66
43,384
1,964
6.05
Loans, net of deferred fees (3) (4)
3,266,111
147,564
6.04
3,099,224
123,289
5.32
242,706
5,319
2.93
240,525
4,728
2.63
78,076
4.72
348,831
4.79
3,667,423
5.82
3,731,964
5.10
(50,929)
(35,722)
295,815
296,197
3,912,309
3,992,439
766,800
13,924
2.43
785,480
11,070
1.88
832,531
20,732
844,752
17,587
2.78
844,531
25,876
775,024
21,915
3.78
426,557
12,455
3.90
481,813
10,831
2,870,419
2,887,069
2.84
172,942
6.58
172,662
6.27
3,043,361
3,059,731
440,172
500,459
35,344
35,457
3,518,877
3,595,647
374,154
396,792
19,278
393,432
2.24
2.06
2.85
2.61
Provision for Credit Losses
The provision for credit losses is a current charge to earnings made in order to adjust the allowance for credit losses for current expected losses in the loan portfolio based on an evaluation of the loan portfolio characteristics, current economic conditions, changes in the nature and volume of lending, historical loan experience and other known internal and external factors affecting loan collectability, and assessment of reasonable and supportable forecasts of future economic conditions that would impact collectability of the loans. Our allowance for credit losses is calculated by
segmenting the loan portfolio by loan type and applying risk factors to each segment. The risk factors are determined by considering historical loss data, peer data, as well as applying management’s judgment.
The Company recorded a provision for credit losses for the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, of $7.5 million and $1.6 million, respectively. The provision included amounts calculated in our normal reserve process for the Consumer Program loans which totaled $4.0 million and $2.1 million during the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Our provision for credit losses during the three months ended September 30, 2024 was driven by provisions related to two loans evaluated individually for credit losses during the quarter and resulting in $3.1 million of specific reserves. We also had $4.0 million of provisions related to the Consumer Program loan portfolio calculated as part of our normal reserve process primarily due to credit losses on loans originated from the third quarter of 2022 through the first quarter of 2023 that have continued to show credit weaknesses.
The provisions were driven in part by net charge-offs during the periods which were $8.0 million and $4.3 million during the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively. During the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, $6.7 million and $2.1 million, respectively, of net charge-offs were related to the Consumer Program loans. These charge-offs were primarily related to loans originated from the third quarter of 2022 to the first quarter of 2023. Excluding the Consumer Program loan charge-offs we had net charge-offs of $1.3 million and $2.2 million during the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
The Company recorded a provision for credit losses for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, of $17.1 million and $11.2 million, respectively. The provision included amounts calculated in our normal reserve process for the Consumer Program loans which totaled $12.6 million and $8.2 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Our provision for credit losses related to the Consumer Program loan portfolio were primarily driven by charge-offs centered around loans originated from the third quarter of 2022 through the first quarter of 2023 as previously noted. Excluding the provision amounts related to the Consumer Program portfolio, we recorded a provision for credit losses of $4.5 million and $3.1 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively. The higher provision in the nine months ended September 30, 2024 was driven by the previously mentioned specific reserves on two loans during the quarter.
The provisions were driven in part by net charge-offs during the periods which were $18.2 million and $9.9 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively. During nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, $15.4 million and $5.4 million, respectively, of net charge-offs were related to the Consumer Program loans. These charge-offs were primarily related to loans originated from the third quarter of 2022 to the first quarter of 2023 as previously discussed. Excluding the Consumer Program loan charge-offs we had net charge-offs of $2.8 million and $4.5 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
The Financial Condition section of this MD&A provides information on our loan portfolio, past due loans, nonperforming assets and the allowance for credit losses.
Noninterest Income
The following table presents the major categories of noninterest income for the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023:
For the Three Months Ended
Change
(66)
(356)
1,881
(217)
(1,954)
(442)
Noninterest income decreased 5% to $9.3 million for the three months ended September 30, 2024, compared to $9.7 million for the three months ended September 30, 2023. The decrease in noninterest income was primarily related to $2.0 million of lower Consumer Program derivative income and $0.4 million of lower income from bank-owned life insurance, partially offset by an increase in mortgage banking income. The increase in mortgage banking income was a result of the continued growth of the mortgage business in 2024 compared to 2023. During the three months ended September 30, 2024 we realized $5.5 million on sale gains compared to $1.9 million during the three months ended September 30, 2023 as a result of higher sales volumes. The gains were partially offset by fair value losses on mortgage derivative assets and various loan sale costs driven by higher volumes. The decrease in income on bank-owned life insurance was driven by one-time death benefit gains during the prior year quarter of $0.4 million. The Consumer Program derivative income declined primarily due to fair value loss adjustments on the derivative asset of $2.8 million during the three months ended September 30, 2024 compared to fair value gains of $9 thousand during the three months ended September 30, 2023. Offsetting the fair value loss adjustments during the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023 was $2.9 million and $2.0 million, respectively, of realized gains as a result of borrowers paying off their promotional period loans before the end of the promotional period which triggers payment from the derivative counterparty of the interest accrued during the promotional period along with other income due to us under the agreement.
