Norman Bagwell
Analyst · Piper Jaffray. Please go ahead
Thanks, Marty. First, let's look at the loan portfolio on a market-by-market basis. As you can see on slide 14, seven or eight markets grew nicely in the second quarter. The Arizona market continued its strong recent performance, posting 9.4% sequential growth, with growth balanced between C&I, which is up 10.1% and CRE, which is up 9.2%. Kansas City also had very strong second quarter, up 7.6% sequentially, driven by four new deals that we've been working on for some time that happen to close in the quarter. On a year-over-year basis, you can see that again, seven or eight markets generated healthy growth compared to the same time last year, with Arizona and Texas showing the highest year-over-year growth percentage at 38.9% and 17.3% respectively. As indicated on slide 15 of the presentation, commercial loans were up 4.1% for the quarter from 9.4 billion to 9.8 billion. Healthcare was our strongest commercial lending sector in the second quarter, posting 8.9% sequential growth and wholesale and retail was right behind with 8.4% growth. As expected, the energy loan growth flattened out in the second quarter. On a year-over-year basis, commercial loans are up healthy 16.8%. As noted on the slide, every single segment of the C&I portfolio posted strong year-over-year growth, led by manufacturing, energy, services and healthcare. Slide 16 shows the overall loan portfolio for the company. Commercial real estate grew at a 3.3% pace in Q2, while C&I as noted grew 4.1%. Residential Mortgage declined 2.2% and Consumer Lending declined modestly in the quarter. On a year-over-year basis, the C&I portfolio was up 16.8%, while the CRE portfolio was up 14.3%. Consumer Lending was up 8.6% and Residential Mortgage was down 6.1%. Thus far in 2015, we are having good success in both expanding relationships with our existing customers and we believe we are taking share and gaining new customers on the competitive front. As Marty noted, we do see loan growth moderating in the second half of 2015. We've had significant growth since the beginning of 2014 and while the pipelines in our commercial real estate, healthcare and general C&I businesses remain very strong at the quarter end. We think the current portfolio growth rate is unsustainable, given an expected reduction of our energy outstandings between now and year-end. On slide 17, loan yields were up 6 basis points in the quarter, largely due to interest recoveries in the quarter, as the competitive environment remained relatively stable throughout the quarter. Stacy will now discuss energy lending, commercial real-estate and credit quality. Stacy?