Regulatory Matters and Stockholders' Equity

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2023

Regulatory Matters and Stockholders' Equity [Abstract]

Regulatory Matters and Stockholders' Equity

NOTE 11 - REGULATORY MATTERS AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

The Company and Bank are subject to various regulatory capital requirements administered by the federal banking agencies. Failure to meet minimum capital requirements can initiate certain mandatory and possibly additional discretionary actions by regulators that, if undertaken, could have a direct material effect on the Company’s financial statements. Under capital adequacy guidelines and the regulatory framework for prompt corrective action, the Company must meet specific capital guidelines that involve quantitative measures of the Company’s assets, liabilities and certain off-balance sheet items as calculated under regulatory accounting practices. The Company’s capital amounts and classification are also subject to qualitative judgments by the regulators about components, risk-weightings and other factors.

Quantitative measures established by regulation to ensure capital adequacy require the Company and the Bank to maintain minimum amounts and ratios (set forth in the table below) of Total, Tier 1 and Common Equity Tier 1 capital (as defined in the regulations) to risk-weighted assets, and of Tier 1 capital to average assets. Management believes, as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, that the Company and the Bank meet all capital adequacy requirements to which they are subject.

As of December 31, 2023, the most recent notification from the regulators has categorized the Bank as well capitalized under the regulatory framework for prompt corrective action. There are no conditions or events since that notification that management believes have changed the Bank’s category.

The Company’s actual capital amounts and ratios are presented in the following table:

								To be Well Capitalized
								under Prompt
					For Capital Adequacy			Corrective Action
	Actual				Purposes			Provision
	Amount		Ratio		Amount	Ratio		Amount	Ratio
	(Dollars in Thousands)
As of December 31, 2023:
Total capital (to risk-weighted assets)	$	217,528	13.06	%	≥$133,240	≥8.00	%	≥$166,550	≥10.00	%
Tier 1 capital (to risk-weighted assets)		199,772	11.99		≥$99,930	≥6.00		≥$133,240	≥8.00
Common Equity Tier 1 capital (to risk-weighted assets)		198,264	11.99		≥$74,947	≥4.50		≥$108,257	≥6.50
Tier 1 capital (to average assets)		199,772	9.00		≥$88,769	≥4.00		≥$110,961	≥5.00

As of December 31, 2022:
Total capital (to risk-weighted assets)	$	211,055	13.58	%	≥$124,303	≥8.00	%	≥$155,379	≥10.00	%
Tier 1 capital (to risk-weighted assets)		194,124	12.49		≥$93,228	≥6.00		≥$124,303	≥8.00
Common Equity Tier 1 capital (to risk-weighted assets)		194,124	12.49		≥$69,921	≥4.50		≥$100,997	≥6.50
Tier 1 capital (to average assets)		194,124	9.36		≥$82,934	≥4.00		≥$103,668	≥5.00

The Bank’s ratios do not differ significantly from the Company’s ratios presented above.

The Company and the Bank are subject to regulatory capital rules which, among other things, impose a common equity Tier 1 minimum capital requirement of 4.50% of risk-weighted assets; set the minimum leverage ratio for all banking organizations at a uniform 4.00% of total assets; set the minimum Tier 1 capital to risk-based assets requirement at 6.00% of risk-weighted assets; and assign a risk-weight of 150% to exposures that are more than 90 days past due or are on nonaccrual status and to certain commercial real estate facilities that finance the acquisition, development or construction of real property. The rules also require unrealized gains and losses on certain “available-for-sale” securities holdings to be included for purposes of calculating regulatory capital requirements unless a one-time opt out is exercised, which the Company and the Bank have done. The rule also limits a banking organization’s dividends, stock repurchases and other capital distributions, and certain discretionary bonus payments to executive officers, if the banking organization does not hold a “capital conservation buffer” consisting of 2.50% of common equity Tier 1 capital to risk-weighted assets above regulatory minimum risk-based requirements. The Company and the Bank are in compliance with their respective new capital requirements, including the capital conservation buffer, as of December 31, 2023.

Pennsylvania banking regulations limit the ability of the Bank to pay dividends or make loans or advances to the Company. Dividends that may be paid in any calendar year are limited to the current year's net profits, combined with the retained net profits of the preceding two years. At December 31, 2023, dividends from the Bank available to be paid to the Company, without prior approval of the Bank's regulatory agency, totaled $53.0 million, subject to the Bank meeting or exceeding regulatory capital requirements. The Company's principal source of funds for dividend payments to shareholders is dividends received from the Bank.