Note 13 - Leases

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2020

Notes to Financial Statements

Lessee, Operating Leases [Text Block]

13. Leases

The Company determines if a contract arrangement is a lease at inception and primarily enters into operating lease contracts for its branch locations, office space and certain equipment. As part of its property lease agreements, the Company may seek to include options to extend or terminate a lease when it is reasonably certain that the Company will exercise those options. The ROU lease asset also includes any lease payments made and lease incentives. Lease expense for lease payments is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term. The Company does not possess any leases that have variable lease payments or residual value guarantees as of December 31, 2020.

ASU 2016-02, “Leases (Topic 842),” as amended by ASU No. 2018-01, “Land Easement Practical Expedient for Transition to Topic 842”; ASU No. 2018-10, “Codification Improvements to Topic 842, Leases”; and ASU No. 2018-11, “Targeted Improvements,” establishes a right-of-use model (“ROU”) that requires a lessee to recognize a ROU asset and lease liability on the balance sheet for all leases with a term longer than 12 months.  The standard provides a number of optional practical expedients in transition. We have elected the ‘package of practical expedients’, which permits us not to reassess under the new standard our prior conclusions about lease identification, lease classification and initial direct costs. We also elected all of the new standard’s available transition practical expedients, including the short-term lease recognition exemption that includes not recognizing ROU assets or lease liabilities for existing short-term leases, and the practical expedient to not separate lease and non-lease components for all of our leases. The Company uses its incremental borrowing rate to determine the present value of its lease liabilities.

The following table represents the operating lease amounts reported on the Consolidated Balance Sheets and other supplemental information as of December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019:

	December 31, 2020			December 31, 2019
	($ In millions)
Operating Leases:
ROU assets	$	30.9		$	34.0
Lease liabilities	$	33.5		$	35.9
Weighted-average remaining lease term (in years)		4.7			5.4
Weighted-average discount rate		2.77	%		3.10	%
Operating cash flows from operating leases	$	9.3		$	8.4
ROU assets obtained in exchange for lease obligations	$	5.7		$	1.8

Operating lease expense was $11.7 million and $13.3 million as of December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively, and includes short-term leases that were immaterial.

The following table presents a maturity analysis of the Company’s operating lease liabilities as of  December 31, 2020:

	As of December 31, 2020
	Operating Leases
	(In thousands)
2021	$	9,384
2022		8,335
2023		6,890
2024		4,635
2025		2,520
Thereafter		4,153
Total lease payments		35,917
Less amount of payment representing interest		(2,433	)
Total present value of lease payments	$	33,484