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Mar 31, 2022
Great Southern Q1 2022 Earnings Report
Reported preliminary first quarter earnings with solid performance ratios.
Key Takeaways
Great Southern Bancorp reported preliminary earnings for the first quarter of 2022 at $1.30 per diluted common share, totaling $17.0 million. While this is slightly lower than the $1.36 per share ($18.9 million) from Q1 2021, key performance ratios such as annualized return on average assets (1.27%) and equity (11.14%) remained strong. The net interest margin improved to 3.43% from both the previous quarter and the same period last year.
First quarter earnings were $1.30 per diluted common share ($17.0 million available to common shareholders).
Annualized return on average assets was 1.27%, and annualized return on average equity was 11.14%.
Net interest margin improved to 3.43% from 3.41% in the first quarter of 2021.
Total loans, excluding mortgage loans held for sale, increased by approximately $104 million, or 2.5%.
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Forward Guidance
The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee continues to signal a fairly quick rise in interest rates in 2022, which should positively impact our net interest income. Also, late in the first quarter of 2022, we used some of our excess funds that were being held at the Federal Reserve Bank to purchase investment securities, which will generate additional interest income.
Positive Outlook
- Expected rise in interest rates should positively impact net interest income.
- Deployment of excess funds into investment securities will generate additional interest income.
- Vigorous loan production and activity in our markets.
- Loan commitments and the unfunded portion of loans grew by about $98 million from the end of 2021.
- Credit quality metrics remained excellent.
Challenges Ahead
- Continued economic and societal uncertainty ahead.
- Much lower net deferred fee income accretion from PPP loans.
- Lower income from the sale of fixed rate mortgage loans.
- Repayment headwinds continue periodically.
- Increases in unemployment rates, or turbulence in domestic or global financial markets could adversely affect the Company’s revenues and the values of its assets and liabilities