IOWA CITY, Iowa, Oct. 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MidWestOne Financial Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: MOFG) ("we," "our," or the "Company") today reported results for the third quarter of 2025.

Third Quarter 2025 Summary¹

• Net income of $17.0 million, or $0.82 per diluted common share. Adjusted earnings of $18.1 million, or $0.87² per common share.
  • Noninterest income was $10.3 million, which included a negative MSR valuation adjustment of $611 thousand.
  • Noninterest expense was $37.6 million, which included a $655 thousand loss on extinguishment of debt and merger-related costs of $132 thousand.
  • Efficiency ratio of 58.21%².
• Net interest margin (tax equivalent) was 3.57%²; core net interest margin expanded 1 basis point ("bps") to 3.50%².
• Annualized loan growth of 3.5%.
• Total deposits increased 1.7% from the linked quarter.
• Tangible book value per share of $24.96², an increase of 4.3%.
• Criticized loans ratio improved 16 bps to 4.99% and nonperforming loans ratio improved 17 bps to 0.68%.
• Common equity tier 1 ("CET1") capital ratio improved 8 bps to 11.10%.

CEO Commentary

Charles (Chip) Reeves, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, commented, "We are absolutely thrilled with the announcement of our partnership with Nicolet Bankshares, Inc. that will create the pre-eminent Midsize bank in the Upper Midwest. We share common values with an extreme focus on our customers and team members and we look forward to the future of the combined Nicolet, and the positive impact we will have on the communities MidWestOne has served for decades.”

The third quarter of 2025 saw the power of our team and their dedicated focus on our clients and the execution of our strategic initiatives come to fruition. Return on average assets reached 1.09%, driven by solid loan and deposit growth, expanded noninterest income and disciplined expense management. Three years ago, we dedicated ourselves to building a pre-eminent Commercial & Industrial ("C&I") bank in the lower middle to middle market space within our geographic footprint. That objective continues to bear fruit with year over year C&I loan growth of 10.9%, noninterest bearing deposit balances up 4.4% and treasury management revenues climbing at low double-digit rates. In addition, our complementary wealth management business, driven by talent and client acquisition and broad market gains, increased noninterest income 19.0% from the prior year.

I'm incredibly proud of our dedicated MidWestOne team who continue to focus on our customer and one another and could not be more excited as we build momentum for the remainder of 2025 and sprint to the start of 2026.”

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_{¹ Third Quarter Summary compares to the second quarter of 2025 (the "linked quarter") unless noted.
² Non-GAAP measure. See the separate Non-GAAP Measures section for a reconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP measure.}

_{³ Non-GAAP measure. See the separate Non-GAAP Measures section for a reconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP measure.}

REVENUE REVIEW

Total revenue for the third quarter of 2025 increased $1.0 million from the second quarter of 2025 due primarily to higher net interest income during the quarter. When compared to the third quarter of 2024, total revenue increased $154.1 million due to higher net interest income and noninterest income. Excluding the pre-tax securities impairment loss of $140.4 million recognized in the third quarter of 2024 as part of the balance sheet repositioning, total revenue increased $13.8 million.

Net interest income of $51.0 million for the third quarter of 2025 increased $1.0 million from the second quarter of 2025 due primarily to higher earning asset volumes, partially offset by higher funding volumes. When compared to the third quarter of 2024, net interest income increased $13.5 million due to higher earning asset yields and lower funding volumes and costs, partially offset by lower earning asset volumes.

The Company's tax equivalent net interest margin was 3.57%³ in both the third quarter of 2025 and the second quarter of 2025, driven by minimal change in interest bearing liability costs and earning asset yields.

The Company's tax equivalent net interest margin was 3.57%³ in the third quarter of 2025, compared to 2.51%³ in the third quarter of 2024, driven by higher earning asset yields and lower interest bearing liability costs. Total earning assets yield increased 64 bps from the third quarter of 2024, primarily due to an increase of 191 bps in total investment securities. Interest bearing liability costs decreased 47 bps to 2.40%, due to long-term debt costs of 6.33% and interest bearing deposit costs of 2.31%, which decreased 58 bps, and 27 bps, respectively, from the third quarter of 2024.

Noninterest income for the third quarter of 2025 compared to the linked quarter was stable at $10.3 million, with increases of $0.4 million and $0.2 million in investment services and trust activities revenue and service charges and fees, respectively. The increase in investment services and trust activities revenue was driven by higher assets under administration. Partially offsetting these increases was a decline in loan revenue, stemming primarily from a $0.3 million unfavorable change in the fair value of our mortgage servicing rights and a $0.3 million decline in SBA gain on sale revenue, coupled with a $0.2 million decline in card revenue.

Noninterest income for the third quarter of 2025 increased $140.6 million from the third quarter of 2024 due primarily to the balance sheet-repositioning related securities impairment recognized in the third quarter of 2024 previously noted. Also contributing to the increase was a $0.7 million increase in investment services and trust activities revenue stemming from higher assets under administration, coupled with an increase of $0.3 million in service charges and fees. Partially offsetting these increases were declines of $0.2 million each in card revenue, bank-owned life insurance, and other revenue.

