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Bancorp Inc (TBBK -3.72%)
Q3Â 2019 Earnings Call
Oct 25, 2019, 8:00 a.m. ET
Contents:
- Prepared Remarks
- Questions and Answers
- Call Participants
Prepared Remarks:
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Third Quarter 2019 The Bancorp Incorporated Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] After the speaker presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions]
I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Andres Viroslav. Please go ahead, sir.
Andres Viroslav -- Director of Investor Relations
Thank you, Sonia [Phonetic]. Good morning, and thank you for joining us today for the Bancorp's Third Quarter 2019 Financial Results Conference Call.
On the call with me today are Damian Kozlowski, Chief Executive Officer and Paul Frenkiel, our Chief Financial Officer. This morning's call is being webcast on our website at www.thebancorp.com. There will be a replay of the call beginning at approximately 12 P.M. Eastern Time today. The dial-in for the replay is 855-859-2056 with a confirmation code of 4468437.
Before I turn the call over to Damian, I would like to remind everyone that when used in this conference call, the words believes, anticipates, expects and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those anticipated or suggested by such statements.
For further discussion of these risks and uncertainties please see The Bancorp's filings with the SEC. Listeners are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. The Bancorp undertakes no obligation to publicly release the result of any revisions to forward-looking statements, which may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect their occurrence of unanticipated events.
Now I'd like to turn the call over to The Bancorp's Chief Executive Officer, Damian Kozlowski. Damian?
Damian Kozlowski -- Chief Executive Officer and President
Thank you, Andres. Good morning, everyone. This quarter our positive business momentum accelerated with across the Board increases in both spread and fee income, driven significantly by some extremely higher total loan balances from our lending lines and continued acceleration in the year-over-year gross dollar volume of payment transactions. In addition, our CRE floating rate securitization produced a substantial gain. Excluding a $1.4 million charge to settle SEC litigation concerning a bank restatement in 2014, The Bancorp earned $0.38 a share on revenue of $71 million expenses of $41 million.
Reported per share earnings of $0.36 grew 53% over 2018 third quarter excluding a one-time gain on the sale of our safe harbor IRA business in 2018. Total revenue climbed by over 25% excluding the sale while expenses were up approximately 9% year-over-year, excluding this SEC settlement. Net interest income after the provision improved to $37 million from $30 million year-over-year, an increase of 25%. Tier 1 leverage ratio amounted to 9.36% at quarter-end.
ROA year-to-date stands just under 15%. We see continued significant strength in our payments business with a 38% GDV growth in our prepaid and debit card transactions, and 22% related fee growth year-over-year. Our ACH and indirect push to card revenues also continued to build with 14% fee growth year-over-year. We continue to expect GDV growth in our payments business during the balance of this year. Trends do indicate that there will be an extended period of GDV momentum and growth in 2020 should exceed historic levels of fee growth.
Net interest income grew at 23% with contributions from each business line, quarter-over-quarter loan balances grew across the Board with annualized rates of 5%, 33% and 40% respectively for leasing SBA and SBLOC.
We expect growth to continue at accelerated rate for the balance of 2019, which should continue into 2020. We currently have a broad-based initiatives to continue building our loan portfolios and the current growth is a direct result of new products, enhanced technology, and large investments in sales and marketing resources. Our securitization business continues to build on the momentum from the first and second quarters. As previously announced, we had targeted doubling the size of our securitizations in 2019 from the $300 million range in 2018. This strategy has significantly increased our spread revenue, while eliminating related long-term real estate credit exposure.
The third-quarter securitization resulted in an approximate $14 million gain on a securitized floating rate CRE portfolio of $778 million. This gain was driven by the sale of the interest only portion of the loan pool to an investor. We have previously held this portion of the pool and other securitizations and its valuation goes into the gain computation. This year also we'll mitigate any loan prepayment risk associated with holding the security on our balance sheet. We also believe that we are developing broad capabilities and expertise to adjust the future growth of the fintech, digital and gig economy financial market and expect to be well positioned for sustained growth. This growth has be evident -- has been evident in 2019 and we believe long-term growth is supported by the many innovations in the banking sector.
