Company: MCHB
Filing Date: 2025-05-08
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001518715-25-000083
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Company: Mechanics Bancorp
Filing Date: 2025-05-08
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 8
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 Company entered into a definitive Agreement and Plan of Merger with Mechanics Bank, whereby, subject to regulatory and certain shareholder approvals the Bank will merge with and into Mechanics Bank as a subsidiary of the Company (the “Merger”). The Company will amend its articles of incorporation to issue shares to the Mechanics shareholders in exchange for 100% of Mechanics stock such that when the Merger closes the Mechanics shareholders will own approximately 91.7% of the combined company and HomeStreet shareholders will own approximately 8.3% of the combined company. Upon the closing of the Merger the Company’s name will change to Mechanics Bancorp. The Merger is expected to close in the third quarter of 2025.

Economic and Market Conditions

The current level of interest rates continues to adversely impact our results of operations as our overall cost of funds are high in relation to the yield on our earning assets, resulting in a low net interest margin. With the decrease in short term interest rates in the latter part of 2024, our cost of funds have stabilized and started to decrease. As a result of the fourth quarter 2024 loan sale, we improved our net interest margin by selling lower yielding loans and paying off higher cost wholesale funding. Given the scheduled repricing of our multifamily and other commercial real estate loans, future anticipated reductions in borrowings, the expectation of ongoing reductions in short-term interest rates by the Federal Reserve and continued effective non-interest expense management, we anticipate growth in earnings for the foreseeable future.

Management's Overview of the First Quarter 2025 Financial Performance                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

First Quarter of 2025 Compared to the Fourth Quarter of 2024

Non-core amounts: For the first quarter non-core items include $2.1 million of merger related expenses. In the fourth quarter of 2024 non-core items include an $88.8 million loss on the sale of $990 million of multifamily loans, $53.3 million deferred tax assets valuation allowance and $3.2 million of merger related expense recoveries.

General: Our net loss and loss before income taxes were $4.5 million and $4.8 million, respectively, in the first quarter of 2025, as compared to $123.3 million and $92.5 million, respectively, in the fourth quarter of 2024. Our core net loss and core net loss before taxes, which excludes the impact of the loss on the sale of multifamily loans, the deferred tax asset valuation