Insiders still discovering the upside: management reports the opportunity keeps revealing itself bigger in live operatio
The model's full reasoning — Q3 2017 call → NOWe need to determine if management conveys that it is still discovering new upside inside business that is already working, with fresh discoveries from live operation and management responding with attention/resources. Let's analyze the transcript. Key points: David Brooks discusses loan growth, hiring new lenders, Colorado expansion, M&A. He mentions that Houston was impacted by hurricane but expects recovery. He says they hired five new lenders in Colorado, an equipment lender, etc. That's about adding capacity, not necessarily discovering new upside from existing operations. Michelle talks about expenses, margin, deposits. No discovery of new upside. Dan Brooks discusses loan portfolio, credit quality, hurricane impact minimal. The question: Does management convey that it is still discovering new upside inside business that is already working? That means they are finding positive surprises from actual operations, and they are responding. Look for language like "we were surprised", "we found", "we discovered", "we learned", "we see more opportunity than we thought", etc. David Brooks: "We are seeing improvement in our efficiency ratio and making progress on our strategy in Colorado." That's not a discovery. He says: "We've been active here in the third quarter, hiring new lenders. And that's – we hadn't done a whole lot of that net new lenders the last couple of years, given the energy price crunch and just observing the market and watching to see what opportunities there were. But we hired five new lenders in Colorado in the third quarter, including a team of five in Denver and one up in Northern Colorado. And then we hired an equipment lender, someone over to head up and start up our new equipment lending division in the third quarter." That's about adding capacity, not discovering new upside from existing business. He also says: "We are beginning to see a return to more normal loan demand as the Houston market recovers." That's not a discovery. He mentions: "We are seeing it across all the markets right now." That's just general. He says: "We still continue to think that by March 31 of 2018 our loan – gross loan portfolio held for investment should be about where we had projected it to be prior to the hurricane." That's just reaffirming. No language about being surprised by new opportunities from existing operations. Michelle: No. Dan: No.
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