Triumph Bancorp Reports 2015 Net Income to Common Stockholders of $28.4 Million and Fourth Quarter Net Income to Common Stockholders of $4.3 Million

DALLAS, Feb. 03, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Triumph Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ:TBK) today announced earnings and operating results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2015.

“As we complete our first full year as a public company, our earnings and operating results demonstrate the continued execution of our strategy and we are well positioned to create additional value for our investors, team members, and customers in 2016 ,” said Aaron P. Graft, Chief Executive Officer, Triumph Bancorp, Inc. 

As part of how we measure our results, we use certain non-GAAP financial measures to ascertain performance.  These non-GAAP financial measures are reconciled in the section labeled “Metrics and Non-GAAP Financial Reconciliation” at the end of this document.

2015 Fourth Quarter and Annual Highlights

• For the fourth quarter of 2015, net income was $4.5 million and net income available to common stockholders was $4.3 million, compared to net income of $5.9 million and net income available to common stockholders of $5.7 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2015.
  
  
• Fully diluted earnings per share were $0.24 for the quarter ended December 31, 2015, compared to $0.32 for the quarter ended September 30, 2015.
  
  
• For the quarter ended December 31, 2015, our annualized return on average common equity and return on average assets were 6.63% and 1.10%, respectively, compared to an annualized return on average common equity and return on average assets of 9.00% and 1.50%, respectively, for the quarter ended September 30, 2015.  Our ratio of tangible common stockholders’ equity to tangible assets was 13.85% as of December 31, 2015.
  
  
• Net interest margin (“NIM”) was 6.20% for the quarter ended December 31, 2015.
  
  
• For the year ended December 31, 2015, net income was $29.1 million and net income available to common stockholders was $28.4 million, compared to net income of $19.8 million and net income to common stockholders of $16.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2014.  Fully diluted earnings per share were $1.57 for the year ended December 31, 2015, compared to $1.52 for the same period in 2014.  Return on average common equity was 11.44% and return on average assets was 1.89% for the year ended December 31, 2015, compared to 11.61% and 1.46%, respectively, for the year ended December 31, 2014.  Net interest margin was 6.49% for the year ended December 31, 2015.

Balance Sheet

Total loans held for investment were $1.292 billion at December 31, 2015, an increase of $286.0 million or 28.4% for our full 2015 fiscal year, and $106.6 million or 9.0% during the fourth quarter.  Our commercial finance loan portfolio totaled $521.0 million as of December 31, 2015, an increase of $145.6 million or 38.8% in 2015, and $23.2 million or 4.7% in the fourth quarter.

Total deposits were $1.249 billion at December 31, 2015, an increase of $83.7 million or 7.2% for our full 2015 fiscal year, and $48.9 million or 4.1% for the fourth quarter of 2015.  Non-interest-bearing deposits accounted for 13% of total deposits and non-time deposits accounted for 48% of total deposits. The average cost of our total funds was 0.66% for the quarter ended December 31, 2015 compared to 0.64% for the quarter ended September 30, 2015, on an annualized basis.

Net Interest Income

We earned net interest income for the quarter ended December 31, 2015 of $23.1 million compared to $23.2 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2015.  Yields on loans for the quarter ended December 31, 2015 were down 17 bps from the prior quarter to 8.17% (down 12 basis points from the prior quarter to 7.84% adjusted to exclude loan discount accretion).   NIM decreased 25 bps to 6.20% for the quarter ended December 31, 2015 from 6.45% for the quarter ended September 30, 2015. NIM adjusted to exclude loan discount accretion was 5.94% for the quarter ended December 31, 2015 compared to 6.14% for the quarter ended September 30, 2015.  We earned net interest income of $90.7 million for the full year ended December 31, 2015, compared to $80.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2014. 

Asset Quality

Non-performing assets improved 2 bps from September 30, 2015 to December 31, 2015 to 1.10% of total assets.  The ratio of past due to total loans increased to 2.41% at December 31, 2015 from 2.14% at September 30, 2015.  We experienced net charge-offs of $0.2 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2015 compared to net charge-offs of $0.1 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2015.  Our provision for loan losses was $1.2 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2015 compared to $0.2 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2015. From September 30, 2015 to December 31, 2015, our allowance for loan and lease losses (“ALLL”) increased from $11.5 million or 0.97% of total loans to $12.6 million or 0.97% of total loans.

Non-interest Income and Expense

We earned non-interest income for the quarter ended December 31, 2015 of $5.6 million compared to $6.3 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2015.  Non-interest income for the quarter ended December 31, 2015 and the quarter ended September 30, 2015 included net benefits of $0.9 million and $1.7 million, respectively, recorded to increase the bargain purchase gain realized on the acquisition of Doral Money, Inc., bringing the final overall gain on this transaction to $15.1 million.  We earned non-interest income of $33.3 million for the full year ended December 31, 2015, compared to $24.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2014. 

For the quarter ended December 31, 2015, non-interest expense totaled $20.9 million, compared to $20.5 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2015. Non-interest expense for the quarter ended December 31, 2015 included $0.7 million of costs associated with our core operating system conversion.  We incurred non-interest expense of $81.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2015, compared to $69.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2014. 

Conference Call Information

Aaron P. Graft, Vice Chairman and CEO and Bryce Fowler, CFO will review the quarterly results in a conference call for investors and analysts beginning at 8:30 a.m. Central Time on Thursday, February 4, 2016.