A new investor presentation will appear on our site in the next few weeks, that will detail the opportunities that should sustain and improve the Bancorp's long-term performance. Lastly, management has developed a new four-year Phase 2 business plan focused on innovation, is in the process of developing a detailed 2020 budget. In that budget we are now targeting a minimum of $1.25 a share of earnings for 2020. We believe that this performance is consistent with the productivity and operating improvements made in the last three years and The Bancorp's current business momentum.
I now turn the call over to Paul Frenkiel, our CFO, who will detail more about the third quarter.
Paul Frenkiel -- Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary
Thank you, Damian. Net income increased $8.4 million or 63%, excluding the $1.4 million SEC settlement in 2019, and the $48 million net of tax gain on IRA sale in 2018. The increase reflected $7 million of higher net interest income, reflecting continuing growth in Bancorp's lending lines, including CRE loans originated for securitization. Average CRE loans increased approximately $459 million or 147% to $771 million. Growth in other lending lines reflected respective 18% and 22% increases over prior year balances for combined SBLOC and IBLOC and for SBA loans. The $7 million were 23% in net interest income, to $38 million reflected an increase in interest income on CRE loans for securitization of $6.4 million to $11.1 million. Interest on SBLOCs and IBLOCs increased $1.7 million to $9.4 million and interest on SBA loans increased $1.8 million to $7.8 million.
As a result of the September 2019 securitization, a gain of approximately $14 million was recognized compared to a gain of $9 million in Q3 2018. While market spreads declined, the higher 2019 gain resulted from a larger securitization totaling $778 million compared to $341 million in Q3, 2018. We anticipate that fourth quarter 2019 will show a decrease in CRE interest income as balances peak in the quarter, they are securitized. In each of the past three years there have been two securitizations per year and any gain or loss is subject to market conditions. In addition to loan growth the increase in net interest income reflected the positive impact of the Federal Reserve rate increases in 2018, partially offset by the July 2019 FRB decrease, which impacted the majority of the quarter.
Approximate yields on the loan portfolios were 4.1% for SBLOCs, 5.7% for SBA and 6.5% for leasing. While the yields on CRE loans originated for securitization has recently approximated 6%, that yield varies with market spreads and timing of securitizations. These lines of business have historically had low charge-offs. Overall cost of funds was comparable to Q2 and increased 13 basis points over Q3 2018 to 96 basis points. The 13 basis point increase reflected the net impact of the Federal Reserve's rate changes, which also contributed to the 28 basis point increase in asset yields. It also reflected the Q3 2019 use of more costly short-term time deposits and borrowings to fund increased originations of the higher yield in commercial loans, which were securitized at the end of the quarter.
The 13 basis point year-over-year improvement in NIM to 3.35% resulted primarily from those higher asset yields compared to the lesser increase in the cost of funds. The lesser increase in cost of funds, primarily reflected prepaid card deposits which contractually adjust only a portion of the increases in market interest rates. The 3.35% NIM for the third quarter was down slightly from the 3.41% for second quarter 2019, reflecting the aforementioned higher rate short-term time deposits and overnight borrowings. It also reflected the impact of deposit rates, which decreased less than loan rates due to the aforementioned fed rate decreases during the quarter. Those factors were partially offset by larger securitization, originations with relatively higher rate. Prepaid accounts, our largest funding source are also the primary driver of non-interest income. These in related income on prepaid cards was $16.1 million in Q3 2019, compared to $13.2 million in Q3 2018, a 22% increase.
Card payment and ACH processing fees including rapid funds revenue -- card payment in ACH processing fees include rapid funds revenue and increased 14% to $2.5 million. Non-interest expense for the third quarter of 2019 excluding the non-deductible $1.4 million SEC settlement was $40.7 million, that's slightly above the $40 million quarterly target discussed in prior calls. Salary expense was $5.3 million higher during the quarter and reflected higher commercial loan securitization incentive, SBLOC information technology and other incentive compensation expense, compared to Q3 2018. That increase was partially offset by $1.1 million one-time credit in FDIC insurance and reductions in software, legal, and data processing expenses.
Book value per share increased to $8.52 compared to $8.07 at June 30, 2019 primarily reflecting the $0.36 of earnings per share and the increased value of investment securities resulting from lower long-term market interest rates. The Q3 2019 consolidated leverage ratio, which is based upon average quarterly assets was approximately 9.3% compared to approximately 10% at the core -- to prior quarter end. The reduction reflected higher average assets, resulting from loans originated for securitization. Our more than well capitalized position provides a solid base to conduct our operations and take advantage of opportunities in our lending and payment space.
