National Bank Holdings Corporation Q3 2025 Earnings Call - Strong Loan Production and Vista Bancshares Merger Set Growth Stage
Summary
National Bank Holdings Corporation reported solid Q3 2025 results with earnings per diluted share of $0.96 and a robust return on tangible common equity of 14.7%, achieved alongside a strong capital base. Despite facing significant loan payoffs in their commercial real estate (CRE) portfolio, new loan production surged to $421 million for the quarter, driven primarily by commercial and industrial sectors. The announced merger with Vista Bancshares, expected to close in Q1, is viewed as highly strategic, particularly with the opportunity to enhance treasury, trust, and wealth management capabilities in Texas. Credit quality showed marked improvement with a 20% reduction in nonperforming loans and strong liquidity positions. Margins expanded modestly, though future rate cuts by the Fed are expected to pressure deposit costs and net interest margins. Expense growth related to the 2Unify digital platform is anticipated but remains under close management, with further guidance planned for the next quarter. The company highlighted active M&A discussions following the Vista announcement and prudent balance sheet management amid evolving competitive dynamics, especially from private credit players encroaching on CRE lending.
Key Takeaways
- Reported third quarter net income of $35.3 million, or $0.92 earnings per diluted share, with adjusted EPS at $0.96 excluding acquisition expenses.
- Returned 14.7% on tangible common equity while maintaining strong capital ratios: 10.6% TCE ratio, 11.5% Tier 1 leverage, 14.7% CET1.
- Generated $421 million in loan fundings for the quarter, led by commercial and industrial loans expanding at an annualized rate of 8.7%.
- Experienced heavy payoffs primarily in commercial real estate loans transitioning from construction to permanent financing amid competitive private credit conditions.
- Nonperforming loans declined 20% quarter-over-quarter to $27 million, with credit metrics showing continuous improvement and net recoveries realized.
- Net interest margin expanded three basis points to 3.98%, with projections to hold in mid-3.9% range, excluding any Fed rate cuts.
- Total deposits increased by $2 billion from prior quarter, with stable average balances and cost of deposits at 2.08%.
- Noninterest income rose 21% sequentially, benefiting from $3.5 million in unrealized gains on fintech investments and higher mortgage banking income.
- 2Unify digital platform expenses increased $6.2 million in Q3 with further marketing and variable expenses expected; detailed guidance to be provided next quarter.
- Merger with Vista Bancshares remains on track for Q1 close; Vista's strong results and complementary capabilities in treasury, trust, and wealth management are strategic growth drivers.
- The company is actively engaged in further M&A discussions seeking to expand market share, especially in Texas.
- Management confirmed disciplined pricing on loans and deposits with readiness to adjust deposit rates following Fed rate changes.
- Expense reduction initiatives announced last year are on target despite some Q3 noise related to acquisition and 2Unify costs.
- Private credit competition primarily impacts CRE lending, driving some payoffs and pricing pressure but is not targeted for direct competition by NBH.
- NBH carries minimal exposure to higher-risk sectors like NDFI lending and monitors vulnerabilities in agriculture and transportation sectors closely.
Full Transcript
Shelly, Conference Operator: Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the National Bank Holdings Corporation twenty twenty five Third Quarter Earnings Call. My name is Shelly, and I will be your conference operator for today. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded for replay purposes. I will now turn the call over to Emily Gooden, Chief Accounting Officer and Director of Investor Relations.
Please go ahead.
Emily Gooden, Chief Accounting Officer and Director of Investor Relations, National Bank Holdings Corporation: Thank you, Shelly, and good morning. We will begin today’s call with prepared remarks followed by a question and answer session. I would like to remind you that this conference call will contain forward looking statements, including, but not limited to statements regarding the company’s strategy, loans, deposits, capital, net interest income, non interest income, margins, allowance taxes and non interest expense. Actual results could differ materially from those discussed today. These forward looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, which are disclosed in more detail in the company’s most recent filings with the U.
S. Securities and Exchange Commission. These statements speak only as of the date of this call and National Bank Holdings Corporation undertakes no obligation to update or revise these statements. In addition, the call today will reference certain non GAAP measures, which National Bank Holdings Corporation believes provides useful information for investors. Reconciliations of these non GAAP financial measures to the GAAP measures are provided in the news release posted on the Investor Relations section of w w w dot nationalbankholdings dot com.
It is now my pleasure to turn the call over and introduce National Bank Holdings Corporation’s Chairman and CEO, Mr. Tim Laney.
Tim Laney, Chairman and CEO, National Bank Holdings Corporation: Thank you, Emily. That’s one of the more enthusiastic readouts of disclaimers I’ve heard in a while. That was great. So thank you. Good morning all and thanks for joining us as we discuss National Bank Holdings third quarter earnings results.
I’m joined by our President, Aldis Berkhanz as well as our Chief Financial Officer, Nicole Van Denneville. We’re pleased to have delivered $0.96 of earnings per diluted share and a return on tangible common equity of 14.72%. And it should be noted that this return was achieved while maintaining a high level of capital. We were able to deliver these results despite continued headwinds related to a heavy volume of payoffs coming primarily out of our CRE portfolio. Now having said this, I’m proud of our team’s new loan production during the quarter and the quality of the new relationships is very strong.
We’re pleased to announce our merger with Bancshares or to have announced our merger with Vista Bancshares during the quarter. I’ll have to say the more we learn about the quality of our new teammates, the more excited we become about future possibilities. And we believe we’re set up for a nice fourth quarter. New relationship activity is strong. Credit quality trends continue to be positive.
We have additional productivity initiatives in the work, and we believe we have some very positive possibilities for 2Unify. So on that note, I’ll turn the call over to Nicole to cover the quarter in greater detail. Nicole?
Nicole Van Denneville, Chief Financial Officer, National Bank Holdings Corporation: Thank you, Tim, and good morning. During today’s call, I will cover the financial results for the third quarter as well as touch on our guidance for the remainder of the year, which does not include any future interest rate policy changes by the Fed. For the third quarter, we reported net income of $35,300,000 or $0.92 of earnings per diluted share. We recently announced our planned merger with Vista Bank and we remain on track to close in the first quarter. In conjunction with the acquisition work, we incurred approximately $1,700,000 in deal related expenses during the quarter.
Excluding the acquisition expenses, adjusted net income increased 30% annualized over the prior quarter to $36,600,000 or $0.96 of earnings per diluted share. This resulted in a strong adjusted return on average tangible assets of 1.6% and an adjusted return on average tangible common equity of 14.7% on an elevated equity base. During the third quarter, we grew our fully taxable equivalent adjusted pre provision net revenue by 17.5% annualized over the prior quarter, maintained a top quartile net interest margin and built additional excess capital. Also during the quarter, our teams generated $421,000,000 of loan funding, bringing total year to date loan fundings to $1,000,000,000 Quarterly loan fundings have increased each 2025 and our bankers continue to build loan pipeline. All this will touch on the loan pay down headwinds we’ve been experiencing in his comments.
Our disciplined approach to loan and deposit pricing over the last twelve months has resulted in solid margin expansion. Fully taxable equivalent net interest margin expanded three basis points during the third quarter to 3.98%, which is 11 basis points of margin expansion over the same quarter last year. For the remainder of 2025, we project fully taxable equivalent net interest margin to remain in the mid-3.9s. And as I mentioned earlier, this does not incorporate any future interest rate decisions by the Fed. Credit quality improved during the quarter with a 20% reduction in non performing loans, which now stand at just $27,000,000 Our non performing loan ratio improved nine basis points during the quarter to 36 basis points, which is 10 basis points lower than year end levels.
As a result of proactive efforts to resolve problem loans, we realized net recoveries of five basis points annualized during the quarter. The allowance to total loans ratio remained consistent at 1.2%. Additionally, we continue to hold $18,000,000 of marks against our acquired loan portfolio, which adds an additional 24 basis points of loan loss coverage if applied across the entire loan portfolio. Turning to deposits. Total deposits ended the quarter $2.00 $2,000,000 higher than the prior quarter end and average deposits held steady at $8,200,000,000 Cost of deposits totaled 2.08% and our total cost of funds was 2.1%.
Non interest income for the third quarter totaled $20,700,000 21% higher than the second quarter and 13% higher than the third quarter of last year. The quarter benefited from $3,500,000 of unrealized gains on partnership investments as well as higher service charges and mortgage banking income over the prior quarter. For the remainder of 2025, we project our total non interest income to be in the range of 15,000,000 to $17,000,000 We are pleased to have launched UNIFY during the quarter and we plan to provide two UNIFY revenue guidance during our next quarterly earnings call. Non interest expense totaled $67,200,000 and included $1,700,000 of acquisition expenses and $6,200,000 of 2Unify expense. Now that we are live with 2Unify, our linked quarter 2Unify expense increased as expected with the amortization of the associated capitalized development assets.
When adjusting for the acquisition expenses and increased to Unifi expense impacting the quarter, we remain on track to deliver the results expected from the expense reduction actions taken during the second quarter. As a result, we project core non interest expense for the remainder of the year to be in the range of 64,000,000 to $66,000,000 before the impact of acquisition related expenses. We maintain strong levels of liquidity and continue to build excess capital. We ended the quarter with a strong TCE ratio of 10.6%, Tier one leverage ratio of 11.5% and a common equity Tier one ratio of 14.7%. We repurchased 240,000 shares during the quarter totaling $8,900,000 bringing total shares repurchased year to date to 359,000 shares.
During the third quarter, our tangible book value per share grew 12% annualized to $27.45 With that, I will turn the call over to Aldis.
Aldis Berkhanz, President, National Bank Holdings Corporation: Thank you, Nicole, good morning. Let me start by saying that our preparations for Vista merger are progressing well and remain on track. Vista reported strong financial results for third quarter, which further validate the strategic value of this transaction and we continue to be very excited about what this partnership will bring to our combined organization. For NBH this quarter, we saw loan production return to more normalized levels with total loan fundings of $421,000,000 Fundings were led by Commercial Banking, particularly in our C and I portfolio, which expanded at an annualized rate of 8.7%. This reflects a healthy rebound in client activity and continued progress in building our relationship driven commercial franchise.
While we are encouraged by this growth, overall loan portfolio outstandings were tempered by continued loan pay downs, particularly in certain CRE categories where stabilized properties have moved to permanent financing. At quarter end, our total non owner occupied CRE to total risk based capital ratio stood at a low 132%, reflecting a well balanced risk profile. On pro form a basis, incorporating the pending Vista transaction, we expect to remain comfortably below the 200% level. Credit metrics continue to demonstrate a stable loan portfolio with improving trends. Both classified and criticized assets declined during the third quarter.
Non performing assets decreased by another $6,300,000 with the NPA ratio improving by eight basis points from the prior quarter and by 10 basis points on a year to date basis. Overall, we are pleased with the return to normalized loan production, the strength in our C and I portfolio and the disciplined management of our CRE exposure, all of which position us well for sustainable high quality growth going forward. A good example of our relationship banking success this quarter was in core deposits, which grew approximately $200,000,000 on linked quarter spot balance basis, with nearly half of that growth coming from non interest bearing transaction deposits. Regarding deposit costs, we expect to see a decrease in the fourth quarter as a result of actions taken in late September, following the most recent Fed rate cut. We are also prepared to take additional measures should the Fed continue on its rate cutting path.
One final note on deposits. In the fourth quarter, we plan to use the flexibility provided by our Camber deposits to manage our balance sheet and remain below the $10,000,000,000 threshold. Lastly, I’d like to highlight the strong performance from our long standing FinTech partnership investment, which delivered $3,500,000 in gains included in this quarter’s financials. While these results from these initiatives may not always move in a straight line, we continue to expect positive financial and strategic outcomes over the long term. Tim, I’ll turn it back to you.
Tim Laney, Chairman and CEO, National Bank Holdings Corporation: Thanks Aldis. Well, we had an active third quarter. We generated $421,000,000 in loan fundings. We had solid deposit growth. We maintained pricing discipline resulting in a net interest margin of 3.98%.
We experienced a decline in classified and criticized assets accompanied by a nice decrease in non performing assets. We grew our tangible book value per share 12% annualized during the quarter and we announced the meaningful acquisition of Vista Bank shares. And on that note, Shelly, I would ask you to open up the call for questions.
Shelly, Conference Operator: Thank If you’re using a speakerphone, please make sure your mute function is turned off to allow your signal to reach our equipment. Again, you could press star one to ask a question, and we’ll pause for just a moment to allow everyone an opportunity to signal for questions. And we’ll now take your first question coming from the line of Jeff Rulis with D. A. Davidson.
Jeff Rulis, Analyst, D.A. Davidson: Thanks. Good morning.
Aldis Berkhanz, President, National Bank Holdings Corporation: Hey, good morning.
Jeff Rulis, Analyst, D.A. Davidson: I wanted to dig into the margin in a little more detail. The mid 3.9% guide, talking about entering the quarter with some lower deposit costs. Just kind of engage with that a little bit more on what looks like rate cuts that are near certainty, the impact of which and maybe the push and pull of why at $3.98 you’re kind of pulling it back down, I suppose absent cuts. But maybe you could touch on the expected impact there.
Nicole Van Denneville, Chief Financial Officer, National Bank Holdings Corporation: Yes, good morning Jeff, this is Nicole. Mention that the third quarter’s margin, it was positively impacted by about $05,000,000 of interest and fees recovered on the large recovery that we had in the quarter. That was about two basis points of margin impact. So we still feel good and solid mid 3.9% margin for the quarter. Looking ahead to the potential for rate cuts in Q4, the very likely outcome of a rate cut next week, our teams have started teeing up action to take down deposit rates in line with the Fed.
We have a history of being very disciplined both on rates up and rates down cycles of managing our rates on both sides of the balance sheet and we prepared to take those actions next week. And we do believe for that rate cut that that deposit actions that we have planned will offset the impact of the repricing on our variable loan portfolio.
Jeff Rulis, Analyst, D.A. Davidson: Okay, really helpful. Appreciate it. And then on the expense side, T UNIFI step up, is that can we view that as kind of will now be in the run rate? Do you see a leg up higher again in coming quarters? Or just trying to get a little more color on the expense build, if any, regarding that piece before we get kind of the revenue potential visibility in the fourth quarter call.
Nicole Van Denneville, Chief Financial Officer, National Bank Holdings Corporation: Yes, on the topic of 2U expenses, that step up this quarter was expected in line with launching 2Unify. We were expecting a step up in depreciation expense of that capitalized development asset. We will continue to invest in marketing for 2Unify. And then as we onboard 2Unify clients, there’s a component of some variable expense that will come online as well.
Jeff Rulis, Analyst, D.A. Davidson: I guess if, Nicole, we were to zoom out a little bit and think about 26 overall expenses, don’t want to front run as you pull budgets. But trying to think about overall with 2Unify included, I know you’ve had some actions to reduce costs as well. I don’t know if you could speak to overall growth of expenses expected in 2026 or just maybe frame up the push and pull of what from a jump off point of what you kind of framed up of, call it, 65,000,000 core in fourth quarter?
Tim Laney, Chairman and CEO, National Bank Holdings Corporation: Jeff, this is Jim. We’re in the middle of some pretty interesting partnership discussions as it relates to two UNIFI right now. And we’re really not in a position to speak in more detail to what might happen there in ’twenty six. We will maintain our commitment, as Nicole mentioned earlier, to address to UNIFY one way or the other in our fourth quarter earnings call. I would tell you, even with the step up in if everything was status quo, even with the step up in amortization, depreciation next year on to Unifi, we will work to keep those expenses relatively flat.
But that’s assuming status quo and at this point, we just can’t speak any more detail on to you.
Jeff Rulis, Analyst, D.A. Davidson: Yep, appreciate It’s going to take a little time to kind of pull that together. So thanks for
Aldis Berkhanz, President, National Bank Holdings Corporation: the thoughts. I’ll step back. Thanks, Jeff.
Shelly, Conference Operator: Your next question is coming from the line of Kelly Molda with KBW.
Kelly Molda, Analyst, KBW: Hey, good morning. Thanks for the question. Maybe turning back to loan growth, it was nice to see, I think you called out a step up in production. I see balances were down. Can you speak to, if any of the pay downs here?
I know in prior quarters, had been managing the book for credit. Was there any kind of puts and pulls related to that? And if you could provide an outlook for given what sounds like strength in the pipelines, what the expectations are ahead? What do you expect to reverse this trend now in Q4? Thank you.
Tim Laney, Chairman and CEO, National Bank Holdings Corporation: Thanks, Kelly. This is Tim. I’ll begin and then turn it to Aldis. I would tell you that the third quarter reduction volume was not driven by directive pay downs. We really think we’ve moved through addressing any risk in the portfolio that we felt we needed to address given the macroeconomic environment.
What we’ve seen in the third quarter was largely heavy volume of payoffs as temporary or construction funding was going to perm with very attractive perm financing by alternative lenders. And quite frankly, we have seen private credit continue to step into the market lending money on credit terms and at pricing that I’ve done this, so call it, four decades, and I just don’t understand what they’re doing because we’ve just simply seen price and credit term competition from private credit that we’re not going to compete with. So I’ll turn it to all just to talk about how we believe we’re positioned to overcome that, because we are feeling very good about our pipeline and where we now stand with our in particular CRE portfolio. Yes. Thanks, Tim.
Aldis Berkhanz, President, National Bank Holdings Corporation: And I’ll just add on the Page 10 of the investor deck on the loan summary table, it actually kind of is visible. If you look at our commercial real estate production itself was pretty healthy this quarter, but embedded we kind of had, I’ll call it, between 100,000,000 $150,000,000 headwind from those pay downs that Tim was mentioning, and those are on the table above that you can see on between our originated and acquired books. Looking at the fourth quarter, our pipelines just like entering this quarter look very healthy, very good. We are optimistic that we return to growth subject to this behavior that we just discussed. But other than that, I’m very optimistic about fourth quarter.
Kelly Molda, Analyst, KBW: Got it. Got it. That’s helpful. And then just on the expenses, you announced the cost save plan last July. Wondering, did we get the full benefit of that this quarter?
And one, and then two, I apologize if I missed it, but how much to UNIFY expenses were in Q3 as well as what’s baked into that 64 to 66 for Q4?
Nicole Van Denneville, Chief Financial Officer, National Bank Holdings Corporation: Yes. Good morning, Kelly. I’ll take that one. We’ve been closely monitoring our progress on the expense reduction actions that we announced last quarter And we are delivering on those commitments. You’re right, Q3 was a little noisy.
It was impacted by $1,700,000 of acquisition expenses, dollars 6,200,000.0 of two Unifi expenses. The third quarter, it was impacted by higher mortgage commissions. We view that as a positive because it was driven by higher mortgage revenues. And then there was a couple of other timing impacts in the third quarter. We had about a $700,000 fair value adjustment on our deferred comp liability and then we were impacted by the timing of certain occupancy and equipment expenses.
Kelly Molda, Analyst, KBW: Got it. Thanks. I think the last thing was, how much to UNIFI is in the q four run rate?
Nicole Van Denneville, Chief Financial Officer, National Bank Holdings Corporation: Yeah. We, in the q four run rate, we’re expecting, to UNIFI expenses somewhere in the range of 7,000,000 to 9,000,000. And that does account for some step up in marketing spend and variable costs associated with user increases.
Kelly Molda, Analyst, KBW: Got it. That’s that’s that’s helpful. Last question for me. You guys announced a really exciting acquisition last month, and it’s on track to close next quarter. Wondering if you found the pace of discussions, clearly, you’re in the market, given your announcement.
So wondering if you could provide us, Tim, with kind of if if you’ve seen any flurry of inbound on the back of that announcement. Thanks.
Tim Laney, Chairman and CEO, National Bank Holdings Corporation: Kelly, I think I’ve slept in my own bed four nights over the last three weeks. There have been a lot of discussions and we remain focused across our existing footprint. We would love to do more in Texas and build on what John and his team at Vista have built. And we’re seeing other interesting opportunities that we think could create meaningful market share step ups in markets that we already do business with. So the short answer to your question is, yes, we’re very active.
Kelly Molda, Analyst, KBW: Great. Thank you. I will step back.
Tim Laney, Chairman and CEO, National Bank Holdings Corporation: Thank you, Kelly.
Shelly, Conference Operator: Next question is coming from the line of Andrew Terrell with Stephens.
Andrew Terrell, Analyst, Stephens: Hey, good morning.
Aldis Berkhanz, President, National Bank Holdings Corporation: Hey, good morning.
Andrew Terrell, Analyst, Stephens: Tim, I wanted to ask a question around just to unify, and I also don’t want to front run any conversation we’ll have in January. And I get that maybe not too much to share here. But I I guess I’m I’m just curious from a big picture standpoint. You guys have been pretty pretty clear on on some of the expense recently associated with that. And, you know, it sounds like marketing spend could ramp, and then there’s also maybe a variable component as you begin onboarding clients from an expense standpoint.
I’m just curious, when you look near to medium term, how long do you think it takes to generate positive operating leverage? And do you feel like you have near term visibility to positive operating leverage in that business?
Tim Laney, Chairman and CEO, National Bank Holdings Corporation: I applaud you for asking the question. And I’ll simply say again, we’ll be providing all of that detail on our fourth quarter earnings call. I think I would also, and I mentioned this earlier, repeat that we’re literally in the middle of a very important partnership discussion that we believe could have a powerful impact on the way to UNIFY moves forward. And it’s just inappropriate to be talking about to UNIFY anymore this morning.
Andrew Terrell, Analyst, Stephens: Understood. I appreciate it. Yeah, had give it a shot there. Thank you.
Tim Laney, Chairman and CEO, National Bank Holdings Corporation: And I applaud. I
Andrew Terrell, Analyst, Stephens: was also interested just on your discussion around private credit and the competition you guys are experiencing there. And I’m curious, Ted, if you could share any more specifically around where you’re seeing that either geographically from product type? Just any more color on where you’re seeing private credit be most competitive?
Tim Laney, Chairman and CEO, National Bank Holdings Corporation: Yes. I mean, primarily in the commercial real estate sectors. And I would tell you that’s the vast majority of the action we’re seeing there.
Andrew Terrell, Analyst, Stephens: Yes. Okay. And then last one for me. Just I thought you guys bought back a little bit of stock this quarter. Your capital is still built very nicely.
You’ll close Vista, but still have a pretty strong capital position. And I know it sounds like interested in future M and A, but any interest in further capital deployment in the buyback?
Aldis Berkhanz, President, National Bank Holdings Corporation: Yes, Andrew, is Aldis. So as you mentioned, we did buy $8,000,000 or so in capital. We still have $35,000,000 $36,000,000 authorization left. We’ll be opportunistic whether along the in sort of in light of the discussions that we’re having with potential M and A targets as well. But also, it’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the 12% tangible book value growth this quarter that we built on top of that $8,000,000 buyback.
So we feel very good about our capital build over the last twelve months, sit very strong excess capital levels and we are looking at potential strategic options there.
Andrew Terrell, Analyst, Stephens: Perfect. Thank you guys for taking the questions.
Tim Laney, Chairman and CEO, National Bank Holdings Corporation: Thank you.
Shelly, Conference Operator: And your next question will be coming from the line of Brett Rabatin with Hovde Group.
Brett Rabatin, Analyst, Hovde Group: Hey. Good morning, everybody. I won’t ask about won’t ask about to unify. Wanted wanted to go back just to the payoffs. I know we’ve kind of beat out to death here a little bit too.
But just wanted to make sure, it sounds like you’re expecting better trends in the fourth quarter, private credit aside. Does the shape of the curve on the longer end coming in here, how does that impact maybe the commercial real estate portfolio? And do you have any line of sight into CRE books staying? Just Or any thoughts on the yield curve from here relative to that portfolio?
Aldis Berkhanz, President, National Bank Holdings Corporation: Not at this moment. I don’t think we’ve seen I’ll say, I have not heard from our bankers that we’ve seen a paydown of prepay, so to say, based on the refinancing opportunities and lower yields. Now that’s not to say that that doesn’t come through at some time, but to date shape of the yield curve has not impacted our pay down activity.
Brett Rabatin, Analyst, Hovde Group: Okay. And then the other question I had was just around the Visa deal. And and, Tim, it sounds like you’ve been on the road quite a bit. Just was hoping to hear I know one of the aspects of the transaction that you’re excited about is is treasury management, wealth wealth, and and trust. You know, any any thoughts relative to the deal call on on fee income and and those things specifically?
Tim Laney, Chairman and CEO, National Bank Holdings Corporation: We lost you at the end. You said any thoughts related to what?
Brett Rabatin, Analyst, Hovde Group: Oh, I’m sorry. Any thoughts related to wealth, treasury management, trusts, those opportunities for the pro form a franchise?
Tim Laney, Chairman and CEO, National Bank Holdings Corporation: Well, look, first and foremost, what I’m excited about is the caliber of leadership and the quality of the new teammates coming in from Vista Bank shares. I think they’ve done a remarkable job taking market share in an important market like Dallas, Texas. And I don’t have any reason to expect that to do anything but other than grow. I think the combination of these teams is going to make us incredibly strong and we’re going to be leveraging key talent out of Vista across our entire organization. We’ve remained committed to taking best practices, whether they come from MBH or Vista and running with those best practices.
And we are going to be delivering frankly a much broader suite of treasury management capabilities into Texas, into Vista with NVH’s arsenal of treasury capabilities. We’re super excited about what we can do in the trust and wealth management arena. As a practical matter, Vista had been outsourcing that to a third party. Given what we’re able to do with our Wyoming based trust business in particular and bringing those opportunities to clients in the state of Texas, just as we’re doing around the rest of the franchise, I think can be monumental. I mean, I am genuinely that excited about it.
I continue to say that what we’re able to do in Wyoming for clients who are really concerned about privacy, that are concerned about controlling their trust, etcetera, is unfortunately one of the better kept secrets. But as we work to get that message out, I think we’re going to continue to see exceptional growth there. Now was there one other? I hit treasury, I hit trust, wealth management.
Brett Rabatin, Analyst, Hovde Group: And
Tim Laney, Chairman and CEO, National Bank Holdings Corporation: really, I’ll say with Vista, they’ve had they’ve built a solid private banking business and again, have been outsourcing that trust and wealth management piece. And so for the opportunity to bring that in house is exciting. And all of a sudden, I’d ask you I’ll to just
Aldis Berkhanz, President, National Bank Holdings Corporation: say that we’re not waiting until first quarter when we come together to start working on these partnerships. John and I have weekly calls and we bring our teams together and to the extent that they already are handing off those opportunities someplace else, we’d rather be there in fourth quarter already picking up those opportunities. So that work is underway and those synergies should be hopefully start showing their benefits here in fourth quarter.
Brett Rabatin, Analyst, Hovde Group: Okay. That’s all really helpful. Thanks so much guys.
Tim Laney, Chairman and CEO, National Bank Holdings Corporation: All right. Thank you.
Shelly, Conference Operator: Next question is coming from the line of Kelly Moda with KBW.
Kelly Molda, Analyst, KBW: Hey, thanks for letting me jump on. I figured kind of while while we have you m b h has been great at managing credit. You did have that, you know, one idiosyncratic loan, I think, in one q, but otherwise, it’s been really strong. Tim, all this, I’m just wondering, given the focus on NDFI lending, doesn’t look like MBH has much exposure here. Wondering if you have some high level thoughts as to, potential risks and anything else that you might be direct analysts to more carefully watch?
Yes.
Aldis Berkhanz, President, National Bank Holdings Corporation: We really don’t have any thoughts because we really don’t have much of that. It’s well below 1%. So we of total loans, so we
Tim Laney, Chairman and CEO, National Bank Holdings Corporation: Maybe that’s indicative of our thoughts.
Aldis Berkhanz, President, National Bank Holdings Corporation: Yes, but that’s the answer.
Tim Laney, Chairman and CEO, National Bank Holdings Corporation: But in terms of other sectors that I just think we have to continue to be watching closely. In the ag space, it’s commodity row crops and the vulnerability there. And it’s again a space we have limited exposure to. But I mean cattle operations are probably at some of the best performance levels in history. On the other hand, commodity exposure, that would be a tough place to be exposed to.
We’ve talked about it before, but another space that continues to just face tragic headwinds is transportation. And we worked aggressively to reduce the exposure that we were concerned about there and think that that’s a forgive the pun, but a long road back for those truckers. So those would be a couple of areas that we I guess if we were on the investor side, we would be keeping an eye on.
Kelly Molda, Analyst, KBW: Got it. Thank you so much.
Tim Laney, Chairman and CEO, National Bank Holdings Corporation: You bet, Kelly. Thanks for the question.
Shelly, Conference Operator: Thank you. And I’m showing we have no further questions at this time. I will now turn the call back to Mr. Laney for his closing remarks.
Tim Laney, Chairman and CEO, National Bank Holdings Corporation: Thank you, Shelly. I’ll be brief. Just thank you so much for your time and attention this morning. Please feel free to reach out to us if you have any additional questions, and we will respond promptly. Have a great day.
Shelly, Conference Operator: And this concludes today’s conference call. If you would like to listen to the telephone replay of this call, it will be available in approximately twenty four hours and the link will be on the company’s website on the Investor Relations page. Thank you very much and have a great day. You may now disconnect.