To participate in the live conference call, please dial 1 (855) 779-1042 (U.S. and Canada) and enter Conference ID # 26242108.  A simultaneous audio-only webcast may be accessed via our website at www.triumphbancorp.com through the Investor Relations, Webcasts and Presentations links, or through a direct link here at http://edge.media-server.com/m/p/zqu95kmd. An archive of this conference call will subsequently be available at this same location on our website.

About Triumph

Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Triumph Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ:TBK) is a financial holding company with a diversified line of community banking, commercial finance and asset management activities. www.triumphbancorp.com

Forward-Looking Statements

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While forward-looking statements reflect our good-faith beliefs, they are not guarantees of future performance. All forward-looking statements are necessarily only estimates of future results. Accordingly, actual results may differ materially from those expressed in or contemplated by the particular forward-looking statement, and, therefore, you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such statements. Further, any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made, and we undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which the statement is made or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events or circumstances, except as required by applicable law. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" and the forward-looking statement disclosure contained in Triumph’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 6, 2015.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

This press release includes certain Non‐GAAP financial measures intended to supplement, not substitute for, comparable GAAP measures. Reconciliations of non‐GAAP financial measures to GAAP financial measures are provided at the end of this press release.

The following table sets forth key metrics used by Triumph to monitor its operations. Footnotes in this table can be found in our definitions of non-GAAP financial measures at the end of this document.

Unaudited consolidated balance sheet as of:

Unaudited consolidated statement of income for the three months ended:

Loans held for investment summarized as of:

A portion of our total loan portfolio consists of commercial finance products offered on a nationwide basis, as further summarized below:

* Denotes equipment loans offered under our Triumph Commercial Finance brand, general asset based loans offered under our Triumph Commercial Finance brand and healthcare asset based loan products offered under our Triumph Healthcare Finance brand.

Deposits summarized as of:

Net interest margin summarized for the three months ended:

Metrics and non-GAAP financial reconciliation:

1)       The Company uses certain non-GAAP financial measures to provide meaningful supplemental information regarding the Company's operational performance and to enhance investors' overall understanding of such financial performance.  The non-GAAP measures used by the Company include the following:

• "Common stockholders' equity" is defined as total stockholders' equity at end of period less the liquidation preference value of the preferred stock.
  
  
• “Adjusted diluted earnings per common share” is defined as adjusted net income available to common stockholders divided by adjusted weighted average diluted common shares outstanding.  Excluded from net income available to common stockholders are material gains and expenses related to merger and acquisition-related activities, net of tax. In our judgment, the adjustments made to net income available to common stockholders allow management and investors to better assess our performance in relation to our core net income by removing the volatility associated with certain acquisition-related items and other discrete items that are unrelated to our core business.  Weighted average diluted common shares outstanding are adjusted as a result of changes in their dilutive properties given the gain and expense adjustments described herein.  
  
  
• “Adjusted average common equity” is defined as average common equity less the average contribution impact of acquisitions.
  
  
• “Adjusted average total assets” is defined as average total assets less the average contribution impact of acquisitions.
  
  
• “Adjusted return on average common equity” is defined as adjusted net income available to common stockholders divided by adjusted average common equity.
  
  
• “Adjusted return on average total assets” is defined as adjusted net income available to common stockholders divided by adjusted average total assets.
  
  
• "Net interest margin" is defined as net interest income divided by average interest-earning assets.
  
  
• "Tangible common stockholders' equity" is common stockholders' equity less goodwill and other intangible assets.
  
  
• "Total tangible assets" is defined as total assets less goodwill and other intangible assets.
  
  
• "Tangible book value per share" is defined as tangible common stockholders' equity divided by total common shares outstanding. This measure is important to investors interested in changes from period-to-period in book value per share exclusive of changes in intangible assets.
  
  
• "Tangible common stockholders' equity ratio" is defined as the ratio of tangible common stockholders' equity divided by total tangible assets. We believe that this measure is important to many investors in the marketplace who are interested in relative changes from period-to period in common equity and total assets, each exclusive of changes in intangible assets.
  
  
• "Return on Average Tangible Common Equity" is defined as net income available to common stockholders divided by average tangible common stockholders' equity.
  
  
• "Efficiency ratio" is defined as non-interest expenses divided by our operating revenue, which is equal to net interest income plus non-interest income. Also excluded are material gains and expenses related to merger and acquisition-related activities, including divestitures. In our judgment, the adjustments made to operating revenue allow management and investors to better assess our performance in relation to our core operating revenue by removing the volatility associated with certain acquisition-related items and other discrete items that are unrelated to our core business.
  
  
• "Net non-interest expense to average total assets" is defined as non-interest expenses net of non-interest income divided by total average assets. Excluded are material gains and expenses related to merger and acquisition-related activities, including divestitures.  This metric is used by our management to better assess our operating efficiency. 
  
  
• "Adjusted yield on loans" is our yield on loans after excluding loan accretion from our acquired loan portfolio.  Our management uses this metric to better assess the impact of purchase accounting on our yield on loans, as the effect of loan discount accretion is expected to decrease as the acquired loans roll off of our balance sheet.
  
  
• “Adjusted net interest margin” is net interest margin after excluding loan accretion from the acquired loan portfolio.  Our management uses this metric to better assess the impact of purchase accounting on net interest margin, as the effect of loan discount accretion is expected to decrease as the acquired loans mature or roll off of our balance sheet. 
  

2)       Adjusted to exclude material gains and expenses related to merger and acquisition-related activities, net of tax where applicable.

3)       Asset quality ratios exclude loans held for sale.

4)       Current quarter ratios are preliminary and, beginning January 1, 2015, are calculated under the requirements of Basel III.