On October 22, 2019 certain ACH transactions were returned from another financial institution, resulting in a receivable in the amount of $11.2 million on the books of The Bancorp, which amount is net of $5.5 million in funds on deposit, which the bank believes it can offset against the receivable. The returns resulted from the failure by an ACH customer to properly fund its disbursements. The bank is working with the relevant parties to resolve the issue as soon as possible. Any amounts not recovered from those responsible parties or reimbursed by the banks insurance carriers will result in a loss to the bank.
That concludes my comments, and I will return the call back to Damian for questions.
Damian Kozlowski -- Chief Executive Officer and President
Thank you, Paul. Operator, would you please open the line to -- for questions please.
Questions and Answers:
Operator
[Operator Instructions] And our first question comes from William Wallace of Raymond James. Your line is now open.
William Wallace -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Thanks. Good morning, guys.
Damian Kozlowski -- Chief Executive Officer and President
Hey Wally. Good morning.
William Wallace -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Hi. Maybe let's just start with where you guys ended on that -- on this ACH issue that you disclosed. Can you just, I thought an ACH transfer was a direct wire transfer out of cash, out of someone's account. So I'm just curious how there could be transferred funds where there was no cash, and if there is -- if you guys feel assured that this isn't something that could happen again within -- with other clients?
Paul Frenkiel -- Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary
I can say that the type of payments involved represent a minor part of our revenues and our unrelated to the card business, which comprises the vast majority of our business. We hope the situation will be resolved, but wanted to communicate it is an abundance of caution, that's all we can really say for the moment.
William Wallace -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Oh, so can you -- I mean, you can't walk through kind of the mechanics of how a transfer could occur without cash to support the transfer? But this is an area of growth focus for your bank, right? I mean, I thought that you guys were spending a lot of time...
Damian Kozlowski -- Chief Executive Officer and President
[Speech Overlap] As I said, it is like a very minor part of those units.
Paul Frenkiel -- Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary
This is a very minor part of our -- of this part of our business. This is a situation, we can't go into detail about. As we've already said, generally ACH transactions are pre-funded and they're matched. So, there was a issue at another financial institution and we can't go into it. This is obviously this -- earnings release was produced prior to this occurrence on October 26, and we just can't speak to it for various reasons, which we can't disclose.
William Wallace -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Okay. Okay, all right. Well, move on then. So the guidance you guys put out in EPS target, it's the first time I can recall that ever occurring for The Bancorp. I think it's great that you're putting a target out there, I'm wondering if you could help us kind of walk through some of the mechanics of how you anticipate that you will achieve that target? Is this going to be driven by continued growth on the fee income businesses? Are you seeing more momentum in the loan businesses just kind of help maybe talk through some of the mechanics of how you think you achieve that target?
Paul Frenkiel -- Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary
Yes. So the first -- remember, we have talked a lot about our Phase 1 business plan, which was about getting the bank operating at the level that we wanted to be efficient and generate about a 15% return on equity. We believe we're there. And also focused on remediation of our regulatory issues, which we think we're very close to being out of. So we have sat down this year and spent six months working on the next phase in our business plan. And where -- we were a little delayed on the ROE number because we had the sale of the safe harbor, where we lost fees, but also deposits. So we're about at that now in the third quarter of 2019.
So after a lot of both bumps up in top down, looking at what the business should perform over the next four years, we're very comfortable with our current business momentum that the revenue will continue to be driven by growth and balances, so SBA, SBLOC and leasing balances. And also with above trend, especially for 2020 fee growth. So I think we'll be able to give some guidance on where we expect to be on balances as we finalize our 2020 budget, but it becomes clear to us that looking at that business plan that four-year business plan that we'll be able to get to a minimum of $1.25. We said it as a minimum, we'd really like to get the 15% plus ROE. And so that was -- where we really like to be next year.
