Stockholders’ equity totaled $98.6 million, or $10.55 per share, at March 31, 2021 and $97.4 million, or $10.47 per share, at December 31, 2020. The increase in stockholders’ equity for the three months ended March 31, 2021 was due primarily to recognizing earnings partially offset by a change in accumulated other comprehensive income. Tangible stockholders’ equity per common share increased to $10.36 at March 31, 2021, compared to $9.87 at March 31, 2020.
ASSET QUALITY REVIEW
Nonperforming assets were $13.2 million, or 1.20% of loans, net, and foreclosed assets at March 31, 2021, $12.0 million or 1.05% at December 31, 2020, and $5.7 million or 0.65% at March 31, 2020. Nonaccrual loan growth of $1.4 million caused primarily by one commercial relationship was responsible for the increase in the first quarter of 2021. Accruing troubled debt restructured (“TDR”) loans totaled $9.9 million at March 31, 2021 and was due primarily to one commercial real estate relationship. Adjusting for accruing restructured loans, nonperforming assets were $3.2 million, or 0.29% of loans, net and foreclosed assets at March 31, 2021, and $2.0 million, or 0.18%, at December 31, 2020. The allowance for loan losses balance equaled $12.1 million, or 1.11%, of loans, net, and 1.38% excluding 100% SBA guaranteed PPP loan balances outstanding, at March 31, 2021, compared to $12.2 million, or 1.07%, of loans, net, and 1.37% excluding 100% SBA guaranteed PPP loan balances outstanding at December 31, 2020. The coverage ratio, the allowance for loan losses as a percentage of nonperforming assets, was 92.3% at March 31, 2021 and 102.0% at December 31, 2020. Excluding accruing restructured loans, the coverage ratio was 378.0% at March 31, 2021. Loans charged-off, net of recoveries, for the three months ended March 31, 2021 equaled $60 thousand compared to $1.1 million 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, Dauphin, Huntingdon, Lebanon, Lehigh, Lycoming, Perry, Schuylkill and Somerset Counties through 25 community banking offices and three limited purpose offices. Each full-service community banking 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. Beginning with the first quarter of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have an adverse impact on the Company, its customers and the communities it serves. Given its ongoing and dynamic nature, it is difficult to predict the full impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the Company’s business. The extent of such impact will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain, including when the coronavirus can be controlled and abated and when and how the economy may be back to normal. As the result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the related adverse local and national economic