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First Bancorp (FBP -0.39%)
Q2 2019 Earnings Call
Jul 23, 2019, 10:00 a.m. ET
Contents:
- Prepared Remarks
- Questions and Answers
- Call Participants
Prepared Remarks:
Operator
Good morning, and welcome to the First BanCorp. Second Quarter 2019 Results Conference Call and Webcast. [Operator Instructions]
And I'd now like to turn the conference over to Investor Relations Officer, John Pelling. Please go ahead.
John B. Pelling -- Investor Relations Officer
Thank you, Ian. Good morning and thank you for joining First BanCorp's conference call and webcast to discuss the Company's financial results for the second quarter 2019. Joining today from FBP are Aurelio Aleman, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Orlando Berges, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
Before we begin today's call, it is my responsibility to inform you that this call may involve certain forward-looking statements such as projections of revenue, earnings and capital structure, as well as statements on the plans and objectives of the Company's business. The Company's actual results could differ materially from the forward-looking statements made due to the important factors described in the Company's latest SEC filings.
The Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements made during the call. If anyone does not already have a copy of the webcast or the press release issued by First BanCorp, you can access them at our website at 1firstbank.com.
At this time, I'd like to turn the call over to our CEO, Aurelio Aleman. Aurelio?
Aurelio Aleman-Bermudez -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Thank you, John. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. Please let's begin [Phonetic] with the highlights. Let's move to Slide 5 of the presentation. As we reported this morning, we consider we reported another really strong quarter of core earnings. Financial results were at $41.3 million, or $0.19 per share. I think most importantly, core franchise metrics continued to move in a positive trend across to different areas.
Pre-tax, pre-provision income reached $71 million for the first time. Net interest income increased by $2.3 million quarter-over-quarter, and by $12 million year-over-year when we compare to the same quarter back in 2018. The loan portfolio grew $118 million to $9.1 billion this quarter. And this represents our fourth quarter of consecutive growth in the loan portfolio.
Year-over-year, the loan portfolio has grown almost 5%, reflecting a 19% increase in consumer, over 8% increase in commercial and construction, achieving these while strategically losing the residential portfolio by around 5%.
Originations and renewals were healthy in the quarter at $988 million. Obviously, we know there's some seasonality on larger deals and pay downs that are difficult to predict from a timing standpoint. But the origination trajectory for the reissue continue at similar pace. I have to say that our pipeline remains strong for the remainder of the year.
We achieved another quarter of meaningful progress on our organic reduction of non-performing assets that were down $31 million or 7% this quarter. NPAs now represent only 3.06% of assets, and the NPL ratio is down to 2.85%. Capital continues to grow is now at $2.2 billion. Tangible book value also continues to grow, now at $9.52. CET1 at 20.6%.
Some additional highlights on the franchise for the quarter. We will continue to place a lot of priority on technology investments. I think during the quarter it's important to communicate that we roll out our new state of the art with expanded functionality digital banking platform in Puerto Rico. We also continue expanding the roll out of ATMs with remote deposit capture capabilities. Obviously, these new functionalities continued to contribute to the strength of the core deposit franchise and the brand.
With regard to the Puerto Rico economy and some recent events of government disruption, I have to say that it is unfortunate and disappointing that we have to dealt with this negative headlines. Definitely, we're so much concerned with the political headlines and the potential impact that could have on economic activity in the short term. On the other hand, we do remain hopeful that this will resolve in the short term, and ultimately lead to greater level of transparency from the government. From the long term, we continue to remain optimistic with the recovery of the local economy and the progress that we should have ahead of us.
With regard to capital deployment, as we previously mentioned, we remain on track for a capital auction [Phonetic] announcement during the second half of the year. We don't have any other information regarding capital in this call today.
Now, I would like to turn the call over to Orlando to cover the financials in more detail. Thanks to all.
Orlando Berges-Gonzalez -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Good morning, everyone. So as Aurelio mentioned, we had a very good what I call a straightforward quarter. We posted a net income of $41.3 million, which is $0.19 a share, which compares with $43.3 million or $0.20 a share in the first quarter. Adjusted, however, then the non-GAAP net income, which eliminates some of those items we believe -- those known as early recur every quarter, such as last quarter, we had a recovery, a reversal of hurricane reserves, and this quarter, we had an insurance recovery that had a net after-tax impact of about $500,000. Net income for the quarter was $40.8 million compared to $37 million, last quarter.