The following table presents the major categories of noninterest income for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023:
507
374
4,344
(11,841)
(5,889)
Noninterest income decreased 16% to $30.4 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, compared to $36.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2023. The decrease in noninterest income was primarily driven by declines in Consumer Program derivative income, partially offset by $4.3 million of higher mortgage banking income. The Consumer Program derivative income declined primarily due to fair value loss adjustments on the derivative asset of $3.7 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2024 compared to fair value gains of $11.1 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2023. The derivative asset and related gains are driven by anticipated cash payments due to us from the third-party when borrowers prepay their loans in a no-interest promotional period. During the nine months of 2023, the value of the derivative and related gains were primarily driven by $62.1 million of loans with a no-
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interest promotional period originated in the last quarter of 2022 and the first nine months of 2023. Comparatively, during the nine months of 2024 a nominal amount of no-interest promotional loans was originated and the existing ones were beginning to exit their promo period. Offsetting the fair value loss adjustments during the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and adding to the gains in 2023 was $7.1 million and $4.1 million, respectively, of realized gains as a result of borrowers paying off their promotional period loans before the end of the promotional period which triggers payment from the derivative counterparty of the interest accrued during the promotional period, along with other income due to us under the agreement.
The increase in mortgage banking income was a result of the continued growth of the mortgage business in 2024 compared to 2023. During the nine months ended September 30, 2024 we realized $12.0 million on sale gains compared to $7.0 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2023 as a result of higher sales volumes. The gains on sale were partially offset with higher sales costs due to the higher volume. The decrease in noninterest income was also partially offset by an increase in income on account maintenance and deposit fees due to higher volume of accounts and transactions in 2024 as a result of the deposit growth since 2023.
Noninterest Expense
The following table presents the major categories of noninterest expense for the three months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023:
2,955
(385)
Amortization of core deposit intangible
(218)
(275)
302
(26)
1,796
(11,150)
(206)
(5,993)
Noninterest expenses declined 16% to $31.0 million during the three months ended September 30, 2024, compared to $36.9 million during the three months ended September 30, 2023. The decline was primarily driven by the goodwill impairment of $11.2 million recognized during the three months ended September 30, 2023. The decrease was partially offset by higher salaries and benefits expenses, professional fees, and miscellaneous lending expenses in 2024. The higher salaries and benefits expense was driven by growth in the mortgage line of business and the Panacea division. The increase in professional fees was related to the SEC pre-clearance and restatement process. The higher miscellaneous lending expenses was driven by increased servicing costs paid to the third-party that services the Consumer Program loan portfolio for us.
The following table presents the major categories of noninterest expense for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 and 2023:
4,467
(683)
(652)
(510)
(199)
(60)
(132)
4,200
(2,660)
(43)
1,038
(6,062)
Noninterest expenses declined 6% to $88.3 million during the three months ended September 30, 2024, compared to $94.3 million during the three months ended September 30, 2023. Decreases in expenses were seen across almost all expense categories but the decline was primarily driven by goodwill impairment and fraud losses (recoveries). Our decline in expenses was partially offset by increases in salaries and benefits and professional fees. The fraud losses during the nine months ended September 30, 2023 was primarily related to a substantial increase in deposit account fraud, which was also seen across the industry during that time. Other notable declines in expenses were seen in occupancy expenses, Virginia franchise tax, and FDIC insurance costs. The latter two categories were a result of a decline in average deposits and capital from the prior year. The occupancy expense decline is primarily related to the nine months of 2024 not including branch costs related to our branch restructuring in fourth quarter of 2023, while the nine months ended September 30, 2023 included these costs. The partially offsetting expense increases during the nine months ended September 30, 2024 compared to 2023 in professional fees and salaries and benefits was primarily for the same reasons as discussed above for the three months ended September 30, 2024 compared to 2023.
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FINANCIAL CONDITION
The following illustrates key balance sheet categories as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023 (in thousands):
14,123
(1,884)
39,206
(244,614)
313,451
314,027
(576)
167,801
281,980
149,032
132,948
38,873
39,766
(893)
168,331
Total equity
(530)
Total liabilities and equity
Gross loans held for investment were $3.0 billion and $3.2 billion as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively. As disclosed in “Note 1 - Accounting Policies” in this Form 10-Q, we entered into an agreement to sell approximately $370 million of LPF loans and the amount of those loans that were already funded as of September 30, 2024 have been reclassified to “loans held for sale, at lower of cost or market” as of September 30, 2024, which is the entire increase in that balance sheet category since year end and represents a large portion of the decrease in “net loans” since year end.
