Company: CMTV
Filing Date: 2025-08-14
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001654954-25-009542
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Company: COMMUNITY BANCORP /VT
Filing Date: 2025-08-14
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 2
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Total interest expense decreased $140 thousand, or 2.8%, for the second quarter of 2025, and increased $444 thousand, or 4.6%, for the first six months of 2025, compared to the respective periods in 2024.  While the rate environment continues to put pressure on the Company’s funding costs, including competitive deposit pricing, the year-over-year increase of $1.7 million, or 26.7%, in interest expense on the Company’s interest bearing deposit accounts was partially offset by a decrease of $1.4 million, or 63.3% in interest expense on borrowed funds due to the decrease in the average volume of borrowed funds.  Please refer to the interest rate sensitivity discussion in the Interest Rate Risk and Asset and Liability Management section of this Management’s Discussion and Analysis for more information on the impact that the actions of the FRB’s FOMC in regulating interest rates, and changes in the yield curve, could have on our net interest income.

The credit loss expense for the second quarter of 2025 was $407,046 compared to $331,582 for the same quarter of 2024 and $732,100 for the first six months of 2025 compared to $645,161 for the same period in 2024, resulting in increases between periods of $75,464, or 22.8% and $86,939, or 13.5%, respectively.  In determining the current period credit loss expense management considers a number of factors, including loan growth and changes in balances of the loan categories within the current portfolio, changes in forecasts, historical loss rates and various qualitative factors, which management reviews and adjusts, as appropriate, in its ACL calculation to better reflect expected credit losses in the loan portfolio.  Please refer to Note 5 of the unaudited consolidated financial statements as well as the ACL and credit loss expense discussion in the Credit Risk section of this MD&A.

Consolidated net income for the second quarter of 2025 increased $1.3 million, or 48.8%, to $4.1 million compared to $2.7 million for the same quarter of 2024, and increased $2.0 million, or 36.6%, to $7.6 million for the first six months of 2025 compared to $5.6 million for the same period in 2024.  The increases in net interest income after credit