New business is being written on visibly better terms than the company's own recent norm, and the mix shift has just beg
The model's full reasoning — Q3 2017 call → NOWe need to determine if management indicates that the economic terms of the company's newest business have stepped up meaningfully above the company's own recent norm, and that this improvement has only begun to flow into reported results because most of the reported business was still written at older, less favorable terms. We need to look for evidence in the transcript. The question is about the company's newest business: prices, rates, fees, spreads, contract sizes, durations, or profitability at which recent deals are being struck. The company is a bank. So we look for comments about loan yields, deposit costs, net interest margin, loan pricing, etc. From the transcript: Lynn Fuller mentions "organic loan growth zoomed during the quarter growing by 63 million or 4.7% annualized." Also "net interest margin increased by 12 basis points to 4.26% from the previous quarter." Bryan McKeag says "Loan yields increased 14 basis points and investment yields increased 7 basis points offset by higher interest costs on deposits and borrowings, which climbed 6 basis points compared to last quarter." So loan yields increased. But is that due to new business terms? Or due to rate environment? They mention "we've been getting about 5 or 6 the last couple of moves in terms of basis points" from Fed moves. So the margin improvement is partly from Fed rate hikes. But the question is about the terms of new business stepping up meaningfully above the company's own recent norm. Do they say that new loans are being written at higher rates than before? They mention "loan pricing has probably been in the upper 4s to mid 4s" but that's not a comparison to recent norm. They also say "we see tight pricing on large, high quality credits" meaning pricing is competitive. So that suggests not a step-up. Also, they talk about deposit pricing being slow to move. So no indication that new business terms are meaningfully better. The question also requires that the improvement has only begun to flow into reported results because most of the reported business was still written at older terms. Do they say that? They talk about net interest margin improving, but they attribute it to acquisition and Fed moves, not to new business terms being better. They also mention purchase accounting discounts adding 16 basis points. So the margin improvement is not from new business terms.
| Ticker | Company | Call | Date | Call grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CTO | CTO Realty Growth, Inc. | Q2 2023 | 2023-07-28 | B |
| CARS | Cars.com Inc. | Q1 2023 | 2023-05-06 | B |
| BRX | Brixmor Property Group Inc. | Q1 2023 | 2023-05-02 | A |
| CRBG | Corebridge Financial, Inc. | Q4 2022 | 2023-02-22 | B |
| FLR | Fluor Corporation | Q2 2022 | 2022-08-05 | D |
| CRL | Charles River Laboratories International | Q2 2022 | 2022-08-03 | C |
| BRKL | Brookline Bancorp, Inc. | Q2 2022 | 2022-07-30 | B+ |
| INVH | Invitation Homes Inc. | Q2 2022 | 2022-07-28 | B+ |
| MTB | M&T Bank Corporation | Q2 2022 | 2022-07-20 | B+ |
| GFS | GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc. | Q3 2021 | 2021-11-30 | A |
| GNK | Genco Shipping & Trading Limited | Q2 2021 | 2021-08-07 | A |
| ESS | Essex Property Trust, Inc. | Q2 2018 | 2018-08-03 | B+ |
| ALLY | Ally Financial Inc. | Q1 2018 | 2018-04-26 | B+ |
CRL · Q2 2022 → YESThe question is about whether management indicates that the economic terms of the company's newest business have stepped up meaningfully above the company's own recent norm, and that this improvement ...YES Management's comments on Safety Assessment pricing and backlog directly address both required elements: they describe current bookings and backlog at "escalating prices" and "meaningful price increases" that are already achieved on real transactions (not targets or future expectations), while noting that the reported Q2 results are still dominated by older 2022 terms and that the stronger pricing is accelerating into H2 and 2023 bookings.
ESS · Q2 2018 → YESThe question is about whether management indicates that the economic terms of the company's newest business have stepped up meaningfully above the company's own recent norm, and that this improvement ...YES Management describes the loss-to-lease metric rising to 3.
CTO · Q2 2023 → YESThe question is about whether management indicates that the economic terms of the company's newest business have stepped up meaningfully above the company's own recent norm, and that this improvement ...