EXPENSE REVIEW

Noninterest expense for the third quarter of 2025 increased $1.9 million from the linked quarter, primarily due to increases of $1.3 million, $0.4 million and $0.3 million in compensation and employee benefits, other expense, and foreclosed assets, net, respectively. The increase in compensation and employee benefits stemmed primarily from the $1.1 million Employee Retention Credit claim that was received in the second quarter of 2025, which did not recur. The increase in other expense stemmed from a $0.7 million loss on the extinguishment of debt related to the redemption of the Company's subordinated notes in July 2025. The increase in foreclosed assets, net was attributable to a $0.3 million write-down. Partially offsetting these increases was a decline of $0.1 million in marketing expense.

Noninterest expense for the third quarter of 2025 compared to the same period of the prior year increased $1.8 million, primarily due to an increase of $2.4 million in compensation and employee benefits driven by wage expense increases due to headcount, medical benefits expense, and incentive expense. The increase in noninterest expense was partially offset by decreases in amortization of intangibles expense and other expense of $0.3 million each.

The Company's effective tax rate was 20.8% in the third quarter of 2025, compared to 20.6% in the linked quarter. The effective income tax rate for the full year 2025 is expected to be 21.5-22.5%.

BALANCE SHEET REVIEW

Total assets were $6.25 billion at September 30, 2025, compared to $6.16 billion at June 30, 2025 and $6.55 billion at September 30, 2024. The increase from June 30, 2025 was primarily due to higher cash and loan volumes, partially offset by lower security volumes. Compared to September 30, 2024, the decrease was primarily driven by lower security volumes, partially offset by higher loan and cash volumes.

Loans held for investment, net of unearned income at September 30, 2025 were $4.42 billion, increasing $38.4 million, or 0.9%, from $4.38 billion at June 30, 2025 and increasing $90.9 million, or 2.1%, from $4.33 billion at September 30, 2024. The increases across both periods were primarily driven by organic loan growth and higher line of credit usage.

Investment securities at September 30, 2025 were $1.18 billion, decreasing $59.4 million from June 30, 2025 and decreasing $447.4 million from September 30, 2024. The decrease from the second quarter of 2025 was primarily due to principal cash flows received from scheduled payments, calls, and maturities. The decrease from the third quarter of 2024 stemmed primarily from the sale of debt securities in connection with a balance sheet repositioning as previously discussed, as well as principal cash flows received from scheduled payments, calls, and maturities.

Total deposits at September 30, 2025 were $5.48 billion, increasing $90.9 million, or 1.7%, from $5.39 billion at June 30, 2025, and increasing $110.3 million, or 2.1%, from $5.37 billion at September 30, 2024. Noninterest bearing deposits at September 30, 2025 were $958.1 million, an increase of $47.4 million from June 30, 2025 and an increase of $40.4 million from September 30, 2024.

Borrowed funds were $98.0 million at September 30, 2025, a decrease of $14.3 million from June 30, 2025 and a decrease of $427.7 million from September 30, 2024. The decrease compared to the linked quarter was due to the redemption of the entire $65.0 million outstanding principal of the Company's 5.75% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Subordinated Notes due 2030 on July 30, 2025, utilizing a combination of cash on hand and proceeds from a $50.0 million senior term note that closed on July 29, 2025. The senior term note is structured as a 5-year maturity, 7-year amortization facility, and bears interest at a floating rate of 1-month term SOFR plus 1.75%. The decrease compared to September 30, 2024 was primarily due to the pay-off of $405.0 million of Bank Term Funding Program borrowings and the subordinated notes redemption, partially offset by the senior term note, both as previously discussed.

Total shareholders' equity at September 30, 2025 increased $17.0 million from June 30, 2025 and increased $43.8 million from September 30, 2024, driven primarily by a decrease in accumulated other comprehensive loss and an increase in retained earnings, partially offset by an increase in treasury stock.

The current share repurchase program allows for the repurchase of up to $15.0 million of the Company's common shares. Under such program, the Company repurchased 203,802 shares of its common stock at an average price of $27.44 per share and a total cost of $5.6 million during the year-to-date period ended September 30, 2025. No shares were repurchased during the subsequent period through October 23, 2025. As of September 30, 2025, $9.4 million remained available under this program.

CREDIT QUALITY REVIEW

Compared to the linked quarter, nonperforming loans and nonperforming assets decreased $7.2 million and $6.7 million, respectively. Special mention loan balances decreased $18.2 million, or 18%, while classified loan balances increased $12.9 million, or 10%. Compared to the same period of the prior year, nonperforming loans and nonperforming assets increased $8.0 million and $8.4 million, respectively. Special mention loan balances decreased $96.4 million, or 54%, while classified loan balances increased $4.9 million, or 4%. The net charge-off ratio increased 136 bps from the linked quarter and increased 122 bps from the same period in the prior year, primarily due to the $14.6 million charge-off on a single CRE office credit that was reserved for in the second quarter of 2025.

