Investar Holding Corporation Announces 2025 Third Quarter Results and Wichita Falls Bancshares, Inc. Transaction Update

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[{"type":"text","content":"BATON ROUGE, LA / ACCESS Newswire / October 20, 2025 / Investar Holding Corporation ("Investar") (NASDAQ:ISTR), the holding company for Investar Bank, National Association (the "Bank"), today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2025. Investar reported net income available to common shareholders of $5.7 million, or $0.54 per diluted common share, for the third quarter of 2025, compared to net income available to common shareholders of $4.5 million, or $0.46 per diluted common share, for the quarter ended June 30, 2025, and net income available to common shareholders of $5.4 million, or $0.54 per diluted common share, for the quarter ended September 30, 2024.","length":713,"tagName":"p","attribs":{}},{"type":"text","content":"On a non-GAAP basis, core earnings per diluted common share for the third quarter of 2025 were $0.54 compared to $0.47 for the second quarter of 2025, and $0.45 for the third quarter of 2024. Core earnings available to common shareholders exclude certain items including, but not limited to, gain on call or sale of investment securities, net; loss on sale or disposition of fixed assets, net; gain (loss) on sale of other real estate owned, net; change in the fair value of equity securities; income from insurance proceeds; income from legal settlement; change in the net asset value of other investments; write down of other real estate owned; severance; acquisition expense; and legal settlement expense (refer to the Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures tables for a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP metrics).","length":825,"tagName":"p","attribs":{}},{"type":"text","content":"Investar's President and Chief Executive Officer John D'Angelo commented:","length":81,"tagName":"p","attribs":{}},{"type":"text","content":""I am very pleased with our third quarter results as we continued to execute on our strategy of consistent, quality earnings through the optimization of our balance sheet. As a result of this strategy, our net interest margin improved substantially to 3.16%, a 13 basis point increase from previous quarter, and we had significant improvements in our return on average assets and efficiency ratio.","length":402,"tagName":"p","attribs":{}},{"type":"text","content":"For the third consecutive quarter, we were able to grow the yield on inter...

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