As of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, a majority of our loans were to customers located in Virginia and Maryland. We are not dependent on any single customer or group of customers whose insolvency would have a material adverse effect on our operations. Our gross loans held for investment portfolio declined 8% from year end, which was driven by the reclassified LPF loans to held for sale at September 30. When considering the LPF held for sale loans, our gross loans grew 4% in 2024. Our decline in gross loans held for investment as of September 30 was driven by decline in Consumer and Commercial loans driven by the LPF transfer and declines in the construction and land development portfolio due to paydows of loans in that portfolio. The declines were partially offset by growth in multi-family residential and non-owner and owner occupied commercial real estate. The majority of this growth was concentrated in loan growth in the Panacea division with loans that are diversified geographically and are spread across the nation.
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The composition of our loans held for investment portfolio consisted of the following as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023 (in thousands):
Percent
15.6
14.1
20.5
18.0
0.1
0.2
3.5
5.1
20.4
18.8
5.7
2.1
1.9
68.0
62.0
18.7
Paycheck protection program loans
13.8
19.0
99.8
100.0
The following table sets forth the contractual maturity ranges of our loans held for investment portfolio and the amount of those loans with fixed and floating interest rates in each maturity range as of September 30, 2024 (in thousands):
After 1 Year
After 5 Years
Through 5 Years
Through 15 Years
After 15 Years
One Year
Fixed
Floating
or Less
24,224
87,471
22,411
141,538
129,847
1,701
56,656
116,652
168,629
30,497
53,178
78,025
9,566
153,196
1,197
982
119
769
1,214
61,797
1,683
18,070
5,571
18,376
19,149
43,420
17,235
24,692
51,177
68,086
383,554
10,113
95,717
14,818
22,816
25,904
4,643
3,229
6,618
3,699
44,173
237,775
401,131
109,724
225,143
304,709
79,367
664,741
111,686
105,301
40,289
233,617
39,395
1,077
2,633
874
5,175
276,167
49,496
70,069
6,849
355,530
783,473
199,509
529,002
350,953
82,437
667,379
1,319
1,156
388
356,849
786,019
199,540
352,109
82,825
The following table sets forth the contractual maturity ranges of our Consumer Program loan portfolio as of September 30, 2024, which is only originated at fixed rates (in thousands):
One Year or Less
After One Year to Five Years
After Five Through Ten Years
After Ten Years
109,242
44,034
25,924
179,679
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The following table describes the period over which our Consumer Program loans that are currently in a no interest promotional period will exit that promotional period and begin to amortize. All of these promotional loans amortize over four years from the date they exit the promotional period if not prepaid before the end of the promotional period (in thousands):
Amount ending
No Interest
Total Interest
Promo Period in
Promo
next 12 months
next 13-24 months
as of 9/30/24
48,394
11,270
59,664
During the three months ended September 30, 2024, $13.6 million of loans paid off during the no interest promo period and $11.7 million of loans ended their no interest promo period and began to amortize. During the nine months ended September 30, 2024, $22.9 million of loans paid off during the no interest promo period and $19.2 million of loans ended their no interest promo period and began to amortize.
Asset Quality; Past Due Loans and Nonperforming Assets
The following table presents a comparison of nonperforming assets as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023 (in thousands):
Nonaccrual loans
Loans past due 90 days and accruing interest
Total nonperforming assets
16,138
10,809
SBA guaranteed amounts included in nonperforming loans
5,954
3,115
Allowance for credit losses to total loans
1.72
1.62
Allowance for credit losses to nonaccrual loans
354.48
574.06
Allowance for credit losses to nonperforming loans
316.85
483.04
Nonaccrual to total loans
0.49
0.28
Nonperforming assets excluding SBA guaranteed loans to total assets
0.25
0.20
Nonperforming assets were up during the nine months of 2024, driven by an increase in nonaccrual loans of $5.3 million to $14.4 million. The increase was driven primarily by two commercial real estate loans totalling $4.2 million, one commercial loan totalling $0.7 million, one 1-4 family junior lien secured loan totalling $0.2 million and one home equity line of credit loan totalling $0.2 million added to nonaccrual during the year. All of these additions during the year are secured by collateral and portions of the balances that remain from year end have partial SBA guarantees. Despite the increase in nonaccrual loans, our levels of nonaccruals to total loans and nonaccruals to total assets is still under 0.50% for both. We will generally place a loan on nonaccrual status when it becomes 90 days past due, with the exception of most consumer loans which are charged off at 120 days past due and Consumer Program loans which are charged off once they reach 90 days past due. Loans will also be placed on nonaccrual status in cases where we are uncertain whether the borrower can satisfy the contractual terms of the loan agreement. Cash payments received while a loan is categorized as nonaccrual will be recorded as a reduction of principal as long as doubt exists as to future collections.