Pre-tax pre-provision remains strong at $71 million compared to $70.4 million we achieved last quarter. The provision for the quarter was $12.5 million, which is slightly higher -- $700,000 higher than last quarter. But that was mostly a result of the $6.4 million hurricane reserve release we had in the first quarter of 2019.
Net interest income remains really strong, grew $2.3 million this quarter, was mostly driven by $79 million in the average balance of consumer loans, and $91 million growth in commercial loans. We did have one extra day in the quarter. But we also had some impacts from rate changes.
Margin remained relatively flat at 4.90% [Phonetic] compared to 4.92%. [Phonetic] Margin reflects a number of things, including the repricing of a floating rate commercial loans, which there was an impact based on their reduction in LIBOR. The impact was approximately $400,000 in interest income. On the other hand, we had a reduction of approximately 50 basis points in the cost of floating repos and the trust preferred securities, which -- it's also a result of the other reduction in the LIBOR.
Average cost of deposits went up by 5 basis points. We've been lagging in deposit increase, so some of it is showing on the numbers. But we did benefit, as I mentioned from the mix change on increasing the higher yielding consumer loans, while we decrease mortgage loans as part of our strategy of reducing some of those long term assets.
With LIBOR projected to decrease further, we believe margin will see some pressure, which is going to be compensated by the growth in the higher yielding consumer portfolios and the NPA reductions.
In the near term, we expect NIM will remain at levels slightly under current levels, assuming no changes in the deposit composition, which has been more of a stable kind of source over the last few quarters.
Non-interest income for the quarter was very similar. However, it showed improvements of $800,000 in mortgage banking revenues, and increases of deposit service fees and credit card fees in the quarter, our $600,000 [Phonetic] combined. When we look at it versus last quarter, last quarter we had $2.7 million in seasonal contingent insurance commissions that were collected. That it's done once a quarter, which is partially offset by $600,000 in insurance claims we collected this this month as I mentioned before.
Expenses for the quarter were $92.9 million, which is a $2.9 million increase from last quarter. When we look at the components, first of all, OREO expenses increased by about $1.3 million, which is basically mostly revised property valuations, and some of the efforts that are being carried to reduce some performing. Employee compensation seems to show a growth of $1.5 million. However, remember that last quarter, we received $2.3 million in recoveries that were part of an employee retention benefit that was available to employers affected by Hurricane Irma and Maria, by issue of -- over Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2017. So this quarter, on the other hand, we had lower payroll taxes as people have reached limits.
Professional fees were high this quarter, $1.4 million higher. $700,000 of that it's -- is mostly consulting fees. We continue -- Aurelio may -- might referenced to some of the projects. We continue to work through, through all the seasonal implementation, which has required a number of third-party consultants in the process, as well completing some of our ERP rollouts that have resulted in some additional consulting expenses. On the other hand, we have seen lower FDIC cost and lower supervisory fee cost in general.
If we look at the expenses and we exclude the REO [Phonetic] expenses, were $87.9 million, which compares to about $86.2 million. As you remember, our guidance have been that our expenses, including REOs will be between that $87 million to $88 million range. We still feel that, that is the range. We were on the higher end of the range this quarter. But as I mentioned, there are some components of this professional fees, which as we complete the seasonal implementation, well, some of it will go away or reduce significantly, so some of it will be compensated by those components. Otherwise, some of the other components of expenses were in line with expectations.
Aurelio made reference to asset quality, non-performing came down by almost $31 million, or down to $384 million as of June, which is just slightly above the 3% of assets have been our target for a while. We've number of efforts are under way to continue to reduce that organically and we believe they'll be completed throughout the year. Non-accrual loans decreased $20 million in the quarter. Now, there are $260 million, which is under the 2% of loans that led to the 3% I'm sorry of loans as we've been talking about also.
Non-performing decrease includes charge of $11 million on a large commercial loan deployed in that region that we've been working through for quite a while, and had previously established reserves. We also achieved $4 million in collections of non-accrual commercial and construction loans. And we saw decreases of $2.5 million in residential consumer non-accrual, which is a combination of loans that were brought current, collections, charge-offs and some foreclosures that were completed in the quarter.