So if you simply time 15% -- times our capital base, it looks more like in the 130s. So that's where we'd really like to be in 2020, and I think the momentum of the business and what we've been looking at through our modeling and understanding of new products and services, the enhancement of technology, and both SBA, the Talea platform and SBLOC, but also we're reengineering leasing, that will have the scale and order to support balanced growth. But then also with the investment in our technology and operations platform for the primarily the payments business, the card business, and the expansion of fintech debit cards throughout the industry where we have a very large portfolio of transactions. We think it will support that type of revenue with the minimization of expense growth.
William Wallace -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Okay. A lot there. So there is two, maybe two ways I wanted to question. You said in your prepared remarks and you just hinted out it again about momentum on the prepaid business giving you confidence that the growth and GDV and revenues should be, I think you said above trend or above industry in 2020. Can you go a little deeper there? What's giving you confidence in this shift?
Paul Frenkiel -- Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary
Well there is a -- yeah, while the shift is happening, throughout the industry. So there is clearly a shift to alternative banking providers, and we are a sponsor of those. So you're seeing a change in buying behavior with new fintech companies where people are selecting them as their primary banking relationship of which we are enabling. So you've stack growth that you're seeing in GDV growth. And this is something that's been talked about the industry for years, but it seems to be that there is a market inflection point between consumer buying behavior that supporting that GDV growth. At least we're seeing it in our portfolio. So that's what we think supports the continued above trend GDV growth in our cards business.
William Wallace -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Okay. So if I look at the first three quarters of 2019 year-over-year, the GDV growth is averaging 30% and the revenue growth is averaging 16%. I mean, are we talking about a continuation of those levels or an acceleration of those levels?
Damian Kozlowski -- Chief Executive Officer and President
We think it'll be a continuation of those levels, somewhere in that range. So, we think -- now we're seeing slight acceleration in GDV in the fourth quarter. So that doesn't always translate one-to-one to fee growth. So I have to caution you there, but generally it's a good track. So we're seeing that continued market trend that's been obviously started in the end of last year, but carried very strongly throughout this entire year and the growth has been accelerating quarter to quarter. So that is what spacing our understanding. So even over if you look year-over-year as the fees have grown, you're going to get some just from the year-over-year impact and then from the continued acceleration that we're seeing.
William Wallace -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Okay. And then with some continued expectation that we'll see, some pressure on the margins just due to competitive pressures -- when you see that waning?
Damian Kozlowski -- Chief Executive Officer and President
Not really, not really. I wouldn't say competitive pressure in the short-term. Some of the programs that we have are layered. So depending on the volumes that you process, that you have lower fees, as volumes go up. So competitive pressures, don't really -- there are longer term impact, because in the short term we have long-term contracts. So we really, if market pricing goes down tomorrow, we wouldn't feel it for one to four years in some cases. So, we don't have competitive pressures that directly affect our long-term. And 20 of our programs represent about 95% of our volume and all of those are predominantly -- one or to four year contracts.
William Wallace -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Okay. Okay. All right. Great. Well, that's great to see I guess. And then just a question on the asset side. I did notice the pretty big jump in the SBLOC line this quarter, have you been on-boarding new clients with the Talea product or is this growth from the existing base?
Damian Kozlowski -- Chief Executive Officer and President
No, it's coming from both where we're in the process of finally switching over to all of the layers. So we have to integrate with the platforms that deliver, the SBLOC and IBLOC product, so that's ongoing. But there is definitely a significant increase due to the technology enablement. IBLOC also has been growing. So, we want to increase our products and services over time. But, ultimately we want to make it easier for people to get the money. So that's really what the push is. We said $1 billion as our target for the end of this year, we're feeling we'll be very close or over that. And we think we can get significant amount of growth for 2020 in that envelope of activities and we'll hopefully be able to give more clarity as we approach 2020, we finalize our budget.
William Wallace -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Okay, thanks. And I'm sorry, I have two more questions, I know, I've asked a lot. But there's only a couple of us left following you. So if you, if you'll bear with me two last questions. You put on $475 million in time deposits this quarter?
Damian Kozlowski -- Chief Executive Officer and President
Yes.
William Wallace -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Can you expand on that? Was that just...
Damian Kozlowski -- Chief Executive Officer and President
Yeah. So, because of the higher securitization, our -- the loans that we generate for securitization averaged over $700 million to $771 million. So we as short-term funded those with those overnight borrowings in short-term CDs.
William Wallace -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Okay. So are those gone already?
