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Hanover Bancorp, Inc. Reports Earnings for the Third Calendar Quarter and Fiscal Year 2023 and Declares $0.10 Quarterly Cash Dividend
Third Calendar Quarter and Fiscal Year Performance Highlights Net Income: Net income for the quarter ended September 30, 2023 totaled $3.5 million or $0.48

About this update from Hanover Bancorp, Inc.
[{"type":"text","content":"Third Calendar Quarter and Fiscal Year Performance Highlights Net Income: Net income for the quarter ended September 30, 2023 totaled $3.5 million or $0.48 per diluted share (including Series A preferred shares). Net income for the quarter ended June 30, 2023 totaled $3.1 million or $0.42 per diluted share (including Series A preferred shares). The Company recorded net income for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2023 of $15.2 million or $2.05 per diluted share, compared to $23.6 million or $3.68 per diluted share in the comparable 2022 fiscal year.Strong Liquidity Position: At September 30, 2023, undrawn liquidity sources, which include cash and unencumbered securities and secured and unsecured funding capacity, totaled $534.7 million or approximately 204% of uninsured deposit balances.Deposit Activity: Total deposits increased $141.4 million or 8.9% from June 30, 2023. Insured and collateralized deposits, which include municipal deposits, accounted for approximately 85% of total deposits at September 30, 2023.Loan Growth: Loans totaled $1.87 billion, a net increase of $51.1 million, or 11.2% annualized, from June 30, 2023, primarily driven by growth in niche-residential, conventional C&I and SBA loans.Banking Initiatives: At September 30, 2023, the Company’s existing banking initiatives, all of which emphasize both loan and deposit growth, are continuing to gain traction: SBA & USDA Banking: SBA gains on sale increased by approximately 40% from June 2023, and the Bank was included in the SBA’s list of top lenders by volume for the SBA’s 9/30/23 fiscal year, placing 43rd out of 1,615 banks with Agency authorized volume of $139 million.C&I Banking: Deposits at the Hauppauge Business Banking Center, the nexus of the Bank’s commercial banking activities, reached $36.1 million, and loans originated by the C&I Banking Team totaled $88.7 million through the fiscal year ended September 30, 2023.Residential Banking: The Bank achieved $196.0 million in closed loans for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2023. Currently, the Company’s pipeline is approximately $67 million with a weighted average yield of 7.39% before origination and other fees which average 50-100 bps and an average 61% LTV. Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss, Net of Tax, was $1.3 million, reflecting the relatively small size of the Company’s investment portfolio an...