Other real estate owned OREOs came down by $11.6 million, mostly driven by $14 million in sales that were completed in the quarter. Inflows, which is important non-performing were $23.2 million, but almost a million decrease from last quarter. So they have remained at the lower end of the spectrum as compared with prior quarters. And we continue to work through that process.
Commercial adversely classified assets also decreased by $24 million in the quarter. Net charge-offs for the quarter were $24 million, which is about 1.07% of loans. And it's fairly in line with the last quarter. We saw reductions in consumer and residential charge-offs. But on the other hand, we saw an increase in commercial of $3.8 million, which was driven by the $11 million charge-off I mentioned. But we continue to see improvements on those metrics.
The ratio of allowance to non-performing has increased to 68%, and overall, the allowance is about 1.89% of loans. Commercial non-performing at -- carried at $0.50 on the lower, which is very similar to what we had in the prior quarters.
With that, I will open the call for questions. It's -- as I mentioned, it was up, but I still believe it's fairly straightforward in terms of results. So we better address all your questions. Thanks.
Questions and Answers:
Operator
We will now begin the question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from Alex Twerdahl, Sandler O'Neill. Alex. Please proceed.
Alexander Roberts Hu Twerdahl -- Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP -- Analyst
Hey, good morning, guys.
Aurelio Aleman-Bermudez -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Hi, Alex.
Orlando Berges-Gonzalez -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Hi, Alex.
Alexander Roberts Hu Twerdahl -- Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP -- Analyst
Hey, first off, obviously, a lot of progress made on NPA and NPL reductions over the last year and years. Are we now at the point kind of hovering around 3% NPAs where those can continue to get meaningfully better? Or is there kind of a natural point of -- or level of NPAs or a tail where it's going to kind of tail off for a longer period, and may we say between kind of 2% and 3% for sometime?
Aurelio Aleman-Bermudez -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Well, we're working toward continue to improve in that number. There is activity in the market. There continue to be investor interest in some of these assets. And we do have some deals in the pipeline and we expect to continue showing progress quarter-after-quarter on this metric.
Alexander Roberts Hu Twerdahl -- Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP -- Analyst
Okay, great. And then it seems to me like a lot of the commercial loan growth this quarter was a little bit larger ticket stuff. As you kind of look at the pipeline for the remainder of the year, and I know you commented that the commercial pipeline was still pretty full. Is it still a lot of larger ticket stuff that can kind of close or go one way or the other? Or is it a little bit more granular relative to what we saw in the second quarter?
Aurelio Aleman-Bermudez -- President and Chief Executive Officer
I think it's -- it's all of the above. I think, we have the three segments, the small, the middle market, and the large corporate. Again, the mix makes depends on what close which quarter. We continue to target the three segments. So obviously when you do a large deal in the quarter, that calls the attention more than the ones or smaller ones. But it's going to be a mix, which very difficult to predict the timing of some of them which close which quarter.
Obviously, our goal is not to have more concentration on the portfolio, is to have less concentration on the portfolio. So we're looking to -- for diversification of borrower size also, yes.
Alexander Roberts Hu Twerdahl -- Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP -- Analyst
Okay, that's helpful. And then a final question. Appreciate your comments Orlando in the margin and kind of where you expect it to go in the near term, I guess, modestly down a little bit pressured by LIBOR, etc. But as you kind of look out, I mean, is that assuming a rate cut in July, or is it assuming a rate cut? And I mean, I guess the forward curve is now suggesting a couple more by the end of the year. Is that kind of incorporated in that guidance? Or if it's not and we do get a couple of rate cuts by the end of the year, kind of how do you see the margin project trajectory looking over the next couple of quarters?
Orlando Berges-Gonzalez -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Basically at this point, we're using the forward curve as it comes out on Bloomberg, as a guidance of rates and where we see them. The consumer portfolio is not affected that much by this amount of changes in rates. We do have an impact on the commercial portfolio, especially the one that is floating based on LIBOR. Although, we do get some benefits on some of the components of the floating liability side, which specifically you saw that on the repos and the trops. [Phonetic] And some renewals that are made up come down in terms of rates on the other hand. So that that incorporates that forward-looking curve that we're seeing through the end of the year at this point under mix of what are we expecting on the asset generation side of the balance sheet.
