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Flushing Financial: Disappointing Earnings But Loan Book Remains Strong
FFICFlushing Financial (FFIC) Seeking Alpha·2024-07-02 14:30

The earnings are definitely under pressure On top of that, the bank recorded a 0.8Mlossrelatedtothefairvalueadjustmentsofcertainitems,whichwasntveryhelpfuleitherasFFICwasabletorecorda0.8M loss related to the fair value adjustments of certain items, which wasn't very helpful either as FFIC was able to record a 2.6M gain in that segment in Q1 2023. All these elements combined resulted in a decrease of the non-interest income to just 3.1M,whilethenoninterestexpensesincreasedbyalmost23.1M, while the non-interest expenses increased by almost 2% to 39.9M. The silver lining is the substantial decrease of the loan loss provisions. As the income statement (shown ...