Damian Kozlowski -- Chief Executive Officer and President
They will be gone. But from time-to-time we may use them. Again, we use borrowings in short-term CDs to manage our liquidity.
William Wallace -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Okay, got you. Fair enough. And the last question I had is, if you could give us an update on the consent order, Damian you said you feel like you're getting close. Can you just let us know what is left? I assume you've put together your business plan presented it, what's your expectation?
Damian Kozlowski -- Chief Executive Officer and President
Yes. So, we're going to go into a full review in the beginning of 2020. We've made -- I think tremendous progress from where we were in 2017. We really set out to build a real Center of Excellence for this capability. We've been closely working with our regulators to meet the expectation to get out of the consent order to really -- but really build a new model. The problem is that we're in this neck of this industry where it's unusual. It's not fully understood across the industry of our role as a sponsor bank. And so we've really worked -- and because more banks are wanting to become sponsor bank, so we've really tried to build a new paradigm and how you do this type of business, we are very close, we identified a short list of items that we want to -- our regulators wanted to get clarity on. And I think we're pretty much there for the next review. So hopefully we can always guarantee what our regulator, our partners will do. But we feel confident that we have a capability that is the safe and sound and meets the requirements.
William Wallace -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Okay. The next full review is early '20, is that what you said?
Damian Kozlowski -- Chief Executive Officer and President
Yeah. Early '20.
William Wallace -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Great. Thanks guys.
Damian Kozlowski -- Chief Executive Officer and President
And we're hoping at this time -- that we were -- we have a meeting of the minds.
William Wallace -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Okay. My fingers crossed. I'll step out to ask a lot of questions. Thanks.
Damian Kozlowski -- Chief Executive Officer and President
Thank you, Wally.
Operator
Thank you. And our next question comes from Frank Schiraldi of Sandler O'Neill. Your line is now open.
Frank Schiraldi -- Sandler O'Neill -- Analyst
Good morning.
Damian Kozlowski -- Chief Executive Officer and President
Hi, Frank.
Frank Schiraldi -- Sandler O'Neill -- Analyst
I think there is only a couple left. Wanted to ask about the growth next year, that the preliminary guide of getting to at least 125. I know you guys have talked in the past about your direct push to card initiative. I don't know how much growth you anticipate, how much you anticipate that to be to impact growth year-over-year? Is that part of...
Damian Kozlowski -- Chief Executive Officer and President
Well, the way to say it is -- in a minimum, we wouldn't need any of those revenues. So we are not considering those revenues when the minimum, when we're discussing the minimum. We think we could do that, and a 15% ROE with the balanced growth and the payment side growth. We're hoping that to be a nice to have. And in push further growth, but we think we can get to the minimum without a significant growth in that area.
Frank Schiraldi -- Sandler O'Neill -- Analyst
Okay. So I mean, I know it's a big initiative for you guys, so in terms of, you talked about 125 maybe getting into -- trying to get into the 130s, is the push to card, is that initiative really just going to bear a lot more fruit in your minds, in 2021 is just a longer lag time?
Damian Kozlowski -- Chief Executive Officer and President
Yeah. Once again, we're -- where this is, it could be a potentially very large initiative. And there is a lot of interest in this area. We're prepared -- we're working down the avenue of doing it the right way and taking advantage of the opportunity. But it -- we don't know yet, we still don't know whether or not that will be a substantial revenue to make a difference in our overall enterprise earnings. So we could do really good next year and generate $3 million, $4 million, $5 million, not saying we will, million, but it really won't make a lot of difference to our bottom line. So we're going to build it out the right way, we just don't know yet what that is. But generally when we've done our own planning around this Phase 2 business plan -- once again, we haven't finalized our 2020 budget. We became very careful that -- very confident let's put it that way, that 125 was attainable under current, our current momentum of our business and our product sets that we have.
Frank Schiraldi -- Sandler O'Neill -- Analyst
Okay. And then back to the really strong GDV growth, that's anticipated to continue here. Is that mostly current programs that continue to ramp up or are there big partnerships or new programs coming on-board?
