Stockholders’ equity totaled $94.5 million, or $10.20 per share, at June 30, 2020, $118.1 million, or $12.81 per share, at December 31, 2019, and $115.7 million, or $12.62 per share, at June 30, 2019. The decrease in stockholders’ equity in the six months ended June 30, 2020 was due primarily to the goodwill impairment charge taken at the end of the second quarter of 2020. Tangible stockholders’ equity per common share increased to $9.94 at June 30, 2020, compared to $9.58 at June 30, 2019.
ASSET QUALITY REVIEW
Nonperforming assets were $13.4 million, or 1.15% of loans, net, and foreclosed assets at June 30, 2020, $5.7 million or 0.65% at March 31, 2020, and $5.1 million or 0.60% at December 31, 2019. Troubled debt restructured (“TDR”) loans increased $7.0 million in the second quarter of 2020. In March 2020, a joint statement was issued by federal and state regulatory agencies to clarify that short-term loan modifications are not TDRs if made on a good-faith basis in response to COVID-19 to borrowers who were current prior to the implementation of our deferral programs. The Company reevaluates these credits granted deferrals under this guidance each quarter under its existing TDR framework, and where such a loan modification would result in a concession to a borrower experiencing financial difficulty, the loan will be accounted for as a TDR. Adjusting for accruing restructured loans, nonperforming assets were $3.8 million, or 0.32% of loans, net and foreclosed assets at June 30, 2020, and $2.4 million, or 0.28%, at December 31, 2019. The allowance for loan losses equaled $9.7 million, or 0.84%, of loans, net, at June 30, 2020, compared to $7.5 million, or 0.88%, at December 31, 2019. The coverage ratio, the allowance for loan losses as a percentage of nonperforming assets, was 72.8% at June 30, 2020 and 148.0% at December 31, 2019. Excluding accruing restructured loans, the coverage ratio would be 257.1% at June 30, 2020. Loans charged-off, net of recoveries, for the six months ended June 30, 2020, equaled $1.6 million compared to $547 thousand for the same period last year.
Riverview Financial Corporation is the parent company of Riverview Bank. An independent community bank, Riverview Bank serves the Pennsylvania market areas of Berks, Blair, Bucks, Centre, Clearfield, Cumberland, Dauphin, Huntingdon, Lebanon, Lehigh, Lycoming, Perry, Schuylkill and Somerset Counties through 27 community banking offices and 3 limited purpose offices. Each office, interdependent with the community, offers a comprehensive array of financial products and services to individuals, businesses, not-for-profit organizations and government entities. Riverview’s business philosophy includes offering direct access to senior management and other officers and providing friendly, informed and courteous service, local and timely decision making, flexible and reasonable operating procedures and consistently applied credit policies. The Company’s common stock trades on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol “RIVE”. The Investor Relations site can be accessed at https://www.riverviewbankpa.com/.
SOURCE: Riverview Financial Corporation
Contact: Scott A. Seasock, CFO at 717.827.4039 or sseasock@riverviewbankpa.com
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Riverview cautions you that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those currently anticipated in any forward-looking statement. Such factors include, but are not limited to: prevailing economic and political conditions, particularly in our market area; credit risk associated with our lending activities; changes in interest rates, loan demand, real estate values and competition; changes in accounting principles, policies, and guidelines; changes in any applicable law, rule, regulation or practice with respect to tax or legal issues; and other economic, competitive, governmental, regulatory and technological factors affecting Riverview’s operations, pricing, products and services and other factors that may be described in Riverview’s Annual Reports on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time. Most recently in December 2019, a novel strain of coronavirus surfaced in Wuhan, China, and spread around the world, with resulting business and social disruption. The coronavirus was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization on January 30, 2020. The risk factors associated with this event could have a material adverse effect on significant estimates, operations and business results of Riverview. Significant estimates as disclosed in Riverview’s Forms 10-K and 10-Q include allowance for loan losses, fair value of financial instruments, the valuation of real estate acquired in connection with foreclosures or in satisfaction of loan, determination of other-than-temporary impairment losses on securities, impairment of goodwill and intangible assets.