We maintain appraisals on loans secured by real estate, particularly those categorized as nonperforming loans and potential problem loans. In instances where appraisals reflect reduced collateral values, we make an evaluation of the borrower’s overall financial condition to determine the need, if any, for impairment or write-down to their fair values. If foreclosure occurs, we record OREO at the lower of our recorded investment in the loan or fair value less our estimated costs to sell.
Our loan portfolio losses and delinquencies have been primarily limited by our underwriting standards and portfolio management practices. Whether losses and delinquencies in our portfolio will increase significantly depends upon the value of the real estate securing the loans and economic factors, such as the overall economy, rising or elevated interest rates, historically high or persistent inflation, and recessionary concerns.
We originate a portion of our consumer loans (the Consumer Program) using a third party that sources and subsequently manages the portfolio of loans. As of September 30, 2024, the principal balance outstanding was $179.7 million. These loans are accounted for similar to our other consumer loans and are not placed on nonaccrual because they are charged off when they become 90 days past due. The allowance on this portfolio of loans was $19.5 million as of September 30, 2024 and represented 44% of our total allowance for credit losses. Net charge-offs on this portfolio were $4.0 million and $12.6 million during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, respectively, and represented approximately 50% and 69%, respectively, of net charge-offs recorded during the periods.
The Company tightened its origination criteria in regard to this portfolio in April of 2023 and from that point forward we generally originated loans to consumer borrowers being managed by the third party with FICO scores over 720, whereas prior periods loan production included approximately 40% of loans to borrowers with weaker credit scores. This older vintage lower credit score portion of the portfolio has driven the uptick in related charge-offs during 2023 which continued into the first six months of 2024 and necessitated the update of the Company’s expected loss rates on this portfolio for purposes of determining the allowance for credit losses as discussed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for 2023. This updated loss rate has been a driver in the increase of the allowance on the portfolio. The newer production represented approximately 38% of the portfolio as of September 30, 2024 and is expected to improve the quality mix of the portfolio and result in lower realized net charge-offs and provisions for credit losses in future periods.
Investment Securities
The following table sets forth a summary of the investment securities portfolio as of the dates indicated. Available-for-sale investment securities are reported at fair value, and held-to-maturity investment securities are reported at amortized cost (in thousands).
Available-for-sale investment securities:
Held-to-maturity investment securities:
Debt investment securities that we have the positive intent and ability to hold to maturity are classified as held-to-maturity and carried at amortized cost. Investment securities classified as available-for-sale are those debt securities that may be sold in response to changes in interest rates, liquidity needs or other similar factors. Investment securities available-for-sale are carried at fair value, with unrealized gains or losses net of deferred taxes, included in accumulated other
comprehensive income (loss) in stockholders’ equity. Our portfolio of available-for-sale securities currently contains a material amount of unrealized mark-to-market adjustments due to increases in market interest rates since the original purchase of many of these securities. We intend to hold these securities until maturity or recovery of the value and do not anticipate realizing any losses on the investments.
Investment securities, available-for-sale and held-to-maturity, totaled $252.3 million as of September 30, 2024, an increase of 5.1% from $240.1 million as of December 31, 2023, primarily due to purchases of available-for-sale securities, partially offset by paydowns, maturities, and calls of the investments over the past nine months. We recognized no credit impairment charges related to credit losses on our held-to-maturity investment securities during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and an immaterial amount of credit impairment charges were taken during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023.
For additional information regarding investment securities refer to “Note 2 - Investment Securities” in this Form 10-Q.
Deposits and Other Borrowings
Deposits
The market for deposits is competitive. We offer a line of traditional deposit products that currently include noninterest-bearing and interest-bearing checking (or NOW accounts), commercial checking, money market accounts, savings accounts and certificates of deposit. We compete for deposits through our banking branches with competitive pricing, as well as nationally through advertising and online banking. We use deposits as a principal source of funding for our lending, purchasing of investment securities and for other business purposes.
The variety of deposit accounts we offer allows us to be competitive in obtaining funds and in responding to the threat of disintermediation (the flow of funds away from depository institutions such as banking institutions into direct investment vehicles such as government and corporate securities). Our ability to attract and maintain deposits, and the effect of such retention on our cost of funds, has been, and will continue to be, significantly affected by the general economy and market rates of interest.
Total deposits were $3.3 billion as of September 30, 2024, a 1% increase from December 31, 2023. The increase in deposits from year end was primarily driven by growth in money market and savings accounts due to our competitive rates on these products. Savings accounts increased 12% from $783.8 million as of December 31, 2023 to $873.8 million as of September 30, 2024. Money market accounts increased 5% from $794.5 million as of December 31, 2023 to $835.1 million as of September 30, 2024. Our deposits are diversified in type and by underlying customer and lack significant concentrations to any type of customer (i.e. commercial, consumer, government) or industry.