Alexander Roberts Hu Twerdahl -- Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP -- Analyst
Okay, great. Thanks for taking my questions.
Operator
Our next question comes from Brett Rabatin of Piper Jaffray. Brett, please proceed.
Brett Rabatin -- Piper Jaffray Companies -- Analyst
Hey, guys, good morning.
Aurelio Aleman-Bermudez -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Good morning, Brett.
Orlando Berges-Gonzalez -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Good morning, Brett.
Brett Rabatin -- Piper Jaffray Companies -- Analyst
Wanted to first start off on expenses and just thinking about the past, I mean, in 2017, you lowered expenses, and they were up just a little bit last year. They've been flat the first half of this year. Should we assume a similar path to last year when they moved up a little bit from the second quarter levels? Or maybe, I know there's some obvious things in there that can change things, OREO expense, etc. But just can you give us some thoughts on how you view the expense base playing out in the back half of the year?
Orlando Berges-Gonzalez -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Well, the reason of the $87 million to $88 million with that OREO it's where we expect that part of what you mentioned, it's related to some of the large investments that Aurelio made reference to on some of the projects we have been undergoing. So you have different things coming in and out. As I mentioned, we're spending a lot of money on completing the seasonal work and completing some of the RFP rollout. As we complete those, which is going to happen to a large extent during the year, some of those expenses will come down. Then we'll continue with some projects that are under going on the technology front, specifically related to things like new branch automation systems and things like that.
So that's why on the average, I still feel that we should be in that $87 million to $88 million range. The OREO side, it's a little bit more challenging because we still -- like this quarter, we saw some revised property valuations on the appraisal -- the updated appraisals, which probably by now we expect some of those to have stabilized, but we're still seeing some of it in the market. So it affected the number. It doesn't happen every quarter. It all depends on the properties that are up for reappraisal. We do appraisals once a year.
So that one I am more reluctant to give you very clear indication. Obviously, as we come down on the size of the OREO portfolio, those expenses should come down. But our -- there is more volatility on that kind of expense model. But other than that, the others we expect to stay in that range of $87 million to $88 million.
Brett Rabatin -- Piper Jaffray Companies -- Analyst
Okay, that's helpful. And then I just want to talk about, sort of the big question is capital, and you have over 24% total risk-based. And I know, there's no decision, obviously, or nothing has been announced. Can you give us maybe a timeline of how things should play out in the back half of this year? If you haven't been able to do something non-organic with the capital, do you make a decision on a buyback? Does that go into 2020? How do you think about the capital actions and what kind of timeline we should be on?
Aurelio Aleman-Bermudez -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Brett, I think just -- I -- we have mentioned this before, and I I previously mentioned it today. We do remain on track for making some sort of announcement on our capital action decisions during the second half of the year, that means before the year's end. So that's as much as I can tell you right now.
Brett Rabatin -- Piper Jaffray Companies -- Analyst
Okay. And then just lastly, one of the comment you -- Aurelio, you mentioned early in the call talking about just the environment, and there's obviously some political noise going on. What do you think the outcome of all this in terms of how this impacts the recovery funds, and just the remaining things on the Island need to be restructured, the [Indecipherable] what -- like what do you think is going to be the net result of all this current turmoil?
Aurelio Aleman-Bermudez -- President and Chief Executive Officer
So I think, obviously, we can think that obviously because of the -- whether disruption in the administration, the risk -- the rollout of the recovery efforts could have a delay, and delayed and being finally implemented. There are still actions on going toward that, but it could be a delay. On the other hand, I think it -- this will lead to a greater level of transparency on any government, which I think in the long run is positive for any of the -- and the -- for any of the other players of the investors, of the -- whoever linked, it's working toward the Puerto Rico recovery.
So it's very difficult to predict what's going to happen. And we're hopeful that this resolve in the near term. The Island continues to move ahead and a lot of efforts continue to move ahead. But definitely there's a clear disruption in the administration that we cannot ignore. And we have to be attentive of any development that continues to move forward.
Brett Rabatin -- Piper Jaffray Companies -- Analyst
Okay, fair enough. Appreciate all the color.
Aurelio Aleman-Bermudez -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Thank you, Brett.
Operator
Our next question comes from Joe Gladue of Alden Securities. Joe, please proceed.
