Overview

Net income in the first three months of 2025 was $20.1 million, which decreased $3.3 million, or 14.2%, from $23.4 million for the comparable period of 2024. Diluted income per common share was $0.78 in the first three months of 2025, a decrease of 14.3% from $0.91 in the comparable period of 2024. The decrease in net income for 2025 was primarily due to an increase in the provision for credit losses of $5.3 million, or 347.4%, an increase in noninterest expense of $2.1 million, or 6.7%, and a decrease in noninterest income of $1.7 million, or 13.4%. Offsetting these effects was an increase to net interest income of $5.5 million, or 11.5%.

Pretax pre-provision earnings, a non-GAAP measure calculated by adding net interest income to noninterest income and subtracting noninterest expense, were $31.0 million in the first three months of 2025, an increase of $1.7 million, or 5.9%, compared to $29.3 million for the comparable period of 2024.

Annualized return on average total equity was 11.70% in the first three months of 2025 versus 14.59% in the comparable period of 2024. Annualized return on average total assets was 1.20% in the first three months of 2025 versus 1.44% for the comparable period of 2024. The Company’s average equity to average assets ratio was 10.29% in the first three months of 2025 versus 9.84% in the comparable period of 2024.

Financial Condition

Total assets were $6.851 billion as of March 31, 2025 versus $6.678 billion as of December 31, 2024, an increase of $172.8 million, or 2.6%. Balance sheet expansion was driven by increases to total loans, net of the allowance for credit losses, which increased $98.8 million, or 2.0%, cash and cash equivalents, which increased $67.0 million, or 39.8%, and available-for-sale securities, which increased $9.4 million, or 1.0%. Funding the balance sheet expansion between December 31, 2024 and March 31, 2025 were total deposits, which increased $59.2 million, or 1.0%, and total borrowings, which increased $108.2 million. Total equity increased $10.6 million, or 1.5%, from $683.9 million at December 31, 2024 to $694.5 million at March 31, 2025.

Loan Portfolio

Total loans, excluding real estate mortgage loans held-for-sale and deferred fees, increased by $98.8 million, or 2.0%, to $5.131 billion at March 31, 2025 from $5.032 billion at December 31, 2024. The increase was primarily driven by originations of loans concentrated in the commercial and industrial loans, commercial real estate and multi-family residential loans and consumer 1-4 family mortgage loans categories and was offset by paydowns in the agri-business and agricultural loans segment.

The allowance for credit losses increased $6.5 million, or 7.5%, from $86.0 million at December 31, 2024 to $92.4 million at March 31, 2025. The increase was a result of provision expense of $6.8 million which was offset by net charge-offs of $327,000. Provision expense recorded during the three months ended March 31, 2025 was primarily attributable an increase in the specific allocation for the previously disclosed $43.3 million nonperforming credit to an industrial company in Northern Indiana.

Deposits and Borrowings

As of March 31, 2025, total deposits increased by $59.2 million, or 1.0%, from December 31, 2024. Core deposits, which excludes brokered deposits, decreased by $24.6 million, or 0.4%, to $5.835 billion as of March 31, 2025 from $5.859 billion as of December 31, 2024. Total brokered deposits were $125.4 million at March 31, 2025, compared to $41.6 million at December 31, 2024, an increase of $83.8 million, or 201.8%.

Capital

As of March 31, 2025, total stockholders’ equity was $694.5 million, an increase of $10.6 million, or 1.5%, from $683.9 million at December 31, 2024. The increase to total stockholders’ equity was driven by net income of $20.1 million and was reduced by dividends declared and paid of $12.8 million and an increase of $2.6 million in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss).

The Company’s capital levels remained characterized as “well-capitalized” as of March 31, 2025.