Uninsured deposits are defined as the portion of deposit accounts in U.S. offices that exceed the FDIC insurance limit and amounts in any other uninsured investment or deposit account that are classified as deposits and are not subject to any federal or state deposit insurance regimes. Total uninsured deposits as calculated per regulatory guidance were $820.4 million, or 25% of total deposits, as of September 30, 2024.
Other Borrowings
We use other borrowed funds to support our liquidity needs and to temporarily satisfy our funding needs from increased loan demand and for other shorter term purposes. We are a member of the FHLB and are authorized to obtain advances from the FHLB from time to time as needed. The FHLB has a credit program for members with different maturities and interest rates, which may be fixed or variable. We are required to collateralize our borrowings from the FHLB with purchases of FHLB stock and other collateral acceptable to the FHLB. As of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, total FHLB borrowings were $165.0 million and $30.0 million, respectively. As of September 30, 2024, we had $300.9 million of unused and available FHLB lines of credit. Subsequent to September 30, 2024, we repaid all of our outstanding
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FHLB advances of $165.0 million with excess liquidity from the LPF loan sale. This increased our available FHLB lines of credit by a similar amount following repayment.
Other borrowings can consist of federal funds purchased, secured borrowings due to failed loan sales, and securities sold under agreements to repurchase (“repo”) that mature within one year, which are secured transactions with customers. The balance in repo accounts at both September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023 was $3.7 million and $3.0 million, respectively.
We had secured borrowings of $17.5 million and $20.4 million as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively, related to loan transfers to other financial institutions during 2023 and the first nine months of 2024 that did not meet the criteria to be treated as a sale under relevant accounting guidance. These borrowings reflect the cash received for transferring the loans to the other financial institution and any unamortized sale premium and are secured by approximately the same amount of loans held for investment that are recorded in our balance sheet. We retained the servicing of the loans that were transferred and accordingly receive principal and interest from the borrower as contractually required and transfer the interest to the other financial institution net of our contractually agreed upon servicing fee. The loans transferred have an average maturity of approximately ten years which will be the time over which the principal balance of the loans in our balance sheet and secured borrowings will pay down, absent borrower prepayments. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, additional advances were made to borrowers under the loans previously transferred in 2023 and were accordingly treated as additional secured borrowings as of September 30, 2024. Additionally, during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, we voluntarily repurchased $3.5 million of the loans included in the original failed loan sales from one of the other institutions which drove the decline in our balance of secured borrowers and the loans held for investment collateralizing secured borrowings. For additional information on secured borrowings refer to “Note 7 –Debt and Other Borrowings” in this Form 10-Q.
Junior Subordinated Debt and Senior Subordinated Notes
For information about junior subordinated debt and senior subordinated notes and their anticipated principal repayments refer to “Note 7 –Debt and Other Borrowings.”
Liquidity and Funds Management
The objective of our liquidity management is to ensure the ability to meet our financial obligations. These obligations include the payment of deposits on demand or at maturity, the repayment of borrowings at maturity and the ability to fund commitments and other new business opportunities. We obtain funding from a variety of sources, including customer deposit accounts, customer certificates of deposit and payments on our loans and investments. If our level of core deposits are not sufficient to fully fund our lending activities, we have access to funding from additional sources, including but not limited to borrowing from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta and institutional certificates of deposits. In addition, we maintain federal funds lines of credit with two correspondent banks, totaling $75 million, and utilize securities sold under agreements to repurchase and reverse repurchase agreement borrowings from approved securities dealers as needed. For additional information about borrowings and anticipated principal repayments refer to “Note 7 –Debt and Other Borrowings”, and “Note 9 – Commitments and Contingencies.”
We prepare a cash flow forecast on a 30, 60 and 90 day basis along with a one and two year basis. These projections incorporate expected cash flows on loans, investment securities, and deposits based on data used to prepare our interest rate risk analyses. As of September 30, 2024, Primis was not aware of any known trends, events or uncertainties that have or are reasonably likely to have a material impact on our liquidity. As of September 30, 2024, Primis has no material commitments or long-term debt for capital expenditures.
Capital Resources
Capital management consists of providing equity to support both current and future operations. Primis Financial Corp. and its subsidiary, Primis Bank, are subject to various regulatory capital requirements administered by the federal banking agencies. Failure to meet minimum capital requirements can initiate certain mandatory - and possibly additional
discretionary - actions by regulators that, if undertaken, could have a direct material effect on our financial statements. Under capital adequacy guidelines and the regulatory framework for prompt corrective action (“PCA”), we must meet specific capital guidelines that involve quantitative measures of our assets, liabilities and certain off-balance sheet items as calculated under regulatory accounting practices. The capital amounts and classification are also subject to qualitative judgments by the regulators about components, risk weightings and other factors. As of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the most recent regulatory notifications categorized the Bank as well capitalized under regulatory framework for PCA. Federal banking agencies do not provide a similar well capitalized threshold for bank holding companies.
