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Community Heritage Financial, Inc. Reports Earnings for the Third Quarter of 2024

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MIDDLETOWN, Md., Oct. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Community Heritage Financial, Inc. (the "Company" or "CHF") (OTC PK: CMHF), the parent company of Middletown Valley Bank ("MVB" or the "Bank"), reported net income of $2.0 million, or $0.70 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2024. Third quarter 2024 results represented an increase of $605 thousand, or 42.0%, in comparison to the second quarter of 2024, and an increase of $681 thousand, or 49.9%, in comparison to the third quarter 2023. Net income for the nine months ended September 30, 2024 totaled $4.9 million, or $1.68 per diluted share, representing an increase of $1.5 million, or 45.1%, compared to net income of $3.4 million, or $1.16 per diluted share, for the nine months ended September 30, 2023.

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Balance Sheet

Assets totaled $1.10 billion as of September 30, 2024, representing an increase of $109.7 million since December 31, 2023, and an increase of $102.6 million since September 30, 2023. Asset growth included advances drawn in mid-January 2024 under the Bank Term Funding Program ("BTFP") available through the Federal Reserve Bank ("FRB") totaling $50.0 million. The advances then offered and continue to offer the opportunity of a positive arbitrage between the weighted average advance rate of 4.82% and the earnings rate offered by the FRB of 5.40% through September 18, 2024 and 4.90% since then. The advances mature in mid-January 2025 and can be repaid anytime without penalty. The Bank intends to repay the advances before the November meeting of the FRB, at which the FRB is expected to reduce short-term interest rates for the second time this year.

Asset growth was further fueled by growth in deposits of $56.1 million and $43.8 million since December 31, 2023 and September 30, 2023, respectively. Deposit growth since December 31, 2023 included growth in NOW accounts of $59.3 million, $40.7 million of which represented balances sold in December 2023 and reacquired in January 2024, and growth in time deposits of $21.8 million. Noninterest-bearing demand and interest-bearing money market accounts declined by $13.3 million and $8.9 million, respectively. Migration to higher cost short-term time deposits reflected customers taking advantage of the significant rise in interest rates and the inversion of the yield curve. The NOW product includes interest-bearing demand transaction accounts enrolled in Bank's reciprocal deposit program, which allows customers the ability to expand FDIC insurance coverage to balances greater than $250,000.