Aurelio Aleman-Bermudez -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Joe?
Joseph Gladue -- MCG Securities LLC -- Analyst
Can you hear me? Yes.
Aurelio Aleman-Bermudez -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Good morning, Joe.
Joseph Gladue -- MCG Securities LLC -- Analyst
Just wanted to, I guess, first off, touch a little bit more on the net interest margin. And Orlando, you talked a little bit in detail about the loan side. Just on the deposit side, though -- Puerto Rico, the deposit rates went up a lot more slowly than they did on the mainland is -- as interest rates were rising. Now, that they're going back down, do you see that as a constraint is -- in terms of taking advantage of declining rates, deposit rates will go down more slowly?
Orlando Berges-Gonzalez -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Clearly, Joe, one, we didn't go up like the U.S. market went up as fast. So there was a delay in catching up and that we're still seeing a bit. Obviously, it -- if rates coming down again, it's going to lower the pressure on some of those, especially time deposits and those kind of components. I do believe that there was a slow adjustment that was happening in the market. That adjustment, I do believe still going to happen a little bit. Pressure is going to be less, but we should expect a little bit of in -- an increase on the interest bearing components of deposits in the market, not a lot, but a little bit.
The question is the non-interest bearing components, how it behaves and how things continue to move in that front, which obviously has been part of the average cost of deposits. But I don't think we're going to see a sharp decline on deposit rates on the market. I will foresee some small increase on the interest bearing side still for one or two quarters.
Joseph Gladue -- MCG Securities LLC -- Analyst
Okay. All right. Thank you. And I guess also wanted your view with further consolidation in the Islands' banking industry, do you guys see any opportunities to take advantage of the disruptions?
Aurelio Aleman-Bermudez -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Well, I think historically, we have achieved organic growth through what happens in the market. We have participated from consolidation, but we don't -- when we don't participate, we also benefit. And I think that's been demonstrated over the past years, the most recent 10 years with a significant consolidation in 2011 to 2016.
The most recent, we're benefiting from the order lending side of the equation. On recent consolidation, we continue to solidify our offering. And we have continued to grow our market share in that sector. It's part of a market, whenever a market consolidate, is the natural opportunity to execute.
Orlando Berges-Gonzalez -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Yes.
Joseph Gladue -- MCG Securities LLC -- Analyst
All right. Thank you.
Operator
[Operator Instructions] Our next question comes from Glen Manna of Keefe Bruyette & Woods. Glen, please proceed.
Glen Philip Manna -- Keefe Bruyette & Woods Inc. -- Analyst
Hi, good morning, guys.
Aurelio Aleman-Bermudez -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Good morning, Glen.
Glen Philip Manna -- Keefe Bruyette & Woods Inc. -- Analyst
When I look at the period end balance sheet, the spot balances, it looks like there was a build up in cash and money market investments, and you kind of -- maybe you let some of the MBS roll off. Can we expect some kind of deployment of that cash? At what point does it maybe make sense to pay down some of the higher cost, wholesale funding? And concerning with rates kind of expected to head down, we would expect that there might be some pressure on those yields there, so what could we kind of expect there?
Orlando Berges-Gonzalez -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Well, it's -- it's exactly what you said. It's -- it's a bit of -- we did not reinvest immediately some of the pay downs and accelerated repayments in some of the MBS based on where the market was going on the expectations. We're monitoring obviously, how some of the wholesale funding moves. We probably saw, we did pay down a repo that mature in the end of the first quarter. Part of it was that same reason.
So it's a function of rates -- reimbursement rates versus borrowing rates that it's a constant daily monitoring kind of thing. And I wish I had a magical answer, but it's really -- it's how we see things moving and what we expect some of it, it's going to move. At the end, the result has to be whichever rates better for the bottom line. So keep in mind that obviously we still have some benefits from tax implications. And that's something that when we look at investments, we do consider that there could be the effective rate. It's sometimes a bit better than it -- what's reported yield.
That change a bit if you saw our capital effective tax rate went up like from 29% to 30% in the quarter. When you consider everything, meaning all the companies, including companies where we have some losses that are not deductible. And part of it is because we have seen some shift as loans have grown from non-taxable to taxable kind of revenues. So that comes into the formula of the analysis of what makes sense. But not more than clearly it's a function of where we see the main benefit, reinvesting or paying down maturing borrowings.