Quantitative measures established by regulation to ensure capital adequacy require Primis to maintain minimum amounts and ratios of Total and Tier I capital (as defined in the regulations) to average assets (as defined). Management believes, as of September 30, 2024, that Primis meets all capital adequacy requirements to which it is subject.
The following table provides a comparison of the leverage and risk-weighted capital ratios of Primis Financial Corp. and Primis Bank at the periods indicated to the minimum and well-capitalized required regulatory standards:
Minimum
Required for
To Be
Actual Ratio at
Adequacy
Categorized as
Purposes
Well Capitalized (1)
Primis Financial Corp.
Leverage ratio
8.20
8.37
Common equity tier 1 capital ratio
4.50
8.23
8.96
Tier 1 risk-based capital ratio
6.00
8.51
9.25
Total risk-based capital ratio
8.00
11.68
13.44
5.00
9.73
9.80
7.00
6.50
10.38
10.88
8.50
10.50
10.00
11.63
12.12
Bank regulatory agencies have approved regulatory capital guidelines (“Basel III”) aimed at strengthening existing capital requirements for banking organizations. The Basel III Capital Rules require Primis Financial Corp. and Primis Bank to maintain (i) a minimum ratio of Common Equity Tier 1 capital to risk-weighted assets of at least 4.5%, plus a 2.5% “capital conservation buffer”, (ii) a minimum ratio of Tier 1 capital to risk-weighted assets of at least 6.0%, plus the capital conservation buffer, (iii) a minimum ratio of Total capital to risk-weighted assets of at least 8.0%, plus the capital conservation buffer and (iv) a minimum leverage ratio of 4.0%. Failure to meet minimum capital requirements may result in certain actions by regulators which could have a direct material effect on the consolidated financial statements.
Primis Financial Corp. and Primis Bank remain well-capitalized under Basel III capital requirements. Primis Bank had a capital conservation buffer of 3.63% as of September 30, 2024, which exceeded the 2.50% minimum requirement below which the regulators may impose limits on distributions.
Primis Bank’s capital position is consistent with being well-capitalized under the regulatory framework for PCA.
CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES
The critical accounting policies are discussed in MD&A in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023. Significant accounting policies and changes in accounting principles and effects of new accounting pronouncements are discussed in “Note 1 - Organization and Significant Accounting Policies” in the Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023. Disclosures regarding changes in our significant accounting policies since year end and the effects of new accounting pronouncements are included in “Note 1 - Accounting Policies” in this Form 10-Q. There
have been no changes to the significant accounting policies during the first nine months of 2024. Notwithstanding, we are providing an update to the Goodwill discussion from our Form 10-K to describe the results of our annual impairment testing performed during the quarter.
As discussed in our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, we are required to test goodwill for impairment at least annually and that test is performed as of September 30 of each year. Our goodwill is allocated to our two reporting units, Primis Bank and Primis Mortgage, and as of September 30, 2024, $90.7 million of goodwill is allocated to the Primis Bank reporting unit and $2.7 million is allocated to the Primis Mortgage reporting unit. As of September 30, 2024, we elected to forgo a qualitative assessment allowed under U.S. GAAP and performed a quantitative assessment to test goodwill for impairment. As part of our impairment assessment, the fair value of each reporting unit was estimated using a combination of a market and income approach. The income approach is a valuation technique under which we estimate future cash flows using the financial forecast from the perspective of an unrelated market participant and a terminal value was then applied to the projected cash flow stream. Future estimated cash flows were discounted to their present value to calculate the estimated fair value. The market valuation approach evaluated transactions of comparable banks and considered market pricing ratios of public bank peers. As of September 30, 2024, the estimated fair value significantly exceeded the carrying value of the Primis Mortgage reporting unit and no goodwill impairment was required.
As of September 30, 2024, the estimated fair value of the Primis Bank reporting unit was 111% of the carrying value of the reporting unit, and no goodwill impairment was required. Fair value determinations utilized in the quantitative goodwill impairment test for the Primis Bank reporting unit required considerable judgment and is sensitive to changes in underlying assumptions, estimates, and market factors. Estimating the fair value of the reporting unit requires us to make assumptions and estimates regarding future plans, as well as industry, economic, and regulatory conditions. These assumptions and estimates at September 30 included estimated future annual interest income and interest expense, lending and deposit interest rates, Fed borrowing rates, discount rates, growth rates of the bank and its loan and deposit portfolio, credit losses on the loan portfolio, and other market factors. We also make assumptions in certain testing methodologies about the composition of our peers and market acquisition transactions related to banks that we believe are similar to us. If current expectations of future growth rates, interest rates, provision for credit losses, and margins are not met, if market factors outside of our control, such as discount rates, Fed borrowing rates, or inflation, change, or if management’s expectations or plans otherwise change, including updates to long-term operating plans, then the fair value of the reporting unit may decline below its carrying value and result in goodwill impairment in the future.