Damian Kozlowski -- Chief Executive Officer and President
Yes. Both. So we're getting -- we have an amazing pipeline of around 70 programs that would like to join our platform. And there are significant new partners that will be joining us over the next three months. So it's a combination we're seeing very good growth. I think the last time I looked at it three months -- excuse me, three days ago was, we're seeing growth in almost every program of our Top 20 programs, quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year. So it's a very broad based. It's focused mostly -- the higher growth rates are on debit programs because that's why we're making that market statement about the conversion between traditional and non-traditional banks. And we have significant programs that are joining us over the next three months. So that's why we become very confident that we have sustained GDV growth. And we -- believe it or not, in the fourth quarter, we've seen preliminary numbers, and I'll stress that preliminary numbers have increased. Once again the GDV is increasing, so we have that. We have all those three areas to support our continued payments growth into 2020.
Frank Schiraldi -- Sandler O'Neill -- Analyst
Okay. And then I think you used the term alternative banking, I mean, I just challenge your banking or whatever the challenger banks. I mean what sort of percentage, if you can give of your GDV either growth or current GDV is these challenger banks and where do you think that moves to over the next 12 months?
Damian Kozlowski -- Chief Executive Officer and President
They're higher -- the only thing that we haven't really and we've thought about that, because people are very interested in that obviously. So they're higher growing. But they're not alone. So there is a clear move toward the Challenger side. That you see, but there is an adoption across a broad spectrum of program types of this enabled technology that we provide. So it's, you're getting higher growth, I can't give you a percentage, we haven't decided whether or not we would publish that. There is some reasons that we have been asked not to buy our clients, they want people backing out things, so that's where we are in that. So you're getting higher growth, we can't disclose at this time, how much is X versus Y and Z, but you're getting higher growth definitely from those programs and you're getting from their usual card programs.
Frank Schiraldi -- Sandler O'Neill -- Analyst
Right. I mean can you say at this point, roughly, in a broad range, what percentage that makes up, forget about the growth, just what percentage those challenger banks make up in terms of GDV versus the entire pie?
Damian Kozlowski -- Chief Executive Officer and President
We'll put that under advisement for future disclosure, that's not. We would love to put a page and have all the programs and their growth and all that stuff. But our clients have confidentiality and sometimes they don't want certain things distributed, and it's not necessarily helpful because they can be volatile, so we'll put that under advisement.
Frank Schiraldi -- Sandler O'Neill -- Analyst
Okay. And then I guess just finally, I'll ask about the discontinued book, obviously whittling down one major or larger size loan you continue to have and there seems to be that mall in Florida. And there has been some price out there, that seems to be moving along, just wondering if you anticipate any movement in that off the books over the next few months?
Damian Kozlowski -- Chief Executive Officer and President
We would like it to move. So what you probably referring to is the ground lease was purchased, that was one of the major reasons why our previous deals sell-through, we're hopeful that there are two parties very interested in now converting or purchasing them all. So we're hoping that it will. Luckily the mall is income producing, so we have taken income over the last two years when we've -- obviously when the operating results suggest we should. So we have -- we're not losing money at the mall right now, we would like to dispose of it at par. And both parties that are looking at doing a transaction, are looking at that range. So that's all I can say, we don't have a signed deal on the table right the second, but we're hoping -- we're working constructively to disposal of the mall.
Frank Schiraldi -- Sandler O'Neill -- Analyst
Okay, great. And then when you said par, I mean, you're talking about where it's been marked to, right?
Damian Kozlowski -- Chief Executive Officer and President
Yeah, the mark. It seems -- it's mark, yeah. It's mark -- yeah, it's not a par from -- but where it's been marked down to. It was supported by appraisal.
Frank Schiraldi -- Sandler O'Neill -- Analyst
Okay. Great. Thank you.
Operator
Thank you. And ladies and gentlemen, this does conclude our question and answer session. I would now like to turn the call back over to Damian Kozlowski for any closing remarks.
Damian Kozlowski -- Chief Executive Officer and President
Yes. Thank you, operator. I appreciate your attendance, and we'll talk again in the fourth quarter.
Operator
[Operator Closing Remarks]
Duration: 35 minutes
Call participants:
Andres Viroslav -- Director of Investor Relations
Damian Kozlowski -- Chief Executive Officer and President
Paul Frenkiel -- Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary
William Wallace -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Frank Schiraldi -- Sandler O'Neill -- Analyst