As of September 30, 2025, the allowance for credit losses was $51.9 million and the allowance for credit losses ratio was 1.17%, compared with $65.8 million and 1.50%, respectively, at June 30, 2025. Credit loss expense of $2.1 million reflected an additional reserve taken to support organic loan growth, and a $0.7 million increase in the reserve for unfunded loan commitments.

CONFERENCE CALL DETAILS

The Company will host a conference call for investors at 11:00 a.m. CT on Friday, October 24, 2025. To participate, you may pre-register for this call utilizing the following link: https://www.netroadshow.com/events/login?show=414319b0&confId=80379. After pre-registering for this event you will receive your access details via email. On the day of the call, you are also able to dial 1-833-470-1428 using an access code of 482280 at least fifteen minutes before the call start time. If you are unable to participate on the call, a replay will be available until January 22, 2026, by calling 1-866-813-9403 and using the replay access code of 781952. A transcript of the call will also be available on the Company’s web site (www.midwestonefinancial.com) within three business days of the call.

ABOUT MIDWESTONE FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.

MidWestOne Financial Group, Inc. is a financial holding company headquartered in Iowa City, Iowa. MidWestOne is the parent company of MidWestOne Bank, which operates banking offices in Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Colorado. MidWestOne provides electronic delivery of financial services through its website, MidWestOne.bank. MidWestOne Financial Group, Inc. trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “MOFG”.

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Our ability to predict results or the actual effect of future plans or strategies is inherently uncertain. Factors that could have an impact on our ability to achieve operating results, growth plan goals and future prospects include, but are not limited to, the following: (1) the effects of changes in interest rates, including on our net income and the value of our securities portfolio; (2) fluctuations in the value of our investment securities; (3) effects on the U.S. economy resulting from the threat or implementation of, or changes to existing, policies and executive orders, including concerning tariffs, immigration, regulatory or other governmental agencies, DEI and ESG initiative trends, consumer protection policies, foreign policy and tax regulations; (4) volatility of rate-sensitive deposits; (5) asset/liability matching risks and liquidity risks; (6) the ability to successfully manage liquidity risk, which may increase dependence on non-core funding sources such as brokered deposits, and may negatively impact the Company’s cost of funds; (7) the concentration of large deposits from certain clients, including those who have balances above current FDIC insurance limits; (8) credit quality deterioration, pronounced and sustained reduction in real estate market values, or other uncertainties, including the impact of inflationary pressures and future monetary policies of the Federal Reserve in response thereto on economic conditions and our business, resulting in an increase in the allowance for credit losses, an increase in the credit loss expense, and a reduction in net earnings; (9) the sufficiency of the allowance for credit losses to absorb the amount of expected losses inherent in our existing loan portfolio; (10) the failure of assumptions underlying the establishment of allowances for credit losses and estimation of values of collateral and various financial assets and liabilities; (11) credit risks and risks from concentrations (by type of borrower, collateral, geographic area and by industry) within our loan portfolio; (12) changes in the economic environment, competition, or other factors that may affect our ability to acquire loans or influence the anticipated growth rate of loans and deposits and the quality of the loan portfolio and loan and deposit pricing; (13) governmental monetary and fiscal policies; (14) new or revised general economic, political, or industry conditions, nationally, internationally or in the communities in which we conduct business, including the risk of a recession; (15) the imposition of domestic or foreign tariffs or other governmental policies impacting the global supply chain and value of the agricultural or other products of our borrowers; (16) war or terrorist activities, including ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, widespread disease or pandemic, or other adverse external events, which may cause deterioration in the economy or cause instability in credit markets; (17) legislative and regulatory changes, including changes in banking, securities, trade, and tax laws and regulations and their application by our regulators, and including changes in interpretation or prioritization of such laws and regulations; (18) changes in accounting policies and practices, as may be adopted by state and federal regulatory agencies and the Financial Accounting Standards Board; (19) the effects of competition from other commercial banks, thrifts, mortgage banking firms, consumer finance companies, credit unions, securities brokerage firms, insurance companies, money market and other mutual funds, financial technology companies, and other financial institutions operating in our markets or elsewhere or providing similar services; (20) changes in the business and economic conditions generally and in the financial services industry, and the effects of recent developments and events in the financial services industry, including the large-scale deposit withdrawals over a short period of time that resulted in prior bank failures; (21) the occurrence of fraudulent activity, breaches, or failures of our or our third party vendors' information security controls or cyber-security related incidents, including as a result of sophisticated attacks using artificial intelligence and similar tools or as a result of insider fraud; (22) the ability to attract and retain key executives and employees experienced in banking and financial services; (23) our ability to adapt successfully to technological changes implemented by us and other parties in the financial services industry, including third-party vendors, which may be more difficult to implement or more expensive than anticipated or which may have unforeseen consequence to us and our customers, including the development and implementation of tools incorporating artificial intelligence; (24) operational risks, including data processing system failures and fraud; (25) the costs, effects and outcomes of existing or future litigation or other legal proceedings and regulatory actions; (26) the risks of mergers or branch sales, including, without limitation, the related time and costs of implementing such transactions, integrating operations as part of these transactions and possible failures to achieve expected gains, revenue growth and/or ex