ITEM 3 – QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
We are engaged primarily in the business of investing funds obtained from deposits and borrowings into interest-earning loans and investments. Consequently, our earnings depend to a significant extent on our net interest income, which is the difference between the interest income on loans and other investments and the interest expense on deposits and borrowings. To the extent that our interest-bearing liabilities do not reprice or mature at the same time as our interest-earning assets, we are subject to interest rate risk and corresponding fluctuations in net interest income. Our Asset-Liability Committee (“ALCO”) meets regularly and is responsible for reviewing our interest rate sensitivity position and establishing policies to monitor and limit exposure to interest rate risk. The policies established by the ALCO are reviewed and approved by our Board of Directors. We have employed asset/liability management policies that seek to manage our net interest income, without having to incur unacceptable levels of credit or investment risk.
We use simulation modeling to manage our interest rate risk, and review quarterly interest sensitivity. This approach uses a model which generates estimates of the change in our economic value of equity (“EVE”) over a range of interest rate scenarios. EVE is the present value of expected cash flows from assets, liabilities and off-balance sheet contracts using assumptions including estimated loan prepayment rates, reinvestment rates and deposit decay rates.
The following tables are based on an analysis of our interest rate risk as measured by the estimated change in EVE resulting from instantaneous and sustained parallel shifts in the yield curve (plus 400 basis points or minus 100 basis points, measured in 100 basis point increments) as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023. All changes are within our Asset/Liability Risk Management Policy guidelines.
Sensitivity of EVE
As of September 30, 2024
EVE
EVE as a % of
Change in Interest Rates
$ Change
% Change
in Basis Points (Rate Shock)
From Base
Book Value
Up 400
290,085
(116,209)
(28.60)
7.21
73.06
Up 300
315,683
(90,611)
(22.30)
7.84
79.50
Up 200
340,802
(65,492)
(16.12)
8.47
85.83
Up 100
381,722
(24,572)
(6.05)
9.49
96.14
Base
406,294
10.10
102.32
Down 100
417,311
11,017
2.71
10.37
105.10
Down 200
409,703
3,409
0.84
10.18
103.18
Down 300
393,244
(13,050)
(3.21)
9.77
99.04
Down 400
366,629
(39,665)
(9.76)
9.11
92.34
As of December 31, 2023
428,175
(54,019)
(11.20)
11.10
107.69
438,298
(43,896)
(9.10)
11.37
110.24
447,711
(34,483)
(7.15)
11.61
112.61
471,457
(10,737)
(2.23)
12.22
118.58
482,194
12.50
121.28
486,399
4,205
0.87
12.61
122.34
477,430
(4,764)
(0.99)
12.38
120.08
456,987
(25,207)
(5.23)
11.85
114.94
417,079
(65,115)
(13.50)
10.81
104.90
Our interest rate sensitivity is also monitored by management through the use of a model that generates estimates of the change in the net interest income (“NII”) over a range of interest rate scenarios. NII depends upon the relative amounts of interest-earning assets and interest-bearing liabilities and the interest rates earned or paid on them. In this regard, the model assumes that the composition of our interest sensitive assets and liabilities existing as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023 remains constant over the period being measured and also assumes that a particular change in interest rates is reflected uniformly across the yield curve regardless of the duration to maturity or repricing of specific assets and liabilities. All changes are within our ALM Policy guidelines as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023.
Sensitivity of NII
Adjusted NII
97,718
(12,832)
100,559
(9,991)
103,361
(7,189)
107,472
(3,078)
110,550
112,571
2,021
112,928
2,378
112,879
2,329
113,139
2,589
58
98,539
(16,112)
101,939
(12,712)
105,326
(9,325)
110,513
(4,138)
114,651
117,230
2,579
118,099
3,448
118,114
3,463
4,414
Certain shortcomings are inherent in the methodology used in the above interest rate risk measurements. Modeling changes in EVE and NII sensitivity requires the making of certain assumptions that may or may not reflect the manner in which actual yields and costs respond to changes in market interest rates. Accordingly, although the EVE tables and NII tables provide an indication of our interest rate risk exposure at a particular point in time, such measurements are not intended to, and do not, provide a precise forecast of the effect of changes in market interest rates on our net worth and NII. Sensitivity of EVE and NII are modeled using different assumptions and approaches.