Glen Philip Manna -- Keefe Bruyette & Woods Inc. -- Analyst
Okay. Thank you. And good job on keeping the core expansions within your range. I just wanted to kind of touch on the OREO again. I was wondering if I heard correctly Orlando, when you said that there was a revaluation in there. When you look at the OREO in Puerto Rico, it was down this quarter. What are you seeing in kind of that core level of OREO expenses that you have to maintain properties, kind of pay taxes on the real estate you own? Are you seeing any change in that because lower unemployment, does it cost you more to have workers to maintain the property? What are your kind of seeing in that core OREO?
Orlando Berges-Gonzalez -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
The core expenses have been fairly consistent; it's a matter of volume. I mentioned that we still have inflows that we have to deal with, but we are seeing a good amount of outflows as you saw on the amount of sales we have in the quarter. Net, it was positive from the perspective of a reduction in the outstanding OREO balances.
The volatility is really coming more from the fact that we operate properties that are held as other real estate owned once a year. And there are some that are better than others. And as the quarter comes by where we have some of those properties, those could have some impact. This quarter, we did have two or three of the properties that have been there for longer that did affect the numbers. But in reality, we still feel that the base expense is very much in control and our Group is doing a very good job of moving things out. Not yet at a point where we can say we can reduce significantly the department. Eventually, we feel that, that would be a good thing, that we can move those people back to production rather than have them dealing with bad properties. But not a humongous change on that front.
Glen Philip Manna -- Keefe Bruyette & Woods Inc. -- Analyst
Okay. Thank you for taking my questions.
Aurelio Aleman-Bermudez -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Thanks, Glen.
Orlando Berges-Gonzalez -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Thanks.
Operator
Our next question comes from Arren Cyganovich of Citi. Arren, please proceed.
Arren Cyganovich -- Citi -- Analyst
Thanks. Yes. I just wanted to touch on credit quality a little bit. And it look like the charge-offs, you had a charge in there from kind of cleaning up in properties. What do you think in terms of kind of the more run rate you expect for charge-offs over the the near term, and the provision, I guess related, we've been kind of under provisioning relative to the charge-offs recently?
Orlando Berges-Gonzalez -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Well, the -- this quarter, we had a large charge-off of one property that we've been working with for quite a while. Hopefully, it can get to a finish point during the year. That was previously reserved and that's one of the reasons you're seeing that difference. With inflows coming down, we're not seeing changes on early delinquency, have remained fairly consistent over the last few quarters. So we're not seeing deterioration in that sense.
We will -- we should expect some charge-offs higher than provisioning because of that because we still have legacy assets we're working with. And we want to work through those non-performing. And the question, we try to make sure that we are properly reserved, if not charge-off depending on a specific of the property. And if a charge-off is required, it's -- it has been reserved priorly -- previously.
So to me, we will see -- I still feel that provisioning in the next -- on the short term it's going to be in that $10 million to $15 million range I -- we had mentioned two or three quarters ago. And -- but charge-offs, we'll see volatility based on the -- on those large ones. If you got excluded this $11 million, it would have been significantly lower in the quarter. But we still have some properties that could see levels of charge-offs like that, that have been reserved in the past.
Arren Cyganovich -- Citi -- Analyst
Okay. All right. Thank you.
Orlando Berges-Gonzalez -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Thanks, Arren.
Operator
[Operator Instructions] I would now like to turn the call -- this concludes our question-and-answer session. I would now like to turn the conference back over to John Pelling for any closing remarks.
John B. Pelling -- Investor Relations Officer
Thank you. And we greatly appreciate your continued support. At this time, we'll conclude the call.
Operator
[Operator Closing Remarks]
Duration: 36 minutes
Call participants:
John B. Pelling -- Investor Relations Officer
Aurelio Aleman-Bermudez -- President and Chief Executive Officer
Orlando Berges-Gonzalez -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Alexander Roberts Hu Twerdahl -- Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP -- Analyst
Brett Rabatin -- Piper Jaffray Companies -- Analyst
Joseph Gladue -- MCG Securities LLC -- Analyst
Glen Philip Manna -- Keefe Bruyette & Woods Inc. -- Analyst
Arren Cyganovich -- Citi -- Analyst
