Company: UBCP
Filing Date: 2025-05-14
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001410578-25-001248
Chunk: 7

Company: UNITED BANCORP INC /OH/
Filing Date: 2025-05-14
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 2
Chunk 7
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ering focus on growing our Company through our investment in infrastructure, product development and delivery, we strongly believe that these current undertakings which are dilutive to current financial performance will provide a pathway to future growth and lead to increasingly higher performance over the course of the next twelve to twenty-four months, and help us to maintain our overall relevance for many years to come.

As we all know, the economic environment in which we are operating is posing challenges for all businesses with the present high degree of uncertainty that permeates our national and world economies as a result of the tariffs that were announced under the new administration and which are in the process of being enacted. This new trade policy coupled with a potentially slowing economic output and lingering inflation has led many of us to question the future direction of our economy and what impact it will have on the businesses that operate therein, including our Company. Even though we have dealt with changing fiscal and monetary policy over the course of the past couple of years, this new economic reality relating to trade policy has only recently been cast upon us. Thus far, our Company has responded in a positive fashion to this new economic uncertainty with which we have been confronted on both a year-over-year and linked-quarter basis. Year-over-year, as of the most recently ended quarter, the net interest income that our Company realized increased by $131,000, or 2.2%, and our net interest margin improved by fourteen (14) basis points to 3.60% from 3.46% the previous year. Even though our Company’s total assets declined during this same time period by $3.3 million, or 0.40%, to a level of $830.7 million as of March 31, 2025, we were able to improve the level of net interest income earned by both increasing our gross loans outstanding by $16.6 million, or 3.5%, and having our loan portfolio continuing to reprice in a higher-rate environment. Accordingly, our total interest income increased year-over-year during the first quarter by $221,000 or 2.3%. Even though we continue to operate in a higher than previously anticipated interest rate environment on which we benefitted on the asset-side of the balance sheet, we were able to manage the liability-side of our balance sheet by selectively pricing our retail deposit offerings to manage our liquidity needs and control our overall interest expense levels. As of March 31, 2025, our total deposits decreased by ($1.7 million), or (0.27%), and