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Organization and Operations
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2015
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Organization and Operations
NOTE 1: Organization and Operations
 
 
On April 5, 2010, Eagle Bancorp completed its second-step conversion from a partially-public mutual holding company structure to a fully publicly-owned stock holding company structure.  As part of that transaction it also completed a related stock offering.  As a result of the conversion and offering, Eagle Bancorp Montana, Inc. (“the Company”, or “Eagle”) became the stock holding company for American Federal Savings Bank (“AFSB”), and Eagle Financial MHC and Eagle Bancorp ceased to exist.  The Company sold a total of 2,464,274 shares of common stock at a purchase price of $10.00 per share in the offering for gross proceeds of $24,643,000.  Concurrent with the completion of the offering, shares of Eagle Bancorp common stock owned by the public were exchanged.  Shareholders of Eagle Bancorp received 3.80 shares of the Company's common stock for each share of Eagle Bancorp common stock that they owned immediately prior to completion of the transaction.
 
 
  The Company’s Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”), which purchased shares in the offering, was authorized to purchase up to 8.00% of the shares sold in the offering, or 197,142 shares. The ESOP completed its purchase of all such authorized shares in the offering, at a total cost of $1,971,000. 

 
In 2014, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) determined that it was in the Company’s best interests to adopt a Montana community bank charter and the Company applied to the State of Montana to form an interim bank for the purpose of facilitating the conversion of AFSB from a federally chartered savings bank to a Montana-chartered commercial bank.  Upon receiving required approvals of the Montana Division of Banking and Financial Institutions and the federal banking agencies for the conversion the conversion became effective on October 14, 2014. Concurrent with the conversion, the Bank applied, and was approved, for membership in the Federal Reserve System of the Board of Governors. In connection with the conversion, AFSB changed its name to Opportunity Bank of Montana (“the Bank”).  As a result of the conversion, the Bank is now regulated by the Montana Division of Banking and Financial Institutions.  As a Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) member bank, its primary federal regulator is the FRB, and the Company is a registered bank holding company regulated by the FRB.  The Bank is a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank System and its deposit accounts are insured to the applicable limits by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”).

 
The Bank is headquartered in Helena, Montana, and operates additional branches in Butte, Bozeman, Billings, Big Timber, Livingston, Missoula, Hamilton and Townsend, Montana.  It also operates two separate mortgage loan origination locations in Bozeman and Missoula, Montana.  The Bank opened a Loan Production Office in Great Falls, Montana in January 2015.  The Bank’s market area is concentrated in southern Montana, to which it primarily offers commercial, residential and consumer loans.  The Bank’s principal business is accepting deposits and, together with funds generated from operations and borrowings, investing in various types of loans and securities.  Collectively, Eagle Bancorp Montana Inc. and its subsidiaries are referred to herein as “the Company.”

 
In August 2014, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) approved a change in the Company’s fiscal year end from June 30 to December 31 of each year.  The year-end change was effective January 1, 2015.  As a result of this change, the consolidated financial statements include presentation of calendar year (“CY”) 2015 for the period from January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2015, the six month transition period from July 1, 2014 through December 31, 2014 and fiscal year (“FY”) 2014 for the period from July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014.