ITEM 4 – CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
(a) Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures. Disclosure controls and procedures are our controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file or submit under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
As of the end of the period covered by this quarterly report on Form 10-Q, under the supervision and with the participation of management, including our Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”), we have evaluated the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d -15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) utilizing the framework established in “Internal Control – Integrated Framework (2013)” issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Based upon that evaluation, our CEO and CFO have concluded that these controls and procedures are not effective as of the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. This conclusion was reached as a result of the continued remediation of previously identified material weaknesses in its internal controls over financial reporting as further described in Item 9A in the 2023 Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Notwithstanding the material weaknesses that have not been fully remediated, the Company’s management, including the CEO and CFO, has concluded that the condensed consolidated financial statements, included in this Form 10-Q, as of and for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, fairly present, in all material respects, the Company's financial condition, results of operations and cash-flows for the periods presented in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles for interim financial statements.
(b) Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting. There were no changes in our internal controls over financial reporting that occurred during the nine months ended September 30, 2024 that materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal controls over financial reporting. During the nine months ended September 30, 2024, the Company continued to remediate the material weaknesses in its internal control over financial reporting as previously identified and disclosed in Item 9A. in the 2023 Annual Report on Form 10-K. While management believes it has put effective controls in place to remediate the previously identified material weaknesses, the controls have not been operating for a sufficient amount of time to conclude that the material weakness has been fully remediated. The
Company will continue to operate and test the new controls until it believes they have been operating effectively for a sufficient amount of time. The Company anticipates the material weaknesses to be fully remediated as soon as possible.
ITEM 1 – LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Primis and Primis Bank are from time to time a party, as both plaintiff and defendant, to various claims and proceedings arising in the ordinary course of the Bank’s business, including administrative and/or legal proceedings that may include employment-related claims, as well as claims of lender liability, breach of contract, and other similar lending-related claims. While the ultimate resolution of these matters cannot be determined at this time, the Bank’s management presently believes that such matters, individually and in the aggregate, will not have a material adverse effect on the Bank’s financial condition or results of operations. There are no proceedings pending, or to management’s knowledge, threatened, that represent a significant risk against Primis or Primis Bank as of September 30, 2024.
ITEM 1A – RISK FACTORS
In addition to the other information set forth in this Report, in evaluating an investment in the Company’s securities, investors should consider carefully, among other things, the risk factors previously disclosed in Part I, Item 1A of our 2023 Form 10-K, which could materially affect the Company's business, financial position, results of operations, cash flows, or future results. Please be aware that these risks may change over time and other risks may prove to be important in the future. New risks may emerge at any time, and we cannot predict such risks or estimate the extent to which they may affect our business, financial condition or results of operations, or the trading price of our securities.
There are no material changes during the period covered by this Report to the risk factors previously disclosed in our 2023 Form 10-K.
ITEM 2 – UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES, USE OF PROCEEDS, AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES
Not applicable.
ITEM 3 – DEFAULTS UPON SENIOR SECURITIES
ITEM 4 – MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES
ITEM 5 – OTHER INFORMATION
Pursuant to Item 408(a) of Regulation S-K, none of the Company's directors or executive officers adopted, terminated or modified a Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement or a non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024.
ITEM 6 - EXHIBITS
(a) Exhibits.
Exhibit No.
Description
Articles of Incorporation (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to Primis Financial Corp.’s (formerly Southern National’s) Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Registration No. 333-136285) filed August 4, 2006)
3.2
Certificate of Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation dated January 31, 2005 (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to Primis Financial Corp.’s (formerly Southern National’s) Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Registration No. 333-136285) filed on August 4, 2006)
3.3
Certificate of Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation dated April 13, 2006 (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.3 to Primis Financial Corp.’s (formerly Southern National’s) Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Registration No. 333-136285) filed on August 4, 2006)
3.4
Articles of Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation dated June 30, 2021 (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to Primis Financial Corp.’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on June 30, 2021)
Amended and Restated Bylaws (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to Primis Financial Corp.’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on June 30, 2021)
31.1*
Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
31.2*
Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
32.1**
Certification of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
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The following materials from Primis Financial Corp. Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2024, formatted in Inline XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language), filed herewith: (i) Consolidated Balance Sheets (unaudited), (ii) Consolidated Statements of Income (Loss) and Comprehensive Income (Loss) (unaudited), (iii) Consolidated Statement of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity (unaudited), (iv) Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (unaudited), and (v) Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (unaudited).
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The cover Page Interactive Data File (the cover page XBRL tags are embedded in the Inline XBRL document).
+ Management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement
* Filed with this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q
** Furnished with this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q
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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.
(Registrant)
December 11, 2024
/s/ Dennis J. Zember, Jr.
(Date)
Dennis J. Zember, Jr.
President and Chief Executive Officer
/s/ Matthew Switzer
Matthew Switzer
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer