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Chemical Financial Corp (CHFC)
Q1Â 2019 Earnings Call
April 24, 2019, 10:30 a.m. ET
Contents:
- Prepared Remarks
- Questions and Answers
- Call Participants
Prepared Remarks:
Operator
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Chemical Financial Corporation's First Quarter Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we'll conduct a question-and-answer session, and instructions will be given at that time. As a reminder, today's conference is being recorded.
A copy of today's earnings release can be accessed by logging on to chemicalbank.com, and selecting the Investor Information tab at the top of the website. Also included is a slide presentation on our Investor Information page with Supplemental Information that will be referenced in today's call.
With us today are David Provost, CEO and President of Chemical Financial Corporation; Thomas Shafer, Vice Chairman of Chemical Financial Corporation and CEO and President of Chemical Bank; and Dennis Klaeser, our Chief Financial Officer.
After brief comments from management, the call will be open to your questions.
Before we begin, we would like to caution listeners that this conference call may continue -- may contain forward-looking statements about Chemical, its business, strategies and prospects. Please refer the forward-looking statements disclaimer and other information on Pages 2 through 6 of the slide presentation for a description of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in forward-looking statements.
And, now, I'd like to turn the call over to David Provost.
David Provost -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Thanks, Tara; and good morning, everyone. Looking at the first quarter financial highlights, our earnings were $62.9 million, representing earnings per diluted share of $0.87. Excluding items we deemed to be significant, including the impact of the change in our fair value of loan servicing rights and merger expenses, our earnings were $73.3 million or $1.02 per diluted share for the first quarter. This compares to $75.3 million or $1.04 for the prior quarter and $68.6 million or $0.95 a year ago.
The earnings for the quarter are reflective of growth in our earning assets and strong credit matrix coupled with the active management of our expenses providing for a low efficiency ratio. We are proud of our ability to increase our deposit base in a highly competitive market by $469 million or 12% annualized in the first quarter alone. It is important to note that this level of growth includes only a small portion of the deposits that we are expected from our selection as the City of Detroit's primary banking partner. We are seeing the deposit growth from the City of Detroit partnership continuing into the second quarter. While our loan growth for the quarter was seasonally slower totaling $53 million, we believe we have a solid loan pipeline built that is anticipated to close during the second quarter. Our growth focus continues to be with new relationships in our commercial and industrial portfolio.
As you can see on Slides 22 and 23 of our deck, we have made significant progress with our previously announced Merger of Equals with TCF Financial, a transaction that we expect will create significant strategic and financial value for our shareholders. We have announced our Senior Executive Leadership for the combined company, filed our preliminary registration statement with the SEC and merger applications with our respective bank regulators and established a Joint Integration Management Office that is planning well under way across our business verticals, insurance services work streams. We expect to hold our respective special Shareholder Meetings to approve the merger in June with more details to come.
Our integration efforts involve key leaders from both organizations supported by a strong third-party consulting firm. They are meeting every week alternating between Minnesota and Michigan, I'm very impressed with the respect and camaraderie being displayed by team members at Chemical and TCF during the process. We are very pleased with our progress to-date and we believe it bodes well for the future of this Merger of Equals.
While a significant amount of focus is being placed on moving forward with our merger with TCF, I am also pleased with our core banking team's focus on continuing customer service. This level of customer focus, the finalization of our core operating systems upgrade, investments we made in our team over the past year joined with the strength that we have previously built provide us with a continued optimistic outlook and believe that we are well-positioned for growth in our high growth potential markets of Detroit, Cleveland and Grand Rapids as we focus on services and products that provide the greatest opportunity to create value.
Note on wall, we continue to make strategic market investments and make plans in regards to our pending merger and we will continue to balance our disciplined expense management philosophy with a strong focus on driving revenue growth as we continue to make progress toward our goal of being the Midwest Premier bank, providing best-in-class service to all of our customers.
With that, let me turn over to Tom to go through some of the specifics on our overall strategic plan. Tom?
Thomas Shafer -- Vice Chairman & Chief Executive Officer and President of Chemical Bank
Thanks, David. Following the successful completion of upgrading our core operating system, we are focused on enhancing our revenue growth streams and continuing to improve our customer service and satisfaction. To do this, our focus is on the extension of the foundation of our business, maintaining our strong market share and brand recognition in our historical markets while driving growth in our high potential markets of Detroit, Cleveland and Grand Rapids.
Over the last year, we have discussed the growth of our commercial capacity and talent in our growth markets and specialty finance. These are progressing as anticipated. We're also focused on improving the execution in small business and wealth management. To support this growth, I'm pleased to share that we've recently recruited Joe Chasteen to lead our Business Banking Strategy as we continue to intensify our focus on this important segment. Joe comes to us from Bank of the West in Denver, where he was Head of SBA and Small Business Banking.
We have also welcomed Jeffrey Votruba, as our Financial Advisors Program Director. Jeff comes to us from Citizens Investment Services and has a track record of building high performing teams across multiple regions and we anticipate him being a catalyst to grow our wealth management business. These are two examples of talent attraction that not only support our revenue growth plan at Chemical Bank, but we'll also benefit the new TCF.
In addition, as some of our new product offerings that we introduced following the completion of our upgraded core operating system begin to pick up momentum in tandem with our successful recruitment of some of the market's top talent to our team over the past year and has potential growth markets, we anticipate continued growth over the remainder of the year. We made strong progress over the past quarter in respect to deposit growth, specifically in our core customer deposits and have a strong positive outlook for this trend to continue throughout the remainder of 2019, as we leverage new customer traction with additional product offerings and the focused execution of our operating models.
While our overall loan growth was slower than anticipated in the quarter, we saw growth in our C&I and owner-occupied CRE loan portfolios where we continue to place our focus. The overall loan growth was impacted by a fairly high level of payoffs and paydowns in these portfolios. As always, our focus is on continuing to improve the risk characteristics of our credit portfolios and this is evidenced by our low charge-off rate and solid credit metrics.
As we look forward to the second quarter and beyond, we anticipate loan originations to pick up and we continue to expect to achieve high single digit loan growth for the full year 2019 for the most substantial growth continuing to be in our C&I and owner-occupied CRE portfolios.
As Dave touched on, our planning for the merger with TCF is fully under way. We have key leaders from both organizations leading work streams to bring the best of both organizations forward, enhancing our capacity to grow our combined core bank and the national lending platform of TCF. As you know, the Chemical team has a significant skill set in executing mergers and achieving targeted synergies. I am more confident today after initiating the integration process and the more granular analysis of each other's operation that we will not only achieve our stated cost synergies but the potential for enhanced growth opportunities across the entire new franchise is significant.
With that, let me turn it over to Dennis to go through the financial results in further detail. Dennis?
Dennis Klaeser -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Thank you, Tom; and good morning, everyone. Moving on to Slide 9, net income was $62.9 million in the first quarter of 2019 or $0.87 per diluted share. Our first quarter results were impacted by a couple of significant items. First, due to the drop of interest rates during the first quarter. We had a $7.6 million detriment to the fair value of our loan servicing rights or equivalent of $0.09 per share. We also incurred $5.4 million of merger-related expenses in the first quarter of 2019 or the equivalent of $0.06 per earnings per share. After adjusting for these significant items, our net income was $73.3 million or $1.02 per diluted share compared to $75.3 million or $1.04 per share in the fourth quarter and $68.6 million or $0.95 in the prior year first quarter.
The impact of changing the fair value of our loan servicing rights is very volatile and is driven by the fluctuating interest rates in the residential mortgage market at quarter-end. Given the mortgage rates have moved back up here in April, we estimate that the loan servicing rights value has rebounded by over $3.5 million so far in the second quarter. Our net income compared to the prior quarter benefit from continued increases in average balances and yields earned on loans and investment securities, which is more than offset by our growth in deposits and cost of funds.
As shown on Slides 10 and 11, our key profitability metrics remain strong. Excluding significant items, return on average assets was 1.36% and return on tangible shareholders' equity was 17.2% for the first quarter 2019.
As shown on Slide 12, year-over-year, the total loan portfolio has grown by $1.1 billion or 7.8% to $15.3 billion as of March 31, 2019. This growth was driven by C&I loans, which grew by over 18% year-over-year, demonstrating our strategic focus on growing our C&I lending business.
Turning to Slide 13. We had slow loan growth, as was typical in the first quarter of the year, of about $54 million. The growth in the first quarter was primarily in our residential mortgage loan portfolio, which grew by $91 million and our C&I portfolio which grew by $52 million. As Tom stated previously, we believe we have solid loan pipeline and we continue to target annualized loan growth in the high single digits for the full year 2019.
From Slide 14, you can see that our $54 million of loan growth for the quarter is result of $298 million of growth in our originated portfolio offset by $244 million of runoff in our acquired loan portfolios.
Moving on to deposits. As seen on Slide 15, we had strong overall deposit growth year-over-year of $2.1 billion or 15% with $1.7 billion of that growth in customer deposits. The first quarter of 2019 included solid deposit growth of $469 million as we have actively pursued new customer deposits, which continue to reduce our reliance on broker deposits and FHLB borrowings. As Dave previously mentioned, we only had a small amount of deposits coming from the City of Detroit during the first quarter, but we are seeing a more substantial amount of deposits begin to come in here in the month of April.
Our average cost of deposits increased to 99 basis points in the first quarter and is reflective of increases in Fed Funds and competition compared to 88 basis points in the fourth quarter and 46 basis points in the first quarter of 2018.
Looking at overall funding on Slide 16, our average cost of funds increased to 113 basis points during the first quarter compared to 103 basis points in the prior quarter and 64 basis points one year earlier, primarily driven by the rising interest rate environment and increased competition for deposits.
Turning to Slide 17. Our credit metrics remain strong. The decrease in provision for loan losses for originated loans to $2.5 million in the first quarter of 2019 compared to $9.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2018 is reflective of a decrease in originated loan growth and low loan charge-offs. The provision for loan losses of $2.1 million also included $420,000 of impairment relief identified on our acquired loan portfolios, during the first quarter of 2019, as a result of recoveries in our acquired loan portfolio.
Net loan charge-offs were just 5 basis points of average loans in the first quarter of 2019, which was a decline from an already low 8 basis points in the prior quarter and 10 basis points in the first quarter of 2018. Our ratio of non-performing loans to total loans was 58 basis points as of March 31, 2019, compared to 56 basis points at year-end.
As shown on Slide 18, net interest income declined $0.6 million to $162.8 million in the first quarter compared to the prior quarter with the decrease primarily due to the benefit from the increase in average balances and yields on loans and investment securities offset by the increases in average deposit balances and cost of funds.
The net interest margin on a tax equivalent basis was 3.42% in the first quarter compared to 3.49% in the fourth quarter with the decrease due to the same reasons as a change in net interest income. It is important to note that we continue to see improvements in our loan yields, benefiting from market interest rate shifts in addition to our focus on commercial loan portfolio. The decrease in the net interest margin was also impacted by a reduction in the benefit from accretion on purchase loans to 22 basis points in the third -- in the first quarter compared to 23 basis points in the prior quarter.
Moving on to Slide 19. Our non-interest income for the first quarter was $24.9 million compared to $32 million in the fourth quarter. The decrease in non-interest income was largely due to the fair value of our loan servicing rights, which was a detriment of $7.6 million in the first quarter compared to a detriment of $2.8 million in the prior quarter. Additionally, fee income related to our commercial lending business was very low given the low commercial loan origination volume.
You have seen on Slide 20, core operating expenses, excluding costs deemed to be significant including our merger expenses incurred in the first quarter and impairment associated with tax credits realized during the prior quarter, were $103.6 million in the first quarter compared to $102.6 million in the fourth quarter. Quarter-over-quarter, the increase was primarily due to the normal seasonal increases of payroll taxes due to the beginning of the new tax year.
We continue to focus on expense control and maintain -- and focus on maintaining a low efficiency ratio. Our adjusted efficiency ratio was 51.7% in the first quarter of 2019 compared to 50.4% in the fourth quarter of 2018 and 51.6% a year ago. Consistent with our previous guidance, our goal is to push our efficiency ratio down to the low 50% range or lower by the end of 2019.
Turning to Slide 21. We ended the quarter with tangible book value of $24.39, which represents a 30% growth in our tangible book value per share compared to one year ago. Our TCE to total assets ratio remains strong at 8.5% at March 31, 2019, and a regulatory capital ratios are strong at an estimated 10.9% for our Tier 1 -- in our Tier 1 capital ratio of 11.7%, our total risk-based capital at 11.7%.
I will now turn it back to Dave for his closing remarks.
David Provost -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Thanks, Dennis. As always, we believe the key factors that will drive our future earnings are our ability to drive revenue growth and the continuation of our disciplined expense management. We remain focused on these factors as we strive to a properly balanced risk and return and continue our efforts to close on our pending merger with TCF.
As always, we appreciate your time and interest in Chemical Financial. On that note, moderator, let's open it up to questions.
Questions and Answers:
Operator
Thank you. (Operator Instructions) We'll take our first question from Chris (technical difficulty). Please go ahead.
Christopher McGratty -- Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc. -- Analyst
Good morning. Dennis, let me start with you. The securities growth in the quarter was certainly a function of the deposit growth and it sounds like you're optimistic about the Detroit gathering its momentum in Q2. Can you help us with kind of the pace of securities growth from now until deal close and also maybe tied into expectations on the core margin? Thanks.
Dennis Klaeser -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Yeah. Our expectation for the securities portfolio is going to grow a little faster than the overall loan portfolio is going to grow. So, in other words, probably 9%, 10% growth over the course of the full year and depending on sort of the fluctuations in interest rate environment quarter-to-quarter that -- the pace may moderate or increase depending on how we see -- what we see the opportunities there. In terms of the margin, we saw, as expected, some pressure on the margin this quarter and, as I previously guided, we do expect incremental pressure over the course of the year. That pressure is probably a little higher here earlier in the year and then should abate as we get to the latter part of the year.
Christopher McGratty -- Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc. -- Analyst
Okay. With respect to fee income, you talked about some seasonally business swaps, expectations for that to kind of rebound in the coming quarter, any guidance there would be great.
Dennis Klaeser -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Yeah. We should -- there is a fair amount of seasonality impact to it, plus the -- you're correct, the swap fee income related to our commercial lending business was down substantially in the quarter. And so, we would expect that to trend back up with a strong second quarter. Additionally, if you look historically you'll always see seasonally strong wealth management income and fairly some meaningful pickup in the quarter. And then, also, we got some good momentum in our mortgage banking business and we would expect some seasonal uptick there as well. The noise caused by loan servicing rights, at least now, would be a positive impact to earnings rather than a negative impact to earnings.
Christopher McGratty -- Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc. -- Analyst
Great. And then maybe last one. Until the deal closes, how should we be thinking about the tax rate going forward?
David Provost -- President and Chief Executive Officer
We were just under 17% this quarter and I would expect it to be right around -- it's just under 18% this quarter, I would expect it to be right around that level, plus or minus, 25, 30 basis points. Later in the year, we may have a historic tax credit that's going to create a meaningful drop in the tax rate, but as we progressed through the year I'll give more guidance on that.
Christopher McGratty -- Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc. -- Analyst
Great. Thanks, guys.
Operator
Thank you. We'll take our next question.
David Long -- Raymond James Financial Inc. -- Analyst
Hey, guys, how's it going?
Dennis Klaeser -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Hi, David.
David Provost -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Hi, David. Good.
David Long -- Raymond James Financial Inc. -- Analyst
The operating expenses in the quarter, it looks like they're very well managed, can you maybe talk about the puts and takes there as we go into the second quarter? Is the core level here to $103 millions, is at the right level to think of -- think as the run rate?
Dennis Klaeser -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
There will be a little bit of upward pressure on that Dave, first of all. In the quarter, there was about $2 million of the seasonal F.I.C.A. stat, F.I.C.A. taxes and reload of 401(k)s, so there's a bit of seasonality there that pushes the expenses up. We do have salary increases spread across our staff and those go in effect beginning April 1st. And so, to some extent, there's been offset a portion of the seasonality of the F.I.C.A. taxes. In the second quarter, we would expect a bit of pickup in our marketing expenses. And so that you'll have the other normal sort of noise of expenses with quarter-to-quarter, but still I expect a modest upward pressure, very modest to slight upward pressure on overall operating expenses.
David Long -- Raymond James Financial Inc. -- Analyst
Okay. And then the second question maybe for Tom, you talked about the higher in the Denver marketplace. Is that just an individual at this point or the market leader or do you have teams in place and are you live and active in the market yet?
Thomas Shafer -- Vice Chairman & Chief Executive Officer and President of Chemical Bank
Yes. So let me be clear on that. So we recruited Joe to run Business Banking. He came from Bank of the West. He has relocated to Detroit and is operating here. He has run Business Banking across many states in his previous assignments and we look for him to help us grow that segment and be a little more disciplined in that. And that's crossed all of our marketplaces and it would be all -- across all the TCF -- the new TCF marketplaces. And so we're not in Denver independently, we are focused on our franchise as we go through the application process for merger.
David Long -- Raymond James Financial Inc. -- Analyst
Got it. Thanks for the additional color, Tom.
Operator
(Operator Instructions) We'll take our next question. Caller, please go ahead. Your line is now open.
Scott Siefers -- Sandler O'Neill & Partners -- Analyst
Hey, guys. This is Scott Siefers. Thanks for taking the question. I guess actually most of mine have been answered, but I guess Dennis, as you look at that core margin -- or assuming the margin pressure that you alluded to earlier, that's core margin pressure as opposed to just reported pressure that would come from PAAs declining over the course of the year, is that correct?
Dennis Klaeser -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Correct. There is a modest amount of purchase accounting bleed off as well, but it's pretty modest. So I think the accretable yield or the excess accretable yield contributed about $10.5 million in the first quarter and then in the second quarter we're assuming that to be right at $10 million or plus or minus a couple of hundred thousand. So we expect very modest pressure as that bleeds down -- as that portfolio overall bleeds down.
Scott Siefers -- Sandler O'Neill & Partners -- Analyst
Perfect. Okay. And then just as you think about that securities growth over the remainder of the year, which I think you indicated would be a little more rapid than loan growth, what sort of your thinking on what would cause that to ebb and flow? In other words, I guess we've been -- had that strategy going for several quarters now, is there any greater sense of urgency to do it now or could you sort of feel free to back off if you felt that the environment just wasn't compelling enough?
Dennis Klaeser -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Yeah. We would back off if the environment is not compelling. And it's, as before, adding leverage to the securities portfolio, the intention is to be interest rate risk neutral. Therefore, in effect match funding the portfolio with FHLB borrowings. And so, we're looking at the funding costs that are available to us from FHLB borrowings. And so, we're looking to build in a particular targeted spread of over 1.1%, so if the market doesn't give us that, then we back off; if the market gives us that, then we execute that strategy of growth.
Scott Siefers -- Sandler O'Neill & Partners -- Analyst
Okay. All right. That's perfect. Thank you very much.
Dennis Klaeser -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Thanks.
Operator
Thank you. We will now move on to our next question.
David Provost -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Hello, Kevin.
Kevin Reevey -- D.A. Davidson & Co. -- Analyst
Good morning. How are you?
David Provost -- President and Chief Executive Officer
I am perfect.
Kevin Reevey -- D.A. Davidson & Co. -- Analyst
So, our first question is, Dennis, you mentioned that you'd expect more muni deposits from Detroit to come in -- during the second quarter. Can you remind us how much the total of the deposit RFP is from Detroit? And how much you expect to come in in the second quarter? And then if you can give us any update on the other RFPs that are outstanding?
Dennis Klaeser -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Yeah. So when we were winning the RFP, they had approximate $500 million that were in basically transaction -- various types of transaction accounts. Part of our role to be their advisor and service provider has helped them more efficiently manage their cash. So the end result is that the average balances that we have is going to be something less than that, but it's still going to be probably in that $300 million to $400 million range of average balances when all those balances come in. But we're proactively helping the City to manage its cash position, rolling idle cash into interest bearing accounts. And so, we're providing great service to them. It's taking just a little bit longer than expected for that to roll in, just because it's a fairly big administrative task to set up these accounts and they have the various teams from the City to coordinate with our teams to get everything properly set up and transferred over and get the new procedures all setup.
Kevin Reevey -- D.A. Davidson & Co. -- Analyst
And, Dennis, do you have any other RFPs that are outstanding? I thought there was something with the State, if I recall correctly, and then Oakland and...
Dennis Klaeser -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
I'm sorry, I would say that there is -- we are actively engaging a number of municipals entities and public fund entities as we normally do. So it's not new to us. I would say that the transaction and the opportunity with City of Detroit happened to be the largest that we had dealt with, but we're dealing with other meaningful sized RFPs and relationship strategies in both that at city levels, county levels and at the state level.
Kevin Reevey -- D.A. Davidson & Co. -- Analyst
And then, lastly, did you bring on-board any more commercial lenders, I know you brought on-board Head of Business Banking, but any additional lenders either in Grand Rapids, Detroit or Cleveland?
David Provost -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Not in the last quarter.
Kevin Reevey -- D.A. Davidson & Co. -- Analyst
Okay. Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. We'll take our next question. Caller, please go ahead.
David Provost -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Hello, Terry.
Terry McEvoy -- Stephens Inc. -- Analyst
Hi, it's Terry. Hi. Good morning, guys. Dennis, since you're listed as the CFO on Slide 23 here, I want to ask you a question on just 2020 and has anything changed over the last three months based on first quarter earnings that make you feel more comfortable or less comfortable with the outlook that was discussed in the call three months ago?
Dennis Klaeser -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
I feel just as comfortable. I think we feel very bullish about the business synergy opportunities that weren't in our deck when we announced the merger. And so, we feel there is upside in the earnings over time as we exploit those opportunities to generate those business synergies. So those exporting of TCF specialties and expertise into our system and vice versa. The key hire that Tom talked about, I think, is one key example of being able to gear up our small business, Banking Business, which were already fairly effective in our market but bringing a very strong leader who is going to help us roll that business out over the broader geographic footprint after the merger is completed.
Also a big part of the exercise that we went through up to the announcement was analyzing cost saves objectives. We've taken that to a much greater level of detail and scrutiny over the last couple of months with our teams working very closely to one another, getting to our expense bases on a very granular basis. And so, in terms of the cost saves objectives, we're fully committed to delivering that $180 million plus of cost saves that we talked about.
Terry McEvoy -- Stephens Inc. -- Analyst
And then, Dennis, just in my follow up I'll stay with you. Any changes in your kind of interpretation of how CECL will impact purchase accounting accretion in 2020 and just as a -- maybe as a reminder how you're thinking about accretion under CECL?
Dennis Klaeser -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Yeah. So we've talked through this a little bit of a grey area in CECL as to how they deal with purchased portfolios and assuming the deal closes here, let's say, end of the third quarter, early fourth quarter, we'll have a credit mark on that day and we estimate that credit mark to be at the neighborhood of $108 million. With the implementation of CECL, basically that credit mark becomes, all of it becomes accretable into the earnings stream over the life of the loan portfolio and that $108 million, assuming there's no change in the credit profile is a new allowance for loan loss that's created on day one with CECL and that's an adjustment to the -- through the equity account. I believe I've talked to really all the analysts and investors very carefully about that and nothing has changed and we have not gotten any change in guidance from the FASB that the process would be any different from what I just reviewed.
Terry McEvoy -- Stephens Inc. -- Analyst
Okay. Thank you.
David Provost -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. And with no further questions in the queue, I'd like to turn the conference back over to Mr. Provost for any additional or closing remarks.
David Provost -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Okay. Thanks. We appreciate your interest in Chemical Financial. We continue to remain confident in the future. We believe we're well-positioned to achieve additional market share gains as we move forward. So. with that, thank you, and have a great day. Thanks.
Operator
That does conclude today's conference. Thank you all for your participation. You may now disconnect.
Duration: 34 minutes
Call participants:
David Provost -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Thomas Shafer -- Vice Chairman & Chief Executive Officer and President of Chemical Bank
Dennis Klaeser -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Christopher McGratty -- Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc. -- Analyst
David Long -- Raymond James Financial Inc. -- Analyst
Scott Siefers -- Sandler O'Neill & Partners -- Analyst
Kevin Reevey -- D.A. Davidson & Co. -- Analyst
Terry McEvoy -- Stephens Inc. -- Analyst
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