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Peoples Financial Services Corp. Reports Fourth Quarter And Record Full Year 2020 Earnings
SCRANTON, Pa., Feb. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Peoples Financial Services Corp. ("Peoples") (NASDAQ: PFIS), the bank holding company for Peoples Security Bank
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[{"type":"text","content":"SCRANTON, Pa., Feb. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Peoples Financial Services Corp. (\"Peoples\") (NASDAQ: PFIS), the bank holding company for Peoples Security Bank and Trust Company, today reported unaudited financial results at and for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2020. Peoples reported net income of $8.2 million, or $1.13 per diluted share for the three months ended December 31, 2020, a 62.6% increase when compared to $5.0 million, or $0.68 per share for the comparable period of 2019. The increase in earnings over the year ago period is a result of a $2.9 million decrease to the provision for loan losses, a $0.9 million increase to noninterest income, and a $0.6 million increase to pre-provision net interest income, offset by higher noninterest expenses of $1.1 million and a higher income tax provision of $0.9 million.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nNet income for the twelve months ended December 31, 2020, totaled $29.4 million or $4.00 per diluted share, a 14.1% increase when compared to $25.7 million or $3.47 per diluted share for 2019. The increase in earnings in the 2020 twelve month period is the result of higher pre-provision net interest income of $4.3 million due primarily to lower funding costs, higher noninterest income of $1.5 million and lower noninterest expense of $0.7 million, partially offset by a $1.3 million increase to the provision for loan losses and a $1.7 million increase to the income tax provision.\nIn addition to evaluating its results of operations in accordance with GAAP, Peoples routinely supplements its evaluation with an analysis of certain non-GAAP financial measures, such as tangible stockholders' equity and core net income ratios. The reported results included in this release contain items, which Peoples considers non-core, namely gains and losses incurred within the investment securities portfolio. Peoples believes the reported non-GAAP financial measures provide information useful to investors in understanding its operating performance and trends. Where non-GAAP disclosures are used in this press release, a reconciliation to the comparable GAAP measure is provided in the accompanying tables. The non-GAAP financial measures Peoples uses may differ from the non-GAAP financial measures of other financial institutions. \nCore net income, which we have defined to exclude gains or losses fr...