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PDL Community Bancorp Announces 2020 Fourth Quarter Results

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NEW YORK, March 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PDL Community Bancorp (the “Company”) (NASDAQ: PDLB), the financial holding company for Ponce Bank (the “Bank”) and Mortgage World Bankers, Inc. (“Mortgage World”), reported net income of $1.6 million, or $0.10 per basic and diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2020, compared to net income of $4.0 million, or $0.24 per basic and diluted share, for the prior quarter and net loss of ($7.5 million), or ($0.43) per basic and diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2019.

The Company’s net income for the year ended December 31, 2020 was $3.9 million, or $0.23 per basic and diluted share, compared to net loss of ($5.1 million), or ($0.29) per basic and diluted share, for the year ended December 31, 2019.

Ponce Bank is a federal stock savings association with 13 branches in the New York City metropolitan area, including one in Union City, New Jersey. The Bank is designated a Minority Depository Institution, a Community Development Financial Institution and a certified U.S. Small Business Administration lender. Mortgage World is a mortgage lender operating in five states. As a Federal Housing Administration (“FHA”) approved Title II lender, Mortgage World originates and sells to investors single family loans that are guaranteed by the FHA, as well as conventional mortgages.

Carlos P. Naudon, the Company’s President and CEO, noted “We concluded 2020 as we started it, by investing in the safety of our people and the future of our organization and our communities. Much of this investment consisted of one-time, non-recurring expenditures. Yet, in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic and our one-time investments, we enhanced stakeholder values. During 2020, we completed the Mortgage World acquisition, grew our Company by over $300 million, to $1.4 billion, in assets, and funded the $237.3 million increase in loan portfolio and loans held for sale with a $247.5 million increase in deposits, all while stabilizing our net interest margin to 3.69%. We continued our key investments, spending a combined $3.5 million in one-time expenses for: the implementation of GPS, our Salesforce based CRM ($1.2 million); meeting the needs of Ponce Bankers to maintain their jobs, temporarily enhance their benefits and protect them from COVID-19 pandemic ($1.1 million) and advancing our ability to operate digitally, without paper, ($1.2 million). Additionally, we protected our asset quality by increasing ALLL in response to plausible COVID-19 pandemic repercussions ($2.5 million). We were able to offset these $3.5 million one-time expenses with the $4.2 million net gain recognized from the sale of the real property associated with a relocated branch.”