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United Bancorp, Inc. Reports 2025 First Quarter Earnings Performance
MARTINS FERRY, OH / ACCESS Newswire / May 9, 2025 / United Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ:UBCP) reported diluted earnings per share of $0.32 and net income of $1,872,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2025. Randall M. Greenwood, Senior Vice President, ...
About this update from United Bancorp, Inc.
[{"type":"text","content":"MARTINS FERRY, OH / ACCESS Newswire / May 9, 2025 / United Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ:UBCP) reported diluted earnings per share of $0.32 and net income of $1,872,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2025.","length":203,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"Randall M. Greenwood, Senior Vice President, CFO and Treasurer remarked, "We are pleased to report on the earnings performance of United Bancorp, Inc. (UBCP) for the first quarter ended March 31, 2025. For the quarter, our Company achieved solid net income and diluted earnings per share results of $1,872,000 and $0.32. Although these earning metrics are respective decreases of $121,000, or 6.1%, and $0.03, or 8.6%, over the results achieved during the first quarter of last year, they are each respectively higher on a linked-quarter basis by $23,000 and $0.01. As we have previously disclosed, last year's first quarter financial performance results included non-recurring items that added approximately $271,000 to net income and $0.05 to diluted earnings per share. In this year's first quarter, our Company did have a net realized gain on the sale of available for sale securities, which added approximately $113,000 to net income and $0.02 to our diluted earnings per share. Netting these one-time, nonrecurring items out of our reported diluted earnings per share for both years results in "core" diluted earnings per share for each of these periods of $0.30. Considering, over the course of the past twelve months, we have undertaken several transformative projects that that have added to our noninterest expense levels, such as: the construction of our new Wheeling Banking Center, the development and scaling out of both Unified Mortgage and our Treasury Management Programs, the investment in new technology and digital transformation and the acquisition of a property in St. Clairsville, Ohio that will become our Unified Center--- which will house our Accounting, Information Technology and Customer Sales and Service Functions--- we are very happy with the present performance of our Company. With our unwavering focus on growing our Company through our investment in infrastructure, product development and delivery, we strongly believe that these current undertakings… which are dilutive to current financial performance… will provide a pathway to future growth and le...