First Beeville Financial Corporation Acquisition
On April 2, 2019, the Company closed its previously announced acquisition of Beeville in a cash and stock transaction (the “Beeville acquisition”). The closing consideration consisted of approximately $32.4 million in cash and 1,579,268 shares of Spirit’s common stock. Under the terms of the Agreement and Plan of Reorganization, each outstanding share of Beeville was converted into the right to receive $547.45 in cash and approximately 26.7048 shares of Spirit common stock, plus cash in lieu of any resulting fractional shares. Spirit and Beeville offices and services are expected to be integrated during the third quarter of 2019. The transaction added approximately $465.6 million in total assets, with three branches and two loan production offices in attractive markets.
Loan Portfolio and Composition
During the second quarter of 2019, gross loans grew to $1.41 billion as of June 30, 2019, an increase of 26.3% from $1.12 billion as of March 31, 2019, and an increase of 53.6% from $917.5 million as of June 30, 2018. Loan growth during the quarter was primarily driven by the $296.3 million of loans acquired in the Beeville acquisition.
Asset Quality
The provision for loan losses recorded for the second quarter of 2019 was $332 thousand. The allowance decreased to $6.3 million, or 0.45% of the $1.41 billion in loans outstanding as of June 30, 2019, primarily due to improvements in the assessed credit quality as represented by internal risk ratings. The nonperforming loans to loans held for investment ratio as of June 30, 2019 decreased to 0.40% from 0.52% as of March 31, 2019, and 0.44% at June 30, 2018. Annualized net charge-offs were 18 basis points for the second quarter of 2019.
Deposits and Borrowings
Deposits totaled $1.57 billion as of June 30, 2019, an increase of 30.6% from $1.20 billion as of March 31, 2019, and an increase of 86.0% from $844.7 million as of June 30, 2018. Noninterest-bearing demand deposits increased $109.4 million, or 42.3%, from March 31, 2019, and increased $184.3 million, or 100.4% from June 30, 2018. Noninterest-bearing demand deposits represented 23.4% of total deposits as of June 30, 2019, compared to 21.5% of total deposits as of March 31, 2019, and 21.7% of total deposits as of June 30, 2018. Deposit growth during the quarter was primarily driven by the $399.2 million obtained through the Beeville acquisition. The average cost of deposits was 1.01% for the second quarter of 2019, representing a four basis point decrease from the first quarter of 2019 and a nine basis point increase from the second quarter of 2018.
Net Interest Margin and Net Interest Income
The net interest margin for the second quarter of 2019 was 4.61%, a decrease of four basis points from the first quarter of 2019 and an increase of nine basis points from the second quarter of 2018. The tax equivalent net interest margin for the second quarter of 2019 was 4.64%, a decrease of five basis points from the first quarter of 2019 and an increase of seven basis points from the second quarter of 2018. The decrease from the first quarter of 2019 is due to the timing of selling and buying securities in conjunction with portfolio rebalancing and drawing $21 million on the line of credit with our third-party lender. The increase from the same quarter the prior year was due primarily to the impact of higher interest rates.
Net interest income totaled $19.8 million for the second quarter of 2019, an increase of 78.2% from $11.1 million for the second quarter of 2018. Interest income totaled $24.3 million for the second quarter of 2019, an increase of 80.2% from $13.5 million in the same period in 2018. Interest and fees on loans increased by $9.1 million, or 69.8%, from the second quarter of 2018 due to organic and acquired growth in the loan portfolio and the impact of an increase in interest rates. Interest expense was $4.5 million for the second quarter of 2019, an increase of 89.1% from $2.4 million for the same period in 2018. The increase from the second quarter of 2018 was due to an increase in the rate paid on interest-bearing liabilities of 13 basis points and the growth in the deposit base from the acquisition of Comanche National Corporation and its subsidiary, The Comanche National Bank (the “Comanche acquisition”), which closed on November 14, 2018, and the Beeville acquisition, which closed on April 2, 2019.
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